Workshop 16
Hydrogen in the Sub-Surface: Unlocking Potential in Storage, Exploration, and Process Understanding Friday, June 6th |
Convenors
- Benjamin Emmel (SINTEF)
Nicolas Barbosa (SINTEF)
Description
Hydrogen will play a crucial role in Europe’s energy transition towards a carbon-neutral society. The subsurface offers relatively safe and cost-effective options for storing hydrogen, supporting future energy hubs with enhanced energy security. Additionally, recent findings show that naturally produced hydrogen accumulations in the subsurface are a promising cheap/green resource for the hydrogen economy.
This workshop explores advancements in subsurface hydrogen storage and natural hydrogen exploration. Experts will discuss the potential for geological storage in salt caverns, lined rock caverns, depleted oil and gas reservoirs, and aquifers. We welcome contributions at various scales, from laboratory studies focused on geochemical interactions observed in exposure or core flooding experiments to microbial studies under different pressure-temperature conditions and their corresponding effect on the petrophysical and geophysical properties, as well as large-scale case studies investigating future hydrogen production and storage networks.
Innovative methodologies for hydrogen exploration and monitoring will be presented, along with new findings on the natural generation and trapping of hydrogen.
Sub-Topics that will be covered in the workshop:
- Laboratory experimental set-up for hydrogen rock interaction
- Geophysical inversion methods to detect hydrogen-saturated rocks
- Case studies focusing on storage or exploration
Participant Profile
- Industry active in exploration
- Industry interested in energy storage
- Academia with fundamental research related to hydrogen interaction with rocks
- Start-up companies in the field of hydrogen storage
- Governmental organization
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Workshop Programme
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| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Session 1 - Introduction & Background (chairs: Thomas Elboth & Enrico Zamboni). | |
| 08:30 | Welcome |
| 08:35 | Introduction to Marine Vibrators – Peter Hanssen (Equinor) |
| 08:50 | History of Marine Vibrators – Rune Tenghamn (Akitemos Solutions) |
| 09:05 | Biological impact of continuous seismic sound sources: knowledge and challenges – Jürgen Weissenberger (Equinor) |
| 09:25 | Commercial application of a marine vibrator in the Alaskan Cook Inlet - Ryan Szescila (SAExploration) |
| 09:45 | Session 1 Panel Discussion (all) |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break |
| . | Session 2 - Equipment & Test Results (chairs: Rune Tenghamn & Peter Hanssen) |
| 10:30 | Elements of an autonomously operated marine vibrator source trial – Ted Manning (BP) |
| 10:45 | The APS Marine Vibrator Technical Overview – Daniel Roy (APS) |
| 11:00 | The Integrated Projector Node Marine Vibrator Pilot Test– Enrico Zamboni (TotalEnergies) |
| 11:15 | Acquisition and processing of the first broadband 3D marine vibrator data acquired in the North Sea – Arash Jafargandomi (Shearwater) |
| 11:35 | QC of a Marine Vibrator – Thomas Elboth (Shearwater) |
| 11:45 | Session 2 Panel Discussion (all) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| Session 3 - Modelling & Processing (chairs: Enrico Zamboni & Rune Tenghamn). | |
| 13:30 | Modelling marine vibrator data in the presence of a time-varying free surface – Khalid Almuteri (Saudi Aramco) |
| 13:45 | Navigating seismic processing challenges for marine vibrator – Gordon Poole (CGG) |
| 14:05 | A generalization of a source motion correction– Aline Robin (TotalEnergies) |
| 14:20 | Interpolation of missing frequencies – Thomas Elboth (Shearwater) |
| 14:35 | Summary and the way forward – Peter Hanssen (Equinor) |
| 14:45 | Session 3 Panel Discussion (all) |
| 15:00 | Workshop Ends |
