University of Barcelona

Reservoir Geology and Geophysics

Master Research Projects 2022-23

Projects

Interplay of 3D base-salt relief on the suprasalt deformation in salt bearing passive margin: An analogue modelling approach. Student: Manel Ramos. Tutors: Oriol Ferrer (UB), Leonardo M. Pichel (Univerity of Bergen, UiB)

Seismic tomography of the Cerdanya Basin from short-period signals using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Student: Tatiana Rodriguez. Tutors: Sergi Ventosa (ICM-CSIC), Jordi Díaz (GEO3BCN-CSIC), Juan Alcalde (GEO3BCN-CSIC)

Sedimentary evolution of an Inner Santonian Carbonate Platform from the Pyrenees. Student: Oriol Góngora. Tutors: Irene Cantarero (UB), Eloi Carola (UB), Telm Bover (UB)

Geophysical characterization of the Seu d’Urgell basin. Student: Sergio Andrés Arévalo. Tutors: Albert Macau (ICGC), Andrés Juvenal (ICGC), Perla Piña (UB)

Cenozoic salt-sediment interaction in the offshore Tarfaya basin, NW Africa. Student: Tomás Nunes. Tutors: Rodolfo Uranga (UB), Oriol Ferrer (UB)

Deformation of competent lithologies interbedded with salt in rifted margins: Insights from analogue models and comparison with case studies. Student: Jon Zamalloa. Tutors: Oriol Ferrer (UB), Gonzalo Zamora (Repsol)

Modelling of the Cameros basin and relationships with the mountain front (La Rioja). Student: Miguel Ibáñez. Tutor: Antoni Teixell (UAB)

Characteristics, distribution and origin of Cretaceous dolostones from the western Maestrat Basin (E Iberian Chain). Student: Eider Rua. Tutors: Irene Cantarero (UB), Eloi Carola (UB), Telm Bover (UB)

Diagenetic evolution of Late Aalenian-Bajocian platform carbonates flanking the northeastern closure of the Tazoult salt wall (High Atlas, Morocco). Student: Álvaro Chaves. Tutors: Anna Travé (UB), Juan Diego Martín (UB), Gabriel Cofrade

3D characterisation of sedimentary heterogeneity and its impact on reservoir properties in amalgamated fluvial sheet-sandstones: Montllobar Formation (Ypresian, Tremp-Graus Basin, Spain). Student: Guillermo Bello. Tutors: Miquel Poyatos (UAB), Patricia Cabello (UB), Oriol Oms (UAB)

Facies and depositional geometry of a mixed shallow marine system in a changing basin morphology (Eocene Àger Basin, Central South Pyrenees). Student: Assel Zhalgasbayeva. Tutors: Sara Tomás (UAB), Ramon Mercedes (UAB), Miquel Poyatos (UAB)