U.S. DOE Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Initiative: New Insights and Lessons Learned

Applying two-grid method on unstructured tetrahedra to study fault stability and surface deformation in multiphase geomechanics

“…Figure 1: Locations of RCSP large-scale projects. Source: [1]. The Southwest Regional Partnership on Carbon Sequestration (SWP) is one of the seven RCSPs.…”

“…These seismic risks can be assessed in silico by developing a computationally inexpensive framework with the capability to model multiphase geomechanics and fault stability in a huge domain. These in silico simulations lend to offering guiding protocols for the design of these operations [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,1,14]. The major bugbear to developing such a framework is the computationally intractable size of the geomechanical grid no matter which numerical method is used to resolve the coupled system of equations.…”

An overview of the Department of Energy's CarbonSAFE Initiative: Moving CCUS toward commercialization

“…The RCSP projects have validated that diverse geologic settings can be suitable for potential CO2 storage sites and demonstrated the effectiveness of multiple technologies for storage containment. 1,2 These projects have investigated the capability of a broad portfolio of monitoring, verification, and accounting (MVA) technologies to function in a variety of geologic settings. They also demonstrated the effectiveness of simulation models and MVA technologies to predict and measure CO2 movement in multiple reservoir types.…”

Preliminary Assessment of Post-Combustion Capture of Carbon Dioxide at the San Juan Generating Station [Draft]

“…Beyond CO2-EOR, the basins in the region offer capacity to store CO2 in geologic reservoirs directly (albeit this would likely require additional regional pipeline network). The potential capacity for geologic storage in the Four Corners region was initially assessed by the Southwest Regional Partnership as part of the USDOE Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (RCSP) initiative (Rodosta et al, 2017) 16 . This assessment estimated a combined CO2 storage capacity of 555 million metric tons in the oil & gas fields in the Four Corners region (McPherson, 2006).…”