6th IMA Conference on Modelling Permeable Rocks

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Thursday April 1, 2010
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Thursday April 1, 2010
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Event Link: https://ima.org.uk/1207/6th-ima-conference-on-modelling-permeable-rocks/

6th IMA Conference on Modelling Permeable Rocks


Date: Monday 29 March – Thursday 1 April 2010
Location: University of Edinburgh

With Special Focus on CO2 Storage

Integrating Geology and Mathematics for Groundwater, Environment and Petroleum Applications

Call for Papers

This conference provides an excellent opportunity for people from different disciplines (geology, statistics, mathematics and engineering) to share ideas on modelling permeable and fractured rocks. The emphasis will be on new developments in the mathematical modelling of geological patterns for the purposes of improving prediction of flow and hydro-mechanical behaviour rather than on purely descriptive work. For the 6th Conference in the series, we shall have a special focus on modelling requirements for the geological storage of CO2. However, we shall also include applications for the oil industry, hydrogeology and nuclear waste disposal.

We invite you to submit a one page abstract for the conference on the topics listed below.

Abstracts should be submitted online or emailed to the conference officer: conferences@ima.org.uk.

Topics to include

  • Faults and fractures, influence of geomechanics
  • Process modelling/pattern formation
  • Quantitative techniques for data collection
  • Geostatistical techniques
  • Uncertainty in modelling heterogeneity
  • Integration and upscaling of data into flow models.

Scientific enquiries should be made to:
Dr Gillian Pickup, Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK. (Email: gillian.pickup@pet.hw.ac.uk.)

General enquiries concerning conference arrangements should be sent to:
Conference Officer (email: conferences@ima.org.uk), The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Catherine Richards House, 16 Nelson Street, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England SS1 1EF. Tel: +44 (0)1702 354020.

Organising Committee

G Pickup, Heriot-Watt University (chair)
P Abrahamsen, Norwegian Computing Centre
J-P Chiles, Mines Paris Tech
B Doligez, IFP
J Gomez-Hernandez, UP Valencia
P King, Imperial College
S Knight, StatoilHydro
T Manzocchi, University College, Dublin
A Muggeridge , Imperial College
C White, Louisiana State
G Williams, BP

Keynote Speakers

Martin Blunt (Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK)
Design of carbon dioxide storage in porous and fractured reservoirs
Abstract: Two approaches for the rapid and effective entrapment of injected CO2 in aquifers and oilfields are proposed. For largely unfractured reservoirs, we discuss CO2 and brine injection followed by chase brine. The combined injection lowers the mobility contrast between the injected and displaced fluids, giving a better penetration (sweep) of the reservoir, while the chase brine rapidly traps the CO2 as a residual phase. The second approach is the use of CO2 injection in giant fractured aquifers. Here the CO2 rapidly channels through the fracture network, presenting a huge surface area to the matrix for dissolution mediated by molecular diffusion through the matrix. This process is governed by a characteristic timescale, typically of order a few days, beyond which dissolution becomes the dominant transport mechanism.

Both injection designs are discussed with the aid of analytical and numerical solutions using representative three-dimensional reservoir models. The limitations in terms of data requirements are discussed and work in progress to address these problems is presented. Specifically, the amount of trapped CO2 as a function of the initial CO2 saturation is very poorly predicted using current models implemented in simulators. Furthermore, the connectivity and extent of the fractures, coupled with the effective diffusion coefficient of CO2 in brine governs storage in fractured domains. An approach to this challenge using a combination of experimental and numerical approaches over several scales, from pore-scale analysis to field trials, is outlined.

Biography:

Education

1985 BA Natural Sciences, Cambridge University (First Class Honours)
1988 PhD, Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University
“The Growth and Properties of Fractal Boundaries”

Employment

1988 – 1992 Research Physicist, BP Research, Sunbury-on-Thames
1992 – 1999 Faculty member, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford
University: Assistant Professor 1992-1995; Associate Professor
1995-1999; sabbatical at Imperial College 1998-1999
1999-2006 Professor of Petroleum Engineering Imperial College London: Head of
the Petroleum Engineering and Rock Mechanics research group (PERM)
1999-2006; Head of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering
2006-date

Honours and Awards

1985 Research Scholarship, Trinity College Cambridge
1985 Clerk Maxwell and ver Heyden de Lancey Prizes, Cambridge University
1991 Tallow Chandlers Prize, BP
1996 Teaching award, School of Earth Sciences, Stanford University
1996 Cedric Ferguson Medal, Society of Petroleum Engineers
2001 Distinguished Lecturer, Society of Petroleum Engineers

Martin Blunt is head of the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. He joined Imperial in June 1999 as a Professor of Petroleum Engineering. Previous to this he was Associate Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Stanford University in California. Before joining Stanford in 1992, he was a research reservoir engineer with BP in Sunbury-on-Thames. He holds MA and PhD (1988) degrees in theoretical physics from Cambridge University.

Professor Blunt’s research interests are in multiphase flow in porous media with applications to oil and gas recovery, contaminant transport and clean-up in polluted aquifers and geological carbon storage. He performs experimental, theoretical and numerical research into many aspects of flow and transport in porous systems, including pore-scale modelling of displacement processes, and large-scale simulation using streamline-based methods. He has written over 100 scientific papers and is on the editorial boards of three international journals.

Philip Ringrose (StatoilHydro Research Centre, Trondheim, Norway)
CO2 Injection and Storage: Geological and Physio-chemical Controls

Biography:
Philip S. Ringrose, is a Specialist in Reservoir Modelling at the StatoilHydro Research Centre, Trondheim, Norway. He currently leads CO2 Storage Operations R&D at StatoilHydro and is Geoscientist on the In Salah CO2 Storage project, Algeria (Jointly operated by BP, Sonatrach and StatoilHydro). He was previously Lead Geologist for the Åsgard Subsea Field Development in Norway and has published widely on geology, reservoir characterisation and flow modelling.

Susan L. Svane Stipp (Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen)
NanoGeoScience in Energy and the Environment: Cleaner Water, More Oil and Taking Out the Garbage
Abstract: Our society is using up resources and producing waste at an alarming rate. We are increasing the concentration of CO2 in the air, which is forcing ocean pH down, making too acidic an environment for corals and many other marine organisms. Safe drinking water is already a problem in many countries and will only become more scarce as population increases and global climate changes. Many scientists are actively working on these problems at all scales, from the social, economic and legal aspects, from the global and regional scientific relationships, and also from the fundamental level, at the molecular scale. That is where my group is active. We use the techniques developed for nanotechnology to investigate the surfaces of natural materials in contact with water, air, oil and gases.

We explore natural systems with the goal of understanding the fundamental physical, chemical and biological processes that control them and then we apply that new knowledge to solve problems of importance to society, such as finding better ways to ensure quality drinking water, safer storage of waste, getting more oil from spent reservoirs and converting CO2 from air back into rock, where it will be stable for millions of years. In all of these natural systems, we are learning more about how organisms make minerals, the processes of biomineralisation. My talk will take you on a voyage to explore the molecular world of common compounds. We will see how calcite, which forms scale in the bottom of the tea kettle and serves as reservoirs for drinking water in southern England and most of Denmark, and for oil in the North Sea, is engineered as shields by one-celled algae. We will see how iron oxides, rust, can sequester toxic contaminants and how volcanic rocks, such as the basaltic sand on the beaches of Iceland, takes CO2 from the air.

Posters

Integrated Reservoir Modeling in Clastic sediments
Mohamed Abaker Abdalla (Sedimentologist, Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company, Development Department Sudan)

Modelling Multiple Scenarios to Assess the Compartmentalisation, or Connectivity, of CO2 Storage Sites: Reservoir Half Empty or Half Full?
Clare Bond (Midland Valley Exploration, Glasgow)

Characterization and geostatistical modeling of the couplet facies – diagenesis in a mixed carbonate-siliciclastic reservoir analog
B. Doligez (IFP – Direction Géologie-Géochimie-Géophysique), Y.Hamon and Y.Backheuser

Advanced High-Resolution m-CT for Petrophysical Modelling with Highly Detailed in-situ Pore Spacings
Matthias Halisch (Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Germany)

Modeling and Simulation Workflow for a Fractured Carbonate CO2 Huff ‘n’ Puff: A Case Study in the Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA
Charles D. Gorecki, Damion J. Knudsen, Steven A. Smith, James A. Sorensen, Edward N. Steadman, and John A. Harju (Energy & Environmental Research Center, University of North Dakota)

Analysis of an Oil-Rim reservoir Model for Prediction of the Gas.Oil Production Ratio
Svenn Halvorsen (Teknova, Norway)

The Pressure Impact of CO2 Storage Operations in Neighboring Sites
Frauke Schaefer (BGR, Germany) and Lena Walter (Stuttgart University)

Field Trip

 

Mike Browne of the British Geological Survey will lead a field trip to look at rocks along the coast to the east of Edinburgh. The focus will be on rocks which could be important for CO2 storage in Scotland: the Upper Devonian sandstones that are of fluvial and to some extent aeolian origins, and the overlying basal Carboniferous mudstones that elsewhere could form the seal to the target saline Upper Devonian aquifer. Suitable clothing and footwear required: the shore whilst mainly sandy, has rocks and boulders in some places.

The coach for the field trip will leave Pollock Halls at 9:30 on the morning of Monday 29 March. The journey to Pease Bay will take approximately one hour, and we shall spend about two hours exploring the outcrops. There is a restaurant at Pease Bay, where participants will be able to purchase lunch.

In the afternoon, there will be a brief stop to look at the limestone outcrops at Barns Ness, before returning to Pollock Halls in the late afternoon.

The cost of the field trip will be £15. This does not include lunch.

Programme

Sunday, 28 March

From 16.00 Registration in St. Leonards Hall (Pollock Halls) for field trip attendees

Monday, 29 March

09.00 – 16.00 Field Trip to Pease Bay, East of Edinburgh
From 17.00 Registration and Welcome Buffet in Abden House (Pollock Halls) for
residential delegates

Tuesday, 30 March

08.00 – 09.00 Registration
09.00 – 09.45 INVITED SPEAKER Susan L. Svane Stipp “NanoGeoScience
in Energy and the Environment: Cleaner Water, More Oil and
Taking Out the Garbage”
09.45 – 10.15 K. Wu “Statistical Characterisation of the Pore Space Based
on 3D Rock Images and Stochastic Pore Network
Construction”
10.15 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 11.30 R. Hihinashvili “Structural characterization of porous and
granular materials”
11.30 – 12.00 L. Jeannin “Modelling hydromechanical behaviour of tight sands”
12.00 – 12.30 Posters talks
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00 Posters
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee
15.30 – 16.00 M. Drews “Modelling spatial permeability distributions in
fine-grained sediments on a meter scale”
16.00 – 16.30 M. Fachri “3D modelling of deformation-band faults using sequential
indicator and object-based simulation techniques”
16.30 – 17.00 O. Severyn “Identification of hydraulic permeability of fractured rock
by numerical models”

Wednesday, 31 March

09.00 – 09.30 C. McDermott “Combining Finite Element and Analytical Approaches
for Two Phase Flow to Investigate the Integrity of Caprocks, Front
tracking supercritical CO2 replacing Brine in a heterogeneous Caprock”
09.30 – 10.00 M. Babaei “Upscaling Reservoir Simulation using Multilevel
Operator Coarsening”
10.00 – 10.30 M. Leahy “Design of a Single-Well Residual Saturation Test for the
CO2CRC Otway Project”
10.15 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 11.30 M. Ahsraf “Impact Of Realistic Geological Models On Simulation Of
CO2 Storage”
11.30 – 12.00 B. Rashid “Quantification of Permeability Heterogeneity to Optimise
Coarse Grid Generation for Flow Simulation”
12.00 – 12.30 A. Cavanagh “High Resolution Heterogeneous Models of CO2
Storage: Limits and Advantages”
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 Time Off
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee
16:30 – 17:00 K. Kurtev “Critical Capillary Entry Pressure Upscaling in
Heterogeneous Mudstones: A Scale-Invariant Stochastic Approach”
17.00 – 17.30 M. Darcis “Modelling CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers: concepts
to approach large-scale problems”
17.30 – 18.15 INVITED SPEAKER Martin Blunt “Design of carbon dioxide storage in
porous and fractured reservoirs”
19.30 Conference Dinner

Thursday, 1 April

09.30 – 10.15 INVITED SPEAKER Philip Ringrose “CO2 Injection and Storage:
Geological and Physio-chemical Controls”
10.15 – 10.45 M. Elenius “Trapping of CO2 in sloping aquifers High resolution
numerical simulations”
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee
11.15 – 11.45 T. Bjornara “Modeling CO2 storage Using Coupled
Reservoir- Geomechanical Analysis”
11.45 – 12.15 J. Ma “Modelling Effective Permeability for Muddy Hemipelagites
and Levees”
12.15 – 12.30 Closing Remarks
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

Conference Fees

IMA Member: £345.00
Non IMA Member: £430.00
Student: £280.00

The field trip will take place on Monday 29 March with talks scheduled for Tuesday 30, Wednesday 31 and Thursday 1 April. The conference will end at lunchtime on Thursday. Please note that there will be a charge for attending the trip which can be paid at the conference. Notification of the cost will be given in advance.

Conference Social Events

  • Welcoming Buffet
  • Conference Dinner
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