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Research paper thumbnail of Geomechanical modeling in thermal heavy oil recovery process: Effect of steam injection on the caprock

Computer Methods and Recent Advances in Geomechanics, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Pore to Core Scale Simulation of the Mass Transfer with Mineral Reaction in Porous Media

Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvelles, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of The SiteChar Approach to Efficient and Focused CO2 Storage Site Characterisation

Energy Procedia, 2013

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the solutions that can significantly reduce CO 2 durin... more Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the solutions that can significantly reduce CO 2 during the transition from fossil fuel-based energy to an energy system based on renewable energy sources. Recent studies point out that sufficient storage capacity in saline aquifers and depleted gas fields is available to permanently store several decades worth of current CO 2 emissions. Nevertheless, a significant hurdle for the post-demonstration phase of CCS development is the lack of proven and tested storage reservoirs. One of the goals of the EU FP7 SiteChar project is to develop an efficient site characterisation workflow, to support the development of the numerous storage sites that will be needed for large-scale deployment of CCS. The workflow is designed to address all aspects of safe and secure storage required by the EU Storage Directive. The links between the Storage Directive requirements and the site characterisation workflow are described in detail. The workflow is currently being applied to five sites suitable for CCS across Europe. A final version of the workflow will be published early 2014.

Research paper thumbnail of Wog - Well Optimization by Geosteering: a Pilot Software for Cooperative Modeling on Internet

Oil & Gas Science and Technology, 2004

-WOG-Optimisation des forages par Geosteering : plate-forme logicielle de modélisation coopérativ... more -WOG-Optimisation des forages par Geosteering : plate-forme logicielle de modélisation coopérative par Internet-L'IFP a commencé le développement d'un nouveau système de management de données appelé WOG-Well Optimization by Geosteering. Dans le cadre de ce projet, l'information est distribuée et partagée à travers le réseau Internet. Le plus grand avantage de ce système est d'offrir à chaque utilisateur (géologue, géophysicien, foreur, etc.) une vision propre à sa spécialité et qui lui est familière. WOG utilise trois développements récents : Géopilote 3D, EpiSEM-Action et G3Server. Géopilote 3D est un logiciel qui permet de calculer des relations paramétriques entre les différentes couches stratigraphiques et les failles afin d'établir une mise à jour compatible avec l'avancement du forage. En utilisant Géopilote 3D, le géologue et le géophysicien peuvent, à partir de l'information disponible sur une station de travail classique, construire un modèle géologique montrant différents types de valeurs reliées à des champs disciplinaires variés mais toutes rattachées à un même conceptual Earth model. Le projet EpiSEM-Action TM propose une nouvelle approche permettant la collaboration entre modèles géologiques partagés sur Internet ou intranet et la capitalisation des connaissances métier qui viennent s'y ajouter. Les services Web fournissent les outils nécessaires pour manager ces connaissances spécifiques avec une sécurité optimale entre serveurs et applications. Ceci permet de produire et de manager des modèles basés sur des hypothèses et des informations différentes. G3Server est un serveur Corba dont la finalité est de distribuer de façon standardisée les objets IFP entre l'application Java ou C++. Son modèle interne (le modèle de communication IFP) a été défini pour être facilement utilisable avec les outils Open Spirit et Rescue. Son rôle dans le projet WOG est de distribuer les données entre les différents modules applicatifs. Il peut être utilisé par les différentes activités et accéder aux serveurs Open Spirit, aux fichiers Rescue et aux objets IFP. Les domaines couverts sont le puits, le réservoir et la sismique.

Research paper thumbnail of Multiphysics modeling of CO2 sequestration in a faulted saline formation in Italy

Advances in Water Resources, 2013

The present work describes the results of a modeling study addressing the geological sequestratio... more The present work describes the results of a modeling study addressing the geological sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in an offshore multi-compartment reservoir located in Italy. The study is part of a large scale project aimed at implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in a power plant in Italy within the framework of the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR). The processes modeled include multiphase flow and geomechanical effects occurring in the storage formation and the sealing layers, along with near wellbore effects, fault/thrust reactivation and land surface stability, for a CO 2 injection rate of 1 Â 10 6 ton/a. Based on an accurate reproduction of the three-dimensional geological setting of the selected structure, two scenarios are discussed depending on a different distribution of the petrophysical properties of the formation used for injection, namely porosity and permeability. The numerical results help clarify the importance of: (i) facies models at the reservoir scale, properly conditioned on wellbore logs, in assessing the CO 2 storage capacity; (ii) coupled wellbore-reservoir flow in allocating injection fluxes among permeable levels; and (iii) geomechanical processes, especially shear failure, in constraining the sustainable pressure buildup of a faulted reservoir.

Research paper thumbnail of Simulation of a Potential CO2Storage in the West Paris Basin: Site Characterization and Assessment of the Long-Term Hydrodynamical and Geochemical Impacts Induced by the CO2Injection

Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvelles, 2017

This article presents the preliminary results of a study carried out as part of a demonstration p... more This article presents the preliminary results of a study carried out as part of a demonstration project of CO 2 storage in the Paris Basin. This project funded by ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency) and several industrial partners (TOTAL, ENGIE, EDF, Lafarge, Air Liquide, Vallourec) aimed to study the possibility to set up an experimental infrastructure of CO 2 transport and storage. Regarding the storage, the objectives were: (1) to characterize the selected site by optimizing the number of wells in a CO 2 injection case of 200 Mt over 50 years in the Trias, (2) to simulate over time the CO 2 migration and the induced pressure field, and (3) to analyze the geochemical behavior of the rock over the long term (1,000 years). The preliminary site characterization study revealed that only the southern area of Keuper succeeds to satisfy this injection criterion using only four injectors. However, a complementary study based on a refined fluid flow model with additional secondary faults concluded that this zone presents the highest potential of CO 2 injection but without reaching the objective of 200 Mt with a reasonable number of wells. The simulation of the base scenario, carried out before the model refinement, showed that the overpressure above 0.1 MPa covers an area of 51,869 km 2 in the Chaunoy formation, 1,000 years after the end of the injection, which corresponds to the whole West Paris Basin, whereas the CO 2 plume extension remains small (524 km 2). This overpressure causes brine flows at the domain boundaries and a local overpressure in the studied oil fields. Regarding the preliminary risk analysis of this project, the geochemical effects induced by the CO 2 injection were studied by simulating the fluid-rock interactions with a coupled geochemical and fluid flow model in a domain limited to the storage complex. A one-way coupling of two models based on two domains fitting into each other was developed using dynamic boundary conditions. This approach succeeded to improve the simulation results of the pressure field and the CO 2 plume as well as the geochemical behavior of the rock. These ones showed that the CO 2 plume tends to stabilize thanks to the carbonation in calcite and dawsonite and no significant porosity change appears over 1,050 years. The CO 2 mass balance per trapping type gives a CO 2 carbonation rate of about 78% at 1,050 years that seemed to be excessive compared to the simulation study of other storage sites. Thus, an additional work dealing with both the kinetic data base and the textural models would be necessary in order to reduce the uncertainty of the injected CO 2 mineralization.

Research paper thumbnail of Multiphysics modeling of CO2 sequestration in a faulted saline formation in Italy

Advances in Water Resources, 2013

ABSTRACT The present work describes the results of a modeling study addressing the geological seq... more ABSTRACT The present work describes the results of a modeling study addressing the geological sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in an offshore multi-compartment reservoir located in Italy. The study is part of a large scale project aimed at implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in a power plant in Italy within the framework of the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR). The processes modeled include multiphase flow and geomechanical effects occurring in the storage formation and the sealing layers, along with near wellbore effects, fault/thrust reactivation and land surface stability, for a CO2 injection rate of 1 � 106 ton/a. Based on an accurate reproduction of the three-dimensional geological setting of the selected structure, two scenarios are discussed depending on a different distribution of the petrophysical properties of the formation used for injection, namely porosity and permeability. The numerical results help clarify the importance of: (i) facies models at the reservoir scale, properly conditioned on wellbore logs, in assessing the CO2 storage capacity; (ii) coupled wellbore-reservoir flow in allocating injection fluxes among permeable levels; and (iii) geomechanical processes, especially shear failure, in constraining the sustainable pressure buildup of a faulted reservoir.

Research paper thumbnail of Geomechanical modeling in thermal heavy oil recovery process: Effect of steam injection on the caprock

Computer Methods and Recent Advances in Geomechanics, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Pore to Core Scale Simulation of the Mass Transfer with Mineral Reaction in Porous Media

Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvelles, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of The SiteChar Approach to Efficient and Focused CO2 Storage Site Characterisation

Energy Procedia, 2013

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the solutions that can significantly reduce CO 2 durin... more Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is one of the solutions that can significantly reduce CO 2 during the transition from fossil fuel-based energy to an energy system based on renewable energy sources. Recent studies point out that sufficient storage capacity in saline aquifers and depleted gas fields is available to permanently store several decades worth of current CO 2 emissions. Nevertheless, a significant hurdle for the post-demonstration phase of CCS development is the lack of proven and tested storage reservoirs. One of the goals of the EU FP7 SiteChar project is to develop an efficient site characterisation workflow, to support the development of the numerous storage sites that will be needed for large-scale deployment of CCS. The workflow is designed to address all aspects of safe and secure storage required by the EU Storage Directive. The links between the Storage Directive requirements and the site characterisation workflow are described in detail. The workflow is currently being applied to five sites suitable for CCS across Europe. A final version of the workflow will be published early 2014.

Research paper thumbnail of Wog - Well Optimization by Geosteering: a Pilot Software for Cooperative Modeling on Internet

Oil & Gas Science and Technology, 2004

-WOG-Optimisation des forages par Geosteering : plate-forme logicielle de modélisation coopérativ... more -WOG-Optimisation des forages par Geosteering : plate-forme logicielle de modélisation coopérative par Internet-L'IFP a commencé le développement d'un nouveau système de management de données appelé WOG-Well Optimization by Geosteering. Dans le cadre de ce projet, l'information est distribuée et partagée à travers le réseau Internet. Le plus grand avantage de ce système est d'offrir à chaque utilisateur (géologue, géophysicien, foreur, etc.) une vision propre à sa spécialité et qui lui est familière. WOG utilise trois développements récents : Géopilote 3D, EpiSEM-Action et G3Server. Géopilote 3D est un logiciel qui permet de calculer des relations paramétriques entre les différentes couches stratigraphiques et les failles afin d'établir une mise à jour compatible avec l'avancement du forage. En utilisant Géopilote 3D, le géologue et le géophysicien peuvent, à partir de l'information disponible sur une station de travail classique, construire un modèle géologique montrant différents types de valeurs reliées à des champs disciplinaires variés mais toutes rattachées à un même conceptual Earth model. Le projet EpiSEM-Action TM propose une nouvelle approche permettant la collaboration entre modèles géologiques partagés sur Internet ou intranet et la capitalisation des connaissances métier qui viennent s'y ajouter. Les services Web fournissent les outils nécessaires pour manager ces connaissances spécifiques avec une sécurité optimale entre serveurs et applications. Ceci permet de produire et de manager des modèles basés sur des hypothèses et des informations différentes. G3Server est un serveur Corba dont la finalité est de distribuer de façon standardisée les objets IFP entre l'application Java ou C++. Son modèle interne (le modèle de communication IFP) a été défini pour être facilement utilisable avec les outils Open Spirit et Rescue. Son rôle dans le projet WOG est de distribuer les données entre les différents modules applicatifs. Il peut être utilisé par les différentes activités et accéder aux serveurs Open Spirit, aux fichiers Rescue et aux objets IFP. Les domaines couverts sont le puits, le réservoir et la sismique.

Research paper thumbnail of Multiphysics modeling of CO2 sequestration in a faulted saline formation in Italy

Advances in Water Resources, 2013

The present work describes the results of a modeling study addressing the geological sequestratio... more The present work describes the results of a modeling study addressing the geological sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in an offshore multi-compartment reservoir located in Italy. The study is part of a large scale project aimed at implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in a power plant in Italy within the framework of the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR). The processes modeled include multiphase flow and geomechanical effects occurring in the storage formation and the sealing layers, along with near wellbore effects, fault/thrust reactivation and land surface stability, for a CO 2 injection rate of 1 Â 10 6 ton/a. Based on an accurate reproduction of the three-dimensional geological setting of the selected structure, two scenarios are discussed depending on a different distribution of the petrophysical properties of the formation used for injection, namely porosity and permeability. The numerical results help clarify the importance of: (i) facies models at the reservoir scale, properly conditioned on wellbore logs, in assessing the CO 2 storage capacity; (ii) coupled wellbore-reservoir flow in allocating injection fluxes among permeable levels; and (iii) geomechanical processes, especially shear failure, in constraining the sustainable pressure buildup of a faulted reservoir.

Research paper thumbnail of Simulation of a Potential CO2Storage in the West Paris Basin: Site Characterization and Assessment of the Long-Term Hydrodynamical and Geochemical Impacts Induced by the CO2Injection

Oil & Gas Science and Technology – Revue d’IFP Energies nouvelles, 2017

This article presents the preliminary results of a study carried out as part of a demonstration p... more This article presents the preliminary results of a study carried out as part of a demonstration project of CO 2 storage in the Paris Basin. This project funded by ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency) and several industrial partners (TOTAL, ENGIE, EDF, Lafarge, Air Liquide, Vallourec) aimed to study the possibility to set up an experimental infrastructure of CO 2 transport and storage. Regarding the storage, the objectives were: (1) to characterize the selected site by optimizing the number of wells in a CO 2 injection case of 200 Mt over 50 years in the Trias, (2) to simulate over time the CO 2 migration and the induced pressure field, and (3) to analyze the geochemical behavior of the rock over the long term (1,000 years). The preliminary site characterization study revealed that only the southern area of Keuper succeeds to satisfy this injection criterion using only four injectors. However, a complementary study based on a refined fluid flow model with additional secondary faults concluded that this zone presents the highest potential of CO 2 injection but without reaching the objective of 200 Mt with a reasonable number of wells. The simulation of the base scenario, carried out before the model refinement, showed that the overpressure above 0.1 MPa covers an area of 51,869 km 2 in the Chaunoy formation, 1,000 years after the end of the injection, which corresponds to the whole West Paris Basin, whereas the CO 2 plume extension remains small (524 km 2). This overpressure causes brine flows at the domain boundaries and a local overpressure in the studied oil fields. Regarding the preliminary risk analysis of this project, the geochemical effects induced by the CO 2 injection were studied by simulating the fluid-rock interactions with a coupled geochemical and fluid flow model in a domain limited to the storage complex. A one-way coupling of two models based on two domains fitting into each other was developed using dynamic boundary conditions. This approach succeeded to improve the simulation results of the pressure field and the CO 2 plume as well as the geochemical behavior of the rock. These ones showed that the CO 2 plume tends to stabilize thanks to the carbonation in calcite and dawsonite and no significant porosity change appears over 1,050 years. The CO 2 mass balance per trapping type gives a CO 2 carbonation rate of about 78% at 1,050 years that seemed to be excessive compared to the simulation study of other storage sites. Thus, an additional work dealing with both the kinetic data base and the textural models would be necessary in order to reduce the uncertainty of the injected CO 2 mineralization.

Research paper thumbnail of Multiphysics modeling of CO2 sequestration in a faulted saline formation in Italy

Advances in Water Resources, 2013

ABSTRACT The present work describes the results of a modeling study addressing the geological seq... more ABSTRACT The present work describes the results of a modeling study addressing the geological sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in an offshore multi-compartment reservoir located in Italy. The study is part of a large scale project aimed at implementing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in a power plant in Italy within the framework of the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR). The processes modeled include multiphase flow and geomechanical effects occurring in the storage formation and the sealing layers, along with near wellbore effects, fault/thrust reactivation and land surface stability, for a CO2 injection rate of 1 � 106 ton/a. Based on an accurate reproduction of the three-dimensional geological setting of the selected structure, two scenarios are discussed depending on a different distribution of the petrophysical properties of the formation used for injection, namely porosity and permeability. The numerical results help clarify the importance of: (i) facies models at the reservoir scale, properly conditioned on wellbore logs, in assessing the CO2 storage capacity; (ii) coupled wellbore-reservoir flow in allocating injection fluxes among permeable levels; and (iii) geomechanical processes, especially shear failure, in constraining the sustainable pressure buildup of a faulted reservoir.