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Delft University of Technology
Bendiks Jan Boersma Department of Process & Energy
Mechanical Engineering
Oil and Gas Research at the TU Delft
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Nog aanpassen voor peildatum 18-5-2015, 2012/3 cijfers nog meenemen (verzoek Hans Hopman)? 13-5-2013 gewogen vooraanmeldingen WB 388 MT 78 15-5-2012 gewogen vooraanmeldingen WB 299 MT 63 In discussie brengen: verdeling werktuigbouwkunde studenten over 3TU opleidingen a la geneeskunde? B.v. wij kunnen maximaal 600 studenten opnemen, anderen moeten dan maar naar hun instelling van 2e keus, b.v. Eindhoven of Twente?
Downstream Research • Dept. of Chemical Engineering (Fac. AS)
• Catalysis Engineering (4 full-time staff) • Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage (4 f/t staff) • Product and Process Engineering (4 f/t staff) • Transport Phenomena (4 f/t staff) • Laboratory (15 fte technical support)
• Dept. of Process and Energy (Faculty 3mE) • Intensified Reaction and separation (5 f/t staff) • Energy Technology (4 f/t staff) • Engineering Thermodynamics (6 f/t staff) • Fluid Mechanics (9 f/t staff) • Laboratory (10 fte techical support)
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Activities indicated in red are deep subsurface-related and will be discussed in some more detail in the next slides. “Full-time staff” refers to full, associate or assistant profs.
Downstream Research @ TU Delft
Contract Research • hydrotreating, FCC, HDS, Syngas chem. (process and catalyst development)
Always integrated approach – from catalyst concept to plant
Catalysis Engineering • Fisher Tropsch (Catalyst Development) • DeNOx, HDS (catalyst and process development) • Mixed matrix membranes
(CO2 capture, gas separation)
Process and Energy • fluid-vapour-wall interaction in LNG transfer systems • by-pass pigging with speed control • flow-induced noise in corrugated pipes
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Most of the deep subsurface research is performed in three Sections of the Dept. of Geoscience & Engineering, often in X-sectional projects. Some geophysics is also done at the Dept. of Imaging Physics, notably by Eric Verschuur who is now leading the Delphi Consortium.
Upstream Petroleum Research • Dept. of Geoscience and Engineering (Fac. CEG)
• Dept. of Hydraulic Engineering (Faculty CEG) • Offshore Technology
• Dept. of Maritime & Transp. Techn. ( Fac. 3ME) • Offshore and Dredging Technology
• Dept. of Process and Energy ( Fac. 3ME) • Multiphase Flow
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Activities indicated in red are deep subsurface-related and will be discussed in some more detail in the next slides. “Full-time staff” refers to full, associate or assistant profs.
Monitoring, optimization and control of subsurface flow
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Most of the deep subsurface research is performed in three Sections of the Dept. of Geoscience & Engineering, often in X-sectional projects. Some geophysics is also done at the Dept. of Imaging Physics, notably by Eric Verschuur who is now leading the Delphi Consortium.
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Applied Geology (1) • “To produce better 3D
geological models on a sub-seismic scale with an emphasis on sedimentary architecture and fracture distributions”
• Fractured reservoirs (Giovanni Bertotti)
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Bottom left picture shows part of the drone used to map fracture patterns in surface outcrops of fractured reservoirs. We develop advanced imaging software to transform these 2D data, in combination with bore hole measurements, to 3D subsurface flow models (Giovanni Bertotti).
The sequence of pictures at the top show depicts the results of a large-scale numerical simulation of sediment transport under varying sea levels leading to the development of a complex deltaic fan. Such numerical analogues provide detailed insight in the flow-relevant structure of subsurface reservoirs consisting of fossilized, buried deltas.
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Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics (1)
• (Beyond) seismic interferometry – world leading in methodology (Kees Wapenaar, Evert Slob)
The group of Kees Wapenaar is world-leading development of seismic interferometry (virtual sources), electromagnetic imaging (Evert Slob), and the use of “passive seismics” (imaging the sub-surface by extracting information from what used to be considered just back-ground noise) (Guy Drijkoningen).
The laboratory set-up at the bottom (steel vessel) is a high-pressure “borehole simulator” in which we hydraulically fracture rock and acoustically monitor the stress propagation. This type of research (led by Auke Barnhoorn) is rapidly increasing in importance because of the issues related to “fraccing” for shale gas and shale oil.
Cor van Kruijsdijk, Hans Bruining) • Surface chemistry
• Multi-phase reactive flow through porous media
• Foam, surfactants, polymers, nano-particles, …
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Bill Rossen is a world-leading expert in the flow of foam through porous media for enhanced oil recovery. (Foam reduces the mobility of gas which is injected in an oil reservoir to displace the oil from the pores. The mobility reduction avoids “overshooting” of the light and mobile gas over the much more heavy and viscous oil). The picture at the bottom displays the strongly nonlinear relation between foam strength, pressure and oil and gas injection rates. The green picture bottom-right is unrelated to foam. It displays a “pendant drop cell”, a high-pressure experimental set-up to determine the wettability properties of rock as a function of time. (The black circle is a gas bubble; the black horizontal line a rock surface).
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Petroleum Engineering (2) • Smart fields:
optimization & data assimilation (Jan Dirk Jansen)
The group of Jan Dirk Jansen has performed seminal research in the area of optimization of subsurface flow, data assimilation (“computer assisted history matching”), and theoretical understanding of system-theoretical aspects like controllability and identifiability of subsurface states and parameters. Two recently hired tenure trackers (both recruited from Stanford) are developing advanced reservoir simulation algorithms to model complex physics of enhanced oil recovery and thermal recovery.