Advances in Earth Science ›› 2007, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (7): 698-707. doi: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2007.07.0698
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XU Zhi-gang, CHEN Dai-zhao, ZENG Rong-shu
Institute of Geology and Geophysics,CAS,Beijing 100029,China
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XU Zhi-gang, CHEN Dai-zhao, ZENG Rong-shu. Geological Storage of CO 2 and Commercial Utilization[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2007, 22(7): 698-707.
Injecting CO2 into the subsurface oil and gas reservoirs and coalbeds, at the moment, is the most realistic choice in reducing the CO2 emission into the atmosphere, which can not only enhance the recoveries of the oil and gas, and coal bed methane, but also can sequestrate partial CO2 within the subsurface reservoirs and coal beds permanently. CO2 enhanced oil recovery ( CO2 -EOR) is generally performed in the late stage of oil exploration and development, by which CO2 is injected into the oil reservoirs to enhance the oil recoveries, in general, up to 10-15% by volume. Similarly, CO2 enhanced gas recovery ( CO2 -EGR) is to inject the CO2 into the gas reservoirs to enhance the gas recoveries. The extracted gas reservoirs can provide voluminous pore spaces for CO2 storage prior to flooding by formation waters. In this case, Injecting CO2 into the subsurface gas reservoirs would increase the reservoir pressure and maintain the primary formation pressure, which can keep the integrity and reduce the damage of reservoirs. In the meantime, the traps of oil and gas pools are also good compartments from which leakage of injected CO2 is prevented, such that the CO2 is sequestrate in the subsurface permanently. In addition, the CO2 can also be used to enhance the recovery of coalbed methane by injecting CO2 into the coalbeds ( CO2 -ECBM), due to the differences in coal adsorption for CO2 and CH4. Higher absorption of CO2 related to CH4 by coals would result in the displacement of CH4 by CO2 in place, thereby enhancing the recovery of coalbed methane when the CO2 is injected into the CH4-bearing coalbeds.