Assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources of the United States

Peter D. Warwick; E.D. Attanasi; Madalyn Blondes; Sean T. Brennan; Marc L. Buursink; Steven M. Cahan; Colin Doolan; Philip A. Freeman; C. Özgen Karacan; Celeste Lohr; Matthew D. Merrill; Ricardo A. Olea; Jenna Shelton; Ernie Slucher; Brian A. Varela

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4279712

Assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources of the United States

By: Peter D. Warwick, E.D. Attanasi, Madalyn Blondes, Sean T. Brennan, Marc L. Buursink, Steven M. Cahan, Colin Doolan, Philip A. Freeman, C. Özgen Karacan, Celeste Lohr, Matthew D. Merrill, Ricardo A. Olea, Jenna Shelton, Ernie Slucher, and Brian A. Varela

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4279712

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Abstract

In 2020, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed a probabilistic assessment of the volume of technically recoverable oil resources that could be produced using current carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) technologies in amenable conventional oil reservoirs underlying onshore and State-owned offshore waters (herein after, onshore and State waters areas) of the conterminous United States. Our assessment also includes estimates of the mass of CO2 that could be stored (retained) in the assessed oil reservoirs following the application of the CO2-EOR process. The USGS assessment team evaluated more than 3,500 oil reservoirs that were amenable to miscible CO2 injection. The assessed reservoirs are located in 185 plays previously defined by a USGS National Oil and Gas Assessment in 33 petroleum provinces of seven national regions. The team estimated that the total technically recoverable oil resulting from the application of the CO2-EOR process ranges from approximately 25,000 million barrels (MMbbl) at the P5 probability percentile to as much as 32,000 MMbbl at the P95 probability percentile, with a mean of 29,000 MMbbl. The associated CO2 retention ranges from approximately 7,400 million metric tons (Mt) at the P5 percentile to as much as 9,500 Mt at the P95 percentile, with a mean of 8,400 Mt.

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Publication type	Conference Paper
Publication Subtype	Conference Paper
Title	Assessment of carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery and associated carbon dioxide retention resources of the United States
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.4279712
Year Published	2022
Language	English
Publisher	SSRN Elsevier
Contributing office(s)	Eastern Energy Resources Science Center, Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center
Description	6 p.
Conference Title	Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Conference Paper, 16th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT-16
Conference Location	Lyon, France
Conference Date	October 23-27, 2022
Country	United States
Other Geospatial	conterminous United States