Well Bore Integrity Workshop Houston, TX, USA, 4-5 April 2005
- 1 September 2005
- Event Proceedings
- Storage
The integrity of well bores, their long-term ability to retain CO2, has been identified as a significant potential risk for the long-term security of geological storage facilities. A workshop was held in April 2005 to bring together over 50 experts from both industrial operators and from research organisations. Industrial operations are part of CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projects or acid gas waste disposal projects. Current research includes laboratory investigations that attempt to simulate long-term geochemical and mechanical processes that may affect well completion materials – mainly cement; field studies of well completions that have been exposed to CO2 during industrial projects as described above, and modelling studies, both of local reactions and upscaled simulations of leakage across basins.
