GCCC Texts and Reports

Confining system integrity assessment by detection of natural gas migration using seismic diffractions

Klokov, Alexander; Meckel, Timothy A.; Trevino, Ramon H. (International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2018-08-01)

Diffraction imaging for seal evaluation using ultra high resolution 3D seismic data

Klokov, Alexander; Trevino, Ramon H.; Meckel, Timothy A. (Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2017-04-01)

Statistical analysis of historic hydrocarbon production data from Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and application to dynamic capacity assessment in CO2 storage

Goudarzi, Ali; Meckel, Timothy A.; Hosseini, Seyyed A.; Trevino, Ramon H. (International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2019-01-01)

A seismic-based CO2-sequestration regional assessment of the Miocene section, northern Gulf of Mexico, Texas and Louisiana

DeAngelo, M. V.; Fifariz, R.; Meckel, T. A.; Treviño, R. H. (International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2019-02-01)

CarbonSAFE Phase I: Integrated CCS Pre-Feasibility – Northwest Gulf of Mexico

Meckel, Timothy A.; Hovorka, Susan D.; Trevino, Ramon H. (2018-10-29)

Offshore storage achieves two major objectives for the US commercial large scale CCS deployment: 1. Adding large capacity to serve local regional, and potentially broader objectives 2. Lowering risk by providing storage ...

Gulf of Mexico Miocene CO2 Site Characterization Mega Transect

Meckel, Timothy A.; Trevino, Ramon H. (2015-01-08)

This project characterized the Miocene-age sub-seafloor stratigraphy in the near-offshore portion of the Gulf of Mexico adjacent to the Texas coast. The large number of industrial sources of carbon dioxide (CO2) in coastal ...

Frio Pilot in CO2 Sequestration in Brine-Bearing Sandstones

Hovorka, Susan D.; Holtz, Mark H.; Sakurai, Shinichi; Knox, Paul R.; Collins, Dan; Papadeas, Phil; Stehli, Donald (Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, 2003)

Frio brine storage experiment—lessons learned

Hovorka, Susan D. (8th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, 2013-06-19)

The Frio Brine pilot is a closely monitored, small-volume (1,600 tons), short-duration experiment using injection of CO2 into high-permeability brine-bearing sandstone to test the feasibility of geologic sequestration. The ...

Frio brine sequestration pilot in the Texas Gulf Coast

Hovorka, Susan D.; Knox, Paul R. (Greenhouse gas control technologies: Proceedings, 6th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, 2003-10-01)

A field experiment to pioneer CO2 injection for sequestration in a brine-bearing sandstone-shale sequence in the Texas Gulf Coast, USA, is in the preinjection modeling and planning phase. Innovations in this experiment ...

Expert-based development of a standard in CO2 sequestration monitoring technology

Hovorka, S. D.; Nicot, J. -P.; Zeidouni, M.; Sun, A. Y.; Yang, C.; Sava, D.; Mickler, P. J. (2014)

Executive summary: Recent results of the SACROC groundwater geochemistry summary

Romanak, Katherine D.; Smyth, Rebecca C.; Yang, Changbing; Hovorka, Susan D.; Nicot, Jean-Philipe; Lu, Jiemin (Federal Requirements Under the Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program for Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Geologic Sequestration (GS) Wells – Notice of Data Availability and Request for Comment (EPA-HQ-OW-2008- 0390-0297), 2008)

EOR as sequestration: Geoscience perspective

Hovorka, Susan D.; Tinker, Scott W. (Symposium on Role of EOR in Accelerating Deployment of CCS, 2010-07-23)

CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) has a development and operational history several decades longer than geologic sequestration of CO2 designed to benefit the atmosphere and provides much of the experience on which confidence ...

Environmental Assessment: Optimal Geological Environments for Carbon Dioxide Disposal in Brine Formations (Saline Aquifers) in the United States--Pilot Experiment in the Frio Formation, Houston Area

Knox, Paul R.; Paine, Jeffrey G.; Hovorka, Susan D. (U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 2003-04)

Energy, climate and water in the 21st century – Texas and Florida share a strong connection with future challenges in the Earth sciences

Olson, H. C.; Ellins, K.; Olson, J.; Romanak, K. D. (The Florida Science Teacher, 2012)

Economic modeling of carbon dioxide integrated pipeline network for enhanced oil recovery and geologic sequestration in the Texas Gulf Coast region

Essandoh-Yeddu, Joseph; Gülen, Gürcan (9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-9), 2008-11-16)

Naturally occurring CO2 is transported via pipelines to oil fields in West Texas to enhance production. A similar pipeline system is proposed for the Gulf Coast region of Texas. The CO2 would come from anthropogenic ...

Economic analysis of an integrated anthropogenic carbon dioxide network for capture and enhanced oil recovery along the Texas Gulf Coast

King, Carey W.; Gülen, Gürcan; Essandoh-Yeddu, Joseph; Hovorka, Susan (Proceedings of the ASME 3rd International Conference on Energy Sustainability, 2009-07-19)

This paper explains the system economics of an example integrated network that uses anthropogenic CO2 from Texas Gulf Coast fossil power plants for enhanced oil recovery (EOR). These CO2 sources and sinks are connected via ...