Past Graduate Students

List of our past PhD graduates and their current employer

1) Ahmed Al-Nabhani, 2019 – 2024 Petroleum Development Oman PhD ‘An integrated Approach Towards Understanding Low Resistivity Pay in Natih Formation’ (Current employer: PDO, Oman)

2) Hugues Biltault, 2018 – 2023 QNRF funded PhD ‘Determination of the origins of microporosity in Cretaceous systems’ (Current employer: University of Potsdam, Germany)

3) Cole McCormick, 2019 – 2022. University of Manchester Presidents PhD scholar. The Impact of Precursor Textures on Paleo-Fluid Pressure Evolution and the Emplacement of Fault-Controlled Dolostones.(Current employer: Penn State University, USA)

4) Nawwar Al-Sinawi, 2015- 2022 Petroleum Development Oman and NARG funded PhD ‘Dolomitization of Jurassic carbonates in the Western High Atlas of Morocco: processes and implications for reservoir properties’. (Current employer: PDO, Oman)

5) Jack Stacey, 2015-2021, NERC Oil and Gas CDT funded PhD ‘Determination of basin-scale fluid flux to understand porosity distribution within mature carbonate basins’ (Current employer: University of Melbourne, Australian)

6) Michael Lacey, 2015-2020, NERC Oil and Gas CDT funded PhD 'Pore-scale investigation of multiphase flow in carbonate rocks'.

7) Peter del Strother, 2014- 2020, self-funded PhD ‘Platform dynamics and diagenetic modification on a land-attached carbonate platform, Lower Carboniferous, North Wales.’ (Current employer: independent, UK)

8) Lucy Manifold, 2015-2019, PD3 funded studentship ‘Sedimentological and diagenetic characterisation of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian carbonate platforms’. (Current employer: Veridian, UK)

9) Ardiansyah Koeshidayatullah, 2015-2019, University of Manchester Presidents PhD scholar ‘Processes controlling dolomitisation of the Cambrian Mount Whyte Formation, Canada.’ (Current employer: King Fahud University Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia)

10) Aude Duval Arnould, 2015-2019. NARG Funded. ' Controls on stratigraphic development of shelf margin carbonates: Jurassic Atlantic margin - Essaouira-Agadir Basin, Western Morocco'. ( Current employer: Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco

11) Sayed Behbehani, 2014-2019. Kuwait Oil Company funded PhD. ‘Controls on Petrophysical properties of Mauddud formation, Bahra and Sabriyah fields, Kuwait’. Lead supervisor. (Current employer: KOC, Kuwait)

12) Catherine Breislin, 2014- NERC PhD CASE award with BGS. ‘Basin-scale mineral and fluid processes at a palaeo-platform margin, Lower Carboniferous, UK’. Lead Supervisor. (Current employer: Department of Energy and Net Zero, UK)

13) Carmen Zwahlen, 2014-2019 ‘Isotopic constraints on crustal fluid processes’. Co-supervisor with Dr Greg Holland. (Current employer: Universitat Bern, Switzerland)

13) Salem Al Hammami, 2014. ADNOC funded PhD- ‘Seismic interpretation of the Mesozoic of the UAE’. Co-supervisor with Prof Mads Huuse. (Current employer: ADNOC, UAE)

14) Jonathan Lavi, 2013 -BP Funded PhD ‘Improving Interpretation of Seismic Data with Next-Generation Carbonate Seismic Stratigraphy: Analogues for Cenomanian-Turonian shallow marine platform systems’

14) Matthew Warke, 2013. 'Stratigraphic and geochemical framework of the Palaeoproterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen: Transvaal Supergroup (South Africa). (Current employer: Taylor and Francis)

15) Aurelian Gabriel Meyer, 2013-2016 Maersk Qatar funded PhD ‘Porosity modification of the Shuaiba Formation, Al Shaheen Field, offshore Qatar’ Lead supervisor.

16) Aisha Al Hajri, 2009-2015, PDO-funded PhD ‘Timing of porosity generation at the Shuaiba/Nahr Umr boundary’. Lead supervisor. (Current employer: PDO,Oman)

17) Jesal Hirani, 2010-2014 Consortium funded PhD (Total, BG-Group, Saudi Aramco) ‘Diagenetic evaluation of fault/fracture related dolomitization, Cretaceous-Eocene, Hammam Fauran Fault Block, Gulf of Suez’. (Current employer: X-Ray Mineral Services, UK)

18) Richard Newport, 2010-2014, North Africa Research Group funded PhD, ‘Dolomitization of Cenomanian-Turonian Carbonates, North Africa and Western Mediterranean’. Lead supervisor. (Current employer: Shell International Exploration and Production, The Netherlands)

19) Miles Frazer, 2010-2014, NERC CASE award with Chevron, PhD ‘Reconstruction of burial diagenetic processes in a post-rift regime’ Joint project with University of Bristol. Lead supervisor. (Current employer: Chevron, USA)

20) Alex Sharples, 2010-2014 ‘Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the South Australian Margin: Sediment-rich to sediment-starved passive margin evolution and implications for hydrocarbon systems’. Co-supervisor with Dr Mads Huuse. (Current employer: BP)

21) Charlotte Winterbottom, 2009-2014 NERC CASE award with BG-Group funded PhD ‘Depth-related depositional fabrics of a progressively drowned carbonate platform, Hawaii’. . Co-supervisor with Prof Kevin Taylor.

22) Alanna Juerges, 2008-2012, NERC CASE award with Shell, PhD. ‘Reconstructing the burial history of fractured carbonate systems using the Lower Carboniferous of the UK and Europe’. Lead supervisor. (Current employer: Shell International Exploration and Production. The Netherlands)

23) Ibraihm Al Rajaibi, 2007-2011, Petroleum Development Oman funded PhD. ‘Origin and distribution of Athel Silicilyte and comparison with Monterey Formation’. Co-supervisor with Dr Joe McQuaker.

24) Said Al Balushi, 2007-2011Petroleum Development Oman funded PhD.‘Discussions on the fundamental controls of lithofacies variability and organic matter preservation in a clastic-starved intrashelf depositional basin: a multi-proxy study of the Natih B Member (Middle Cretaceous, Oman)’.

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