SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | DISCUSSION SESSION on CO2 SEQUESTRATION: Is it a question of science or technology? |
| Discussion Leader: Mike Celia (Princeton University, USA) |
| Bjorn Berger (Statoil, Norway)
"CO2 Sequestration? It is only a question of technology; we have the technology; so we can do it now!" |
| Stefan Bachu (Alberta Energy and Utilities Board, Canada)
"CO2 Sequestration? There are many questions remaining. So, it is premature to do it large scale" |
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm | DISCUSSION SESSION on Stochastic models & ADE's: Which one is more useful in real world applications? |
| Discussion Leader: Jesus Carrera (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain) |
| Leonard F Konikow (USGS, Reston)
"ADE's are more useful in practice" |
| Shlomo Neuman (University of Arizona, USA)
"Stochastic models are also useful in practice" |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Reception |
MONDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PORE-SCALE MODELING OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA |
| Discussion Leader: Martin Blunt (Imperial College of London, UK) & Collin C. Smith (University of Sheffield, UK) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Markus Hilpert (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
"Towards a more realistic description of pore-scale flow and transport processes" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Presentation of Posters |
10:10 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Mario Ioannidis (University of Waterloo, Canada)
"Pore-scale observation and modeling of mass transfer to and from distributed sources in porous media: Old physics suggest new applications in groundwater remediation" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Pål-Eric Øren (Statoil, Norway)
"Microtomography of pore scale fluid flow" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:45 pm | Group Photo / Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | UNSTABLE AND INTERMITTENT FLOWS IN POROUS MEDIA |
| Discussion Leader: J. Nieber (University of Minnesota, U.S.A.) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Tammo Steenhuis (Cornell University, U.S.A.)
"Preferential flow and solute transport" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Peter Germann (University of Bern, Switzerland)
"Preferential flow in field soils" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session |
TUESDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL METHODS |
| Discussion Leader: Helge Dahle (Bergen University, Norway) & Margot Gerritsen (Stanford University, U.S.A.) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Mary Wheeler (University of Texas, U.S.A.)
"Discontinuous Galerkin methods for porous media flows" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Presentation of Posters |
10:10 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Thomas F. Russell (University of Colorado, Denver, U.S.A.)
"Adjoint methods are particle methods: Implications for Eulerian-Langrangian modeling of multiphase multicomponent transport" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | John Killough (Landmark, Houston, U.S.A.)
"High performance computing for reservoir simulation: grids, cluster, supercomputers - Is this déjà vu all over again?" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN FRACTURED MEDIA |
| Discussion Leader: Eilon M. Adar (Ben Gurion University, Isarael) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Gillian Pickup (Heriot-Watt University, U.K.)
"Flow simulation and upscaling in stress-sensitive fractured models" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | James Gilman (iReservoir inc., Colorado, U.S.A.)
"Improved understanding of naturally fractured petroleum reservoirs through 25 years of dual-continuum modeling" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session |
WEDNESDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SOIL AND GROUNDWATER POLLUTION AND REMEDIATION |
| Discussion Leaders: Rainer Helmig (Stuttgart University, Germany) &
Jan Hopmans (University of California, Davis, U.S.) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Richelle M. Allen-King (University at Buffalo, U.S.A.)
"A hydrogeochemist's perspective on contaminant transport in groundwater" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Presentation of Posters |
10:10 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | Tissa Illangasekare (Colorado School of Mines, U.S.A.)
"Characterization of NAPL retention volumes in heterogeneous aquifers" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Linda Abriola (Tufts University, MA, U.S.A.)
"DNAPL source zone remediation: The use of models in design and assessment" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MODELLING HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEMS |
| Discussion Leader: Akhil Datta-Gupta (Texas A&M University, U.S.A.) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Ty Ferré (University of Arizona, U.S.A.)
"Modeling and measurement in heterogeneous systems" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Sebastien Strebelle (Chevron-Texaco)
"Multiple-point geostatistics: a new approach for reservoir facies modeling and its impact on flow performance prediction" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 9:40 pm | GRC Business Session |
9:40 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session |
THURSDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ADVANCED OIL AND GAS RECOVERY |
| Discussion Leader: Jill Buckley (New Mexico Tech, U.S.A.)& George Hirasaki (Rice University, U.S.A.) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Tony Kovscek (Stanford University)
"A Laboratory and Mechanistic Modeling Study of Solution Gas Drive in Heavy Oil" |
9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:10 am | Presentation of Posters |
10:10 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
10:30 am - 11:10 am | T. Austad (Stavanger University College, Norway)
"Improved oil recovery by spontaneous imbibition of water into preferential oil-wet carbonates" |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Ali Danesh (Heriot-Watt University, U.K.)
"Flow of gas condensate at near-wellbore conditions" |
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEW FRONTIERS IN POROUS MEDIA RESEARCH |
| Discussion Leader: Dani Or (University of Connecticut, US) |
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | J. Iwan D. Alexander (Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A.)
"Liquid flow and distribution in unsaturated porous media and microchannels in microgravity" |
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Jacques Huyghe (Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
"Flow and transport in biological tissues" |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm - 11:00 pm | Poster Session |
FRIDAY |
7:45 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |