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Light Drilling, Well Completion and Deep Monitoring

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CO2 Injection in the Network of Carbonate Fractures

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Drilling is within the core activities of CO2 geological storage since the more wells are drilled the higher amount of data is managed for site characterization and for a successful decision making on project viability. Most of commercial projects worldwide are at the early stage where the costs related to exploration play a key role, as is the case of the traditional drilling techniques from Oil and Gas industry that are usually expensive for on-shore projects whose business model still has to be proven. How to save drilling costs is addressed in the chapter, showing the experiences gained during the construction of the on-shore pilot: Hontomín Technology Development Plant (Burgos, Spain). Hontomín well drilling/completion was a success as the depth of 1600 m was reached using light drilling rigs (mining technique), achieving cost saving close to 60% in comparison to traditional techniques. Some experiences exist in the use of these rigs for mining, shale gas and oil and geothermal recovery, but for CO2 geological storage they are limited to the Hontomín case. The existing technological drilling gaps identified during the plant construction and the future works for improving these rigs to reach the depth of 2500 m with a well geometry adequate to install advanced monitoring, are also addressed in this chapter.

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Acknowledgements

The experiences and results showed in this chapter form part of the project “OXYCFB 300” funded by the European Energy Program for Recovery (EEPR) and the Spanish Government through Foundation Ciudad de la Energía-CIUDEN F.S.P. Authors acknowledge the role of the funding entities, project partners and collaborators without which the project would not have been completed successfully.

This document reflects only the authors’ view and that European Commission or Spanish Government are not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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  1. Foundation Ciudad de la Energía-CIUDEN F.S.P, Avenida del Presidente Rodríguez Zapatero, 24492, Cubillos del Sil, Spain

    J. Carlos de Dios & Juan A. Marín

  2. School of Mines and Energy, Technical University of Madrid, Calle de Rios Rosas 21, 28003, Madrid, Spain

    Carlos Martínez & Alberto Ramos

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. CO2 Geological Storage, CIUDEN, Cubillos del Sil, León, Spain

    J. Carlos de Dios

  2. Energy and environment business unit, BATTELLE, Columbus, OH, USA

    Srikanta Mishra

  3. Geophysical Section, OGS, Trieste, Italy

    Flavio Poletto

  4. Engineering School of Mines and Energy, UPM, Madrid, Spain

    Alberto Ramos

Glossary

API

American Petroleum Institute

BHP

Bottom hole pressure

BHT

Bottom hole temperature

BOP

Blowout preventer

CBL

Cement Bond Log

CCUS

Carbon capture utilization and storage

CTIW

Connectivity test inter wells

DAS

Distributed acoustic sensing system

DPC

Drilling performance curve

DTS

Distributed temperature sensing system

ENOS

Enabling on shore CO2 storage in Europe

EP Resolution

European Parliament Resolution

ERT

Electrical resistivity tomography

HA

Hontomín observation well

HI

Hontomín injection well

LoT

Leak off test

LWD

Logging while drilling

MD

Measured depth

MWD

Measured while drilling

OD

Outer diameter

P/T

Pressure/Temperature

PTFS

Permeability test at field scale

TDP

Technology Development Plant

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de Dios, J.C., Marín, J.A., Martínez, C., Ramos, A. (2021). Light Drilling, Well Completion and Deep Monitoring. In: de Dios, J.C., Mishra, S., Poletto, F., Ramos, A. (eds) CO2 Injection in the Network of Carbonate Fractures. Petroleum Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62986-1_1

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