We are delighted to share the news that our Raffaella Ocone has been elected as the 84th President of IChemE (the Institute of Chemical Engineering in the UK). She becomes only the fourth woman to hold this prestigious position.
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We have a new paper joint with British Geological Survey and Heriot-Watt IGE in The Geological Society 'Geoenergy'. The study is led by PhD student Doug Smith, studying the impact of reservoir heterogeneities (e.g. deformation bands) on underground #hydrogen storage.
lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.11…

Lyell Centre

Congratulations to Zaid and his supervisory team Kamaljit Singh, Andreas Busch 🇪🇺 and Prof Sebastian Geiger!

Lyell Centre Heriot-Watt IGE Tidal dune deposits from the Eocene, 40 million years ago Florian Doster

We have an excellent PhD position available on the modelling of CO2 storage in depleted gas reservoirs with Florian Doster, Hariharan Ramachandran and Gang Wang. See the details below.

Congratulations to our SPE Student Chapter for big wins at annual SPE-Europe 2024 contests:
3rd place at Petrobowl and qualified for the finals at ATCE; 1st and 2nd places among PhD papers; 2nd place among MSc papers.
We thank Adrian Todd fund, SPE-Aberdeen and HWU student union.

📢New EarthArXiv preprint with Hariharan Ramachandran Uisdean Nicholson Prof Sebastian Geiger Ana Widyanita Florian Doster

Storage Efficiency and Reduced Complexity Modelling
👉doi.org/10.31223/X56X2B

CO2 storage modelling best practices for efficient screening
PACESET Heriot-Watt IGE Heriot-Watt University

Excellent work from our researchers on an important energy transition topic!
Great synergies among HWU teams, Prof Sebastian Geiger and PProGRess UGent
Zaid Andreas Busch 🇪🇺 Kamaljit Singh
#EnergyTransition #hydrogen #UHS

Yesterday our Mature Field Management students hosted an invited talk by Faisal Al-Nakeeb (linkedin.com/in/faisal-al-n…), a Sr. Well Integrity Engineer at Sharjah National Oil Corporation, about Well Integrity aspects of well surface equipment and well barriers. Thank you Faisal!

A great opportunity for researchers working on CCS. Deadline extended to Jan 29th.

📢New #OpenAccess research paper in The Geological Society GeoEnergy

A detailed study of the petrophysical properties of the Bunter Sandstone: the primary CCS reservoir in the Southern North Sea

Heriot-Watt IGE

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Nick Harpers for successfully defending his #PhD thesis today! Nick did an amazing experimental study on fracture flow and frictional properties of granites of different alterations. Very relevant work for asessing deep #geothermal #energy 🎉

Congratulations to PACESET Heriot-Watt IGE PETRONAS Heriot-Watt University for being among the finalists IChemE
Fingers crossed for the final race 🏅🤞
⁦Imperial College London⁩ ⁦Queen's University Belfast 🎓⁩ ⁦The University of Manchester⁩ linkedin.com/posts/raffaell…

Are you involved in intelligent well/field technology or inflow control/monitoring studies?
Consider contributing a paper to this Special Issue (mdpi.com/journal/proces…) edited by our colleagues!
The manuscript submission deadline is 20 March 2024.

🚨 New #OpenAccess paper with Hannah Menke and Julien Maes from Heriot-Watt IGE, discussing a new type of dissolution in porous media with significant impact for many #geoenergy applications go.nature.com/3Og07Hi

Congratulations on your retirement Prof. Steven McDougall. Best wishes on your new adventure!