How much do you know about carbon capture and sequestration? Read this detailed analysis on how it works and the methods for it being monitored.
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a major carbon capture and storage project (CCS) in Lea County, New Mexico. This project is thought to be the largest of its kind in the Permian Basin. Carbon dioxide (CO2) will be sequestered from Lucid Energy Group’s Red Hills gas processing complex (see Major CCS project given the green light in New Mexico).
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Update : An area of the Permian Basin has been categorized as a “Seismic Response Area” (SRA) after a recent magnitude 4.2 or 4.5 earthquake near Stanton, Texas.
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Multistage stimulation will revolutionize the Geothermal industry (see https://jpt.spe.org/why-multistage-stimulation-could-transform-the-geothermal-industry) and open up the west to producing energy on the order of 60 gigawatts of energy if these oil and gas techniques work for geothermal wells!
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ISTI’s team has decades of experience with the AQMS software that was used to monitor the earthquakes and other ground-shaking events from this eruption. ISTI’s experts helped the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory to get this software tuned and operational on a Linux platform 6 months before the eruption began.
ISTI helped install and coordinate the upgrade of the Puerto Rico Seismic Network’s (PRSN) software to the latest version of the ANSS Quake Monitoring System.
The work will be presented at the 2021 AGU.
As ISTI’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Peter Devanney is responsible for ISTI’s worldwide marketing and sales. Supporting the next stage of ISTI’s growth, Peter works with the ISTI team to deliver innovative environmental monitoring products and services focused on our customers’ mission success.
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April 24, 2020 Update
ISTI’s Sid Hellman put together a nice web UI to help people find the number of cases in their counties in the USA. Please refer to the CDC web pages for what you should be doing to be safe from COVID-19.
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A recent Richter Magnitude 3.4 earthquake (OGS magnitude) was felt and caused the shut-in of a well being completed in Oklahoma. This closure and the logic for monitoring was discussed in a recent article in “The Oklahoman”.
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Seismic monitoring systems provide critical data on building behavior during earthquakes, improve understanding of structural stability, and lead to better building codes.
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ISTI now offers AQMS, a software installation and support service, in a Postgres Version. For further information, reference the Seismological Research Letters article entitled “Open-Source ANSS Quake Monitoring System Software”.
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As noted in the Houston Chronical news article, a new study published this week in Geophysical Research Letters indicates that much of the recent seismicity in the Eagle Ford shale gas play in Texas is induced by hydraulic fracturing.
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“Oil and gas producer Encana Corp halted work at a drill site in northwest Oklahoma following two earthquakes within a day in the same area,” according to Thursday’s Financial Post article. Early detection is a service that we pride ourselves on at ISTI.
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The S-20 seismometer is a three-component velocity output near broad band seismic sensor. The design is based on the electronic velocity feedback which is applied to single coil low period geophone. The frequency bandwidth is extended from 50Hz, down to 20sec.
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ISTI is pleased to share the “Radioxenon net count calculations revisited” article from the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, featuring Matthias Auer of ISTI as second author.
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On February 27, 2018, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) announced new seismic monitoring requirements for minimizing felt induced seismicity from hydraulic fracturing operations in the SCOOP/STACK play. The new requirements state that operators must have access to a seismic monitoring array. They must take action at magnitude 2.0 (Richter scale) and pause for 6 hours at magnitude 2.5. This is a 0.5 reduction in magnitude levels from previous regulations.
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