Postdoctoral Fellow - CO2 Mobility and Subsurface Transport in Nanoporous Rocks
Core
Quantify and simulate complex transport dynamics, mobility, and structural interactions of gases and fluids confined within tight, stressed reservoir matrices of shale rocks.
Role type
Postdoctoral Researcher (Subsurface Fluid Transport & Geomechanics)
Builds
Laboratory-scale experimental data and numerical models for field-scale reservoir pilot deployments
Domain
Energy (Carbon Capture & Storage) / Petroleum Engineering / Geomechanics
Deliverable
production ML models | research
Required skills
High-pressure core experiments, petrophysical measurements (effective permeability, porosity), fluid transport mechanisms in tight formations, data analysis/scripting (Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW)
Preferred skills
Commercial compositional reservoir simulators (CMG GEM, ECLIPSE), Geomechanics (stress-strain relationships, fracture conductivity), digital rock physics/CT scanning
Technologies
CMG GEM, ECLIPSE, Python, MATLAB, LabVIEW
Responsibilities
Operate advanced gas expansion/liquid transient flow systems to measure CO2 mobility and adsorption; Quantify rock-fluid interactions under dynamic net confining stress; Upscale lab-derived parameters into compositional reservoir models for production forecasting; Translate fluid-interface mechanics into numerical transport constraints for field pilots
Seniority
Postdoctoral Fellow (Early-career researcher)