Biogeochemical Monitoring of a CO2 Leak

David S. Goldberg, Jurg M. Matter, Taro Takahashi, Martin Stute, Gregory O’Mullan, Qiang Yang, M. Elias Dueker and Natalia V. Zakharova

The project investigates a shallow potable water aquifer system in sand/clay sequences of the Newark Basin group using laboratory and in situ experimental methods. The primary goal is to understand the fundamental biogeochemical processes caused by CO₂ enrichment of aquifer water. The methodologies developed in this work will also be directly transferable to other sites affected by increased CO₂ levels induced from CO₂sequestration in subterranean rock formations.

Select Publications:

Assayag, N., Matter, J., Ader, M., Goldberg, D., and Agrinier, P. (2009), Water–rock interactions during a CO2 injection field-test: Implications on host rock dissolution and alteration effects, Chemical geology 265(1), 227-235.

Matter, J. M., T. Takahashi, and D. S. Goldberg (2007), Experimental evaluation of in situ CO₂-water-rock reactions during CO₂ injection in basaltic rocks: Implications for geological CO₂ sequestration, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 8(2).