Publications
- Kevin McCormack, Eric Edelman, Nathan Moodie, Brian McPherson, Bjorn Paulson & R. He (2023). The Design of a Downhole Source Tomography Experiment for the Detection of CO2 Plumes in the Subsurface. 57th U.S. Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium. Vol. ARMA-2023-0474.
Published, 06/25/2023.
https://doi.org/10.56952/ARMA-2023-0474 - Rajesh Pawar, Shaoping Chu, J. William Carey, Jiawei Tu, Nathan Moodie, Bailian Chen & William Ampomah (2022). Quantitative Risk Assessment of Leakage through Legacy Wells in Support of Permit Application for a Large-scale CO2 Injection Project in Southwestern US. Proceedings of the 16th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference. 11.
Published, 10/25/2022.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_i... - Moodie N., Jia W., Middleton R., Yaw S., Lee S.Y., Xiao T., Wheatley D., Steele P., Esser R. & McPherson B. (2022). Geologic Carbon Storage of Anthropogenic CO2 under the Colorado Plateau in Emery County, Utah. Minerals. Vol. 12. Published, 04/01/2022.
- Tu J., Ampomah W., Moodie N., Ulmer-Scholle D., Martin L., Wells E. & Parwar R. (2022). Demonstration Numerical Simulation of Field-Scale CO2 Sequestration Project with Complex Faulting System in San Juan Basin, USA. Proceedings - SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Vol. 2022-October. Published, 01/01/2022.
- Moodie N., Ampomah W., Heath J., Jia W. & McPherson B. (2021). Quantitative analysis of the influence of capillary pressure on geologic carbon storage forecasts case study: CO2-EOR in the Anadarko basin, Texas. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. Vol. 109. Published, 07/01/2021.
- Moodie N., Ampomah W., Jia W. & McPherson B. (2021). Relative permeability: A critical parameter in numerical simulations of multiphase flow in porous media. Energies. Vol. 14. Published, 05/01/2021.
Research Keywords
- Numerical Simulations
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Presentations
- Moodie, N., Szymanski, E., Dang, S.T., Rai, C.S., Parada, E.T., Berg, M.D.V., Hayman, N. and McPherson, B.J., 2023. Geologic CO 2 Storage Site Characterization for Industrial Decarbonization in Iron County, Utah: CUSP Focused Project. AGU23.
Other,
Presented, 12/14/2023.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/meetingapp.cgi/Pap... - Moodie, N., Szymanski, E., Dang, S.T., Rai, C.S., Parada, E.T., Berg, M.D.V., Hayman, N. and McPherson, B.J., 2023. Site Characterization for Geologic Carbon Storage of CO2 from a Direct Reduced Iron Plant, CUSP Annual Meeting. Other, Presented, 06/21/2023.
- Moodie, N., Szymanski, E., Vanden Berg, M.D. and McPherson, B.J., 2022, December. Site Characterization for Geologic Carbon Storage of CO2 from a Direct Reduced Iron Plant. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2022, pp. GC12E-0481).
Other,
Presented, 12/12/2022.
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Pap... - Moodie, N., Ayala, L., & Jia, W. (2021, December). SMART CarbonSAFE Simulation Model: Lessons Learned Applying a Reservoir Model to Machine Learning Applications. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2021, pp. GC14A-07).
Other,
Presented, 12/2021.
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AGUFMGC14A.....
Research Groups
- Carbon Science Initiative (CSI), Research Professor. Civil & Environmental Engineering. 09/2011 - present.
Software Titles
- PCtoRP - Capillary Pressure to Relative Permeability Calculator. Surface tension affects all aspects of fluid flow in porous media. Through measurements of surface tension interaction under multiphase conditions, a relative permeability curve can be determined. Relative permeability is a numerical description of the interaction between two or more fluids and the porous media. It is a critical parameter for various tools that characterize subsurface multiphase flow systems, such as numerical simulation for carbon sequestration, oil and gas development, and groundwater contamination remediation. Therefore, it is critical to get a good statistical distribution of relative permeability in the porous media under study. Empirical curves for determining relative permeability from capillary pressure are already well established but do not provide the needed flexibility that is required to match laboratory derive relative permeability curves. By expanding the existing methods for calculating relative permeability from capillary pressure data, it is possible to create both two and three-phase relative permeability curves. Mercury intrusion capillary pressure (MICP) data from the Morrow' B' Sandstone coupled with interfacial tension and contact angle measurements were used to create a suite of relative permeability curves. These curves were then calibrated to a small sample of existing laboratory curves to elucidate common fitting parameters for the formation that were then used to create relative permeability curves from MICP data that does not have an associated laboratory-measured relative permeability curve. Release Date: 08/01/2023. Inventors: Nathan Moodie. Distribution List: Public - https://github.com/saltcity62/PCtoRP.