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Seminar title:

“Monitoring CO2 Geological Injection: from research to commercial applications”

Abstract from the speaker:

The Gulf Coast Carbon Center (GCCC), and industrial associates group within UT’s Bureau of Economic Geology, is leading research to scientifically support a proactive response to reduce CO₂ emissions into the atmosphere. Our main focus is to, through applied research, develop effective technologies and strategies to monitor geologic retention of CO₂ in carbon storage projects. During the past 13 years, we have conducted several major field projects, including pilot projects such as Frio I and 2, and SECARB’s Cranfield. Currently, we are applying our learnings from these research intense projects to a couple of commercial enhanced oil recovery (EOR) applications, and transitioning from testing hypotheses and performance to confirming predictions and acquiring confidence.

During my talk, I will give an overview of our flagship projects and go over couple of techniques we use for monitoring of CO₂-EOR fields in Gulf Coast.

Bio:

Dr. Seyyed A. Hosseini is a Research Associate at the Gulf Coast Carbon Center of the University of Texas at Austin’s Bureau of Economic Geology. In this position, he serves as Principal Investigator and co- Principal Investigator for several applied CCS projects.

He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Universidad of Isfahan, an M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Sharif University of Technology and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Tulsa. Before joining the Bureau of Economic Geology, Dr. Hosseini was a Senior Reservoir Simulation Engineer at Kelkar and Associates and postdoctoral fellow at Texas A&M University. Dr. Hosseini’s area of research is multiphase fluid flow in conventional and unconventional rocks.