Geoenergy, Resources and Waste

A research group of the Department of Earth Sciences.

Staff

Academic Staff

• Prof Mark Allen
• Prof Andrew Aplin
• Dr Nicola De Paola
• Prof Jon Gluyas
• Dr Darren R. Gröcke
• Prof. Chris Greenwell
• Professor Richard Hobbs
• Professor Robert Holdsworth
• Dr Stuart Jones
• Prof Simon Mathias
• Prof Ken McCaffrey
• Prof. Dave Selby
• Professor Fred Worrall

Emeritus Staff

• Prof Gillian Foulger

Publications by staff in this group

Journal Article

• Rexer, T.F., Benham, M.J., Aplin, A.C. & Thomas, K.M. (2013). Methane adsorption on shale under simulated geological temperature and pressure conditions. Energy & Fuels 27(6): 3099–3109.
• Mathias, S.A., Gluyas, J.G., González Martínez de Miguel, G.J., Bryant, S.L. & Wilson, D. (2013). On the importance of relative permeability data for estimating CO2 injectivity in brine aquifers. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 12: 200-212.
• Walker, R.J., Holdsworth, R.E., Armitage, P.J. & Faulkner, D.R. (2013). Fault zone permeability structure evolution in basalts. Geology 41(1): 59-62.
• Nguyen, B.T.T., Jones, S.J., Goulty, N.R., Middleton, A.J., Grant, N., Ferguson, A. & Bowen, L. (2013). The role of fluid pressure and diagenetic cements for porosoity preservation in Triassic fluvial reservoirs of the Central Graben, North Sea. AAPG Bulletin 97(8): 1273-1302.
• Harwood, J., Aplin, A.C., Fialips, C.I., Iliffe, J.E., Kozdon, R., Ushikubo, T. & Valley, J.W. (2013). Quartz cementation history of sandstones revealed by high resolution SIMS oxygen isotope analysis. Journal of Sedimentary Research 83(7): 522-530.
• Kudryavtsev, V.A., Spooner, N.C., Gluyas, J.G., Fung, C. & Coleman, M.L. (2012). Monitoring subsurface CO2 emplacement and security of storage using muon tomography. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 11: 21-24.
• Goulty, N.R., Ramdhan, A.M. & Jones, S.J. (2012). Chemical compaction of mudrocks in the presence of overpressure. Petroleum Geoscience 18(4): 471-479.
• Armitage, P.J., Faulkner, D.R., Worden, R.H., Aplin, A.C., Butcher, A.R. & Iliffe, J. (2011). Experimental measurement of, and controls on, permeability and permeability anisotropy of caprocks from the CO2 storage project at the Krechba Field, Algeria. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 116(B12 ): B12208.
• Walker, R.J., Holdsworth, R.E., Imber, J. & Ellis, D. (2011). Onshore evidence for progressive changes in rifting directions during continental break-up in the NE Atlantic. Journal of the Geological Society 168(1): 27-48.
• Moorkamp, M., Heincke, B., Jegen, M., Roberts, A. & Hobbs, R. (2011). A framework for 3-D joint inversion of MT, gravity and seismic refraction data. Geophysical Journal International 184(1): 477-493.
• Mathias, S.A., Gluyas, J.G., González Martínez de Miguel, G.J. & Hosseini, S.A. (2011). Role of partial miscibility on pressure buildup due to constant rate injection of CO2 into closed and open brine aquifers. Water Resources Research 47(12): W12525.
• Mathias, S.A., Gluyas, J.G., Oldenburg, C.M. & Tsang, C.-F. (2010). Analytical solution for Joule-Thomson cooling during CO2 geosequestration in depleted oil and gas reservoirs. International Journal of Greenhouse gas Control 4(5): 806-810.
• Julian, BR, Foulger, GR, Monastero, FC & Bjornstad, S (2010). Imaging Hydraulic Fractures in a Geothermal Reservoir. Geophysical Research Letters 37: L07305.
• Geatches, Dawn L., Clark, Stewart J. & Greenwell, Hugh C. (2010). Role of Clay Minerals in Oil-Forming Reactions. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 114(10): 3569-3575.
• Jerram, Dougal A., Single, Richard T., Hobbs, Richard W. & Nelson, Catherine E. (2009). Understanding the offshore flood basalt sequence using onshore volcanic facies analogues: an example from the Faroe-Shetland basin. Geological Magazine 146(3 ): 353-367.
• Mathias, SA, Hardisty, PE, Trudell, MR & Zimmerman, RW (2009). Approximate Solutions for Pressure Buildup During CO2 Injection in Brine Aquifers. Transport in Porous Media 79(2): 265-284.
• Jones, R.R., McCaffrey, K.J.W., Clegg, P., Wilson, R.W., Holliman, N.S., Holdsworth, R.E., Imber, J. & Waggott, S. (2009). Integration of regional to outcrop digital data: 3D visualisation of multi-scale geological models. Computers & Geosciences 35(1): 4-18
• Guo J.L, McCaffrey K, Jones R & Holdsworth, R (2009). The spatial heterogeneity of structures in high porosity sandstones: Variations and granularity effects in orientation data. Journal of Structural Geology 31(7): 628-636.
• Mathias, SA, Butler, AP & Zhan, HB (2008). Approximate solutions for Forchheimer flow to a well. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 134(9): 1318-1325.

Chapter in book

• Cruden, A.R., McCaffrey, K.J.W. & Bunger, A. (2018). Geometric scaling of tabular igneous intrusions: implications for emplacement and growth. In Physical Geology of Shallow Magmatic Systems: Dykes, Sills and Laccoliths. Breitkreuz, Christoph & Rocchi, Sergio Cham: Springer. 11-38.