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Michal Nemčok, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Email: mnemcok@egi.utah.edu
Rifts & Passive Margins
Structural Architecture,
Thermal Regimes & Petroleum Systems
Author: Michal Nemčok
Requesting Book Sponsorship
There are more than 10 hydrocarbon fields discovered on oceanic crust in the
Gulf of Mexico and Gulf of Guinea. Current academic research indicates that
there are several types of oceanic crust and each of them has very different
thermodynamic history.
Investment per Sponsor
Three-tier sponsorship
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Completion
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PHONE: (801) 585-9137
We are requesting sponsorship from our CA members to prepare and deliver a
systematic manual on exploration in rift and passive margin regions and improve
the understanding of petroleum systems in these settings. The anticipated
results are highly relevant to future successful exploration, to development
of the new generation of exploration geologists, and to internal oil company
training programs.
The strategy is to merge results of the current literature and our internal
research, and create a 500-page book called “Rifts and Passive Margins—
Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes
and Petroleum Systems.” We consider
this book to be somewhat of a second
volume of the series that started with
our successful book “Thrustbelts:
structural architecture, thermal
regimes and petroleum systems,”
from Cambridge University
Press. Our goal is to provide
current and future explorers
a comprehensive manual
on exploration in rift and
passive margins settings.
Delivery is expected by
mid– to late 2013.
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EGI Technical Contacts
Michal Nemčok, Research Professor
Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah
423 Wakara Way, Suite 300, Salt Lake City Utah 84108
Tel. 421 254 630 337 (Bratislava, Slovakia) | Email: mnemcok@egi.utah.edu
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EGI Sponsorship Contacts
Nancy Taylor, Assistant Business Manager & Contracts
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Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah
Phone: 801-585-3826 | Email: rlevey@egi.utah.edu
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sales. Sponsors may purchase books at the following discounts: 100 copies at 30% off; 200 copies at
40% off; 300 copies at 50% off.
*
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Guest Lectures will be scheduled after the book is complete.
Appendix A: Strategy & Deliverables
We will integrate the results from current literature and our own research to create a 500-page book
titled “Rifts and Passive Margins—Structural Architecture, Thermal Regimes & Petroleum Systems.” This
work will be a comprehensive manual on exploration in rift and passive margins settings. The text will
be supported by numerous seismic and geologic cross-sections, maps, and will be organized in three
primary blocks.
The first block will focus on development of the knowledge of the structural architecture in rift and
passive margin terrains, together with an understanding of the controlling factors and their significance.
The second block will discuss the knowledge of the thermal regimes and their controls. The first two
blocks will progressively develop a foundation for the third block, that will focus on and describe
petroleum systems in rift and passive margin terrains and their controlling factors.
Additionally, each chapter will be converted into a PowerPoint slide show. The entire collection of
slide shows will represent a comprehensive short course that can be used as internal training tool for
sponsoring companies interested in the exploration of rift and passive margin settings for new venture
and exploration teams.
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Block 1. Structural architecture, basin development & fluid flow in rifts & passive
margins
Chapters
1. Basic description of structural styles in passive margin settings, including extension directions,
key structural elements, and hydrocarbon occurrences
2. Mechanics of rifting and transition to drift phases
1. Determination of unstretched continental, thinned continental, proto-oceanic, and oceanic
crustal boundaries in the study areas (i.e., South, Central, North and Equatorial Atlantic, Indian
Ocean, East Africa, Southern California and Mexico)
2. Determination of timing of rift and/or transform events, thermal subsidence, and continental
3.
4.
5.
6.
breakup
Role of crustal composition and compositional variations on evolving rift margin architectural
development and on breakup locations
Role of pre-extensional tectonics and anisotropy on evolving rift structural styles and the
effects of syn-extensional tectonics/anisotropy on passive margin structural style
Role of syn-extensional deposition and erosion on evolving structural styles of passive margins
and effects of tectonics on deposition and erosional patterns
Fluid flow models along oceanic fracture zones (transforms), hot spot or hot line-associated
volcanic chains and continental transfer fault systems
Block 2. Thermal regime in rifts and passive margins
Chapters
1. Role of pre-rift heat flow on syn-rift thermal regimes and effects of syn-rift heat flow on thermal
regimes of passive margins
2. Influence of structural and stratigraphic architecture on thermal regimes
3. Role of syn-rift deposition and erosion on thermal regimes of rifts and the effects of post-rift
deposition and erosion on thermal regimes
4. Effects of deformation on thermal regimes
5. Roles of fluid movement on thermal regimes
Block 3. Petroleum systems in rifts and passive margins
Chapters
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Models of source rock distribution, maturation and expulsion
Models of reservoir quality distribution
Sealing characteristics
Models of hydrocarbon migration
Trapping styles
Hydrocarbon preservation
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Appendix B: Curricula vitae
Michal Nemčok
Professional address:
Research Professor
Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah
423 Wakara Way, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA
Phone: 1-801-585 9829
Fax: 1-801-585 3540
and
Energy & Geoscience Institute Laboratory
at Geological Institute of Slovak Academy of Sciences
Dúbravská cesta 9
SK-840 05 Bratislava
Slovak Republic
Phone: 421-2-5463-0337
E-mail: mnemcok@egi.utah.edu
www.egi.utah.edu and http://egi.utah.edu/about/staff/michal-nemcok.php
Born
1961 – July 2, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Education
2009 – Doctor of Geologic Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia (February 4, 2009).
Thesis title: “Thrustbelts; structural architecture, thermal regimes and petroleum systems”.
2002 – Venia docendi in Geology, University of Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany (May 21, 2002). Thesis title:
“Paleostress methods and development of the Carpathian orogenic belt” (in German).
1991 – Ph.D. dissertation, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia
Title: The Cenozoic Development of Western Half of the West Carpathian Orogenic Belt (in Slovak).
Graduate and undergraduate work, Comenius University Bratislava, Czechoslovakia: structural geology,
sedimentology, paleontology, ore analysis, geochemistry, petrology, mineralogy, programming,
stratigraphy, economic geology, tectonics.
Academic experience & other employment
* Research Professor at Energy and Geoscience Institute at University of Utah (January 2000 – present)
* Adjunct Professor at Department of Geology and Geophysics at University of Utah while keeping the
Research Professorship at EGI (July 2007 – July 2011)
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* Research Assistant Professor at Energy and Geoscience Institute at University of Utah (August 1998 –
January 2000)
* Alexander von Humboldt fellow at University of Würzburg, Germany (March 1997 - August 1998)
* Head of Hydrocarbon Exploration Department at Slovak Geological Survey (October 1996 – August
1998),
* Lise Meitner fellow at University of Salzburg, Austria (October 1995 - October 1996)
* Teaching visiting professor, European Summer School for graduate students of Earth Sciences (June
1995)
* Postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College of Sciences, London, UK (April 1994 - August 1995)
* Royal Society fellow at University of Wales, Cardiff, UK (February 1993 - February 1994)
* Teaching visiting professor at Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (12 months
in 1992)
* Visiting scientist at Department of Geology, Imperial College of Sciences, London, UK (December, 1991)
* Researcher at Structural Department, Slovak Geological Survey, Bratislava, Slovakia (May 1991 –
October 1996)
* Research associate at ESRI, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA (July 1990 - May 1991)
* Research assistant at Dionyz Stur Geologic Institute, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (October 1985 – July
1990)
Research interests
* factors controlling continental break-up
* mechanisms of continental break-up
* stress and fracture prediction
Publications
Choudhuri, M., Nemčok, M., Stuart, C., Welker, C., Sinha, S. T., Bird, D. and Sinha, N., 2013. 85o E Ridge,
India – constraints on its development and architecture. Journal of the Geological Society of
India, JGSI-D-12-00285, in press.
Nemčok, M., Stuart, C. J., Rosendahl, B. R., Welker, C., Smith, S., Sheya, C., Sinha, S. T., Choudhuri, M., Allen,
R., Reeves, C., Sharma, S. P., Venkatraman S. & Sinha, N., 2012. Continental break-up mechanism;
lessons from intermediate- and fast-extension settings. In: Mohriak, W. U., Danforth, A., Post,
P. J., Brown, D. E., Tari, G. M., Nemčok, M. and Sinha, S. T. (Eds), Conjugate Divergent Margins.
Geological Society of London Special Publication, 369. doi: 10.1144/SP369.14
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Nemčok, M., Henk, A., Allen, R., Sikora, P. J. and Stuart, C., 2012. Continental break-up along strike-slip fault
zones; observations from Equatorial Atlantic. In: Mohriak, W. U., Danforth, A., Post, P. J., Brown, D.
E., Tari, G. M., Nemčok, M. and Sinha, S. T. (Eds), Conjugate Divergent Margins. Geological Society
of London Special Publication, 369. doi: 10.1144/SP369.8.
Nemčok, M., Sinha, S. T., Stuart, C., Welker, C., Choudhuri, M., Sharma, S. P., Misra, A. A., Sinha, N. and
Venkatraman, S., 2012. East Indian margin evolution and crustal architecture: integration of deep
reflection seismic interpretation and gravity modeling. In: Mohriak, W. U., Danforth, A., Post,
P. J., Brown, D. E., Tari, G. M., Nemčok, M. and Sinha, S. T. (Eds), Conjugate Divergent Margins.
Geological Society of London Special Publication, 369. doi: 10.1144/SP369.6.
Stuart, C. J., Nemčok, M., Vangelov, D., Higgins, E. R., Welker, C. and Meaux, D., 2011. Structural and
depositional evolution of the Eastern Balkan thrustbelt, Bulgaria. AAPG Bulletin, 95(4), 649-673.
Pospíšil, L. and Nemčok, M., 2010. Geophysical model of the Carpathian-Pannonian lithosphere.
Geological and geophysical data analyses. Lambert Academic Publishing, Saarbrucken, 1-205
pp.
Sheya, C. R. and Nemčok, M., 2010. Computerized play fairway map construction: A communication tool
between geologists and economists in geological exploration (in Slovak). SLOVGAS, 24(1), 33-36.
Tari, G. and Nemčok, M., 2009. Introduction to this special section: The Black Sea Region. In: Tari, G. and
Nemčok, M. (Eds.), The Black Sea Region. The Leading Edge, September, 1022-1023.
Meisner, A., Krylov, O. and Nemčok, M., 2009. Development and structural architecture of the Eastern
Black Sea. In: Tari, G. and Nemčok, M. (Eds.), The Black Sea Region. The Leading Edge, September,
1046-1055.
Henk, A. and Nemčok, M., 2008. Stress and fracture prediction in inverted half-graben structures. Journal
of Structural Geology, 30(1), 81-97.
Mohriak, W. U., Nemčok, M. and Enciso, G., 2008. South Atlantic divergent margin evolution: rift-border
uplift and salt tectonics in the basins of SE Brazil. In: Pankhurst, R. J., Trouw, R. A. J., de Brito
Neves, B. B. and De Witt, M. J. (Eds.), West Gondwana: Pre-Cenozoic correlations across the South
Atlantic region. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 294, pp. 365-398.
Moore, J. N., Allis, R. G., Nemčok, M., Powell, T. S., Bruton, C., Wannamaker, P. E., Raharjo, I. B. and Norman,
D. I., 2008. The evolution of volcano-hosted geothermal system based on deep wells from
Karaha-Telaga Bodas, Indonesia. American Journal of Science, 308(1), 1-48.
Nemčok, M., Dilov, T., Wojtaszek, M., Ludhová, L., Klecker, R. A., Sercombe, W. J., Coward, M. P., 2007.
Dynamics of the Polish and Eastern Slovakian parts of the Carpathian accretionary wedge:
insights from paleostress analyses. In; Ries, A. C., Butler, R. W. H. and Graham, R. H. (Eds.),
Deformation of the continental crust: The legacy of Mike Coward, Geological Society, London,
Special Publications, 272, 271-302.
Nemčok, M., Moore, J. N., Christensen, C., Allis, R., Powell, T., Murray, B. and Nash, G., 2006. Controls on
the Karaha-Telaga Bodas geothermal reservoir, Indonesia. Geothermics, 36, 9-46.
Clausen, S., Nemčok, M., Moore, J., Hulen, J. and Bartley, J., 2006. Mapping fractures in the Medicine Lake
geothermal system. Geothermal Resources Council Transactions, 30, 383-386.
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Nemčok, M., Krzywiec, P., Wojtaszek, M., Ludhová, L., Klecker, R. A., Sercombe, W. J., Coward, M. P., 2006.
Tertiary development of the Polish and Eastern Slovakian parts of the Carpathian accretionary
wedge: insights from balanced cross sections. Geologica Carpathica, 57(5), 355-370.
Pospíšil L., Ádám, A., Bimka, J., Bodlak, P., Bodoky, T., Dövényi, P., Granser, H., Hegedüs, E., Joó, I., Kendzera,
A., Lenkey, L., Nemčok, M., Posgay, K., Pylypyshyn, B., Sedlák, J., Stanley, W. D., Starodub, G.,
Szalaiová, V., Šály, B., Šutora, A., Várga G. and Zsíros, T., 2006. Regional geophysical data on the
Carpathian-Pannonian lithosphere. In: Pícha, F. and Golonka, J. (Eds.), The Carpathians and their
foreland: geology and hydrocarbon resources, AAPG Memoir, 84, pp. 651-697.
Nemčok, M., Pospíšil, L., Hrušecký, I. and Zsíros, T., 2006. Subduction in the remnant Carpathian Flysch
Basin. In: Pícha, F. and Golonka, J. (Eds.), The Carpathians and their foreland: geology and
hydrocarbon resources, AAPG Memoir, 84, pp. 767-785.
Nemčok, M., Pogacsás, G and Pospíšil, L., 2006. Activity timing of the main tectonic systems in the
Carpathian-Pannonian region in relation to the roll-back destruction of the lithosphere. In: Pícha,
F. and Golonka, J. (Eds.), The Carpathians and their foreland: geology and hydrocarbon resources,
AAPG Memoir, 84, pp. 743-766.
Nemčok, M. and Henk, A., 2006. Oil reservoirs in foreland basins charged by thrustbelt source rocks:
insights from numerical stress modelling and geometric balancing in the West Carpathians. In:
Buiter, S.J.H. and Schreus, G. (Eds.), Analogue and numerical modelling of crustal-scale processes.
Geol. Soc., London, Spec. Publ., 253, 415-428.
Nemčok, M., Stuart, C., Segall, M.P., Allen, R.B., Christensen, C., Hermeston, S. A., Davison, I., 2005.
Structural development of South Morocco: interaction of tectonics and deposition. In: Post,
P.J., Rosen, N., Olson, D.L., Palmes, S.L., Lyons, K.T. and Newton, G.B. (Eds.), Petroleum systems of
divergent continental margin basins, 25th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research
Conference, Session I, Crustal architecture of divergent margins, GCSSEPM, Houston, ISSN: 15442462, pp. 151-202.
Nemčok, M., Schamel, S and Gayer, R. A., 2005. Thrustbelts: structural architecture, thermal regimes and
petroleum systems. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1-541pp.
Nemčok, M., Moore, J. N., Christensen, C., Allis, R., Powell, T., Murray, B. and Nash, G., 2005. Reservoir
controlling factors in the Karaha-Telaga Bodas geothermal field, Indonesia. Geothermal Resources
Council Transactions, 29, 407-412.
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Research
Professor
Michal Nemčok, Ph.D.
Michal holds a Ph.D. in Structural Geology from the Comenius University, Bratislava. He
has 28 years of applied and basic research experience at the Slovak Geological Survey,
University of South Carolina, University of Wales, Cardiff, Imperial College London,
University of Salzburg, University of Wurzburg, and University of Utah. He joined EGI
in 1998 and is a Research Professor and Structural Group leader. Michal has published
70+ articles, coauthored 3 monographs, and coedited four books.
Continental Break-up Processes & Controlling Factors
Email
mnemcok@egi.utah.edu
Phone
421-2-5463-0037 (SK)
Research Interests
•
Continental break-up
processes and controlling
factors
•
Thrustbelt development
and controlling factors
•
Fracture development
prediction
Continental break-up research focuses on both extensional and transform settings, with
a focus on driving mechanisms and controlling factors to achieve predictive models with
respect to structural architecture, thermal regimes, and petroleum systems. The main
research contribution includes understanding anomalous thermal and uplift histories of
transform margins, break-up mechanisms at intermediate and fast extensional settings,
and micro-continent-releasing mechanisms. A summary of his last eight years of breakup research is recorded in a monograph titled “Rifts and Passive Margins; Structural
Architecture, Thermal Regimes and Petroleum Systems”, currently in press at Cambridge
University Press, and authored by Nemčok, M.
Thrustbelt Development & Controlling Factors
Michal’s current research focuses on the thrustbelt-foreland interactions, with a
concentration on driving mechanisms and controlling factors behind thick-skin
tectonics, foreland plate flexure mechanisms, and flexural faulting in control of structural
architecture and play concept elements. The main research contribution includes the
factors and mechanisms leading to the lack of foreland flexing and transitions from
initial inversion to full accretion. Accompanying research focuses on modeling of the
fluid flow mechanisms occurring in the thrustbelt front and its foreland. A summary of
thrustbelt research is written in a monograph called “Thrustbelts; Structural Architecture,
Thermal Regimes and Petroleum Systems”, published by Cambridge University Press,
and authored by Nemčok, M., Schamel, S. and Gayer, R.. Current research findings are
summarized in several articles included in the Geological Society of London Special
Publication 377, which is edited by Nemčok, M., Mora, A., and Cosgrove, J.
Fracture Development Prediction
Fracture prediction research includes both detailed well core, rock outcrop and
numerical simulation studies focused on predicting timing, location and kinematics
of developing fractures. Most of the fracture studies come from thrustbelts, although
some core-based studies come from various geothermal reservoirs. The main research
contribution includes tools capable of predicting fracture locations, kinematics
and propagation timing in two and three-dimensions for hydrocarbon reservoirs in
thrustbelts, which were tested by well-based fracture data. Accompanying research
includes understanding the role of mechanical stratigraphy on developing structural
architecture. This research is published in a number of journals run by structural and
geothermal communities.
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