Doctor Al Moghadam

Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

Biography

​Al Moghadam holds a PhD in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada. He has eight years of experience in various academic, research, and consulting positions in Canada and Europe. His main areas of expertise include reservoir geomechanics and multiphase fluid flow. He has worked on a variety of projects related to shale gas, well integrity, SAGD dilation start-up, and fluid imbibition in shales. Since joining TNO in 2019, he has been developing models and experiments to investigate cement integrity and well leakage in CCUS, geothermal, and hydrocarbon applications.

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CO2 storage in depleted reservoirs: Probabilistic modelling for assessment of well leakage risk
06:00 PM

Carbon storage is considered to be a necessary technology in bridging the transition to a low carbon energy mix. Environmental risks related to the geological storage of CO2 such as well leakage, fault reactivation, seismicity and caprock failure, need to be minimized. In this work, we developed a probabilistic model to assess the risk of cement sheath failure and the associated well leakage. The approach integrates a finite element model for well integrity analysis with a probabilistic model based on Bayesian Belief Networks (BBN).

Doctor Al Moghadam

Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)

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