MSc Students

MSc students (CPG-KFUPM, Dhahran, KSA)

2019-2021: Main supervisor, Pavel Kahn (CPG–KFUPM): Diagenetic, petrophysical, geochemical and micro-paleontological analysis of Pleistocene-Holocene cores along the King Fahd Causeway between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Returned to Bangladesh.

2019-2021: Main supervisor, Hassan Alsaihati (CPG–KFUPM): Sedimentary variations along the slope of the Al Wahj carbonate platform (Red Sea, KSA). Defended May 2021. Now PhD student at KAUST (Jeddah, KSA)

MSc student (Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

2019

Gabriel Yong (MSc-1 project): Flume tank experiments in the EUROTANK facility (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

MSc students (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

2018

Max de Kruijf (MSc-2 project): Ethiopia Project: Petrophysical properties  lacustrine to full marine carbonates

2017

Rosa de Boer, Max de Kruijff, and Jonathan Kranenburg (MSc-1 project): Calciturbidite experiments in the EUROTANK facility (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Yanto Hogendorp and Dominic Bagho (MSc-1 project): Sedimentology and petrophysics of continental carbonates (Spain).

Justin van de Meij (MSc-1 project): IODP Exp. 359 – Maldives Monsoon, small-scale sedimentary cycles.

2016

Rieneke Weij (MSc-2 project): High-resolution seismic analysis of Holocene cycle-thickness on Great Bahama Bank.

Carlette Blok and Erwin van Wingerden (MSc-1 project): Sedimentology and petrophysics of continental carbonates (Guadalajara, Central Spain).

Koos de Jong (EBN; MSc-2 project): Assessing the petroleum potential of Devonian carbonates in the Mid North Sea area

Roy Boots (TNO; MSc-2 project): Dinantian carbonates in the Southern Netherlands; assessing the reservoir potential. Roy now is employed by Groenholland – Geo Energy Systems (Amsterdam, The Netherlands).

Koos de Jong (MSc-1 project): Eocene Sobrarbe delta complex (Pyrenees): Petrophysics and Geochemistry.

Robin van der Velde and Mathijs van de Ven (MSc-1 project): Facies, fractures and fluid inclusions, Pre-Cambrian, Brazil.

Ruiz Blankendal (MSc-1 project): Eocene Sobrarbe delta deposits (Pyrenees): Facies and petrophysics.

2015

Cas Nooitgedacht (MSc-2 project): Fractures distribution along a Miocene carbonate platform margin (Sorbas Basin, Spain). Cas now is a PhD student at KFUPM (Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). 

Stefan de Graaf and Jet Greevink (MSc-1 project): Facies, fractures and fluid inclusions, Upper Cretaceous, Brazil. Stefan now is a PhD student at KFUPM (Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Jet now is a PhD student at Utrecht University (The Netherlands).

Brigit Oskam and Eva van der Voet (MSc-1 project): Facies and fractures, Upper Cretaceous, Brazil. Brigit now is employed by Qquest (Gouda, The Netherlands). Eva now is a PhD student at KU Leuven (Belgium).

Stefan Crooijmans (MSc-1 project): Eocene Sobrarbe delta deposits (Pyrenees): Facies and geochemistry. Stefan now is employed by SHELL International (Rijswijk, The Netherlands).  

2014

Cas Nooitgedacht and Annelieke Vis (MSc-1 project): Eocene Sobrarbe delta complex (Pyrenees): Petrophysics and Geochemistry. Cas now is a PhD student at KFUPM (Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia). Annelieke now is employed by EBN (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Frans Keijzer (MSc-1 project): Fluid inclusions in recent cold-water corals of the Bahamas. Frans now is employed by MWH (Delft, The Netherlands).

Swiad Worms (MSc-1 project): Petrophysics Eocene Sobrarbe delta complex (Pyrenees). Swiad now is an Exploration the University of Aberdeen (NERC Center for Doctoral Training in Oil and Gas, Aberdeen, Scotland).

2013

Mariska van Eijk, Frida Hameka and Annelieke Vis (MSc-1 project): Facies, fractures and fluid inclusions, Upper Cretaceous, Brazil. Mariska now is employed by TATA Steel (Ijmuiden, The Netherlands);  Frida is now a PhD student at CEREGE (Aix-en-Provence, France); Annelieke now is employed by EBN (Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Eline Feenstra (MSc-2 project): Fluid inclusions in cold-water corals, the fractionation effect. Eline now is a PhD student at Fribourg University (Switzerland).

Eveline de Vaal (MSc-1 project): Petrophysics and seismic modelling Miocene carbonates, Spain. Eveline now is employed by SHELL International (Rijswijk, The Netherlands).  

Robin du Meé (MSc-1 project): Facies and fractures in Jurassic carbonate ramp deposits.

Jan Schneider (MSc-2 project): Carboniferous-Spitsbergen: sedimentology and petrophysics. Jan is now a Geoscientist (GDP) at ENGIE E&P International (Aberdeen, Scotland).

Stephan Toby (MSc-1 project): Petrophysics and seismic modelling Cretaceous carbonates, Tunisia. Stephan now is a PhD student at the University of Manchester (UK).

2011

Karlien Meulenaars (MSc-1 project): The relation between porosity and diagenesis in carbonate rocks: An example from an Urgonian carbonate platform, Gorges de la Nesque & Notre Dame du Bon Voyage, SE France. Karlien now is employed by SHELL International (Rijswijk, The Netherlands).  

2010

Mahtab Mozafari (MSc-2 project): Petrophysical investigations and diagenetic changes of Permian heterozoan carbonates of Central Spitsbergen (Norway). Mahtab obtained a PhD degree at KU Leuven (Belgium).

Ralph Groen (MSc-2 project): From a restricted carbonate platform to a temperate, storm-dominated ramp: The onset of the Permian Chert Event in Central Spitsbergen. Ralph now is employed by Maersk (Copenhagen, Denmark).  

2009

Wilson Tembi Ndah (MSc-2 project): Facies distribution, diagenetic pathways and fracture patterns within a carbonate platform: The Cariatiz reef, Sorbas Basin SE, Spain.

Mohammed Abdelraman (MSc-2 project): Fracture analysis of the Cariatiz reef (Sorbas Basin, SE Spain).

Luuk Kleipool and  Ralph Groen (MSc-1 project): Geometry and distribution of the Paleocene carbonate turbidites in the Southern Galala Mountains, Eastern Desert, Egypt. Luuk is now employed by SHELL International (Rijswijk, The Netherlands); Ralph now is employed by Maersk (Copenhagen, Denmark).  

2008

Mohammed Abdelraman, Kweku Ahumanu-Mbura, E.N. Chi, Etah Arung Etah, Adesola Falana, NGwana Nchungong Mofor, Francis Nwajei, Oghenero Ohwoghere Asuma and Wilson Tembi Ndah (MSc-1 project): Maastrichtian project BasinMaster programme.

Marie Meheust (MSc-2 project): Etude de la sédimentation de type « Heterozoan » sur la plateforme carbonatée sud provençale au Crétacé supérieur. Marie obtained a PhD degree at AWI-Bremerhaven (Germany).

Alexandre Dunant and Thibaud Pichot (BasinMaster programme; MSc-1 project)): Controls on acoustic properties of the Pico del Aguila anticline in the southwestern Pyrenees (Spain). Alexandre now is employed by SHELL International, The Netherlands.  

2007

Sophie Linda (Fribourg University, Switzerland; MSc-1 project): Carbonates bioclastique de type << Heterozoan >> dans les series du Crétacé supérieur de Provence, sud-est de la France: Interprétation et implications.

Nina Huwald (MSc-2 project): Biostratigraphy of a Heterozoan carbonate platform of the Coniacian in La Ciotat (Southern France). Nina now is employed by Maersk, Denmark.  

Adhe Krisna Wardhana (TU Delft, Netherlands; MSc-2 project): Analysis of the reservoir properties of the Urgonian limestone in the Provence platform, Vaucluse, Southeast France. Krisna now is employed by TOTAL, France.