Abstract: In November 2005, participants at the Workshop on Geological Storage of CO2 at Princeton University agreed on the need for a common test problem to assess various models to simulate the fate of CO2 injected into the subsurface. Alberta Geological Survey offered to make available the data for the Wabamun Lake area in Alberta, Canada, which were assembled to develop a comprehensive model for studying CO2 geological storage. The Wabamun Lake area, southwest of Edmonton in central Alberta, was selected as the test area because a variety of favourable conditions identified it as a potential site for future, large-scale CO2 injection. Several large, industrial CO2 point sources are in the area, resulting in short transportation distances of the captured gas. Various deep saline formations with sufficient capacity to accept and store large volumes of CO2 in supercritical phase exist at the appropriate depth and are overlain by thick confining shale units. Most importantly, a wealth of data exist (i.e., stratigraphy, rock properties, mineralogy, fluid composition, formation pressure, information about well completions, etc.), collected by the petroleum industry and submitted to the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. For these reasons, the Wabamun Lake area is an ideal location to characterize a CO2 storage site and analyze the potential risks.
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Wabamun Lake Modelling Case Study - Chemical Analyses of Formation Waters (point features, comma separated
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In November 2005, participants at the Workshop on Geological Storage of CO2 at Princeton University agreed on
the need for a common test problem to assess various models to simulate the fate of CO2 injected into the
subsurface. Alberta Geological Survey offered to make available the data for the Wabamun Lake area in
Alberta, Canada, which were assembled to develop a comprehensive model for studying CO2 geological storage.
The Wabamun Lake area, southwest of Edmonton in central Alberta, was selected as the test area because a
variety of favourable conditions identified it as a potential site for future, large-scale CO2 injection.
Several large, industrial CO2 point sources are in the area, resulting in short transportation distances of
the captured gas. Various deep saline formations with sufficient capacity to accept and store large volumes
of CO2 in supercritical phase exist at the appropriate depth and are overlain by thick confining shale
units. Most importantly, a wealth of data exist (i.e., stratigraphy, rock properties, mineralogy, fluid
composition, formation pressure, information about well completions, etc.), collected by the petroleum
industry and submitted to the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board. For these reasons, the Wabamun Lake area
is an ideal location to characterize a CO2 storage site and analyze the potential risks.
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Provide access to a dataset used for modelling studies of CO2 injection for the Wabamun, Alberta area.
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Alberta Energy Regulator
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4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
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Government License - Alberta. Distribution Liability: The Alberta Energy Regulator/Alberta Geological
Survey (AER/AGS) licenses this information under the Open Government License - Alberta. Any references
to proprietary software in our documentation, and/or any use of proprietary data formats in our
releases, do not constitute endorsement by the AER/AGS of any manufacturer's product.
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Wabamun Lake Modelling Case Study - Pressure and Permeability Data Determined from Drillstem Tests
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Wabamun Lake Modelling Case Study - Depth of Stratigraphic Formations (point features, comma separated
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Distribution:
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Organisation name:
Alberta Geological Survey
Position name:
AGS Information Manager
Contact info:
Contact:
Phone:
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(780) 638-4491
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(780) 422-1459
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Alberta Energy Regulator
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4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
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Edmonton
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Alberta
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T6B 2X3
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Canada
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Data quality:
Scope:
Scope:
Hierarchy level:
Scope code:
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Report:
Completeness commission:
Result:
unknown
Report:
Completeness omission:
Evaluation method description:
Laboratories routinely analyzed the water samples for the dissolved major ions (i.e., Cl-, SO42-, HCO3-,
CO32-, Na+, Mg2+ and Ca2+), salinity, pH, Eh, resistivity and density. In many standard industry
chemical analyses, Na+ is not measured but calculated by charge balance of the remaining major ions.
Additional ions analyzed less frequently are Br-, Sr2-, I-, OH-, SiO2, Ba2+, K+, Fe3+, Mn2+ and Al3+.
Result:
unknown
Report:
Conceptual consistency:
Measure description:
Chemical analyses were performed on water samples from various sources, mainly from drillstem or
production tests in the case of deep formation waters tested by the petroleum industry. Samples are sent
to various laboratories specializing in the chemical analysis of formation waters. There are no
duplicate records in the current dataset.
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unknown
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Statement:
Laboratories routinely analyzed the water samples for the dissolved major ions (i.e., Cl-, SO42-, HCO3-,
CO32-, Na+, Mg2+ and Ca2+), salinity, pH, Eh, resistivity and density. In many standard industry
chemical analyses, Na+ is not measured but calculated by charge balance of the remaining major ions.
Additional ions analyzed less frequently are Br-, Sr2-, I-, OH-, SiO2, Ba2+, K+, Fe3+, Mn2+ and Al3+.
Process step:
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Description:
Samples of formation waters are collected mainly by the petroleum industry and analyzed by specialized
laboratories. These data are submitted in their raw form to the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
(EUB). Alberta Geological Survey (AGS) manually entered hydrochemical data collected until 2001 into
its database (AGSWDB). Since 2001, the data are submitted to the EUB in digital format and updates
to AGSWDB occur on an as-needed basis. Data were initially checked for quality using a sequential
mechanical culling procedure and additional culling was done by a geochemist (Hitchon, B. and
Brulotte, M. (1994): Culling criteria for standard formation water analyses; Applied Geochemistry,
v. 9, p. 637-645.).
Chemical analyses identified as incomplete, contaminated or otherwise compromised were flagged in the
database. Data were allocated to stratigraphic units using the original industry allocation.
Chemical analyses in the Wabamun Lake area underwent an additional culling step based on the local
formation water characteristics. Also, stratigraphic allocations were confirmed by comparing the
depth of test intervals with the depth of stratigraphic picks in the same well or modelled
stratigraphic surfaces.
Date and time:
2006-02-01T00:00:00
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Maintenance information:
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unknown
Maintenance note:
This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial
Metadatastandard version FGDC-STD-001-1998 using the January 2013 version of the FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19115-2
transform.
Metadata author:
Responsible party:
Organisation name:
Alberta Geological Survey
Position name:
AGS Information Manager
Contact info:
Contact:
Phone:
Telephone:
Voice:
(780) 638-4491
Facsimile:
(780) 422-1459
Address:
Address:
Delivery point:
Alberta Energy Regulator
Delivery point:
4th Floor, Twin Atria Building
Delivery point:
4999-98 Avenue NW
City:
Edmonton
Administrative area:
Alberta
Postal code:
T6B 2X3
Country:
Canada
Electronic mail address:
AGS-Info@aer.ca
Hours of service:
8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Role:
Role code:
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