Source-Sink Matching and Potential for Carbon Capture and Storage in the Gulf Coast

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dc.creatorAmbrose, William A.
dc.creatorBreton, Caroline L.
dc.creatorDuncan, Ian
dc.creatorHoltz, Mark H.
dc.creatorHovorka, Susan D.
dc.creatorNúñez-López, Vanessa
dc.creatorLakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-24T19:11:27Z
dc.date.available2018-04-24T19:11:27Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractCurrent global levels of anthropogenic CO2 emissions are 25.6 Gigatons yr. Approximately 1 Gigaton comes from the Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi Gulf Coast, representing 16 percent of the U.S. annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. The Gulf Coast region provides an opportunity for addressing the problem. Geologic sequestration results from the capturing of CO2 from combustion products and injecting the compressed gas as a supercritical fluid into subsurface brine aquifers for long-term storage. The Gulf Coast overlies an unusually thick succession of highly porous and permeable sand aquifers separated by thick shale aquitards. The Gulf Coast also has a large potential for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), in which CO2 injected into suitable oil reservoirs could be used first for EOR and then for large-volume, long-term storage of CO2 in nonproductive formations below the reservoir interval. For example, there are numerous opportunities for locating CO2 injection wells either in fields for EOR or in stacked brine aquifers near potential FutureGen sites, where a near-zero emission facility would generate primarily hydrogen and CO2 as by-products. We estimate that in the Gulf Coast, outside of the traditional area of CO2 EOR in the Permian Basin, an additional 4.5 billion barrels of oil could be produced by using miscible CO2. At $60 per barrel, this incremental production is estimated to have a wellhead value of $270 billion that could generate more than $40 billion in taxes.en_US
dc.description.departmentBureau of Economic Geologyen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2KD1R31S
dc.identifier.citationAmbrose, W. A., Breton, C. L., Duncan, Ian, Holtz, M. H., Hovorka, S. D., NúñezLópez, Vanessa, and Lakshminarasimhan, Srivatsan, 2006, Source-sink matching and potential for carbon capture and storage in the Gulf Coast, in Proceedings of the 2006 UIC Conference of the Groundwater Protection Council, Abstract 16. GCCC Digital Publication Series #06-07.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/64647
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherProceedings of the 2006 UIC Conference of the Groundwater Protection Councilen_US
dc.relation.ispartofGCCC Texts and Reportsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGCCC Digital Publication Series;06-07
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subject2006 UIC Conference of the Groundwater Protection Councilen_US
dc.subjectCO2-EOR (Enhanced oil recovery)en_US
dc.subjectGulf Coasten_US
dc.subjectCO2 sourcesen_US
dc.subjectCO2 Sinksen_US
dc.subjectReservoir Screening Criteriaen_US
dc.titleSource-Sink Matching and Potential for Carbon Capture and Storage in the Gulf Coasten_US
dc.typeConference paperen_US

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