Monitoring One Year's Worth of CO2 Injection and Incidental Storage at the Bell Creek Oil Field
The Plains CO2 Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, led by the Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), is working with Denbury Resources Inc. (Denbury) to study incidental carbon dioxide (CO2) storage associated with CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) at the Bell Creek oil field, which is operated by Denbury Onshore LLC. The Bell Creek oil field covers approximately 22,000 acres (89 km2), contains over 450 wells, and has produced over 130 million barrels of oil since its discovery in 1967. Denbury is injecting a planned volume of approximately 50 million cubic feet (1.4 million cubic meters) of CO2 a day, sourced from the ConocoPhillips-operated Lost Cabin natural gas-processing plant in Fremont County, Wyoming. The CO2 is being transported to the Bell Creek oil field via the 232-mile (373-km)-long Greencore pipeline and injected into an oil-bearing sandstone reservoir in the Lower Cretaceous Muddy (Newcastle) Formation at a depth of approximately 4500 feet (1372 meters) for the purpose of CO2 EOR. The Muddy Formation is characterized by a high-porosity (15%-35%), high-permeability (150-1175-mD) barrier bar sandstone sequence. The activities at Bell Creek are injecting an estimated 1 million tons of COView/Download Document
Event/Meeting Information
12th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies
10/5/2014
Austin, TX