Gillian Elizabeth Pickup — Heriot-Watt University

Personal profile

Research interests

Reservoir heterogeneity and reservoir simulation
Simulation of CO2 Storage Research

For many years, Gillian was involved in a project to study the effect of reservoir heterogeneity on hydrocarbon recovery. In particular, she focussed on upscaling the effects of small-scale structures for use in larger scale models. From 2005-2008, she was a member of the Uncertainty Quantification Group and studied model complexity and error modelling . Over the past few years, she has applied the knowledge gained in oil-related projects to investigate CO2 storage in saline aquifers.

Biography

Gillian has BSc and PhD degrees in Astrophysics from Edinburgh University. However, for most of her career she has been involved with geoscience and engineering. She joined the Institute of Petroleum Engineering at Heriot-Watt University in 1990, initially as a Research Associate. She was promoted to Senior Research Associate in 1996 and to Research Fellow in 1998, and then to Lecturer in 2010. In 2009, she was presented with an SPE Aberdeen Award for contribution to industry.

Fingerprint Fingerprint is based on mining the text of the person's scientific documents to create an index of weighted terms, which defines the key subjects of each individual researcher.

4 Similar Profiles

upscaling Earth & Environmental Sciences

permeability Earth & Environmental Sciences

aquifer Earth & Environmental Sciences

simulation Earth & Environmental Sciences

modeling Earth & Environmental Sciences

two phase flow Earth & Environmental Sciences

turbidite Earth & Environmental Sciences

oil Earth & Environmental Sciences

Co Author Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Research Output 1992 2019

70 Paper
49 Article
19 Commissioned report
17 Conference contribution
11 More

Analysis of near-miscible CO2-WAG displacements: The distinction between compositional and interfacial tension effects

Wang, G., Pickup, G., Sorbie, K., Mackay, E. & Skauge, A., 10 Apr 2019, SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference 2019. Society of Petroleum Engineers , SPE-193907-MS

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Interfacial Tension

Surface tension

Oils

oil

preferential flow

Measurement Of Physical Dispersion In Random Correlated Permeability Fields And Its Application For Upscaling

Ghanbari, S., Mackay, E. J. & Pickup, G. E., 3 Sep 2018, 16th European Conference on the Mathematics of Oil Recovery. EAGE Publishing BV

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

upscaling

Peclet number

permeability

transition zone

Dispersions

The analysis of compositional effects on global flow regimes in CO₂ near-miscible displacements in heterogeneous systems

Wang, G., Pickup, G. E., Sorbie, K. S. & Mackay, E. J., 2018, SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference 2018. Society of Petroleum Engineers , SPE-190273-MS

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

fingering

Recovery

oil

upscaling

Mass transfer

What are the differences between CO2 injection offshore and onshore?

Ghanbari, S., Mackay, E. J. & Pickup, G. E., 24 Apr 2017, 19th European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery: Sustainable IOR in a Low Oil Price World. EAGE Publishing BV

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Well spacing

flooding

Flow patterns

Gravitation

Solubility