PESA WA February 13th Evening Talk: New Tricks for Old Dogs: Modelling for the Energy Transition

PESA WA invites you to a technical Evening Event Thursday 13th February.

New Tricks for Old Dogs: Modelling for the Energy Transition

Presented by Mark Bentley (Langdale Geoscience)

So, the plan is to store CO₂ …

If we’re involved in making reservoir and simulation models for oil and gas production, what do we have to do differently now for the world of storage?  On the face of it, these are just gas disposal schemes (simple).  On closer inspection, it’s not quite like that, and it turns out it’s much more interesting (harder).

This short talk looks at some areas of change and the aspects we need to get right if our forecasts are to be meaningful at all.  There’s a clear shift from sedimentary to more structural themes (which we have to be much better at), a replacement of familiar concepts such as in-place resource volumes and recovery factor to less familiar ideas of storativity and storage efficiency and a rethink of the importance of heterogeneity in the face of different fluids and in a non-isothermal world.

The scales we model at will need to be different, and so will the timescales.  There’s also the over-arching issue that best solutions are likely to lie in aquifers, yet most projects on the drawing board are for depleted gas fields. Some technical reservoir issues are clearly less important than they were during production, but others are more critical in areas where our supporting data is limited.

Not really prosecco – more like olive oil.

Timings for the event:

Date: Thursday 13st February 2025

Venue: The Shoe Bar, Yaga Square, Perth

Time: 6pm – 8pm (Perth time)