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http://dx.doi.org/10.7582/GGE.2011.14.1.058

Monitoring and detecting $CO_2$ injected into water-saturated sandstone with joint seismic and resistivity measurements  

Kim, Jong-Wook (Laboratory of Environment and Resource System Engineering, Department of Urban Management, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
Matsuoka, Toshifumi (Laboratory of Environment and Resource System Engineering, Department of Urban Management, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University)
Xue, Ziqiu (Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth)
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Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration / v.14, no.1, 2011 , pp. 58-68 More about this Journal
Abstract
As part of basic studies of monitoring carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) storage using electrical and seismic surveys, laboratory experiments have been conducted to measure resistivity and P-wave velocity changes due to the injection of $CO_2$ into water-saturated sandstone. The rock sample used is a cylinder of Berea sandstone. $CO_2$ was injected under supercritical conditions (10 MPa, $40^{\circ}C$). The experimental results show that resistivity increases monotonously throughout the injection period, while P-wave velocity and amplitude decrease drastically due to the supercritical $CO_2$ injection. A reconstructed P-wave velocity tomogram clearly images $CO_2$ migration in the sandstone sample. Both resistivity and seismic velocity are useful for monitoring $CO_2$ behaviour. P-wave velocity, however, is less sensitive than resistivity when the $CO_2$ saturation is greater than ~20%. The result indicates that the saturation estimation from resistivity can effectively complement the difficulty of $CO_2$ saturation estimations from seismic velocity variations. By combining resistivity and seismic velocity we were able to estimate $CO_2$ saturation distribution and the injected $CO_2$ behaviour in our sample.
Keywords
Berea sandstone; carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) storage; $CO_2$ saturation; P-wave velocity; resistivity; seismic tomography;
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