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Fundamentals of CO2 Sequestration: Mechanisms and Processes
Christine Ehlig-Economides, PhD
INSTRUCTOR: Dimitrios Hatzignatiou, PhD
DISCIPLINE: Energy Transition
COURSE LENGTH: 2 Days (Classroom) / 4 Half-Day Sessions (Live Online)
CEUs: 1.6
AVAILABILITY: Public, In-House, & Live Online
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Petroleum engineers, geoscientists and CCS/CCUS project managers interested or already engaged in geologic sequestration of captured carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial and agricultural sources and from the air in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and saline aquifers.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The primary topics of discussion during this course are (1) impact of CO2 injection on storage formation rock properties, (2) CO2 migration within the storage formation and potential leakage outside of the storage pore space, (3) impact of CO2 injection on well injectivity, and (4) CO2 chemical interaction with formation rock.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

  • Clarify the importance of the four types of CO2 trapping mechanisms and their impact on CO2 storage capacity, injectivity, and confinement.
  • Provide fundamental concepts pertaining to mineralization process of CO2 sequestration related to CO2 injectivity, migration, and potential leakage.
  • Explain advantages and disadvantages of CO2 storage in saline aquifers versus depleted hydrocarbon fields.

COURSE CONTENT:

COURSE CONTENT:

  • CO2 geological sequestration options
  • Storage formation rock and fluid properties
  • CO2 properties
  • CO2 trapping mechanisms – importance vs. time
  • CO2 sequestration processes affecting CO2 capacity, injectivity and confinement
    • CO2/rock and CO2/water interactions
    • Impact of CO2 injection on well injectivity
  • CO2 storage in hydrocarbon reservoirs versus saline aquifers