Convertibility of depleted jurassic gas reservoir to underground greenhouse gas storage.docVIP

Acta Montanistica Slovaca Ro?ník 9 (2004), ?íslo 3, 265-268 Convertibility of depleted jurassic gas reservoir to underground greenhouse gas storage Rychlicki S. and Stopa J.1 Abstract In the paper the project of underground storage of greenhouse gases, emitted by one of the chemical plants in the south of Poland, in a depleted gas field was analyzed. This project is compliant with world’s environmental trends and search for new forms of activities of oil companies. The feasibility of the project has been briefly analyzed. Preliminary computations based on mass balance method were assessed for the process of waste gas injection. On this basis the storage capacity of the field was estimated. Key words: computations based, jurassic gas reservoir, greenhouse gas storage Introduction In compliance with the newest world’s environmental trends and prospecting new forms of activity for oil companies [6], new projects related with sequestration of greenhouse gases are worked out [7]. One of the more promising concepts involves disposal of waste gases into geological formations including depleted gas reservoirs. This process can provide collateral benefits in terms of enhancing recovery of natural gas. In this way, high methane gas could be replaced with waste gas, and the reservoir gradually transformed into an underground storage for greenhouse or other environmentally hazardous waste gases. Because gas reservoirs have held large quantities of natural gas over geologic time scales, depleted gas reservoirs offer a proven integrity against gas escape and large available capacity for carbon sequestration. There do not seem to be any technical barriers to CO2 injection, although there are certainly costs associated with the sequestration. Preliminary investigations for geological sequestration of CO2 from chemical plant Based on the calibrated mass balance model of gas exploitati