Introduction into Geological Storage of CO2: An Interdisciplinary Geoscience and Engineering Approach

Professor Eric Mackay holds the Energy Simulation Chair in CCUS and Reactive Flow Simulation in the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, where he has worked since 1990. His research interests include the study of fluid flow in porous media, such as the flow of oil, gas and water in subsurface geological formations. He has over 300 publications related primarily to maintaining oil production when faced with mineral scale deposition, but since 2005 he has also worked on Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage, and is a member of the directorate of Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage (SCCS - sccs.org.uk). He is involded in projects investigating secure CO2 storage in saline formations and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs, and has co-edited one book and authored a chapter in another book on the topic. He was appointed Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguised Lecturer during 2007 - 2008 and received the SPE North Sea Region Production and Operations Award in 2017. As well as his research interests, Eric is involved in extensive consultancy activities, he delivers short courses for industry and is a technical editor for various journals. Since 1991 he has taught Reservoir Simulation to on campus MSc classes at Heriot-Watt University and for partnerships in Australia, China, Italy, Oman, Malaysia and UAE. Eric holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University.

Prof. Florian Doster is Professor for Multi-scale Multi-physical Modelling of Flow Phenomena in Porous Media and program director for the MSc program Subsurface Energy Systems. His group addresses the development and application of fit-for-purpose models of varying complexities for flow phenomena in porous materials from micrometre to kilometre scale in the context of subsurface energy. Florian Doster has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers. His team actively contributes (4 modules) to the development of the MATLAB reservoir simulation toolbox (MRST). He has attracted more than 1 million euro in research funding as PI or Co-PI (ERC, BEIS, US DOE, ETP, NERC, Total, PETRONAS). He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Stuttgart, DE and held post-doc positions at Princeton University, US and the University of Bergen, NO. He is a member of the directorate of Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage and holds various leading roles in the Interpore society including co-chairing the annual conference in 2023 in Edinburgh and has received the Interpore Rosette as an appreciation. He is an internationally recognised lecturer in reservoir simulation and CCS topics with various CPD courses for OGA, EAGE, SPE, TU Darmstadt and the national institute of mathematics, Ghana.

Prof. Andreas Busch is Professor in Earth Sciences, focusing mainly on GeoEnergy applications and is Head of the GeoEnergy Research Group in the Lyell Centre. The Group is composed of geologists, geomechanists, petroleum engineers, hydrologists and geochemists, aiming at an improved understanding of the coupled thermo-hydro-chemical-mechanical aspects related to carbon capture and storage (CCS), geothermal heat and natural gas production on the laboratory, field and modelled reservoir scale. He has recently been PI on a number of projects aiming to predict flow along caprock faults and matrix. He received a PhD and a post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) in geology from RWTH Aachen University, GER. He was part of the subsurface storage and geomechanics R&D team at Shell Global Solutions, NL; woking on various CCS topics. He has published more than 90 technical papers and is one of the leas authors on the Royal Society report on Carbon Capture and Storage. He serves on the directorate of Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage (SCCS - sccs.org.uk). In 2009, he received the prestigious Hans-Cloos award by the German Geological Society, the highest award for early career researchers in Germany. Finally, Prof. Busch has taught varioud courses to students and professionals related to CCS (EAGE) or unconventional resources.