BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//talks.cam.ac.uk//v3//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centr e: Status update after three years of fundamental research SUMMARY:Imperial College London - Qatar Carbonates and Car bon Storage Research Centre: Status update after t hree years of fundamental research - Dr. Iain Macd onald\, Dr. Geoff Maitland DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130221T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130221T193000 UID:TALK43595AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/43595 DESCRIPTION:There are still specific areas where our knowledge of carbon storage is in need of improvement\, par ticularly in carbonate reservoirs\, since currentl y we extrapolate data from limited sources or and the predictive modelling technologies currently em ployed have a level of uncertainty that needs to b e addressed. We will highlight our efforts through the Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre (a $70 million\, 10 year research programme with currently over 20 PhD students and 8 Post-Do ctoral researchers along with seventeen faculty me mbers) to investigate the underlying science and e ngineering concerning carbonate reservoir characte risation\, rock-fluid-CO2 interactions and multiph ase flow experiments under reservoir conditions li nked to complimentary simulation and modelling adv ances\, including the rapidly developing field of digital rocks.\n \nThis has involved developing un ique HTHP experimental rigs and pioneering new mod elling techniques\, enhancing the toolbox availabl e to engineers and geo-scientists to select suitab le reservoirs and optimally design CO2 storage pro cesses. These capabilities extend over molecular-p ore-core-field scales. We have four focused resear ch laboratories (Qatar Stable Isotope Lab\; Qatar Thermophysical Property Lab\; Qatar Complex Fluids Lab\; Qatar CCS Multiscale Imaging Lab) that were officially opened in September 2012.\n \nWe will discuss the highlights of major research findings to date in the context of carbon storage in the Mi ddle East. These include findings from the researc h have helped broaden and deepen our understanding of carbonate reservoirs relevant to CCS in Qatar. On a fundamental level\, we have determined the signature of transport in complex carbonates combi ning imaging and pore-space modelling\, found rul es for rock pore filling during imbibition through the use of a novel reservoir-condition micromodel rig complimented by modelling\, established a com prehensive understanding and predictive capability of CO2 – brine density and interfacial tension an d acquired the first images of super-critical CO2- brine-carbonate capillary trapping\, combined with the first use of a confocal laser scanning micros cope to analyse reservoir rocks. At the field sca le\, we have the first results of an innovative ap proach to reservoir simulation\, combining geologi cally-controlled reservoir description with a new adaptive mesh flow code.\n \nTechnology and knowle dge transfer from London to Qatar is another major challenge to be overcome in the near future as th e balance of research shifts from London to Doha.\ n\nAbout the speakers:\n\nDr. Iain Macdonald is a Marine Scientist and has a BSc\, MSc and PhD from UK Universities. He has been a commercial diver\, environmental engineer\, and research scientist. A fter completing his PhD on carbonate reef accretio n he spent nearly 6 years with the LNG industry in Qatar and two projects he managed won local (Qata r Today Green Awards\, 2008) and regional (RESCO O ffshore Arabia\, 2009) environmental awards. He jo ined Imperial College London in 2009 as the Qatar Carbonates and Carbon Storage Research Centre Prog ramme Manager to manage their biggest industry spo nsored research programme.\n\nDr. Geoff Maitland i s a Physical Chemist who was a student in Oxford ( as an undergraduate and DPhil research student 196 5-72)\, had an academic career in Bristol (as an I CI Postdoctoral Fellow) and at Imperial College (a s Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering ) and for the last 20 years has worked in the oil and gas industry with Schlumberger. The common th read running through his research interests over t he years has been the links between interactions a t the molecular/colloidal level and the bulk prope rties of materials. This started with simple mole cular fluids but moved on to polymer dynamics\, rh eology and reactors at Imperial College. On joini ng Schlumberger in 1986\, he initiated research on characterising and understanding the flow of dril ling fluids and other complex oilfield materials. Between 1988 and 2005 he has held several researc h director roles in the areas of fluid physics\, c hemistry and process engineering. His research in terests included rock-fluid interactions\, chemica l characterisation of multicomponent fluids\, the development of new hydrocarbon recovery processes and the application of biological processes to oil recovery. He sits on a number of EPSRC and DTI c ommittees\, has held several visiting chairs at UK universities and has spent much of his time stimu lating and engaging in oilfield-related research w ith university and industrial collaborators. He m oved to a Chair of Energy Engineering at Imperial College in September 2005. Since 2009 he has also been the Director of the Qatar Carbonates and Carb on Storage Research Centre.\n\n** This event is in collaboration with CU Arabsoc LOCATION:LR5\, Baker Building\, Engineering Department - Tr umpington Street CONTACT:G. Ibrahim END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR