Senior Petroleum Geochemist / Basin Modeller
IGI’s Tiago Cunha recently attended the H-NAT 2025 summit in Paris, where he presented the latest advances in high-resolution, multiphase modelling for analysing H2 migration and trapping in the subsurface.
This work is the result of our collaboration with the MARUM Research Centre (Bremen University, Germany), where Dr. Javier García-Pintado and Prof. Dr. Marta Pérez-Gussinyé are investigating various aspects of the natural hydrogen cycle (https://www.marum.de/en/javier-garcia-pintado.html ).
The simulations demonstrate the importance of accounting for the coupling between pore pressures and mechanics via the poroelastoplastic behaviour of the matrix (changes in porosity, permeability and tortuosity). Considering these feedbacks is essential for understanding the migration and trapping processes of geological (natural) hydrogen, and for predicting the behaviour of reservoirs under production conditions.
