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Geophysics and the energy transition /

Geophysics and the Energy Transition involves four sections: What is the Energy Transition and why storage so important; selecting sites for storage; advanced monitoring technology; and moving forward to integrating Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) within the Energy Transition. Geophysics will also...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Wilson, Malcolm (Editor), Davis, Tom (Editor), Landrø, Martin (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, [2025]
Subjects:
Geophysics.
Energy transition.
Géophysique.
geophysics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Geophysics and the Energy Transition
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of contributors
  • About the editors
  • Foreword
  • 1 The energy transition
  • 1 Introduction to the energy transition
  • Introduction
  • The energy transition
  • The way forward
  • What is carbon capture and storage?
  • Government policy encouraging carbon capture and storage
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Further reading
  • 2 Economic enablement of carbon capture and storage for the low carbon energy transition
  • Introduction
  • Barriers to carbon capture and storage
  • Simple policy models
  • Model 1 taxes and subsidies to fix market failure with externalities
  • Model 2 policies to get to the optimal level of pollution
  • Comparing distribution effects of a CO2 standard, emission tax, and cleanup subsidy
  • Model 3: abatement and cap-and-trade
  • Precautionary principle and historical global temperature
  • How CO2 permit trading sets the price
  • Model 4 CO2 abatement as a public good
  • Discounting the future
  • Review of economic modeling of carbon capture and storage
  • Modeling global CO2: climate to climate policy to carbon capture and storage
  • Existing projects and policies
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 3 A survey of carbon capture and storage cost and storage availability
  • Introduction
  • Carbon capture and storage costs
  • Cost of capture in power generation
  • Cost of capture in industry
  • Cost of CO2 transportation
  • CO2 sources and geological sinks
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 4 Energy transition: a reservoir engineering perspective
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • Energy transition in a population-increasing world
  • US energy consumption in 2021
  • Greenhouse gases and global warming potential
  • Managing carbon dioxide emissions
  • Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) for enhanced oil recovery (EOR)-a field example.
  • Industrial CO2 source for EOR and carbon capture and storage
  • Global carbon capture and storage capacity as of November 2023
  • CO2 storage in aquifers-a field research project
  • Direct air capture (DAC)
  • Oxy direct air capture in the Permian Basin
  • Other greenhouse gas emission issues
  • Hydrogen
  • Natural hydrogen
  • Designated hydrogen colors
  • Biofuels
  • Ethanol
  • Geothermal energy
  • Nuclear power in a low-carbon world
  • Energy transition-conclusions
  • References
  • 5 Preventing CO2 from fossil fuels from reaching the atmosphere
  • Carbon capture technologies
  • Recent development of new solvents for postcombustion technology
  • Amine-based solvents
  • Chemical-physical biphasic solvents
  • Amino acid-based solvents
  • Ionic liquids and hybrid solvents
  • Enhancement of current solvents with the aid of solid particles
  • Nanoparticles
  • Solid catalysts
  • The state-of-the-art technologies of postcombustion technology
  • Membrane technologies
  • Carbon dioxide gas membrane separation
  • Integrated process of membrane and chemical absorption
  • Electrochemical membrane separation
  • Electrochemically mediated amine regeneration
  • Split-flow configurations
  • Mechanical vapor recompression
  • Calcium looping
  • Cryogenic process
  • Other potential technologies
  • Membrane vacuum regeneration
  • Novel adsorption technologies
  • Direct steam injection
  • Summary
  • References
  • 6 Critical reservoir parameters for safe, secure, and long-term storage learned from the many lessons of the past for selec...
  • Introduction
  • History of subsurface storage and industrial examples of subsurface storage
  • Underground storage/disposal ranked by capacity/rate
  • Incidental storage: examples and attributes of successful large-volume storage sites
  • Risk factors for the consideration of long-term secure storage.
  • A dearth of widespread geologic data and site understanding
  • Lack of a thick, high porosity, high permeability, and storage capacity
  • Questions about expansive lateral formation continuity
  • An open aquifer system connected to an underground source of drinking water
  • A closed aquifer system of insufficient volume
  • An open or closed aquifer system connected to critically stressed crustal rocks
  • Locations in aseismic regions
  • Leaky seals and faults
  • Leaky wellbores
  • Fluid transmissive fractures
  • Formation "overload"
  • Nontechnical issues
  • Examples and attributes of successful large-volume disposal sites
  • The Williston Basin, Inyan Kara, and Broom Creek formations
  • The residual oil zones of the Permian Basin
  • Other examples and attributes of successful large-volume storage sites
  • Site characterization design and storage monitoring tools
  • References
  • 2 Integration of disciplines and technologies to ensure effective CCS
  • 7 The need for integrated reservoir characterization in carbon capture and storage
  • Introduction
  • Seismic imaging
  • Seismic reservoir characterization
  • Carbon capture and storage development
  • References
  • 8 CO2 messes with rock physics
  • Introduction
  • State of the art in modeling of CO2 injections
  • Acoustic properties of CO2 phases
  • Saturation effects
  • Recent advances
  • Alterations of the fluid phase
  • Poroelastic fluid saturation
  • Fluid composition change
  • Fluid mobility variation
  • Changes in the rock matrix
  • Pressure changes
  • Chemical reaction effects
  • Caprock alteration with diffusion into seals
  • Discussion
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 9 The geochemistry of carbon capture and storage with implications for hydromechanical feedbacks and geophysical monitoring*
  • Key points
  • Introduction
  • Carbon dioxide trapping mechanisms
  • Physical trapping mechanisms.
  • Solubility and mineral trapping
  • Geochemistry of carbon capture and storage
  • Equilibrium considerations
  • Kinetic considerations
  • Impacts of water-carbon dioxide-rock interactions of different carbon capture and storage reservoir types
  • Siliciclastic reservoirs
  • Carbonate reservoirs
  • Shale caprocks
  • Mafic and ultramafic formations
  • Feedback on hydraulic and mechanical rock properties
  • Permeability
  • Rock strength
  • Velocities and stiffness
  • Discussion and open questions
  • Summary
  • References
  • 10 The geomechanics of carbon storage
  • Introduction
  • The knowledge activity
  • Project goals
  • Geomechanical issues
  • Data audit
  • Geoscience and engineering data analysis
  • Calibration and knowledge databases
  • The geoscience activity
  • Important concepts
  • Geomechanical behavior
  • Information content in data
  • Issues of scale
  • Geophysics
  • Borehole geology
  • Petrophysics
  • Borehole geophysics
  • Processing acoustic waveforms
  • Elastic moduli
  • Rock physics
  • Poroelasticity
  • Upscaling
  • Reservoir geomechanics
  • Geomechanical properties
  • Mechanical stratigraphy
  • Rock strength correlations
  • Earth stresses
  • Overburden pressure and vertical stress
  • Pore pressure
  • Minimum horizontal stress
  • Linear elastic stress models: gravity loading
  • Linear elastic stress models: poroelasticity
  • Failure stress models
  • Additional sources of stress
  • Maximum horizontal stress
  • Stress orientation
  • Model dimensionality
  • The engineering design activity
  • The engineering onsite activity
  • Challenges ahead
  • Fluid migration pathways
  • Near-wellbore region
  • Caprock
  • Natural fractures and faults
  • Geomechanics
  • Poroelastic considerations
  • Rock strength
  • Earth stresses
  • References
  • 3 The role of geophysics in developing successful CCS projects
  • 11 Geophysical technologies for CO2 monitoring.
  • Introduction
  • Multicomponent seismology and controlled source electromagnetics
  • P- and S-wave multicomponent seismic
  • Controlled source electromagnetics
  • Discussion
  • Resolution and detection
  • Noise
  • Well logging techniques
  • Fiber optic methods
  • Sampling
  • Repeatability
  • Project components
  • Summary
  • References
  • 12 Advances in coupled passive and active seismic monitoring for large-scale geologic carbon storage projects
  • Introduction and background
  • Seismic monitoring of geological carbon storage projects
  • Sparse monitoring
  • Newell County Field Research Station
  • Passive seismic surveillance using the SADAR network
  • Active source seismic surveillance
  • Bedrock-coupled seismic source
  • Data acquisition
  • Data processing
  • Active source imaging using the SADAR network
  • Discussion and conclusions
  • References
  • 13 New tools for quantitative data interpretation
  • Introduction
  • Artificial intelligence
  • The cloud
  • Cybersecurity
  • Integration
  • Visualization and creativity
  • Change management
  • Business models
  • Wrap-up
  • References
  • 4 New site studies using advanced geophysical technologies
  • 14 Multiwell DAS VSP monitoring of a small-scale CO2 injection: experience from the Stage 3 Otway Project
  • Introduction
  • Seismic monitoring program: timeline and operations
  • Drilling and completion of the wells
  • Deployment of an array of surface orbital vibrators
  • Development and deployment of hardware and software for interfacing the receiver array with continuous sources and on-site ...
  • Acquisition and analysis of 4D vertical seismic profiling data
  • Continuous monitoring using distributed acoustic sensor and surface orbital vibrators
  • Passive distributed acoustic sensor data analysis
  • Discussion and outlook
  • Surface vs borehole geometry.