Lecture 11 — March 2, 2022
Reservoir Properties and Sustainability


Topics covered:

  • Testing of the resource

  • Reservoir properties

  • Sustainability (recharge and injection)

Speaker

Yannick Champollion

Yannick Champollion is a Geotechnical Engineer from the Polytech university in Grenoble, France, with a specialty in hydrogeology and subsurface evaluations.  He first worked in Saskatoon for a few years as a project engineer/hydrogeologist at uranium mines in northern Saskatchewan.  He then moved to Calgary where he first gained some experience in the environmental industry before finding his stride as an Oil Sands hydrogeologist.  That eventually led him to the management of Oil Sands production and development subsurface teams allowing him to broaden his experience in geoscience, geophysics, production and reservoir engineering.  He has now embraced the challenges of working in the emerging geothermal and carbon sequestration industries.
In his free time, Yannick can be found on a soccer pitch coaching one of his three sons or in the wild and beautiful Rocky Mountains of Canada – winter and summer.  This leaves him with little time to enjoy the comfort of his carbon neutral home thanks to a ground source heat pump and solar PV installations.

 

References and Links

Mao, Hui & Qiu, Zhengsong & Wang, Zaiming. (2016). OTC-26384-MS Development and Application of Ultra-High Temperature Drilling Fluids in Offshore Oilfield Around Bohai Sea Bay Basin, China. 10.4043/26384-MS. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Phase-diagram-of-water_fig4_299584220

Mohamed L. Elsayed, Wei Wu, Louis C. Chow, High salinity seawater boiling point elevation: Experimental verification, Desalination, Volume 504, 2021, 114955, ISSN 0011-9164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2021.114955 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011916421000266)

Geothermal Well Test Analysis (S. Zarrouk and K. McLean 2019), https://www.elsevier.com/books/geothermal-well-test-analysis/zarrouk/978-0-12-814946-1

https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com

GEOTHERMAL WELL LOGGING: TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE LOGS,Benedikt Steingrímsson ISOR – Iceland GeoSurvey, 2018, https://rafhladan.is/bitstream/handle/10802/16517/UNU-GTP-SC-26-07.pdf?sequence=1

Grant, Marcus & Bixley, P. (2011). Geothermal Reservoir Engineering. 10.1016/C2010-0-64792-4. https://www.elsevier.com/books/geothermal-reservoir-engineering/grant/978-0-12-383880-3

EVALUATION OF THE RESOURCE SUPPLY FOR THE MAMMOTH, ORMESA, STEAMBOAT, BRADYS HOT SPRINGS AND DESERT PEAK GEOTHERMAL PROJECTS, CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA, GEOTHERMEX, INC. 2004, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312500/000095013605000639/file034.htm