28 January

Welcome and Coffee

Lined rock caverns for underground hydrogen storage – Qinghua Lei (University of Uppsala, Sweden)

Hydromechanical control of fault sealing in clay formations measured with fluid injection experiments – Yves Guglielmi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

Simulations of the lateral Paleogene caprock property variations in the Northern North Sea, with focus on smectite-rich ash deposit – Ane Elisabet Lothe (SINTEF, Norway)

Coffee break

Introducing CITru: Switzerland’s first deep CO2 injection pilot project (current plan & future perspective) – Herfried Madritsch (swisstopo, Switzerland)

Feasibility reservoir modeling, risk analysis, and geophysical monitoring concept for the CiTru Pilot test – Antonio Pio Rinaldi (ETHZ, Switzerland)

How to deal with legacy wells for large-scale CO2 storage – Bastien Dupuy (SINTEF, Norway)

Potential of coda wave interferometry to monitor gas storage and caprock integrity in Opalinus clay – Jonas Junker (ETHZ, Switzerland)

Portable mass spectometry for mid- and long-term monitoring of gas storage sites – A cost-benefit perspective – Yama Tomonaga (Entracers, Switzerland)

Fracture nucleation event mapping – Near- and Far-Field Imaging of Rock Damage Using Time-Reversal Acoustics and Nonlinear Elasticity – Harvey Goodman (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

Stretching break

Conclusion – Christophe Nussbaum (swisstopo, Switzerland)

Group photo – Senecio Schefer (swisstopo, Switzerland)

Lunch

Visit of the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory

End of rock laboratory visit