Mechanical Stratigraphy
Quantifying the relationships between fracture characteristics, facies architecture, and the resultant mechanical stratigraphy: Outcrop analogs for Tengiz and Korolev lower-slope (apron) reservoirs from the Guadalupe & Apache Mountains (USA) and the Bolshoi-Karatau Mountains (Kazakhstan)
Quantifying the relationships between fracture characteristics, facies architecture, and the resultant mechanical stratigraphy: Outcrop analogs for Tengiz and Korolev lower-slope (apron) reservoirs from the Guadalupe & Apache Mountains (USA) and the Bolshoi-Karatau Mountains (Kazakhstan)
Funding: Chevron / TengizChevroil
Start date: June 2022
Academic Partnership: Colorado School of Mines
Co-PI's: Drs. Zane Jobe (PI), Lesli Wood, Piret Plink-Bjorklund (Colorado School of Mines); and Drs. Bas Den Brok, Emil Bayramov, and Randy Hazlett and (Nazarbayev University).
Advisors: Drs. James Bishop, Ted Playton, Evan Earnest, Vincent Heesakkers
Image on the left: Carboniferous carbonate slope deposits, B. Karatau, Kazakhstan
