
Time-lapse gravity monitoring technology and prospects for carbon dioxide geological storage
YueHua ZHANG, Yan LIU, QingTian LÜ, ZhaoXi CHEN
Prog Geophy ›› 2025, Vol. 40 ›› Issue (2) : 495-510.
Time-lapse gravity monitoring technology and prospects for carbon dioxide geological storage
Global warming has prompted countries to reach a political consensus and take a series of actions to actively address climate change. Carbon dioxide geological storage injects the captured carbon dioxide into the storage site for long-term storage. The injected carbon dioxide may leak through potential pathways such as abandoned wellbores and faults due to a combination of pressure and itsbuoyancy. The change of physical parameters such as reservoir density before and after carbon dioxide injection provides a theoretical basis for gravity monitoring technology. The inversion of carbon dioxide plume distribution using gravity data aids in the analysis of fluid spatial movement and distribution over time. This paper focuses on the development and application potential of time-lapse gravity monitoring methods in the field of carbon dioxide geological storage from two perspectives: academic research and industrial applications. With the constant improvement of gravity observation instruments, the continuous innovation of data acquisition and processing technology, and the continuous progress of inversion interpretation methods, the application prospects for the time-lapse gravity monitoring method are also broader. At present, the development of time-lapse gravity monitoring needs to seize the opportunity of the ongoing expansion of the quantity and scale of carbon dioxide geological storage projects. Effective information on the distribution of carbon dioxide underground can be obtained by comparing the density determined by surface and borehole gravity before and after storage.The comprehensive use of various geophysical methods is the development trend of monitoring carbon dioxide geological storage projects in the future, taking into account the real needs of the project.
Carbon dioxide geological storage / Time-lapse gravity / Gravity monitoring
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