France: Opportunity for Post-Doc Research in Enhancing Sedimentary Systems for Geothermal Electricity and/or Thermal Production

Postdoctoral Position - Sedimentology, Rock Physics and Modeling For Geothermal Energy - Transport properties in heterogeneous siliciclastic formations (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)

Interested applicants should apply before 31st of July 2019 

Enhancing petroleum sedimentary systems for electricity and/or thermal production is a crucial progress for future developments in geothermal energy. The European research consortium MEET aims to investigate this feasibility in various geological contexts selected across Europe.

The study will be focused on a convertible oil field within a siliciclastic formation of the Paris basin and its associated reservoirs. They are well-documented, instrumented and several cored sections of the reservoirs are available. This work will be closely connected to the sequential organization of the Upper Triassic series. Some knowledge will be gained through a field analogue located in the Ardèche Margin. One of the main objectives is to better constrain fluid flow properties in heterogeneous siliciclastic reservoirs at the small scale (typically from the pore scale to the centimetre scale). Overall, this study will provide the groundwork for future developments into modelling the fluid flow at larger scales (from the metric scale to the geological formation), using numerical tools and simulations.

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