Fault Seal Analysis of a Natural CO2 Reservoir in Arizona

An extended abstract submitted to 'The Fourth International Conference on Fault and Top Seals' in September 2015. The abstract describes work from the 'Fault seal controls on CO2 storage capacity in aquifers' project, funded by the UKCCS Research Centre. It presents an analysis of fault-seal behavior at the CO2-rich St. Johns Dome reservoir in Arizona, which serves as an analogue for leaking CO2 storage sites.

Use Cases

• Modeling fault seal behavior for CO2 storage sites based on the described geological analogue.
• Assessing risks of CO2 leakage from subsurface reservoirs based on the fault analysis methodology.
• Benchmarking simulation tools for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects using the described natural reservoir case.

Strengths

• Describes analysis of a specific, natural CO2 reservoir (St. Johns Dome, Arizona) used as a real-world analogue.
• Work is associated with a funded research project (UKCCSRC-C1-14) and a peer-reviewed conference.
• Provides a concrete geological case study for fault seal behavior relevant to carbon storage.

Limitations

• The dataset is an abstract, not raw measurement or simulation data; column-level documentation is absent.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Collection Method

Extended abstract submitted to an international geoscience conference.

Time Range

Abstract submitted for conference in September 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 08:25:20.782088; freshness should be verified.

Geography

St. Johns Dome reservoir in Arizona, USA.