Professor Andrew Hurst

Professor Andrew Hurst The University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences Professor of Production Geoscience work +44 (0)1224 273713 pref ahurst@abdn.ac.uk pref Room 132 Meston Building Kings College Aberdeen AB24 3UE

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Scott, A., Hurst, A. & Vigorito, M. (in press). 'Outcrop-based reservoir characterization of a regionally-developed sand injectite. kilometer-scale sandstone'. AAPG Bulletin.
• Alizai, A., Hillier, S., Clift, PD., Giosan, L., Hurst, A., VanLaningham, S. & Macklin, M. (2012). 'Clay Mineral Variations in Holocene Terrestrial Sediments from the Indus Basin: a Response to SW Asian Monsoon Variability?'. Quaternary Research, vol 77, no. 3, pp. 368-381.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2012.01.008
• Moreau, J., Ghienne, JF. & Hurst, A. (2012). 'Kilometer-scale sand injectites in the intracratonic Murzuq Basin (South-west Libya): an igneous trigger?'. Sedimentology, vol 59, no. 4, pp. 1321-1344.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01308.x
• Bowden, SA., Cooper, JM., Greub, F., Tambo, D. & Hurst, A. (2010). 'Benchmarking methods of enhanced heavy oil recovery using a microscaled bead-pack'. Lab on a Chip, vol 10, no. 7, pp. 819-823.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1039/b926815d
• Szarawarska, E., Huuse, M., Hurst, A., De Boer, W., Lu, L., Molyneux, S., Rawlinson, P. & Ewa Szarawarska (2010). 'Three-dimensional seismic characterisation of large-scale sandstone intrusions in the lower Palaeogene of the North Sea: Completely injected vs. in situ remobilised sandbodies'. Basin Research, vol 22, no. 4, pp. 517-532.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00469.x
• Vigorito, M. & Hurst, A. (2010). 'Regional sand injectite architecture as a record of pore-pressure evolution and sand redistribution in the shallow crust: insights from the Panoche Giant Injection Complex, California'. Journal of the Geological Society, vol 167, no. 5, pp. 889-904.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-004
• Scott, A., Vigorito, M. & Hurst, A. (2009). 'The Process of Sand Injection: Internal Structures and Relationships with Host Strata (Yellowbank Creek Injectite Complex, California, U.S.A.)'. Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol 79, no. 8, pp. 568-583.
  [Online] DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2009.062
• Hurst, A. & Glennie, KW. (2008). 'Mass-wasting of ancient aeolian dunes and sand fluidization during a period of global warming and inferred brief high precipitation: the Hopeman Sandstone (late Permian), Scotland'. Terra Nova, vol 20, no. 4, pp. 274-279.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00817.x
• Vigorito, M., Hurst, A., Cartwright, J. & Scott, A. (2008). 'Regional-scale subsurface sand remobilization: geometry and architecture'. Journal of the Geological Society, vol 165, pp. 609-612.
• Cartwright, J., James, DC., Huuse, M., Vetel, W. & Hurst, A. (2008). 'The geometry and emplacement of conical sandstone intrusions'. Journal of Structural Geology, vol 30, no. 7, pp. 854-867.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2008.03.012
• Jonk, R., Hurst, A., Duranti, D., Mazzini, A., Fallick, AE. & Parnell, J. (2005). 'The origin and timing of sand injection, petroleum migration and diagenesis: the Tertiary petroleum system of the South Viking Graben, North Sea'. AAPG Bulletin, vol 89, pp. 329-357.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1306/10260404020
• Hurst, A. & Duranti, D. (2004). 'Fluidisation and injection in the deep-water sandstones of the Eocene Alba Formation (UK North Sea)'. Sedimentology, vol 51, no. 3, pp. 503-529.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2004.00634.x
• Jonk, R., Mazzini, A., Duranti, D., Parnell, J., Cronin, BT. & Hurst, A. (2003). 'Fluid escape from reservoirs: implications from cold seeps, fractures and injected sands - Part II. The fluids involved'. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, vol 78-9, pp. 297-300.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/S0375-6742(03)00048-7
• Mazzini, A., Jonk, R., Duranti, D., Parnell, J., Cronin, BT. & Hurst, A. (2003). 'Fluid escape from reservoirs: implications from cold seeps, fractures and injected sands - Part I. The fluid flow system'. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, vol 78-9, pp. 293-296.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/S0375-6742(03)00046-3
• Hurst, A., Cartwright, J., Huuse, M., Jonk, R., Schwab, AM., Duranti, D. & Cronin, BT. (2003). 'Significance of large-scale sand injectites as long-term fluid conduits: evidence from seismic data'. GeoFluids, vol 3, no. 4, pp. 263-274.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-8123.2003.00066.x
• Jonk, R., Duranti, D., Parnell, J., Hurst, A. & Fallick, AE. (2003). 'The structural and diagenetic evolution of injected sandstones: examples from the Kimmeridgian of NE Scotland'. Journal of the Geological Society, vol 160, no. 6, pp. 881-894.
• Mazzini, A., Duranti, D., Jonk, R., Parnell, J., Cronin, BT. & Hurst, A. (2003). 'Palaeo-carbonate seep structures above an oil reservoir, Gryphon Field, Tertiary, North Sea'. Geo-Marine Letters, vol 23, no. 3-4, pp. 323-339.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s00367-003-0145-y
• Huuse, M., Duranti, D., Groves, S., Guargena, C., Prat, P., Holm, K., Steinsland, N., Cronin, BT., Hurst, A. & Cartwright, JA. (2003). 'Sandstone intrusions: detection and significance for exploration and production'. First Break, pp. 33-42.
• Robertson, E., Corbett, PWM., Hurst, A., Satur, N. & Cronin, BT. (2002). 'Synthetic well test modelling in a high net-to-gross outcrop system for turbidite reservoir description'. Petroleum Geoscience, vol 8, no. 1, pp. 19-30.
• Duranti, D., Hurst, A., Bell, C., Groves, S. & Hanson, R. (2002). 'Injected and remobilized Eocene sandstones from the Alba Field, UKCS: core and wireline log characteristics'. Petroleum Geoscience, vol 8, no. 2, pp. 99-107.
• Hurst, A. & Cronin, BT. (2001). 'The origin of consolidation laminae and dish structures in some deep-water sandstones'. Journal of Sedimentary Research, vol 71, no. 1, pp. 136-143.
• Hurst, A. & Morton, AC. (2001). 'Generic relationships in the mineral-chemical stratigraphy of tubidite sandstones'. Journal of the Geological Society, vol 158, no. 3, pp. 401-404.

Scientific Reviews

• Hurst, A., Scott, A. & Vigorito, M. (2011). 'Physical characteristics of sand injectites'. Earth Science Reviews, vol 106, no. 3-4, pp. 215-246.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.02.004

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Hurst, A. & Glennie, KW. (2010). 'Deserts: modern studies influence interpretation of origins and demise of ancient deserts'. in B Veress & J Szigethy (eds), Horizons in Earth Science Research. vol. 1, Nova Science Publishers, USA, pp. 141-162.
• Huuse, M., Cartwright, JA., Gras, R. & Hurst, A. (2005). 'Kilometre-scale sandstone intrusions in the Eocene of the Outer Moray Firth (UK North Sea): migration paths, reservoirs and potential drilling hazards'. in Petroleum Geology: North-West Europe and Global Perspectives - Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference. Petroleum Geology: North-West Europe and Global Perspectives - Proceedings of the 6th Petroleum Geology Conference, pp. 1577-1594.
• Hurst, A., Cartwright, J. & Duranti, D. (2003). 'Fluidization structures in produced by upward injection of sand through a sealing lithology'. in In: Subsurface sediment mobilization (eds. Van Rensbergen,P.;Hillis,R.;Maltman,A. J.;Morley,C.K.), Geological Society Of London, London. In: Subsurface sediment mobilization (eds. Van Rensbergen,P.;Hillis,R.;Maltman,A. J.;Morley,C.K.), Geological Society Of London, London, pp. 123-137.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2003.216.01.09
• Cronin, BT., Satur, N., Hurst, A., Kelling, G. & Gurbuz, K. (2003). 'Down-channel variations in stratal patterns within a conglomeratic deepwater fan feeder system (Miocene, Adana Basin, Southern Turkey)'. in In: Confined Turbidite Systems (eds. Lomas, S.; Joseph, P.) Geological Society of London. In: Confined Turbidite Systems (eds. Lomas, S.; Joseph, P.) Geological Society of London, pp. 241-260.

Contributions to Conferences

Abstracts

• Cronin, BT., Hurst, A., Akhmanov, G., Spadini, G. & Rocchini, P. (2001). 'High resolution marine geophysical data as proxies for prediction of reservoir quality and geometry in deep-water settings: analogue data from modern, high and low N:G settings and their application to the sub-surface'.

Other Contributions

• Kovalchuk, A., Grandjean, V., Hurst, A., Player, MA. & Watson, J. (2003). 'Characterisation of the physical properties of porous media using monochrome imaging'.

Books and Reports

Books

• Hurst, A. & Cartwright, J. (2007). 'Sand Injectites: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production'. American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Contributions to Specialist Publications

Articles

• Schwab, AM., Tremblay, S. & Hurst, A. (2007). 'Seismic expression of turbidity-current and bottom-current processes on the Northern Mauritanian continental slope'. p. 237-252, Geological Society Special Publications, 277 01 January.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2007.277.01.14

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