Dr. Steve Laubach presents “Brittle deformation with focus on China: Structural diagenetic processes in fractures and how they vary with thermal history.”
Recently, researchers from the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Fracture Research & Application Consortium (FRAC) presented at the 2nd International Forum on Clastic Reservoir Geology (IFCRG). Petrochina Hangzhou Research Institute of Geology, a FRAC sponsor for the past 6 years, hosted the event.
As a result of great feedback on talks at the first forum given by Dr. Steve Laubach of the Bureau and Dr. Jon Olson of the UT Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, FRAC researchers were invited to present again this year. With 21 expert presentations and nearly 100 attendees in person and remote, including a group of Chinese National Academy of Science members, this year’s forum opened to a wider audience than the inaugural IFCRG in 2022.
Laubach presented “Brittle deformation with focus on China: Structural diagenetic processes in fractures and how they vary with thermal history,” and Dr. András Fall presented his lecture, “Timing natural fractures in deep reservoirs.”
After the event, one of the organizers made a point to reach out and say, “Everyone unanimously commented that the two [Bureau] professors' lectures were very innovative, in-depth, and inspiring for Chinese geologists.”
Special thanks go to Dr. Qiqi Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, for organizing the lectures.
For more information about FRAC and their work, visit https://frac.beg.utexas.edu/.
Dr. András Fall presents “Timing natural fractures in deep reservoirs.”
