Overview
Research Interests
- Influence of heterogeneities on flow in porous media
- Diffusion and dispersion in porous media
- Experimental studies of physics of flow in porous media and comparison with analytic/numerical models
- Upscaling single, miscible and multiphase flow
- Movement of fluids on geological time-scales in the sub-surface
- Storage of carbon dioxide in subsurface reservoirs
- Improved oil recovery (miscible gas injection, thermally assisted gas-oil gravity drainage (TA-GOGD), VAPEX, WAG, wettability alteration during waterflooding)
Funding
"Characterization and quantification of remaining oil on the sub-grid block scale after waterflooding". 3 year project funded by Statoil. 2014-2017
"Lean Asset Modelling for Better System Informed Decisions". 2 year project funded by BP. 2014-2016
"Evaluation of connectivity for fields in the Rankin Platform, North West Shelf, Australia". 1 year project funded by Woodside. 2013-2014.
a??Numerical Simulation of Thermal and Reactive Flow in Porous Media - Application to In-Situ Upgrading". 3 year project funded by Total. 2012-2015.
a??A Global Framework for Quantifying the Ecosystem Service Impacts of Oil and Biofuel Productiona?? 2 year project lead by Southampton University and funded by UKERC. 2012-2014
Current PhD Students
Abdulaziz Alsaleh (co-supervised with Martin Blunt): field scale simulation of thermal polymer degradation
Ed Andrews (main supervisor Sam Krevor): pore scale release and transport of oil by low salinity waterflooding
Catrin Harris (co-supervised with Sam Krevor): capillary trapping of carbon dioxide in subsurface brine aquifers
Irfan Tai : upscaling of polymer flooding in the near well bore region
Nele Wenck (main supervisor Sam Krevor): impact of capillary heterogeneities on rate dependent flow during subsurface storage of carbon dioxide in brine aquifers
Research Staff
Dr. Gareth Brown
Dr. Jason Go
Dr. Yingfang Zhou
Dr. Haibao Wen