NGL’s rock characterisation facilities help to understand properties in rocks such as fluid flow, strength and the physical changes of the rock under different conditions.
Much of the equipment, including the autonomous and true triaxial cells, has been custom-designed by CSIRO researchers whose engineering proficiency has contributed to the development of this equipment over a period of 20 years. The in-house design means that the equipment is flexible and can be further adapted to suit the experiment requirements and clients’ needs.
Location
Australian Resources Research Centre, Kensington, Perth
Contact
Linda Stalker
Linda.Stalker@csiro.au
CCS applications
The rock characterisation equipment is used during site characterisation to better understand the capability of reservoirs to store CO2 and develop baseline data. It is also used once CO2 has been injected to monitor changes and movement of the injected CO2.
Other applications
The rock characterisation facilities are also useful for analysis in the following fields:
- Oil and gas including oil field stability
- Mining
- Sand production predictions
Example Equipment
- Autonomous triaxial stress cell (ATC)
- Two True triaxial cell (TTSC) (one for sandstone, one for shale)
- Medical CT scanner
- Laser Ramen microspectrometer
- Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer
- Nanoindenter
- NMR core holder
- Geochemical Reactor
Other facilities you may be interested in
Core-flooding and imaging
NGL's core-flooding and imagining capability is highly-specialised and can be used for carbon storage research as well as applications in the oil and gas industry.
Moderate-depth geophysics
Equipment for reservoir characterisation including vibrator seismic-source vehicles, borehole seismic source equipment, wireless geophones and recording equipment.
Geochemistry
Gas and inorganic geochemistry facility used for site characterisation, monitoring and verification.
