Method for carbon dioxide sequestration
| Patent Number: | 9,834,381 |
| Issued: | 12/5/2017 |
| Official Filing: | View the Complete Patent |
| Abstract: | A method for geo-sequestration of a carbon dioxide includes selection of a target water-laden geological formation with low-permeability interbeds, providing an injection well into the formation and injecting supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO.sub.2) and water or bine into the injection well under conditions of temperature, pressure and density selected to cause the fluid to enter the formation and splinter and/or form immobilized ganglia within the formation. |
| Filed: | 8/13/2015 |
| Application Number: | 14/825,869 |
| Government Interests: | STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-NA0003525 awarded by the United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government has certain rights in the invention. |