Prediction of the seismic time-lapse signal of CO2/CH4 injection into a depleted gas reservoir - Otway Project

Stage I of the Otway project conducted by the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) in 2007-2010 included injection of 66000 tons of CO2-rich gas into a depleted gas reservoir at Naylor field, Otway Basin, Victoria. In this paper we present a seismic modelling study th...

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Main Authors: Caspari, Eva, Ennis-King, J., Pevzner, Roman, Gurevich, Boris
Other Authors: CSIRO
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Published: CSIRO 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36709
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author Caspari, Eva
Ennis-King, J.
Pevzner, Roman
Gurevich, Boris
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Caspari, Eva
Ennis-King, J.
Pevzner, Roman
Gurevich, Boris
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description Stage I of the Otway project conducted by the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) in 2007-2010 included injection of 66000 tons of CO2-rich gas into a depleted gas reservoir at Naylor field, Otway Basin, Victoria. In this paper we present a seismic modelling study that estimates the time lapse response of CO2/CH4 injection into the Waarre C reservoir. Based on the static geological model, acoustic impedance inversion of the seismic baseline data as well as log data, two models with different levels of detail in the reservoir properties are built. The distribution of the injected CO2/CH4 mixture in the reservoir and the gas properties are obtained from flow simulations. In order to predict the change in acoustic impedance after injection, we employed the Gassmann fluid substitution workflow. The modelled total differences in acoustic impedance for different amounts of CO2/CH4 injected are of the same order of magnitude for both models and reflect the CO2 mass fractions predicted by flow simulations. Finally zero incidence synthetic data are computed for these cases using a statistical wavelet of the baseline data. The computed synthetics are compared to surface seismic and VSP monitoring data. The repeatability of the surface seismic data is too low to detect the predicted signal. For the 3D VSP data, the time-lapse signal/noise has a similar order of magnitude as the predicted signal. It may have the level required to detect the signal.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-367092017-09-13T15:19:35Z Prediction of the seismic time-lapse signal of CO2/CH4 injection into a depleted gas reservoir - Otway Project Caspari, Eva Ennis-King, J. Pevzner, Roman Gurevich, Boris CSIRO time-lapse seismic modelling CO2 Sequestration Stage I of the Otway project conducted by the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) in 2007-2010 included injection of 66000 tons of CO2-rich gas into a depleted gas reservoir at Naylor field, Otway Basin, Victoria. In this paper we present a seismic modelling study that estimates the time lapse response of CO2/CH4 injection into the Waarre C reservoir. Based on the static geological model, acoustic impedance inversion of the seismic baseline data as well as log data, two models with different levels of detail in the reservoir properties are built. The distribution of the injected CO2/CH4 mixture in the reservoir and the gas properties are obtained from flow simulations. In order to predict the change in acoustic impedance after injection, we employed the Gassmann fluid substitution workflow. The modelled total differences in acoustic impedance for different amounts of CO2/CH4 injected are of the same order of magnitude for both models and reflect the CO2 mass fractions predicted by flow simulations. Finally zero incidence synthetic data are computed for these cases using a statistical wavelet of the baseline data. The computed synthetics are compared to surface seismic and VSP monitoring data. The repeatability of the surface seismic data is too low to detect the predicted signal. For the 3D VSP data, the time-lapse signal/noise has a similar order of magnitude as the predicted signal. It may have the level required to detect the signal. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36709 10.1071/ASEG2012ab302 CSIRO unknown
spellingShingle time-lapse seismic
modelling
CO2 Sequestration
Caspari, Eva
Ennis-King, J.
Pevzner, Roman
Gurevich, Boris
Prediction of the seismic time-lapse signal of CO2/CH4 injection into a depleted gas reservoir - Otway Project
title Prediction of the seismic time-lapse signal of CO2/CH4 injection into a depleted gas reservoir - Otway Project
title_full Prediction of the seismic time-lapse signal of CO2/CH4 injection into a depleted gas reservoir - Otway Project
title_fullStr Prediction of the seismic time-lapse signal of CO2/CH4 injection into a depleted gas reservoir - Otway Project
title_full_unstemmed Prediction of the seismic time-lapse signal of CO2/CH4 injection into a depleted gas reservoir - Otway Project
title_short Prediction of the seismic time-lapse signal of CO2/CH4 injection into a depleted gas reservoir - Otway Project
title_sort prediction of the seismic time-lapse signal of co2/ch4 injection into a depleted gas reservoir - otway project
topic time-lapse seismic
modelling
CO2 Sequestration
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36709