CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation

Depleted gas reservoirs are recognized as the most promising candidate for carbon dioxide storage. Primary gas production followed by injection of carbon dioxide after depletion is the strategy adopted for secondary gas recovery and storage practices. This strategy, however, depends on the injection...

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Main Authors: Raza, A., Gholami, Raoof, Rezaee, M. Reza, Bing, C., Ramasamy, Nagarajan, Hamid, M.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67814
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author Raza, A.
Gholami, Raoof
Rezaee, M. Reza
Bing, C.
Ramasamy, Nagarajan
Hamid, M.
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Gholami, Raoof
Rezaee, M. Reza
Bing, C.
Ramasamy, Nagarajan
Hamid, M.
author_sort Raza, A.
building Curtin Institutional Repository
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description Depleted gas reservoirs are recognized as the most promising candidate for carbon dioxide storage. Primary gas production followed by injection of carbon dioxide after depletion is the strategy adopted for secondary gas recovery and storage practices. This strategy, however, depends on the injection strategy, reservoir characteristics and operational parameters. There have been many studies to-date discussing critical factors influencing the storage performance in depleted gas reservoirs while little attention was given to the effect of residual gas. In this paper, an attempt was made to highlight the importance of residual gas on the capacity, injectivity, reservoir pressurization, and trapping mechanisms of storage sites through the use of numerical simulation. The results obtained indicated that the storage performance is proportionally linked to the amount of residual gas in the medium and reservoirs with low residual fluids are a better choice for storage purposes. Therefore, it would be wise to perform the secondary recovery before storage in order to have the least amount of residual gas in the medium. Although the results of this study are useful to screen depleted gas reservoirs for the storage purpose, more studies are required to confirm the finding presented in this paper.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-678142018-10-08T02:11:50Z CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation Raza, A. Gholami, Raoof Rezaee, M. Reza Bing, C. Ramasamy, Nagarajan Hamid, M. Depleted gas reservoirs are recognized as the most promising candidate for carbon dioxide storage. Primary gas production followed by injection of carbon dioxide after depletion is the strategy adopted for secondary gas recovery and storage practices. This strategy, however, depends on the injection strategy, reservoir characteristics and operational parameters. There have been many studies to-date discussing critical factors influencing the storage performance in depleted gas reservoirs while little attention was given to the effect of residual gas. In this paper, an attempt was made to highlight the importance of residual gas on the capacity, injectivity, reservoir pressurization, and trapping mechanisms of storage sites through the use of numerical simulation. The results obtained indicated that the storage performance is proportionally linked to the amount of residual gas in the medium and reservoirs with low residual fluids are a better choice for storage purposes. Therefore, it would be wise to perform the secondary recovery before storage in order to have the least amount of residual gas in the medium. Although the results of this study are useful to screen depleted gas reservoirs for the storage purpose, more studies are required to confirm the finding presented in this paper. 2018 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67814 10.1016/j.petlm.2017.05.005 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ fulltext
spellingShingle Raza, A.
Gholami, Raoof
Rezaee, M. Reza
Bing, C.
Ramasamy, Nagarajan
Hamid, M.
CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation
title CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation
title_full CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation
title_fullStr CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation
title_full_unstemmed CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation
title_short CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A study on the effect of residual gas saturation
title_sort co2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs: a study on the effect of residual gas saturation
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/67814