5th NEWSLETTER

Overview of general news on the project:

- Project has been running for more than 2 years.

- A high level dissemination activity with a long-term

impact is the initiative of an edited book: ’Geological

Storage of CO2 in Saline Formations’.

- Results and progress are disseminated by project

partners by attending a considerable number of related

CCS events.

- Organisation of 2 MUSTANG sessions at EGU Assembly

in 2012.

A multiple space and time scale approach for the quantification of deep saline formations for CO2 storage

MUSTANG aims at developing guidelines, methods and tools for

the characterization of deep saline aquifers for long term

storage of CO2, based on a solid scientific understanding of the

underlying critical processes.

Field investigation technologies specifically suited to CO2 storage

will be improved and developed. These are destined to improve

the determination of the relevant physical and chemical

properties of the site, and enabling short response times in the

detection and monitoring of CO2 plumes in the reservoir and

overburden during both the injection and containment phases.

An improved understanding of the relevant processes of CO2

spreading is aimed at by means of theoretical investigations,

laboratory experiments, natural analogue studies as well as a

dedicated field scale injection test, to take place at the Heletz

site (Israel).

In this issue: Page

About MUSTANG 1

Expected results overview 1

2011 – Progress overview 2

Events 4

Publications 5

MUSTANG partners 6

MUSTANG News January 2012 2011

MUSTANG project coordinator

Prof. Auli Niemi

Department of Earth Sciences

Uppsala University

P.O. Box 256

SE-751 05 Uppsala, SWEDEN

Auli.Niemi@geo.uu.se

OVERALL NEWS ON THE PROJECT (2011)

ABOUT MUSTANG

www.co2mustang.eu

MUSTANG project is on-track for achieving its

overall goals

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TEST SITES CHARACTERIZATION (WP2)

- Compilation of a comprehensive database of project test sites

- New templates for each site are available now with information on parameters, geological information and qualitative assessment. That information is being continuously exchanged with the modeling work group

- Development of 3D models for each site describing geometrical constraints and subsurface structure of the target aquifers and seals.

FIELD QUANTIFICATION TECHNIQUES (WP3)

- Identification of a new technique to overcome the insensitivity of tracer signals from single-well push-pull tests to equilibrium partitioning between phases, by 'switching' the partitioning process 'on' or 'off' during the push or the pull phase of the test (for a certain kind of chemical tracers).

- Parameter sensitivity study on the determinability of phase saturation and interface density from single-well, diffusion-limited unequilibrium-partitioning tracer push-pull tests.

NATURAL ANALOGIES (WP4)

- Development of 3D model of caprock (E. Brae hydrocarbon field, North Sea) from in-situ samples characterisation and provision of THMC datasets from micron to field scale.

- A scalable THMC matrix has been established from THMC analyses of five classes of microfacies.

- A new approach of fluid-driven elastic fracture mechanics has been performed from observations of natural hydraulic fractures in Marcellus Shale (Dunkirk Shale, North America). This allows to model spacing of strata-bound fractures and possible caprock failure

PROCESSES (WP5)

- Research on mathematical description and numerical simulation of vertical and lateral viscous fingering stability including the effect of density stratification and CO2 dissolution.

- Implementation of a new method into CodeBright software for treating density dependent unsaturated flow and mechanical problems, together with chemical reactions (including porosity and permeability change due to precipitation/dissolution).

- Research on the use of the phenomenological approach to modeling transport in a porous medium domain, with some new results on solute dispersion.

MAGUELONE EXPERIMENT (WP6)

- SIMEx experiment is now ready to start (in March). Small volumes of nitrogen have been injected to test the injection hole and two additional electrical observatories have been also installed for nitrogen injection. Once this nitrogen injection phase is successfully performed, CO2 will be injected using similar surface and downhole seismic, electrical and hydrological monitoring.

2011 PROGRESS OVERVIEW

CO2 plume migration (Cambrige University

2011)

3D seismic illustration of Hontomin site in

Spain (WP2).

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HELETZ EXPERIMENT (WP6)

- Regarding the drilling activities at Heletz injection site, it was finally decided to return to the original location of well H18 and to engage in the drilling of two new wells (see figure). This decision was agreed after knowing that well H35 could not be considered because the casing resulted damaged in a karstic area of the geological section.

- The design of the well instrumentation has incorporated recommendations made by the SIRAB and has refined issues related to the safety at the well head, mode of operation and sampling.

- NATEX Company has designed the injection module (it includes a water pressure pump, CO2 pump and a tracers pump and the required command and control devices for automatic and safe injection activities).

- The design and procurement phases for the well cementation are completed. Therefore, once materials and related accessories are received, Halliburton Company will undertake the cementation of the injection well (end of January).

- A report on risk assessment evaluation and mitigation measures in case of accidents of the injection well is being prepared in English and Hebrew to be submitted to the relevant authorities.

- Five major activities concerning the design of experiments: Design of the salinity log experiment Design of the injection of water tracers. Design of the push-pull experiment of CO2 and water. The design of the two-well dipole experiment.

MODELING (WP7)

- Progress on the adaptation of available numerical models and their update to include processes considered in WP5, including the incorporation of probabilistic approaches to consider uncertainties analysis. Among the new features included in some of the simulators are: non-isothermal effects, CO2 compressibility, sloping aquifers, hydromechanical coupling, front tracking algorithm, dissolution effect on plume evolution, failure mechanisms of the caprock and crack growth modelling.

- Development of a new multiphase flow and tracer transport code that allows kinetic/time dependent transfer of the tracer from one phase to another, thereby allowing realistic modeling of different types of tracers in CO2 injection analyses

SCALE EFFECTS (WP 8)

- Advances towards an effective formulation to quantify the processes occurring during the displacement of brine by carbon dioxide taking into account heterogeneities of the host formation. This includes effective description of the two-phase flow process and the quantification of mixing and reaction processes.

WEB DECISSION SUPPORT SYSTEM (WP 9)

- The conceptual framework of the MUSTANG Web Decision Support System was established and a beta version was launched in June 2011. Major functionalities are available through a user-friendly web interface.

Interface of the MUSTANG Web Decision

Support System beta version

Selected wells at Heletz site

Drilling works at Heletz site (January 2011)

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EVENTS AND NEWS

Below are given key events of MUSTANG project that are open to external participation:

6th Consortium Meeting

16th – 18th January 2012, Spain

7th Consortium Meeting

Haifa, September 2012

3rd MUSTANG Training course – targeted to Regulators – end users

September, 2012

NEXT EVENTS

5th MUSTANG CONSORTIUM MEETING (EDINBURGH, June 2011)

The 5th consortium meeting was held in Edinburgh (Scotland) from

19th – 23th June 2011. MUSTANG partners presented an overview

of the work progress done these last two years. Members of the

Advisory Board attended the meeting and gave lectures on their

experiences. Furthermore, EC reviewers participated in the

meeting in order to validate MUSTANG progress and to give inputs

and advices to project partners. The participants visited St

Andrews Caprock and a Reservoir Analogue Site.

2nd TRAINING COURSE ON GEOLOGICAL STORAGE OF CO2 (Edinburgh 2011)

The 2nd Training course was organised just after the Consortium

meeting took place. It was open to the public and targeted to

professionals in the sector.

The course presented an overview of the current status of CCS

operations and research, with the objective of providing the

participants with a basic understanding of the scientific and

technical issues that need to be address for the successful injection

of CO2 into saline formations.

The course was attended by 59 participants from different

countries and types of organisations.

TWO MUSTANG SESSIONS AT EGU MEETING 2012

Within the framework of the European Geosciences Union

General Assembly in 2012, two sessions will be organised by

MUSTANG partners:

ERE2.2 Site Characterization for CO2 Geological Storage Sites Conveners: A. Niemi, M. Sauter, M. Dentz, M. Kühn, J. Carrera, T. Tambach

ERE2.5 Upscaling in the modeling of CO2 geological storage Conveners: M.Dentz, A.Niemi, J.Carrera

Large numbers of contributions with MUSTANG results are

expected to be submitted to those sessions.

A second session was also held by some Mustang members. This session focused on Modeling of CO2 storage sites. Results from the project were also submitted to be presented within this session. Those materials are available at Mustang website (http://www.co2mustang.eu/Posters.aspx).

MUSTANG partners at Edinburgh 5th

Consortium meeting.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN FUTURE MUSTANG TRAINING COURSES? Please contact us at info@co2mustang.eu

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JOURNAL ARTICLES (2011)

Bear, J.; Rubinstein, B.; and Fel, L. (2011). Capillary Pressure Curve for Liquid Menisci in a Cubic Assembly of Spherical Particles below Irreducible Saturation. Transport in Porous Media, Vol. 89, No. 1, 63-73, 2011.

Bear, J.; and Fel, L. (2011). .A Phenomenological Approach to Modeling Transport in Porous Media. Transport in Porous Media, DOI: 10.1007/s11242-011-9926-3.

Bolster, D., Neuweiler, I.; Dentz, M.; and Carrera, J., (2011). The Impact of Buoyancy on Front Spreading in Heterogeneous Porous Media in Two-Phase Immiscible Flow, Water Resources Research, vol. 47, no. 2.

Bolster, D.; Valdés-Parada, F. J.; Le Borgne, T.; Dentz, M., and J. Carrera, (2011). Mixing in confined stratified aquifers, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, vol. 120-121, 198-212.

Dentz, M., Gouze, P., and Carrera, J., (2011). Effective Non-Local Reaction Kinetics for Transport in Physically and Chemically Heterogeneous Media, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, doi:10.1016/j.jconhyd.2010.06.002

Dias, S.; Le Guen, Y.; Poupard, O., and Shtivelman, V., (2011). Risk assessment of MUSTANG project experimental site - Methodological development, Energy Procedia, vol. 4, 4109-4116.

Gouze, P., and Luquot, L., (2011). X-ray microtomography characterization of porosity, permeability and reactive surface changes during dissolution, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, vol. 120-121, 44-55.

Gunnarsson, N (2011) 3D Modeling in Petrel of Geological CO2 storage site. MSc Thesis, Uppsala Univeristy, MSc Program in Aquatic and Environmental Engineering. UPTEC W 11 029. issn 1401-5765.

Luquot, L., Andreani, M., Gouze, P., and Camps, P. (in press). CO2 percolation experiment through chlorite/zeolite-rich sandstone (Pretty Hill formation – Otway Basin – Australia), Chemical Geology, 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.11.018

McDermott C.; Bond A.E.; · Wang W.; and · Kolditz O.(2011). Front Tracking Using a Hybrid Analytical Finite Element Approach for Two-Phase Flow Applied to Supercritical CO2 Replacing Brine in a Heterogeneous Reservoir and Caprock. Transport in Porous Media Journal , Vol.90, No.2, DOI 10.1007/s11242-011-9799-5

Rayward-Smith, W. J. and Woods, A. W., (2011). Dispersal of buoyancy-driven flow in porous media with inclined baffles, J. Fluid Mech., DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.442

Rayward-Smith, W. J. and Woods, A. W., (2011). On the propagation of non-isothermal gravity currents in an inclined porous layer, J. Fluid Mech., vol. 686, pp. 250-271

Rayward-Smith, W. J. and Woods, A. W., (2011). Some implications of cold CO2 injection into deep saline aquifers, Geophys. Res. Lett., vol. 38, L06407

SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS (2011)

EGU Assembly 2011 (Vienna) A broad number of contributions on CCS were made at the EGU Assembly 2011 (Vienna) and to AGU Fall meeting 2011 (San Francisco)

Contributions are available at MUSTANG website (presentations at www.co2mustang.eu/Presentations.aspx ; posters at www.co2mustang.eu/Posters.aspx )

RECENT PUBLICATIONS Foreground related to

MUSTANG is available on the project website in dedicated sections at

- Articles in Press,

http://www.co2mustang

.eu/Publications.aspx

- Public project

deliverables

http://www.co2mustang

.eu/MustangDeliverable

s.aspx

- Poster contributions at

CCS events

www.co2mustang.eu/Po

sters.aspx

- Oral contributions at

CCS events,

www.co2mustang.eu/Pr

esentations.aspx

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MUSTANG is funded by the EU FP7 and coordinated by Uppsala University. The consortium is comprised of

19 institutions (universities, research institutes and SMEs). A number of organizations are affiliated

through the Scientific, Industrial and regulatory Advisory Board (SIRAB). is funded by the EU FP7 and

coordinated by Uppsala University. The consortium is comprised of 19 institutions (universities, research institutes

and SMEs). A number of organizations are affiliated through the Scientific, Industrial and regulatory Advisory Board

(SIRAB).

Uppsala University University of Bucharest Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Karlsruhe Institute of Tecnology University of Göttingen Vibrometric National Research Council (Spain) Amphos 21 Israel Institute of Technology Geological Survey of Sweden University of Nottingham Geophysical Institute Israel Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Lapidoth- Israel Oil Prospectors Corporation University of Edinburgh IMAGEAU Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics OXAND University of Cambridge BP Institute

International scientific advisors

Public authorities

Industries and End-users

MUSTANG PARTNERS

MUSTANG ADVISORY BOARD

MUSTANG is sponsored by DG Research of the European

Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme Contract

no 227286. The sole responsibility for the content of this

newsletter lies with the authors.

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