Rigorous Screening Technology for Identifying Suitable CO2 Storage Sites II

This report serves as the final technical report and users manual for the 'Rigorous Screening Technology for Identifying Suitable CO2 Storage Sites II SBIR project. Advanced Resources International has developed a screening tool by which users can technically screen, assess the storage capacity and quantify the costs of CO2 storage in four types of CO2 storage reservoirs. These include CO2-enhanced oil recovery reservoirs, depleted oil and gas fields (non-enhanced oil recovery candidates), deep coal seems that are amenable to CO2-enhanced methane recovery, and saline reservoirs. The screening function assessed whether the reservoir could likely serve as a safe, long-term CO2 storage reservoir. The storage capacity assessment uses rigorous reservoir simulation models to determine the timing, ultimate storage capacity, and potential for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery. Finally, the economic assessment function determines both the field-level and pipeline (transportation) costs for CO2 sequestration in a given reservoir. The screening tool has been peer reviewed at an Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI) technical meeting in March 2009. A number of useful observations and recommendations emerged from the Workshop on the costs of CO2 transport and storage that could be readily incorporated into a commercial version of the Screening Tool in a Phase III SBIR

Appraisal of the technical and economic potential of U.S. tar sands

reportU.S. tar sands constitute a large, essentially undeveloped resource that could, with technological advances. provide an important source for future liquid supplies of petroleum. The identified resource base, as reported in the update to the 19B3 report by the Interstate Oil Compact Commission (IDCC), is appraised at over 60 billion barrels, and significant additional resources have recently been identified offshore California and in Alaska. This resource is widely distributed and is present in major quantities in each of the key oil producing states

The economic potential of domestic tar sands

BookThis report summarizes the analysis of the Utah tar sand deposits (see Exhibit 1) prepared for ERDA/Fossil Energy and the Laramie Energy Research Center. Background Like many oil producing countries, the United States contains considerable deposits of tar sands heavy petroleum (bitumen) that will not flow into a wellbore without stimulation. The size of these deposits has been estimated at 24 to 30 billion barrels of resource in place. (See Exhibit 2) The State of Utah contains by far the largest portion, 23.4 to 29.5 billion barrels or 98% of the domestically measured deposits. Within Utah, five major deposits account for 21 to 27 billion barrels. These are: Tar Sand Triangle P. R. Spring Sunny side Asphalt Ridge Hill Creek Given that these five major Utah deposits account for about 90% of the total measured domestic tar sands resource, it appears reasonable to expect that an analysis of these five deposits will substantially reflect the national tar sand potential. Considerable thought and effort have been focused on these Utah deposits and ways of unlocking their potential as a source of domestic energy. The analysis in this report draws from these important past efforts