List of all publications by staff and students of the GeoEnergy Group
under review/submitted
Wen, M., Busch, A., Nick Harpers, N., Forbes Inskip, N., Buckman, J., Singh, K., Miller, P. Mechanical responses and permeability evolution in porous sandstones under cyclic loading conditions: implications for subsurface hydrogen storage. Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, submitted.
Head, S., Underhill, J.R., Jamieson, R.; Busch, A. Evaluating the role of caprock in controlling natural accumulation and storage of CO2 in the East Irish Sea Basin. Geoenergy, submitted.
Head, S., Underhill, J.R., Jamieson, R.; Busch, A. Distribution and origin of CO2 in the East Irish Sea Basin: implications for carbon storage. Geoenergy, submitted.
Forbes Inskip, N., Harpers, N., Shail, R., Claes, H., den Hartog, S., Busch, A. Reservoir properties of fault-related hydrothermally altered granites in Cornwall: Implications for geothermal energy prospectivity, Geothermics, submitted. Preprint available here: https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.170110671.11387934/v1.
Forbes Inskip, N., Phillips, T., Borisochev, G., Esegbue, O., Bisdom, K., Meredith, P., Callow, B. and Busch, A., Linking Fracture Roughness and Orientation to Bedding: Impact on Fluid Flow. Earth and Space Science Open Archive: 21.
2024
Harpers, N., Forbes Inskip, N., Allen, M. J. , Buckman, J., Faulkner, D. R. , Claes, H., den Hartog, S., Busch, A. Effects of chemical alteration on frictional properties in a deep, granitic, geothermal system in Cornwall: Direct shear experiments at near in situ conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JB028861.
de Jonge-Anderson, I., Widyanita, A., Busch, A., Doster, F., Nicholson, U. New Insights into the Structural and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Malay Basin Using 3D Seismic Data: Implications for Regional Carbon Capture and Storage Potential, Basin Research 36, 4, e12885, https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12885.
Phillips, T., Bultreys, T., Van Stappen, J., Singh, K., Achuo-Dze, S., Van Offenwert, S., Callow, B., Borji, M., Boersheim, E.C., Novak, V., Schlepütz, C.M., Cnudde, V., Doster, F., Busch, A. Influence of Local Aperture Heterogeneity on Invading Fluid Connectivity during Rough Fracture Drainage. Transport in Porous Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-024-02117-5.
Smith, D., Busch, A., Arnold, D., Hough, E. Numerical modelling of the effects of permeability contrasts on underground hydrogen storage in sandstone reservoirs. Geoenergy 2, 1, geoenergy2023-039. https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.1144/geoenergy2023-039.
Rizzo, R.E., Forbes Inskip, N., Fazeli, H., Betlem, P., Bisdom, K., Kampman, N., Snippe, J., Senger, K., Doster, F., Busch, A. Modelling Geological CO2 Leakage: Integrating Fracture Permeability and Fault Zone Outcrop Analysis. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, accepted. Preprint available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4571419.
Jangda, Z., Menke, H., Busch, A., Geiger, S., Bultreys, T., Singh, K. Subsurface hydrogen storage controlled by small-scale rock heterogeneities. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 60. 1192-1202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.02.233.
Rezaeyan, A., Kampman, N., Pipich, V., Barnsley, L.C., Rother, G., Magill, C., Ma, J., Busch, A. Compaction and Clay Content Control Mudrock Porosity. Energy, 289, 129966 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.129966.
2023
Rezaeyan, A., Kampman, N., Pipich, V., Barnsley, L., Rother, G., Magill, C., Ma, J., Busch, A. Evolution of Pore Structure in Organic Lean and Organic Rich Mudrocks. Energy & Fuels 37, 16446-16460, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c02180.
Harpers, N., Wen, W., Miller, P., Hangx, S., Busch, A. The Harpers THMC Flow Bench: A triaxial multi-reactor setup for the investigation of long-term coupled Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical fluid-rock interaction. Review of Scientific Instruments, 94, 095112, https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0160906.
Gonzalez, P.S., Cahill, A.G., Beckie, R.D., Busch, A. Evaluating Propensity for Fugitive Gas Migration from Integrity Compromised Oil and Gas Wells in the Peace Region, British Columbia, Canada, with a Petrophysical Approach, Marine and Petroleum Geology,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106260.
Busch, A., Hangx, S., Vialle, S.. Rizzo, R., Kampman. N. Mechanical weakening of a mudrock seal by reaction with CO2-charged fluids. Geology, 51 (7): 616–620, https://doi.org/10.1130/G51250.1.
Jangda, Z., Menke, H., Busch, A., Geiger, S., Bultreys, T., Lewis, H. and Singh, K., 2022. Pore-Scale Visualization of Hydrogen Storage in a Sandstone at Subsurface Pressure and Temperature Conditions: Trapping, Dissolution and Wettability. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2022.09.082.
2022
Gonzalez, P.S., Cahill, A.G., Timmis, R., Busch, A. Constraining well integrity and propensity for fugitive gas migration in surficial soils at onshore decommissioned oil and gas well sites in England. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2022.103712.
Snippe, J., Kampman, N., Bisdom, K.Tambach, T., March, R, Maier, C., Phillips, T., Forbes Inskip, N., Doster, F., Busch, A. Modelling of long-term along-fault flow of CO2 from a natural reservoir. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2022.103666
Rother, G., Gautam, S., Liu, T., Cole, D.R., Busch, A. and Stack, A.G., 2022. Molecular Structure of Adsorbed Water Phases in Silica Nanopores. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c10162
Kubeyev, A., Forbes Inskip, N., Phillips, T., Zhang, Y., Maier, C., Bisdom, K., Busch, A., Doster, F. Numerical modelling of stress-permeability relationships for rough fractures based on surface scans using rock mechanics and Stokes equation. Transport in Porous Media, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01719-7.
Cahill, A.G., Samano, P.S.G., 2022. Prioritizing stewardship of decommissioned onshore oil and gas wells in the United Kingdom based on risk factors associated with potential long-term integrity. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 114, 103560. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2021.103560.
2021
Rezaeyan, A., Pipich, V., Ma, J., Leu, L., Seemann, T., Rother, G., Barnsley, L.C., Busch, A.. Predicting Fluid Flow Regime, Permeability, and Diffusivity in Mudrocks from Multiscale Pore Characterisation. Transport in Porous Media, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-021-01717-9.
den Hartog, S. A. M., Thomas, M. Y., Faulkner, D. R. How do laboratory friction parameters compare with observed fault slip and geodetically derived friction parameters? Insights from the Longitudinal Valley Fault, Taiwan, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JB022390
Tse-Hua Chao, J., Cahill, A.G., Van De Ven, C.J.C., Beckie, R.D. Fate of Fugitive Natural Gas in Heterogeneous Near-surface Sediments in a Region of Extensive Petroleum Resource Development. Geophysical Research Letters, e2021GL095200.
Goetz, A.M., Beckie, R.D., Cahill, A.G. Groundwater recharge in a confined paleovalley setting, Northeast British Columbia, Canada. Hydrogeology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10040-021-02359-3
Lyu, Q., Tan, J., Li, L., Ju, Y., Busch, A., Wood, D.A., Ranjith, PG, Middleton, R. Shu, B., Hu, C., Wanga, Z., Hua, R. The role of supercritical carbon dioxide for recovery of shale gas and sequestration in gas shale reservoirs. Energy and Environmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0EE03648J
Phillips, T., Bultreys, T., Bisdom, K., Kampman, N., Van Offenwert, S., Mascini, A., Cnudde, V., Busch, A. A Systematic Investigation into the Control of Roughness on the Flow Properties of 3D-Printed Fractures. Water Resources Research. DOI 10.1029/2020WR028671
Rezaeyan, A., Pipich, V. Busch, A. MATSAS: A Small Angle Scattering Computer Tool for Porous Systems. International Journal of Applied Crystallography 54. DOI 10.1107/S1600576721000674
Forbes Inskip, N.D., Meredith, P.G. Fracture Properties of Nash Point Limestone and Implications for Fracturing of Layered Carbonate Sequences. Rock Mech Rock Eng (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-021-02403-4
Claes, H., Miranda, T., Falcao, T.C., Soete, J., Mohammadi, Z., Zieger, L., Marcelle, E.M., Aguillar, J., Schmatz, J., Busch, A., Swennen, R. A depositional model for organic, clay-rich, lacustrine carbonate spherulites and lime-mudstone laminites (Aptian, Araripe Basin, NE Brazil). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 104988. DOI 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.104988
Sandl, E., Cahill, A.G., Welch, L., Beckie, R., 2021. Characterizing oil and gas wells with fugitive gas migration through Bayesian multilevel logistic regression. Science of The Total Environment, 144678. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144678
Milton-Thompson, O., Javadi, A.A., Kapelan, Z., Cahill, A.G., Welch, L., 2021. Developing a fuzzy logic-based risk assessment for groundwater contamination from well integrity failure during hydraulic fracturing. Science of The Total Environment, 145051. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145051
2020
Phillips, T., Kampman, N., Bisdom, K., Forbes Inskip, N.D., den Hartog, S.A.M., Cnudde, V., Busch, A., 2020. Controls on the intrinsic flow properties of mudrock fractures: A review of their importance in subsurface storage. Earth-Science Reviews, 103390. DOI 0.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103390.
Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., Arif, M., Lebedev, M., Busch, A., Sarmadivaleh, M., Iglauer, S., 2020. Carbonate rock mechanical response to CO2 flooding evaluated by a combined X-ray computed tomography – DEM method. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 103675. DOI 10.1016/j.jngse.2020.103675.
Chao, J.T.-H., Cahill, A.G., Lauer, R.M., Van De Ven, C.J.C., Beckie, R.D., 2020. Propensity for fugitive gas migration in glaciofluvial deposits: An assessment of near-surface hydrofacies in the Peace Region, Northeastern British Columbia. Science of The Total Environment 749, 141459. DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141459.
Forbes Inskip, N., Browning, J., Meredith, P., Gudmundsson, A., 2020. Conditions for fracture arrest in layered rock sequences. Results in Geophysical Sciences, 100001. DOI doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c02595
den Hartog, S.A.M., D.R. Faulkner, and C.J. Spiers, Low friction coefficient of phyllosilicate fault gouges and the effect of humidity: Insights from a new microphysical model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. e2019JB018683. doi: 10.1029/2019JB018683
Zhang, Y., Lebedev, M., Smith, G., Jing, Y., Busch, A., & Iglauer, S. (2020). Nano-mechanical Properties and Pore-Scale Characterization of Different Rank Coals. Natural Resources Research, 29(3), 1787-1800. doi:10.1007/s11053-019-09572-8
Gehne, S., Forbes Inskip, N. D., Benson, P. M., Meredith, P. G., & Koor, N. Fluid-driven tensile fracture and fracture toughness in Nash Point shale at elevated pressure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, e2019JB018971. doi:10.1029/2019jb018971
Hirauchi, K. I., Yamamoto, Y., den Hartog, S. A. M., & Niemeijer, A. R. The role of metasomatic alteration on frictional properties of subduction thrusts: An example from a serpentinite body in the Franciscan Complex, California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 531. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115967
Busch, A., Hangx, S.J.T., Marshall, J.D., Wentinck, H.M. Swelling clay minerals and containment risk assessment for the storage seal of the Peterhead CCS project. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 94, 102924, doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.102924.
2019
Plint T, Longstaffe FJ, Zazula G., Giant beaver palaeoecology inferred from stable isotopes. Scientific Reports 9:7179, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-43710-9.
Ausín B, Magill CR, Haghipour N, Fernández Á, Wacker L, Hodell D, Baumann KH, Eglinton TI, (In)coherent multiproxy signals in marine sediments: implications for high-resolution paleoclimate reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 515:38, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.003.
J Liu, Y Zheng, H Lin, X Wang, M Li, Y Liu, M Yu, M Zhao, Y Xin, N Pedentchouk, CR Magill, DJ Lea-Smith, W-J Zhang, H Zhong & J Tian, Proliferation of hydrocarbon degrading microbes at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Microbiome 7:47, DOI: 10.1186/s40168-019-0652-3.
Magill CR, G Eglinton & TI Eglinton, Isotopic variance among plant lipid homologues correlates with biodiversity patterns of their source communities. PLOS One 14:e0212211, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212211.
Ausín B, CR Magill, N Haghipour, L Wacker, AHL Voelker, D Hodell, N Looser, S Bernasconi & TI Eglinton, Radiocarbon age offsets between two surface dwelling planktonic foraminifera species during abrupt climate events in the SW Iberian margin. Paleoceanography 34:63, DOI: 10.1029/2018PA003490.
Forde, O. N., Cahill, A., Beckie, R. D., Mayer, K. U., Barometric-pumping controls fugitive gas emissions from a vadose zone natural gas release. Scientific Reports, 9 (1), 14080. 10.1038/s41598-019-50426-3
Forde, O.N., Cahill, A.G., Mayer, K.U., Mayer, B., Simister, R.L.; Finke, N., Crowe, S.A., Cherry, J.A., Parker, B.L., Hydro-biogeochemical impacts of fugitive methane on a shallow unconfined aquifer. The science of the total environment, DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.06.322
Busch, A.; Han, F.; Magill, C., Paleofloral Dependence of Coal Methane Sorption Capacity. International Journal of Coal Geology, DOI: 10.1016/j.coal.2019.103232
Busch, A.; Hangx, S.; Wentinck, H. M.; Marshall, J., Swelling clay minerals and containment risk assessment for the storage seal of the Peterhead CCS project. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, submitted.
Zwingmann, H., Den Hartog, S.A.M., Todd, A., The effect of sub-seismic fault slip processes on the isotopic signature of clay minerals – Implications for K-Ar dating of fault zones. Chemical Geology, DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.03.034
2018
Magill CR, P Wenk, B Ausin, C McIntyre, L Skinner, A Martinez-Garcia, DA Hodell, GH Haug, W Kenney & TI Eglinton, Transient hydrodynamic effects influence organic carbon signatures in marine sediments. Nature Communications 9:4690, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06973-w.
McClure SB, Magill CR, Podrug E, Moore A, Culleton BJ & Kennett DJ, Fatty acid-specific d13C values reveal earliest Mediterranean cheese production 7,200 years ago. PLOS One 13:e0202807, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202807.
Bakker, E., Kaszuba, J.P., Den Hartog, S.A.M. and Hangx, S.J.T. Chemo-mechanical behavior of clay-rich fault gouges affected by CO2-bring-rock interactions. Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1002/ghg.1831.
Zhang, M., Busch, A., Spiers, C, Peach, C., Wentinck, H. Swelling stress development in smectites under subsurface CO2 storage conditions. Journal of Geophysical Research – Sold Earth, under review
Rother, G., Cheshire, M., Leu, L., Bertier, P., Busch, A., Wallacher, D., Hauss, T., Grimm, N., Gautam, S., Cole, D.R.. Geo-Fluid Sorption to Dry and Wet Montmorillonite Clay – Accessibility of the Interlayers. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, under review.
Li, W., Ren, T., Busch, A., den Hartog, S.A.M., Cheng, Y., Qiao, W. and Li, B. Architecture, stress state and permeability of a fault zone in Jiulishan coal mine in China: Implication for coal and gas outbursts. International Journal of Coal Geology 198, 1-13, doi: 10.1016/j.coal.2018.09.002.
Forbes Inskip, N.D., Meredith, P.G., Chandler, M.R. & Gudmundsson, A. 2018. Fracture properties of Nash Point shale as a function of orientation to bedding. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JB015943.
Zihms, S., Lewis, H., Miranda, T., Hall, S. and M. Somerville, J. (in review) Fracture Reconstruction and Analysis of Low Permeability Carbonates using x-ray Tomography for Comparison with Outcrop Data. Geosciences.
Lutz-Bueno, V., Arboleda, C., Leu, L., Blunt, M.J., Busch, A., Georgiadis, A., Bertier, P., Schmatz, L., Varga, Y., Villanueva-Perez, P., Wang, Y., Lebugle, M., David, C., Stampanoni, M., Diaz, A., Guizar-Sicairos M., Menzel, A. Model-free classification of X-ray scattering signals applied to image segmentation. Journal of Applied Crystallography 51(5), doi: 10.1107/S1600576718011032.
Busch, A., Kampman, N., Bertier, P., Harrington, J. F., Pipich, V., Feoktystov, A., Leu, L., Aertens, M. & Jacops, E. Predicting effective diffusion coefficients in mudrocks using fractal dimensions: A small angle neutron scattering study. Water Resources Research, 54, doi: 10.1029/2018WR023425.
Zhang, M., Spiers, C. J., Busch, A. & Wentinck, H. M. Swelling stress development in confined smectite clays through exposure to CO2. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 74, 49-61, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.04.014.
Busch, A.; Kampman, N., Migration and Leakage of CO2 From Deep Geological Storage Sites. In Geological Carbon Storage, Vialle, S.; Ajo‐Franklin, J.; Carey, J. W. (Eds.) https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119118657.ch14.
Faulkner, D.R., Sanchez-Roa, C., Boulton, C. and Den Hartog, S.A.M. Pore fluid pressure development in compacting fault gouge in theory, experiments and nature. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 123, doi: 10.1002/2017JB015130.
2017
Fagereng, Å and Den Hartog, S.A.M. Subduction megathrust creep governed by pressure solution and frictional-viscous flow. Nature Geoscience, 10, 51-57, doi: 10.1038/ngeo2857.
Buckmann, J., Bankole, S., Zihms, S.G., Lewis, H., Couples, G., Corbett, P. Quantifying porosity through automated image collection and batch image processing: case study of three carbonates and an aragonite cemented sandstone. Geoscience 2017, 7(3), 70 http://ow.ly/FhC230ezPad
Daniels, K., Harrington, J.F., Zihms, S.G., Wiseall, A. Bentonite permeability at elevated temperature. Geosciences. 7. http://ow.ly/qmBt30cO3N6
Kampman, N., P. Bertier, A. Busch, J. Snippe, J. Harrington, V. Pipich, A. Maskell, and M. Bickle. Validating Reactive Transport Models of CO2-brine-Rock Reactions in Caprocks Using Observations from a Natural CO2 Reservoir, Energy Procedia, 114, 4902-4916, doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1632.
Wentinck, H. M., and A. Busch. Modelling of CO2 diffusion and related poro-elastic effects in a smectite-rich cap rock above a reservoir used for CO2 storage, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 454, 155-173, doi: 10.1144/sp454.4.
Busch, A., K. Schweinar, N. Kampman, A. Coorn, V. Pipich, A. Feoktystov, L. Leu, A. Amann-Hildenbrand, and P. Bertier. Determining the porosity of mudrocks using methodological pluralism, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 454, 15-38, doi: 10.1144/sp454.1.
2016
Fang, Y., Den Hartog, S.A.M., Elsworth, D., Marone, C.J. and Cladouhos, T. Anomalous distribution of microearthquakes in the Newberry Geothermal Reservoir: mechanisms and implications. Geothermics, 63, 62-73, doi: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2015.04.005.
Leu, L., Georgiadis, A., Blunt, M.J., Busch, A., Bertier, P., Schweinar, K., Liebi, M., Menzel, A., Ott, H. Multiscale Description of Shale Pore Systems by Scanning SAXS and WAXS Microscopy, Energy & Fuels 30, 10282–1029, doi: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b02256.
Kampman, N., Busch, A., Bertier, P., Snippe, J., Hangx, S., Pipich, V., Di, Z., Rother, G., Harrington, J.F., Kemp, S.J., Evans, J.P., Maskell, A., Chapman, H.J., Bickle, M.J. Observational evidence for the long-term integrity of CO2-reservoir caprocks. Nature Communications 7, doi: 10.1038/ncomms12268.
Busch, A., P. Bertier, Y. Gensterblum, G. Rother, C. J. Spiers, M. Zhang, and H. M. Wentinck. On sorption and swelling of CO2 in clays, Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources, 2(2), 111-130, doi: 10.1007/s40948-016-0024-4.
Bertier, P., Schweinar, K., Stanjek, H., Ghanizadeh, A., Clarkson, C.R., Busch, A., Kampman, N., Prinz, D., Amann-Hildenbrand, A., Krooss, B.M., Pipich, V., Di, Z. On the use and abuse of N2 physisorption for the characterization of the pore structure of shales. Clays and Clay Minerals 21, 151-161.
