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Global experience as an Advisor in Exploration with 35 years of industry experience with major IOC’s. SME for both Seals and Stratigraphic Traps.
Basin Analysis, Integrated Petroleum Systems and Basin Modelling.
Passions are teaching, innovation, collaboration and integration.
Technology
Training courses
Technology
Pressure VES Seal Tool
- Predict column heights from lithology, T&P, capillary and mechanical sealing capacity.
- Database of over 50 published fields provides analogue trends to compare with Lithology dependent rock property trends.
- Compare your fields and prospects to the Database - or we can build your own.
Training courses
Training courses
Training courses
- Characterising seals and column height prediction
- Pore pressure and hydrocarbon migration in exploration (Fluid Flow).
- Stratigraphic trapping
- Integrated Petroleum Systems Analysis
Our Courses
Characterising Seals
Pore Pressure and Hydrocarbon Migration in Exploration
Pore Pressure and Hydrocarbon Migration in Exploration
- Theory of capillarity and fracturing
- Intrinsic Rock Properties and compaction
- Seals and depositional systems
- Seismic and log motifs
- Insights from a Column height database of published fields
- Prediction methodologies for prospects
Pore Pressure and Hydrocarbon Migration in Exploration
Pore Pressure and Hydrocarbon Migration in Exploration
Pore Pressure and Hydrocarbon Migration in Exploration
- Pore pressure fundamentals
- Interpretation of pressure data
- Darcy Flow (water)
- Capillary resistance (non-wetting fluid)
- Theory of Migration and losses en route
- Migration styles from Source to Seabed
- Fill-leak-spill processes and impacts on fluid composition and GOR.
- Examples from Fields in various petroleum systems
Stratigraphic Trapping
Pore Pressure and Hydrocarbon Migration in Exploration
Stratigraphic Trapping
- Typical issues encountered describing and risking stratigraphic traps
- Systematic approach to describing the container.
- Evaluation of the seals
- Importance of trap structural history and burial history
- Controls on column height
- Defining uncertainty
- Examples
Recent Publications
Positives and Negatives of Exploring on Oceanic Crustal Margins J. Iliffe
Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
Source: , First EAGE Atlantic Geoscience Resource Exploration and Development Symposium, May 2025, Volume 2025, p.1 - 3
Compaction controls on Seal Effectiveness: Insights from inverse analysis of oil and gas fields
Submitted : EAGE Conference Aberdeen June 2026