Houston Workshop

The Caprocks workshop will take place in the offices of ConocoPhillips (600 North Dairy Ashford) on February 6th. Phil Heppard is hosting. We will start at 09.00 with coffee etc available from 08.00.

Travel and security information

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

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 back on board.

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.

AAPG Best Paper Award

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.

EAGE Research Conference on Fault and Top Seals
2nd International Fault and Top Seals Conference in Montpellier, France on 21-24 September 2009.