Energi simulation industrial research consortium in reservoir geomechanics

能源创新对我们的未来至关重要。由于目前的技术在确保更清洁的环境的同时将我们的自然资源转化为可销售的能源供应方面存在局限性，迫切需要继续开发尖端技术，以便更有效和负责任地利用非传统碳氢化合物来源。对能源研究项目和创新系统的协调战略投资将维持和加强加拿大作为开创性研究和负责任地发展常规和非常规能源生产方面的世界领导者的地位。Energi模拟公司、资源行业公司和艾伯塔大学联手开发了NSERC合作研究与开发(CRD)计划，该计划将把土壤和岩石力学原理应用于非常规资源在多个尺度上的储层地质力学表征。该研究计划还将进行油藏地质力学建模和生产优化，这将促进我们在这些领域的基础知识，并使我们能够开发新的技术和工艺，以实现非常规资源的经济和环境可持续回收。本申请是与我们的许多第一阶段工业合作伙伴正在进行的合作研发计划的第二阶段。如果加拿大要发现和开发下一代能源储备并管理其带来的环境挑战，它必须首先找到和培养下一代能源行业领导者-他们将承担受过教育和知情的风险，建立公司，追求愿景，并在此过程中发现和生产能源来为世界提供燃料。NSERC CRD项目由最先进的地理创新环境支持，将为研究生、博士后研究员、研究工程师以及初级和高级研究教授创造一个创新的、令人兴奋的研究环境，以培养下一代领导者。

Energy innovation is critical to our future. With the limitations of current technology to convert our natural resources to marketable energy supplies while ensuring a cleaner environment, there is a dire need to continue developing cutting-edge technologies for increasingly efficient and responsible utilization of unconventional hydrocarbon sources. Coordinated strategic investments in energy research programs and innovation systems will sustain and bolster Canada's position as a world leader in pioneering research and the responsible development of conventional and unconventional energy production. Energi Simulation, resource industry companies and the University of Alberta have joined forces to develop a NSERC Collaborative Research and Development (CRD) program that will apply soil and rock mechanics principles to reservoir geomechanical characterization at multiple scales for unconventional resources. The research program will also pursue reservoir geomechanical modelling and production optimization that will advance our fundamental knowledge in these areas and allow us to develop novel technologies and processes for economic and environmentally sustainable recovery of unconventional resources. The present application represents the second phase of an ongoing collaborative research and development program with many of our first phase industrial partners.If Canada is to find and develop the next generation of energy reserves and manage the environmental challenges it poses, it must first find and develop the next generation of energy industry leaders-leaders who will take educated and informed risks, build companies, pursue a vision and, in the process, find and produce the energy to fuel the world. This NSERC CRD program, supported by the state-of-the-art GeoInnovation Environments, will create an innovative, exciting research environment for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research engineers and junior and senior research professors to train the next generation of leaders.