The GEO-SEQ Project has two primary goals: to develop ways to improve predictions of injectivity and capacity of saline formations and depleted gas reservoirs, and to develop and test innovative high-resolution methods for monitoring CO2 in the subsurface.
Thomas Daley
tmdaley@lbl.gov
Barry M. Freifeld
bmfreifeld@lbl.gov
Sim-SEQ was a multi-year U.S. Department of Energy initiative started in 2009 focused on comparing numerical models for GCS—with the objective of understanding and quantifying those uncertainties arising from conceptual model choices. It was a response to past GCS code verification and benchmarking efforts, in that it engaged in model comparison in a broader and comprehensive sense, allowing modelers the choice of interpretation of site characterization data, boundary conditions, rock and fluid properties, among other options.
Jens Birkholzer
jtbirkholzer@lbl.gov
Sumit Mukhopadhyay
smukhopadhyay@lbl.gov
The National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP) — an initiative within DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and led by the National Energy Technology Laboratory—applies DOE’s core competency in science-based prediction for engineered–natural systems to the long-term storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).
Curtis M. Oldenburg
cmoldenburg@lbl.gov
Thomas Daley
tmdaley@lbl.gov
Helen G. Prieto
hgprieto@lbl.gov
The Consolidated Sequestration Research Project (CSRP) sought to accelerate and remove barriers to commercial-scale GCS deployment through targeted research tasks.
Thomas Daley
tmdaley@lbl.gov
Barry M. Freifeld
bmfreifeld@lbl.gov
Helen G. Prieto
hgprieto@lbl.gov
The Core Carbon Storage and Monitoring Research Program (CCSMR) aims to advance emergent monitoring and field operations optimization technologies that can be used in commercial carbon storage projects.
Barry M. Freifeld
bmfreifeld@lbl.gov
Thomas Daley
tmdaley@lbl.gov
Helen G. Prieto
hgprieto@lbl.gov
LBNL is one of the main international research organizations addressing concerns about potential impact of deployment of CO2 geological storage on the nation’s groundwater resources. A significant body of our work has targeted the possible groundwater quality changes in response to leakage of CO2 from deep sequestration reservoirs if it were to occur. To better…
Jens Birkholzer
jtbirkholzer@lbl.gov
John A. Apps
jaapps@lbl.gov
Yingqi Zhang
yqzhang@lbl.gov
Liange Zheng
lzheng@lbl.gov
Tianfu Xu
tianfu_xu@lbl.gov
Nicolas Spycher
nspycher@lbl.gov
If carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies are implemented on a large scale, the amounts of CO2 injected and sequestered underground will be extremely large. The figure above shows schematically the large-scale subsurface impacts that will be experienced during and after industrial-scale injection of CO2. While the CO2 plume at depth may be safely…
Jens Birkholzer
jtbirkholzer@lbl.gov
Quanlin Zhou
qzhou@lbl.gov
Jonny Rutqvist
jrutqvist@lbl.gov
Abdullah Cihan
acihan@lbl.gov
Helen G. Prieto
hgprieto@lbl.gov
