CCS Training Course

Geochemical and Reactive Transport Modeling of Geologic CO2 Storage

A Hands-On Workshop on Fundamentals of Subsurface Geochemical Processes, Fluid-Rock Interaction, and Reactive Transport Modeling Required for Carbon Capture, and Storage (CCS) Risk Assessment, EPA Class VI Regulatory and ISO 27914 Voluntary Applications

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Our Hybrid Online and In-Person Workshop Has Been Attended By 100+ Professionals and Academics from Global Major E&P, and Oilfield Service Companies and Research Institutes

Who Should Attend

Geoscientists and engineers interested in CO2 injection/storage modeling which is also outlined in EPA Class VI regulatory and ISO 27914 guidelines.

Objectives

This Workshop will present a comprehensive review of geochemical methods to build fluid-rock interaction models for CO2 injection/storage. Furthermore, geochemical and 1D reactive transport models using USGS's powerful and open-source geochemical simulator i.e., PHREEQC will be demonstrated

The Workshop Content

This workshop will explore the best practices and tools of carbon dioxide injection/storage geochemical modeling where the objective is to mitigate risk associated with any CCS project.

Outline of the Workshop

Review of EPA Class VI and ISO 27914 geochemical and reactive transport modeling requirements

Principles of Geochemical Reactions and Processes, Kinetics vs. Equilibrium Formulation, Reactive Transport Modeling

Introduction to PHREEQC, input/output/database files, acid-base, redox, ion exchange, and surface complexation reactions

BUILD MODEL I: fluid-rock compatibility -> CO2 dissolution/mineralization at different pressure and temperature conditions

BUILD MODEL II: Advective, reactive and dispersive (1D) Transport of CO2

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Address

Green Town Labs, Houston, TX OR Virtual

Date and Time

06/07/2024 - 9:00 AM CST

Capacity

35 Attendees

Fees

$1,945 (industry)

$1,445 (academic)

Instructor

Babak Shafei, Ph.D.

Babak Shafei, is the founder and CEO of AquaNRG, an environmental and energy tech company headquartered in Houston, Texas. Under his leadership, AquaNRG has raised $1.4M seed fund through 3 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from the US Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.

He has more than 15 years of experience consulting major exploration and production companies to design and optimize energy production while mitigating the environmental footprint of their operations in conventional and unconventional plays.

Babak holds Ph.D. in earth and environmental sciences from Georgia Institute of Technology where his Ph.D. thesis on multiscale reactive transport modeling received “Research Excellence Award”. In 2007, he received a prestigious Marie Curie fellowship from the European Commission which provided a unique opportunity for him to work on global water resources contamination and remediation strategies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and ETH Zurich in Switzerland.