Numerical simulations of CO2 injection have been conducted as part of a program to assess the potential for geologic sequestration in a deep brine reservoir at the American Electric Power’s (AEP’s) Mountaineer Power Plant in New Haven, West Virginia, USA (Gupta et al., 2005). The results of the simulations provide design guidance for injection and monitoring strategies, protocols, and permits for a demonstration project for CO2 injection in these deep saline formations as well as support for integrated risk assessments. The results of simulations of CO2 injections into the Rose Run and Copper Ridge formations indicate that they are capable of receiving commercial-scale injection of CO2 (up to several hundred thousand tonnes per well annually) using permeability and porosity distributions based on geostatistical analysis.
Revised: August 6, 2010 |
Published: December 1, 2009
Citation
Bacon D.H., M.D. White, N. Gupta, N. Gupta, J.R. Sminchak, and M.E. Kelley. 2009.CO2 Sequestration Potential in the Rose Run Formation at the Mountaineer Power Plant, New Haven, West Virginia. In Carbon dioxide sequestration in geological media- State of the science: AAPG Studies in Geology 59. 553-570. Tulsa, Oklahoma:American Association of Petroleum Geologists. PNWD-SA-7605.