W-4: Applying lessons learned from Oil & Gas Geophysics to Energy Transition Challenges

The Oil and Gas industry has developed for decades Geophysics technologies to explore and produce safely underground resources. With the Energy Transition emergence, players are facing new challenges, technical, financial but also for social acceptance or regulatory obligations. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) needs to characterize depleted hydrocarbon fields but also saline aquifers. Injection and storage must be safely deployed and monitored publicly. H2 exploration and production request innovative technologies. Geothermal faces imaging and producing challenges. Solar and wind production must address geotechnical optimization, like Hydraulic and mining activities do also. Revisiting our traditional seismic or non seismic methods for new objectives, learning from the ongoing demonstration CCS projects and EOR experiences are examples of opportunities to capitalize on what could be used in an innovative way.

Lead Organizer

Michel Verliac, TotalEnergies

Co-Organizer(s)

Nimisha Vedanti, National Geophysical Research Institute
Erkan Ay, Consultant
Joel Le Calvez, SLB
Daisy Ning, Michigan Technological University
Amir Gadheri, SINTEF
Sherilyn Williams-Stroud, Texas A&M University