• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.67-72
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• 2006

Injection of $CO_2$ into underground saline formations, due to their large storage capacity, is probably the most promising approach for the reduction of $CO_2$ emissions into the atmosphere. $CO_2$ storage must be carefully planned and monitored to ensure that the $CO_2$ is safely retained in the formation for periods of at least thousands of years. Seismic methods, particularly for offshore reservoirs, are the primary tool for monitoring the injection process and distribution of $CO_2$ in the reservoir over time provided that reservoir properties are favourable. Seismic methods are equally essential for the characterisation of a potential trap, determining the reservoir properties, and estimating its capacity. Hence, an assessment of the change in seismic response to $CO_2$ storage needs to be carried out at a very early stage. This must be revisited at later stages, to assess potential changes in seismic response arising from changes in fluid properties or mineral composition that may arise from chemical interactions between the host rock and the $CO_2$. Thus, carefully structured modelling of the seismic response changes caused by injection of $CO_2$ into a reservoir over time helps in the design of a long-term monitoring program. For that purpose we have developed a Graphical User Interface (GUI) driven rock physics simulator, designed to model both short and long-term 4D seismic responses to injected $CO_2$. The application incorporates $CO_2$ phase changes, local pressure and temperature changes. chemical reactions and mineral precipitation. By incorporating anisotropic Gassmann equations into the simulator, the seismic response of faults and fractures reactivated by $CO_2$ can also be predicted. We show field examples (potential $CO_2$ sequestration sites offshore and onshore) where we have tested our rock physics simulator. 4D seismic responses are modelled to help design the monitoring program.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.88-98
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• 2016

The storage variation in the vadose zone at a hillslope is important to understand the hydrological process. This study explores seasonal changes of soil water storage at a hillslope scale. The study was conducted on a hillslope of Beomrunsa, located in the Seolma-cheon river basin in Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do. Using soil moisture measurements through Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR), storage, discharge, and response constant were calculated for all monitoring points on a hillslope between March and November, 2010. This study found that temporal changes in storage are resulted from the rainfall distribution patterns. Analysis of the spatial changes in storage indicated that the soil water storage tends to increase towards the downslope direction. The discharges calculated based on the soil water measurements exhibited a high correlation with observation discharge. The storage response constant was high during the autumn which demonstrates the increased contribution from upslope is responsible for the occurrence of soil water recharge during autumn.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.58-69
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• 2013

This paper presents production data analysis for two production wells located in the shale gas field, Canada, with the proper analysis method according to each production performance characteristics. In the case A production well, the analysis was performed by applying both time and superposition time because the production history has high variation. Firstly, the flow regimes were classified with a log-log plot, and as a result, only the transient flow was appeared. Then the area of simulated reservoir volume (SRV) analyzed based on flowing material balance plot was calculated to 180 acres of time, and 240 acres of superposition time. And the original gas in place (OGIP) also was estimated to 15, 20 Bscf, respectively. However, as the area of SRV was not analyzed with the boundary dominated flow data, it was regarded as the minimum one. Therefore, the production forecasting was conducted according to variation of b exponent and the area of SRV. As a result, estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) increased 1.2 and 1.4 times respectively depending on b exponent, which was 0.5 and 1. In addition, as the area of SRV increased from 240 to 360 acres, EUR increased 1.3 times. In the case B production well, the formation compressibility and permeability depending on the overburden were applied to the analysis of the overpressured reservoir. In comparison of the case that applied geomechanical factors and the case that did not, the area of SRV was increased 1.4 times, OGIP was increased 1.5 times respectively. As a result of analysis, the prediction of future productivity including OGIP and EUR may be quite different depending on the analysis method. Thus, it was found that proper analysis methods, such as pseudo-time, superposition time, geomechanical factors, need to be applied depending on the production data to gain accurate results.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.29-30
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• 2011

• The Korean Journal of Petroleum Geology
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• v.11 no.1 s.12
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

Seventeen exploratory wells have been drilled in the Block VI-1 of offshore Korea, which is located in the southern part or the Ulleung Basin. Gas show has been recognized from most of the wells, and gas and condensate have been accompanied in some wells. Commercial discovery of gas, accompanied by condensate, has been made from Gorae V well. The reservoir gases or the Dolgorae III, Gorae I, and Gorae V wells in the Ulleung Basin mainly consists of hydrocarbon gases (>93%). These gases are thermogenic wet gases which contain more than 96% of the methane and result from the cracking of petroleum or kerogen. Based on the chemistry and composition of the gases and stable isotope data, they seem to be generated from different source rocks. The condensates from the Gorae I and V wells are mostly generated from terrestrial organic matter. Lacustrine organic matter may not play an important role for the generation of these condensates. The condensates from the Gorae V wells consist predominantly of terrestrial organic matter but with minor subsidiary input from marine organic matter. The condensates from Gorse I and V wells may be generated from different source rocks. The thermal maturity level of the condensates from the Gorae V well ranges from early to middle oil generation zone and condensate from Gorae I reaches middle oil window. Correlation or the thermal maturation level of the condensates and organic matter in the sediments reveals that a depth of the generation of liquid hydrocarbons can be inferred to 3,000 m and 3,900 m for the Gorae V and I wells, respectively. Gorae V well, however, did not reach the target depth and the geochemical data of the Gorae I well were obscured due to the severe sediment caving in.

• 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.107-112
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• 2008

In the case of the deep reservoirs like the gas reservoirs in the East-sea, it is often difficult to observe AVO responses in CMP gathers. Because the reservoir becomes more consolidated as its depth deepens, P-wave velocity does not decrease significantly when the pore fluid is replaced by the gas. In this study, we analyzed the effects of Poisson's ratio difference on AVO response with a variety of Poisson's ratios for the upper and lower layers. The results show that, as the difference in Poisson's ratio between the upper and lower layers decreases, the change in the reflection amplitude with incidence angle decreases. To consider the limitation of AVO responses shown in the gas reservoir in East-sea, the velocity model was made by simulation Gorae V structure with seismic data and well logs. The results of comparing AVO responses observed from the synthetic data with theoretical AVO responses calculated by using material properties show that the amount of the change in reflection amplitude with increasing incident angle is very small when the difference in Poisson's ratio between the upper and lower layers is small. In addition, the characteristics of AVO responses were concealed by noise or amplitude distortion arisen during preprocessing. To overcome such limitations of AVO analysis of the data from deep reservoirs, we need to acquire precisely reflection amplitudes in data acquisition stage and use processing tools which preserve reflection amplitude in data processing stage.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.414-414
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• 2021

유역 상류의 지표수는 급경사로 인해 빠른 흐름을 나타냄으로써 유역의 저류기능은 하류부에 비해 부족한 형편이다. 또한 광역상수도의 공급이 불가능한 지역이 많아 소규모 급수시설을 이용하여 물공급에 대처하고 있다. 샌드댐은 이와 같은 물공급 소외지역의 저류기능을 높이기 위해 활용될 수 있으며 주된 특성은 증발에 의한 손실 방지와 겨울철 결빙에 따른 대처가 가능하다는 점이다. 본 연구에서는 춘천 물로리 지역을 중심으로 샌드댐의 공급기여도를 평가하기 위해 SWAT-MODLFOW모형을 이용한 수문성분 분석을 수행하였다. 그 결과 연구 지역의 수문성분 중 상당한 양의 측방 흐름이 발생하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 월평균 지하수 함양 분포는 유역의 제한된 지역에서만 발생했고, 토양 유형과 밀접한 관련이 있었다. 전체 지하수 함양량의 약 85 %는 지역의 여름과 봄철에 발생했고 연평균 함양률은 강수량의 약 6 %내외로 저조하였다. 하천과 대수층은 연결성을 나타냈으며 유역 출구 부근에서 하천유출량이 증가하는 양상을 나타냈다. 대수층과 샌드댐 저류지에서 이용 가능한 물의 양은 수위저하를 야기하지 않으면서 약 30m³/일의 물을 공급할 수 있음을 보여주었다. 현재 이 지역의 물 공급 수요는 15.4m³/일임을 감안하면 샌드댐 설치후 이 지역의 공급은 비교적 안정적일 것으로 기대된다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.947-955
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• 2010

Most oil and gas reservoirs, which have some light hydrocarbon components, show sensitive phase behavior in response to changes in the composition of the internal fluid. When evaluating and developing plans for oil and gas fields, flash calculation, PVT analysis, and saturation-property calculation are necessary for analyzing reservoir characteristics and pipeline flows. In general, the determination of saturation properties such as dew point and bubble point is considered a difficult task because of the poor convergence of the calculation methods. In this study, several new initial-value-guessing methods and root-finding methods are proposed; parametric analysis were carried out to verify the improvement in convergence. Finally, these new ideas and methods were successfully applied to the new GUI based multi-phase behavior simulator.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.85-95
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• 2007

The variation of hydraulic and hydrologic aspect of urban area according to the strongly seasonal variation of rainfall and the increment of urbanization has caused the runoff variation and increased the flood damage, and thus made a difficulty to manage water resources in urban area. Recently, as a part of efforts to resolve these problems, the facilities for reducing runoff increasing due to urbanization have a tendency to install in our country. In this study, more effective Infiltration-Storage System(ISS) is proposed and its reducing effect is analyzed by hydraulic experimental study. The infiltration characteristics of runoff reduction facilities are examined as varying artificial rainfall and a material of infiltration layers being able to consider the influence of urban development. As a result of comparison of infiltration rate of the upper and lower parts, the infiltration rate in the lower part is larger than that of the upper part. Thus, the ISS is more available than existing runoff reduction facilities. Results obtained in this study can be provided fundamental data for improvement of existing runoff reduction facilities and practical use of ISS.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.214-214
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• 2017

우리나라는 도시화 및 산업화로 도시지역의 대부분이 불투수층으로 변화하였으며, 국지성 호우의증가로 홍수 저감시설의 방어능력이 취약한 실정이다. 따라서 홍수방어 개선을 위한 여러 방안들이 이루어지고 있으며, 그 중 저류지는 도시지역에서 유역 하류의 홍수피해 저감 및 흐름을 지체시켜 유출률을 감소시키는 시설물로 홍수 저감을 위한 시설물로 가장 많이 사용되고 있다. 저류지는 큰 규모일수록 유역의 하류지역에 설치할 경우 가장 큰 유출저감효과를 가지는 것으로 알려져 있다. 하지만 저류지의 위치를 유역의 하류가 아닌 상류지역에 설치할 경우에는 단기간 강우의 시간적 분포가 강우 초기에 집중될 경우 저류지의 허용용량이 초기에 도달하게 되어 추가적인 강우가 발생할 경우 본래의 역할을 하지 못하는 경우가 빈번하게 발생하고 있다. 그러므로 다양한 강우강도 및 시간적 분포를 고려하여 유역의 특성 및 저류지의 설치위치에 따른 관계를 분석할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 도시화, 산업화 인구집중으로 인해 동일규모의 강우에서도 우수유출이 증대되고 있는 도시지역에서 원활한 내수배제를 위해 기존의 우수관거를 연계한 저류시스템인 간선저류지 개념을 적용하여 강우강도 및 시간적 분포에 따른 간선저류지의 관련매개변수를 분석하였다. 대상유역은 세장형, 집중형, 중앙형의 3가지 형상의 가상유역으로 선정하여 다양한 지속기간의 강우량을 적용하였으며, 간선저류지의 설치위치는 전체 유역면적에 대한 저류지 상류부 면적의 비(저류지 상류부 면적비, DUAR ; Dimensionless Upstream Area Ratio)를 20%, 40%, 60%, 80%로 변화시키면서 강우의 시간적 분포에 따른 간선저류지의 매개변수 분석에 관한 연구를 진행하였다.