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Fault sealing and caprock integrity for CO2 storage: an in situ injection experiment
Alba Zappone
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Swiss Seismological Service, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092,
Switzerland
Antonio Pio Rinaldi
Swiss Seismological Service, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
Energy Geosciences Division, LBNL Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Melchior Grab
Department of Earth Sciences, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
Quinn C. Wenning
Department of Earth Sciences, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
Clément Roques
Department of Earth Sciences, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
Univ Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, 35000 Rennes,
France
Claudio Madonna
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092,
Switzerland
Anne C. Obermann
Swiss Seismological Service, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
Stefano M. Bernasconi
Department of Earth Sciences, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
Matthias S. Brennwald
Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water, EAWAG
Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland
Rolf Kipfer
Department of Water Resources and Drinking Water, EAWAG
Dübendorf, 8600, Switzerland
Florian Soom
Energy Geosciences Division, LBNL Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Paul Cook
Energy Geosciences Division, LBNL Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Yves Guglielmi
Energy Geosciences Division, LBNL Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Christophe Nussbaum
Swiss Geological Survey, swisstopo, Wabern, 3084, Switzerland
Domenico Giardini
Department of Earth Sciences, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
Marco Mazzotti
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092,
Switzerland
Stefan Wiemer
Swiss Seismological Service, ETHZ, Zurich, 8092, Switzerland
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Short summary
The success of the geological storage of carbon dioxide is linked to the availability at depth of a capable reservoir and an impermeable caprock. The sealing capacity of the caprock is a key parameter for long-term CO2 containment. Faults crosscutting the caprock might represent preferential pathways for CO2 to escape. A decameter-scale experiment on injection in a fault, monitored by an integrated network of multiparamerter sensors, sheds light on the mobility of fluids within the fault.
The success of the geological storage of carbon dioxide is linked to the availability at depth...