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Resource Development Engineering Lab
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The lab researches the extraction of underground resources and the separation and storage of CO2.
AboutAbout the lab
From subsurface resource development to CO2 storage
The Resource Development Engineering Lab researches technologies for efficiently extracting underground hydrocarbon resources, as well as technologies for separating and capturing emitted carbon dioxide and storing it underground.
The lab also carries out education and research on advancing the development, design, and production technologies that support new resource frontiers and a sustainable carbon cycle system, and on environmental protection associated with resource extraction.
Its themes include enhanced oil recovery (EOR), hydrogen production, CO2 leak detection using machine learning, and energy-saving technologies based on heat reuse.
The lab seminar is held once a week, where members present their own research results in English and discuss them together with international students.
Key terms
- EOR
- A method of recovering more crude oil from an oil field that has already been developed.
- Blue hydrogen
- Hydrogen produced from fossil fuels, where the CO2 released during production is treated.
- CO2 flux
- The amount of CO2 flowing out of the ground (flux).
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts education and research on advancing the development, design, and production technologies that support new resource frontiers and a sustainable carbon cycle system, and on environmental protection associated with resource extraction. Its research covers extraction of underground hydrocarbon resources, hydrogen production, and CO2 separation and underground storage.
*Illustrative imageTechnologies for recovering more crude oil
The lab researches technologies for recovering crude oil as efficiently as possible, to the limit, from oil fields that have already been developed. This approach is called EOR, and the lab examines the effects of new materials and techniques through physical and chemical analysis using microscopes and measuring instruments.
*Illustrative imageProducing hydrogen from crude oil underground
The lab focuses on technology that integrates blue hydrogen production with underground CO2 storage, producing hydrogen by burning crude oil underground while keeping the CO2 in the subsurface. In addition to lab-scale experiments, the lab is preparing for an actual field test in Uzbekistan.
*Illustrative imageCO2 separation and underground storage
To reduce the energy required for CO2 separation, the lab develops new absorbing liquids and designs solid absorbents. It also works on clarifying the phenomena involved in efficiently injecting CO2 underground and storing it stably.
*Illustrative imageDetecting CO2 leaks with machine learning
The lab is developing a simple method for detecting whether stored CO2 is leaking to the surface. It measures CO2 flux at the ground surface under various conditions and aims to analyze the data with machine learning to use it for leak detection.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Resource Development Engineering Lab consist of faculty and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorYuichi Sugai
- Associate ProfessorTakehiro Esaki
- Assistant ProfessorTheodore Tambaria
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Pumpjacks Inglewood Oil Field seen from Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook” Jengod / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Technologies for recovering more crude oil: “Pump Jack at the Lost Hills Oil Field In Central California” Richard Masoner / Cyclelicious / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Producing hydrogen from crude oil underground: “Hydrogen production via Electrolysis” Parent55 / CC0 (cropped)
- CO2 separation and underground storage: “Red Trail Energy ethanol CO2 capture plant Richardton ND1” Acroterion / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Detecting CO2 leaks with machine learning: “Hyperspectral gas leak detection” Editwiki1111 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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