Evaluation Of Large-Scale Carbon Dioxide Storage Potential In The Basal Saline System in the Alberta And Williston Basins in North America
A binational effort between the United States and Canada characterized the lowermost saline system in the Williston and Alberta Basins of North America. This project was led on the U.S. side by the EERC through the PCOR Partnership and on the Canadian side by Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF). This effort was conducted to determine the geologic storage potential of CO2 in rock formations of the CambroOrdovician saline system (COSS). Characterization of COSS used well log and core data from three states and three provinces to create a heterogeneous 3D model that was used to determine the effects of CO2 storage in this system through dynamic simulation. The area underlain by COSS includes several large CO2 sources that each emits more than 0.9 million tonnes (Mt) CO2/year. Assuming that each of these sources will target COSS for the storage of its CO2, the primary questions addressed by this study are 1) what is the CO2 storage resource of COSS, 2) how many years of current CO2 emissions will it be capable of storing, and 3) what will be required and what will be the effect of injecting 94 Mt/yr of CO2 into COSS? The static CO2 storage resource and dynamic CO2 storage capacity are compared.View/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
PCOR Partnership 2014 Annual Membership Meeting
9/16/2014
Denver, CO