SPE IOR 2026 - Short Course - Challenges in Developing Low-Carbon Energies

To mitigate climate change, production of clean energies or low carbon energies are becoming more and more important. These energies include hydrogen energy and geothermal energy. In producing and using traditional fossil energy and hydrogen, carbon is emitted. The carbon must be sequestered in the downhole formation. However, production of clean energies and sequestration of the emitted carbon are technically and economically challenging. This 1-day course will discuss the challenges. It will provide business decision makers, professionals in energy companies, and researchers with a picture in terms of technical barriers, commercial feasibility, and practical achievability. It may also provide a reference for their career adventures.

Topics to be Covered

1. Fundamental reactions, reaction conditions and products of hydrogen generation

2. Energy input and output of the hydrogen generation process from hydrocarbon fuel

3. What is the percentage of hydrogen in the produced syngas?

4. The amount of hydrogen compared with the amount of oil produced from an oil reservoir.

5. What are the constraints in hydrogen generation in oil and gas reservoirs?

6. Sustainability of heat production by cycling cold fluid to produce geothermal energy

7. Well productivity requirement for geothermal wells

8. Issues of storage capacity in aquifers, leakages through type II oil and gas wells and through cement

9. Current methodologies to study carbon storage