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Unconventional Carbon Dioxide Management, Utilization, and Modelling

  • 1st Edition - March 1, 2027
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Hadi A. Belhaj, Fernancelys Rodriguez
  • Language: English

Unconventional Carbon Dioxide Management, Utilization, and Modelling addresses the growing need for effective carbon dioxide (CO₂) management strategies to support decarboni… Read more

Description

Unconventional Carbon Dioxide Management, Utilization, and Modelling addresses the growing need for effective carbon dioxide (CO₂) management strategies to support decarbonization and climate mitigation goals. As interest in carbon capture, storage, and utilization expands, shale reservoirs present significant but underexplored opportunities for long-term CO₂ sequestration and enhanced resource recovery. This reference bridges a critical knowledge gap by examining the role of unconventional formations in CO₂ management and utilization.

The book presents the latest methodologies, technologies, and research advances related to CO₂ storage and use in shale reservoirs. Coverage includes geological, geochemical, and geophysical controls on CO₂ behavior, reservoir characterization, sequestration mechanisms, modeling approaches, and emerging technologies. It also examines operational challenges, technical limitations, and opportunities for optimizing storage performance and resource recovery in unconventional formations.

Unconventional Carbon Dioxide Management, Utilization, and Modelling enables researchers, engineers, energy professionals, and policymakers to evaluate and implement effective CO₂ management solutions. By integrating multidisciplinary perspectives and practical methodologies, it supports informed decision-making for carbon management initiatives and advances efforts toward sustainable energy systems and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Key features

•Examines CO₂ sequestration, utilization, and storage opportunities within shale reservoir systems

• Integrates geological, engineering, economic, and policy perspectives for comprehensive understanding

• Applies advanced characterization and modeling techniques to evaluate storage performance

• Analyzes technical challenges and emerging solutions for unconventional carbon management

• Supports climate action through practical strategies for reducing atmospheric CO₂ emissions

Readership

Academic researchers and industry practitioners in the fields of petroleum engineering, geology, geoscience and environmental science

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Carbon Dioxide: The Modern Challenge

2. CO2 Physicochemical Properties

3. Basics of Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization (CCUS)

4. Fundamentals of CO2 Geological Storage and Underground Safeguarding

5. Dual Benefit of CO2 Geological Storage in Unconventional Shales Reservoirs

6. CO2/Shale Reservoirs Geochemical Reactions

7. Geophysical Interactions Associated with CO2 Storage in Shales

8. Hydrocarbon Production: Kinetics of Gas Desorption and CO2 Adsorption

9. Role of Reservoir Engineering in CO2 Sequestration

10. Mathematical Modeling of Subsurface Carbon Sequestration in Shales

11. Risk Assessment and Management of Subsurface CO2 Storage

12. Economics of CO2 Capture, Transport, and Storage

13. CO2 Utilization: From Byproduct to Resource

14. Emerging Technologies and Future Prospects of CO2 Management

15. The Role of Society and Education in Combatting CO2 Emissions

16. Remaining Challenges and Roadmapping of CCUS

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 1, 2027
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Hadi A. Belhaj

Dr. Hadi A. Belhaj is a petroleum engineering faculty member at Khalifa University (KU) teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses ranging from reservoir engineering to unconventional reservoir characterization and modeling to drilling engineering to petroleum economics and risk analysis to hydrogen resourcing, storage, and recovery to CCS. Dr. Belhaj has over 40 years of combined industrial and academic experience with key qualifications and research achievements in reservoir engineering, reservoir simulation, modeling fractured reservoirs, EOR, reservoir stimulation, sand production, unconventional reservoirs, and decarbonized fossil fuels. Geographically, his experience spreads over North America, Europe, North Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Prior to KU/PI merging, Dr. Belhaj was engaged with the Petroleum Institute, Texas Tech University, and Dalhousie University, respectively. From 1982 until 2000, Dr. Belhaj worked with Schlumberger and the Libyan National Oil Corporation (LNOC), respectively. Dr. Belhaj is a Distinguished Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE). For his unwavering 40-year-long-continued outstanding services with passion, commitment, and dedication to the SPE and its members at all levels, the SPE honoured Dr. Belhaj with the 2021 SPE Distinguished Service Award. He is also is the recipient of 2013/2020 SPE Regional Distinguished Achievement for Petroleum Engineering Faculty Award and the 2019 SPE Regional Reservoir Description and Dynamics Award. Dr. Belhaj is currently a member of the JPT Editorial Committee and SPE-ATCE Technical Program Subcommittee and has served on numerous other SPE and none SPE educational, research, and judging-related committees as well as conference, workshop, forum programming, and organizing committees. Dr. Belhaj has contributed several consortium research proposals dealing with petroleum and energy exploitation challenges generating more than 17 million dollars of research grants. He has published more than 150-refereed journal and conference articles. Dr. Belhaj is a member of other professional societies and organizations around the globe; the Society of Special Core Analysts (SCA), the International Society for Porous Media, and the OMAE-ASME are among them. Dr. Belhaj currently serves as the Associate Editor for the Springer Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology Journal and the Taylor & Francis Petroleum Science and Technology Journal. Dr. Belhaj earned a PhD from Dalhousie University, Canada, an MSc from the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada, and a BSc. from the University of Tripoli, Libya.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Petroleum Engineering Department, petroleum engineering faculty member at Khalifa University (KU)

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Fernancelys Rodriguez

Fernancelys Rodriguez is a petroleum engineer with broad experience in different aspects of the oil and gas industry including reservoir characterization and modeling, production monitoring and optimization, and evaluation of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) from lab to field. Dr. Rodriguez has 22 years of experience working for the energy industry on conventional, compositional as well as highly viscous oil reservoirs. She currently works as an energy consultant on different energy transition subjects such as the production of hydrogen and low-carbon fossil fuels from conventional and highly viscous oil reservoirs, CCUS, H2 storage, geothermal energy, water management in complex reservoir, and IOR/EOR methods for sustainable energy recovery from highly viscous oil and compositional reservoirs, among others.
Affiliations and expertise
Université Paris Cité-France, France