welcome to caprocks
a collaboration of international petroleum companies and researchers at
Newcastle, Cardiff, Leeds and Heriot Watt Universities. Caprocks is in
its third three year phase and focuses on the fine-grained section of
sedimentary basins, developing insights to the related processes of
petroleum trapping and leakage.
Caprocks Phase 3 is funded by: Anadarko, BHPBilliton, BG, BP, Chevron,
ConocoPhillips, ENI, Petrobras, StatoilHydro and Total.
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3rd EAGE Shale Workshop
The workshop, entitled Shale Physics and Shale Chemistry, will be held 23-25 January 2012 in Barcelona.
More information can be found at: http://www.eage.org/events/index.php?eventid=676&Opendivs=s3 |
3rd EAGE International Conference on Fault and Top Seals
This conference will be held in Montpellier on 1-3 October 2012. Deadline for papers is 1 April 2012.
More details can be found at: http://www.eage.org/events/index.php?eventid=708&Opendivs=s3
In order to help students attend the conference, sponsorship is most welcome.
If you feel that your organisation can help, please visit: http://www.eage.org/events/index.php?evp=6320&ActiveMenu=15&Opendivs=s3 |
Next steering group meeting
The next Caprocks SGM will be held in Leeds on 19 - 20 October, organised by Quentin Fisher.
The meeting will be held at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT.
Details of how to find us are on: http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/contact/find-us/
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 Chevron join Phase 3
We are delighted to welcome Chevron back to the JIP. Chevron have been a
long term supporter of the project and it is a pleasure to have them
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 Getting started in shales
Whilst I doubt that anyone reading this page is getting started in shales, you may be interested in a compilation of papers that Andy Aplin and Joe Macquaker chose for a digital publication from AAPG: Getting Started #20: Shales (http://bookstore.aapg.org). It contains reprints of 14 papers covering a wide range of topics, plus a 20 page introduction by Andy and Joe. At least let us hear what papers you would have chosen and by the way, we don't receive royalties. |
Caprocks Phase 3 Starts
Caprocks Phase 3 started in August 2010, sponsored by Anadarko, BHPBilliton, BG, BP, ConocoPhillips, ENI, Petrobras, StatoilHydro and Total. Our three main work packages are:
Mudstone Petrophysics
Upscaled, Effective Flow Properties of Mud-rich, Heterolithic Rock Types
Workflows for Basin-scale Flow Models and Seal Capacity Risking
We are really happy to welcome Quentin Fisher (Leeds University) to the Caprocks team. Quentin has built a state of the art laboratory for petrophysical analyses and will be generating experimental data on mudstone permeability, relative permeability and rock physics properties to combine with other analytical and modelling work undertaken at Newcastle and Heriot Watt.
Please contact Andy Aplin if you have questions about the project. |
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 many thanks to Caprocks Sponsors
Joe Cartwright, Mads Huuse and Andy Aplin were recently awarded the Wallace E Pratt Memorial Award by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists at their annual meeting in Denver. The award is for the best paper published in AAPG Bulletin in 2007. The paper, entitled “Seal Bypass Systems”, derives largely from work sponsored by the Caprocks Joint Industry Project and details the way in which the seals to petroleum reservoirs may be compromised by sub-vertical, seismic-scale geological features which allow relatively rapid fluid loss from underlying reservoirs. The work is important not only for petroleum exploration but also to inform the choice of suitable sites for underground CO2 storage. |
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