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REGIONAL GEOLOGY AND CO2 STORAGE OPPORTUNITIES

Jack Pashin, Richard Carroll, Denise Hills, Guohai Jin, David Kopaska-Merkel, Steve Mann, Marcella McIntyre, Mac McKinney, and Sarah Rieboldt

Geological Survey of Alabama

RECS 2011 June 7th

DOE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

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Southeastern Projects
SECARB Coal Test El Paso CBM well SECARB Coal Test CNX CBM well DOE Site CharacterizaPon AL Power Plant Gorgas DOE Site CharacterizaPon Triassic ri^ basins

Kemper County IGCC Mississippi Power SECARB EOR and Saline tests Craneld, MS (BEG) CCPI-3 Houston, TX NaPonal Carbon Capture Center Wilsonville, AL SECARB Anthropogenic test Alabama Power Plant Barry CO2-EOR Pilot Citronelle Field SECARB-EPRI Saline, USDW tests MS Power Plant Daniel IOGCC-SSEB Oshore task force

UA Citronelle Geochemistry

TECO IGCC

DOE Site CharacterizaPon Oshore Miocene (BEG)

Nashville Dome Black Warrior Gorgas basin Appalachian Mountains

ALABAMA GEOLOGY in a POSTCARD

Gulf of Mexico basin

Barry

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BLACK WARRIOR SALINE FORMATIONS

WILLIAM CRAWFORD GORGAS STEAM PLANT

Well site

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GEOLOGIC MAP

Gorgas 1.4 Gw Miller 2.8 Gw

5 mi

WILLS VALLEY ANTICLINE

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OPPORTUNITIES

BLACK WARRIOR STORAGE

SP-GR Res Red Mtn. Fm.

SP-GR

CNL-FDC

CAMB-ORD CARBONATE
Knox Dolostone

Stones River Group

Knox Group

Pay?

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MISSISSIPPIAN STRATIGRAPHY

HARTSELLE SANDSTONE
Interval Isopach
>375 ft HartsellePride Mtn. Shelf

Net Pay
5-120 ft

Barrierstrandplain sandstone

Starved basin <25 ft

Starved basin

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CARTER SANDSTONE
Interval Isopach Net Pay
Delta-destructive barrier complex 10 ft Exposed Bangor carbonate ramp Deltaic complex 400 ft

5-180 ft Constructive delta

Starved basin 10 ft

CARBONIFEROUS SANDSTONE
Tangential crossbedding

Wedge-planar cross-bedding

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POTTSVILLE SANDSTONE

LOWER BOYLES SANDSTONE

Interval Isopach
225 ft Craton

Net Pay

<15 - >240 ft

Foreland basin 880 ft

Beach-tidal shoal complex

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BLACK WARRIOR COAL AND ECBM

CUMULATIVE GAS PRODUCTION !

SECARB test site

Gorgas Miller

Sequestration > 6 Tcf ECBM = 0.6-1.2 Tcf

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POTTSVILLE STRATIGRAPHY
Well 17-09-122 Permit 12450-C-GI-10-01 Blue Creek Field

Bridge plug

COAL PERMEABILITY
50 m

k=

a3 12s
100 mD

10 mD

1 mD

0.4 mm V.E. = 5x 0.00

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BLACK WARRIOR INJECTION SETUP

Monitoring Storage Pumping skid

Wellhead

Heater

Propane

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INJECTION RESULTS
1 mD

40 mD

COMET3 MODELING

COMET3 models by Advanced Resources International

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APPALACHIAN THRUST BELT SHALE

PLAY CONCEPTS

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CONASAUGA SHALE

GADSDEN CROSS SECTIONS

Thomas and Bayona (2005)

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GAS STORAGE

SORPTION AND TEMPERATURE

CONASAUGA SHALE ASSESSMENT

Shale isopach CO2 capacity

Sorbed = 76 Gt Free = 68 Gt Total = 144 Gt

Grace and Pashin (2010)

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GULF COAST EOR AND SALINE FORMATIONS

CRETACEOUS SANDSTONE, GULF COAST

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DENBURY RESOURCES CO2 EOR

SECARB III ANTHROPOGENIC

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SEISMIC INTERPRETATION

LOWER CRETACEOUS SANDSTONE, CARBONATE, ANHYDRITE

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CORE LOG 16-2 Sand Citronelle Field

Well B-19-10 #2

STRATIGRAPHIC CROSS SECTION

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SANDSTONE DIAGENESIS
Feldspar Dissolution Illuvial Clay

IDEALIZED 5th-ORDER DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE

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3D MODEL, 16-2 NET PAY

FIELD OPERATIONS
Injection wellhead Well B-19-10 #2 Projected 5-spot performance SENSOR simulation

Oil Production (bbl/day)

Time (days)

Simulation by E. Carlson, Univ. AL

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SEQUESTRATION STRATEGIES

PALUXY FORMATION, WELL D-9-8 #2

Cracked, rooted SS, MS Burrowed SS Cross-bedded SS

k = 20-23% = 200-3800 mD

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PALUXY RESERVOIR MODELS

Injector (location of D9-7)

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS

Research in SE US spans CCS value chain Diverse porcolio of geologic sinks in region Integrated CCS system including EOR, ECBM, saline formaPons Pilot programs demonstraPng injecPvity, connement, and capacity Scale-up of pilots incorporaPng post- combusPon capture

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Acknowledgement
SECARB-Ed is supported by the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) NaPonal Energy Technology Laboratory as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/carbon_seq/arra/ training.html

The Southern States Energy Board is the Principal Contractor of SECARB-Ed to DOE.
hip://www.secarb-ed.org/

Disclaimer
This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any informaPon, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specic commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily consPtute or imply its endorsement, recommendaPon, or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.

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