Sub-surface fluids: an integrated approach for assessing natural resources
Channel: GeoscienceAustralia
Date: 10/07/2019

Responsible exploration of Australia’s energy and mineral resources is critical for the operation and growth of modern economies while navigating toward a “post-fossil fuel” era. Using multidisciplinary workflows, the assessment of natural resources can provide insights on key earth-systems distribution and evolution, reducing risk for exploration.

Integrating high-resolution 3D seismic, gravity and magnetic data to sequence stratigraphy, geochemical analyses and play fairway mapping provides opportunities to characterise, predict and ground-truth fluid migration pathways in underexplored areas. This integrated workflow has reduced geological uncertainties around CO2 storage potential and petroleum exploration. Minerals and groundwater resource assessments can also benefit from this approach.

Nadege Rollet received her PhD in geophysics and geology at the University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Since joining Geoscience Australia, Nadege’s research has refined our knowledge on the nature and processes associated with Australia’s offshore sedimentary basins, particularly integrating multidisciplinary datasets for geological modelling and ground-truthing.

This talk is presented as part of the Distinguished Geoscience Lecturer series 3 July 2019