Razali, Nur Zafirah Mat and Mustapha, Khairul Azlan and Kashim, Muhammad Zuhaili and Misnan, Muhammad Shahir and Shah, Sahriza Salwani Md and Abu Bakar, Zainol Affendi (2022) Critical rate analysis for CO2 injection in depleted gas field, Sarawak Basin, offshore East Malaysia. Carbon Management, 13 (1). pp. 294-309. ISSN 1758-3004, DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17583004.2022.2074312.
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This study aimed to address the challenges and strategies to determine the critical rate of CO2 injection into a carbonate depleted gas field. In this research, the critical rate is the maximum allowable injection rate before formation damage initiation. The cause of formation damage could be due to in-situ mobilization or trapping of migratory fines resulting in plugging the flow path. This study performed a thorough investigation of a different rock-fluid system to evaluate the safe injection limit, as the critical rate is different for each rock-fluid system. The geochemical effect of CO2 injection toward carbonate formation was also investigated in this research. Other than that, the porosity and permeability changes due to CO2-brine-rock multiphase flow characteristics were considered to understand the feasibility of CO2 sequestration into carbonate formation. This research discussed experimental design to mimic the CO2 injection scenario of CO2 into carbonate depleted gas field. Therefore, several core flooding experiments were conducted under reservoir conditions using representative native cores, CO2, and synthetic formation brine. Abrupt changes in differential pressure (Delta P), analysis of effluent collected after CO2 multi-rate flow, and pH reading are the key indicators to consider that the condition has reached a critical rate. The experimental result demonstrated the existence of fines migration, scale formation, and salt precipitation after the core was subjected to supercritical CO2 multi-rate flow. Considering these issues and challenges associated with injectivity, this study recommended a maximum injection rate prior to field scale injection.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Universiti Malaya BK085-2016, RP031A-15AFR |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Core flooding; Carbonate; Dissolution; precipitation; CO2 injection |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QE Geology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Department of Geology |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Oct 2023 19:35 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Oct 2023 19:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/42368 |
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