Evaluation of carbon dioxide storage potential for the Bohai Basin, North-East China

Vincent, Ceri; Poulsen, Niels E.; Rongshu, Zeng; Shifeng, Dai; Mingyuan, Li; Guosheng, Ding. 2011 Evaluation of carbon dioxide storage potential for the Bohai Basin, North-East China. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 5 (3). 598-603. 10.1016/j.ijggc.2010.05.004

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Abstract/Summary

The storage potential of selected sites within the Bohai Basin was assessed for the COACH project. The Gangdong oilfield is considered to have a small potential storage capacity (23 Mt) and to be possibly suitable for an enhanced oil recovery or small-scale storage pilot rather than large-scale storage. The Shengli oilfield province is considered to have a great potential storage capacity (472 Mt in eight selected fields), however, these fields, like those of the Gangdong oilfield province, are compartmentalised by faulting and stratigraphy and likely to be quite challenging for injection. Unmineable coal seams in the Kailuan mining area were also considered for storage, the estimated capacity is 504 Gt adsorbed onto the coal and 38,100 Mt void storage capacity. However, the coals have low porosity and permeability, so they would be expected to have poor injectivity. This is also an active mining area and so any storage site would have to be chosen carefully to avoid affecting future energy resources. The Huimin sub-basin within the Jiyang Depression was identified for consideration as an aquifer storage site; the Guantao Formation has good porosity and permeability in this region, and the regional-level storage capacity of these areas was estimated to be 0.7 Gt. The aquifers in the Huimin sub-basin appear promising for storage, however, less data are available than for the oilfields and the sealing formations are not directly proven to trap buoyant fluids, though in adjacent oilfield in the Shengli oilfield province, the Minghuazhen Formation forms a regional seal for the Guantao Formation.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1016/j.ijggc.2010.05.004
Programmes:	BGS Programmes 2010 > Energy Science
Date made live:	24 May 2011 13:52 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14338

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