Permeability evolution in sandstone due to injection of CO2-saturated brine or supercritical CO2 at reservoir conditions

S. Iglauer; M. Sarmadivaleh; A. Al-Yaseri; M. Lebedev

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.328

Permeability evolution in sandstone due to injection of CO₂-saturated brine or supercritical CO₂ at reservoir conditions

S. Iglauer^*
, M. Sarmadivaleh
, A. Al-Yaseri
, M. Lebedev

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We measured the change in permeability of two selected sandstones (Berea, Fonteinebleau) due to injection of CO₂- saturated ("live") brine, unsaturated ("dead") brine or supercritical (sc) CO₂ at reservoir conditions. We found that the permeability did not significantly change in a clean sandstone consisting of pure quartz (Fonteinemebleau) due to live or dead brine injection, although permeability changed due to scCO₂ injection by 23%. The permeability in the Berea sandstone, however, changed due to live or dead brine injection, by up to 35%; this permeability reduction in Berea sandstone was likely caused by fines release and subsequent pore throat plugging as the damage was more significant at higher injection rates. We expect that this phenomenon - i.e. rock permeability reduction due to CO₂ injection into the formation - can have a significant and detrimental influence on CO₂ injectivity, which would be reduced accordingly.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3051-3059
Number of pages	9
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	63
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.328
State	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	12th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT 2014 - Austin, United States Duration: 5 Oct 2014 → 9 Oct 2014

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Keywords

CO-saturated brine
Injectivity decrease
Live brine
Permeability reduction
Sandstone
Supercritical CO

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