Webinar: GeoH2 – Why Geology and Reservoir Engineering Matter for Hydrogen Storage Part 2 by Elsevier

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GeoH2 – Why Geology and Reservoir Engineering Matter for Hydrogen Storage Part 2

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The second discussion is on the most important factors in various methods of hydrogen storage, generation and mixing.
• Dr Mojdeh Delshad will begin with a breakdown of porous-media reservoir simulations, which provide critical insights to optimize selection, testing, and development of sites in depleted fields or saline aquifers.
• Dr Ian Duncan will discuss how in situ generation of hydrogen from oil fields with carbon capture and storage could provide a low-cost way to repurpose those fields.
• As storage will likely not take place in a reservoir initially containing hydrogen, Dr Larry Lake will cover hydrogen gas mixing, which is crucial to understand during injection and production cycles.

Large-scale, low-carbon intensity energy systems that make use of hydrogen value chains will require geological storage, so this is an important topic to address on the path to net zero.

Please join us to learn more about the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for this exciting, evolving sector, and how they could affect your business on its journey to net zero. Save your seat today!

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.

Mojdeh Delshad

Research Professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin

She served as the Vice President (2013-2014) and the President/CEO (2015-2019) of Ultimate EOR Services LLC. She was the assistant director for the Department of Energy-funded Center of Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security (CFSES) from 2009-2014.
Mojdeh holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University in Iran and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. She has over 35 years of experience in modeling multiphase flow, design of subsurface contaminant transport and remediation, simulation of enhanced oil recovery floods, and modeling CO2 and H2 storage projects. She has 90 journal publications and 140 paper proceedings. She received The SPE Distinguished Member Award in 2014.

Her current research focus is on mechanistic understanding and modeling key mechanisms for CO2 and hydrogen storage in deep saline aquifers and depleted oil and gas reservoirs, Modeling multiphase reactive transport (geochemical and biological reactions), Numerical simulator development and applications to CO2 sequestration and H2 cyclic injection for both lab and field scales, and design and analysis of tracer tests.

Ian Duncan

Program Director at BEG

Program Director at BEG where he works with research teams to solve problems in energy production and associated risk. His current research focuses on the scientific, environmental and public policy aspects of CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage) based on CO2-EOR (enhanced oil recovery using CO2). He has been involved in research into most aspects of CCUS. He is also using machine learning to quantify reaction kinetics to evaluate oil gas reactions. He has a particular interest in high pressure-temperature liquid gas and gas-gas reactions based on analysis of thermodynamics and reaction kinetics. CO2-EOR, and energy production. He also is interested gas storage and the generation of hydrogen. He has given testimony to the US Congress on three occasions. He has sat on seven national boards and chaired two.

Larry Lake

Professor, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin

Larry W. Lake is a professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he holds the Shahid and Sharon Ullah Chair. He holds BSE and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University and Rice University, respectively. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 technical papers, four textbooks and the editor of three bound volumes. Dr. Lake has served on the Board of Directors for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), won the 1996 Anthony F. Lucas Gold Medal of the AIME, the Degoyer Distinguished Service Award in 2002, and has been a member of the US National Academy of Engineers since 1997. He won the SPE/DOE IOR Pioneer Award in 2000.

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