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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICS
Volume 2011, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2011/805059
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- EnBW Energie Baden-Wurttemberg AG
- E.ON Energie AG
- E.ON Gas Storage AG
- RWE Dea AG
- Vattenfall Europe Technology Research GmbH
- Wintershall Holding AG
- Stadtwerke Kiel AG, CO<INF>2</INF>-MoPa joint project in the framework of the Special Programme GEOTECHNOLOGIEN
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The performance of electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) in boreholes is studied numerically regarding changes induced by CO2 sequestration in deep saline reservoirs. The new optimization approach is applied to generate an optimized data set of only 4% of the comprehensive set but of almost similar best possible resolution. Diverse electrode configurations (mainly tripotential alpha and beta) are investigated with current flows and potential measurements in different directions. An extensive 2.5D modeling (>100,000 models) is conducted systematically as a function of multiparameters related to hydrogeology, CO2 plume, data acquisition and methodology. ERT techniques generally are capable to resolve storage targets (CO2 plume, saline host reservoir, and impermeable cap rock), however with the common smearing effects and artefacts. Reconstructed tomograms show that the optimized and multiply oriented configurations have a better-spatial resolution than the lateral arrays with splitting of potential and current electrode pairs between boreholes. The later arrays are also more susceptible to telluric noise but have a lower level of measurement errors. The resolution advance of optimized and multiply oriented configurations is confirmed by lower values for ROI (region of index) and residual (relative model difference). The technique acceptably resolves targets with an aspect ratio down to 0.5.
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