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March 16th: Geoscience Wales  – a talk given by Richard Morgan (RockFlow Resources) “Petroleum Geoscience in 2017: a contrarian’s view”   See full description under Events tab

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On the 20th April 2017 Geoscience Wales will hear a talk by Alex Finlay (Chemostrat Ltd.)

“Applying new provenance techniques to refine a new stratigraphy for the Rockall and Faroe-Shetland Basin”. Check back here soon for more details.

Regular venue and time at the Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy

Tim Needham will give a talk on :  ‘Reservoir Scale Deformation and Advances in Fault Seal Analysis’

Here is his Abstract and Bio

The Built Environment as a Geological Resource: Science and Heritage

by Dr Ruth Siddall. University College London

This presentation will be on the 17th November and take place in the Royal Cambrian Academy, Crown Lane, Conwy,
LL32 8AN (located behind Plas Mawr) at 18:30. Refreshments from 18:00.

Abstract and speaker bio   HERE

Thursday 20^th October 2016
A new, non-statistical, direction for quantitative stratigraphy
Dr Graham Potts , University of Liverpool.

This presentation took take place in the Royal Cambrian Academy, Crown Lane, Conwy,
LL32 8AN (located behind Plas Mawr) at 18:30. Refreshments were available 18:00.

Abstract and Speaker profile  – here

We expect to receive Graham’s presentation soon to upload for you to view.

Is Magnetic Susceptibility the next major step forward in core and wireline logging ?

Martin Cox from Advanced Downhole Petrophysics reviewed the work done so far on this project

Martin’s Bio and Abstract are     here      and also his presentation can be found   here

Martin has shared his presentation and also volunteered a number (8) of his background technical papers, click to open any of the papers         Case Study of Cuttings     Journal of Sedimentary Geology     Mag Susceptibility Wytch Farm Study     MagPI brochure        Petrophysics Paper 2007       Petrophysics Paper 2011         Society of Core Analysts paper     Society of Economic Geology Extract

Ian Fairchild from the University of Birmingham gave a talk “Escaping Snowball Earth”  Did the Earth really suffer the totally encapsulating climatic catastrophe of a Snowball Earth

Ian’s bio and full abstract      here

21st May: talk by Matthew Taylor of Chariot Oil & Gas (talk title to be confirmed)