CO2 Sequestration Safety Monitoring by using Seismic Imaging and Double Difference Tomography
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https://doi.org/10.15273/ijge.2017.04.012Keywords:
shale gas, CO2 sequestration storage, seismic monitoring, TomoDD, stress redistribution, caprock integrityAbstract
Shale gas has become an increasingly important clean energy, which has been explored worldwide in recent decades. In the shale gas production, supercritical CO2 acts as a fracturing fluid. For preventing any kinds of leakage of the injected supercritical CO2, it is essential to monitor the stability of its storage hundreds of kilometres beneath the Earth‘s surface. Seismic tomography is an imaging technique that uses induced seismic waves to create three dimensional images of the subsurface. It is an effective monitoring method to evaluate the caprock integrity in the CO2 sequestration storage (CCS). In this experimental research, a simulated uniaxial compressive load was applied on a granite sample to analyze the stress redistribution for long-term in-situ caprock integrity during CO2 injection. The induced seismic waves were recorded, and seismic events were located according to the Geiger algorithm. The frequency of seismic events correlates with the caprock failure evolution. Based on the frequency of seismic events and the failure process, the seismic data is divided into four regimes to examine the failure evolution. Finally, the double difference tomography (TomoDD) algorithm using arrival time was adopted to recalculate to modify the locations of seismic events and velocity structure in each regime. The results indicate that the passive seismic system can map the caprock stress distribution and allow for imaging of the caprock integrity. TomoDD exhibits sound improvements to relocate seismic events both in relative and absolute locations as well as to characterize the local velocity structure. The study further reveals that seismic monitoring along with TomoDD could evaluate the caprock failure accurately in the CCS.
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