CO2SS research on site qualification making international impact
In an article published this week in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, one of the most relevant journals on the topic of “decarbonization” and rated at the highest level by the Qualis CAPES system, José Wilker Lima, a PhD student under Prof. Gustavo Oliveira, introduced, for the first time, a family of generalized mathematical models for qualifying CO2 storage sites. The methodology creates a series of indicators based on the fundamental properties of reservoirs and weighting functions that take into account the distance from injection points to sealing rocks and geological traps.
Results indicate an increase of up to 50% in storage surplus when comparing the new injection points suggested by the methods to legacy infrastructure wells. The study, still in its initial phase, uses a reservoir model with 100% national development and aims to boost geological storage projects in Brazil, stimulating research on well reuse and expanding the knowledge base on the subject in our country.
This article also marks the completion of another internationally quality PhD thesis produced by the TRIL Lab, with scientific cooperation from national and international universities.
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