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Director of Durham Energy Institute. in the Department of Earth Sciences
Telephone: ES 42346 & Engineering 42554
Room number: Earth Sciences Rm 329 & Engineering HB 372 Mondays and Fridays
(email at richard.davies@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
BSc (Reading University), 1990;
PhD (Edinburgh) 1995
Posts Held:
2009-Present Director of Durham Energy Institute
2006-Present Professor and Director of the Centre for Research into Earth Energy Systems (CeREES)
2003-2006 Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, UK.
2001-2003 Senior Exploration Geologist, ExxonMobil – Houston, USA
1999-2002 Senior Exploration Geologist, ExxonMobil, London, UK
1995-1999 Geologist, Mobil, Aberdeen and London, UK.
1994-1995 Consultant Sedimentology Field Geologist, Venezuela
1986-1987 Trainee Mining Engineer, Anglo American, South Africa.
Career Research Highlights
Career Research Highlights
Industry
Richard Davies spent 7 years in the petroleum industry in Aberdeen, London and Houston with ExxonMobil working on development and exploration projects. This included working on the Shearwater Field (North Sea), wildcat explorations wells west of Shetlands and deepwater Nigeria exploration.
Research
Richard Davies has spear headed the use of 3D seismic reflection data and visualisation in geoscience research, through publishing papers in highly regarded journals on a range of subjects as diverse as soft sediment deformation, igneous intrusions, silica diagenesis, continent-ocean fracture zones, petroleum geology and mud volcanism.
Energy
His main role at Durham has been in building cross-department and cross faculty research research in energy. This started in the field of geo-energy (e.g. fossil fuels, carbon capture and storage) and more recently has been across a spectrum of energy research, with the development of Durham Energy Institute (DEI). DEI involves 96 researchers across 12 departments and is carrying out research within . Total research income for just the geo-energy subject was £7M between 2006-2010. 66% of this is from the energy industry.
Committee and Society Service
Committee and Society Service
1. 2004 - Present Chair of the NERC IODP industrial liaison panel
2. 2001-2002 Treasurer of Petroleum Group of the GSL
3. 2002 - Present, committee member of the Petroleum Group
4. Director of CeREES (from Jan 2006)
Conferences and workshops
Conferences and workshops
1. 2001 - Lead convenor, conference on ‘3D seismic technology’, GSL
2. 2003 - Convenor Petroleum Geology Collaborative Research Conference, GSL
3. 2004 - Convenor of 6th Conference on Petroleum Geology of Northwest Europe and Global Perspectives GSL/PESGB/SPE
4. 2005 - Lead convenor, conference on ‘Seismic Geomorphology’ SEPM/GSL
Editorial Roles
Editorial Roles
1. Editorial Board of Basin Research
Chief Editor of;
2. 3D Seismic Technology: Application to the Exploration of Sedimentary Basins (GSL)
3. Seismic Geomorphology (in prep) GSL/SEPM)
Examples of Recent Media Interviews and Press Coverage
Examples of Recent Media Interviews and Press Coverage
Al Jazeera, Series: People and Power. Programme : 'Indonesia's Muddy Justice'
Link:http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/peopleandpower/2009/06/2009617134123752754.html
Channel 4 News:Link:http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//ITN/2010/03/28/T28031015/
BBC1 Bang Goes the Theory
Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00rm0dk/Bang_Goes_the_Theory_Series_2_Episode_1/
Al Jazeera News
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ypm24quhA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/14/lusi-volcano-scientists-blame-lapindo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/7699672.stm
'The Challenges of Deepwater Drilling. BBC Radion 4 'The Material World'. 13.05.2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qyyb
Research Interests
Deepwater Sedimentary Processes
Fluid flow in sedimentary basins
Geological Storage CO2
Passive Margin Evolution
Petroleum Geology
Rift Basins
Use of 3D seismic data in sedimentary basin analysis
Mud volcanoes
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Evans, RJ, Stewart, SA & Davies, RJ 2007. Phase-reversed seabed reflections in seismic data: examples related to mud volcanoes from the South Caspian Sea. Geo-marine Letters 27(2-4): 203-212. (Additional information)
Posamentier, HW, Davies, RJ, Cartwright, JA & Wood, L 2007. Seismic geomorphology - an overview. Seismic Geomorphology: Applications To Hydrocarbon Exploration And Production (277): 1-14. (Additional information)
Books: edited
Davies.R.J., Posamentier, H.W. Wood, L.J. & Cartwright, J.A. 2007. Seismic Geomorphology. Geological Society Special Publications. Geological Society, London: Geological Society, London.
Books: sections
Davies R.J. 2009. Lusi Mud Volcano - McGraw Hill 2009 Yearbook of Science & Technology. In McGraw Hill 2009 Yearbook of Science & Technology. McGraw Hill. 197-199.
Journal papers: academic
Wall, Mostyn, Cartwright, Joe, Davies, Richard & McGrandle, Andrew 2010. 3D seismic imaging of a Tertiary Dyke Swarm in the Southern North Sea, UK. Basin Research 22: 181-194.
Lentini, Michael R., Fraser, Scot I. Sumner, H. Scott Davies, Richard J. 2010. Geodynamics of the central South Atlantic conjugate margins: implications for hydrocarbon potential. Petroleum Geoscience 16: 217-229. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Ireland, M.T., Davies, R.J., Goulty, N.R. & Carruthers, T.D. 2010. Heterogeneity in silica diagenetic reaction zones revealed by 3D seismic reflection data from offshore Norway. Sedimentology
Higgins, S, Clarke, B. Davies, R.J. & Cartwright J. 2010. Internal geometry and growth history of a thrust-related anticline in a deep water fold belt. Journal of Structural Geology
Neagu C., Cartwright J.A. & Davies, R.J. 2010. Measurement of diagenetic compaction strain from quantitative analysis of fault plane dip. Journal of Structural Geology
Davies R. J. and Clarke A. L. 2010. Methane recycling between hydrate and critically pressured stratigraphic traps, offshore Mauritania. Geology in press.
Maloney D., Davies, R.J., Imber, J., Higgins, S. & King, S 2010. New insights into deformation mechanisms in the gravitationally-driven Niger Delta deepwater fold and thrust belt. AAPG Bulletin
Roberts, K.S., Davies, R.J., Stewart, S. A. 2010. Structure of exhumed mud volcano feeder complexes, Azerbaijan (p ).Basin Research
Huuse,M. Jackson, C. A-J. Van Rensbergen,P., Davies, R. J. Flemings, P. B., Dixon., R. J. 2010. Subsurface sediment remobilization and fluid flow in sedimentary basins: an overview. Basin Research
Davies, R.J., Manga M, Tingay, M., Lusianga, S. & Swarbrick, R 2010. The LUSI mud volcano controversy: Was it caused by drilling?’ Discussion of Sawalo et al 2009. Marine and Petroleum Geology
Meadows, D. & Davies, R.J. 2010. The suitability of silica diagenetic boundaries as isothermal markers: Examples from Offshore Sakhalin, Russian Far East. Marine and Petroleum Geology
Briggs, S.E., Cartwright, J. & Davies, R.J. 2009. Crustal structure of the deepwater west Niger Delta passive margin from the interpretation of seismic reflection data. Marine and Petroleum Geology 26: 936-950.
Davies, RJ, Ireland, MT & Cartwright, JA 2009. Differential compaction due to the irregular topology of a diagenetic reaction boundary: a new mechanism for the formation of polygonal faults. Basin Research 21(3): 354-359. (Additional information)
Alves, TM, Cartwright, J & Davies, RJ 2009. Faulting of salt-withdrawal basins during early halokinesis: Effects on the Paleogene Rio Doce Canyon system (Espirito Santo Basin, Brazil). AAPG Bulletin 93(5): 617-652. (Additional information)
Higgins, S., Clarke, B., Davies, R.J. & Cartwright, J. 2009. Internal geometry and growth history of a thrust-related anticline in a deep water fold belt. Journal of Structural Geology 31: 1597-1611
Wall, M.L.T., Cartwright, J., Davies, R. J. 2009. Reply to discussion on ‘An Eocene age for the proposed Silverpit Impact Crater'. Journal of the Geological Society 166(issue 6): 1159-1160.
Abidin, HZ, Davies, RJ, Kusuma, MA, Andreas, H & Deguchi, T 2009. Subsidence and uplift of Sidoarjo (East Java) due to the eruption of the Lusi mud volcano (2006-present). Environmental Geology 57(4): 833-844. (Additional information)
Briggs, SE, Davies, RJ, Cartwright, J & Morgan, R 2009. Thrusting in oceanic crust during continental drift offshore Niger Delta, equatorial Africa. Tectonics 28: 16. (Additional information)
Heino, P. & Davies, R.J. 2009. Trails of depressions and sediment waves along submarine channels on the continental margin of Espirito Santo Basin, Brazil. Geological Society of America Bulletin 121: 698-711.
Wall, MLT, Cartwright, J & Davies, RJ 2008. An Eocene age for the proposed Silverpit Impact Crater. Journal Of The Geological Society 165: 781-794. (Additional information)
Davies, RJ, Brumm, M, Manga, M, Rubiandini, R, Swarbrick, R & Tingay, M 2008. The East Java mud volcano (2006 to present): An earthquake or drilling trigger? Earth And Planetary Science Letters 272(3-4): 627-638. (Additional information)
Evans, RJ, Stewart, SA & Davies, RJ 2008. The structure and formation of mud volcano summit calderas. Journal Of The Geological Society 165: 769-780. (Additional information)
Tingay, M, Heidbach, O, Davies, R & Swarbrick, R 2008. Triggering of the Lusi mud eruption: Earthquake versus drilling initiation. Geology 36(8): 639-642. (Additional information)
Higgins S., Davies R.J. & Clarke B. 2007. Antithetic fault linkages in a deep water fold and thrust belt. Journal of Structural Geology
Davies, R.J., Goulty, N.R. & Meadows, D. 2007. Fluid flow due to the advance of basin-scale silica reaction. GSA Bulletin(Additional information)
Evans, RJ, Davies, RJ & Stewart, SA 2007. Internal structure and eruptive history of a kilometre-scale mud volcano system, South Caspian Sea. Basin Research 19(1): 153-163. (Additional information)
Davies, RJ & Cartwright, JA 2007. Kilometer-scale chemical reaction boundary patterns and deformation in sedimentary rocks. Earth And Planetary Science Letters 262(1-2): 125-137. (Additional information)
Heiniö, P. & Davies, R.J. 2007. Knickpoint migration in submarine channels in response to fold growth, western Niger Delta. Marine and Petroleum Geology 24: 434-449
Meadows, D. & Davies R.J. 2007. Morphological development of basin-scale silica diagenetic fronts revealed with two-dimensional seismic reflection data: offshore Sakhalin, Russian Far East. Geological Society, London 164: 1193-1206.
Davies R.J., Huuse, M., Hirst, P. & Cartwright, J. 2006. Clastic intrusions primed by silica diagenesis. Geology 34: 917-920.
Davies R.J. & Clark I. 2006. Continental slope failures primed and triggered by silica diagenesis: A case study based upon 3D seismic data analysis. Basin Research 18: 339-350.
Briggs, S.E. Davies, R.J., Cartwright & J., Richard Morgan 2006. Multiple detachment levels and their control on fold styles in the compressional domain of the deepwater west Niger Delta. Basin Research 18: 435-450.
Stewart, S.A. & Davies, R.J. 2006. Structure and emplacement of mud volcano systems in the South Caspian Basin.Bulletin of the American Associaton of Petroleum Geologists 90: 753-770.
Davies R.J 2005. Differential compaction and subsidence in sedimentary basins due to silica diagenesis: A case study.Geological Society of America Bulletin 117(9-10): 1146-1155. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Davies R. J., MacLeod C. J., Morgan, R. & Briggs, S. E. 2005. Termination of a fossil continent-ocean fracture zone imaged with three-dimensional seismic data: The Chain Fracture Zone, eastern Equatorial Atlantic. Geology 33(8): 641-644. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Davies, R.J. 2003. Kilometer-scale fluidization structures formed during early burial of a deep-water slope channel on the Niger Delta. Geology 31(11): 949-952. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Davies, R.J., Bell, B., Cartwright, J.A. & Shoulders, S. 2002. Three-dimensional seismic imaging of Paleogene dike-fed submarine volcanoes from the northeast Atlantic margin. Geology 30(3): 223-226. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Davies, R.J., Cartwright, J.A., Pike, J. & Line, C. 2001. Early Oligocene initiation of North Atlantic Deep Water formation.Nature 410(6831): 917-920. (Additional information) (View publication online)
Journal papers: popular
Davies R.J. Swarbrick, R.E., Evans, R.J. & Huuse, M. 2007. Birth of a mud volcano: East Java, 29 May 2006. GSA Today17: 4-9.
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