Center for Carbon Storage Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage is a key technology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Recent changes to the tax code (45Q) provide a tax credit to power plants and industrial facilities that capture and store CO 2 that would otherwise be emitted into the atmosphere. The Stanford Center for Carbon Storage uses a multidisciplinary approach to address critical questions related to flow physics, monitoring, geochemistry, and simulation of the transport and fate of CO 2 stored in partially- to fully-depleted oil fields, saline aquifers, and other unconventionalreservoirs. Reservoir Characterization for Storage Accelerated Trapping and Footprint Control Enhanced Recovery from O&G Reservoirs • Experimental studies of pore- to core-scale flow and transport of CO2 • Simulation and reactive transport modeling of CO2 flow and trapping • Geochemical reactions between CO2, rocks, fluids, and organic matter • Assessment and mitigation of seismic risks • Degree and nature of reservoir heterogeneity • Advanced reservoir engineering including coupled geomechanical and geochemical models • Laboratory tests of controls on residual trapping • Injection strategies to optimize pore space usage • Pilot tests of enhanced pore space utilization, trapping, and mobility control • Experimental and computational research to develop new approaches for co-optimization of CO2 storage and IOR • Advanced EOR by doubling or tripling CO2/bbl • Lifecycle assessment of carbon intensity of produced oil • Potential for EOR benefits from BECCS and direct air capture Unconventional CO2 Reservoirs Low-Cost High- Quality Monitoring Techno-Economic and Policy Analysis • Hydraulic fracturing using CO2 • Using CO2 to enhance recovery from unconventional shale reservoirs • CO2 storage in low permeability shale • CO2 storage in basalt • Integrated seismic and reservoir pressure monitoring from sparse arrays • Real-time data assimilation and CO2 plume and pressure build-up mapping • Early well degradation and leakage detection • Risk assessment, mitigation, and contingency planning for CO2 leakage • Pilot tests for closing the monitoring— modeling loop • Implications of policy options • Analysis of new technologies and effect on CCS expansion and scaleup • Capacity expansion and unit commitment models for integrating power generation with CCS into the electrical grid • Assessment of options for CCS including industrial CO2 sources and BECCS • Lifecycle assessment of GHG emissions Membership Benefits include: • Access to cutting edge research conducted by Stanford faculty, post docs, and PhD students • Invitations to Precourt Institute for Energy and Stanford University events • Annual Affiliates meeting and workshop (Scheduled for Nov 7/8 2019) • Seminar series / webinar (Scheduled for 5 Tuesdays fall Qtr, 4:30-5:30)