%0 Journal Article %T Natural Gas Storage Seismic Monitoring %+ IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) %+ Centre de Recherche & Innovation Gaz et Energies Nouvelles - GDF Suez (CRIGEN) %+ Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG) %A Mari, J.L. %A Huguet, F. %A Meunier, J. %A Becquey, Marc %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1294-4475 %J Oil & Gas Science and Technology - Revue d'IFP Energies nouvelles %I Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) %V 66 %N 1 %P 9-20 %8 2011 %D 2011 %R 10.2516/ogst/2009080 %Z Physics [physics]Journal articles %X IFP Energies nouvelles, CGGVeritas and GDF Suez have conducted together, since 1980, a series of seismic monitoring experiments in order to detect and follow the movements of the gas plume in natural gas geologic storages. Surface and well seismic surveys were carried out at different stages of the storage life. Permanent receiver arrays have been set down in wells. Permanent sources have been designed. Sources and receivers have been used to follow continuously the storage cycle during several years, providing time measurement accuracy within a tenth of a millisecond. Gas intrusion into an aquifer leads to an increase in the arrival times of reflections beneath the storage reservoir and to a variation of the reflection amplitudes at top and bottom of the reservoirs. Progressive variations of the seismic parameters may be followed during the initial infill period. Further movements of the gas plume with the annual in/out cycles are more difficult to follow, because of the simultaneous presence of gas and water in the pores. Arrival time variations of some tenths of a millisecond may be detected and measured. Saturations, using accurate picking of the arrival times, can be estimated in favourable cases. Because of the higher density of carbon dioxide, when stored in a supercritical phase, sensitivity of the seismic parameters, velocity, density and acoustic impedance to saturation variations will be about twice smaller for CO2 storages than it is for methane. %G English %2 https://ifp.hal.science/hal-01937341/document %2 https://ifp.hal.science/hal-01937341/file/ogst09102.pdf %L hal-01937341 %U https://ifp.hal.science/hal-01937341 %~ IFP %~ OGST