Stuart Haszeldine

Stuart Haszeldine, OBE is professor of geology and professor of carbon capture and storage at Edinburgh University.

Research interests

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'Storage of carbon dioxide in hydrocarbon fields, aquifers and coal, and geological sequestration. Establishing a new industry in Carbon Capture and Storage, in the UK, EU and worldwide. Movement and geochemistry of fluids in porous and fractured sedimentary rocks.

Radioactive waste disposal, Low, Intermediate and High level, spent fuel. Geology, geochemistry and basin modelling relating to site selection and performance safety for disposal of radioactive and toxic wastes in the UK and worldwide deep below ground in porous and fractured aquifers. Modelling of sedimentary basins.

Porosity permeability of oil and gas reservoirs, diagenesis of sediments. Counteracting and adapting to climate change, bio-char, black carbon, soil charcoal. Energy sources and policy in the UK and EU.

Views on fracking-related earthquakes

Professor Haszeldine warned after Cuadrilla’s operations recorded 17 mini-tremors in October 2018: “The practical significance is not whether these tremors are felt at the surface or not but in the potential to damage the borehole, and the potential to create gas pathways from the shale towards larger faults, towards shallower aquifers, and to the surface.”

Affiliations

• Associate member of All Party Group on Unconventional Oil and Gas at Westminster

External resources

• Martin Hannan, Academics' intervention may have forced fracking delay, The National, 25 June 2015