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Gravity monitoring of $CO_2$ storage in a depleted gas filed: A sensitivity study

채굴후 가스전내 $CO_2$ 저장소의 중력 모너터링: 감도 연구

  • Sherlock, Don (Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies CSIRO Petroleum) ;
  • Toomey, Aoife (Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) ;
  • Hoversten, Mike (Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) ;
  • Gasperikova, Erika (Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) ;
  • Dodds, Kevin (Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies CSIRO Petroleum)
  • Published : 2006.02.28
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Abstract

In 2006, the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) plans to undertake (subject to receiving the necessary approvals) a Pilot program for $CO_2$ storage within a depleted gas reservoir. The Otway Basin Pilot Program (OBPP) aims to demonstrate that subsurface $CO_2$ storage is both economically and environmentally sustainable in Australia. This will be the first $CO_2$ storage program in the world to utilise a depleted gas reservoir and, hence, the experience gained will be a valuable addition to the range of international $CO_2$ storage programs that are underway or being planned. A key component of the OBPP is the design of an appropriate geophysical monitoring strategy that will allow the subsurface migration of the $CO_2$ plume to be tracked and to verify that containment has been successful. This paper presents the results from modelling the predicted gravity response to $CO_2$ injection into the Otway Basin reservoir, where the goal was to determine minimum volumes of $CO_2$ that may be detectable using non-seismic geophysical techniques. Modelling results indicate that gravity measurements at 10 m spacing within the existing observation well and the planned $CO_2$ injection well would provide excellent vertical resolution, even for the smallest $CO_2$ volume modelled (10000 tonnes), but resolving the lateral extent of the plume would not be possible without additional wells at closer spacing.

2006 년도에 호주 온실가스 기술에 대한 협력연구센터$(CO_2CRC)$는 채굴 후의 가스 저류층내에 $CO_2$를 저장하는 시험 연구의 수행을 계획하고 있다 (승인이 필요함). Otway Basiu Pilot Program (OBPP)은 지하 $CO_2$ 저장이 경제적이며 환경적으로 지속가능함을 보이는 것이 목표이다. 이는 $CO_2$ 저장 프로그램으로는 세계에서 처음으로 채굴 후 가스 저류층을 활용하는 것이므로 여기서 얻어질 경험은 현재 수행중이거나 계획중인 국제적 $CO_2$ 저장 프로그램에 귀중한 하나의 분야를 더할 것이다. OBPP의 중요한 요소는 주입된 $CO_2$ 의 거동을 추적하고 지하 저강이 성공적임을 입증하기 위해 적절한 지구물리학적 모니터링 전략의 설계이다. 이 논문은 Otway Basin 저류층에 $CO_2$를 주입할 때의 중력 반응을 예측하는 모델링 결과를 보여주며, 그 목적은 탄성파탐사가 아닌 물리탐사 방법으로 탐지가능한 최소 $CO_2$ 부피를 결정하는 데에 있다. 모델링 결과는 계산된 $CO_2$ 부피가 최소 10,000 ton 일 경우에도 기존 관측정과 계획된 주입정내에서 10 m 간격으로 중력을 측정하면 훌륭한 수직 해상도를 제공할 것임을 말해주나, 수평적인 연장에 대한 해상도는 더 좁은 간격의 추가 시추공이 없다면 불가능한 것으로 나타났다.

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