Center for Carbon Storage

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage is a key

technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Recent

changes to the tax code (45Q) provide a tax credit to power

plants and industrial facilities that capture and store CO2 that

would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere. The Stanford

Center for Carbon Storage uses a multidisciplinary approach to

address critical questions related to flow physics, monitoring,

geochemistry, and simulation of the transport and fate of CO2

stored in partially- to fully-depleted oil fields, saline aquifers, and

other unconventional reservoirs.

Reservoir Characterization for Storage

Accelerated Trapping and Footprint Control

Enhanced Recovery from O&G Reservoirs

• Experimental studies of pore- to core-scale

flow and transport of CO2

• Simulation and reactive transport modeling

of CO2 flow and trapping

• Geochemical reactions between CO2, rocks, fluids, and organic matter

• Assessment and mitigation of seismic risks

• Degree and nature of reservoir heterogeneity

• Advanced reservoir engineering including coupled geomechanical and geochemical models

• Laboratory tests of controls on residual trapping

• Injection strategies to optimize pore space usage

• Pilot tests of enhanced pore space utilization, trapping, and mobility control

• Experimental and computational research to develop new approaches for co-optimization

of CO2 storage and IOR

• Advanced EOR by doubling or tripling CO2/bbl

• Lifecycle assessment of carbon intensity of produced oil

• Potential for EOR benefits from BECCS and direct air capture

Unconventional CO2

Reservoirs Low-Cost High- Quality Monitoring

Techno-Economic and Policy Analysis

• Hydraulic fracturing using CO2

• Using CO2 to enhance recovery from unconventional shale reservoirs

• CO2 storage in low permeability shale

• CO2 storage in basalt

• Integrated seismic and reservoir pressure monitoring from sparse arrays

• Real-time data assimilation and CO2

plume and pressure build-up mapping

• Early well degradation and leakage detection

• Risk assessment, mitigation, and contingency

planning for CO2 leakage

• Pilot tests for closing the monitoring— modeling loop

• Implications of policy options

• Analysis of new technologies and effect on CCS expansion and scaleup

• Capacity expansion and unit commitment models for integrating power generation with CCS into the electrical grid

• Assessment of options for CCS including

industrial CO2 sources and BECCS

• Lifecycle assessment of GHG emissions

Membership Benefits include:

• Access to cutting edge research

conducted by Stanford faculty, post

docs, and PhD students

• Invitations to Precourt Institute

for Energy and Stanford University

events

• Annual Affiliates meeting and

workshop (Scheduled for

Nov 7/8 2019)

• Seminar series / webinar (Scheduled

for 5 Tuesdays fall Qtr, 4:30-5:30)

Center for Carbon Storage

Anthony Kovscek is a

professor in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering and expert on the multiphase flow of oil, water and gas in porous media at length scales that vary from the pore to the laboratory to the reservoir.

Sally M. Benson is the

co-director of Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy and a professor in

the Department of Energy Resources Engineering. She is widely regarded as a leading authority on carbon capture and storage, and emerging energy technologies.

Mark Zoback is the

Benjamin M. Page professor of Geophysics. He is an

acclaimed expert on reservoir geomechanics and induced

seismicity. He is the author/ co-author of more than 300

scientific papers and author of 2 books.

Sarah Saltzer is the

managing director of the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage. She has 25 years of experience at Chevron Corporation, where she held a series of scientific, managerial and executive roles.

Expanding Carbon Capture and

Storage technology to a Gt-CO2 per

year scale will require significantly

more research to provide

assurances that selected sites will

be able to secure CO2 safely and

effectively.”

–Sally M. BenSon

The Stanford Center for Carbon Storage (SCCS) is a membership-based industrial affiliates program. Membership is available

to all interested companies, government agencies, and non-profits. Please contact Sarah Saltzer, managing director of SCCS for more information. (sarah.saltzer@stanford.edu)

sccs.stanford.edu

Stanford Faculty involved in research

supported by the center:

Geochemistry and Carbon Capture

Bill Mitch Kate Maher

Systems and Economic Analysis

Adam Brandt Sally Benson

Geomechanics and Geophysics

Tiziana Vanorio Biondo Biondi Mark Zoback

Reservoir Engineering

Hamdi Tchelepi Lou Durlofsky Anthony Kovscek Lynn Orr Sally Benson