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Introduction
Tara has been awarded an iCASE Studentship with The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and BP (industrial partner). She is a PhD Candidate in Chemical Engineering, at the BP Institute, Cambridge University, as part of the International Centre for Advanced Materials (ICAM) 40 project (part of the BP-ICAM Project). Her project is, 'Rock permeability decline due to fine particle invasion'. Primary research interest is in developing an internal filter cake in porous media.
Primarily a petroleum geoscientist (with a focus on shale, sandstone and micro/macrofossils), she has a particular interest in isotope geochemistry, sedimentology and wellbore strengthening.
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January 2018 - January 2022
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January 2018 - January 2022
October 2017 - October 2018
September 2014 - June 2017
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Shale formation instability presents significant challenges to oil and gas operations. Clay minerals within shale may react with water-based fluids (WBFs) causing swelling, aggregation of shale cuttings on the drill string (bit balling) and potentially wellbore collapse. Factors affecting clay hydration downhole still require investigation.
The swe...
Shale instability presents significant challenges to oil and gas operations; clay minerals in shale either disperse or swell upon contact with drilling fluids causing instability in well bores, or aggregation of shale cuttings on the drill string (bit balling). These problems increased as companies improved the environmental performance of drilling...
The Triassic/Jurassic boundary (TJB) and associated mass extinction event occurred at ~201.3 Ma, and was coincident with large igneous province (LIP) formation – Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP). The boundary is generally identified by the first appearance datum of the ammonite Psiloceras, but this occurs within the Hettangian and not at t...
The Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, has a balanced gender profile at undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral levels (38%, 42% and 45% females, respectively), but one of the lowest percentages, relative to the natural applicant pool, of female academic staff amongst UK geoscience departments. There are currently 9% female acade...
This project investigated brachiopod fossils from the Plio-‐Pleistocene sediments from the
largest of Greece’s Dodecanese islands, Rhodes. Published in Quaesitum (Van Mildert Scholarly Journal).
