Flow Mechanics for Geological CO₂ Storage

(3 October 2024)

Thursday from 9:00 - 17:00

Instructor:	Florian Doster (Heriot-Watt University)
Language:	English
Level:	Intermediate
Duration and format:	Classroom: 1 day
Location:	BP Sunbury Learning Centre, Chertsey Road, Sunbury-On-Thames, TW16 7LN Yellow Space, located in the B-Tech area of Building B

Course Description

This one-day course covers the fundamentals of flow in porous media, essential for the safe and efficient planning and operation of geological CO₂ storage. After completing the course you will be able to explain why fluids move in a reservoir and how these movements can be modelled with the help of Darcy’s law and the principle of mass conservation. You will be able to discuss what controls the pressure diffusion through a reservoir. Further you will be able to describe the physical phenomena that control the dynamics at the pore-scale when CO₂ displaces resident fluids in the reservoir and how these processes impact the dynamics of CO₂ over the large volumes and timescales that are needed for geological CO₂ storage. Last, you will be able to apply models and simple simulators to investigate dynamic storage capacities, pressure build up and leakage risks.

Participants Profile

The course is designed for geoscientists and engineers working in the emerging low-carbon energy sector, the oil and gas sector, technical service companies and research organizations.

Prerequisites

Participants should have basic knowledge of geology, geophysics and reservoir engineering and high-school math.

Topics

Single- and Multi-phase Darcy’s law
Principle of well-testing
Simple models for plume dynamics
Reservoir simulation

Instructors

Florian Doster

Professor Florian Doster (PhD, Stuttgart University, 2011) is Professor for Multi-Scale Multi-Phase Flow Modelling in the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University and Program Director for Subsurface Energy Systems. His research interests include the study of multi-physics multi-phase flow phenomena in porous media and their appropriate physical and mathematical description across length and time scales. He focuses on phenomena related to CO₂ storage, flow in fractured porous media and hysteretic phenomena such as trapping. His research is funded by the ACT (BEIS), EuropeanCommission, US Department of Energy, the Scottish Energy Technology Partnership, Norwegian Research Council, Foundation CMG, TotalEnergies, BP and Petronas.

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