Biography
A graduate of Imperial College (BSC, Geology, 1990), Tom spent three years in the oil industry before undertaking a PhD in reservoir geoengineering at Heriot-Watt University. Tom joined the Fault Analysis Group in Liverpool University in 1997, and re-located with the group to UCD in 2000. Tom is currently co-director of the Fault Analysis Group and a UCD Senior Lecturer. His principal research interests centre on the systematic quantitative description of geological structure (sedimentological and fault-related), and subsequent application of this description in modelling practice. Tom’s main involvement in iCRAG is overseeing a project on reservoir modelling and software development within the Hydrocarbons spoke.
Active iCRAG projects:
- Hierarchical compression-based reservoir modelling conditioned to seismic and well data - Deirdre Walsh
- Hierarchical sedimentary characterisation and modelling of submarine channels - Kishan Soni
- Hierarchical Compression modelling for Petrel - Marcus Vinicius Carneiro Martins
- Measuring and modelling stacking patterns in turbidite sequences - Javier Lopez Cabrera
Role
- Funded Investigator
Institution
- UCD
Research Area
- Energy Security
Expertise
- Basin Evolution, Reservoir Modelling, 3D modelling, Fault Seal Analysis, Geomodelling, Reservoir Characterisation, Reservoir Engineering
