Florian Osselin

Dr. Florian Osselin

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Academic Career Length

16Years (2011-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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3 October 2022 in Nature Geoscience
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FOFlorian Osselin
Florian Osselin
CSC. Soulaine
C. Soulaine
CFC. Fauguerolles
C. Fauguerolles
EGEric C. Gaucher
Eric C. Gaucher
BSB. Scaillet
B. Scaillet
MPM. Pichavant
M. Pichavant

12 July 2016 in Geophysical Research Letters
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FOFlorian Osselin
Florian Osselin
PKP. Kondratiuk
P. Kondratiuk
ABA. Budek
A. Budek
OCO. Cybulski
O. Cybulski
PGP. Garstecki
P. Garstecki
Piotr SzymczakPiotr Szymczak
Piotr Szymczak

1 June 2018 in Applied Geochemistry
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FOFlorian Osselin
Florian Osselin
MNM. Nightingale
M. Nightingale
GHG. Hearn
G. Hearn
WKW. Kloppmann
W. Kloppmann
EGEric C. Gaucher
Eric C. Gaucher
BMB. Mayer
B. Mayer

1 October 2019 in Science of The Total Environment
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FOFlorian Osselin
Florian Osselin
SSS. Saad
S. Saad
MNM. Nightingale
M. Nightingale
GHG. Hearn
G. Hearn
ADA-M. Desaulty
A-M. Desaulty
BMB. Mayer
B. Mayer
Although multistage hydraulic fracturing is routinely performed for the extraction of hydrocarbon resources from low permeability reservoirs, the downhole geochemical processes linked to the interaction of fracturing fluids with formation brine and reservoir mineralogy remain poorly understood. We present a geochemical dataset of flowback and produced water samples from a hydraulically fractured reservoir in the Montney Formation, Canada, analyzed for major and trace elements and stable isotopes. The dataset consists in 25 samples of flowback and produced waters from a single well, as well as produced water samples from 16 other different producing wells collected in the same field. Additionally, persulfate breaker samples as well as anhydrite and pyrite from cores were also analyzed. The objectives of this study were to understand the geochemical interactions between formation and fracturing fluids and their consequences in the context of tight gas exploitation. The analysis of this dataset allowed for a comprehensive understanding of the coupled downhole geochemical processes, linked in particular to the action of the oxidative breaker. Flowback fluid chemistries were determined to be the result of mixing of formation brine with the hydraulic fracturing fluids as well as coupled geochemical reactions with the reservoir rock such as dissolution of anhydrite and dolomite; pyrite and organic matter oxidation; and calcite, barite, celestite, iron oxides and possibly calcium sulfate scaling. In particular, excess sulfate in the collected samples was found to be mainly derived from anhydrite dissolution, and not from persulfate breaker or pyrite oxidation. The release of heavy metals from the oxidation activity of the breaker was detectable but concentrations of heavy metals in produced fluids remained below the World Health Organization guidelines for drinking water and are therefore of no concern. This is due in part to the co-precipitation of heavy metals with iron oxides and possibly sulfate minerals.

1 May 2020 in Chemical Geology
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FDFilip Dutka
Filip Dutka
VSVitaliy Starchenko
Vitaliy Starchenko
FOFlorian Osselin
Florian Osselin
SMSilvana Magni
Silvana Magni
PSPiotr Szymczak
Piotr Szymczak
ALAnthony J.C. Ladd
Anthony J.C. Ladd

1 October 2019 in Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
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PHPauline Humez
Pauline Humez
FOFlorian Osselin
Florian Osselin
WKW. Kloppmann
W. Kloppmann
BMBernhard Mayer
Bernhard Mayer