Premier Corex Workshop

Date: Friday, 28 April 2023
Time: 8:00 am–5:00 pm
Location: Premier Corex, 11335 Clay Rd Suite 180, Houston, Texas 77041
Trip Leaders: Bryan Guzman and Meri McCulley

Who Should Attend
Geoscientists and engineers currently interested in CO2 injection/storage well core analysis requirements outlined in EPA Class VI UIC Guideline regulatory documents

Objectives
This workshop will present a comprehensive analytical program designed to generate rock and fluid analysis data needed to satisfy regulatory requirements for CO2 injection/storage wells

Course Content
This course will explore the best techniques and workflows when approaching a whole core analysis program where the end goal is to mitigate risk associated with any carbon monoxide/dioxide injection project. The program will be broken up into the following categories all focused specifically on CCUS injection and confining zones.

• Reservoir Characterization
• Porosity & Permeability (Routine and Special Core Analysis Methods)
• Rock Mechanical Properties
• Fluid-Fluid & Fluid-Rock Interactions
• Upscaling, Integration, and Applications (Petrophysics, Static/Dynamic Subsurface Modeling)

Itinerary Roster
The program will be broken up into two groups that will rotate stations through the laboratory to increase the face time with technical experts and lab equipment. Below is a summary of the stations.

Station A - Reservoir Characterization

• Mineralogy quantification and fluid interactions
• Core description & chemostratigraphic relationships
• Petrographic analysis (thin sections & SEM)

Station B - Porosity & Permeability Measurements

• Routine Core Analysis
• Special Core Analysis
• Threshold Entry Pressure
• CO2 Exposure Testing (Pre & Post Characterization)
• Relative Permeability (critical CO2 injection)

Station C - Rock Mechanical Property Measurements

• Sample preparation
• Static & Dynamic measurements (live testing)

Station D - Fluid-Fluid & Fluid-Rock Interaction

• Formation fluid to injected fluid interaction (Core Flow Experiments)
• Fluid-Fluid & Fluid-Rock interactions near the wellbore and further away

Station E - Upscaling, Integration, and Applications

• Petrophysical modeling
• Multiphase Flow Modeling
• Reactive Transport Modeling

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