Professor Suzanne Hurter
Honorary Professor
Gas and Energy Transition Research Centre
Researcher biography
Currently based at the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Professor Hurter leads a landmark geoscience and reservoir modelling research program focused on the unconventional onshore gas industry.
Professor Hurter joined The University of Queensland Centre for Natural Gas after a distinguished career in the oil and gas industry in various roles in Shell (Netherlands), Schlumberger (Netherlands and Australia), QGC (BG‐Group) and Arrow Energy (Shell‐PetroChina). Previously she had worked in academia in Germany (Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam and the Leibnitz Institute of Applied Geophysics in Hannover) and Brazil (University of Sao Paulo). She joined UQ in 2015 and was appointed as the Energi Simulation Industrial Research Chair in (Unconventional) Onshore Gas Reservoir Modelling (2017-2020).
Professor Hurter’s research interests and activities include hydrocarbon maturation and thermal evolution of sedimentary basins, carbon sequestration, coupled modelling of flow, heat in porous and fractured media and using numerical modelling to evaluate and improve onshore gas production
Journal Articles
Bo, Zhenkai, Boon, Maartje, Hajibeygi, Hadi and Hurter, Suzanne (2023). Impact of experimentally measured relative permeability hysteresis on reservoir-scale performance of underground hydrogen storage (UHS). International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 48 (36), 13527-13542. doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.12.270
Andrade, Claudio, Sobczak, Kasia, Vasconcelos, Paulo, Holl, Heinz-Gerd, Hurter, Suzanne and Allen, Charlotte (2023). U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology of the middle to upper Jurassic strata in the Surat Basin: new insights into provenance, paleogeography, and source-sink processes in eastern Australia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 149 106122, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106122
Santiago, Vanessa, Zabala, Francy Guerrero, Sanchez-Barra, Angel J., Deisman, Nathan, Chalaturnyk, Richard J., Zhong, Ruizhi and Hurter, Suzanne (2022). Experimental investigation of the flow properties of layered coal-rock analogues. Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 186, 685-700. doi: 10.1016/j.cherd.2022.08.046
Amani, Pouria, Rudolph, Victor, Hurter, Suzanne and Firouzi, Mahshid (2022). Sustainable dewatering of unconventional gas wells using engineered multiphase flow dynamics. Fuel, 324 (Part B) 124675, 124675. doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2022.124675
Zhao, Xinzhe, Xing, Huilin, Ribeiro, Ayrton and Hurter, Suzanne (2022). Modeling the initiation of groundwater flash vaporization during mining within an active geothermal system. Transport in Porous Media, 144 (3), 669-697. doi: 10.1007/s11242-022-01830-3
Wan, Li, Hurter, Suzanne, Bianchi, Valeria, Li, Pan, Wang, Jiao and Salles, Tristan (2022). The roles and seismic expressions of turbidites and mass transport deposits using stratigraphic forward modeling and seismic forward modeling. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 232 105110, 105110. doi: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2022.105110
Santiago, Vanessa, Ribeiro, Ayrton, Johnson, Raymond, Hurter, Suzanne and You, Zhenjiang (2022). Modeling and economic analyses of graded particle injections in conjunction with hydraulic fracturing of coal seam gas reservoirs. SPE Journal, 27 (3), 1633-1647. doi: 10.2118/208404-PA
Wan, Li, Bianchi, Valeria, Hurter, Suzanne, Salles, Tristan, Yuan, Xuanjun and Zhang, Zhijie (2022). Comparison between the depositional systems on ramp type and S type of passive margins: Insights from stratigraphic forward models. Natural Gas Geoscience, 33 (2), 243-255. doi: 10.11764/j.issn.1672-1926.2021.07.009
Wan, Li, Hurter, Suzanne, Bianchi, Valeria, Salles, Tristan, Zhang, Zhijie and Yuan, Xuanjun (2022). Combining stratigraphic forward modeling and susceptibility mapping to investigate the origin and evolution of submarine canyons. Geomorphology, 398 108047, 108047. doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.108047
Wan, Li, Bianchi, Valeria, Hurter, Suzanne, Salles, Tristan, Zhang, Zhijie and Yuan, Xuanjun (2022). Morphological controls on delta-canyon-fan systems: Insights from stratigraphic forward models. Sedimentology, 69 (2), 864-890. doi: 10.1111/sed.12930
Wang, Zhiming, Hurter, Suzanne, You, Zhenjiang, Honari, Vahab, Sun, Yuning and Zhang, Shuo (2021). Influences of negative pressure on air-leakage of coalseam gas extraction: Laboratory and CFD-DEM simulations. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 196 107731, 107731. doi: 10.1016/j.petrol.2020.107731
Amani, Pouria, Miller, Reinhard, Ata, Seher, Hurter, Suzanne, Rudolph, Victor and Firouzi, Mahshid (2020). Dynamics of interfacial layers for sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate solutions at different salinities. Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 92, 174-183. doi: 10.1016/j.jiec.2020.09.002
Wan, Li, Bianchi, Valeria, Hurter, Suzanne and Salles, Tristan (2020). Evolution of a delta-canyon-fan system on a typical passive margin using stratigraphic forward modelling. Marine Geology, 429 106310, 106310. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106310
Santiago, Vanessa, Ribeiro, Ayrton and Hurter, Suzanne (2020). Modeling the contribution of individual coal seams on commingled gas production. SPE Production and Operations, 36 (01), 1-17. doi: 10.2118/198241-pa
Amani, Pouria, Hurter, Suzanne, Rudolph, Victor and Firouzi, Mahshid (2020). Comparison of flow dynamics of air-water flows with foam flows in vertical pipes. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 119 110216, 110216. doi: 10.1016/j.expthermflusci.2020.110216
McCourt, Thomas A., Blackmore, Ryan, Rodger, Iain, Hurter, Suzanne, Thompson, Bevan, Reilly, Mark and Donovan, Diane (2019). Proxy modelling for multi-well simulations: enabling identification of major input variables and reduced computation time over Monte Carlo sampling. The APPEA Journal, 59 (1), 444-456. doi: 10.1071/aj18065
Hurter, Suzanne, Rodger, Iain and Garnett, Andrew (2019). Comment on “Numerical investigation of the potential contamination of a shallow aquifer in producing coalbed methane” by Xianbo Su, Fengde Zhou, and Stephen Tyson. Energy Exploration and Exploitation, 37 (1), 593-601. doi: 10.1177/0144598718778164
McCourt, Thomas A., Hurter, Suzanne, Lawson, Brodie, Zhou, Fengde, Thompson, Bevan, Tyson, Stephen and Donovan, Diane (2017). Uncertainty quantification of coal seam gas production prediction using Polynomial Chaos. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 157, 1148-1159. doi: 10.1016/j.petrol.2017.08.012
Pribnow, DFC, Schutze, C, Hurter, SJ, Flechsig, C and Sass, JH (2003). Fluid flow in the resurgent dome of Long Valley Caldera: Implications from thermal data and deep electrical sounding. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 127 (3-4), 329-345. doi: 10.1016/S0377-0273(03)00175-6
Hurter, Suzanne and Schellschmidt, Ruediger (2003). Atlas of geothermal resources in Europe. Geothermics, 32 (4), 779-787. doi: 10.1016/S0375-6505(03)00070-1
Hurter, SJ and Pollack, HN (1996). Terrestrial heat flow in the Parana Basin, southern Brazil. Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, 101 (B4), 8659-8671. doi: 10.1029/95JB03743
Hurter, SJ and Pollack, HN (1995). Effect of the Cretaceous Serra Geral igneous event on the temperatures and heat flow of the Paraná Basin, Southern Brazil. Basin Research, 7 (2), 215-220. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.1995.tb00106.x
Hurter, Suzanne J. and Pollack, Henry N. (1994). Effect of the Cretaceous Serra Geral igneous event on the temperatures and heat flow of the Parana Basin, southern Brazil. Basin Research, 6 (4), 239-244. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.1994.tb00087.x
Pollack, HN, Hurter, SJ and Johnson, JR (1993). Heat flow from the Earth's interior: Analysis of the global data set. Reviews of Geophysics, 31 (3), 267-280. doi: 10.1029/93RG01249
Conference Papers
Bo, Z., Hurter, S., Hoerning, S., Underschultz, J. and Garnett, A. (2023). Accounting green and blue hydrogen in a net cash flow model for techno-economic assessment on underground hydrogen storage in Australia. Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Symposium, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 14-15 November 2023. Houston, TX USA: Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi: 10.2118/217336-ms
Sedaghat, Mohammad, Owen, Des, Hayes, Philip, Hurter, Suzanne and Garnett, Andrew (2021). The Influence of Formation Dip Angle on Buoyancy-Induced Gas Migration During Coal Seam Gas Production. SPE/AAPG/SEG Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Online, 16-18 November 2021. Tulsa, OK United States: Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. doi: 10.15530/AP-URTEC-2021-208388
Dashti, Hossein, Sedaghat, Mohammad, Firouzi, Mahshid and Hurter, Suzanne (2021). A modelling study on the application of the bentonites in plugging carbon dioxide injection wells. SPE/AAPG/SEG Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Virtual, 16-18 November 2021. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC). doi: 10.15530/AP-URTEC-2021-208366
Santiago, Vanessa, Ribeiro, Ayrton, Johnson, Raymond, Hurter, Suzanne and You, Zhenjiang (2021). Modelling and Economic Analyses of Graded Particle Injections in Conjunction with Hydraulically Fracturing of Coal Seam Gas Reservoirs. SPE/AAPG/SEG Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Online, 16–18 November 2021. Tulsa, OK United States: Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. doi: 10.15530/AP-URTEC-2021-208404
Claudio Luiz de Andrade Vieira Filh, Kasia Sobczak, Heinz-Gerd Holl, Suzanne Hurter and Paulo Vasconcelos (2021). Understanding the nature of the transition between Late Jurassic formations of the Surat Basin through borehole image logs using cumulative dip plots. Australian Earth Sciences Convention 2021, Virtual, 2021. Geological Society of Australia.
Honari, Vahab, Wang, Xiangzeng, Underschultz, Jim, Garnett, Andrew, Wang, Xingjin, Johnson, Raymond, Ribeiro, Ayrton, Sedaghat, Mohammad, Gao, Ruimin, Liang, Quansheng and Hurter, Suzanne (2020). Evaluation of CO injectivity for CO-EOR using a two-stage well test approach: case study of a Chinese tight oil reservoir. SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, Virtual, 17-19 November. Richardson, TX, United States: Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi: 10.2118/202374-ms
Ribeiro, Ayrton, Sedaghat, Mohammad, Honari, Vahab and Hurter, Suzanne (2020). Impact of injection temperature on CO2 storage in the Surat Basin, Eastern Australia. SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition, Virtual, 17-19 November. Richardson, TX, United States: Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi: 10.2118/202333-ms
Santiago, Vanessa, Ribeiro, Ayrton and Hurter, Suzanne (2019). Modelling the Contribution of Individual Seams to Coal Seam Gas Production. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC), Brisbane, QLD Australia, 18 - 19 November 2019. Tulsa, OK United States: Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. doi: 10.15530/ap-urtec-2019-198241
Sedaghat, Mohammad, Owen, Des, Underschultz, James, Hurter, Suzanne, Hayes, Phil and Garnett, Andrew (2019). Water-gas flow in laminated and heterogeneous coal-interburden systems: the effects of gas solubility. SPE/AAPG/SEG Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 18-19 November 2019. Tulsa, OK, United States: Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. doi: 10.15530/ap-urtec-2019-198320
Hamerli, Zsolt, Reilly, Mark and Hurter, Suzanne (2019). Spectral decomposition of the heterogeneous springbok sandstone and Walloon coal measures in the Surat Basin, Australia. SPE/AAPG/SEG Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (APUR 2019), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 18-19 November 2019. Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC). doi: 10.15530/ap-urtec-2019-198227
Amani, Pouria , Hurter, Suzanne , Firouzi, Mahshid and Rudolph, Victor (2019). Enhancing CSG well production via foam assisted lift method. Energi Simulation Summit 2019, Calgary, AB, Canada, 3-4 October 2019. Energi Simulation.
Ribeiro, Ayrton, Santiago, Vanessa, You, Zhenjiang, Johnson Jr., Raymond and Hurter, Suzanne (2019). Evaluating performance of graded proppant injection into CSG reservoir: a reservoir simulation study. SPE/AAPG/SEG Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 18 - 19 November 2019. Tulsa, OK, United States: Unconventional Resources Technology Conference. doi: 10.15530/ap-urtec-2019-198324
Rodger, Iain, Reilly, Mark, Hamerli, Zsolt, Hayes, Phil and Hurter, Suzanne (2019). Sequence stratigraphy of walloons-springbok sections: Different or significantly different?. SPE/AAPG/SEG Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Technology Conference 2019, APUR 20192019, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 18 - 19 November 2019. Richardson, TX, United States: Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC). doi: 10.15530/AP-URTEC-2019-198308
Rodger, Iain, Garnett, Andrew and Hurter, Suzanne (2018). Simple numerical simulations to demonstrate key concepts related to Coal Seam Gas well integrity. SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition 2018, APOGCE 2018, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 23-25 October 2018. Richardson, TX United States: Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi: 10.2118/192106-MS
Altaf, Iftikhar, Towler, Brian, Underschultz, James, Hurter, Suzanne and Johnson, Raymond (2018). A review of current knowledge with geomechanical fault reactivation modelling: The importance of CO2 mechano-chemical effects for CO2 sequestration. SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition 2018, APOGCE 2018, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 23 - 25 October 2018. Richardson, TX United States: Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi: 10.2118/192024-MS
Badalyan, A., Beasley, T., Nguyen, D., Keshavarz, A., Schacht, U., Carageorgos, T., You, Z., Bedrikovetsky, P., Hurter, S. and Troth, I. (2016). Laboratory and mathematical modelling of fines production from CSG interburden rocks. SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition 2016, Perth, Australia, 25-27 October 2016. Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi: 10.2118/182295-MS
Hurter, S., Marmin, N., Probst, P. and Garnett, A. (2013). Probabilistic estimates of injectivity and capacity for large scale CO2 storage in the Gippsland basin, Victoria, Australia. 11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT 2012), Kyoto, Japan, 18-22 November 2012. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.253
Hurter, S., Garnett, A., Probst, P., Pamukcu, Y., Gonzalez, S. and Guiton, S. (2013). Dynamic models of CO2 injection in the Surat and Bowen basins, Queensland, Australia. 11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT 2012), Kyoto, Japan, 18-22 November 2012. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.271
Garnett, A., Gonzalez, S., Guiton, S. and Hurter, S. (2013). Preliminary containment evaluation in the Surat Basin, Queensland, Australia. 11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT 2012), Kyoto, Japan, 18-22 November 2012. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.402
Garnett, A., Hurter, S., Marmin, N., Probst, P., Gonzalez, S. and Guiton, S. (2013). Injectivity in the Surat basin, Queensland, Australia: likelihood and uncertainty evaluation. 11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT 2012), Kyoto, Japan, 18-22 November 2012. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.270
Hurter, S., Probst, P., Labregere, D., Garnett, A. and Holl, H. (2013). The use of dynamic models to evaluate potential large-scale CO2 storage in the gippsland basin, Victoria, Australia. International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies (GHGT), Kyoto Japan, Nov 18-22, 2012. AMSTERDAM: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2013.06.252
Pamukcu, Yusuf, Hurter, Suzanne, Frykman, Peter and Moeller, Fabian (2011). Dynamic simulation and history matching at Ketzin (CO2SINK). 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19-23 September 2010. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.397
Henninges, J., Liebscher, A., Bannach, A., Brandt, W., Hurter, S., Koehler, S. and Moeller, F. (2011). P-T-ρ and two-phase fluid conditions with inverted density profile in observation wells at the CO2 storage site at Ketzin (Germany). 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19 - 23 September 2010. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.614
Ouellet, Amelie, Berard, Thomas, Desroches, Jean, Frykman, Peter, Welsh, Peter, Minton, James, Pamukcu, Yusuf, Hurter, Suzanne and Schmidt-Hattenberger, Cornelia (2011). Reservoir geomechanics for assessing containment in CO2 storage: a case study at Ketzin, Germany. 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19-23 Septemeber 2010. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.250
Pamukcu, Yusuf, Hurter, Suzanne, Jammes, Laurent, Dat Vu-Hoang and Pekot, Larry (2011). Characterizing and predicting short term performance for the in Salah Krechba field CCS joint industry project. 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 19 - 23 September 2010. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.259
Kopp, A., Probst, P., Class, H., Hurter, S. and Helmig, R. (2009). Estimation of CO2 storage capacity coefficients in geologic formations. 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Washington, DC, United States, 16 - 20 November 2008. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.060
Prevedel, B., Wohlgemuth, L., Legarth, B., Henninges, J., Schutt, H., Schmidt-Hattenberger, C., Norden, B., Foerster, A. and Hurter, S. (2009). The CO2SINK boreholes for geological CO2 -storage testing. 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Washington, DC, United States, 16-20 November 2008. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.egypro.2009.01.272
Hurter, S., Labregere, D. and Berge, J. (2007). Simulations of dry-out and halite precipitation due to CO2 injection. 17th Annual V M Goldschmidt Conference, Cologne Germany, Aug, 2007. PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD.
Hurter, Suzanne, Garnett, Andrew Alf, Bielinski, Andreas and Kopp, Andreas (2007). Thermal Signature of Free-Phase CO2 in Porous Rocks: Detectability of CO2 by Temperature Logging. Offshore Europe, Scotland, U.K, 4 – 7 September 2007. Aberdeen, Scotland: Society of Petroleum Engineers. doi: 10.2118/109007-MS
Wolfgramm, M, Seibt, A, Hurter, S and Zimmermann, G (2003). Origin of geothermal fluids of Permo-Carboniferous rocks in the NE German basin (NE Germany). GEOFLUIDS IV Meeting, Utrecht, Netherlands, 12-16 May 2003. AMSTERDAM: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. doi: 10.1016/S0375-6742(03)00133-X
Hurter, S., Kohler, S., Saadat, A., Holl, H.-G., Rockel, W., Trautwein, U., Zimmermann, G., Wolfgramm, M. and Huenges, E. (2002). Stimulating Low Permeability Aquifers: Experiments in Rotliegend Sandstones (NE Germany). Geothermal Resources Council Annual Meeting, -, 22-25 September 2002. Elsevier.