Dr Richard (Ric) Daniel

Biography/ Background

I graduated with a B.Sc. in Sedimentary Geology from Macquarie University (1970) and from the University of Adelaide (2002)with a PhD on characterising cool-water carbonate sediments from the western Eyre Peninsula.

I worked with Baroid International (now part of Haliburton) as a well site logging engineer and senior drilling fluids engineer in various parts of the world, since then have lectured and demonstrated at Flinders University (Earth Sciences) and the University of Adelaide (Geology and Geophysics).

In 2001 I joined the Australian School of Petroleum (ASP), University of Adelaide, as a research fellow for the APCRC Seals Program, and am presently investigating the seal potential of possible CO2 storage sites throughout Australia with the CO2CRC at the ASP.

Research Interests

Characterisation of cap seals in Australian and New Zealand Geological Basins for Carbon Dioxide Containment.

Compilation of an Atlas of Australian and New Zealand Hydrocarbon Seals with 75 examples (to present) from major basins in Australia and the Taranaki Basin in New Zealand. The atlas includes MICP, XRD and SEM/EDS images and analyses with 400m V shale plot of the adjacent well interval.

Characterisation of cool-water carbonate mud particles according to principal marine biogenic carbonate contributors using breakdown pathways, comparative resultant particle structure and morphology, and chemical properties.

Publications

Daniel, R. and Kaldi, J., 2011.  Atlas of Australian and New Zealand Hydrocarbon Seals: World-wide analogues for caprocks and intraformational barriers in clastic depositional settings. AAPG Studies in Geology, No. 60, 260pp.

Kaldi, J., Daniel, R., Tenthorey, E., Michael, K., Schacht, U., Nicol, A., Underschultz, J., and Backé, G., 2010. Caprock Systems for CO₂ Geological Storage. IEA GHG (IEA/CON/10/179) CO2CRC Report No. RPT10-2774

Daniel, R and Kaldi, J, 2009. Evaluating seal capacity of caprocks and intraformational barriers for CO₂ containment. In M. Grobe, J. C. Pashin and R. L. Dodge, eds., Carbon dioxide sequestration in geological media – State of the Science: AAPG Studies in Geology 59, p. 335-345.

Watson, M., Daniel, R., Tingate, P. and Gibson-Poole, C., 2004, CO2-Related Seal Capacity Enhancement in Mudstones: Evidence from the Pine Lodge Natural CO2 Accumulation, Otway Basin, Australia. In Rubin, Keith and Gilboy (Eds.), Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Vol I. Proceedings of GHGT7, Vancouver, Canada. Elsevier Science (2005)

 

 

Professional Associations

Member:

American Association of Petroleum Geologists;

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia;

Australian Quaternary Association.

Files

• RD_ASP_CV24102011.pdf [100.9K] (application/pdf)

Entry last updated: Monday, 24 Oct 2011