Current Graduate Students

Qualification: M.EarthSci (University of Manchester, UK)

Project Title: Controls on the Sedimentological Heterogeneity of Visean Carbonate Platforms

Study Location: England and Wales

Funding: PD3 Consortium (Tullow, Wintershall, Woodside)

Skills: Carbonate Sedimentology

Publication: Characterizing Facies, Pore Types, and Diagenesis of a Subtidal to Peritidal Carbonate Platform for Defining Flow Units, SEPM Special Publication, Manifold et al., in press

Qualification: MPhil (University of Manchester)

Project Title: North Wales Carbonate Shelf

Study Location: North Wales

Funding: Self-funded

Skills: Carbonate Sedimentology and Petrography

Publication: In progress

Qualification: Msc (Petroleum Engineering, University of Manchester)

Project Title: Fluid Flow through Porous Media Focusing Mainly on Carbonates

Study Location: -

Funding: NERC CDT Oil and Gas

Skills: Flow in Porous Media, Carbonate

Publication: Lacey, M., Hollis, C., Oostrom, M. and Shokri, N., 2017. Effects of pore and grain size on water and polymer flooding in micromodels. Energy & Fuels, 31(9), pp.9026-9034.

Qualification: Bsc (GUTech Oman), Msc (University of Manchester)

Project Title: Dolomitization of Jurassic Carbonates in the Western High Atlas of Morocco: Processes and Implications for Reservoir Properties

Study Location: Morocco

Funding: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) and North Africa Research Group (NARG)

Skills: Petroleum Geology; Carbonate Sedimentology and Diagenesis, Petrography, Geochemistry

Publication: In progress

Qualifications: Bsc (Royal Holloway University of London) and Msc (University of Manchester)

Project Title: Determination of Basin-Scale Fluid Flux to Understand Porosity Distribution in Mature Carbonate Basins

Study Location: Western Canada Basin

Funding: NERC CDT Oil and Gas

Skills: Carbonate Sedimentology and Diagenesis

Publication: In progress

Qualification: B.Eng (ITB, Indonesia), Msc (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

Project Title: Determination of the Governing Processes on the Termination of Fault-Controlled Dolostone Bodies

Study Location: Western Canada Basin (Canada); Essaouira-Agadir Basin (Western Morocco); Derbyshire Platform (UK); Maestrat Basin (Spain)

Funding: President's Doctoral Scholar Award, University of Manchester

Skills: Carbonate Geology and Geochemistry

Publication: Google Scholar

Qualification: Bsc and Msc (UERJ University, Brazil)

Project Title: Diagenesis and reservoir potential of continental carbonates: Cretaceous of the South Atlantic rift

Study Location: Angola

Funding: Dean’s Doctoral Scholar Awards

Skills: Carbonate Sedimentology, Petrophysics, Diagenesis and Seismic Interpretation

Publication: Pereira, G. C. R., Oliviera, E. C., Bergamaschi, S. Continental carbonates from Itaboraí Formation, Southeast, Brazil. 2015. Quaternary International. Special Volume: "Non-marine carbonates: a multidisciplinary approach.

Qualification: Bsc (Perugia University, Italy) Msc (University of Manchester)

Project Title: Diagenesis and reservoir potential of continental carbonates: Cretaceous of the South Atlantic Rift

Study Location: Namibe Basin, Angola

Funding: NERC CDT Oil and Gas

Skills: Sedimentology and diagenesis, petroleum geochemistry and thermal maturity analyses of sedimentary basins

Publication: -

Qualification: Bsc and Msc (University : Aix-Marseille Université, France)

Project Title: Determining the Origin of Microporosity in Cretaceous Systems

Study Location: France

Funding: QNRF (QATAR RESEARCH NATIONAL FUND)

Skills: Sedimentology, Carbonate Sedimentology, Petrophysic/Petroacoustic, Diagenesis/Early Diagenesis, Inorganic Geochemistry, Sequence Stratigraphy, Field Geology

Publication: Control of Long Term Exposure Surfaces on the Compartimentalization and Distribution of Microporosity in Shallow Water Carbonates

Qualifications: Bsc and Msc (China University of Petroleum, Beijing)

Project Title:Deep burial diagenetic processes within a prospective shale gas basin: the Carboniferous Bowland－Hodder Shales, UK.

Study Location: The Widmerpool Gulf and the Derbyshire Platform, UK

Funding: China Scholarship Council & The University of Manchester

Skills: Diagenesis and Geochemistry

Publication: In progress

Qualifications: Bsc and Msc (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)

Project Title: An Integrated Approach Towards Understanding Low Resistivity Pay in Cretaceous Natih Carbonates in the Fahud Salt Basin, North Oman: A Methodology from Natih-A Member

Study Location: Oman

Funding: Petroleum Development Oman (PDO)

Skills: Carbonate sedimentology, diagenesis and petrophysics

Publication: Diagenetic Alterations and Reservoir Quality of the Lower Cambrian Khaleel Member (Karim Formation) Sandstones in South Oman Salt Basin

Qualifications: Bsc and Msc (University of Alberta)

Project Title: Paragenesis of Zebra Dolomite Textures

Study Location: Western Canada Basin

Funding: President's Doctoral Scholar Award

Skills: Carbonate sedimentology, diagenesis, geochemistry, hydrogeology, ichnology, structural geology

Publication: In progress