Research

Focus on reservoir characterization to understand the potential of subsurface hydrogen storage in depleted oil and gas reservoirs.

Develop backfill fracturing tool to estimate true in-situ strength of placed backfill. Aimed at helping mine operators and engineers to improve workplace safety, especially when working around/under backfilled areas.

Using experimental techniques, characterize the changes in hydraulic and geotechnical properties of mafic and ultramafic deposits when subject to carbon dioxide mineralization.

Develop molecular dynamics based techniques to investigate fluid-rock interactions from a mechanistic approach.

Develop state of the art experimental techniques to investigate in-situ behavior of reservoir rocks such as coal, shale, sandstone when subject to varied engineering applications. 

Investigated fines to core scale effect of coal-to-methane microbial bioconversion from a reservoir engineering perspective.