Maio 2014 vol. 1 num. 1 - 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics

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NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLUID FLOWAND TIME-LAPSE SEISMOGRAMS APPLIED TO CO2 STORAGE AND MONITORING

Savioli, G. B. ; Santos, J. E. ; Carcione, J. M. ; Gei, D. ;

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CO2 sequestration in the underground is a valid alternative approach for mitigating the greenhouse effect. Nevertheless, very little is known about the effectiveness of CO2 storage over very long periods. In this work we introduce a methodology to model the gas flow and monitor the storage. For this purpose, we integrate numerical simulators of CO2- brine flow and seismic wave propagation. The simultaneous flow of brine and CO2 is modeled with the Black-Oil formulation for two-phase flow in porous media, using PVT data as a simplified thermodynamic model. Wave propagation is based on an equivalent viscoelastic model that considers dispersion and attenuation effects. Densities and bulk and shear moduli are assumed to be dependent on pressure and saturation. The spatial pressure and CO2 saturation distributions computed with the flow simulator are used to determine the phase velocities and attenuation coefficients of the P and S waves from White‘s model. Numerical examples of CO2 injection and time-lapse seismograms are analyzed. The proposed methodology is able to identify the spatio-temporal distribution of CO2 after its injection, and constitutes an important tool to monitor the CO2 plume and analyze storage integrity, providing an early warning in case should any leakage may occur.

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Palavras-chave: CO2 Sequestration, black-oil model, viscoelastic model,

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DOI: 10.5151/meceng-wccm2012-18455

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Savioli, G. B.; Santos, J. E.; Carcione, J. M.; Gei, D.; "NUMERICAL MODELING OF FLUID FLOWAND TIME-LAPSE SEISMOGRAMS APPLIED TO CO2 STORAGE AND MONITORING", p. 1514-1528 . In: In Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics [= Blucher Mechanical Engineering Proceedings, v. 1, n. 1]. São Paulo: Blucher, 2014.
ISSN 2358-0828, DOI 10.5151/meceng-wccm2012-18455

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