An experimental study of acoustic responses on the injection of supercritical CO2 into sandstones from the Otway Basin

Quantitative knowledge of the acoustic response of rock from an injection site on supercritical CO2 (scCO2) saturation is crucial for understanding the feasibility of time-lapse seismic monitoring of CO2 plume migration. A suite of shaley sandstones from the injection interval of the CRC-2 well, Otw...

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Main Authors: Lebedev, Maxim, Pervukhina, M., Mikhaltsevitch, Vassili, Dance, T., Bilenko, Olga, Gurevich, Boris
Format: Journal Article
Published: Society of Exploration Geophysics 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41492
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author Lebedev, Maxim
Pervukhina, M.
Mikhaltsevitch, Vassili
Dance, T.
Bilenko, Olga
Gurevich, Boris
author_facet Lebedev, Maxim
Pervukhina, M.
Mikhaltsevitch, Vassili
Dance, T.
Bilenko, Olga
Gurevich, Boris
author_sort Lebedev, Maxim
building Curtin Institutional Repository
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description Quantitative knowledge of the acoustic response of rock from an injection site on supercritical CO2 (scCO2) saturation is crucial for understanding the feasibility of time-lapse seismic monitoring of CO2 plume migration. A suite of shaley sandstones from the injection interval of the CRC-2 well, Otway Basin, Australia is tested to reveal the effects of supercritical CO2 injection on acoustic responses. CO2 is first injected into dry samples, flushed out with brine and then injected again into brine-saturated samples. Such a suite of experiments allows us to obtain acoustic velocities of the samples for a wide range of CO2/brine saturations from 0% to 100%. On injection of scCO2 into brine-saturated samples, the rocks exhibit a decrease of compressional velocities by about 7% with the increase of CO2 saturation from 0% to a maximum of about 50%. Anisotropy of the shaley sandstones from the Otway Basin must be taken into account as the difference in the velocities normal and parallel to bedding is comparable with the perturbation due to CO2 injection and the samples of different orientations exhibit transition from Gassmann-Hill to Gassmann-Wood bound at different scCO2 saturations. Changes of the dry samples before and after the CO2 injection (if any) are not traceable by acoustic methods.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-414922017-09-13T14:10:12Z An experimental study of acoustic responses on the injection of supercritical CO2 into sandstones from the Otway Basin Lebedev, Maxim Pervukhina, M. Mikhaltsevitch, Vassili Dance, T. Bilenko, Olga Gurevich, Boris Australia time-lapse reservoir characterization anisotropy Quantitative knowledge of the acoustic response of rock from an injection site on supercritical CO2 (scCO2) saturation is crucial for understanding the feasibility of time-lapse seismic monitoring of CO2 plume migration. A suite of shaley sandstones from the injection interval of the CRC-2 well, Otway Basin, Australia is tested to reveal the effects of supercritical CO2 injection on acoustic responses. CO2 is first injected into dry samples, flushed out with brine and then injected again into brine-saturated samples. Such a suite of experiments allows us to obtain acoustic velocities of the samples for a wide range of CO2/brine saturations from 0% to 100%. On injection of scCO2 into brine-saturated samples, the rocks exhibit a decrease of compressional velocities by about 7% with the increase of CO2 saturation from 0% to a maximum of about 50%. Anisotropy of the shaley sandstones from the Otway Basin must be taken into account as the difference in the velocities normal and parallel to bedding is comparable with the perturbation due to CO2 injection and the samples of different orientations exhibit transition from Gassmann-Hill to Gassmann-Wood bound at different scCO2 saturations. Changes of the dry samples before and after the CO2 injection (if any) are not traceable by acoustic methods. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41492 10.1190/GEO2012-0528.1 Society of Exploration Geophysics restricted
spellingShingle Australia
time-lapse
reservoir characterization
anisotropy
Lebedev, Maxim
Pervukhina, M.
Mikhaltsevitch, Vassili
Dance, T.
Bilenko, Olga
Gurevich, Boris
An experimental study of acoustic responses on the injection of supercritical CO2 into sandstones from the Otway Basin
title An experimental study of acoustic responses on the injection of supercritical CO2 into sandstones from the Otway Basin
title_full An experimental study of acoustic responses on the injection of supercritical CO2 into sandstones from the Otway Basin
title_fullStr An experimental study of acoustic responses on the injection of supercritical CO2 into sandstones from the Otway Basin
title_full_unstemmed An experimental study of acoustic responses on the injection of supercritical CO2 into sandstones from the Otway Basin
title_short An experimental study of acoustic responses on the injection of supercritical CO2 into sandstones from the Otway Basin
title_sort experimental study of acoustic responses on the injection of supercritical co2 into sandstones from the otway basin
topic Australia
time-lapse
reservoir characterization
anisotropy
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41492