Laboratory Feasibility Study for Eventual Field Deployment of a Downhole Source Tomographic Design for Carbon Dioxide Plume Detection
CUSP Team
Project Lead: Kevin McCormack (UU)
Industry Partners: Paulsson Inc.
Primary Goal
Develop laboratory experiments to test a new tomography approach to monitor CO2 plumes
Impact on Carbon Storage
More detailed understanding of the migration of CO2 plumes
Project Duration
12 months
Anticipated Volume/Year
Approximately 1 MMton/year
Project Description
The University of Utah (UU) is working in collaboration with Paulsson, Inc., a company that provides advanced borehole seismic (ABS) services, to develop laboratory experiments and test a new tomography approach to monitoring CO2 plumes. There are six hypothesized advantages of downhole source tomography (DST): better time-lapse, three-dimensionality, direct waves, higher frequency content that provide greater spatial resolution, frequency swept source and different source locations.
