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It is the monitoring of injected CO2 that makes a commercial CO2-EOR project a storage project as well. Over the years, operators and researchers have developed, tested, and delayed various monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA)/monitoring, management, and verification (MMV) techniques, methodologies, and practices for pre-injection, during injection, and post-injection monitoring of CO2 at a storage site. Apart from a brief discussion on currently used MVA/MMV technologies, their benefits and associated challenges, best practices, emerging MVA/MMV technologies and integration of collected monitoring data and analysis are also discussed.
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Saini, D. (2017). Monitoring of Injected CO2 . In: Engineering Aspects of Geologic CO2 Storage. SpringerBriefs in Petroleum Geoscience & Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56074-8_3
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