First EAGE Workshop on the Triassic and Jurassic Plays
in Northwest Europe
26-28 February 2025 | Sunbury, United Kingdom
First EAGE Workshop on the Triassic and Jurassic Plays
in Northwest Europe
26-28 February 2025 | Sunbury, United Kingdom
Short Course: Exploration of Subsurface Natural Geologic Hydrogen and Stimulation for its Enhanced Production
Date: 26 February 2025
Instructor: Dr Dariusz Strapoc, SLB
About the instructor: Dariusz obtained his MSc at Wroclaw University in Poland in 2002. After his PhD (2007) in geology, gas isotope geochemistry and microbiology at the Indiana University, Bloomington, he has worked in Subsurface Technology at ConocoPhillips for three years followed by one year of consulting (Dariusz BioGeoChem) working on petroleum systems and subsurface biomethane stimulation. In 2012 he joined SLB and since then has been developing interpretation workflow and answer products for surface formation evaluation (mud gas and cuttings logging). For a couple of years his work involves H2 and helium logging and exploration, for which the global activity is rapidly growing. This topic also brings ideas of stimulated natural H2 in the subsurface, which brings together geological and fluid geochemistry knowledge to a new level of collaboration among academic and industrial communities. Dariusz is very active within the geochemistry community with multiple peer-reviewed papers and chapters, numerous conference-related activities, journal editorships, and intellectual property publications.
Course Description
The course will discuss and compare carbon footprint versus price of the full palette of different sources of hydrogen. Material includes comparison of energy output per mass and per volume among all major fuels with H2. All industrial and natural sources and generating mechanisms and corresponding association with other gases (He, CO2, N2, CH4) as well as consumption fluxes will be described. Global occurrences and seepages of natural H2 will be presented along with worldwide ongoing and planned exploration activity. Geologic setting of the only H2 production field in Mali will be discussed.
Course Outline
I. Introduction to H2 types and sources
II. Occurrences, origins of natural H2 and typical geologic systems
III. Global exploration activity on example of their geologic setting
IV. Challenges of H2 exploration, drilling, transport and storage
V. Orange H2 – concepts, challenges and efforts
VI. H2 systems modeling in white and orange scenarios
VII. Natural Helium
VIII. Summary points and take home message
Participant Profile
The course is designed for anyone interested in new decarbonized energy resource study and development, students, post docs, geologists, geochemists, industry researchers, start ups, investors, government officials.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of geology or subsurface geochemistry. None really, as the course will start from a high level introduction.
