Gas migration and residual trapping in bimodal heterogeneous media during geological storage of CO2

This study investigates the effect of heterogeneity on CO2–brine two-phase flow behavior and capillary trapping at the field scale. A model based on macroscopic invasion percolation is developed to simulate CO2 migration and trapping in strongly heterogeneous systems with bimodal permeability distributions. Stochastic simulations are performed on heterogeneous permeability fields generated by considering both transition probability based...