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Storage capacity of depleted gas reservoirs for carbon dioxide sequestration - material balance approach
(2010) Blicharski, Jacek; Rybicki, Czesław
In order to prevent CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere rising to unacceptable levels, carbon dioxide can be separated from the flue gas, for example from a power plants and subsequently sequestrated. Different technologies for carbon dioxide sequestration can be proposed. They are: - storage in depleted gas reservoirs, - storage in oceans and aquifers, - sequestration CO2 by means of so-called 'mineral CO2 sequestration'. A depleted gas reservoir represents an attractive target for carbon sequestration for several reasons. It contains a geological trap, transport and injection infrastructure. Moreover CO2 injection can be thought as enhance gas production either by re-pressurization or pressure maintenance. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate storage capacity of carbon dioxide in a depleted gas reservoir in relation to the recovery factor of hydrocarbons. A material balance equation for CO2 sequestration proposed by Lawal and Frailey (Lawal, Frailey, 2004) was modified to predict a CO2 sequestration volumes. On the basis of derived material balance equation there were made calculations for a chosen natural gas reservoir.