DOE/EPA Collaborative Review - Tracking Geologically - Sequestered CO₂: Monitoring, Verification, & Accounting (MVA), Simulation, and Risk Assessment
March 23-24, 2010

Table of Contents

• Disclaimer
• Presentations

PRESENTATIONS

• Welcoming Remarks
  Bill Aljoe, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Program Overview [PDF-1.2MB]
  Sean Plasynski, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Program Overview [PDF-954KB]
  Barbara Klieforth, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Research

Session 1 – Risk Assessment

• Overview of DOE National Risk Assessment Program for CO₂ Sequestration [PDF-2.1MB]
  George Guthrie, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Risks Posed by Brines Containing Dissolved Carbon Dioxide [PDF-1.3MB]
  Ronald Falta and Lawrence Murdoch, Clemson University
• Development of a Software Framework for System-Level Carbon Sequestration Risk Assessment [PDF-357KB]
  R. Ian Miller, GoldSim Technology Group
• Hierarchical Modeling Framework for Geological Storage of Carbon [PDF-2.8MB]
  Michael Celia, Princeton University
• Comprehensive, Quantitative Risk Assessment of CO₂ Geologic Sequestration [PDF-296MB]
  James Lepinski, Headwaters Clean Carbon Services
• Aquifer Risk Assessment Framework (ARAF) [PDF-3.4MB]
  Brian McPherson and Douglas Kip Solomon, University of Utah
• Basin-Scale Leakage Risks from Geologic Carbon Sequestration: Impact on CCS Energy Market Competitiveness [PDF-2.1MB]
  Jeffrey P. Fitts, Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Risk-Based Decision Making for Assessing Potential Impacts of Geologic CO₂ Sequestration on Drinking-Water Sources [PDF-2.3MB]
  John McCray, Colorado School of Mines
• Impact of CO₂ Intrusion into USDWs, the Vadose Zone, and Indoor Air [PDF-2.5MB]
  Dominic DiGiulio, EPA/NRMRL

Session 2 – Monitoring, Verification, and Accounting (MVA)

• Tagging Carbon Dioxide to Enable Quantitative Inventories of Geological Carbon Storage [PDF-1.8MB]
  Juerg Matter, Columbia University
• In-Situ MVA of CO₂ Sequestration Using Smart Field Technology [PDF-672KB]
  Shahab D. Mohaghegh, West Virginia University
• Compact Eye-safe Scanning Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) for Spatial Mapping of Carbon Dioxide at Geologic Carbon Sequestration Sites [PDF-854KB]
  Kevin Repasky, Montana State University
• Expert-Based Development of a Standard in CO₂ Sequestration Monitoring Technology [PDF-801KB]
  J.P. Nicot, University of Texas-Austin
• Quantification of Wellbore Leakage Risk Using Non-Destructive Borehole Logging Techniques [PDF-1.4MB]
  Andrew Duguid, Schlumberger Carbon Services
• Advanced Technologies for Monitoring CO₂ Saturation and Pore Pressure in Geologic Formations: Linking the Chemical and Physical Effects to Elastic and Transport Properties [PDF-1.7MB]
  Gary Mavko, Stanford University
• Combining Space Geodesy, Seismology and Geochemistry for Monitoring, Verification and Accounting of CO₂ in Sequestration Sites [PDF-3.6MB]
  Peter Swart, University of Miami Rosenstiel Marine
• Improving the Monitoring, Verification, and Accounting of CO₂ Sequestered in Geologic Systems with Multicomponent Seismic Technology and Rock Physics Modeling [PDF-5.8MB]
  Bob A. Hardage, University of Texas at Austin
• Feasibility of Geophysical Monitoring of Carbon-Sequestrated Deep Saline Aquifers [PDF-1.1MB]
  Subhashis Mallick, University of Wyoming
• Integrated Reflection Seismic Monitoring and Reservoir Modeling for Geologic CO₂ Sequestration [PDF-6.9MB]
  Dimitri Bevc, Fusion Petroleum Technologies
• Biogeochemical Interaction of a Shallow Aquifer in Response [PDF-2.8MB]
  Dave Goldberg, Columbia University Newark Basin
• Near Surface Leakage Monitoring for the Verification & Accounting of Geologic Carbon Sequestration Using a Field Ready ¹⁴C Isotopic Analyzer [PDF-833KB]
  Bruno D.V. Marino, Planetary Emissions Management Inc.

Session 3 – Simulation

• The Coal-Seq III Consortium: Advancing the Science of CO₂ Sequestration in Coal Seams and Gas Shale Reservoirs [PDF-4.2MB]
  David Riestenberg, Advanced Resources International
• Protecting Drinking Water by Reducing Uncertainties Associated with Geologic Carbon Sequestration in Deep Saline Aquifers [PDF-4.9MB]
  William Roy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Simulation Framework for Regional Geologic CO₂ Storage Infrastructure along Arches Province of Midwest United States [PDF-2.7MB]
  Neeraj Gupta and Joel Sminchak, Battelle Memorial Institute
• Impacts of USDWs Due to Carbon Dioxide Release from Carbon Capture and Sequestration Projects: Modeling and Experimental Studies [PDF-2.0MB]
  Rick Wilkin, EPA/NRMRL
• Simulation of Coupled Processes of Flow, Transport and Storage of CO₂ in Saline Aquifers [PDF-446KB]
  Yu-Shu Wu, Colorado School of Mines
• Geochemical Simulation of CO₂ Leakage and Cap Rock Remediation [PDF-2.2MB]
  Runar Nygaard and Andreas Eckert, Missouri University of Science and Technology
• Analytical-Numerical Sharp-Interface Model of CO₂ Sequestration & Application to Illinois Basin [PDF-4.2MB]
  Mark Person, New Mexico Tech
• Evaluation of Analytical and Semi-analytical Solutions for Modeling and Mapping of the Area of Review (AoR) [PDF-3.4MB]
  Steve Kraemer, EPA/NERL
• Wrap-Up
  Sean Plasynski, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory
  Barbara Klieforth, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Center for Environmental Research

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