Workshop and Fieldwork with Researchers from the University of Strathclyde (WP6)
In July of 2018 four researchers from ENOS partner UniRoma1 spent a very productive and interesting week in the UK, networking and collaborating with scientists from Strathclyde University in Glasgow UK.
In July of 2018 four researchers from ENOS partner UniRoma1 spent a very productive and interesting week in the UK, networking and collaborating with scientists from Strathclyde University in Glasgow UK. Our hosts included Zoe Shipton, Jen Roberts, and Billy Andrews, prominent structural geologists from the Faults and Fluid Flow (FAFF) research group within the University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. After an initial workshop focussed on knowledge exchange related to CCS research, the two teams left Scotland for four days of field work on the north-east coast of England, near the town of Whitely Bay. Here coastal cliffs expose almost a kilometre of Westfalian sediments (mixed sandstones, siltstones, shales, coal) that are cross cut and offset by numerous faults and fracture networks. The excellent exposure allowed the researchers to conduct detailed structural and gas chemistry measurements together, comparing methodologies and discussing how the observations can be used to better understand CO2 migration processes along such discontinuities. This knowledge will be used to make computer models more accurate and realistic, thus contributing to the selection, design, and operation of safer CCS sites.
