Fault Seal Analysis for CO2 Storage Using a Natural Analogue Site

An extended abstract from the 2015 Fourth International Conference on Fault and Top Seals details fault-seal behavior analysis at the CO2-rich St. Johns Dome reservoir in Arizona. The work was conducted for a UKCCS Research Centre project on fault seal controls for CO2 storage capacity in aquifers. This document serves as a technical summary of research relevant to assessing risks for carbon capture and storage sites.

Use Cases

• Modeling fault seal integrity for CO2 storage sites based on the described analogue analysis.
• Assessing leakage risks in subsurface storage projects based on the fault behavior concepts discussed.
• Informing site selection for carbon sequestration based on geological fault characteristics.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, well-known natural CO2 reservoir (St. Johns Dome, Arizona) as an analogue.
• Associated with a funded research project (UKCCSRC-C1-14) from the UKCCS Research Centre.
• Peer-reviewed content presented at an international scientific conference in 2015.

Limitations

• The dataset is a conference abstract, not the underlying raw geological or simulation data.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

British Geological Survey (BGS)

Collection Method

Research analysis presented as a conference abstract.

Time Range

2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 08:25:21.793013; freshness should be verified

Geography

St. Johns Dome, Arizona (analogue site); research implications for offshore Netherlands.