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DOI:10.1306/13171258St593393

Geochemical Modeling of CO2 Injection into a Methane Gas Reservoir at the K12-B Field, North Sea

Pascal Audigane,1 Julie Lions,2 Irina Gaus,3 Christian Robelin,4 Pierre Durst,5 Bert Van der Meer,6 Kees Geel,7 Curtis M. Oldenburg,8 Tianfu Xu9

1BRGM (Bureau de recherches geologiques et minieres [French Geological Survey]), Orleans, France
2BRGM (Bureau de recherches geologiques et minieres [French Geological Survey]), Orleans, France
3BRGM (Bureau de recherches geologiques et minieres [French Geological Survey]), Orleans, France
4BRGM (Bureau de recherches geologiques et minieres [French Geological Survey]), Orleans, France
5BRGM (Bureau de recherches geologiques et minieres [French Geological Survey]), Orleans, France
6TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Utrecht, the Netherlands
7TNO Built Environment and Geosciences, Utrecht, the Netherlands
8Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
9Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors thank the CASTOR consortium as well as the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs for the funding and the permission to publish this work. The authors also like to thank Gaz De France Production Nederland B.V. for their help in providing data and relevant information.

ABSTRACT

In the framework of selecting potential targets for CO2 geological storage, depleted gas reservoirs are well positioned because they offer directly reusable platform facilities, proven cap rock, and seal integrity; because these reservoirs contained a highly mobile gas phase for thousands to millions of years; and a very detailed reservoir characterization developed for gas production purposes. Furthermore, coupled with enhanced gas recovery, CO2 sequestration in gas reservoirs is also a means to reduce costs for CO2 injection by producing the remaining gas. This chapter presents a numerical simulation study of CO2 injection into the nearly depleted gas reservoir at the K12-B field, North Sea, selected as a demonstration site for the Offshore Reinjection of CO2 project. Simulations have been conducted using two different codes: TOUGHREACT, for characterizing the geochemical fluid-rock interactions that may occur during the injection period, and TOUGH2/EOS7C, for simulating the CO2 sequestration coupled with enhanced methane production. Simulation results show that considering the injection of about 3 million tons of CO2 for 10 yr, (1) a very low geochemical impact is expected to occur, which is favorable in terms of cap rock and reservoir integrity, and (2) the enhanced gas recovery efficiency remains limited when considering the full-scale CO2 injection rate.

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