Júlio Carneiro's Page

Thank you for your comment, Dr. Carneiro!

I've just uploaded one more video from NETL, if you may be interested.

No, I am not working on modeling for Weyburn; that modeling was done in 2003-2004 during a first phase of Weyburn-Midale project, and now the researchers involved in that study are just updating the model to see where their predictions deviated from the current trend & re-evaluating the risks.

I'm working on long-term storage performance evaluation on one of the U.S. saline aquifers; however I'm not allowed to disclose the name or location prior to end of the project.

It is different from Weyburn case from the point that you don't evaluate the incremental oil recovery for saline aquifer (obviously, there're no hydrocarbons there, so all you do is just permanently store as much CO2 as possible there) and you have less scenarious to examine (simulate) comparing with a field under CO2 flood.
The rule governing the large scale carbon dioxide sequestration in the USA called "Proposed Rule for Geological Storage of CO2 Wells under UIC Regulations", the pre-publication (draft) version of which was announced by U.S. EPA on July 15, 2008 will be finalized only in the end of November this year, with rule being accepted and published in Federal Register in 2010-1011, which creates more difficulties for researchers working an such projects, because it is still not defined what kind of simulation techniques will be accepted for issuance of permit, and whether there should be a cross-validation (comparison) performed using multiple trusted simulation codes.

If you need more information about Weyburn Project and other CO2 CCS/EOR projects in Canada, you may download the files I uploaded to one of the file-sharing servers.

These are the documents taken from National Resources Canada CCS Technology Interactive CD-ROM, v.2006, splitted into two .zip archives and could be downloaded here (each one is ~90 Mb):

part-1:
http://rapidshare.com/files/136388235/Carbon_Dioxide_CCS_Technology_Interactive_CD-ROM_-_NRCan__2006.zip

part-2:
http://rapidshare.com/files/136399955/Carbon_Dioxide_CCS_Technology_Interactive_CD-ROM_-_NRCan__2006.z01

Directions to download: past the URL in the web-browser; the page will load, click "Free User", wait until countdown ends (usually 1-2 minutes; to download the 2nd file you'll have to wait 1-2 hours due to server restrictions), click "Download" and save the file to your HDD.

Then you'll have to combine two files into one archive and unpack - this is done by using WinZip free software.

Best Regrads,
Andrii E. Torn

hi. i am a student from The University of Aberdeen, UK. i am working on my final project "Transportation and Environmental Problems in Carbon capture and storage" . i was thinking if you can help me in clarifying the doubts on the topic.
please do the needful .
thank you