Joanna Garland

• Independent Researcher

More than a century of exploitation of carbonate petroleum reservoirs has placed the geoscience subsurface community in a strong position to supply a wealth of knowledge and technology to our future energy needs. This special publication presents the latest learnings from carbonate oil and gas fields in key areas such as Brazil, the Middle East and...

Dinantian carbonates in the Northwest European Carboniferous Basin (NWECB) in the Netherlands form a target for Ultra Deep Geothermal (UDG) exploration. The NWECB was a deep water area with shallow water attached carbonate systems in the southwestern Netherlands and isolated carbonate platforms nucleated on horsts in the northern part of the Nether...

This Special Publication is a compendium of studies on carbonate petroleum reservoirs from several key areas, together with subsurface examples of renewable energy generation, storage and sequestration. It shows how the tools developed entirely for petroleum reservoir exploitation are now being utilized to enable aspects of our new low-carbon envir...

A multidisciplinary approach combining geological mapping based on seismic and well data with petrographic analyses of core and cuttings samples was used to gain a better understanding of the distribution of Upper Permian (Zechstein, Z2) Hauptdolomit platforms and their depositional facies around the Elbow Spit High in the northern Dutch offshore....

This paper provides an updated understanding of the reservoir stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeogeography and diagenesis of the Upper Permian Hauptdolomit Formation of the Zechstein Supergroup (“Hauptdolomit”) in a study area on the southern margin of the Mid North Sea High. The paper is based on the examination and description of core and cutting...

The Gohta discovery well, 7120/1-3, drilled on the Loppa High in the SW Barents Shelf in northern Norway encountered a meteoric karst system hosted by the late Permian, Lower Røye Formation that formed during a period of sub-Triassic exposure. The karst system is preserved as a series of interbedded collapse breccias representing formerly open p...

Folder kmz (Virtual Fieldtrip on Google Earth with Elevation Exaggeration = 1) with the geolocation of the main analyzed field localities, geological maps, and cross-sections from the stratigraphic architecture and fracture-controlled dolomitization of the Cretaceous Khami and Bangestan groups, an outcrop case study in Zagros Mountains (Iran), publ...

The Albian Mauddud Formation is a prolific reservoir in Kuwait and nearby countries such as Iraq and Iran but has received far less attention than the under‐ and overlying units (the Aptian Shu'aiba and Cenomanian Mishrif Formations). Detailed reservoir characterization studies of the formation are required to support field development and improved...

The Dinantian carbonates (Zeeland Formation) are considered as potential targets for development of medium to high temperature geothermal energy systems in the Netherlands and neighboring countries. A fundamental question is their reservoir quality and controlling parameters. To characterize such properties, comprehensive facies and diagenesis anal...

Nodular bedding is a very common fabric in the Cretaceous carbonates of the Middle East, and possibly even more so during the Albian to Turonian period. This style of bedding is mostly considered to be a result of bioturbation, involving Thalassinoides ichnotraces, and can be developed in open marine carbonates, as well as shallow marine lagoonal t...

GeoMod2004, Emmetten, Switzerland. Program Abstract 3-11. Bollettino di Geofisica, 45 - N.1, 215-216.

The development of innovative techniques and concepts, and the emergence of new plays in carbonate rocks are creating a resurgence of oil and gas discoveries worldwide. The maturity of a basin and the application of exploration concepts have a fundamental influence on exploration strategies. Exploration success often occurs in underexplored basins...

The sequence stratigraphic approach has evolved into an important tool for stratigraphic analysis and does have an element of prediction. Several sequence models have been proposed and are in use, but there have been emotive discussions in the literature over these, as well as systems tracts and key surfaces. Metre-scale cycles (parasequences) are...

The Barremian–Aptian upper Khami Group and Albian–Campanian Bangestan Group have been studied at outcrop in Lurestan, SW Iran. The upper Khami Group comprises a thin deltaic wedge (Gadvan Fm) transgressively overlain by shelfal carbonates (Dariyan Fm). The Dariyan Fm can be divided into lower and upper units separated by a major intra-Aptian fractu...

Spectacular outcrops of dolomite of hydrothermal origin are described from the Anaran Anticline, in the Simply Folded Belt of the Zagros Mountains, Ilam province, SW Iran. Dolomite replaces Cretaceous carbonates of the Upper and Lower Sarvak formation (Albian to Turonian). The typical paragenetic association includes a matrix replacing dolomite pha...

C.T. 1996. Microfacies analysis and metre-scale cyclicity in the Givetian back-reef sediments of south-east Devon. Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 9, 031-036 The Givetian (Middle Devonian) of south-east Devon consists of reef and back-reef facies (Tor Bay Reef-Complex) developed on a shelf-edge rise. Three sections in the Newton Abbot area have...