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Delft University of Technology
Bendiks Jan Boersma Department of Process & Energy
Mechanical Engineering
Oil and Gas Research at the TU Delft
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TU Delft
• Facts and Figure 2013 • MSc students: 18781 • PhD students: 2948 • MSc degrees (2012): 2090 • PhD degrees (2012): 353
Downstream Research • Dept. of Chemical Engineering (Fac. AS)
• Catalysis Engineering (4 full-time staff) • Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage (4 f/t staff) • Product and Process Engineering (4 f/t staff) • Transport Phenomena (4 f/t staff) • Laboratory (15 fte technical support)
• Dept. of Process and Energy (Faculty 3mE) • Intensified Reaction and separation (5 f/t staff) • Energy Technology (4 f/t staff) • Engineering Thermodynamics (6 f/t staff) • Fluid Mechanics (9 f/t staff) • Laboratory (10 fte techical support)
Downstream Research @ TU Delft
Contract Research • hydrotreating, FCC, HDS, Syngas chem. (process and catalyst development)
Always integrated approach – from catalyst concept to plant
Catalysis Engineering • Fisher Tropsch (Catalyst Development) • DeNOx, HDS (catalyst and process development) • Mixed matrix membranes
(CO2 capture, gas separation)
Process and Energy • fluid-vapour-wall interaction in LNG transfer systems • by-pass pigging with speed control • flow-induced noise in corrugated pipes
Upstream Petroleum Research • Dept. of Geoscience and Engineering (Fac. CEG)
• Applied Geology (5 full-time staff) • Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics (6 f/t staff) • Petroleum Engineering (5 f/t staff) • Laboratory (10 fte technical support)
• Dept. of Imaging Physics (Faculty AS) • Seismology (1 f/t staff)
• Dept. of Hydraulic Engineering (Faculty CEG) • Offshore Technology
• Dept. of Maritime & Transp. Techn. ( Fac. 3ME) • Offshore and Dredging Technology
• Dept. of Process and Energy ( Fac. 3ME) • Multiphase Flow
Deep Subsurface Research @ TU Delft
Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics • Exploration Geophysics (Interferometry, Electromagnetics) • Petrophysics (Rock Mechanics)
Applied Geology • Siliciclastic systems (Process-Based Modelling) • Fractured Reservoirs
Petroleum Engineering • Rock and Fluid Flow Processes (Surfactants, Foam, Polymers) • Advanced Reservoir Simulation and Optimization
Flow experiment in CT scanner
Combining advanced well logs and outcrop observations
Industry Consortia • Delphi (Geophysics) • ISAPP & Recovery Factory (Smart Fields) • DARSim – Advanced Reservoir Simulation
High-pressure rock fracturing
Monitoring, optimization and control of subsurface flow
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Applied Geology (1) • “To produce better 3D
geological models on a sub-seismic scale with an emphasis on sedimentary architecture and fracture distributions”
• Fractured reservoirs (Giovanni Bertotti)
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Applied Geology (2) • Process-based modeling (Joep Storms)
• Advanced sediment characterization, and fluvial modeling (Rick Donselaar, Hemmo Abels)
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Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics (1)
• (Beyond) seismic interferometry – world leading in methodology (Kees Wapenaar, Evert Slob)
• Shallow subsurface imaging (Ranajid Ghose) • High-resolution - shear waves
• Multi-tool characterization
• Stress monitoring
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Applied Geophysics and Petrophysics (2)
• Passive seismic monitoring (Guy Drijkoningen)
• LOFAR – using the astrophysics infrastructure
• Fracture networks (Auke Barnhoorn)
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Petroleum Engineering (1) • Enhanced oil recovery (Bill Rossen, Pacelli Zitha,
Cor van Kruijsdijk, Hans Bruining) • Surface chemistry
• Multi-phase reactive flow through porous media
• Foam, surfactants, polymers, nano-particles, …
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Petroleum Engineering (2) • Smart fields:
optimization & data assimilation (Jan Dirk Jansen)
• Advanced reservoir simulation – multi-scale, compositional (Hadi Hajibeygi, Denis Voskov)
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