Prof. Reza Rezaee

Structural trapping, the most important CO₂ geostorage mechanism during the first decades of a sequestration project, hinges on the traditional assumption that the caprock is strongly water wet. However, this assumption has not yet been verified; and it is indeed not generally true as we demonstrate here. Instead, caprock can be weakly water wet or intermediate wet at typical storage conditions; and water wettability decreases with increasing pressure or temperature. Consequently, a lower storage capacity can be inferred for structural trapping in such cases.

1 December 2014 in Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources

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Comparisons of pore size distribution: A case from the Western Australian gas shale formations

Adnan Al Hinai

Reza Rezaee

Lionel Esteban

Mehdi Labani

About Me

Prof. Dr. Reza Rezaee of Curtin’s Department of Petroleum Engineering has a Ph.D. in Reservoir Characterization. His research has been mostly on integrated solutions for reservoir characterization, formation evaluation, and petrophysics. He has also worked on the application of artificial intelligence in the oil and gas industry for many years. Currently, he is focused on unconventional gas including shale gas, tight gas sand, and natural hydrogen studies. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Improved Oil and Gas Recovery journal, Associate Editor of Marine and Petroleum Geology, and Associate Editor of Geofluids. He was also announced as the top Australian researcher by The Australian Research 2023 magazine. As a founder of the “Unconventional Gas Research Group” of Australia, he has established a unique and highly sophisticated research lab at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Curtin University.

Prof. Reza Rezaee

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