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Depth map at top of Fuglen Fm. (below) and stratigraphic section (right)
[from Wennberg et al., 2008]
Figure 1: Depth map of Top Fuglen Formation with well locations (from Wennberg et al.
2008).
at the Hammerfest Basin is shown in Figure 2. The lowermost reservoir unit is the Tuben
The stratigraphy
Producing
natural gas with 5-8% CO2 content,
Formation of Early Jurassic (Hettangian V Sinemurian) age. This is a delta plain environment with fluvial
which
needs
be reduced
before
liquefication.
distributary
channels
and someto
marine-tidal
influence (Helgesen
and Johansen
2005). Above the Tuben Fm is the
Deleted: Figure 2
Nordmela Formation of Sinemurian to Pliensbackian age. This is a lower coastal plain depositional environment
with brackish, shallow-marine deposits (Wennberg et al. 2008). Following this is the St Formation of Early to
MiddleSeparated
CO2 was
originally re-injected into
Jurassic (Pliensbackian-Bajocian)
age. This is a shallow-marine environment with alternating lower to
upperTuben
shoreface deposits
communication,
Lone Christensen). The
St Formation is covered by the
Fm.(personal
at approx.
2400-2600m
depth.
Fuglen Formation of late Middle Jurassic age. The main reservoirs at Snhvit are the Tuben Formation (CO2
injection) and St Formation (producing reservoir). As far as CO2 storage is concerned, the main target storage
formation,
Injection
beganis dominated
in 2008,
but inchannel
2010facies
Statoil
the Tuben Formation,
by distributary
leading to possible restricted flow
compartments
(individual
channels
or
channel
complexes).
The
alternate
storage
the St
Formation, is
announced storage capacity in Tubentarget,
was
lower
likely to have better lateral communication because of its shallow marine depositional setting.
than expected. Operators recompleted well and
have continued injection in the shallower St
formation.
Figure: Model prediction of excess pressure (MPa) necessary to initiate fault slip with the base case
scenario parameters, which corresponds to a SS/NF environment with N-S SHmax direction.
estimated BHP
pressure, bar
380
360
340
320
300
100
200
300
400
500
600
time, days
700
800
900
1000
1100
Well tests
P~ commonly used to look for flow barriers and
otherFigure
indications
of reservoir
1.21. One sealing
fault. Pressurestructure
profile at time t4.
I
G as potential [bar2/cp]
1E+5
10000
1000
1E-3
0.01
0.1
1
Time [hr]
10
100
1000
Figure: Fallo analyses using permanent gauge (2009) and PLT data (2011).
osses) and modeled pressure. Timing of the acquired seismic 4D surveys are
(Hansen et al. 2012)
acture pressure. b) Log-log plot of (2011 PLT and 2009 FO) gas pseudo
80
60
40
20
0
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
days
100
Simplified
tonnes per hour
80
Motivating
question: Can we derive similar information from ongoing
60
injection data, without shutting in for long periods?
40
20
0
1100
multi-rate injection
pressure
rate
time
rate
pressure
time
Single
rate:
Mul.-rate:
time
p(t) = q pC (t)
p(t) = (qi+1 qi ) pC (t ti )
i
forecast / precast
calibration period
400
pressure, bar
380
360
340
equivalent buildup test
150
100
320
50
0
300
100
200
300
400
500
600
time, days
700
500
800
900
1000
1000
1100
forecast / precast
calibration period
400
pressure, bar
380
360
340
equivalent buildup test
150
100
320
50
0
300
100
200
300
400
500
600
time, days
700
500
800
900
1000
1000
1100
forecast / precast
calibration period
400
pressure, bar
380
360
340
equivalent buildup test
150
100
320
50
0
300
100
200
300
400
500
600
time, days
700
500
800
900
1000
1000
1100
forecast / precast
calibration period
400
pressure, bar
380
360
340
equivalent buildup test
150
100
320
50
0
300
100
200
300
400
500
600
time, days
700
500
800
900
1000
1000
1100
forecast / precast
calibration period
400
pressure, bar
380
360
340
equivalent buildup test
150
100
320
50
0
300
100
200
300
400
500
600
time, days
700
500
800
900
1000
1000
1100
forecast / precast
calibration period
400
pressure, bar
380
360
340
equivalent buildup test
150
100
320
50
0
300
100
200
300
400
500
600
time, days
700
500
800
900
1000
1000
1100
forecast / precast
calibration period
400
pressure, bar
380
360
340
equivalent buildup test
150
100
320
50
0
300
100
200
300
400
500
600
time, days
700
500
800
900
1000
1000
1100
w/o production
w/ production
400
380
360
pressure, bar
340
320
300
280
brine
production
phase
260
150
CO2
injection
phase
240
220
200
100
50
0
500
1000
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100
time, days
Summary
This project has explored two useful analysis techniques:
Acknowledgements
This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.
Data and co-funding were provided by the DOE Carbon Sequestration Program
and Statoil.
Contact
Laura Chiaramonte
Josh White
Baker Hughes
laura.chiaramonte@bakerhughes.com
jawhite@llnl.gov
Appendix
Org Chart
Fuel
Cycle
Innova7ons
(Roger
Aines)
Carbon
Management
(Susan
Carroll)
LLNL
Carbon
Sequestra7on
Program
Task
1.
Ac9ve
Reservoir
Management
Task 2. In Salah
Task 4. Snovit
Task
5.
Carbonates
Technical Sta
Boucier
Buscheck
Aines
Chiaramonte,
White,
Hao,
Wagoner,
Walsh
Carroll,
Hao,
Mason,
Smith
Exper7se
Subsurface
Hydrology
Computa7onal
Geomechanics
Experimental
and
Theore7cal
Geochemistry
Seismology
Structural
Geology
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Bibliography
Chiaramonte et al. (2014). Probabilistic geomechanical analysis of
compartmentalization at the Snhvit CO2 storage project. Submitted to
JGRSolid Earth.
White et al. (2014). Generalized superposition welltest analysis. In
preparation.
Numerous conference papers and abstracts.