Summer Report 2012 Eötvös University Student Chapter of AAPG

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1 Summer Report 2012 Eötvös University Student Chapter of AAPG Budapest, Hungary

2 Introduction Another semester has been passed and the enthusiasm in Eötvös University Student Chapter of AAPG is still unbroken. In the past few months we have faced new and exciting challenges and also enriched our experiences and knowledge while organizing lecture days and field activities. Meanwhile, it is really a great pleasure to see, how the interest is growing around us. We are pleased to cooperate with more and more organization both nationally and internationally. Especially when we are thinking about the network of the AAPG student chapters in our region, we are more than happy to be an active part of it! Besides, it was the second time in the life of our student chapter when the term for the elected leadership team has expired. According to our previous plans, the new executive committee has been elected during the springtime to create an interim period when the new and the old stuff are working together to make the transition smooth and simple. Hopefully our practice will show its advantages shortly. All in all, by the favour of AAPG the first six month of 2012 was full of edifying and memorable events. Thanks for all of this! Website: address: [email protected] 1

3 Faculty Advisor: János HAAS Past Excecutive Committee President: Anna HORÁNYI PhD student Vice-president: Ágnes KIRÁLY MSc student Treasurer: Attila BALÁZS MSc student Secretary: Attila SCHLAKKER MSc student Head of the Publicity Committee: Attila VÁRKONYI MSc student Elected Executive Committee for the term President: János CSIZMEG PhD student Vice-president: Attila SCHLAKKER MSc student Treasurer: Lilla TŐKÉS MSc student Secretary: Attila BALÁZS MSc student Head of the Publicity Committee: Attila VÁRKONYI MSc student List of members Name Studies 1 Péter András Geology MSc 2 Róbert Arató Geology MSc 3 Attila Balázs Geophysics MSc 4 Barbara Beke Geology PhD 5 Viktória Bors Geology MSc 6 Dóra Csengődi Earth Science BSc 7 Brigitta Czauner Geology PhD 8 János Csizmeg Geology PhD 9 Barbara Diviki Geology MSc 10 Ildikó Erhardt Geology MSc 11 Luca Farkas Geophysics MSc 12 József Koppány Földvári Geology MSc 13 Katalin Fülöp Geology MSc 14 Orsolya Győri Geology PhD 2

4 Name Studies 17 Márton Kemény Geophysics MSc 18 Dániel Keszthelyi Geophysics MSc 19 Ágnes Király Geophysics MSc 20 Georgina Lukoczki-Kovács Geology PhD 21 Melinda Koncz Geophysics MSc 22 Daniella Micsinai Geology MSc 23 Mária Molnár Geology MSc 24 Anna Nádasi Earth Science BSc 25 Viktória Ötvös Geology MSc 26 Domokos Pásztor Geology MSc 27 Edina Pável Earth Science BSc 28 Attila Petrik Geology PhD 29 Zóra Pók Geology MSc 30 Jennifer Sarrang Earth Science BSc 31 Attila Schlakker Geology MSc 32 Márk Somogyvári Geophysics MSc 33 András Szabolcs Sóron Geology PhD 34 Nándor Szegedi Geophysics MSc 35 Rachel Lilla Szilágyi Geology MSc 36 Mihály Temes Earth Science BSc 37 Lilla Bea Tőkés Geology MSc 38 Ádám Zoltán Tóth Geophysics MSc 39 Bernadett Ildikó Tóth Earth Science BSc 40 Ágnes Török Geology MSc 41 Balázs Trásy Geology MSc 42 Rebeka Oross Earth Science BSc 43 Viktória Ünnep Geology MSc 44 Anibal Vivanco Geology MSc 45 Attila Várkonyi Geology Msc 46 Enikő Várkonyi Earth Science BSc 3

5 Events AAPG Imperial Barrel Award 2012 European Region, Prague 15 th -17 th of March There is no spring semester without AAPG s IBA. Our university set up a team of 3 geologists (Mária Molnár, Viktória Ünnep and Zsolt Nagy) and 2 geophysicists (Attila Balázs and Péter Oláh) led by professor György Pogácsás. This year our exploration area was situated onshore Australia. It was not an easy thing to deal with, however it absolutely worth the efforts we made. This competition is a unique opportunity to find out or at least to have a good impression how real life is going on in the HC industry. We had to improve our skills while using different software packages and while putting together the small pieces of the puzzle to get a comprehensive story. Meanwhile we have grown as individuals and as team players also. The AAPG IBA team of the Eötvös University in Prague 4

6 Paul Weimer (President of AAPG ) short curse 23 th of March In the end of March we had a great chance to host Paul Weimer, the president of AAPG as a lecturer in Budapest. During his European tour. Mr. Weimer visited our university to give a one day short course about the future of our industry. It was the time for our chapter to do the honours of the house, however the event was coorganized with András Németh (MOL Plc.) and the Miskolc University SC. whose great help was also indispensable. Paul Weimer, President of AAPG The short course covered four presentations about different aspects of the oil and gas industry. As an appetiser we heard about the story of the Red Wing Creek Field in North Dakota. We learnt how important is to use new technologies not only for exploration purposes, but also to reinterpret and to better understand matured HC fields with a new eye for field rejuvenation purposes. The second session was about the deepwater Gulf of Mexico with more focus on conventional exploration, especially the importance of salt tectonics. Of course the day cannot be passed without hearing about unconventional oil and gas exploration and production, how and why does it work? It might not be too much exaggeration to say that nowadays unconventional resources are huge players in the US s energy sector and the issue is popping up in Europe (including Hungary) almost every day. 5

7 Without question, for us this was one of the most important events in this semester, with more than a hundred participants mostly students and young professionals from all over the country. We are grateful to Mr. Weimer to visiting us, it was a really great opportunity to take a quick sightseeing tour in our industry with an excellent guide. My Source Rock is Now My Shale-Gas Reservoir - Geological and Petrophysical Characterization of Organic-Rich Rocks lecturer: Quinn Passey 27 th of March By favour of MOL Plc. four members of the Eötvös University Student Chapter of AAPG had the chance to participate at a workshop on 27 th March led by Quinn R. Passey, who is a formation evaluation expert at Exxon Mobil and also a Distinguished Lecturer of AAPG this year. The main focus was on the heterogeneity of shale-gas reservoir in terms of important reservoir parameters (such as TOC, porosity and permeability), how it is related to sequence stratigraphy and how wireline logs are helping us in the evaluation procedure. We are grateful to István Bérczi and András Németh for offering the opportunity to get insight into the anatomy of shale-gas reservoirs. It was incredibly useful and interesting for us, students, since in the recent years the shale-gas issue become a hot topic in Hungary also. 6

8 Petroleum Geology in the Heart of Industry - short course organized by the Aberdeen University AAPG SC 31 th of March 7 th of April Our Student Chapter received an invitation this January to the short course Petroleum Geology in the Heart of Industry organized by the Aberdeen University AAPG SC. The Eötvös Loránd University AAPG Student Chapter was represented by two members, János Csizmeg (PhD student, geology) and Attila Schlakker (Msc student, geology). The participating AAPG Student Chapters are from the following universities: Bergen University (Norway), LaSalle Beauvais University (France), Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary), University of Aberdeen (Great Britain). The course contained many exciting lectures and exercises held by experts from University of Aberdeen (Dave Haley, David McDonald, Stuart Archer), Statoil (Paul Nadeau), Schlumberger (Kenneth Peters) and Halliburton (Javier Torres). Exploration exercise with Stuart Archer We visited industrial facilities like Halliburton s mud laboratory and equipment store, the BP Headquarters and BP core store in Dyce and Weatherford s onshore training rig in Aberdeen. Team photo at Halliburton s The short course also contained three field lectures. We visited Devonian Old Red Sandstone outcrops along the shoreline between Stonehaven and Abroath and we investigated recent sedimentological features in the Ythan Estuary. BP core store excercise 7

9 We had an opportunity to meet young professionals, who gave talks about their experiments of their first years in the oil & gas industry. The organizers also took care about social activities: we spent pleasant dinners together and we visited the Aberdeen fun park. We were pleased to listen some traditional Scottish bagpipe music played by Stuart Archer (University of Aberdeen) on the coast of the North Sea! Hungarian participants with the "Old Red" in the background We hope that this short course is the beginning of a prospective relationship between Eötvös Loránd University, Aberdeen University, LaSalle Beauvais University and Bergen University AAPG Student Chapters. We are looking forward to cooperate in the future! As a continuation we invited AAPG SC members from Aberdeen and Bergen University to participate our international AAPG summer field trip this August. Here, we would like to acknowledge to the organizers: Jon Carney, Leanne Mearns, Adam McArthur, Felicity Adams, Claire Mackintosh. Thank you! Without the financial support of Papp Simon Foundation our participation at this short course could not have been possible! Thank you AAPG! 8

10 How to carry out geophysical measurements in the field? 20 th of April There are two main groups in the Eötvös SC.: the geologists and the geophysicists. Since the establishment of our chapter, the field activities were mostly geology related. After hammering so many rocks we thought that this is time to see some hardcore geophysics! That s why we asked our geophysicist members to organize a little show together with the Department of Geophysics. This is the story of a pleasant Friday afternoon when the courtyard of the university campus was covered by cables and devices... Vertical electric sounding, 3D resistivity survey, magnetic survey and land seismics with hammer and plate source. After a short explanation we tested them, one after the other. After studying about all these from a paper in a classroom for some of us it was really the first time to see how it is going in reality. And it is needless to say, that before interpreting the results, first you have to understand the method itself! 3D resistivity survey 3D resistivity survey 2D sesimic acquisition Sesismic equipment 9 VES

11 Opening of the South Atlantic Ocean lecturer: Péter Szatmári 4 th of May It was our pleasure together with the Hungarian Geological Society to welcome Péter Szatmári at our university, who is a senior geologist expert at Petrobras, Brazil. Mr. Szatmári graduated at the Eötvös Loránd University before he decided to take his chances abroad. His presentation was focusing on the tectonics of the South Atlantic Ocean, the onset of rifting, salt tectonics and giant subsalt hydrocarbon fields in the Santos Basin. It was really interesting and exciting to learn about the geology of offshore Brazil (in our native language) from someone who has been involved in the HC exploration of the region since decades. Péter Szatmári and János Haas before the presentation Poster, advertising Péter Szatmári s lecture Sedimentology fieldtrip to Northern Hungary th of May The aim of the two day long fieldtrip was to associate all the knowledge we have from sedimentology courses with field observations and experiences. Therefore the field trip was organized for those Msc and the PhD students of the Eötvös University SC, who already passed their sedimentology exam. We visited the northern part of Hungary where Oligocene and Miocene siliciclastic rocks are cropping out. These sediments are known to be reservoirs and source rocks in the nearby basins. 10

12 Orsolya Sztanó, our professor of sedimentology at the Eötvös Loránd University guided us through the outcrops. We tried to identify the different sedimentary structures (convolution, cross-bedding, cross-lamination, imbrications, gradation, water escape structures, fossilized dunes and many other phenomena) which are indispensable for the interpretation of the sedimentary environment. In addition we freshened up our knowledge on Cenozoic history of northern Hungary while visiting the Prehistoric Pompeii at Ipolytarnóc Fossils Nature Conservation Area ( We spent the night in the city of Eger with enjoying the famous wines of the area. Otcrop of the Tard Clay Formation (potential source rock) at Kiseged Large scale cross-bedding of the Pétervására Sandstone Formation at Istenmezeje Advertisment of the fieldtrip 11

13 Visit to the Malomsok-1 wellsite 24 th of May The Hungarian Horizon Energy kindly invited us to visit their drillsite in the Little Hungarian Plain, Northwest Hungary. The Malomsok-1 is a wildcat well, targeting sandstones of Badenian (Miocene) age at a depth of approximately 2000 m. It was a great opportunity to get familiar with all the equipments used in a site during drilling. We saw the rig at work, the mud tanks the mudlogging unit and we also get an insight into the life and duties of a geologist on site. It was very interesting, spectacular and enjoyable not only for those who might planning their carrier as wellsite geologists, but for everyone else also, because most geologist and geophysicist working in the oil industry have to read well reports eventually! Future plans There are two main events planned for the summer of After we successfully applied for financial sponsorship to AAPG, now we are in the organizational phase of the joint international fieldtrip to the Transdanubian Range, Hungary in the end of August. We are expecting more than 40 participants from 4 student chapters of Romania and Hungary. Until now the program has been finalized, almost all the travel and accommodation issues have been solved and we can t wait to host our fellow chapter members in Hungary. The other important event is the Budapest Education Week organized by AAPG between 27 and 31 August. Our student chapter is planning to participate with as many members as possible since this is an outstanding opportunity and we don t want to miss it for sure! Than, in the upcoming university semester we are planning to be back with a number of new interesting and useful lecture and field activity! We are expecting to have at least as colourful season as we had in the previous years. 12

14 Acknowledgement First of all we would like to thank the continuous support of our faculty advisor, Professor János Haas. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of AAPG, MOL Group, Hungarian Horizon Energy Ltd. and Papp Simon Foundation. Without their generosity we wouldn t be able to organize such many events. We appreciate the great help of Klára Gulyás concerning our finances. Special thanks to András Németh for his advices, efforts and continuous enthusiasm. We thank to Paul Weimer, Quinn Passey and Péter Szatmári for the interesting presentations and to Orsolya Sztanó, HHE, CED and the Department of Geophysics for guiding us during field activities. We are pleased to cooperate with the Miskolc and Aberdeen Student Chapters of AAPG and the Hungarian Geological Society. We greatly acknowledge the continuous help of Brian McBroom concerning the memberships. 13