Skills and Expertise

Skills and expertise established in subsurface and geo-fluid investigations:

• Experimental PVT studies of CO2 with varying hydrocarbons
• Hydrates and clathrates in porous media (and pipes)
• Seismic processing and interpretation
• Novel seismic survey acquisition and processing
• Micro-seismicity in real-time to determine fluid migration
• Rock physics experiments of mudrock seal deformation and re-seal
• Petrographic investigation of CO2-brine and rock interaction
• Fluid migration tracing by natural isotopes and artificial tracers
• Geochemical interaction simulation of CO2-brine-hydrocarbon
• Fluid migration modelling through overburden
• Fluid migration modelling in aquifers
• Natural analogue studies to determine durability and processes
• Mudrock seal petrology, and permeability modelling
• Integration with UK energy research networks: renewables, fossil, nuclear
• Regional assessment of aquifers, structures and seals

We also have good links to terrestrial ecologists, for bio-fuels and bio carbon storage, and to power engineers, social science and economics researchers as required. We are closely involved in other UK networks via UKERC, CO2net, and the research council TSEC programme. More information on some of these programmes, and on Carbon Capture and Storage, can be found at the UK CCS Consortium site. We are also leaders of the UK Energy Research Centre theme of Carbon Management, which includes a substantial component of geological storage, placed in the context of other Future Sources of Energy options for the UK fuel and power mix into the medium future.