PhD Projects 2018

University of Aberdeen

  • Calibrating Geothermometers: integrating field, laboratory and well data for appraising thermal maturation of organic matter
  • How responsive are coastal carbonate depositional systems to relative sea-level change?
  • ‘Overthickening’ of the Cretaceous along the NE Atlantic Margin by Igneous Intrusions

University of Birmingham

  • Automated Image Analysis for Rapid Biostratigraphic Data Collection
  • Twenty years on: the Paleocene Planktonic Foraminiferal Atlas re-imagined
  • Enhancing in-situ extraction technologies for heavy and shale oils, for improved oil recovery factor and reduced environmental impact.

Cardiff University

  • A regional analysis of caprock integrity in the North Sea

University of Dundee

  • New insight into the internal structure of turbidites from physical modelling of relevant erosion and deposition processes during their formation
  • Effect of Marine Growth on Offshore Civil Engineering Structures

University of Durham

  • Modelling Immersion Enthalpies and Contact Angles for Improved Multiscale Enhanced Oil Recovery Simulation

University of Exeter

  • A fully coupled XFEM model for hydraulic fracturing in multi-phase porous media

Heriot-Watt University

  • Using human-like creative computing (AI) to assist in geological interpretation
  • An Artificial Intelligence Approach to Revisit History Matching
  • Quantitative assessment of interpretational uncertainty in geological mapping with machine learning
  • Mesozoic-Recent sediment routing and reservoir distribution in the offshore basins of the Falkland Islands using a source-to-sink approach

Imperial College London

  • Pushing Mature Basins into the AI revolution: Using Neural Networks to Extract Quantitative Information from Core and Thin Section Images
  • Pore scale modelling of foam flow in porous media

University of Strathclyde

  • Constraining the role of faults as seal-bypass systems