TY - JOUR
T1 - A Screening Assessment of the Impact of Sedimentological Heterogeneity on CO2 Migration and Stratigraphic-Baffling Potential: Sherwood and Bunter Sandstones, UK
AU - Alshakri, Jafar
AU - Hampson, Gary
AU - Jacquemyn, Carl
AU - Jackson, Matthew
AU - Petrovskyy, Dmytro
AU - Geiger, S.
AU - Silva, Julio Daniel Machado
AU - Judice, Sicilia
AU - Rahman, Fazilatur
AU - Sousa, Mario Costa
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - We use a combination of experimental design, sketch-based reservoir modelling and flow diagnostics to rapidly screen the impact of sedimentological heterogeneities that constitute baffles and barriers on CO
2 migration in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and saline aquifers of the Sherwood Sandstone Group and Bunter Sandstone Formation, UK. These storage units consist of fluvial sandstones with subordinate aeolian sand-stones, floodplain and sabkha heteroliths and lacustrine mudstones. The predominant control on effective hor-izontal permeability is the lateral continuity of aeolian-sandstone intervals. Effective vertical permeability is controlled by the lateral extent, thickness and abundance of lacustrine-mudstone layers and aeolian-sandstone layers, and the mean lateral extent and mean vertical spacing of carbonate-cemented basal channel lags in fluvial facies-association layers. The baffling effect on CO
2 migration and retention is approximated by the pore vol-ume injected at breakthrough time, which is controlled largely by three heterogeneities, in order of decreasing impact: (1) the lateral continuity of aeolian-sandstone intervals; (2) the lateral extent of lacustrine-mudstone lay-ers; and (3) the thickness and abundance of fluvial-sandstone, aeolian-sandstone, floodplain-and-sabkha-heter-olith and lacustrine-mudstone layers. Future effort should be focused on characterizing these three heterogeneities as a precursor for later capillary, dissolution and mineral trapping.
AB - We use a combination of experimental design, sketch-based reservoir modelling and flow diagnostics to rapidly screen the impact of sedimentological heterogeneities that constitute baffles and barriers on CO
2 migration in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and saline aquifers of the Sherwood Sandstone Group and Bunter Sandstone Formation, UK. These storage units consist of fluvial sandstones with subordinate aeolian sand-stones, floodplain and sabkha heteroliths and lacustrine mudstones. The predominant control on effective hor-izontal permeability is the lateral continuity of aeolian-sandstone intervals. Effective vertical permeability is controlled by the lateral extent, thickness and abundance of lacustrine-mudstone layers and aeolian-sandstone layers, and the mean lateral extent and mean vertical spacing of carbonate-cemented basal channel lags in fluvial facies-association layers. The baffling effect on CO
2 migration and retention is approximated by the pore vol-ume injected at breakthrough time, which is controlled largely by three heterogeneities, in order of decreasing impact: (1) the lateral continuity of aeolian-sandstone intervals; (2) the lateral extent of lacustrine-mudstone lay-ers; and (3) the thickness and abundance of fluvial-sandstone, aeolian-sandstone, floodplain-and-sabkha-heter-olith and lacustrine-mudstone layers. Future effort should be focused on characterizing these three heterogeneities as a precursor for later capillary, dissolution and mineral trapping.
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U2 - 10.1144/SP528-2022-34
DO - 10.1144/SP528-2022-34
M3 - Article
SN - 0305-8719
VL - 528
SP - 245
EP - 266
JO - Geological Society Special Publication
JF - Geological Society Special Publication
IS - 1
ER -