Managing well leakage risk: New insights for characterization, forecasting, and monitoring of wells to demonstrate integrity
Managing well leakage risk: New insights for characterization, forecasting, and monitoring of wells to demonstrate integrity
Session ID#: 124019
Session Description:
Wells are a critical component of subsurface energy infrastructure. Over the past century and a half, millions of wells have been drilled in pursuit of oil and gas resources. In the coming decades, many of the reservoirs targeted for oil and gas development may need to be repurposed for CO2 or energy storage as climate change encourages economies to incentivize carbon sequestration and pivot towards renewable energy sources. One major challenge for storage operations seeking to repurpose reservoirs is well leakage. Ensuring the integrity of legacy wells, which may have been orphaned and abandoned decades ago, and newer wells installed for site operation is critically important to the success of CO2 and energy storage operations. The goal of this session is to highlight new field, experimental, and modeling techniques to identify, predict or monitor well integrity for managing well leakage risks.
Co-Organized:
- A - Atmospheric Sciences
- H - Hydrology
- MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
Index Terms:
0345 Pollution: urban and regional [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
3653 Fluid flow [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Greg Lackey, National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners: Jaisree Iyer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Nicolas J Huerta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison: Greg Lackey, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
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