The Danish Hydrocarbon Research and Technology Centre (Centre for Oil and Gas – DTU), Technical University of Denmark (DTU), invites applicants for positions on investigations of mechanisms and models in the context of advanced water flooding. Centre for Oil and Gas – DTU is established by the Danish Underground Consortium and DTU. As part of a national strategy on oil and gas, the research centre is an ambitious, targeted effort to improve recovery of oil and gas from the Danish North Sea. The first of the cross-disciplinary flagship programmes of the centre is advanced water flooding of the Dan, Halfdan, and Kraka oil fields.
Responsibilities and tasks
The positions will be an integrated part of the advanced water flooding programme with the focus on improving oil recovery in chalk reservoirs in the Danish part of the North Sea. In this context, the team is expected to perform innovative, fundamental and applied research on:
Novel tools for numerical modelling of water based recovery processes, e.g. SmartWater, surfactant, and microbial EOR methods
Understanding of fracture-matrix interactions and recovery from fractured reservoirs
Upscaling of multiphase flow on scales ranging from the core to field scale
Optimizing advanced recovery methods through system understanding for better field development
To better understand and test the suitable recovery method at the core, sector, and reservoir scale, detailed heterogeneity and coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes should be taken into account in the numerical simulators. These often result in increased computational cost for individual simulation runs. Reducing the computational complexity of modelling of such processes is, therefore, essential. For field-scale models, employing reliable macroscopic laws capturing the integral effects of fractures on multiphase flow are necessary. In order to have predictive capabilities, field-scale models should capture the interplay between different multiphysical processes. To this end, reliable modeling techniques need to be developed and verified to integrate the key THMC processes, and geo-models in the reservoir simulators.
The team should assist to set-up and develop various numerical tools tailored for modelling of the relevant EOR/IOR methods. It will contribute to shaping a computational modelling lab at the centre. Co-supervising of Ph.D./MSc students working with reservoir simulation and collaboration with other researchers and students working with advanced water flooding experiments are required. The team will participate in a growing cross-disciplinary research program, involving several researchers at DTU and other Danish universities, research institutes, and industry. The team will have access to unique field and laboratory data sets to test concepts and methods developed at the centre
Qualifications
Ph.D. students: M.Sc. degree in petroleum, hydrogeology or chemical engineering, applied mathematics or other relevant areas;
Postdocs: Ph.D. degree in petroleum, hydrogeology or chemical engineering, applied mathematics or other relevant areas;
Excellent skills in numerical modelling and programming;
Exceptional skills in mathematics, physics and chemistry;
Interest in independent research;
Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary environment;
Good writing and communication skills in English;
For the PhD position
The scholarships for the PhD degree are subject to academic approval, and the candidates will be enrolled in one of the general degree programmes of DTU. For information about the general requirements for enrolment and the general planning of the scholarship studies, please see the DTU PhD Guide.
Further information
Further information may be obtained from Prof. Erling H. Stenby, tel.: +45 4525 2012, +45 4525 2012,
ehst@kemi.dtu.dk and Senior Researcher Hamid Nick, tel.: +45 4525 7236, +45 4525 7236,
hamid@dtu.dk.
Source: http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/job...c-4676368d1fdb
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