--> CO2 Sequestration-Assisted Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery Potential In The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Harrison, William B. III, Avary, Katharine Lee, Baum, Gerald R., Nuttall, Brandon C., Harper, John A., Rupp, John A., Wickstrom, Lawrence H. , Williams, William A., and Winschel, Richard A. #90044 (2005).
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CO2 Sequestration-Assisted Previous HitEnhancedNext Hit Hydrocarbon Previous HitRecoveryNext Hit Potential In The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership

 

Harrison, William B. III 1, Avary, Katharine Lee 2, Baum, Gerald R. 3, Nuttall, Brandon C. 4, Harper, John A. 5, Rupp, John A. 6, Wickstrom, Lawrence H. 7, Williams, William A. 8, and Winschel, Richard A. 8

 1Department of Geosciences, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI,

2West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, Morgantown, WV

3Maryland Geological Survey, Baltimore, MD

4Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

5Pennsylvania Geological Survey, Pittsburgh, PA

6Indiana Geological Survey, Bloomington, IN

7Ohio Geological Survey, Columbus, OH

8CONSOL Energy, Inc., South Park, PA

 

The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP) has recently completed extensive GIS-based mapping of potential carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration reservoirs, including Previous HitoilNext Hit and gas fields, for seven states in the Midwest and Eastern U.S.  Cumulative Previous HitoilNext Hit production for the seven-state partnership exceeds 5.5 billion barrels.  Relatively few of these Previous HitoilNext Hit reservoirs have undergone Previous HitenhancedNext Hit Previous HitoilNext Hit Previous HitrecoveryNext Hit operations. 

CO2-assisted Previous HitenhancedNext Hit Previous HitrecoveryNext Hit is ongoing in many U.S. states and currently produces millions of barrels of Previous HitoilNext Hit per day.  In addition to the Previous HitenhancedNext Hit Previous HitoilNext Hit production, these projects can sequester significant volumes of CO2.  Total Previous HitoilNext Hit Previous HitrecoveryNext Hit using CO2 varies with reservoir properties, but often ranges between 20 and 30% of the primary Previous HitrecoveryNext Hit volume.  For the MRCSP region, CO2 Previous HitenhancedNext Hit Previous HitoilNext Hit Previous HitrecoveryNext Hit could produce hundreds of millions of barrels of additional Previous HitoilNext Hit and sequester over 2 billion tons of CO2.

Currently, very few CO2-assisted Previous HitenhancedNext Hit Previous HitrecoveryNext Hit projects exist within the MRCSP Region.  One dramatic example, however, is the development of CO2 Previous HitenhancedNext Hit Previous HitrecoveryNext Hit of Previous HitoilNext Hit in some Niagaran (Silurian) pinnacle reefs of northern lower Michigan.  Two reefs were converted to CO2 Previous HitenhancedNext Hit Previous HitrecoveryNext Hit flooding in 1996 and have produced over 600,000 barrels of Previous HitoilNext Hit and sequestered over 280,000 tons of CO2 to date.

Significant additional potential for CO2 sequestration and natural gas Previous HitrecoveryTop exists in coal seams and organic shales through the MRCSP region.  CONSOL Energy is engaged in a project to research the production of methane and injection of CO2 in overlying coal seams in Marshall County, West Virginia.