Les Rencontres Scientifiques d’IFP Energies nouvelles: International Conference on Flows and Mechanics in Natural Porous Media from Pore to Field Scale - Pore2Field

16-18 November 2011
IFP Energies nouvelles/Rueil-Malmaison

To address the new challenges of the 21st century, such as climate change, environmental impacts, energy diversification and water resource management, research has been stepped up in a variety of fields, including the geological storage of CO2, the production of shale gas and tight gas reservoirs and EOR processes.

A better understanding of flows and related physical processes (reactive flows, mechanics, etc.) is essential to effectively tackle these topics and come up with appropriate technical solutions.

To achieve this, it is necessary to consider different scales, from the pore scale (micrometers) to the field scale (hundreds of meters). One of the major difficulties involved is effectively grasping the coupling between different scales and related physical phenomena.
Processes that occur on a microscopic scale determine mechanical and flow behaviors on a larger scale.
In addition, a coarser description is necessary on a large scale due to a lack of detailed knowledge of the field and the need to keep computational costs down.
What makes the problem challenging is the need for a unified description linking the different scales and the physics involved. While characterization and modeling on different scales are giving rise to active and promising theoretical, experimental, and numerical research, there is still a need to improve integration of all the relevant scales and the associated physical phenomena at an early
stage.

With 160 attendees from 19 different countries, Pore2Field gathered international experts from domains like molecular dynamics or reservoir monitoring. The sessions dedicated to presenting posters allowed researchers and industrialists to create intra and interdisciplinary contacts.

The final program and the oral presentations are available on www.rs-pore2field.com. The main presentations will be published in a special issue of OGST.

Under the auspices of the French Academy of Sciences