Silva et al. (2023): Assessing the viability of CO2 storage in offshore formations of the Gulf of Mexico at a scale relevant for climate-change mitigation
Josimar A. Silva, Lluís Saló-Salgado, Joseph Patterson, Ganeswara R. Dasari, Ruben Juanes IN: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 126, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2023.103884
The authors investigate the feasibility of industrial-scale geological carbon sequestration and perform numerical simulations of coupled multiphase flow and geomechanics on a representative field-scale geological model in the Gulf of Mexico that could become a typical CO storage site. They investigate two potential hazards associated with large-scale CO storage: (1) The potential that CO might migrate to shallower formations and (2) The potential that CO injection might induce seismicity due to destabilization of pre-existing faults.