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Program of the Gordon Research Conference on Flow and Transport in Permeable Media

July 11-16, 2004 Queen's College Oxford, UK

SUNDAY

2:00 pm - 9:00 pm Arrival and check-in

6:00 pm Dinner

7:20 pm - 7:30 pm Opening session

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

7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast

9:00 am - 12:30 pm PORE-SCALE MODELING OF FLOW AND TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA

Discussion Leaders: 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 am - 12:30 pm Discussion

12:30 pm Group Photo

12:45 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 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

9:00 am - 12:30 pm ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL METHODS

Discussion Leaders: 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

10:30 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 am - 12:30 pm Discussion

12:30 pm Lunch

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

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

10:30 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 am - 12:30 pm Discussion

12:30 pm Lunch

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

9:00 am - 12:30 pm ADVANCED OIL AND GAS RECOVERY

Discussion Leaders: 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

10:30 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 am - 12:30 pm Discussion

12:30 pm Lunch

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

7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakfast 9:00 am Departure