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KYCCS Western Kentucky Deep Test

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Contacts:

• Dave Harris, Energy and Minerals Section Head
• Dave Williams 270-827-3414 ext. 22
• Rick Bowersox 859-323-0536

Recent presentations and posters

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4 State Water Directors’ Annual Meeting, Guntersville, Alabama, November 18, 2009
  Kentucky Geological Survey Western Kentucky CO2 Storage Test: Phase 1 Project Review
  
• U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Lexington Field Office Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, December 1, 2009
  Kentucky Geological Survey CO2 Storage Research Program
  
• Hancock County, Kentucky, Public Meeting, Hawesville, Kentucky, October 28, 2010
  Kentucky Geological Survey Western Kentucky CO2 Storage Test: Project Review
  
• Kentucky Geological Survey, Lexington, Kentucky, March 4, 2011
  Western Kentucky CO2 Storage Test
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting, Denver Colorado, June 9, 2009
  Carbon Storage Potential in the Southern Illinois Basin: Preliminary Results of the KYCCS Test Well, Hancock County, Kentucky
• Ninth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture & Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 11, 2010
  Geologic CO2 Storage Options in Kentucky: Interim Results of the Kentucky Consortium for Carbon Storage Tests
• Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 3, 2010
  Precambrian Middle Run Sandstone in Western Kentucky: Results from the Kentucky Geological Survey #1 Marvin Blan CO2 Sequestration Test Well
• Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 12, 2011
  CO2 storage in U.S. Midcontinent Cambro-Ordovician carbonates: Implications of the Western Kentucky Carbon Storage Test

Post-injection meeting for the Western Kentucky Deep Test.

• Meeting summary
• Seismic-Data Interpretations near the Blan Carbon Sequestration Test Well in Hancock Co., Kentucky
• Kentucky Geological SurveyMarvin Blan #1Hancock County, Kentucky
• Chemistry ofKnox Formation Waters Collected from theBlan #1,Hancock County, Ky
• Summary of Domestic Well and Spring Water-Quality Data: Pre-injection Sampling
• Preliminary Data Assessment of the New Albany Shale in the KGS #1 BlanWell, Hancock County
• Marvin Blan #1Maquoketa Core Report
• Marvin Blan #1 Image Log Report
• Marvin Blan #1 Seismic Inversion of 2D data
• Marvin Blan No. 1 CO2 Test Well Drilling Overview
• Marvin Blan #1 Well Testing Report
• Kentucky Geologic Survey -#1 Marvin BlanRST/PL Analysis
• Public Outreach
• An Evaluation of the Carbon Sequestration Potential of the Cambro-Ordovician Strata of the Illinois and Michigan Basins

KGS marks completion of CO2 deep well success

Carbon dioxide successfully injected at Hancock County Test Site

Pre-testing meeting for the Western Kentucky Deep Test

• Meeting Summary
• Testing Operations Review
• Test Zone Selection Procedure

Photos of the Hancock County Deep Carbon-storage project

Drilling Began April 23 on the Western Kentucky Deep Test

Lane Report story on carbon research at UK (Used with permission, Lane Communications Group)

Agenda: Western Kentucky Project Planning Meeting, KGS Lexington Core Library, January 8, 2009

• Meeting summary
• State Energy Strategy

Deep Seismic Reflection Survey in Hancock County

Staff of WesternGeco Corporation conduct a deep seismic reflection survey in the vicinity of the planned carbon dioxide test injection well in Hancock County. The survey, when completed, will provide KGS geologists additional information about the deep subsurface geology of the region.  A short video shows three large seismic vibrator trucks in action along Highway 1265 in Hancock County on December 18.  Click on the photo or here to view the video.

More photos of the deep seismic reflection survey (click on each text line):

• WesternGeco is continuously providing flaggers at the sites of the work.
• WesternGeco and KGS staff watch as data is relayed from the instruments to a trailer near the survey site.
• KGS staff answer questions from passers-by driving through the survey site.
  

Western Kentucky Project Planning Meeting, KGS Lexington Core Library, December 11, 2008

• Agenda
• Meeting Summary
• Revised Seismic Program
• Public Outreach efforts
• Project Construction
• Knox Formation CO2 Storage

Hancock County wellsite construction work

Hancock County wellsite survey

Hancock County shallow seismic survey

Western Kentucky Project Planning Meeting, KGS Lexington Core Library, November 6, 2008

• Agenda
• Meeting Summary
• Latest formation tops for project drill site

WESTERN KENTUCKY SEQUESTRATION SUB-PROJECT MEETING, October 2, 2008

• Agenda
• Meeting Summary
• Strategies for Characterizing Shallow Soil Gas Flux and Chemistry, Blan Farm, Hancock County, Ky.
• EPA Class V Injection Well Permitting for CO2 Research Test Status and Remaining Items
• Western Kentucky Deep Saline Reservoir CO2 Storage Test

Advisory Committee Meeting: 21-Aug-2008, 9 am, Kentucky Geological Survey Well Sample and Core Repository

• Agenda
• Map.
• Meeting Summary
• Latest deep formation tops at the Blanwell site based on seismic data, by James A. Drahovzal
  

Meeting with U.S. EPA Region IV, Atlanta, Georgia, 12-Aug-2008:

• Bowersox, Western Kentucky Deep Saline Reservoir CO₂ Storage Test

Advisory Committee Meeting, 24-Jul-2008:

• Meeting Summary
• Papadeas, Sandia: Class V Experimental Well Permit Process
• Bowersox: Western Kentucky Deep Saline Reservoir CO₂ Storage Test
• Agenda

Advisory Committee Meeting, 19-Jun-2008:

• Meeting Summary
• Agenda

Advisory Committee Meeting, 22-May-2008:

• Meeting Summary
• Agenda

Advisory Committee Meeting, 27-Mar-2008:

• Agenda
• Meeting Summary
• Additional materials are being collected (4/16/2008)

Advisory Committee Meeting, 5-Mar-2008:

• Meeting Summary
• Seismic Data Update: Hancock Co., Kentucky March 5, 2008
  
• Additional materials are being collected (3/10/2008)

Advisory Committee Meeting, 21-Feb-2008:

• Meeting Summary
• Williams, Hancock County Sites Tour
• Bowersox, Storage potential updates
• Papadeas (Sandia Tech), Alternatives and re-entry
• Drahovzal, Refine interpretations of available seismic ( proprietary seismic has been removed, see notes included in presentation)

Advisory Committee Meeting, 7-Feb-2008:

• Meeting Summary
• Gonzalez, Well Test Options
• Drahovzal, Where to Drill, Spreadsheet

Advisory Committee Meeting, 22-Jan-2008:

• Meeting Summary
• Rick Bowersox, Mt Simon Overview

Meeting Agenda (1/9/08): Jan. 9, 2008: West Kentucky Deep Saline Test

Presentations:

• Dave Harris, KYCCS Project Overview
• Dave Williams, KYCCS Geologic Overview for the Western Kentucky Deep Test

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