Integrated Midcontinent Stacked Carbon Storage Hub Phase II: Storage Complex Data Collection Planning
Carbon Management Technology Conference
2019
Carbon Management Technology Conference 2019 (CMTC 2019)
General Submissions
Session 10: Carbon Capture - Transformational and 2nd Generation (III) & Monitoring and Characterization Protocols and Technologies
The Integrated Midcontinent Stacked Carbon Storage Hub (IMSCS-HUB) is part of the Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) established by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to support development of an integrated, commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) complex for operation in the 2025 time frame. The IMSCS-HUB study region consists of a CO2 source corridor and a stacked storage corridor that spans across Nebraska and Kansas, representing the first large-scale project for the Midcontinent region of the United States. As part of Phase II of the project, the overall goal is to conduct a detailed feasibility assessment of geologic CO2 storage complexes at potential sites in southwest Nebraska and Kansas.
This presentation will describe the data collection planning effort to identify gaps in geologic, model, and regulatory data that could be addressed via new data acquisition to support Phase II objectives and prepare for future phases of the project. This involves updating existing geologic models with recently available public and proprietary data and conducting a geologic and regulatory data gap analysis for each potential site. Plans for data acquisition and analysis from new characterization wells at each site will also be discussed, including: whole core acquisition and analysis, well tests, fluid sampling and analysis, basic and advanced wireline logging, and seismic data acquisition.
The new data collected as part of Phase II field activities will support the feasibility analysis and initial characterization of the storage complexes at each potential site. This includes data to be used for subsurface characterization and modeling, outreach activities, risk assessment, regulatory analysis, and permit planning to establish commercial development strategies for one or more 50-Mt-scale stacked storage sites in the Midcontinent region.