Workshop 11
How numerical modelling in earth sciences should evolve to address new usages of subsurface (CO2 sequestration, H2 storage, geothermal…) Monday, June 2nd |
Convenors
- Sabine Delahaye (TotalEnergies)
- Jean-Louis Lesueur (TotalEnergies)
Description
Simulation tools and numerical subsurface models have been used for decades in the oil and gas industry or any other industrial activity and all along the life-cycle of a project, from exploration to operation phases and site abandonment. Today the emergence of new activities dealing with fluids production (hydrothermal waters, non-hydrocarbon gases like helium or hydrogen), heat recovery, fluids storage or sequestration (hydrogen, CO2), ground-waters management, require adapting modeling tools and methods jointly for multi-scale and multi-processes solutions with the development of fit-to-purpose calibrations.
During this workshop, the key focus will be on:
– New workflows, tools and methodology put in place
– Identification of geological processes concerned (fluid-rock interactions, microbial activity…)
– Type of calibrations (well-logs, fluids or rocks sampling, geophysics…)
– Vision for tools/methods improvement
Presentations of on-going scientific works and description of application cases are welcome.
Participant Profile
The topics addressed during the workshop may be of interest for geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers dealing with either forward modelling at different scales (from basin to reservoir scale) or more focused reservoir simulations.
Workshop Programme
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Introduction: Sabine Delahaye - Jean-Louis Lesueur |
| 09:10 | Numerical simulation at regional and geological time scales to support new uses of the subsurface, Marie-Christine CACAS-STENTZ - (Process: Multi-physics, Scale: Basin & Reservoir) |
| 09:30 | Reservoir modelling for the energy transition, Sebastian GEIGER - (Process: Multi-physics, Scale: Reservoir) |
| 09:50 | Atelier: Modelling old energy vs new energy – what can we keep, what do we need to invent? |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 | Learning about CO2 flow physics from seismic data: Insights from Sleipner, Philip RINGROSE - (Process: Flow physics, Scale: Reservoir) |
| 11:00 | Numerical modeling of fault reactivation in energy production and storage, Manolis VEVEAKIS - (Process: Transport & Geomechanics, Scale: Small) |
| 11:20 | Atelier: new generation numerical models for non-separable coupled multiscale processes in energy applications. |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 | Investigating intra-salt deformation for underground hydrogen storage: from sandbox models to numerical simulations, Naïm CELINI - (Process: Tectonics, Scale: Basin) |
| 13:50 | How fluid-mediated rock transformations can mimic hydro-fracturing patterns in hydrothermal dolomite, Stephen Centrella - (Process: Reactive transport, Scale: Small Core) |
| 14:10 | Predicting Subsurface Geology through Numerical Simulations, Gérard MASSONNAT - (Process: Multi-physics, Scale: Basin) |
| 14:30 | Atelier: Physics-informed ML/AI for simulating & modelling earth-based new energies |
| 15:10 | Closure Debriefing - Sabine Delahaye - Jean-Louis Lesueur |
