Vladimír Opletal

• MND a.s.

Accretionary wedges of orogenic belts develop differently based on the direction of thrusting, which can be perpendicular to oblique to the belt. In the case of oblique thrusting, stress partitioning occurs, which dissects the accretionary wedge, changes the tectonic regime from thrusting to strike-slip, and causes the external parts to rotate late...

Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is a necessary requirement for high-emitting CO2 industries to significantly reduce volumes of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere and mitigate climate change. Geological CO2 storage into depleted oil and gas fields is the fastest and most accessible option for CCS deployment allowing for re-purpos...

Carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) is a necessary requirement for high-emitting CO2 industries to significantly reduce volumes of greenhouse gases released to the atmosphere and mitigate the climate change. Geological CO2 storage into depleted oil and gas fields is the fastest and most accessible option for CCS deployment allowing for re-purp...

The planned pilot CO2 storage Zar-3 is an oil field with a gas cap in the final production stage in the SE Czech Republic. It is composed of a dolomite Jurassic reservoir sealed by three different formations that differ significantly in lithology. Previous studies left open questions on the nature of pore space and connectivity and the quality of t...

The regions of South Moravia in Czech Republic and Lower Austria are well-known for their use of thermal mineral waters for balneological purposes. Mineral waters are exploited from a Jurassic aquifer by two about 1.5 km deep wells MUS-3G (Pasohlavky, Czech Republic) and Laa TH Nord 1 (Laa an der Thaya, Austria). This Jurassic aquifer buried below...

Preparation and execution of a CO2 storage pilot project is one of the first logical steps in the effort to kick-start CCS in the region of Central & Eastern Europe, utilizing onshore geological structures for permanent CO2 storage. The main aims of this activity are to test the suitability of local geological structures and demonstrate the feasibi...

Conversion of a nearly depleted oil and gas field Zar-3 in SE Czech Republic to a pilot CO2 storage site is under preparation in a joint project of the Czech Geological Survey, MND company, VSB Technical University in Ostrava and NORCE research institute in Norway. First, an updated geological static 3D model is being built using Petrel (Slb). The...

The submarine Iváň Canyon oriented parallel along the front of the Western Carpathian fold and thrust belt and the foreland of the Bohemian Massif has been studied on numerous 2D seismic sections and available borehole cores. The canyon can be followed over the distance of more than 75 km indented within the sedimentary infill of the Alpine-Carpath...

We determine the organic matter content, its thermal maturity, genetic type, and source rock potential of the Miocene sedimentary rocks in the Czech Carpathian Foredeep. In the Czech Republic the Carpathian Foredeep represents a peripheral foreland basin formed due to the tectonic emplacement and loading of the Alpine-Carpathian Thrust Wedge onto t...

The southernmost documented occurrences of Namurian coal-bearing strata can be found in the Němčičky area, SE Moravia, that is considered to be the southern continuation of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin. Since the south-eastern Moravia belongs to the most prospective areas in terms of hydrocarbon exploration and production in the Czech Republic and...

The Upper Jurassic Marls of Mikulov present a formation that is considered to be the most promising strata to produce hydrocarbons in the Vienna basin. The marls are composed of dark pelagic marlstones that frequently contain layers of limestone with thickness reaching several hundreds of meters. Twenty-seven core samples from selected wells locate...

The Jurassic sedimentary succession along the eastern margin of the Bohemian Massif starts with mostly fluvial deposits of the Gresten Formation and continues after marine transgression with the deposition of the Nikolcice Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian). The provenance and depositional environment of the Nikolcice Formation showed that depo...

The deposits of the Gresten Formation (Middle Jurassic) obtained from deep wells in the territory of southern Moravia (Czech Republic) have been newly examined with the aim to better describe their provenance and depositional environment. Deposition within a relatively broad flood plain with fluvial/distributive channels, crevasse channels, crevass...

In this study a Rock-Eval pyrolysis, a petrographic composition of organic matter, vitrinite reflectance and gas chromatography were undertaken on borehole cores from the Mikulov Marls in order to define the organic matter type and determine the thermal maturity. The analyzed samples covered a depth interval of between 2,300 m and 4,500 m. The stud...