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Fang Qi, Li Yilian, Cheng Peng, Yu Ying, Liu Danqing, Song Shaoyu, 2014. Enhancing CO2 Injectivity in High-Salinity and Low-Permeability Aquifers: A Case Study of Jianghan Basin, China. Earth Science, 39(11): 1575-1583. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2014.150
Citation: Fang Qi, Li Yilian, Cheng Peng, Yu Ying, Liu Danqing, Song Shaoyu, 2014. Enhancing CO2 Injectivity in High-Salinity and Low-Permeability Aquifers: A Case Study of Jianghan Basin, China. Earth Science, 39(11): 1575-1583. doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2014.150

Enhancing CO2 Injectivity in High-Salinity and Low-Permeability Aquifers: A Case Study of Jianghan Basin, China

doi: 10.3799/dqkx.2014.150
  • Received Date: 2014-03-02
  • Publish Date: 2014-11-01
  • Injectivity is a crucial technical and economical issue for CO2 geological storage projects due to large volumes of CO2 to be stored. Assessment and enhancement of CO2 injectivity in ubiquitous low-permeability reservoirs in the continental sedimentary basins of China is of great significance to the application and development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in China. Numerical simulation was carried out to investigate the potential and enhancement of CO2 injectivity in high-salinity and low-permeability aquifers by taking Jiangling depression of Jianghan basin as the study area. The results show that pre-injection of freshwater and low-salinity saline water can effectively mitigate salt precipitation around the CO2 injection well at different levels; pre-injection of CO2-saturation solution and diluted HCl solution can significantly improve the porosity and permeability values and enhance CO2 injectivity. However, it is difficult to achieve a significant increase in CO2 injection rate in a short time due to the limited migration distance resulted from the low-permeability nature. Hydraulic fracturing measures can significantly increase CO2 injectivity and the improved capacity largely depends on fracturing half-length and fracturing degree. Therefore, for a single vertical well, it is possible to achieve the injection of hundreds of thousands of tons of CO2 per year to low-permeability reservoirs by adopting hydraulic fracturing measures and multi-layer injection.

     

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