H21K:
Addressing Cross-Cutting Subsurface Energy Challenges from Coupled Phenomena to Field Observations I

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Session ID#: 34894

Session Description:
This session provides an opportunity to present experimental and numerical activities that tackle cross-cutting subsurface energy challenges. With cross-cutting challenges, we mean those that are similarly associated with a variety of subsurface energy applications, such as CO2 sequestration, unconventional hydrocarbon extraction, enhanced geothermal systems, nuclear waste disposal, and subsurface energy storage. The behavior of these systems is controlled by coupled processes (thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical-biological) that cannot be viewed in isolation and may span multiple length (nm-km) and temporal (nanosecond-thousands of years) scales. Capturing these multi-scale, multi-physics interplays is challenging both numerically and experimentally. The session provides a forum for researchers to exchange ideas on advancing the state-of-the-art in coupled-processes understanding, from theory and predictive simulation to laboratory and field observations. A particular focus of this session are experimental activities in dedicated subsurface field facilities that allow for focused in situ studies under controlled conditions at well-characterized locations.
Primary Convener:  Jens T Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Pania Newell, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Anastasia Ilgen, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, UNITED STATES and Joseph Morris, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Chairs:  Jens T Birkholzer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Energy Geosciences Division, Berkeley, United States and Pania Newell, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Pania Newell, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
  • S - Seismology
  • T - Tectonophysics
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

1822 Geomechanics [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1858 Rocks: chemical properties [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using Multiscale Modeling to Study Coupled Flow, Transport, Reaction and Biofilm Growth Processes in Porous Media (Invited) (208939)
Albert J Valocchi, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Artin Laleian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Charles J Werth, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
Controls on Permeability Evolution in Fractured-Sorbing Media (Invited) (209809)
Derek Elsworth, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Energy and Mineral Engineering and Geosciences, EMS Energy Institute, G3, University Park, United States
On the Representation of Aquifer Compressibility in General Subsurface Flow Codes: How an Alternate Definition of Aquifer Compressibility Matches Results from the Groundwater Flow Equation (278427)
Daniel Birdsell, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Satish Karra, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States and Harihar Rajaram, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States
Overview and First Results of an In-situ Stimulation Experiment in Switzerland (Invited) (238425)
Florian Amann1, Valentin Gischig2, Joseph Doetsch3, Mohammadreza Jalali4, Benoit Valley5, Keith F Evans4, Hannes Krietsch4, Nathan Dutler6 and Linus Villiger7, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Swiss Seismological Service, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Earth Sciences, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (5)University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, (6)Uni Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland, (7)ETH Zurich, Institute of Geophysics, Zurich, Switzerland
The Importance of Field Demonstration Sites: The View from the Unconventional Resource Region of the Appalachian Basin (Invited) (242523)
Timothy Carr, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Aseismic motions drive a sparse seismicity during fluid injections into a fractured zone in a carbonate reservoir (217554)
Louis De Barros, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, IRD, OCA, Géoazur, Sophia Antipolis, France, Laure Duboeuf, University Côte d'Azur, Geoazur, Sophia Antipolis, France, Frederic Cappa, Université Côte d'Azur, Geoazur, Sophia Antipolis, France, Yves Guglielmi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, United States, Anne Deschamps, Université Côte d’Azur, IRD, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Géoazur, Valbonne, France and Simon Seguy, CEREGE, University Aix Marseille, Marseille, France
Understanding Natural Gas Methane Leakage from Buried Pipelines as Affected by Soil and Atmospheric Conditions – Field Scale Experimental and Modeling Study (240200)
Kathleen M Smits, Southern Methodist University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dallas, TX, United States, Melissa Mitton, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, United States, Ali Moradi, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States and Deepagoda Kelum Chamindu, University of Peradeniya, Civil Engineering, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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