Table of contents Preface Preface (in German) Preface (Translated in English) Organizing institutions Conference committees Part 1: Environmental and energy policy & law for underground storage Legal framework for CCS in the EU and Germany, H. Weyer Recent trends in the German CCS debate: New players, arguments and legal framework conditions, D. Vallentin, P. Viebahn & M. Fischedick China’s CO2 emissions trading status and the relevant legal issues, T. Zeng Enlightenment to China from salt mining administration of Germany, J. Qian, Z. Ma, H. von Tryller & A. Reitze Part 2: Geological storage and monitoring Progress report on the first European on-shore CO2 storage site at Ketzin, Germany, M. Kühn, S. Martens, A. Liebscher, F. Möller & Ketzin Team Experiences with satellite radar monitoring of ground movements over underground gas and CO2 reservoirs, W. Busch Site selection criteria for CO2 storage sites and implications for exploration, M. Stoewer, J. Zemke & H. Feldrappe Challenges and barriers for carbon capture and storage resulting from energy economics, and additional aspects, N. Supersberger, M. Fischedick, D. Schüwer & P. Viebahn Part 3: Enhanced gas and oil recovery using CO2 (CO2-EGR/EOR) First THM:C coupled simulations of CO2 sequestration in a multi-layered saline reservoir, M.Z. Hou, Y. Gou & J.S. Yoon Numerical investigations of the geological integrity above a CO2-storage as well as the recovery of its initial state, M.Z. Hou, L. Wundram & S. Li Measurement strategies to evaluate the integrity of deep wells for CO2 applications, K.M. Reinicke & C. Fichter Stable isotope and dissolved inorganic carbon sampling, monitoring and analytical methods in CO2 injection and EGR projects, A. Myrttinen, V. Becker, R.. van Geldern, J.A.C. Barth & M. Nowak Technical feasibility study on improving minimum miscibility pressure of CO2 by adding LPG, Y.Z. Yang, J.S. Qin, D.S. Ma, S.Y. Yang & H.W. Yu Enhanced heavy oil recovery by co-injection stimulation of steam and gases, L. Zhong, M. Zhao, S. Hu, S. Zhao, H. Yang & Y. Sun Part 4: Rock mechanical behavior in consideration of dilatancy and damage The Hou’s short- and long-term strength model, the Hou/Lux constitutive model for rock salt as well as their applications in storage cavern design, M.Z. Hou, Q. Wang, L. Xie, J. Liu & R. Zhang Damage evolution and fractal property of salt rock in tensile failure, J. Liu, J. Pei, K. Ma, H. Zhou & M.Z. Hou Effects of shale creep behavior on layer sealing feature evaluation, H. Mao, Y. Guo, C. Yang, W. Wu, F. Zhao & D. Cao Fractal study on spatial distribution of acoustic emission events of granite specimens by cylindrical covering method, J.L. Pei, W.P. Fei, J. Liu & R. Zhang Characterization of hydro-mechanical rock properties of argillaceous clay as a constituent of a geological barrier system, T. Popp & K. Salzer Pressure induced gas break through in rock salt – Implications from laboratory investigations and field studies, T. Popp, D. Brückner & W. Minkley Experimental investigation on rock salt subjected to shock loading, W. Wu & H. Mao Simulation of rock strength, dilatancy and damage under uniaxial compressive load using bonded particle model, J.S. Yoon, M.Z. Hou & S. Jeon Time-dependent constitutive model of rock salt based on Caputo fractional derivative, H. Zhou, C.P. Wang, Z.Q. Duan & B.B. Han Failure analysis of multicrack rock masses based on linear elastic fracture mechanics, J. Zuo, H. Xie, H. Zhou, N. Chai & X. Jia Part 5: Underground storage of natural gas and oil The status of modeling software for salt cavern leaching, identification of some unsolved problems and investigation of few of their aspects, D. Edler Numerical simulation of gas storage in the depleted fractured oil reservoir in China, Y. Fu & Z. Du Natural gas storage in salt caverns – Summary of worldwide projects and consequences of varying storage objectives and salt formations, A. Gillhaus New developments in Europe’s salt cavern projects, R. Schneider & F. Crotogino New developments of the pre-calculation method for the determination of time-dependent surface subsidences above salt mines and cavities, M.Z. Hou, Y. Chen & X. Li Natural gas storage cavern design under special consideration of the thin bedded salt layer in Jintan and the intermediate layers of mudstone, M.Z. Hou, Y. Gou, L. Xie & R. Zhang Time-variant reliability analysis for rocksalt energy-storage caverns based on creep behavior, C. Jia, J. Liu, Q. Zhang, Y. Li, X. Shen, S. Li & C. Yang Influence of failure probability in operation period on rock salt underground storage cavern with mudstone interlayer, J. Liu, J. Song, Q. Zhang, W. Zhang & S. Li Design of natural gas storage cavities in rock salt – Basic principles and advanced development, K.-H. Lux Echometric surveying of rock salt storage caverns and input for a structural geological 3D-model, A. Reitze, H. von Tryller, Z. Ma & J. Behlau Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation on influence level of risk factors for gas storage in rock salt, Q.Y. Zhang, Y. Li, S. Li, C. Jia, J. Liu & C.Yang Part 6: Underground storage of wind energy Energy storage in abandoned mines – A method to stabilize the German power grid, H.-P. Beck & O.T. Franz Energy storage in salt caverns – Renewable energies in the spotlight, B. Brockmann, S. Donadei & F. Crotogino Compressed air energy storage caverns to integrate fluctuating wind energy within transmission grids in Germany, F. Crotogino Some geomechanical aspects of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) in salt caverns, U. Düsterloh & K.-H. Lux Part 7: State-of-the-art & new developments in gas supply in Germany and China Current status and development trend for natural gas pipelines in China, J. Gong & X. Dong Procedures to generate “Model Networks” for gas grid distribution systems, A. Heilmann, J. Müller-Kirchenbauer & S. Hotopp Overall simulation of German and European natural gas transmission systems, B. Li & J. Müller-Kirchenbauer Part 8: Workshop in daqing: EOR & new drilling technology Optimization for cooling transportation plan of gathering system in Yushulin oilfield, Y. Liu, M. Si, M. Ma, L. Wei & Z. Wang Phenomenological study for energy transfer in underground driving process, Y. Liu, Q. Cheng & X. Xiang The theoretical study on enhanced oil recovery of high concentration polymer, Y. Liu, S. Liu, S. Liang & H. Wen Remaining oil distribution rule after polymer flooding in Daqing oilfield, K. Song, X. Tian, J. Zhang & C. Guan Mechanism of enhancing oil displacement efficiency using high mass concentration polymer solution flooding, H. Xia, Y. Liu, Y. Wang, J. Zhang & Y. Yuan THM:C coupled models for borehole stability in tight gas formation sandstone and shale formations, M.Z. Hou, X. Luo & L. Zhou Pushing to the limits: How oil country tubular goods evolution affect the testing facilities requirements?, C. Teodoriu & J. Holzmann An approach for interpreting rock drillability with fractal under the force of roller cone bit, T. Yan, X. Bi & W. Li Author index