30 April

Welcome and Coffee

Hydromechanical control of fault sealing in clay formations measured with fluid injection experiments – Yves Guglielmi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

Simulations of the lateral Paleogene caprock property variations in the Northern North Sea, with focus on smectite-rich ash deposit – Ane Elisabet Lothe (SINTEF, Norway)

Coffee break

Talk about CITRU (title tbd) – Herfried Madritsch (swisstopo, Switzerland)

How to deal with legacy wells for large-scale CO2 storage – Bastien Dupuy (SINTEF, Norway)

Potential of coda wave interferometry to monitor gas storage and caprock integrity in Opalinus clay – Jonas Junker (ETHZ, Switzerland)

Portable mass spectometry for mid- and long-term monitoring of gas storage sites – A cost-benefit perspective – Yama Tomonaga (Entracers, Switzerland)

Fracture nucleation event mapping – Near- and Far-Field Imaging of Rock Damage Using Time-Reversal Acoustics and Nonlinear Elasticity – Harvey Goodman (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

The importance of being independent: the case of Mont Terri – Thomas Flüeler (ETHZ, Switzerland)

Concluding remarks – Christophe Nussbaum (swisstopo, Switzerland)

Lunch

Visit of the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory

End of rock laboratory visit