State of the art review of CO2 Storage Site Selection and Characterisation Methods

 
1. INTRODUCTION
 
2. GEOLOGICAL CHARACTERISATION OF THE SITE
 
3. FLOW MODELLING
 
4 REACTIVE FLOW MODELLING
 
5. COUPLED GEOMECHANICAL AND FLOW MODELLING
 
6. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND RISK ASSESSMENT
 
7. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
 
8. PUBLIC PERCEPTION AND ACCEPTANCE
 
9. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
 
 
2.1 Site screening criteria
 
» 2.2 Storage capacity estimation methods
 
2.3 Safety of CO2 storage in saline aquifers
 
2.4 CO2 storage site ranking criteria
 
2.5 Conclusions
 
 

2.2 Storage capacity estimation methods

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2.2.1 Saline aquifer reservoirs

Several methods have been proposed to calculate the CO2 storage capacity for Saline formations. The method used is chose...

2.2.2 Hydrocarbon fields

CO2 storage capacity estimations of EUropean hydrocarbon fields have been carried out in the GESTCO (Schuppers et al., 2...

2.2.3 Coal beds

In the GESTCO project and in the EU GeoCapacity project two approaches to storage capacity estimations for COal bed met...