Short and long term reservoir modelling

Capture Research

Purpose

This activity builds enhanced reservoir engineering capability to model the injection, migration and final containment of carbon dioxide stored in geological formations.

Summary

This activity conducts research to extend our current capability to model carbon dioxide injection, migration and the primary trapping mechanisms: residual trapping, mineral trapping, and dissolution. This involves simulation involving coupled geochemistry, coupled geomechanics and coupled hydrodynamics. The performance of simulation codes is being evaluated through code comparison studies.

Did you know?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change considers that over 1,000 years at a carefully chosen geosequestration site, less than 1 per cent of the stored carbon dioxide will leak only as far as the next strata of rock, still deep underground, rather than to the land surface or atmosphere. More...