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This workshop will bring together a wide range of practitioners and stakeholders considering fluid flow in fractures and faults. Faults are often conceptualised as barriers and conduits for fluid flow by many different subsurface professionals. A key aim of the meeting will be to evolve workflows, and practices to better describe uncertainty and risks related to faults and fractures.

Broadly we are a wide range of geoscientists divided by a common language:

• Faults are invoked as lateral barriers, lateral baffles and vertical conducts (fault transmissibility). 
• Hydraulic conductivity is a combining porous continuum (permeability and porosity), fracture flow (transmissivity/storativity), and vuggy systems. 
• Flow also occurs through, decommissioned wells/boreholes, abandoned mines, damage zones and collapsing subsidence regions (goaf).
• There are issues related to terminology describing flow (reservoir/aquifer) and low flow units (seals/aquitards).
• How can we better understand the containment and flow of multiphase, miscible and non-miscible fluids?
• What is the link between stress, strain and flow? 

In general, these terms are sensibly used within industries but often make implicit assumptions. These assumptions can lead to cognitive bias. Looking across industries it is hoped that this workshop will help unify terminologies and processes.

*We regret to inform that the Field Trip has been cancelled due to unavoidable circumstances. Registered participants will be notified soon. 

*This page is updated as of 3 August 2023. Stay tuned for a full line-up of the workshop speakers.