Illinois Basin – Decatur Project: Deep Fluid Monitoring Program

Iranmanesh, Abbas; Locke, Randall A., II; Wimmer, Bracken T.; Garner, Damon

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Title

Illinois Basin – Decatur Project: Deep Fluid Monitoring Program

Author(s)

• Iranmanesh, Abbas
• Locke, Randall A., II
• Wimmer, Bracken T.
• Garner, Damon

Issue Date

2024

Keyword(s)

• Geochemistry
• Carbon capture
• Fluid sampling
• Geology
• Illinois Basin Decatur Project

Date of Ingest

2024-12-11T15:47:10-06:00

Abstract

In 1997, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiated the Carbon Storage Program, managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), to develop and advance carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies with a high potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Seven regional carbon sequestration partnerships were formed and tasked with determining the best geologic and terrestrial storage approaches and technological applications to store carbon dioxide (CO2) safely and permanently in specific regions throughout North America. The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC) was formed by the state geological surveys of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The Illinois State Geological Survey, part of the Prairie Research Institute within the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, led the MGSC efforts. In 2007, the MGSC, in close partnership with the Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) and Schlumberger Carbon Services, began a large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, known as the Illinois Basin – Decatur Project (IBDP), in Decatur, Illinois, United States. This research was funded by the U.S. DOE (contract number DE-FC26-05NT42588) and administered by the University of Illinois and by a cost-share agreement with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s Office of Coal Development through the Illinois Clean Coal Institute. The IBDP involved injecting more than 999,000 tonnes (1,101,446 tons) of CO2 into the lower Mt. Simon Sandstone. A verification well (VW1) was installed approximately 313 m (1,027 ft) to the north of the CO2 injection well (CCS1) for pressure monitoring and fluid sampling in the Mt. Simon Sandstone (the injection reservoir) and the Ironton-Galesville Sandstones (the layers immediately above the injection reservoir seal, the Eau Claire Formation).The verification well was drilled to a depth of 2,201 m (7,264 ft), and the casing was perforated at eight zones in the Mt. Simon Sandstone (Zones 2 to 9) and at two zones in the Ironton-Galesville Sandstones (Zones 10 and 11). A Westbay multilevel groundwater monitoring and sampling system provided an opportunity to evaluate the movement of the CO2 plume and the integrity of the VW1. This report provides a summary of geochemical data on groundwater collected from the Mt. Simon Sandstone and the Ironton-Galesville Sandstones at the IBDP site. Groundwater chemistry data were collected from 11 sampling events between May 2011 and May 2017. This period includes the preinjection, injection, and early postinjection site care phases of the project.

Publisher

Champaign, Ill.: Illinois State Geological Survey, Prairie Research Institute.

Series/Report Name or Number

Circular no. 611

Type of Resource

• text
• dataset

Genre of Resource

technical report

Language

eng

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

U.S. DOE contract number DE-FC26-05NT42588. Administered by the University of Illinois and by a cost-share agreement with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity’s Office of Coal Development through the Illinois Clean Coal Institute.

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