Professor Quentin Fisher

Profile

I'm currently Professor of Petroleum Geoengineering at the University of Leeds and CEO of PETRIVA, which is a recently established spin-out company providing consultancy services and data-mining/visualization software. I was awarded a PhD in low temperature geochemistry in 1993. I then worked for Rock Deformation Research Ltd (now Schlumberger) where I spent around 15 years conducting research and consultancy work on the impact of faults on fluid flow in petroleum reservoirs. In the last 15 years, I have become involved in research projects that integrate workflows and software in the geology, petrophysics, geophysics, geomechanics and petroleum engineering disciplines, which I apply to problems such as CO2 storage. 

Responsibilities

• Director of Wolfson multiphase flow laboratory

Research interests

• Unconventional gas (petrophysics, geophysics, geomechanics of shale & tight gas sandstone)
• Faulting, Fault Sealing and Fluid Flow.
• Data visualization and data mining
• CO2 storage
• Up-scaling fault rock properties for reservoir simulation
• Top seal integrity prediction
• Multi-phase flow in low permeability porous media
• Geomechanics of petroleum systems
• Seismic anisotropy
• Diagenesis and reservoir quality of siliciclastics.
• Reservoir compaction.
• Microseismicity.
• Compaction of siliciclastic reservoirs as a result of fluid withdrawal

Qualifications

• PhD, Geology, University of Leeds
• BSc, Geology, University of Sheffield

Professional memberships

• Society of Petroleum Engineers
• European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

Research groups and institutes

• Institute of Applied Geoscience

Current postgraduate researchers

• Callam Milne
• Hussain H. Al Hashmi
• Pebble Arrambi Diaz
• Ana Reyna
• Daniela Navarro Perez
• Rebecca Morgan
• Hendra Saputra
• Thiago Falcão
• Akpewe M. Eroh
• Charlie Thompson