Webinar: GeoH2 – Why Geology and Reservoir Engineering Matter for Hydrogen Storage Part 1 by Elsevier

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GeoH2 – Why Geology and Reservoir Engineering Matter for Hydrogen Storage Part 1

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As more and more engineering companies focus on net zero goals, hydrogen is often touted as a key mechanism to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. But moving away from coal and natural gas will require new thinking about hydrogen production – and a deeper understanding of the economic and geological issues involved in underground storage and monitoring.
Please join us for the first segment with the Bureau of Economic Geology and University of Texas at Austin, when we’ll hear from a range of experts on different approaches to hydrogen storage and monitoring in our Net Zero webinar series.
In the first segment,
• Drs. J.P. Nicot and Peter Eichhubl will discuss the geological storage of hydrogen in porous-media reservoirs such as depleted oil fields or saline aquifers.
• Dr Lorena Moscardelli will cover geological storage in salt caverns.
• Dr Shuvajit Bhattacharya will address geophysical monitoring approaches, which are crucial to the containment of hydrogen in the reservoir and the migration of the hydrogen plume.
The continued deployment of alternative power sources, such as variable wind and solar, will involve large-scale seasonal energy storage, with hydrogen generation and underground storage one of the most viable solutions.

The second segment will be on Thursday, Oct 27 at 10:30 AM EST for a discussion on the most important factors in various methods of hydrogen storage, generation and mixing.

Register for Part 2 October 27th

Presenters

Mark Schuster

Deputy Director (Research) at the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin

Mark has been at the Bureau since 2016 after a 30-year career at Shell in Exploration, and Exploration Research as a Geologist, Manager, Vice President, and Executive Vice President. He holds a Ph.D. degree (1986) from The University of Wyoming and a B.S. from The University of the Pacific.

J.-P. Nicot

Senior Research Scientist at The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology (Jackson School of Geosciences)

He has served as a geosystems engineer at Duke Engineering and, earlier, as an exploration geologist. Dr. Nicot’s general interests center on fluid behavior in natural and engineered systems in areas such as water resources, hydraulic fracturing, waste disposal, carbon storage, and subsurface hydrogen storage. He holds a BS in Geological Engineering from France (1981) and a MA in Geological Sciences (1995) and PhD in Civil Engineering (1998), both from The University of Texas at Austin.

Peter Eichhubl

Senior Research Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin

He has also served as Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and Research Associate at Stanford University. He holds a PhD in Geology (1997) from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a MS in Geology (1989) from the University of Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the Geological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, Geological Society London, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Lorena Moscardelli

Research Scientist and leader of the State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery (STARR) program at BEG

. She received a degree in Geological Engineering from Central University of Venezuela and a PhD in Geological Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin. She started her career as an exploration geologist working for PDVSA. Prior to her current position at STARR, Dr. Moscardelli was a Principal Researcher at Equinor where she performed a wide range of activities from research in the Americas to field development in the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Most recently, Dr. Moscardelli has taken a strong interest in understanding the role of geoscience research as part of the ongoing energy transition while contributing to STARR’s main mission of conducting geologic research resulting in the increase of production and profitability of energy resources in the State of Texas.

Shuvajit Bhattacharya

Research Associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin

His main expertise is in petrophysics, quantitative seismic interpretation, and machine learning in geosciences. He is currently involved in many research projects on oil and gas, geothermal energy exploration, carbon, and hydrogen storage in the subsurface. He has also served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage and a research scientist at Battelle. He has completed a Ph.D. in Geology focusing on petrophysics and machine learning from West Virginia University and an M.Sc. in Applied Geophysics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He is the recipient of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists 2022 J. Clarence Karcher Award. He is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and Society of Petrophysicists & Well Log Analysts.

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