Annual Review 11th January 2015 Imperial College Consortium on Pore-Scale Modelling Annual Review 11th January 2015 Martin Blunt Department of Earth Science and Engineering Imperial College London

Agenda 9:00am Coffee 9:30am Welcome and introduction, Martin Blunt 9:45am Generalized pore-network modelling, Ali Raeini 10:30am Direct simulation of multiphase flow on pore-space images, Mosayeb Shams 11:00am Imaging, infiltration and water distribution, Lewis Lin 11:30am In situ pore-scale characterization of contact angle, Ahmed Alratrout 12:00 Semi-analytic solutions for spontaneous imbibition, Hasan Nourdeen 12:30 pm Lunch 1:45pm Introduction to reactive transport, Branko Bijeljic 2:00pm Pore-scale simulations of fluid-fluid reactive transport, Zaki Al Nahari 2:30pm Pore-scale simulations of fluid-solid reactive transport, Joao Nunes 3:00pm A general pore-scale reactive transport simulator, Thomas de Oliveira 3:30pm Upscaling reactive transport and propagators, Bagus Muljadi 4:00pm  In situ pore-scale imaging of oil shale recovery, Tarik Saif 4:30pm Discussion and close 6:30pm Dinner: Polish Club  

Reporting and new ideas for 2015 All our publications, theses, reports and presentations are available on our website: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/earthscienceandengineering/research/perm/porescalemodelling Application of reservoir-condition pore-space imaging to measure contact angle, curvature and reaction. Emphasis on reactive transport imaging and modelling: pore-by-pore comparison of experiment and simulation. Combining direct simulation methods into upscaled generalized network models. Billion plus cell simulation now routine.

Personnel and projects Current group: Martin Blunt, Professor of Petroleum Engineering – overall supervision and fundamental studies of three-phase flow. Branko Bijeljic, Senior Research Fellow – dispersion and reactive transport in porous media. Ali Raeini – Post-doctoral researcher – multiphase flow on pore-space images.  Bagus Muljadi – Post-doctoral researcher – non-Darcy flows and upscaling.  Lewis Lin – Post-doctoral researcher – pore-scale imaging of water invasion.  Zaki Al-Hashmi – 4th year PhD student – reactive transport.  João Paulo Nunes – 3rd year PhD student – reactive transport and multiphase flow. Tarik Saif – 3rd year PhD student – studies of oil shale. Yousef Al-Khulaifi – 2nd year PhD student – pore-scale imaging of reactive transport. Hassan Nourdeen – 2nd year PhD student – upscaling relative permeability. Ahmed Alratrout – 2nd year PhD student – measurement and modelling of contact angle. Mosayeb Shams – 1st year PhD student – direct multiphase simulation. Thomas de Oliveira – 1st year PhD student – reactive transport modelling. Amer Alhammadi – 1st year PhD student – in situ imaging of contact angle. Plus interaction with the Qatar programme (Kamal Singh, Hannah Menke, Yousef Al-Khalaifi, Ying Gao etc).

Challenges for 2016 Applications of pore-scale imaging. Can we make this a routine tool for reservoir management? How to use pore-scale information. Validation of a generalized pore-scale modelling and upscaling. View a network model as a generic upscaling tool, using direct simulation or experiment to assign effective properties. Validate against data at different scales. Extensions to more complex reactive transport. How to go beyond particle-based methods, or simple reactions to combine geochemistry and pore-scale transport.

Many thanks