Research Output per year
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Research interests
Oilfield scale
CO2 storage
Application of numerical simulation to reactive transport problems, from pore scale to reservoir scale
Main research interest is in oilfield scale as a Principal Investigator with the Flow Assurance and Scale Team ().FAST
Also work on projects on CO2 capture and storage with the Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage (SCCS).
Other research topics have included:
pore-scale modelling of gel formation and transport in porous media
the engineered depressurisation of waterflooded reservoirs
in situ combustion for heavy oil recovery
comparison of EOR techniques vs. infill well drilling for incremental production
Biography
Eric Mackay holds the Foundation CMG Chair in Reactive Flow Simulation in the Institute of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, where he has worked since 1990. His research interests include the study of fluid flow in porous media, such as the flow of oil, gas and water in subsurface geological formations. He has over 100 publications related primarily to maintaining oil production when faced with mineral scale deposition, but since 2005 he has also worked on Carbon Capture and Storage. He is involved in projects identifying methods for calculating secure CO2 storage potential in saline formations and depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs. As well as his research interests, Eric is involved in extensive consultancy activities, he delivers short courses for the oil industry and is a technical editor for a number of journals. He has also taught Reservoir Simulation to the residential and distance learning MSc classes at Heriot-Watt University since 1990. Eric holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot-Watt University.
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Research Output 1996 2019
Insights into the fractional flow of low salinity water flooding in the light of solute dispersion and effective salinity interactions
Al-Ibadi, H., Stephen, K. & Mackay, E., Mar 2019, In : Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 174, p. 1236-1248 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
solute
flooding
salinity
advection-diffusion equation
oil
An updated fractional flow model of low salinity water flooding with respect to the impact of salt diffusion
Al-Ibadi, H., Stephen, K. & Mackay, E., 2018, SPE Trinidad and Tobago Section Energy Resources Conference 2018. Society of Petroleum Engineers , SPE-191222-MSResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
flooding
Salts
salt
Water
salinity
Automatic optimisation of oilfield scale inhibitor squeeze treatments
Vazquez, O., Mackay, E. & Jordan, M., 9 May 2018, In : SEG Global Meeting Abstracts. p. 77-80 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference article
Open Access
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inhibitor
Gas industry
gas industry
oil industry
brine
Carbonate and sulphide scale prediction modelling in auto-scaling processes: Procedure for the calculation of reservoir fluid compositions and scale profiles in production systems using topside data
Silva, D. J., Sorbie, K. S., Ness, G. & Mackay, E. J., 2018, SPE International Oilfield Scale Conference and Exhibition 2018. Society of Petroleum Engineers , SPE-190711-MSResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
fluid composition
Carbonates
Sulfides
production system
sulfide
Comparison of Flow and Transport Experiments on 3D Printed Micromodels with Direct Numerical Simulations
Watson, F., Maes, J., Geiger, S., Mackay, E. J., Singleton, M., McGravie, T., Anouilh, T., Jobe, T. D., Zhang, S., Agar, S., Ishutov, S. & Hasiuk, F., 25 Aug 2018, In : Transport in Porous Media. p. 1-18 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
transport process
geometry
simulation
manufacturing
experiment
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The Analysis of Compositional Effects on Global Flow Regimes in CO2 Near-Miscible Displacements in Heterogeneous Systems
Wang, G. (Creator), Pickup, G. E. (Creator), Sorbie, K. S. (Creator), Mackay, E. J. (Creator), Heriot-Watt University, 19 Jan 2019
DOI: 10.17861/fc1c90bb-9d3f-4a6c-9170-7b7fe10ec7b9
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