Projects
The Field Research Station is the only site in the world where measurement and monitoring technologies can be tested on a CO2 plume at the shallow depth of 300 metres. National and international clients are implementing a number of projects. Below are highlights:
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Distributed Acoustic Sensing
Client: Christian Michelson Research (CMR)
Summary: CMR, a private Norwegian Research Company, is developing leading-edge technology of Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) that has applications for monitoring the injection of CO2 and other fluids into the subsurface. Partners include NORSAR, NTNU (both from Norway), Institute Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia), Kyoto University (Japan) and CMC RI. CaMI will provide access to the Field Research Station and collaborate on testing the new DAS technology being developed by CMR and partners in a real field setting over the next 2 years. Funding for this project has come from the Norwegian Research Council with industry support.
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NTNU – University of Calgary Project Carbeor
Client: Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) & University of Calgary
Summary: Carbeor is a 3-year partnership for advanced research and education within carbon storage (CARBon) and enhanced oil recovery between the University of Calgary and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The main focus of the partnership will be on research, including the exchange of faculty and students between the institutions and to accelerate training of highly qualified personnel in the fields of carbon capture and storage and for CO2 applications in enhanced oil recovery. An annual field course is part of the program. The 2018 field course will be held at the CaMI Field Research Station, where students will learn how to set up, record and analyze monitoring data collected during CO2 injection. This project is enabled through a formal affiliation between CaMI and the University of Calgary. Funding for this project has come from the Norwegian Research Council.
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GPUSA
Client: GPUSA
Summary: GPUSA is a U.S.-based company developing new seismic source technology for monitoring subsurface processes, including the geological storage of CO2. This technology will enable continuous surveillance of underground reservoirs for monitoring containment of CO2 and other fluids. This is the first time that this technology will be installed and tested anywhere in the world. CaMI will provide access to its Field Research Station and will collaborate on testing the new seismic source technology being developed by GPUSA and partners in a real field setting over the next two years. Funding for this project has come from the United States Dept. of Energy. The technology will have broad applications for the oil ad gas industry in Canada.
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Surface to borehole electromagnetic survey
Client: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Summary: The surface-to-borehole electromagnetic survey will use CaMI’s recently purchased electrical resistivity tomography array and Lawrence Berkeley Lab’s own downhole equipment to map the background resistivity structure and the CO2 plume.
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Borehole fibre optic survey
Client: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Summary: Lawrence Berkeley Labs will design and deploy an integrated fibre optic cable capable of distributed heat pulse testing, as well as distributed temperature and acoustic sensing measurements. Heat pulse testing will be used to make high-resolution spatial measurements along the length of the borehole including reservoir injection zones and will be used to inferred flow and CO2 distributions in the monitoring well.
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Seismic crosswell survey
Client: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Summary: Seismic crosswell is the geometry of seismic acquisition using a minimum of two boreholes to probe the inter-well region. At the FRS, equipment in two monitoring wells will be used to problem the inter-well region in order to image the CO2 plume. Crosswell technology has a higher spatial resolution that other seismic methods which should make the plume easier to see.
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Broadband seismometer testing
Client: University of Bristol
Summary: Seven broadband seismometers have been installed at distances ranging from 200 metres to three kilometers from the Field Research Station’s injection well. The seismometers will run continuously for the next year with data used to map the underground structures in the area. The recordings will also provide baseline information on the naturally occurring background rate of seismic events in the area. This information will be compared to microseismic activity after injection starts in mid-2016 to determine which events are the result of injection operations and which are natural.
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Downhole vertical seismic profiling
Client: University of Calgary
Summary: University of Calgary Geophysics Professor David Eaton and a team of postdoctoral researchers and students were trained on the installation and operation of a microseismic system (ESG Solutions’ SuperCable borehole monitoring system).
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3D time-lapse seismic data tool testing
Client: British Geological Survey
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Observations of relative permeability and residual trapping from core-flood measurements at reservoir conditions on core samples
Client: Imperial College London
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Noble gas analysis of subsurface samples
Client: University of Edinburgh
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LongPath Technologies works with CMCRI to enhance performance of novel dual-comb laser
Client: LongPath Technologies
