CO2 Storage of the Cambro-Ordovician Saline System in the Northern Great PlainsPrairie Region of North America
A binational effort between the United States and Canada is under way to characterize the lowermost saline system in the Williston and Alberta Basins of the United States and Canada. This 3-year project is being conducted with the goal of determining the potential for geologic storage of CO2 in rock formations of the 1.34 million-km2 CambroOrdovician saline system. A recently completed 2D model incorporated the geologic data collected in the baseline characterization effort and distributes the various rock properties throughout the study region through geostatistical methods. The resulting 2D model indicated a storage capacity in excess of 142 Gt. This work also provided the groundwork for the development of a 3D geologic model encompassing the entire study area. This 3D model incorporates the internal architecture of the system and allows for the geospatial propagation and distribution of the petrophysical properties of this heterogeneous rock package for the purpose of injection scenario modeling. This multiprovince/multistate and multiorganizational project is led on the U.S. side by the PCOR Partnership at the EERC and on the Canadian side by Alberta Innovates Technology Futures. Other partners in the project are the U.S. Department of Energy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Princeton University in the United States and Saskatchewan Industry and Resources, Manitoba Water Stewardship, Manitoba Innovation Energy and Mines, Canmet ENERGY, Natural Resources Canada, TOTAL E&P Ltd., and the University of Regina Petroleum Technology Research Centre in Canada.View/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
Carbon Storage R&D Project Review Meeting
8/21/2012
Pittsburgh, PA