Fundamentals of CO2 Sequestration: Mechanisms and Processes

Disciplines

Engineering

Category

Foundational • Energy Transition • Carbon Capture Utilization & Storage (CCUS) • Reservoir Characterization • Facilities

Format

Classroom • Live Online 

Available

Private 

Who Should Attend

Petroleum engineers, geoscientists and CCS/CCUS project managers interested or already engaged in geologic sequestration of captured carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial and agricultural sources and from the air in depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs and saline aquifers.

Description

The primary topics of discussion during this course are (1) impact of CO₂ injection on storage formation rock properties, (2) CO₂ migration within the storage formation and potential leakage outside of the storage pore space, (3) impact of CO₂ injection on well injectivity, and (4) CO₂ chemical interaction with formation rock.

Learning Outcomes

• Clarify the importance of the four types of CO₂ trapping mechanisms and their impact on CO₂ storage capacity, injectivity, and confinement.
• Provide fundamental concepts pertaining to mineralization process of CO₂ sequestration related to CO₂ injectivity, migration, and potential leakage.
• Explain advantages and disadvantages of CO₂ storage in saline aquifers versus depleted hydrocarbon fields.

Course Content

• CO₂ geological sequestration options
• Storage formation rock and fluid properties
• CO₂ properties
• CO₂ trapping mechanisms – importance vs. time
• CO₂ sequestration processes affecting CO₂ capacity, injectivity and confinement
  • CO₂/rock and CO₂/water interactions
  • Impact of CO₂ injection on well injectivity
• CO₂ storage in hydrocarbon reservoirs versus saline aquifers

In-Person

Length

2 Days

Virtual

Length

4 Half-Days

Upcoming Events

Check back in periodically for updated Public and Live Online course dates! To schedule an In-House course, contact SCA’s Training Department at training@scacompanies.com.

Instructor

Dimitrios Hatzignatiou, PhD