Primary Convener:
Lluís Saló Salgado, Harvard University

Convener:
Hannah Lu, University of Texas at Austin
Josimar Silva, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
Lydia Bailey, Carbon Solutions

Early Career Convener:
Jimin Zhou, Stanford University

Chair:
Lluís Saló Salgado, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hannah Lu, Stanford University

Subsurface energy-related technologies involve injecting, circulating, and extracting fluids from the subsurface. Critical aspects related to faults and fractures that must be better understood and managed for large-scale deployment of these technologies are (1) discontinuity architecture and permeability evolution, (2) fault and fracture flows, and (3) geomechanical deformation, including fault instability. This session welcomes observational and modeling approaches including field, analytical, numerical, and data-intensive methods that aim at better understanding, quantifying, monitoring, and managing 1-3 above. Submissions are encouraged from a broad range of disciplines including, but not limited to geology, geomechanics, hydrogeology, reservoir engineering, geophysics, rock physics, and computation.

Index Terms
1645 Solid Earth
1822 Geomechanics
1873 Uncertainty assessment
8010 Fractures and faults

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Cross-Listed:
MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
V - Volcanology‚ Geochemistry and Petrology
S - Seismology
GC - Global Environmental Change