Daniel Bendias studied Geosciences at the University of Tübingen. His PhD thesis, funded by Petroleum Development Oman, focussed on facies, sequence stratigraphy, reservoir and seal potential of the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Jurassic Mafraq Formation on in outcrops and subsurface of Oman. In 2014 Daniel started to work as a reservoir sedimentologist at Eni Mozambique Engineering where he is working on the development of supergiant gas fields, offshore Mozambique. His main responsibilities are sedimentological subsurface reservoir characterization and the planning and follow up of geotechnical and geohazard site investigation on the seafloor. In his position as the technical leader of an in-house R&D project he develops and applies a new workflow that uses data from the modern seafloor in Mozambique as an integrated analogue for subsurface reservoir characterization.

 

 

 

See ‘Sedimentology and Architecture of Deepwater Turbidite Systems Offshore Mozambique – from Concept to Application’ at 14.00 Friday 1^st September at the Africa Conference see full program here

Eni`s development projects in Mozambique offer a unique and comprehensive dataset that was extensively studied inside and outside the gas bearing intervals. Data ranges from seafloor surfaces and shallow cores to 3D seismic and exploration wells. The overburden sequence (above the reservoirs) was studied as a high resolution analogue to develop concepts and to create a new sedimentological model. This illustrates how some of the East African turbidite systems develop vertically and laterally through time and space. The concepts were applied to investigate reservoir intervals and to create a new generation of more geological static reservoir models. The formation of the thick, high net to gross reservoirs offshore Mozambique can be explained by a combination of the system’s sequence stratigraphic evolution and their interaction with bottom currents.