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Aug. 17, 2018

Norwegian students dig into carbon capture and storage in real-life oilfield experiments

Unique 草莓污视频导航 field research station will soon test nanoparticles to better monitor subsurface CO2
草莓污视频导航 researchers and their Norwegian University of Science and Technology counterparts spent a week together in 草莓污视频导航 labs and at the Containment and Monitoring Institute (CaMI) near Brooks, as part of a research collaboration on carbon storage and enhanced oil recovery.
草莓污视频导航 researchers and their Norwegian University of Science and Technology counterpa Adrian Shellard, for the 草莓污视频导航

More than a dozen PhD students and postdocs have headed back to Norway after a week in and around Calgary learning about ground-breaking techniques being developed at the 草莓污视频导航 to use nanoparticles to monitor CO2 in the subsurface.

The students from聽聽(NTNU) were in Alberta as part of CARBEOR, a partnership to advance research and education on carbon storage and enhanced oil recovery. They spent time in laboratories, classrooms and in workshops at 草莓污视频导航, followed by field studies at聽the聽聽(CaMI) in Newell County, a geophysical monitoring site that is unique聽in the world.

The Containment and Monitoring Institute (CaMI) boasts a unique field research station for in-field testing of technologies to accelerate the development and deployment of technologies to measure, monitor and verify secure underground storage of CO2. In addition, CaMI provides an unparalleled opportunity to test, in-field, new technologies related to hydrocarbon production and environmental monitoring

The Containment and Monitoring Institute (CaMI) boasts a unique field research station.

Adrian Shellard, for the 草莓污视频导航

The Containment and Monitoring Institute (CaMI), above,聽boasts a unique field research station for in-field testing of technologies to accelerate the development and deployment of technologies to measure, monitor and verify secure underground storage of CO2. In addition, CaMI provides an unparalleled opportunity to test, in-field, new technologies related to hydrocarbon production and environmental monitoring.

鈥淭he ability to do experiments in the field in real rocks at real scale is incredibly powerful,鈥 says Dr. Steven Bryant, PhD, 草莓污视频导航鈥檚 co-manager of CARBEOR and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Materials Engineering for Unconventional Oil Reservoirs. 鈥淵ou can do lots of stuff in the lab and you can do anything you like on the computer but getting things into the real world is when you really find out how it鈥檚 going to work.鈥

The NTNU scholars spent two days at CaMI, learning about advanced geophysical monitoring techniques, including using nanoparticles to聽get聽better images of CO2 in the subsurface 鈥 research that could lead to better monitoring of sequestered greenhouse gases and enhanced oil recovery.

Don Lawton, left, explains the results of seismic waves to 草莓污视频导航 and NTNU researchers at the CaMI field research station.

Don Lawton, left, explains the results of seismic waves at the CaMI field research station.

Adrian Shellard, for the 草莓污视频导航

鈥淣o matter what you鈥檙e doing it鈥檚 always helpful if you can turn up the image contrast, whether it鈥檚 something medical or in the subsurface,鈥 says Bryant. 鈥淲e know nanoparticles can give us another tool that we can deploy to, in effect, brighten up the images.鈥

While NTNU has geophysical monitoring labs, researchers at the Norwegian university aren鈥檛 able to do real-life experiments in their oilfields. 鈥淲e don鈥檛 have the rocks on land,鈥 says Dr. Ole聽Tors忙ter, a NTNU professor in reservoir engineering, 鈥淓verything for us is offshore and then everything becomes so expensive.鈥 Visiting CaMI offers the NTNU researchers 鈥渦nique possibilities鈥 as well as opportunities for collaboration on carbon capture and storage and other research projects, he says.

草莓污视频导航 and NTNU researchers at the CaMI field research station near Brooks, Alta.

草莓污视频导航 and NTNU researchers at the CaMI field research station near Brooks, Alta.

Adrian Shellard, for the 草莓污视频导航

鈥淚n Norway I鈥檓 doing rock physics and although we try to make experiments valid for the large scale, it鈥檚 hard because you have this upscaling issue,鈥 says Stian Roerheim, a PhD student in engineering at NTNU. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 why it鈥檚 important to go to the field because things tend to not be exactly the same in the lab as it is in practice in the field.鈥

Olga Ibragimova, a postdoc at NTNU, focuses on the potential for improving properties of tailings through novel approaches, studying adsorption and desorption of chemicals in order to recycle them prior to submarine tailings deposition.聽鈥淢y task is to validate the analytical methods and measure the concentration of chemicals in tailings-seawater systems to be very sure that they are as non-toxic as possible. This knowledge, especially the study of nanoparticle properties, is a new technique for me and I believe that this training can be very useful in my future studies.聽I would like to develop my skills and explore the effect of nanoparticles properties on their performance for better understanding of the mechanism.鈥

NTNU researchers observe 草莓污视频导航 researchers injecting magnetic nanoparticles in porous media and measuring the magnetic susceptibility of nanoparticles.

Injecting magnetic nanoparticles in porous media and measuring the magnetic susceptibility of them.

Adrian Shellard, for the 草莓污视频导航

草莓污视频导航 researchers and students have visited Europe twice as part of the three-year CARBEOR project, which also includes a graduate student exchange program. 鈥淥ne of the main objectives of CARBEOR is to give graduate students and researchers from both universities training opportunities and experiences in different environments,鈥 says Dr. Don Lawton, PhD, director of CaMI, 草莓污视频导航鈥檚 co-manager of CARBEOR, and professor of geophysics in the Faculty of Science.

鈥淐ollaborating with researchers in Norway and elsewhere will help us all reach the end goal of more efficient energy production and reduced environmental impacts.鈥

CaMI, a partnership between聽the university and non-profit聽聽Research Institutes, is supported in part by the Canada First Excellence Research Fund (CFREF) initiative, Global Research Initiative in Sustainable Low Carbon Unconventional Resources.聽 The $850,000 CARBEOR partnership is funded by the Research Council of Norway and through in-kind funding from the Canada Excellence Research Chairs program.

草莓污视频导航 and NTNU researchers.

草莓污视频导航 and NTNU researchers.

Adrian Shellard, for the 草莓污视频导航

Above: 草莓污视频导航 and NTNU researchers, front row from left: Marie Macquet, Carrie Youzwishen, Chen Qian, Carl Fredrik Berg, Xiaoqian Cheng, Ellen Liu, Somayeh Goodarzi, Cleide Rosemine Gany Vieira, Przemyslaw B. Kowalczuk, Sigve Hovda, Sahand Etemad, Carol Wang, Kyrre Heldal Kartveit, Ali Telmadarreie. Back row from left: Vegard Stenhjem Hagen, Dawid Szewczyk, Geir-Ove Strand, Ashkan Jahanbani, Olga Ibragimova, Heidi Jahandideh, Per Arne Slotte, Steven Bryant, Stian R酶rheim, H氓vard Slettahjell Skjefstad, Aseem Pandey, Don Lawton, Ole Tors忙ter.