Research

We investigate the physics, chemistry, and techno-economics of CO2 storage underground

Our research includes exploring fundamental pore scale fluid dynamics, developing digital rocks analysis techniques, increasing the accuracy of field scale reservoir simulation, and evaluating the feasibility of scaling up CO2 storage to climate relevant scales.

Our Research Projects

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StrataTrapper Advanced Modelling of CO2 Migration and Trapping

THMC4CCS: ThorougH experiMental and numerical investigation of Coupled processes for geologiC Carbon ‎Storage

Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellowship

ExpReCCS: Expansion of ResourCes for CO2 Storage on the Horda Platform

inFUSE Prosperity Partnership

Shell Digital Rocks Laboratory

Citation

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@article{Spurin:2023:10.1029/2023GL104473,
author = {Spurin, C and Roberts, GG and O'Malley, CPB and Kurotori, T and Krevor, S and Blunt, MJ and Tchelepi, H},
doi = {10.1029/2023GL104473},
journal = {Geophysical Research Letters},
title = {Pore-scale fluid dynamics resolved in pressure fluctuations at the Darcy scale},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104473},
volume = {50},
year = {2023}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Complex pore-scale dynamics have been observed during multiphase flow through porous rocks. These dynamics are not incorporated in large scale models for the migration and trapping of subsurface fluids such as CO2 or hydrogen. We show that fluctuations in pressure measured at the core-scale (centimeters) can reflect fluid displacements at the pore-scale (millimeters). The spectral characteristics of pressure data are shown to depend on the flow dynamics, the size of the rock sample, and the heterogeneity of the pore space. These results show that pressure data, transformed into the time-frequency domain using wavelets, provides information about flow dynamics, across scales, that are otherwise challenging to acquire.
AU  - Spurin,C
AU  - Roberts,GG
AU  - O'Malley,CPB
AU  - Kurotori,T
AU  - Krevor,S
AU  - Blunt,MJ
AU  - Tchelepi,H
DO  - 10.1029/2023GL104473
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 0094-8276
TI  - Pore-scale fluid dynamics resolved in pressure fluctuations at the Darcy scale
T2  - Geophysical Research Letters
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2023GL104473
UR  - https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:001066651600001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=a2bf6146997ec60c407a63945d4e92bb
UR  - https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL104473
VL  - 50
ER  -
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