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Gas breakthrough pressure for hydrocarbon reservoir seal rocks: implications for the security of long‐term CO2 storage in the Weyburn field
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This paper reports a laboratory study of the gas breakthrough pressure for different gas/liquid systems in the Mississippian‐age Midale Evaporite. This low‐permeability rock formation is the seal rock for the Weyburn Field in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada, where CO 2 is being injected into an oil reservoir for enhanced recovery and CO 2 storage. A technique for experimentally determining CO 2 breakthrough pressure at reservoir conditions is presented. Breakthrough pressures for N 2, CO 2 and CH 4 were measured with the selected seal‐rock samples. The maximum breakthrough pressure is over 30 MPa for N 2 and approximately 21 MPa for CO 2. The experimental results demonstrate that the Weyburn Midale Evaporite seal rock is of high sealing quality. Therefore, the Weyburn reservoir and Midale Beds can be used as a CO 2 storage site after abandonment. The measured results also show that the breakthrough pressure of a seal rock for a gas is nearly proportional to the interfacial tension of the gas/brine system. The breakthrough pressure of a CO 2/brine system is significantly reduced compared with that of a CH 4/brine system because of the much lower interfacial tension of the former. This implies that a seal rock that seals the original gas in a gas reservoir or an oil reservoir with a gas cap may not be tight enough to seal the injected CO 2 if the pressure during or after CO 2 injection is the same or higher than the original reservoir pressure. Therefore, reevaluation of the breakthrough pressure of seal rocks for a given reservoir is necessary and of highest priority once it is chosen as a CO 2 storage site.
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- Authors
- LI, S., DONG, M., LI, Z., HUANG, S., QING, H., & NICKEL, E.
- Venue
- Geofluids
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-10-20
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 326-334
- ISSN
- 1468-8115 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-8123
- OpenAlex
- W1825012390
- Cited by
- 200
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 3.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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