LAPSE:2023.31494
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LAPSE:2023.31494
An Assessment of the Net Fluid Balance in the Alberta Basin
Mahendra Samaroo, Rick Chalaturnyk, Maurice Dusseault, Richard Jackson, Arndt Buhlmann, Hans Custers
April 19, 2023
Net fluid balance in the Alberta Basin has been negative over the last 60 years because extensive fluid production has consistently exceeded injection during this period. However, future gigaton-scale carbon sequestration, among other activities, can result in future cumulative fluid injection exceeding extraction (i.e., a positive net fluid balance). The in-situ net fluid balance (i.e., total fluids produced minus total fluids injected) in this basin over the period 1960−2020 shows that a liquids deficit of 4.53 × 109 m3 and a gas deficit of 6.05 × 1012 m3 currently exist. However, fluid deficits are more significant in the upper stratigraphic intervals (located more than 1 km above the Precambrian Basement) than in the stratigraphic intervals located within 1 km of the Precambrian Basement in most geographic regions. This observation indicates that greater sustainable injection capacity for large-scale fluid injection may exist in the upper stratigraphic intervals (located at more than 1 km above the Precambrian Basement), reducing the potential for generating induced seismicity of concern. Additionally, while fluid depletion rates consistently increased over most of the last 60 years in the Alberta Basin, this trend appears to have changed over the past few years. Such analysis of regional net fluid balance and trends may be useful in assessing regional sustainable fluid storage capacity and managing induced seismicity hazards.
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Alberta Basin, basin-scale depletion, basin-scale re-pressurization, induced seismicity hazard, net fluid balance, sustainable injection capacity
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Samaroo M, Chalaturnyk R, Dusseault M, Jackson R, Buhlmann A, Custers H. An Assessment of the Net Fluid Balance in the Alberta Basin. (2023). LAPSE:2023.31494
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Samaroo M: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
Chalaturnyk R: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3, Canada
Dusseault M: Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
Jackson R: Geofirma Engineering, Ottawa, ON K1R 1A2, Canada
Buhlmann A: Alberta Department of Energy, Edmonton, AB T5K 2G6, Canada
Custers H: Alberta Department of Energy, Edmonton, AB T5K 2G6, Canada
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Energies
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15
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3
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1081
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2022
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2022-02-01
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1996-1073
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