Carbonate Reservoirs
Contacts: Sebastian Geiger ([email protected]), Patrick Corbett
Carbonate Reservoir Challenge
• Carbonate reservoirs contain over 60%
of the world’s remaining conventional oil
and 40% of the world’s remaining
conventional gas reservoirs
• Recovery factors are significantly lower
than in clastic reservoirs – a small (1 -
2%) increase will impact global
hydrocarbon reserves
• Carbonate reservoirs become
increasingly important for providing
natural gas and securing energy supply
• There are major opportunities for storing
CO2 in carbonate formations
Pore-scale physics
Geology and flow at the grid-block and
inter-well scale
Applications to real fields
New model concepts
3AW25
3B1
Collaborations
International Centre for Carbonate
Reservoirs (ICCR); alliance with Edinburgh
and Oxford, including academic institutions
in Brazil.
Several national and international
universities (e.g. Princeton, TU Delft,
University of Calgary, Imperial College)
Our philosophy and approach
• Provide a holistic view across scales
(pore- to field-scale) and disciplines
(reservoir characterisation, modelling,
and simulation), while sourcing other
fields (mathematics, physics, material &
computer sciences) for new technologies
• Span all TRL levels, from fundamental
science and proof-of-concept studies to
applications to real fields and datasets
that demonstrate business impact
• Operate internationally and collaborate
with both industry and academia
• Train a new generation of carbonate
reservoir scientists Further information: Institute of Petroleum Engineering,
Heriot-Watt University- http://carbonates.hw.ac.uk
