Recent Advances in Subsurface Sequestration of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2024) | Viewed by 3130
Special Issue Editors
Interests: unconventional oil and gas reservoir development; hydraulic fracturing; carbon capture utlization and sequestration; engineered geothermal systems; artificial intelligence
Interests: rock mechanics; fracture mechanics; numerical simulation; finite element method; slope engineering; underground engineering
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Interests: reservoir modeling and simulation; reservoir engineering; drilling engineering; production engineering; economic analysis of oil and gas properties; introduction to enhanced oil recovery; environmental petroleum engineering
Interests: data intelligence; rheology; viscoelastic fluids; complex fluids; physics-based deep learning
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Interests: fracture propagation; oil and gas fields; horizontal wells; shale; gas
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Primary considerations in subsurface sequestration of anthropogenic carbon dioxide are the knowledge on gas storability of geological formation, area of review, and post-injection site care embracing risks associated with CO2 leakage and fault reactivation. Briefly, not all high-porosity formations are suitable for the permanent storage of the gas. Some of them lack a suitable storage environment that will foster physical mechanism(s) of gas trapping. The trapping is associated with fluid–fluid or fluid–solid interactions in porous media, such as dissolution, physical adsorption, or some homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions. The dissolved gas promotes density-driven natural convection of water and the related hydrodynamic instabilities; the injected gas could be transported and dispersed over large distances depending on the boundary conditions of the reservoir. This can lead to a source of risks, e.g., leakage and/or fault reactivation, associated with CO2 storage due to presence of wells, thief zones and geological discontinuities, such as faults in the area of review.
This Special Issue highlights recent advances in subsurface sequestration of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from pre-injection to post-injection site care the topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Reservoir petrophysical (core characterization and correlation) analysis;
- Reservoir petrochemical (CO2–fluid–rock interactions) characterization;
- Regional subsurface mapping using well logs and 2D/3D seismic data;
- CO2 storage capacity;
- Near well bore and large-scale natural fracture mapping;
- Drilling and completion design;
- Geomechanical evaluation during and after CO2 injection;
- Real field simulation of pressure and CO2 plume saturations;
- Sensitivity analysis and uncertainty quantification;
- Economics and life cycle analysis of CO2 sequestration;
- Surface and subsurface CO2 monitoring and leak detection;
- Smart fields and application of artificial intelligence.
Dr. Ebrahim Fathi
Dr. Jinqing Bao
Dr. Qin He
Dr. Salah Aldin Faroughi
Dr. Fatemeh Belyadi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CO2 sequestration
- petrophysics
- petrochemsitry
- geomechanics
- seismic
- reservoir simulation
- artificial intelligence
- monitoring and leak detection
- economic and societal analysis
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