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Volume 62, Issue 6
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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of supercritical CO (scCO) injection on the elastic and anelastic properties of sandstone at seismic and ultrasonic frequencies. We present the results of the low‐frequency and ultrasonic experiments conducted on water‐saturated sandstone (Donnybrook, Western Australia) flooded with scCO. The sandstone was cut in the direction perpendicular to a formation bedding plane and tested in a Hoek triaxial pressure cell. During the experiments with scCO the low‐frequency and ultrasonic systems and the pump dispensing scCO were held at a temperature of 42°C. The elastic parameters obtained for the sandstone with scCO at seismic (0.1 Hz–100 Hz) and ultrasonic (∼0.5 MHz) frequencies are very close to those for the dry rock. The extensional attenuation was also measured at seismic frequencies for the dry, water‐saturated, and scCO‐injected sandstones. The applicability of Gassmann's fluid substitution theory to obtained results was also tested during the experiments.

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