2021 News
December 2021
Juan Soto was a member of the Technical Committee for the virtual Third EAGE Eastern Mediterranean Workshop hosted in Larnaca, Cyprus on December 1-3, 2021. During the meeting Juan maintained various talks with colleagues from ExxonMobil, Chevron, and PGS.
Gillian Apps was a member of the Technical Committee for the SEG/EAGE Virtual Workshop on The Deliberate Search For Stratigraphic Traps: Has It Come Of Age?
Dr Donald Christie, former PhD student of Frank Peel and Gillian Apps, gave an invited and well-received talk, entitled "Forward Stratigraphic Modelling with Onlapse-2D for Reservoir Prediction, offshore Sureste Basin, Mexico". Alex Bump from BEG's Gulf Coast Carbon Center also gave an invited talk, entitled "Stratigraphic Traps for carbon Storage: Rethinking Risk and Success", which inspired a great deal of discussion.
(see news item in March 2022 for summary poster of the full workshop, courtesy Stan Stanbrook, Murphy)
NEW PUBLICATION:
Soto, J.I., Heidari, M. & Hudec, M.R. Proposal for a mechanical model of mobile shales. Sci Rep 11, 23785 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02868-x
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November 2021
203 delegates from 20 AGL member companies attended the 33rd AGL Annual Review Meeting, held via Zoom conference on November 3–5, 2021. Delegates were treated to 21 presentations from AGL scientists and collaborators: Gillian Apps, Alex Bump, Jim Buttles, Tim Dooley, Oliver Duffy, Naiara Fernandez, Peter Flemings, Mahdi Heidari, Mike Hudec, Roman Ianev, Chris Liu, Brandon Minton, David Mohrig, Nazmul Mondol, Lorena Moscardelli, Van Mount, Maria Nikolinaou, Frank Peel, Mark Shuster, Juan Soto, and Stan Stanbrook.
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NEW PUBLICATION:
Nikolinakou, M.A. & Whittle, A.J. (2021) Constitutive model of structural alteration and swelling behavior for Old Alluvium. Engineering Geology, vol 293, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enggeo.2021.106307.
October 2021
Juan Soto was a Committee Member for the virtual AAPG Workshop on “Evaporite Processes and Systems: Integrating Perspectives” hosted in Salzburg, Austria on October 18-20, 2021. Juan gave an invited talk entitled: “Contrasting styles of salt-tectonic processes in the Ionian Fold and Thrust Belt (NW Greece and S Albania)”
Maria Nikolinakou delivered an invited keynote talk: “How do transient geomechanical models illuminate pressure and stress in mudrocks bounding salt structures?” at the AAPG Europe - Evaporite processes and systems: Integrating perspectives conference held virtually on October 18-20, 2021.
August 2021
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NEW PUBLICATION:
Nikolinakou, M.A., Whittle, A.J., Germaine, J.T. & Zhang, G. (2021) “Consolidation properties and structural alteration of Old Alluvium,” Acta Geotechnica, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-021-01330-6.
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NEW PUBLICATION:
Heidari, M., Nikolinakou, M.A., Hudec, M.R., Flemings, P.B, Impacts of vertical salt welding on pore pressure, stresses, and deformation near the weld, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Volume 133, 2021, 105259, ISSN 0264-8172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105259.
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NEW PUBLICATION:
Soto, J.I., Hudec, M.R., Mondol, N.H., Heidari, M., Shale transformations and physical properties—Implications for seismic expression of mobile shales, Earth-Science Reviews, Volume 220, 2021,103746, ISSN 0012-8252, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103746.
July 2021
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NEW PUBLICATION:
Hudec, M.R., Soto, J.I., Piercement mechanisms for mobile shales, Basin Research, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12586
June 2021
Maria Nikolinakou was awarded $292 from NSF to fund a PhD student and study the "Impact of upper-plate splay faults on accreting-sediment stress state and on megathrust strength and fluid budgets”.
The UT GeoFluids FES method, Pore-Pressure Prediction Based on Velocities Coupled with Geomechanical Modeling, by Flemings, Nikolinakou, and Heidari was issued U.S. Letters Patent number 11,022,709 on June 1, 2021.
Maria Nikolinakou presented a talk on Viscous flow of salt sheets and its interaction with basin sediments at the Biot-Bazant conference held by Northwestern University on June 1-3, 2021.
Maria Nikolinakou chaired the 55th Rock Mechanics Geomechanics Symposium with Gang Han from Saudi Aramco. The conference was online June 21-25, 2021, with 600 attendees from 41 countries. The technical program had 5 tracks (Petroleum Conventional and Unconventional, Interdisciplinary, Civil, Mining, and Geothermal) and included 76 technical sessions, 4 keynote lectures and the first ARMA DEI panel of Women in Rock Mechanics. Symposium papers are available through One-Petro.
Maria Nikolinakou was co-director for the PhD of Jean Joseph d’Hooghvorst.
Jean Joseph graduated in June 2021 with honors (cum laude) from the University of Barcelona. His thesis “Geomechanical Study of the Tarfaya Basin, West African Coast, using 3D/2D Static Models and 2D Evolutionary Models” presents a full geomechanical approach to study the present-day and the evolution through time of the stresses and strains in salt basin systems.
April 2021
On April 29, 2021 Maria Nikolinakou gave a departmental seminar at the Colorado School of Mines on Stress and pore pressure in mudrocks bounding salt systems.
March 2021
Frank Peel presented a talk on the Jurassic landscape at the AAPG Salt Basin TIG on March 2, 2021.
On March 20, 2021, Maria Nikolinakou discussed Pore pressure and stress prediction in complex settings at the Shell monthly geomechanics seminar.
Maria Nikolinakou presented “Mechanisms generating fluid overpressure at the trench of subduction zones” and “Coupling Seismic Pore Pressure Prediction with Geomechanical Modeling” at the Geopressure 2021 conference held by The Geological Society, March 22-25, 2021.
February 2021
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NEW PUBLICATION:
Hooghvorst, JJ, Nikolinakou, MA, Harrold, TWD, Fernandez, O, Flemings, PB, Marcuello, A., 2021, Geologically constrained evolutionary geomechanical modelling of diapir and basin evolution: A case study from the Tarfaya basin, West African coast. Basin Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12547
On February 19, 2021 Gillian Apps gave a talk at LSU with the Geology Seminar series.
On Febrary 21, 2021 Gillian Apps presented a talk at the Liverpool University Earth Science Herdman Symposium.
