Multiscale geomechanical modelling of basin-scale CO2 storage

该项目旨在开发创新的地质力学模型，快速评估CO2地质封存期间储层变形的可能性，包括诱发地震活动。主要的预期成果是多尺度建模方法，这将有助于在现有地质力学数据很少的地区确定变形和CO2泄漏风险较低的储存地点。该项目将阐明在澳大利亚库珀-埃罗曼加盆地储存二氧化碳的技术和商业可行性，并通过减少地质力学的不确定性提供广泛的经济和环境效益，这些不确定性阻碍了全球扩大碳捕获和储存的需求。

This project aims to develop innovative geomechanical models that will provide rapid assessments of the potential for reservoir deformation, including induced seismicity, during geological storage of CO2. The main expected outcome is a multiscale modelling approach that will help to identify storage locations at low risk for deformation and CO2 leakage in regions of little existing geomechanical data. The project will elucidate the technical and commercial viability of CO2 storage in Australia’s Cooper-Eromanga basins and provide broad economic and environmental benefits by reducing the geomechanical uncertainties that provide a barrier to the global need to upscale carbon capture and storage.