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Fluid Resources and Energy Lab
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A lab that makes use of oil and other resources in environmentally friendly ways.
AboutAbout the lab
Using resources and energy sustainably.
The Fluid Resources and Energy Lab studies technologies for developing oil, natural gas, and mineral resources in ways that take the global environment into account.
Problems of resources, energy, and waste are major challenges that underpin human society.
The lab works on technologies to raise oil recovery rates, underground storage of carbon dioxide, technologies to reduce blasting vibrations, and stabilization of large excavated slopes.
It also studies the flows that occur in the pores of rock at the molecular level.
Key terms
- Carbon neutrality
- A state in which the carbon dioxide emitted and the carbon dioxide absorbed are in balance, so that there is no net increase overall
- Cellulose nanofibers
- A material made by breaking down plant fibers, such as those from wood, to a thickness on the nanometer scale (CNF)
- Nondestructive testing
- Inspection that examines flaws and deterioration inside or on the surface of an object without damaging it
NewsLab news
A paper by a master's student was published in Journal of Physical Chemistry B
A paper was published in Applied Surface Science
A master's student won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the 2026 Spring Meeting of the Japanese Association for Petroleum Technology
Master's and undergraduate students won Outstanding Presentation Awards at the research presentation meeting of the Kansai Branch of the Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan
A master's student won an Outstanding Presentation Award at the research presentation meeting of the Kansai Branch of the Mining and Materials Processing Institute of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies technologies for developing oil, natural gas, and mineral resources with consideration for the global environment, and for supplying them reliably. Its work covers technologies for extracting resources in a planned and efficient way, and for disposing of byproducts of production such as carbon dioxide.
*Illustrative imageRecovering more oil with plant fibers
Using cellulose nanofibers, the lab develops technologies to raise oil recovery rates, as well as a technology that uses carbon dioxide foam to greatly reduce the water used in shale gas development. It is a carbon-neutral technology, because the carbon dioxide released by combustion returns to plants.
*Illustrative imageMonitoring rock slopes through blasting vibrations
To keep large rock slopes created by resource development stable, the lab is examining an inexpensive and simple method. It measures the vibration of slopes caused by blasting routinely carried out at sites, detects changes in rock properties, and evaluates stability.
*Illustrative imageInspection technology for finding flaws in metal
In long-serving suspension bridges, corrosion of the cables that support the bridge girder can become a problem. The lab develops nondestructive testing methods that accurately detect flaws on the surface and inside of metal materials, including the total magnetic flux method developed by the lab's previous professor.
*Illustrative imageSeeing flow in rock pores from the molecular scale
Understanding the flow that occurs in the pores of rock is essential for oil and natural gas recovery and for underground carbon dioxide storage. The lab studies the interactions at the interfaces among minerals, brine, oil, and carbon dioxide using methods with molecular-level resolution.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Fluid Resources and Energy Lab are faculty, a secretary, and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorSumihiko Murata
- Assistant ProfessorKazuya Kobayashi
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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: “Liaohe oil field” Yoshi Canopus / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Recovering more oil with plant fibers: “Oil drilling rig on the Cheleken Peninsula” Allan Mustard / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Monitoring rock slopes through blasting vibrations: “Aru-Lõuna quarry blasting” Siim Roov / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Inspection technology for finding flaws in metal: “Ezhattumugham-Thumboormuzhi Cable Suspension Bridge IMG” Ranjithsiji / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Seeing flow in rock pores from the molecular scale: “Volcanic Rock in Scanning Electron Microscope” Diffractal / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Crustal Development Engineering Lab): “Hohlbohrkern” --Nightflyer 23:51, 27. Jun 2006 (CEST) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Earth Resource Systems Lab): “Mutnovsky geothermal power plant” -= Nikita Zhuravlev = / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Structural Materials Lab): “Low-angle view of a concrete bridge over Mahurangi river, Warkworth (AM 75085-1)” Collins, Tudor Washington, , photographer / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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