Recent and Current Activity in Fractured Reservoir Studies
Over this year we have been working on a wide range of reservoir formations from late PreCambrian basements through Cambro-Ordovician quartzites, Ordovician glaciogenic sediments, Devonian fluvial and lacustrine sandstones, Carboniferous and Permian sandstones, and Mesozoic to Tertiary carbonates including those of the Zagros fold belt in Kurdistan. Just about most formations in the column! The studies include fracture characterisation fieldwork, image log analysis, core logging, geomechanical models and fracture models. Training courses have continued in the excellent field setting provided by the Pyrenees fold belt, and we have also delivered a fractured reservoir training course in Malaysia.

Deep Geothermal Drilling - A Cornish EGS Project
Engineered Geothermal Systems (EGS) are the current manifestation of technology that GeoScience worked on in the 1980’s (then known as ‘Hot Dry Rocks’ geothermal). We are now involved in a project led by Geothermal Engineering Ltd to build an EGS near  Truro in  Cornwall. This will involve drilling to approximately 5km depth in a region of high heat flow and natural fracture permeability, to develop a reservoir system and recover hot water to surface for electricity generation. GeoScience has done the feasibility and design for GEL and a drilling site is in preparation. 
www.geothermalengineering.co.uk

Pyrenees Field Courses
Our 2012 field courses in 'Fractured Reservoir Outcrop Analogs and their Application to Reservoir Characterisation' are to be held on May 14^th-18^th and September 17^th-21st for carbonate formations, and May  21^st  - 25^th for clastics. Please see our Training pages for more information and registration details.

NExT Training Courses
We are now providing our classroom based course in Fractured Reservoir Characterisation within Schlumbergers’  NExT training organization.  The course runs through the basics needed for investigating characterising and modeling of fractured reservoirs, with emphasis on carbonates. For more information see www.nexttraining.net.  

Consultancy Associations
We have working associations with several independent consultancies in order to provide a wide range of services to hydrocarbon and geothermal exploitation companies. These are:

Cambridge Carbonates Ltd (www.cambridgecarbonates.com) who work in reservoir sedimentology and diagenesis

ERC Equipoise Ltd (www.ercequipoise.com) who are a reservoir evaluation company specializing in all areas of upstream analysis

African Shield Consulting Ltd (www.africanshield.net) who specialise in reservoir evaluations for Libya and South America

72nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition - Barcelona  (June 2010)

We had a high profile at EAGE Barcelona on two platforms: in the Exhibition and also in the Poster presentations where Jon Gutmanis and Lluis Ardevol (Geoplay Pyrenees) presented on ‘Application of Pyrenean Fractured Carbonate Outcrops for Subsurface Reservoir Characterisation’. A download of the poster abstract is available here.