Time-lapse seismic monitoring of CO2 injection into a depleted gas resevoir - Naylor Field, Australia

Abstract

The CO2CRC Otway Project conducted under the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies is the first of its kind, where CO2 is injected into a depleted gas reservoir. The use of depleted gas fields for CO2 storage and or enhanced gas recovery is likely to become globally adopted. Therefore, the CO2CRC project provides important experience for monitoring under these conditions. However, injection of CO2 into a depleted gas reservoir (residual gas saturation zone in this case) does not present a favorable condition for the application of geophysical monitoring techniques, and particularly seismic methods.