The Containment and Monitoring Institute (CaMI) – a CFREF partnerDon Lawton (Geoscience, CaMI)

Kirk Osadetz and Amin Saeedfar (CaMI)

Abstract and goals

• The collaboration between the University of Calgary and CMC has developed a field station for development and demonstration of MMV technologies for containment and conformance of CO2

for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects to reduce GHG emissions.

• Undertake controlled CO2 release at 300 m depth up to 600 t/yr.

• Determine CO2 detection thresholds and cap rock assessment for different monitoring technologies.

• Develop continuous reservoir, cap rock and overburden surveillance technologies.

• Monitor gas migration at shallow to intermediate depths and impacts on intermediate depth groundwater (CO2 and CH4) and emissions.

• Understand thermal impacts for Geological Storage of CO2 (joint project with the University of Alberta)

• University & industry field training & research.

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Industry Partnership Opportunities

CaMI offers a subscription-based Joint Industry Project (JIP) to access monitoring research outcomes from the Field Research Station. JIP members have representation on the CaMI.FRS Steering Committee and have the opportunity to prioritize and bring forward new research directions and provide guidance on the overall research program. They also have, along with other subscribers, first access to research results.

Current JIP members include:• Cenovus Energy• Shell Global Solutions (Netherlands)• RITE (Japan)• Statoil ASA (Norway)

Specific industry partner opportunities include collaborative research in multicomponent seismic surveys, electrical resistivity tomography, fibre optic cables for acoustic and temperature sensing as well as distributed heat pulsing, seismic cross-well surveys, and reservoir fluid sampling technologies.

Contact Information: lawton@ucalgary.ca

Methods

CaMi.FRS is located 200 km southeast of Calgary, near Brooks, on 200 hectares of land made available by Cenovus Energy

The FRS has a 1 km x 1 km footprint, and has 1 injector well and 2 observations wells as well as surface infrastructure for monitoring CO2 injection.

University of Calgary – University of Alberta joint project

• How best to design, execute and monitor field CO2 injection programs to impart controlled temperature changes within the storage complex.

• Conduct reservoir geomechanical modeling that considers the multiphase non-isothermal flow effects to understand how the CO2 storage complex behaves as a result of changing temperatures and pressures.

• How to integrate surveillance technologies deployed to monitor both subsurface and surface responses from CO2 injection into dynamic models, including non-isothermal effects and CO2 phase changes.