Reservoir exploration, exploitation and monitoring

This field of research includes exploration, exploitation and monitoring of reservoirs. Therefore it is the cross-cutting issue for the three geo-scientific core issues in the GeoEn project: CO₂ storage, shale gas and geothermal energy. The work packages attend to a wide spectrum of time scales from geological periods to the examination of changes in the reservoirs while in use. In the same way the considered special scales reach from the analysis of sedimentary basins to microscopic examinations of rock and fluid samples. The results of those investigations contribute to the better understanding of reservoir types and the processes which take place within those reservoirs. Used methods for that purpose are: basin analysis, analysis of controlling factors of shale gas formation, the determination of thermo-dynamical, hydraulic, biological, chemical and kinetic reservoir characteristics, the geophysical reservoir exploration, several monitoring methods and examinations of the geomechanics and well stability.
 

The research field "exploration, exploitation and monitoring" is divided into the work packages:

Basin analysis

• Basin analysis: UP, M. Mutti

Reservoir characterization

• Sedimentology and diagenesis of potential gas shales: GFZ, H.-M. Schulz
• Characterization and gas formation ability of the organic materials of potential gas shales: GFZ, B. Horsfield
• Impact of the shale gas production on the environment: GFZ, B. Horsfield
• Geomechanics/Well stability: UP/GFZ, G. Dresen

Geophysics

• Geophysical reservoir exploration: UP/GFZ, R. Streich
• 4D geophysical monitoring, joint inversion: GFZ, C. Schmidt-Hattenberger

Rock properties

• Regional thermal exploration: GFZ, A. Förster
• Thermodynamic and kinetic basis data: GFZ, A. Liebscher

Here are the links to the work packages: