Georesources beneath our feet

16 Jun 2022, 09:30 → 17 Jun 2022, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

House H (GFZ Potsdam)

The North German Basin (NGB) underlies the southernmost North Sea and Baltic Sea as well as most of Northern Germany (including Kiel and Potsdam). It contains many sedimentary formations of interest for i) geothermal energy systems (including heat/cold storage); ii) sub-surface storage of nuclear waste, CO2 and H2; and iii) Europe’s largest Cu deposits.

The T8 Workshop “Georesources beneath our feet” will bring together researchers working on these different aspects of the NGB. The major aim of the workshop is to learn about NGB related research activities (recently finished, currently running, planned) of T8 scientists in GFZ, Geomar and UFZ; discuss the potential for future collaboration; and make use of existing expertise, data and models.

Corona Info: Please wear FFP2 masks when moving in House H. We kindly ask you to self-test before the workshop and do not participate if you feel any Covid Symptoms.

New Mattermost channel:

https://mattermost.hzdr.de/georesources/channels/north-german-basin

Campus_T8workshop.pdf

NGB-Workshop_Programm.pdf

Thursday 16 June

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome and Intro

Introduction and organisational things

Speaker: Sarah Gleeson

10:15 → 11:15 Geodynamics and Geothermal use

10:15 Structural evolution and the thermal field of the NGB

Speaker: Leni Scheck-Wenderoth (GFZ)

10:30 Exploration and use of geothermal reservoirs in NE Germany

Speaker: Karsten Obst (Landesamt Geologie M-V)

11:15 → 11:45 Coffee Break

11:45 → 13:30 Geodynamics and Geothermal use

Conveners: Haibing Shao (UFZ), Judith Bott (GFZ)

11:45 Thermal characterization of the North German Basin: Experiments and field campaigns for geothermal exploration

Speaker: Sven Fuchs (GFZ)

12:00 GeoFern: Suitability of Mesozoic aquifers for subsurface energy storage in the North German Basin

Speaker: Jan-Kristian Piekarski (GFZ)

12:15 Geothermal research activities in the Berlin - Brandenburg region with focus on reservoir fluid properties and their potential for critical raw material extraction

Speaker: Simona Regenspurg (GFZ)

12:30 3-D horizontal and vertial seismic profiling at the geothermal site Groß-Schönebeck

Speaker: Charlotte Krawczyk (GFZ)

12:45 Modeling neighborhood-scale shallow geothermal energy utilization: a case study in Berlin

Speaker: Jakob Randow (UFZ)

13:00 Discussion

13:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 15:00 Geodynamics and Geothermal use

Convener: Sven Fuchs (GFZ)

14:00 Georesources and coupled THM models - applications to the NGB

Speaker: Mauro Cacace (GFZ)

14:15 An environmental information system for the exploration of energy systems in Schleswig Holstein

Speaker: Nico Graebling (UFZ)

14:30 Enhanced NAPL Remediation Caused by Thermal Energy Storage in Shallow Subsurface

Speaker: Haibing Shao (UFZ)

14:45 Parametric optimization and comparative study of an organic Rankine cycle power plant for two-phase geothermal sources

Speaker: Chaofan Chen (UFZ)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Geological Storage

Convener: Leni Scheck-Wenderoth (GFZ)

15:30 Subsurface on-shore storage of climate and energy relevant gases: The example of the Ketzin pilot site in the North German Basin

Speaker: Conny Schmidt-Hattenberger (GFZ)

15:45 A monolithic thermo-hydro-mechanical two-phase flow formulation for modelling gas migration in geotechnical barriers

Speaker: Norbert Grunwald (UFZ)

16:00 From Workflows towards Digital Twins for Geological Repositories

Speaker: Olaf Kolditz (UFZ)

16:15 Interactive 4D Visualisation of the Mont Terri Underground Laboratory in Virtual Reality

Speaker: Nico Graebling (UFZ)

16:30 Discussion

17:00 → 18:00 Break and Bretzels

Friday 17 June

09:00 → 11:00 Raw Materials, Carbon resources and Environmental aspects

Convener: Joe Magnall (GFZ)

09:00 Diagenesis and carbonate replacement sulfide mineralization in the Permian Kupferschiefer (Saale Basin East Germany)

Speaker: Mohammed Seid Mohammedyasin (GFZ)

09:15 Organic Geochemistry in the North German Basin - Part I: Elements of the fossil carbon cycle

Speaker: Hans-Martin Schulz (GFZ)

09:30 Organic Geochemistry in the North German Basin - Part II: Monitoring the role of organic carbon and microbial systems on the utilization of the deep subsurface

Speaker: Andrea Vieth-Hillebrand (GFZ)

09:45 Quantification of Methane leakage in abondoned oil wells in the North Sea

Speaker: Matthias Häckel (Geoomar)

10:00 Gas leakage and leakage mitigation studies

Speaker: Christian Deusner (Geomar)

10:15 A micrometeorological method for quantifying gas leakage

Speaker: Torsten Sachs (GFZ)

10:30 Slow Migrations of the North Sea: An Anthropological Investigation of the Energy Transition in the Shetland Islands and Off-Shore Oil and Gas Assets of the Northern North Sea

Speaker: Gretchen Bakke (IASS)

10:45 Discussion

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:15 Raw Materials, Carbon resources and Environmental aspects

Convener: Hans-Martin Schulz (GFZ)

11:30 Investigating seismicity accompanying gas exploitation and storage

Speaker: Cesca Simone (GFZ)

11:45 Numerical modelling of reservoir depletion induced seismicity in Groningen natural gas reservoir in the Netherlands using distinct element modelling

Speaker: Jeoung Seok Yoon (GFZ/Dynafrac)

12:00 Reservoir Monitoring using Controlled Source Electromagnetics ? A case study from a producing oil field in NW Germany

Speaker: Kristina Tietze (GFZ)

12:15 → 13:00 General Discussion

Guiding Questions:
Could we produce a "road map" document on the NGB describing potential uses of different Formations in the sub-surface and the associated ESG issues?
What would need to be done in terms of environmental baseline studies, monitoring, remediation if we want to use Formation X for Georesource Y etc. (coupling underground and above ground aspects)?
How do stakeholders choose if there is more than one potential use? What about governance of underground usage?

Where do we see the biggest potential for future research in the NGB?
Where do we see potential fields for cooperation between different centres and scientific fields?
What competences are missing?
How to make best use of new models, technical developments, existing infrastructure and generated data?