Engineered Materials, Machine Learning Enhance Carbon Storage Well Integrity

The success of CO₂ injection operations, and the endurance of long-term storage, are partially dependent on well design and the materials used for well construction. The authors describe a stack of technologies they have developed that enable enhanced well robustness, monitoring of carbon-storage facilities, and modeling of their performance. The combination of these technologies enables the tracking of downhole and subsurface fluid distribution and flow. Furthermore, the scalable technologies can be used to exploit remaining reservoirs while preventing CO₂-plume migration.

Introduction

Besides site selection and geological features that influence plume migration, well-construction design and materials have a major effect on successful storage.