Solubility trapping in formation water as dominant CO2 sink in natural gas fields. Gilfillan, S. M. V., Lollar, B. S., Holland, G., Blagburn, D., Stevens, S., Schoell, M., Cassidy, M., Ding, Z., Zhou, Z., Lacrampe-Couloume, G., & Ballentine, C. J. Nature, 458(7238):614–618, April, 2009. Number: 7238 Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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One of a number of options available to mitigate the effects of anthropogenic CO2 on climate is the burial of emissions from power stations and other industrial sources. But how safe and how efficient is burial? The design and long-term viability of a site depend critically on how and where the CO2 is stored. Natural gas fields can serve as analogues for safe geological storage of anthropogenic CO2 over millennial timescales, and now a study using noble gas and carbon isotope tracers has characterized the processes involved in removal of the CO2 phase in nine natural gas fields from North America, China and Europe. The dominant sink is found to be dissolution in formation water, with fixation in carbonate minerals playing only a minor role. This suggests that models of long-term storage of CO2 waste in similar geological systems need to focus on the potential mobility of CO2 dissolved in water.
@article{gilfillan_solubility_2009,
	title = {Solubility trapping in formation water as dominant {CO2} sink in natural gas fields},
	volume = {458},
	copyright = {2009 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved},
	issn = {1476-4687},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07852},
	doi = {10.1038/nature07852},
	abstract = {One of a number of options available to mitigate the effects of anthropogenic CO2 on climate is the burial of emissions from power stations and other industrial sources. But how safe and how efficient is burial? The design and long-term viability of a site depend critically on how and where the CO2 is stored. Natural gas fields can serve as analogues for safe geological storage of anthropogenic CO2 over millennial timescales, and now a study using noble gas and carbon isotope tracers has characterized the processes involved in removal of the CO2 phase in nine natural gas fields from North America, China and Europe. The dominant sink is found to be dissolution in formation water, with fixation in carbonate minerals playing only a minor role. This suggests that models of long-term storage of CO2 waste in similar geological systems need to focus on the potential mobility of CO2 dissolved in water.},
	language = {en},
	number = {7238},
	urldate = {2022-05-24},
	journal = {Nature},
	author = {Gilfillan, Stuart M. V. and Lollar, Barbara Sherwood and Holland, Greg and Blagburn, Dave and Stevens, Scott and Schoell, Martin and Cassidy, Martin and Ding, Zhenju and Zhou, Zheng and Lacrampe-Couloume, Georges and Ballentine, Chris J.},
	month = apr,
	year = {2009},
	note = {Number: 7238
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group},
	keywords = {Humanities and Social Sciences, Science, multidisciplinary},
	pages = {614--618},
}

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