Sedimentology

Regional Expertise

Senior Contributor and/or Project Technical Lead in the following projects:

Europe

Global Gas Shales project: sedimentology and petrography of selected shale formations in wells from Hungary and Romania (unconventional/ consortium study)

Potential gas shales in Europe - a review of European regions (unconventional/ consortium study)

Black Sea study (proprietary study)

Sequence analyses, facies models reconstructions and associated economic potential in the sedimentary formations from the Eastern Carpathians, Southern Carpathians and Moesian Platform, Romania (series of technical reports sponsored by various Romanian state or private companies and institutions - list can be provided on request)

West Africa

Senegal:

Central Atlantic Margin Reservoirs and Seals: Senegal – AGC – Gambia - Guineea Bissau (Phase I) (regional/ consortium study, 44 wells)

Ghana & Benin:

Equatorial Atlantic, West Africa: Transform Margins of Ghana and Benin (Phase I) (regional/ consortium study, 60+ wells)
Gabon:

Reservoir geology study of Well NGYSM-1, offshore Gabon (proprietary study)

Sedimentology of cored Neocomian successions from Onal-801, Onal-1001, Omti-1 and Omko-301D, N Gabon (proprietary study)

Geological Evaluation of Basal Sandstone Formation Cores from Wells OMBG-202D, OMGW-105D and ONAL-1801D (proprietary study)

A petrographic study of Madiela clastics from wells TST-10H, TST-17H, TST-26H, TST-36H and TST-40H, Tsiengui Field, Gabon (proprietary study)

A sedimentological and petrophysical core study – Well TST-33P, onshore Gabon (proprietary study)

Angola:

Regional Rock-Based Evaluation of Pre-Salt Reservoirs, Onshore and Offshore Angola: New Analysis of Clastic and Carbonate Reservoirs of the Lower Congo, Kwanza and Benguela Basins (regional/ consortium study, 59 wells)

Namibia & N South Africa:

Reservoir and Seals of Namibia and North Orange Basin, South Atlantic Margin (regional/ consortium study, 38 wells)

South Africa

A review of the organic-rich shale formations of South African Basins (unconventional/ consortium study)

Features of dolerite bodies and related geological control in Secunda Coal Fields area- some points for the reconsideration of dolerite-intrusion models (proprietary study/ Phase II)

Dolerite intrusions and related geological control in Secunda Coal Fields, Syferfontein area (proprietary study/ Phase I)

East Africa

Mozambique:

East Africa IV: Mozambique Reservoirs and Seals (regional/ consortium study, 48 wells)

Tanzania:

East Africa I: Tanzania Reservoirs and Seals (regional/ consortium study, 26 wells)

Kenya:

East African Reservoirs and Seals II: Kenya (regional/ consortium study, multi-well)

North Africa

Libya:

Reservoirs and Seals Study of Siliciclastics Plays, Deep Sirte Basin (regional/ consortium study, 40 wells)

Tunisia:

A Study of Carbonate Reservoirs Intercepted in Well Chergui-6 Cores (proprietary study)

Middle East

Petrographic characterization (in thin section and hand specimen) of selected core samples from carbonate reservoirs from Middle East (proprietary study)

A study of the degree of fracturing and spectral gamma data in selected carbonate reservoirs from Middle East, as revealed by core and plug CT scan data (proprietary study)

Asia

Vietnam:

Sedimentological Analysis and Integration of Core and Well Data from Wells 05.3/11-TTN-2X & 05.3/11-TTN-1X, Offshore Vietnam (proprietary study; work undertaken on behalf of Vietnam Petroleum Institute-VPI)

Sedimentology of Cored Section from Well 16.1-TGT-15X, Cuu Long Basin, Offshore Vietnam (proprietary study; work undertaken on behalf of VPI)

Sedimentology of Cored Section from Well 15-2-RD-E-27P, Cuu Long Basin, Offshore Vietnam (proprietary study; work undertaken on behalf of VPI)

A sedimentological study of the cored sections in Well 02/10-KNV-2X, Cuu Long Basin, offshore Vietnam (proprietary study; work undertaken on behalf of VPI)

Reservoir and Seals of Cuu Long, Nam Con Son and Malay-Tho Chu Basins, offshore Vietnam (regional/ consortium study, 41 wells)

Kazakhstan:

Sedimentological Analysis, Reservoir Characterization and Reservoir Prediction from Integration of Core and Well Data from Wells LP-3, EM-1 and Bakhyt-1 ST1, Munaibai Field, Onshore Kazakhstan (proprietary study)

Sedimentological Analysis and Integration of Core and Well Data from Wells LP-3 and EM-1, Munaibai Field, Onshore Kazakhstan (proprietary study)

Geological Evaluation of the Cored Formations from Well LP-3, Munaibai Field, Onshore Kazakhstan (proprietary study)

South America

Peru:

Reservoirs and Seals of the Onshore and Offshore Basins of Peru (regional/ consortium study, 65 wells)
Brazil:

Transform Margins – Reservoirs and Seals: Equatorial Basins of Brasil (Phase II) (regional/ consortium study, 13 wells)

Transform Margins – Reservoirs and Seals: Equatorial Basins of Brasil (Phase I) (regional/ consortium study, 63 wells)
Suriname-Guyana:

Regional Reservoirs and Seals of the Offshore Basins of Suriname and Guyana (regional/ consortium study, multi-well)
Argentina:

An evaluation of reservoir potential of Middle-Upper Jurassic formations from 10 wells in NE Neuquen Basin (proprietary study)

Thin section analysis of samples LA-a-6, LA-a-5.M-65, L CE-x-1, NAB x-2.M-22, LA x-2.M-30, Neuquen Basin (proprietary study; work undertaken on behalf of GeoSignals GmbH)