The document discusses groundwater issues related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Victoria, Australia. It provides the following key points:
1) It presents preliminary salinity data from water bores and wells in the Gippsland Basin, showing large variations in sodium chloride (NaCl) concentrations with depth.
2) It shows new fault surface mappings for the Gippsland Basin developed from 3D geological models. These faults impact fluid flow patterns.
3) Upcoming work includes completing a variable density hydrological model of the basin by mid-2011, followed by dynamic modeling incorporating CO2 injection scenarios to understand fluid-rock-CO2 interactions and their salinity dependence.
1. Base of Tertiary surface. Red colours are shallow, purple colours are deep. Source: 3D-Geo
Victorian CCS – Groundwater issues
Dr Monica Campi
GeoScience Victoria
2. Managing Victoria’s energy resources
Regional frameworks to support informed basin management for the
geological carbon storage, water, petroleum, and geothermal sectors
3.
4. 145°E
145°E 146°E
146°E
Sealing Potential +
147°E 148°E 149°E
[Na] (ppm)
2009 CCS Acreage New South Wales
Release Blocks
Excellent
Gas Field
Very good
Oil Field
Wallan 1,000-5,000
Good Buchan
Moderate 5,000-10,000 Mallacoota
Healesville
Poor Orbost
Melbourne >10,000
Bairnsdale
Lakes Entrance
Maffra
38°S
38°S
Sale
Warragul Longford
Traralgon
Leongatha
Wonthaggi
Gipp-01
Gipp-02
39°S
39°S
Victoria
Tasmania
Gipp-03
AREA OF INTEREST
0 40
km
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7. Vic DPI CCS-Groundwater Projects
• Regional hydrodynamic modelling of the Gippsland
Basin (CSIRO)
• Compartmentalisation of the Latrobe aquifer
system (DSE/CSIRO)
• Reservoir and Seal Mineralogy
• To lead into future Fluid-Rock-CO2 interactions studies