ERL FISH – Lluís Saló-Salgado (MIT CEE)

Stochastic fault permeability computation and modeling of fault hydraulic
properties for geologic carbon sequestration in siliciclastic sequences

This talk will be organized on two parts. In part (1), we present an open-source
algorithm (PREDICT) to estimate the intrinsic permeability of the fault core in
soft siliciclastic basins. PREDICT models realizations of the fault core
consistent with the stratigraphy, and computes probability distributions for
the directional components (dip-normal, strike-parallel and dip-parallel) of
the fault permeability tensor.  In part (2), we demonstrate how to apply
PREDICT to build geologically-realistic fault hydraulic property scenarios
including porosity, permeability, relative permeability and capillary pressure.
For this application, we use a geologic model of the Miocene section offshore
Texas, in the Gulf of Mexico, which is a key US asset to deploy
industrial-scale carbon capture and storage.

About this series:
MIT Earth Resources Laboratory’s Friday Informal Seminar features guest speakers from industry and academia on topics relevant to our lab, including geophysics, seismology, rock physics, imaging, inversion, machine learning, and the energy industry. Titles and abstracts will be posted here when available. Contact fish_seminar_organizers@mit.edu for more information and Zoom password.