Foundation CMG Consortia on Reservoir Geomechanics for Unconventional Resources

加拿大的能源资源，特别是艾伯塔省巨大且具有挑战性的非常规资源(包括油砂、煤层气、沥青碳酸盐和最近的页岩气)，在向世界市场供应能源的潜力方面取得了显著进展。保护环境和减少温室气体排放的需要将严重考验艾伯塔省满足其和加拿大自身电力需求、扩大出口市场并确保其从资源中获得最大价值的能力。这些巨大而独特的资源矿藏的开发取决于高效、经济的开采技术；二氧化碳的减少、储存和/或有效利用；改进的土地恢复过程；以及对资源开发对环境影响的更好理解。拟议的教席研究计划调查土壤和岩石力学在非常规石油和天然气生产中的应用，以增进我们在这些领域的基础知识，并开发新的技术和工艺，以优化非传统资源的经济和环境可持续回收。**这项拟议的教席计划将为油藏地质力学领域的高素质人员提供世界级的研究培训机会。该研究计划还将探索新兴技术在数字制造技术中的应用，以创建创新的路径，以评估非均质性对非常规资源的储层地质力学行为的影响，非常规资源是制约我们理解非常规储层行为的一个关键的不确定性来源。更好地了解油砂、沥青碳酸盐和页岩的储集层地质力学行为，对于非常规资源回收项目的高效、安全运行至关重要，也将有助于改进储集层监测技术和生产优化活动。这最终将导致更有效的碳氢化合物回收，并可能降低能源消耗和温室气体排放。**

Canada's energy resources, in particular Alberta's large and challenging unconventional resources (including oil sands, coalbed methane, bitumen carbonates and more recently shale gas), have advanced significantly in their potential to supply energy to world markets. The need to protect the environment and reduce greenhouse gas emissions will severely test Alberta's ability to meet its and Canada's own power needs, expand export markets and ensure that it obtains maximum value from its resources. Development of these immense and unique resource deposits depends on efficient, economic extraction technologies; the reduction, storage and/or effective use of CO2; improved land restoration processes; and an improved understanding the environmental impact of resource development. The proposed Chair research program investigates the application of soil and rock mechanics in unconventional oil and gas production to advance our fundamental knowledge in these areas and to develop novel technologies and processes to optimize economic and environmentally sustainable recovery of unconventional resources. **This proposed Chair program will provide world-class research training opportunities for Highly Qualified Personnel in the field of reservoir geomechanics. The research program will also explore the application of emerging technologies in digital fabrication techniques to create innovative pathways for assessing the impact of heterogeneity on the reservoir geomechanical behavior of unconventional resources, a key source of uncertainty constraining our understanding of how unconventional reservoirs behave. Improved understanding of reservoir-geomechanical behaviour of the oil sands, bitumen carbonates and shales is critical in the efficient, safe operation of unconventional resource recovery projects and will also assist in improving reservoir surveillance techniques and production optimization activities. This will ultimately lead to more efficient hydrocarbon recovery and potentially lower energy consumption and lower greenhouse gas emissions.**