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Effective CO2 containment is achieved by the overlying tight caprock that is initially highly saturated with formation brine, which prevents CO2 migration into uphole intervals and potentially into shallow freshwater aquifers and ultimately to the atmosphere. The confining properties of the caprock are due to its very low permeability and to relative permeability and capillary pressure effects that prevent the penetration of CO2 into, and significant flow through the caprock. Essential to the assessment of CO2-EOR and CCGS operations, including numerical simulation, is knowledge about the caprock permeability to brine and CO2. This paper presents results of detailed measurements at full reservoir conditions for permeability to water, primary drainage and secondary imbibition permeability, relative permeability and trapped saturation of supercritical, dense-phase CO2 and brine for three different, regionally-extensive low permeability formations in the Alberta basin, Canada. These formations include Devonian and Cretaceous shales and a Devonian anhydrite whose measured relative permeabilities were found to be in the nano to pico Darcy range. The methodology used in the test program and the results can be extended to the evaluation of other sealing caprocks for other prospective CO2-EOR or CCGS operations around the world. \r\n\r\n(PDF) Permeability and Relative Permeability Measurements at Reservoir Conditions for CO2-Water Systems in Ultra Low Permeability Confining Caprocks. 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