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Natural Gas Hydrate: Development, Characterization, Modeling and Analysis

Zintellect
Morgantown, WV Intern
POSTED ON 5/5/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/31/2026

The National Energy Technology Laboratory's (NETL's) record of success has been built on understanding the future of energy and the technologies required to make that future possible. We’ve long touted our success in developing the technologies that took on acid rain in the 1970s and mercury in the early 2000s.

Program Goals

The NETL Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program (Postdoc) is a high-intensity program designed to identify recent Doctoral graduates of high promise and to foster advanced skill development. It allows the postdoc to systematically outline career goals and helps provide the means of achieving these goals. NETL principal investigators and leads serve as mentors to postdoctoral participants during the program. This interaction affords the postdoc a unique opportunity to develop critical skills needed to become an independent professional.

The program goals include providing the opportunity to participants to:

  • Develop skills and knowledge in their field of study
  • Engage with new areas of basic and applied research
  • Network with world-class scientists
  • Exchange ideas and skills with the Laboratory community
  • Use state-of-the-art equipment
  • Contribute to answers for today's pressing scientific questions
  • Collaborate with the broader scientific and technical communities

Project Details

Through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), this posting seeks a post-Doctoral researcher to engage in projects with the Research Innovation Center (RIC) at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in the area of Natural Gas Hydrates under the mentorship of Yongkoo Seol. This project will be hosted at the NETL Morgantown, WV campus.

The Oil and Gas Center of Excellence at NETL-RIC (Research and Innovation Center) performs research within the National Gas Hydrate Research and Development Program to obtain pertinent, high-quality information on natural gas hydrates systems that will benefit the development of models and methods for predicting the behavior of gas hydrates in their natural environment under natural conditions and production scenarios. RIC supports major gas hydrate production field tests by providing numerical predictions on fluid migration, gas production, and potential reactions occurring during gas production activities, as well as by providing fundamental understanding and knowledge on hydrate behavior derived from experimental investigations on thermal, hydrological, geomechanical, and reactive responses of hydrate. 
 
RIC research includes:
• Numerical modeling efforts, including simulations of long-term production tests, 
• Laboratory experimental tests on geomechanical stress-strain measurements, 
• Water conductivity and relative permeability of fluid flow through hydrate-bearing sediments,
• High resolution visualizations of hydrate distributions and fluid migration in porous media under in situ conditions, and 
• Machine learning application to gas hydrate system to develop efficient key parameter estimation tools and large-scale 3D geologic model for gas hydrate reservoir.
 
Learning opportunities will be given on the area of laboratory characterization of hydrate bearing sediments, numerical reservoir simulations for gas production and machine learning application, and basin petroleum system modeling and data analysis, depending on qualification and project availability.

Stipend: The selected participant will receive a monthly stipend commensurate with educational level and experience.

  • Post-Doctoral stipend is $7860 per month.

Program Requirements: To document the effectiveness of the program, participants are required to submit a pre-appointment and post-appointment survey, as well as a reflection on their appointment experience when they renew or end their appointment. The reflection should summarize their project(s), additional activities, and overall experience. Details are provided as the appointment end date approaches.
Participants may also have the opportunity to contribute to manuscripts, journal articles, book chapters, conference presentations, posters, patents, and other publications as a part of their appointment. Such achievements should also be reported to ORISE; additional details are provided after an offer has been accepted.

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), part of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory system, is owned and operated by the DOE. NETL supports the DOE mission to advance the energy security of the United States. This is an educational opportunity offered by NETL and administered by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. Participants in the program are not considered employees of NETL, DOE, the program administrator, or any other office or agency.

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