Structure Group
Goal
Conduct applied research in the area of structural geology. Provide assistance to Corporate Associates in addressing questions or conducting studies of a structural nature.
Expertise
• Extensive global experience in all structural styles including salt, wrench, compressional, extensional and passive margin
• Full-time structural staff (professional, post-doctoral, and technician), as well as specialized structural consultants
• Group headed by Dr. Michal Nemcok who has experience in all basins of the Carpathian-Pannonian Basin system (foreland, forearc, backarc, pull-apart), Bristol Channel (inverted rift basin), Andean retroarc foreland basin (Bolivia), San Joaquin Basin in the San Andreas strike-slip and transpressional setting, Paradox Basin on the Colorado Plateau, Santos and Nova Scotia rift to passive margin basins, the Dinarides, the Wyoming thrustbelt and the Alpine foreland basin (Austria)
Example Research Projects
• Systematics of Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production in Thrustbelts
• Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Central and North Caspian Depressions, West Central Asia
Analytical Services
Structural services at EGI encompass a broad range of topics:
• Construction and evaluation of “balanced” structural cross sections supported by physical and numeric modelling
• Integrated quantitative basin analysis
• Reservoir-scale structural analysis
• Systematics of hydrocarbon exploration and production in thrustbelts, foreland basins, wrench provinces, rift and inverted rift settings and passive margins
• Fracture analysis
Training
• Modern Concepts in Structural Geology
• Wrench Fault Systems as a Habitat for Hydrocarbons
• Structural Analysis of the Inverted Bristol Channel Basin: Implications for the Geometry and Timing of Fracture Porosity
• Construction and Evaluation of “Balanced” Structural Cross Sections
• Thrustbelts and Foreland Basins as Habitats for Hydrocarbons
For more information contact:
Dr. Michal Nemcok (801)585-9829 mnemcok@egi.utah.edu