Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-719-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-11-719-2020
Research article
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30 Apr 2020
Research article |  | 30 Apr 2020

An active tectonic field for CO2 storage management: the Hontomín onshore case study (Spain)

Raúl Pérez-López, José F. Mediato, Miguel A. Rodríguez-Pascua, Jorge L. Giner-Robles, Adrià Ramos, Silvia Martín-Velázquez, Roberto Martínez-Orío, and Paula Fernández-Canteli

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Long-term monitoring of CO2 of onshore storage has to consider thousands of years as a medium lifetime of the storage. In this wide time interval, the stress and strain properties of the reservoir change and earthquakes could occur. Therefore, we have to identify those fault sets which can be reactivated by changing the stress conditions. We need to know the role of active fault sets and model the changing conditions to prevent induced seismicity.
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