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Simulating the fluid flow along fault zones at different scales is essential for predicting the CO2 leakage and containment during injection and storage. However, this can be challenging, especially in the early stages of a storage project when knowledge of the reservoir and capr ...

Pore-scale analysis of hydrogen-water displacement in sandstones

A comparison of pore-network modelling and flow visualisation experiments

Hydrogen–water displacement in porous rocks involves capillary-dominated multiphase-flow processes at the pore scale that are critical for understanding fluid distribution, trapping, and recovery behaviour. Three-dimensional pore-scale flow visualisation experiments provide direc ...
Underground hydrogen storage in porous formations is a promising solution for large-scale energy storage. Understanding hydrogen flow and trapping at the pore-scale is crucial for assessing storage capacity and recovery efficiency. While pore-scale flow visualisation experiments ...
Geothermal energy has the potential to decarbonize heating, cooling, and power production. However, managing the efficient and sustainable exploitation of geothermal resources is challenging due to the limited data availability, which restricts our ability to characterize and qua ...
Multiscale simulation frameworks are essential to quantify the CO2 trapping and migration in large-scale saline aquifers, which entail highly-resolved fine-scale heterogeneous properties. However, classical upscaling approaches which aim to define effective properties on larger g ...
Net-transgressive, shallow-marine sandstone reservoirs overlain by thick mudstone seals are prime candidates for storage of CO2, H2 and thermal energy. Although these reservoirs have high net-to-gross ratios, analogous outcrops demonstrate a wide range of sedimentological heterog ...

Evaluating large-scale saline aquifers

Unlocking CO 2 storage in the Santos Basin through consistent multiscale analysis

Regional-scale saline aquifers are promising candidates for geological CO2 storage but present significant modeling challenges due to their vast extent, heterogeneity, and limited subsurface data. This study introduces a multiscale modeling framework that was applied to assess CO ...
Efficient geothermal resource development remains challenging due to inherent geological uncertainty and limited subsurface data. A proof-of-concept for a digital twin for a fluvial geothermal reservoir, similar to the Delft campus geothermal project, is presented. This digital t ...
Characterising fractures in geothermal reservoirs is crucial for understanding heat and fluid flow, as fractures control reservoir permeability. Due to data scarcity, estimating fracture network properties remains uncertain. Dynamic data, such as well tests, provides indirect ins ...
Fluvial reservoirs are a major target for geothermal energy production. Interpreting the 3D reservoir architectures from 2D seismic datasets, which usually are acquired for geothermal systems, is difficult. In particular, small-scale geological factors like sandbody connectivity ...

Capillary pinning in sedimentary rocks for CO2 storage

Mechanisms, terminology and State-of-the-Art

Capillary pinning refers to the immobilization of CO₂ at capillary barriers when the uprising CO2 pressure is lower than the capillary entry pressure of the overlaying pore throats. Also known as local capillary trapping, it has been proposed as a fifth geologic CO₂ st ...
The North Sea’s potential as a Green Energy Hub depends on large-scale CO2 storage in shallow-marine sandstones, but the effects of geologic heterogeneity, such as permeability barriers and capillary entry pressure contrasts, remain underexplored. This study uses multiphase flow ...
Achieving climate neutrality requires rapid scale-up of CO2 storage to gigatonne scale. Storage clusters—multiple injection sites sharing regional aquifers—offer economic benefits but introduce new challenges in subsurface pressure management. Elevated reservoir pressures can lea ...

Hydrogen Flow and Trapping in Sandstone Rocks

Comparing Pore-Scale Experiments with Pore Network Modelling

Understanding pore-scale hydrogen displacement and trapping is crucial for developing subsurface hydrogen storage facilities. While pore-scale flow visualization experiments provide critical insights, they are complex and re source-intensive. Quasi-static pore-network models (PNM ...
High technical and economic risks stemming from the lack of detailed knowledge of the subsurface hold back large-scale investments in geothermal energy. In a survey conducted on nine use cases from diverse geological settings across Europe and with different purposes (electricity ...
To enable reliable exploration strategies for geothermal energy that have inherently lower economic and technical risks and hence increase public support, the multi-national, multi-disciplinary, and publicly funded FindHeat project is developing a novel, conceptual model-based ge ...
Understanding effective permeability is crucial for predicting fluid migration and trapping in subsurface reservoirs. The Bunter Sandstone of northwestern Europe hosts major groundwater and geothermal resources and is targeted for CO2 storage projects. Here the effective permeabi ...

From outcrop observations to dynamic simulations

An efficient workflow for generating ensembles of geologically plausible fracture networks and assessing their impact on flow and transport

Fractures are ubiquitous in geological formations and can often have an impact on subsurface applications such as geothermal energy, groundwater management or CO2 storage. Quantifying the relationship between the uncertainties inherent to fracture networks and the corresponding f ...
This study evaluates the geothermal potential in an Area of Interest (AOI) in the southeast of Gran Canaria, focusing on location selection near the rift zone and NW-SE vertical fracture zones.

Via a 3D resistivity model nine conductive bodies were identified in the AOI. ...
Long-term geothermal production is subject to considerable uncertainty due to limited data availability and inherent geological heterogeneity. While observation and data acquisition improve our understanding of the reservoir, they also contribute significantly to project costs. I ...