
Reinier van NoortInstitute for Energy Technology | IFE · Department of Environmental Technology
Reinier van Noort
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September 2016 - present
September 2014 - August 2016
July 2011 - August 2014
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Barite settling in the annulus behind the casing is an undesired yet common occurrence during the life of a well. Over time, the drilling fluid left in the annulus settles, leaving behind solidified barite that can hinder slot recovery and plug and abandonment (P&A) operations by impeding the cut and pull process. During a P&A operation, Equinor ac...
The primary objective of this paper is to demonstrate an effective approach for mapping and quantifying progression rate of CO2 induced carbonation on wellbore cements. The method involves four steps: 1. molding and curing the sealant, 2. exposing axially to CO2, either super-critical CO2 saturated with H2O or H2O saturated with CO2, at a high diff...
Barite settling in the annulus behind the casing is an undesired yet common occurrence during the life of a well. Over time, the drilling fluid left in the annulus settles, leaving behind solidified barite that can hinder slot recovery and Plug & Abandonment (P&A) operations by impeding the cut and pull process. During a P&A operation, Equinor acqu...
Storage of compressed gases in lined rock caverns (LRC) has been proposed in order to buffer the peaks of energy intake/output for industrial/renewable systems. LRCs consist of a thin (1-2 cm) steel liner to ensure gas tightness, surrounded by a concrete layer (0.5-2 m) to transmit stresses to the host rock which acts as a pressure vessel. Advantag...
Wellbores used in underground production and storage activities, including carbon capture and storage (CCS), are typically sealed using sealants based on Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). However, leakage along these seals or through them during CCS operations can pose a significant threat to long-term storage integrity. In this review paper, we expl...
Self-healing wellbore sealants, that (chemically) react with leaking fluids such that when leakage pathways form, they are sealed rather than widened, can be a key technology for ensuring long-term seal integrity in CCS and other geological storage applications. Developing such sealants requires representative and reproducible testing methods, to a...
Erhardus Henning’s work on Hieb-Fechten is one of only a few 17th century German fencing treatises describing cut-based fencing. An expanded version of this text, containing a larger collection of lessons, can be found in British Library Add MS 17533 fol. 127v to 138v, titled only Daß Hieb Fechten . Based on the great similarities between these two...
As shale is the caprock over many reservoirs targeted for CO2 storage, shale permeability to CO2 has become an important concern. Measurements of this permeability need to be performed under in-situ conditions, with realistic temperatures, confining pressures and fluid pressures, and the effects of variables such as pressure, temperature, and shale...
Large-scale CO2 storage requires advanced understanding of the geomechanical response of the caprock subject to pressure build-up in the reservoir. CO2 injection into basin systems will need to approach rates of 100 Mt/y in order to achieve significant reduction in worldwide emissions and realize the large capacity of saline aquifers. High pressure...
The acidification of agricultural soils in high rainfall regions is usually countered by the application of finely ground calcite or dolomite. As this carbonate dissolves, soil pH is raised, but CO2 is released. Mining activities often produce large quantities of very fine silicate rock-derived powders that are commonly deposited in stockpiles. How...
Properly understanding the processes of maturation and expulsion of hydrocarbons from near impermeable shale source rocks under confined conditions is important for accurately predicting where oil and gas may be found. However, questions remain about the maturation and expulsion processes, for example considering the roles of fractures and hydrous...
During CO2 injection and storage, the exposure of shale caprock to dry supercritical CO2 can lead to clay dehydration and shrinkage. This has been proposed as a potential leakage risk for shale caprocks during CO2 storage. We report permeability measurements on pressed tablets of smectite and a smectite-quartz mixture, aimed at directly observing t...
It is generally challenging to predict the post-abandonment behaviour and integrity of wellbores. Leakage is, moreover, difficult to mitigate, particularly between the steel casing and outer cement sheath. Radially expanding the casing with some form of internal plug, thereby closing annular voids and fractures around it, offers a possible solution...
Geological carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an emerging technology that has been designed to mitigate the impact of human activities on global warming. In order to achieve public acceptance of this technology, one needs to guarantee its safety for the environment and the population. Potential leakage of CO2 from underground storage sites is one...
Subsurface mineralization of CO2 by injection into (hydro-)fractured peridotites has been proposed as a carbon sequestration method. It is envisaged that the expansion in solid volume associated with the mineralization reaction leads to a build-up of stress, resulting in the opening of further fractures. We performed CO2-mineralization experiments...
In this contribution, we will discuss two German fencing manuscripts - Mscr.Dresd.C.13 (SLUB Dresden) and Add MS 17533 (BL London). Both manuscripts present texts on thrust-fencing based on the teachings of Salvator Fabris. The dedication of manuscript C13 was signed by the famous fencing author Johann Georg Pascha. The author of one of the texts c...
In this contribution, we will discuss two German fencing manuscripts - Mscr.Dresd.C.13 (SLUB Dresden) and Add MS 17533 (BL London). Both manuscripts present texts on thrust-fencing based on the teachings of Salvator Fabris. The dedication of manuscript C13 was signed by the famous fencing author Johann Georg Pascha. The author of one of the texts c...
Flow in tight shales is thought to be largely confined to fractures and similar features. Therefore, how open such features are under in-situ conditions has a major impact on shale permeability. We performed 43 permeability measurements on one shale core sample, both when it was intact and after it had fractured, using either water or supercritical...
Chloride-induced corrosion of reinforced concrete is one of the main deterioration mechanisms leading to shortening of the service life of concrete structures. Therefore, assessment of the resistance of concrete to chloride ingress plays an important role in predicting the service life of such structures. The Rapid Chloride Migration (RCM) test is...
Whereas the dissolution of pure single phases (e.g. olivine and other mafic minerals) has been the focus of many studies, no investigation has been reported on the progress of reactions at and within polymineralic, transgranular fracture surfaces cutting peridotites. We document experiments that address the evolution of dissolving peridotite surfac...
In order to investigate directly the structure and properties of grain boundaries in silicate materials undergoing pressure
solution, in situ measurements of these properties are required. We report electrical impedance spectroscopy measurements,
performed, under hydrothermal conditions, on individual glass–glass and glass-quartz contacts undergoin...
Mineralization of carbon dioxide by subsurface reaction with olivine-rich peridotite has recently been proposed as a potential CO2-sequestration method. The abundance of olivine rocks at and near the Earth's surface and the stability of the product mineral phases, notably magnesite, make this an interesting option, especially as the in-situ tempera...
Most geologic CO2 sequestration technologies focus on sedimentary rocks, where the carbon dioxide is stored in a fluid phase. A possible alternative is to trap it as a mineral in the subsurface (in-situ) in basaltic or even (ultra)mafic rocks. Carbon dioxide in aqueous solution reacts with Mg-, Ca-, and Fe-bearing silicate minerals, precipitates as...
It is generally assumed in kinetic models for pressure solution in materials such as quartz that the effective dissolution rate coefficient in grain boundaries is equal to the conventional geochemical dissolution rate coefficient on a free surface. However, predictions based on this assumption usually overestimate both natural and experimental pres...
We report isostatic compaction experiments performed on granular quartz under hydrothermal conditions (3–129 μm of initial grain size, 300–600°C, 200 MPa of fluid pressure, and 25–100 MPa of effective pressure). From microstructural evidence, it was determined that, whereas microcracking controlled precompaction at room temperature, pressure soluti...
Two of the three processes making up the deformation mechanism of intergranular pressure solution, being dissolution and diffusion, take place in the grain boundary fluid phase. Hence, the structure and physical properties of wet grain boundaries under stress can be expected to influence the kinetics of both dissolution and diffusion, as a result o...
It is widely accepted that the structure of a grain boundary undergoing
pressure solution can have a strong influence on the rates at which
diffusive transport in the grain boundary occurs. However, the influence
of grain boundary structure on internal grain boundary dissolution rates
has received little attention, despite evidence that dissolution...
An unresolved issue in the study of pressure solution in rock materials is the dependence of grain boundary structure and
diffusive properties on the mutual orientation of neighbouring grain lattices. We report electrical measurements yielding
the diffusivity of differently oriented halite–glass and halite–halite contacts loaded in the presence of...