CERE has a long experience in studies of reservoir characterization and development. The mission is to create crucial background knowledge and to develop advanced technologies for hydrocarbon production from petroleum reservoirs.
Although a large body of our study is focused on the reservoirs in the Danish sector of the North Sea, CERE’s research in this direction has a much wider perspective.
With global energy consumption soaring and accessible hydrocarbon resources declining, the future hydrocarbon production must handle challenging situations including improved hydrocarbon production from developed reservoirs at low production rates and high water cuts, development of unconventional resources like shales, heavy oils and gas hydrates, and production from extreme environments like deeper reservoirs at high pressures and/or high temperatures.
All these have added more complexity to aspects regarding fluids, rocks and their interactions. Novel and nonstandard approaches based on high level research are needed to answer these challenges.
In addition, the research in reservoir engineering is also closely related to realization of industrial scale underground CO2 storage for the purpose of CO2 emission control.
The reservoir characterization studies in CERE involve:
CERE carries out both experimental and modeling studies. Advanced experimental facilities for phase behavior measurements and flow experiments in porous media are available