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How can we more accurately predict the size of hydrocarbon column that a fault can hold before we drill an exploration well?

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Why is it important?

Reduce the pre-drill risk in hydrocarbon exploration. Understand capacity of traps to store CO2 without leaking, predict pressure compartmentalisation.

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Professor Jim R Underschultz
University of Queensland

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This page is a summary of: Capillary seal capacity of faults under hydrodynamic conditions, Geofluids, January 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/gfl.12166.
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