Mark Tingay

Teaching Interests

My current teaching efforts are in Geology for Engineers (1st year), Sedimentology & Structural Geology mapping camp (2nd year), Geodynamics (4th year) and coordinating the University of Adelaide BSc (Petroleum Geoscience) program.

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.

Research Interests

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.

My current research (funded by an ARC Discovery Grant) is focussed on the present-day stresses and Cenozoic tectonic evolution of SE Asia, 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.

Publications

Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Swarbrick, R., Morley, C., & Damit, A., 2009. Origin of overpressure and pore pressure prediction in the Baram Delta Province, Brunei, AAPG Bulletin, 93, 51-74.

Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Morley, C., King, R., Swarbrick, R., & Damit, A., 2009. Present-day stress and neotectonics of Brunei: implications for petroleum exploration and production, AAPG Bulletin, 93, 75-100.

Tingay, M., Morley, C., King R., Hillis, R., Hall, R., & Coblentz, D., in press 2009 (accepted 23/12/2008). The Southeast Asian Stress Map. Tectonophysics.

King, R., Hillis, R., Tingay, M., & Morley, C., in press 2009 (accepted 7/11/08). Present-day stress and neotectonic provinces of the Baram Delta (and deepwater fold-thrust belt). Journal of the Geological Society, London.

King, R., Hillis, R., Tingay, M., & Damit, A., in press 2009 (accepted 7/1/2009). Present-day stresses in Brunei: Deltaic versus active margin tectonics. Basin Research.

Tingay, M., Heidbach, O., Davies, R. & Swarbrick, R., 2008, Triggering of the Lusi mud eruption: earthquake versus drilling initiation, Geology, 36, 639-642.

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.

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.

Morley, C., Tingay, M., Hillis, R., & King, R., 2008. Relationship between structural style, overpressures and modern stress, Baram Delta province, NW Borneo. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, B09410, 23 p.

Müller, B., Altmann, J., Dorner, A., Müller, T., & Tingay, M., 2008. Modelling pore pressure/stress coupling. In: Proceedings of the 1st Southern Hemisphere International Rock Mechanics Symposium, 2, 275-285.

Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Swarbrick, R., Morley, C., & Damit, A., 2007. Vertically transferred overpressures in Brunei: evidence for a new mechanism for the formation of high magnitude overpressures. Geology, 35, 1023-1026.

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.

Heidbach O., Fuchs K., Muller B., Reinecker J., Sperner B., Tingay M. & Wenzel F. 2007. The World Stress Map. Episodes, 30, 197-201.

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.

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. Golden Rocks, American Rock Mechanics Association 2006 Conference, Plenary Paper 06-1049.

Reinecker J., Tingay, M. R. P. & Müller B., 2006. The use of the World Stress Map database for rock engineers. In: M. Lu, C. Li, H. Kjørholt, H. Dahle, (Eds.), In-situ Rock Stress Measurement, Interpretation and Application. Taylor & Francis Group, 505-510, London.

Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Morley, C., Swarbrick, R. & Drake, S., 2005. Present day stress orientation in Brunei: a snapshot of ‘prograding tectonics’ in a Tertiary delta. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 162, 39‑49.

Tingay, M., Müller, B., Reinecker, J., Heidbach, O., Wenzel, F., and Fleckenstein, P., 2005. Understanding tectonic stress in the oil patch: The World Stress Map Project. The Leading Edge, 24 (12), 1276-1282.

Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Swarbrick, R. & Morley, C., 2005. Origin and petrophysical log response of overpressures in the Baram Delta province, Brunei. Proceedings 30^th Indonesian Petroleum Association Convention, 1, 381-390.

Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Morley, C., Swarbrick, R. & Drake, S., 2005. ‘Prograding’ tectonics in Brunei: regional implications for fault sealing. Alaska Rocks, ARMA 2005 Conference, Paper 05-785.

Müller, B., Heidbach, O. & Tingay, M., 2005. The World Stress Map – an essential and easy accessible tool for geohazard assessment. In: Geodynamics, Georisk and Sustainable Development in the Black Sea to Caspian Region, American Institute of Physics 825, 19-31.

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.

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.

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.

Tingay, M., Hillis, R., Morley, C., Swarbrick, R. & Okpere, E., 2003. Pore pressure/stress coupling in Brunei Darussalam – implications for shale injection. In: Subsurface Sediment Mobilization. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 216, 369-379.

Tingay M., Brooker, P. & Basford P., 2001. Electrical and transient electromagnetic modelling of a copper prospect near Cobar, NSW. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Congress, 4, 1955-1960.

 

Professional Associations

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

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Environment, Mining and energy
Expertise	Petroleum; Mud Volcanoes; Geomechanics; Rock Mechanics; Earthquakes; Geothermal; SE Asia; Tectonics
Notes	Dr Tingay has been awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, in addition to 14 other academic awards and prizes. He has given over 75 public presentations ranging from conference plenary lectures to non-scientific public seminars and media interviews.
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Entry last updated: Sunday, 7 Feb 2010