Europe Touchstone Fundamentals Course, August 30-31

RQC members are welcome to attend a Touchstone Fundamentals course that we will be holding on August 30-31.  The course will be taught at GeoZentrum NordBayern, which is part of Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Erlangen, Germany.   Note that it is not necessary to participate in the 1st School on Sandstone Diagenesis that Geocosm staff will be helping to…

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Reservoir Quality and Burial Model Evaluation By Kinetic Quartz And Illite Cementation Modeling: Case Study of Rotliegendes, North Germany

This article published in the AAPG Bulletin represents part of Benjamin Busch’s Ph.D. dissertation and includes Geocosm’s Linda Bonnell and Rob Lander as co-authors. Silicate reaction kinetics provide a complementary means to other established paleothermal indicators such as organic maturation for evaluating thermal reconstructions. In this study we combine the use of an organic maturation…

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Clastic Reservoir Quality Prediction Models: Past, Present, and Future

In this invited talk at the Annual AAPG Meeting, Geocosm’s Rob Lander and Linda Bonnell review the history and current state-of-the-art in reservoir quality prediction models while also discussing potential future developments. Over the past 20 years reservoir quality assessment has expanded from a focus on description to encompass process-oriented models. These models predict rock…

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Controls on Reservoir Quality in Exhumed Basins: An Example from the Ordovician Sandstone, Illizi Basin, Algeria

This paper published in Marine and Petroleum Geology represents part of Kara English’s Ph.D. dissertation and involves the application of Geocosm’s Touchstone and T>Map simulation systems. Geocosm’s Rob Lander and Linda Bonnell are co-authors.  The animation below shows the T>Map simulation discussed in the paper. https://geocosm.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/TMap-Illizi-Basin-perm-animation-20fps1.mp4 Petroleum exploration in many North African intracratonic basins targets Early Paleozoic sandstones as the primary reservoir objective. These sandstones…

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PSA Webinar

Geocosm’s Rob Lander was the speaker for the Petroleum System Analysis webinar #5. A recording of the webcast is available on YouTube.

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The Message is the Medium

Geocosm’s Rob Lander wrote an essay of this title for 52 Things You Should Know About Rock Physics, which was edited by Matt Hall, Evan Bianco, and Kara Turner. You can read the essay here.

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Reservoir Quality and Rock Properties Modeling – Triassic and Jurassic Sandstones, Greater Shearwater Area, UK Central North Sea

This paper by geoscientists from Shell as well as Geocosm’s Linda Bonnell shows how Geocosm’s Touchstone system for reservoir quality prediction can be linked to rock physics models. It also documents successful pre-drill predictions made using this approach. The complex burial and diagenetic histories of the Jurassic Fulmar and Triassic Skagerrak sandstones in the UK…

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3-D Grain-Scale Simulation of Diagenesis and Rock Properties

In this presentation at the AAPG Annual Meeting Geocosm authors discuss concepts associated with Cyberstone, Geocosm’s revolutionary and patented Digital Sedimentary Petrology model. Fundamental geomechanical, petrophysical, and fluid-flow properties of clastic rocks reflect grain-scale compositions and textures. There is a revolution underway in the ability to predict these properties via “digital physics” simulations at the…

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