Model Development of the Aquistore CO2 Storage Project
The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, through the Energy & Environmental Research Center, is collaborating with Petroleum Technology Research Centre (PTRC) in site characterization; risk assessment; public outreach; and monitoring, verification, and accounting activities at the Aquistore project. The Aquistore project is a carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) project situated near the town of Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, and the United States-Canada border. This project is managed by the PTRC and will be receiving CO2 from the SaskPower Boundary Dam CCUS project and will serve as buffer storage of CO2 for the world's first commercial postcombustion CCUS project from a coal-fired electric generating facility. To date, an injection well and an observation research well (150 meters apart) have been drilled and completed at the Aquistore site with injection anticipated to begin in 2014. Using a combination of site characterization data provided by PTRC and independently acquired information, the PCOR Partnership has constructed a static geological model to assess the potential storage capacity of the Aquistore site and provide the foundation for dynamic simulation. The geologic model and the results of the predictive simulations will be used in the risk assessment process to help define an overall monitoring plan for the project and to assure stakeholders that the injected CO2 will remain safely stored at the Aquistore site.The deep saline system targeted fView/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
12th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies
10/5/2014
Austin, TX