19.6.2015

Geotag 2015 in Aachen

Friday, 19.06.2015
Location:
Super C, Ford-Saal & Foyer (6.OG), RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 57

Der Aachener Tag der Geowissenschaften ist ein Tag von der Fachgruppe Geowissenschaften und Geographie (GuG) für und mit Studierenden und Alumni. Der Aachener Geotag mit thematisch jährlich wechselnden Themen gibt dabei Einblicke in aktuelle Forschungsarbeiten und Anwendungen. Alle Studierenden und Alumni der Fachgruppe GuG, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/-innen, nichtwissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/-innen, Professoren und Professorinnen herzlich eingeladen, damit auch der diesjährige Geotag mit dem Rahmenthema ‚Energie-Reservoire Untertage‘ wieder zu einem interessanten Austausch führt.

Convenors: Reservoir-Petrologie, Prof. Dr. Christoph Hilgers & SPE RWTH Aachen Student Chapter  

09:00 – 09:15         Eröffnung und Begrüßung

09:15 – 09:45         Dieter Kaufmann, Wintershall
            Re-development alter Ölfelder

09:45 –  10:00       Johannes Böcker, RWTH, Geologie,
            Geochemie und Lagerstätten des Erdöls und der Kohle Kohlenwasserstoffsysteme im zentralen Oberrheingraben

10:00 – 10:15         Jan Niederau, RWTH, Angewandte Geophysik & geothermische Energie
            Untersuchung des thermischen Regimes in Sedimentbecken: Einfluss von Unsicherheiten und freier Konvektion

10:15 – 10:30        Bianca Biehl, RWTH, Geologisches Institut
            Reservoir-Eigenschaften des Zechstein 2 Karbonates im Niedersächsischen Becken

10:30 – 11:00        Kaffeepause

11:00 – 11:30      Dr. Christian Bücker, DEA Deutsche Erdöl AG
            Gashydrate als zukünftige Energieversorgung?
    
11:30 – 12:00        Dr. Axel Gillhaus, RWE Gasspeicher GmbH
            Die Rolle von Druckluft-, Gas- und Wasserstoffspeichern für konventionelle und  grüne Energie

12:00 – 12:15         Song Jie, RWTH, Ingenieurgeologie und Hydrogeologie
            Hydromechanik beim Betrieb von Pumpspeicherkraftwerken

12:15 – 12:30        Benjamin Busch, RWTH, Reservoir-Petrologie
            Reservoir-Heterogenitäten und deren Modellierungen zur RQ-Vorhersage
        
12:30 – 14:00        Mittagspause

14:00 – 14:30        Dr. Georg Bresser, Wintershall
            Exploration Portfolio-Management und Decision Making im E&P Geschäft

14:30 – 15:00         Timo Anders, Trianel
            Kommunale Energieversorgung: Marktnahe Bewirtschaftung von Erdgasspeichern

15:00 – 15:30         Verleihung Lehrpreises der Fachschaft

15:30 – 16:30        Posterpräsentation & SPE Tombola
            sowie Abstimmung der Besucher über den Posterpreis

16:30 – 17:00        Verleihung des Posterpreises der VAG e.V.

17:00 – 18:00         VAG e.V. Festvortrag
            Prof. Dr. Martin Melles, Universität zu Köln
            Das El´gygytgyn-Tiefbohrprojekt: 3,6 Millionen Jahre Klimageschichte der Arktis

18:00 – 20:00        VAG e.V. Mitgliederversammlung *

Ab 20:00        Fest der Fachschaft Geowissenschaften & Ressourcenmanagement
            Parkplatz Wüllnerstr. 2
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Samstag, 20.6.2015

ab 10:00        VAG e.V. Exkursion
            Geologischer Spaziergang  bei Mützenich durch das Brack-Venn zu Kaiser Karls Bettstatt  (Führung: Prof. em. Dr. Roland Walter)
            Treffpunkt: wird über das VAG e.V. Sekretariat Fr Jennissen mitgeteilt.
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* Veranstaltung der Studierenden während der Mitgliederversammlung am Freitag, 19.6.2015

18:00 – 19:30    Meet and Greet – Georessourcenmanager – Raum Be326
            Studierende treffen Alumni
            Programmleitung durch GRM Studierende: Lisa Gödde, Martin Reith,
            Fabian Stamm, Moriz Trautmann

18:00 – 19:30    Meet and Greet – Geowissenschaftler – Raum Be318
            Studierende treffen Alumni
            Programmleitung durch SPE Student Chapter: Daniel Bücken

2.3.2015

Fluid inclusion facility running

We are happy to have the fluid inclusion facility running. With our new Leica microscope the fluid inclusion stage of the neighboring department of mineralogy is back to operation and we hope to contribute to further innovation in our the joint investment.

18.-26.2.2015

BMBF fact finding mission

Together with Professors Edda Pulst and Abdel Kassem Chris filled the academic part of a two-week trip to Tunesia and Morocco, jointly with representatives from the ministry and industry. The fact finding mission funded be the German ministry of Higher Education (BMBF) explored the potential of academic-industry collaboration, resulting in better employability of young local graduates. The pleasant welcome and fruitful discussions with local representitives of any sector in both countries ended with a heartly welcome by the Moroccan minister of higher education, HE Lahcen Daoudi.

15.2.2015

DGMK 2015 conference

We will present a poster on Upper Carboniferous tight gas and a presentation on reservoir quality prediction of red bed sediments at the annual DGMK conference in Celle, April 22nd to 23rd.

16.1.2015

Geotag 2015

The Geotag 2015 hosted by the School of Geosciences at RWTH on June 19th 2015 is entitled "Energy reservoirs subsurface - exploration, storage, economics" ("Energiereservoir untertage - Exploration, Speicher, Ökonomie").

14.1.2015

Paper on energy storage out

Our paper on the "Economic feasabilty of pipe storage and underground reservoir storage options for power-to-gas load balancing by Christoph Budny, Reinhard Madlener and Christoph Hilgers is now published in Energy Procedia, 61, 2201-2205.

24.12.2014

Season's Greeting

The RPR-Team wishes merry christmas and all the best for 2015.

12.12.2014

Heitfeld Prize

Today Nadja will be awarded the Heitfeld prize at RWTH main campus. Nadja's Master thesis at RPR jointly with BBK I delt with the risk analysis of a new machine from Caterpillar to be installed in an Indian hard coal mine. Congratulations! Since her work was for DMT and Caterpillar, Nadja was not able to present detailed results. The work was co-supervised by BBK I at RWTH Aachen.

7.12.2014

Presentation on ongoing research

Today Chris presented RPR's onging applied research at the German University of Tecchnology in Muscat, Oman.

3.12.2014

Rotliegend reservoir heterogeneity

Today Chris, Benni and Tina visited red bed outcrops jointly with representatives from a German E&P company to kick-off joint reserach. Exposures and sampling strategy enables to better quanitify reseroivr heterogeneity in Rotliegend rocks.

13.11.2014

Azerbaijan visit

Today Chris and Jan Schwarzbauer (EMR-LEK) received guest from Socar Azerbaijan and discussed the onset of collaboration in reserach related to oil recovery and analyses.

13.11.2014

Permian Fractured Carbonates

Today Chris, Marius, Ivy jointly with Bastian and Wolf-Dieter visited some quarries for a fracture network study on Permian carbonate rocks in the Harz region. Numerous active and dismantled quarries will provide valuable data on fracture pattern, lateral heterogeneties and cementation patterns. The project carried out by Marius Waldvogel will integrated reservoir engineering- and geological aspects and enhance the understanding of fractured carbonate reservoirs.

5.11.2014

Presentation at Geological Society Oman

Today Chris gives a presentation at the Geologial Society, Muscat, Oman on "Approaches on reservoir heterogeneities in conventional and tight gas sandstones". The exploration of unconventional rocks will be of prime importance for future exploration of energy resources in the Gulf region. The talk takes place at the Oil & as Exhibition near PDO at 5 pm.

30.10.2014

Fracturing of rocks, study work of Julia

Together with Tobias Vraetz, IME and coworkers Julia Schneider will establish the conditions of rocks when fracturing. Selected samples from Upper Carboniferous rocks will serve as base parameters, and fundamental rock mechanical parameters will be established for rock mechanical calculations.

24.10.2014

Visit of Rheinkalk quarry, Wuelfrath

Today we visited the Rheinkalk quarry to quality check the results of our joint research focusing on igitally derived data versus real rocks exposed in the quarry. The limestones and shales exposed in the quarry may act as good analogs for reservoirs.

23.10.2014

Presentation Upper Carboniferous Kuelpmann at Geological Survvey NRW

Today Chris, Jan and Patrick visited the Geological Survey NRW. Here, Jan Melchert presented the results of his BSc work on the quarry Kuelpmann to the Geological Survey, NRW, which involved diagenetic and structural aspects. It was followed by a discussion on the importance of the quarry as a natural heritage site, and a discussion of the Lidar technology.

16-17.10.2014

SPE Student Technical Conference (STC) in Wietze

Chris together with our Master students from RWTH's Applied Geoscience attended the SPE STC Annual Meeting in Wietze. The conference invites a selected group of students to present the research performed during their Master study in front of a audience with mainly industry background. Dieter Krott (RPR) presented the results of research performed with Christian Buecker, RWE DEA on Facies Delineation by using a Statistical Model with Downhole and Core Data from Onshore Wells in the Nile Delta. Yasar Manss (RPR) presented his research on porosity variations in tight gas rocks, a reserach project performed with Bastian Koehrer, Wintershall.

15.10.2014

Zoltan's PhD defense

Today Zoltan Komoroczi, supervised by Janos Urai, defended his PhD thesis in front a a plenum. Zoltan is now with Baker, Abederdeen.

9.10.2014

Welcome trip for MSc Applied Geophysics Students

Chrisoph Clasuer, Florian Welmann, Jan van der Kruk and Chris welcomed our MSc Applied Geophysics students in Aachen. With their previous semsters in Delft and Zurich, they now study their final semester at RWTH before completing their Master thesis. Chris guided the group to some exposures around Stolberg-Vicht, some of them analogs for source- and reservoir rocks.

2.-3.10.2014

Annual Meeting Tight and Conventional Gas, Barnstorf

Benjmin, Patrick and Yasar presented their research on the meeting and discussed future research with representatives from Germany, Netherland and the UK. Palynology data established by Duncan and David provided important information for the correlation of the Upper Carboniferous in the region. The meeting was followed by a visit of exposures along the Osning inversion structure.