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Gary J. Hampson

Gary J. Hampson is an Associate Professor in Sedimentary Geology in the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy from the University of Liverpool.

After undertaking post‐doctoral research at the University of Würzburg, Germany and Imperial College London, Gary was appointed to a lectureship in 2000. He teaches clastic sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, and petroleum geology at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and is currently Director of the internationally renowned Petroleum Geoscience MSc course at Imperial College London (since 2013).

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Outcrop-Based Reservoir Models: Fieldwork-derived numerical laboratories to constrain and mitigate subsurface uncertainty

Reservoir characterization is an exercise in constraining uncertainty that arises from sparse sampling of the subsurface by widely spaced wells at lengthscales below seismic resolution. Outcrop analogs are an invaluable complement to well and seismic data in this context, because they provide qualitative concepts and quantitative spatial data to guide interpretations of lithology distribution in inter-well volumes. However, analog-driven interpretations of reservoir architecture are not straightforward to compare with dynamic data that describe fluid flow during production – the acid test of any interpretation of reservoir geology. The value of outcrop reservoir analogs is most fully realized when they are used to construct outcrop-based reservoir models that enable explicit predictions of flow patterns in a form that can be compared with routine reservoir-monitoring data.