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Pore Scale Observations of Trapped CO2 in Mixed-Wet Carbonate Rock: Applications to Storage in Oil Field

We investigated the physical basis of this weakened trapping using pore scale observations of supercritical CO2 in mixed-wet carbonates. The wetting alteration induced by oil provided CO2-wet surfaces that served as conduits to flow. In situ measurements of contact angles showed that CO2 varied from nonwetting to wetting throughout the pore space, with contact angles ranging 25° <θ< 127°; in contrast, an inert gas, N2, was nonwetting with a smaller range of contact angle 24° <θ< 68 °. Observations of trapped ganglia morphology showed that this wettability allowed CO2 to create large, connected, ganglia by inhabiting small pores in mixed-wet rocks. The connected ganglia persisted after three pore volumes of brine injection, facilitating the desaturation that leads to decreased trapping relative to water-wet systems. This data is associated with this open access publication: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2016, 50, 18, 10282-10290. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b03111.

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English (en)
Dataset Reference Date ()
2019-10-04
Identifier

http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607531

 

Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre

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qccsrc@imperial.ac qccsrc@imperial.ac.uk


United Kingdom

 

Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre

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qccsrc@imperial.ac qccsrc@imperial.ac.uk


United Kingdom

 

Imperial College London

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Hannah Menke


London

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United Kingdom

 

Imperial College London

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Hannah Menke


London

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United Kingdom

 

Imperial College London

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Ali Al-Menhali


London

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United Kingdom

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes
  • Geology
BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
  • Carbon dioxide

  • Carbonate rocks

  • Traps (petroleum)

  • Nitrogen

  • Carbon capture and storage

  • Limestone

Keywords
  • NERC_DDC

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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.

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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"

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Begin date
2016-10-01
End date
2016-10-31
Additional information

This data is associated with this open access publication: Environ. Sci. Technol. 2016, 50, 18, 10282-10290. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b03111

 

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http://www.bgs.ac.uk/ukccs/accessions/index.html#item130205
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https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item130205
 
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non geographic dataset

Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2011
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Degree

Report

Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Explanation

See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

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Statement

All core-flooding experiments were performed at 10 MPa pore pressure. Observations were made with either CO2 and water or N2 and water as the two fluid phases. The CO2 experiments were performed at a temperature of 50 °C, while N2 experiments were performed at 25 °C. Observations were made of the ganglion distribution of N2brine or CO2-brine systems after an initial supercritical (sc)CO2 or N2 flooding stage, partially saturating the core with the nonaqueous phase, and again after waterflooding, where the remaining gas ganglia were imaged.

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Resource type
nonGeographicDataset
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non geographic dataset

Metadata Date
2023-03-31
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

 

British Geological Survey


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EDINBURGH

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LOTHIAN

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United Kingdom

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