Title
Site-specific geomechanical modeling for predicting stress changes around depleted gas reservoirs considered for CO2 storage in the Netherlands
Author
Orlic, B.
Contributor
Orlic, B. (editor)
ter Heege, J.H. (editor)
Publication year
2011
Abstract
Geomechanical simulations were conducted on a number of site-specific numerical models of depleted gas fields considered for CO2 storage in the Netherlands. Simulations were aimed at assessing the maximum areal extent of stress perturbation around depleted reservoirs at the end of depletion period. Simulation results indicate that the extent of stress changes around depleted reservoirs is at least one order of magnitude smaller compared to the extent of stress changes associated with industrial-scale CO2 storage in saline aquifers. In the case of small compartmentalized gas reservoirs, a few to ten kilometers long and a few kilometers wide, without aquifer support or without pressure drop in supporting aquifers, the maximum extent of stress changes is limited to a few kilometers. On the other hand, the extent of the area affected by pressure perturbations and, consequently, stress perturbations in the case of CO2 storage in saline aquifers is commonly a few tens to hundreds of kilometers away from the injection zone. The magnitude and pattern of induced stress changes around depleted reservoirs depend on many factors including the structural setting, reservoir shape and the geomechanical rock properties of different lithostratigraphic units.
Subject
Earth / Environmental
SGE - Sustainable Geo Energy
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Geological Survey Netherlands
Geosciences
Energy / Geological Survey Netherlands
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TNO identifier
503716
Publisher
CATO-2
Source
CATO-2 Deliverable WP3.03-D23 : Case study on reservoir/caprock deformation, surface deformation, seal integrity, and fault reactivation/seismic risk : Final Report, 2013, 6-20
Article number
ARMA 13-446
Bibliographical note
Paper prepared for the 47th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium
Document type
conference paper