| Instructors: | Andreas Busch and Eric Mackay (Heriot-Watt University) |
| Language: | English |
| Level: | Advanced |
| Duration and format: | Classroom, 2 days |
| Location: | TBC |
Evaluating the risks for CO2 storage is a key aspect in determining the technical viability of such projects. This course will explain coupled phenomena in terms of i) reservoir conformance and ii) storage integrity by discussing the principles of coupled processes affected mainly by changes in pressure (effective stress), temperature and geochemistry in subsurface storage and sealing formations. These changes will affect flow and transport as well as geomechanical stability and impact the long-term predictability of conformance and containment. Through this course you will learn how coupled processes are implemented in real-world CO2 storage projects to assess related risks. You will gain an understanding of the coupled processes in CO2 storage reservoirs to make your own assessment of short to long-term risks for reservoir conformance prediction and containment, and you will obtain an introduction into the fundamental coupled processes expected to occur in subsurface.
Prof Andreas Busch is Professor in Earth Sciences. He is currently the Director of the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering and Head of the GeoEnergy Research Group in the Lyell Centre, both at Heriot-Watt University. His research is focusing on topics associated with the Energy Transition, working with a diverse group of researchers composed of geologists, geomechanists, petroleum engineers, hydrologists and geochemists. The group aims at an improved understanding of the coupled thermo-hydro-chemical-mechanical aspects related to carbon capture and storage (CCS), geothermal heat, hydrogen storage and natural gas production on the laboratory, field, and modelled reservoir scale.
Eric Mackay holds the Energi Simulation Chair in CCUS and Reactive Flow Simulation in the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, where he has worked since 1990. His research interests include the study of fluid flow in porous media, such as the flow of oil, gas and water in subsurface geological formations. He has over 100 publications related primarily to maintaining oil production when faced with mineral scale deposition, but since 2005 he has also worked on Carbon Capture and Storage. He is involved in projects identifying methods for calculating secure CO2 storage potential in saline formations and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs.
| Instructor: | Martin Landrø (Norwegian University of Science & Technology) |
| Language: | English |
| Level: | Intermediate |
| Duration and format: | Classroom, 1 day |
| Location: | TBC |
Prof Dr Martin Landrø received an M.S. (1983) and Ph.D. (1986) in physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. From 1986 to 1989, he worked at SERES. From 1989 to 1996, he was employed at IKU Petroleum Research as a research geophysicist and manager. From 1996 to 1998, he worked as a specialist at Equinor’s research center in Trondheim. Since 1998, Landrø has been a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Petroleum Engineering and Applied Geophysics. He received the Norman Falcon Award from EAGE in 2000 and the award for best paper in Geophysics in 2001. In 2004 he received the Norwegian Geophysical Award, and in 2007 Equinor’s Researcher Prize. He received the SINTEF Award for outstanding pedagogical activity in 2009. In 2010 he received the Louis Cagniard Award from EAGE and in 2011 the Eni Award (New Frontiers in Hydrocarbons). In 2012 Landrø received the Conrad Schlumberger Award from EAGE. Landrø’s research interests include seismic inversion, marine seismic acquisition, and 4D and 4C seismic. In 2012 Landrø received the IOR Award from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. He is a member of EAGE, SEG, The Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
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