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Modeling Aspects of CO2 Injection in a Network of Fractures

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CO2 Injection in the Network of Carbonate Fractures

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This chapter provides an overview of analytical and numerical modeling approaches for evaluating the effects of CO2 injection into a network of fractures. The system of interest consists of two components—a number of potentially connected high-permeability but low porosity fractures embedded in a low-permeability but higher porosity matrix. The concept of injectivity index, based on analytical solutions to single-phase flow equations in an equivalent continuum, is first explained followed by field applications. The relationship between injectivity index and permeability is also explored based on field data and numerical simulations. Next, a hierarchy of numerical modeling approaches is described ranging from equivalent single continuum, dual porosity (flow only in idealized fractures), dual permeability (flow in fractures and matrix), and discrete fracture networks (flow in a complex fracture network and connected matrix). A case study of CO2 injection into a depleted oil field in the Appalachian Basin, USA, is presented that involves the first three approaches referenced above, followed by a case study of modeling of CO2 injection into a saline aquifer in Hontomin, Spain, using the discrete fracture network approach.

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The research described in this chapter was funded in parts by the United States Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) under award #DE-FC26-0NT42589, the Ohio Development Services Agency’s Coal Development Office Grant D-15-08, and American Electric Power.

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Mishra, S., Raziperchikolaee, S., Le Gallo, Y. (2021). Modeling Aspects of CO2 Injection in a Network of Fractures. 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_6

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