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I currently teach Drilling Engineering II and am second-year co-ordinator at the Australian School of Petroleum. In addition, I teach an honours level course in petroleum geomechanics and attend several fieldtrips.
In addition to undergraduate teaching, I have also taught several short courses in Petroleum geomechanics and Tectonics of between 1-5 days length for petroleum companies, including BP and PETRONAS.
My research interests are primarily in the field of petroleum geomechanics and tectonics. My main research focus is in determining the present-day/contemporary state of stress and comparing this to recent structural styles. I also examine the implications and applications of the present-day state of stress for petroleum exploration and production (e.g. wellbore stability and seal breach by fault reactivation) and for geothermal power production.
My research also examines the relationship between stress, pore pressure and deformation. In particular, I examine how rocks break and bend and how fluids flow in extremely high overpressured environments (or very low effective stresses). As part of this research, I have looked at mobile shale features, such as mud volcanoes, shale diapirs and shale dykes in a number of locations, including Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Azerbaijan and offshore Egypt.In recent years I have conducted extensive analysis of the origins and evolution of the Lusi mud flow disaster that has been flooding the town of Sidoarjo, Indonesia since May 2006.
My current research (funded by ARC Discovery Grants) is focussed on the present-day stresses and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of SE Asia and the development of delta-deepwater fold-thrust belt systems, and has involved collaborative research with petroleum companies in Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei and India. However, in recent years I have conducted a range of stress studies around the world with the World Stress Map Project, including projects in Egypt, Azerbaijan, Oman, Germany, UK and the USA.
Australian Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project DP0665194 ‘Crustal Stress Field of SE Asia’, 2006-2009.
Chief Investigator, ARC Discovery Project DP0878258 ‘Present-Day Stress and Tectonics of Deltas and Deepwater Fold-Thrust Belts’, 2008-2010.
Chief Investigator, ARC Discovery Project DP0556016 ‘Present-Day Crustal Stresses of NW Borneo: Neotectonics of an Active Collisional Margin’, 2005-2007.
1. Tingay, M., Morley, C.K., King, R.E., Hillis, R.R., Hall, R. & Coblentz, D., 2010. The Southeast Asian Stress Map. Tectonophysics, 482, 92-104.
2. Tingay, M., Morley, C., Hillis, R.R. & Meyer, J.J., 2010. Present-day stress orientation in Thailand’s basins. Journal of Structural Geology, 32, 235-248.
3. Tingay, M., Bentham, P., De Feyter, A. & Kellner, A., 2010 (in press). Present-day stress field rotations associated with evaporites in the offshore Nile Delta,Geological Society of America Bulletin.
4. Davies, R.J., Manga, M., Tingay, M., Lusianga, S. & Swarbrick, R., 2010 (in press). DISSCUSSION: Sawalo et al. (2009) The LUSI mud volcano controversy: Was it caused by drilling? Marine and Petroleum Geology.
5. Heidbach, O., Tingay, M., Barth, A., Reinecker, J., Kurfeβ, D. & Müller, B., 2010. Global crustal stress pattern based on the 2008 World Stress Map database release. Tectonophysics, 482, 3-15.
6. Heidbach, O., Tingay, M., Wenzel, F., 2010. Frontiers in stress research. Tectonophysics, 482, 1-2.
7. King, R.C., Hillis, R.R., Tingay, M. & Damit, A.R., 2010. Present-day stresses in Brunei: Deltaic versus active margin tectonics. Basin Research, 22, 236-247.
8. King, R.C., Backé, G., Morley, C.K., Hillis, R.R. & Tingay, M., 2010. Balancing deformation in NW Borneo: Quantifying plate-scale versus gravitational tectonics in a Delta and Deepwater Fold-Thrust Belt System. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 27, 238-246.
9. King, R.C., Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Morley, C.K. & Clark, J., 2010 (in press). Present-day stress orientations and tectonic provinces of the NW Borneo collisional margin: more than plate boundary forces. Journal of Geophysical Research.
10. Reinecker, J., Tingay, M., Müller, B. & Heidbach, O., 2010. Present-day stress orientation in the Molasse Basin. Tectonophysics, 482, 129-138.
11. Tingay, M., Hillis, R.R., Swarbrick, R.E., Morley, C.K. & Damit, A.R. 2009. Origin of overpressure and pore pressure prediction in the Baram Delta Province, Brunei. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 93, 51-74.
12. Tingay, M., Hillis, R.R., Morley, C.K., King, R.C., Swarbrick, R.E. & Damit, A.R. 2009. Present-day stress and neotectonics of Brunei: implications for petroleum exploration and production. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 93, 75-100.
13. Tingay, M., Morley, C., King, R., Hillis, R. & Coblentz, D. 2009. Southeast Asian stress map: implications for petroleum exploration and production. First Break, 27 (11), 81-88.
14. Tingay, M., 2009. State and origin of present-day stress fields in sedimentary basins. Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists 20th International Conference and Exhibition Extended Abstracts, 10 pages, doi:10.1071/ASEG2009ab037.
15. King, R.C., Hillis, R.R., Tingay, M. & Morley, C.K. 2009. Present-day stress and neotectonic provinces of the Baram Delta (and deepwater fold-thrust belt). Journal of the Geological Society, London, 166, 197-200.
16. Heidbach, O., Tingay, M., Barth, A., Reinecker, J., Kurfeß, D. & Müller, B., 2009. The World Stress Map based on the database release 2008, Commission of the Geological Map of the World, Paris., 1:46 M doi:10.1594/GFZ.WSM.Map2009.
17. Tingay, M., Heidbach, O., Davies, R. & Swarbrick, R.E. 2008. Triggering of the Lusi mud eruption: earthquake versus drilling initiation. Geology, 36, 639-642.
18. Altmann, J., Müller, B., Tingay, M., Heidbach, O. and Müller, T., 2008. Towards 3D spatio-temporal pore pressure stress coupling prediction in reservoirs. Society of Petroleum Engineers - European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers 70th Conference and Exhibition - Incorporating SPE EUROPEC 2008, 4, 2627-2631.
19. Morley, C.K., Tingay, M., Hillis, R.R. & King, R.C. 2008. Relationship between structural style, overpressures and modern stress, Baram Delta province, NW Borneo. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B09410, doi:10.1029/2007JB005324, 23 p.
20. Franke, D., Barckhausen, U., Heyde, I., Tingay, M. & Ramli, N. 2008. Seismic images of a collision zone offshore NW Sabah/Borneo. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 25, 606-624.
21. Davies, R., 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, 627-638.
22. Müller, B., Altmann, J., Dorner, A., Müller, T. & Tingay, M. 2008. Modelling pore pressure/stress coupling. In: Potvin, Y., Carter, J., Dyskin, A. & Jeffrey, R. (eds)Proceedings of the 1st Southern Hemisphere International Rock Mechanics Symposium. Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, 2, 275-285.
23. Tingay, M., Hillis, R.R., Swarbrick, R.E., Morley, C.K. & Damit, A.R. 2007. Vertically transferred overpressures in Brunei: evidence for a new mechanism for the formation of high magnitude overpressures. Geology, 35, 1023-1026.
24. Tingay, M., Wenzel, F., Fuchs, K., Rossi, P., Heidbach, O., Muller, B., Reinecker, J., Sperner, B., and Cadet J.-P., 2007. World Stress Map published. Eos, 88(47), 504.
25. Heidbach, O., Reinecker, J., Tingay, M., Müller, B., Sperner, B., Fuchs, K. & Wenzel, F. 2007. Plate boundary forces are not enough: Second- and third-order stress patterns highlighted in the World Stress Map database. Tectonics, 26, TC6014, doi:10.1029/2007TC002133, 19 p.
26. Heidbach, O., Fuchs, K., Muller, B., Reinecker, J., Sperner, B., Tingay, M. & Wenzel, F. 2007. The World Stress Map. Episodes, 30, 197-201.
27. Heidbach, O., Fuchs, K., Müller, B., Reinecker, J., Sperner, B., Tingay, M. & Wenzel, F. 2007. The World Stress Map - Release 2005, Commission of the Geological Map of the World, Paris.
28. Tingay, M., Müller, B., Reinecker, J. & Heidbach, O. 2006. State and origin of the present-day stress field in sedimentary basins: New results from the World Stress Map Project. 41st U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Golden Rocks 2006, Published Plenary Paper ARMA/USRMS 06-1049, 14 p.
29. Reinecker J., Tingay M. & Müller B. 2006. The use of the World Stress Map database for rock engineers. In: Lu, M., Li, C., Kjørholt, H. & Dahle, H. (eds) In-situ Rock Stress Measurement, Interpretation and Application. Taylor & Francis Group, London, 505-510.
30. Tingay, M., Hillis, R.R., Morley, C.K., Swarbrick, R.E. & Drake, S.J. 2005a. Present-day stress orientation in Brunei: a snapshot of ‘prograding tectonics’ in a Tertiary delta. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 162, 39-49.
31. Tingay, M., Müller, B., Reinecker, J., Heidbach, O., Wenzel, F. & Fleckenstein, P. 2005b. Understanding tectonic stress in the oil patch: The World Stress Map Project. The Leading Edge, 24, 1276-1282.
32. Müller, B., Heidbach, O. & Tingay, M. 2005. The World Stress Map – an essential and easy accessible tool for geohazard assessment. In: Ismail-Zadeh, A. (ed)Geodynamics, Georisk and Sustainable Development in the Black Sea to Caspian Region. American Institute of Physics, Melville, 825, 19-31.
33. Tingay, M., Hillis, R.R., Morley, C.K., Swarbrick, R.E. & Drake, S.J. 2005. ‘Prograding’ tectonics in Brunei: Regional implications for fault sealing. 40th U.S. Symposium on Rock Mechanics, Alaska Rocks 2005, Published Paper ARMA/USRMS 05-785, 14 p.
34. Tingay, M., Hillis, R.R., Swarbrick, R.E. & Morley, C.K. 2005. Origin and petrophysical log response of overpressures in the Baram Delta province, Brunei.Proceedings of the 30th Indonesian Petroleum Association 2005 Convention. Indonesian Petroleum Association, Jakarta, 1, 381-390.
35. Wagner, D., Müller, B. & Tingay, M., 2004. Correcting for tool decentralization of oriented six-arm caliper logs for determination of contemporary tectonic stress orientation. Petrophysics, 45, 530-539.
36. Heidbach, O., Barth, A., Connolly, P., Fuchs, K., Müller, B., Reinecker, J., Sperner, B., Tingay, M. & Wenzel, F. 2004. Stress Maps in a Minute: The 2004 World Stress Map Release. Eos, 85, 521-529.
37. Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Morley, C., Swarbrick, R. & Okpere, E., 2003. Variation in vertical stress in the Baram Basin, Brunei: tectonic and geomechanical implications.Marine and Petroleum Geology, 20, 1201-1212.
38. Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Morley, C., Swarbrick, R. & Okpere, E., 2003. Pore pressure/stress coupling in Brunei Darussalam – implications for shale injection. In: Van Rensbergen, P., Hillis, R.R., Maltman, A.J. & Morley, C.K. (eds.) Subsurface Sediment Mobilization. Geological Society of London Special Publication, London,216, 369-379
Geological Society of London, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Geophysical Union, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SA branch committee member), Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia
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39. Tingay M., Brooker, P. & Basford P., 2001. Electrical and transient electromagnetic modelling of a copper prospect near Cobar, NSW. Proceedings of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Congress, 4, 1955-1960.
Environment, Mining and energy
Petroleum; ; Blowouts; Drilling; Mud Volcanoes; Geomechanics; Rock Mechanics; Earthquakes; Geothermal; SE Asia; Tectonics; Volcanoes; Oil spills
Dr Tingay has been awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, in addition to 15 other academic awards and prizes. He has given over 75 public presentations ranging from conference plenary lectures to non-scientific public seminars and over 30 media interviews.
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