South-central Kansas CO2 Project
CO2 Sequestration
Raw Pressure Plots

Work is partially supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) under Grant Number DE-FE0006821.

The continuous pressure monitoring in the lower Arbuckle was set up because a large rate and high volume brine disposal in the area is believed to be responsible for the induced seismicity. "The assumption in the case of the testing in the Arbuckle is that the observed pressure is being transmitted at depth in the basement where faults are critically stressed, requiring a small force to move. To date the vast majority of earthquakes have occurred in the shallow basement." Quarterly Report-19, 2016. Trilobite Testing of Hays Kansas installed the pressure gauge in the Wellington KGS 1-28 at about 5020 feet depth from surface. The instrument is programmed to sample every second with an accuracy of 0.1 psi. About a week of pressure data is sent to KGS as a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file.

This program reads in all the raw pressure data files resampling each file, e.g. 1 point every 1/2 hour. The data is plotted in either a profile like plot or 2D X-Y plot, users choice.


Author: John R. Victorine jvictor@kgs.ku.edu

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