Alan is a Research Fellow in the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot Watt University. Alan joined Heriot Watt in 2012 as a Laboratory Technician working with the Flow Assurance and Scale Team (FAST), before becoming a Research Associate in 2018 and then a Research Fellow in 2020.
His research interests focus on multiphase flow in porous media, rheology of complex fluids, and geochemical reactions. The topics have been studied in the context of underground storage of CO₂, seasonal storage of H₂ in porous media, and efficient recovery of oil and gas. Much of this research has been focused on experimental visualisation of unstable displacement processes (i.e. viscous fingering) with direct numerical simulation of the observations and the upscaling of the results to the field scale.
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Qualifications
* PhD in Petroleum Engineering – Heriot Watt University
* MChem in Chemistry – University of Edinburgh

Projects
* FAST8 JIP – Co-Investigator – 2022-Present
* Upscaling of Low Net Carbon EOR – Researcher – 2021-Present
* Polymer Flooding in the Captain Field – Ithaca Energy – Principal Investigator – 2019-Present

Publications
1- X-ray Visualised Unstable Displacements of Water by Gas in Sandstone Slabs for Subsurface Gas Storage
2- Immiscible Viscous Fingering: The Effects of Wettability/Capillarity and Scaling
3- Experimental Observations and Modelling of the Effect of Wettability on Immiscible Viscous Fingers at the Darcy Scale
4- Immiscible Viscous Fingering at the Field Scale: Numerical Simulation of the Captain Polymer Flood

Contact
Email: a.beteta@hw.ac.uk
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