Event type:
Lecture, Regional Group
Organised by:
Central Scotland Regional Group
Venue:
University of Strathclyde, James Weir Building
Event status:
EVENT CLOSED
The SHEER project is an EU-funded research project that was established to address the understanding, prevention and mitigation of the potential environmental impacts and risks from shale gas exploration and exploitation. The project team is an international consortium of academic and industry partners from Italy, the UK, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA. The main targets of the research are development of a probabilistic procedure for assessing the short- and long-term risks from shale gas exploitation associated with groundwater contamination, air pollution and induced seismicity.
The groundwater monitoring and assessment are being led by RSKW Ltd and the University of Glasgow. A series of monitoring wells has been established at a shale gas site in Pomerania, North Poland, with baseline water monitoring undertaken between December 2015 and June 2016. The fracture stimulation was undertaken in late June/early July and monitoring at the site will continue for at least the next two years.
Data being collected includes continuous water level, temperature and conductivity measurements, water samples for laboratory analysis and field measurement of physico-chemical parameters during the sampling campaigns. In addition to the site data collected during the project, the study makes use of existing data from the area, including from previously drilled wells and published geological and hydrogeological mapping.
The talk will discuss the challenges involved in the early stages of the project, including establishing a suitable monitoring network around the site, what can be determined from the monitoring to date, and what future challenges may be anticipated.
More information on the Central Scotland Regional Group can be found on our webpage.
Venue
University of Strathclyde - Room 5.09a (Knowledge Exchange Hub), James Weir Building, Level 5, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow G1 1XJ
Time
6.00pm for 6:15pm
Presenters
Professor Paul Younger CGeol FGS FREng FICE FRSE
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Rankine Chair of Engineering, University of Glasgow |
Dr Nelly Montcoudiol FGS
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Research Assistant, University of Glasgow
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Dr Catherine Isherwood CGeol FGS EurGeol
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Senior Hydrogeologist, RSKW |
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