TITLE:
Carbon Dioxide Storage and Sequestration in Unconventional Shale Reservoirs
AUTHORS:
S. Sina Hosseini Boosari, Umut Aybar, Mohammad O. Eshkalak
KEYWORDS:
Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, Shale Reservoirs, Modeling and Simulation, Clean Environment
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection,
Vol.3 No.1,
March
20,
2015
ABSTRACT: Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
storage and sequestration in unconventional shale resources has been attracting
interest since last couple of years due to the very unique characteristics of
such formations have made them a feasible option for this object. Shale
formations are found all around the world and the conventional assets are easily
accessible, and also the huge move of operators toward developing unconventional
reservoirs during past years leaves many of such formations ready for
sequestering CO2. Today, the use of long horizontal wells that are
drilled on a pad has the lowest amount of environmental footprint in which for
storage and sequestration purpose also provides much more underground pore
spaces available for CO2. In this paper we study the state of the
art of the technology of CO2 storage and sequestration and provide
different and fresh look for its complex phenomena from a mathematical modeling
point of view. Moreover, we hope this study provides valuable insights into the
use of depleted shale gas reservoirs for carbon sequestration, which as a
result, a cleaner atmosphere will be achieved for the life of our next generations.
Also, we present that the depleted shale gas reservoirs are very adequate for
this purpose as they already have much of the infrastructure required to
perform CO2 injection available in sites.