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CO2 Injection Previous HitMonitoringNext Hit using an Experimental Modular Borehole Previous HitMonitoringNext Hit (MBM) System

Koperna, George J.; Trautz, Robert; Daley, Thomas M.; Freifeld, Barry M.; Dodds, Kevin

The U.S. Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (SECARB) Anthropogenic Test is a demonstration of CO2 capture from a coal-fired power plant, transport, geologic storage and Previous HitmonitoringNext Hit technologies. Starting in August 2012, up to 550 metric tons of CO2 have been captured and injected underground per day. Operations will continue for two years and Previous HitmonitoringNext Hit will be deployed through 2017. One of the goals of the project is to test experimental Previous HitmonitoringNext Hit technologies and, as part of this effort, the project team installed an innovative tubing deployed modular borehole Previous HitmonitoringNext Hit (MBM) system designed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and supported by CO2 Capture Project (CCP) as a field trial project. The MBM was designed with the aim of deploying a robust flexible Previous HitmonitoringNext Hit package that maximizes the data collected in a single-well Previous HitmonitoringNext Hit system while minimizing installation risks. This system includes U-tube Previous HitreservoirNext Hit fluid sampler, heat-pulse cable with fiber-optic distributed temperature sensor (DTS), a geophone array for borehole Previous HitseismicNext Hit acquisition and discrete downhole pressure/temperature sensors at the level of the storage Previous HitreservoirNext Hit. The MBM system was installed in the project's Previous HitmonitoringNext Hit well in March 2012 and all of the components were tested and baseline measurements were performed prior to the onset of CO2 injection. This baseline effort included the acquisition and characterization of Previous HitreservoirNext Hit fluid samples, testing of the heat-pulse/DTS system, a continuous record of Previous HitreservoirNext Hit pressure and the acquisition of baseline vertical Previous HitseismicNext Hit profiles using the borehole geophone array. This paper will present the results of the baseline and injection-phase Previous HitmonitoringTop efforts to date using the MBM.

 

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