BSc, PhD, C. Geol, FGS.

Responsibilities.

MSc Project Co-ordinator, External Examiner University Brunei MSc Petroleum Geoscience, AAPG 100th Anniversary Committee, AAPG Chief Editor and Co-ordinator of the 100th Anniversary Volume "Outcrops that have changed the way we practice petroleum geology", Fabric of the Land – Founder and Chairman

Courses taught.

MSc in IPG

Research Interests.

Hydrocarbon exploration; Reservoir appraisal and development;; Sand injectites; Sedimentary mineralogy; Computational mathematics in earth science predictions; Non-destructive analysis of porous media (POROPTIC, ROKSTAR); Heavy Oil Recovery (HOCOM).

Selected Publications

• 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 Geological Society of London (in press).
• Szarawarska, E., Huuse, M., Hurst, A., De Boer, W., LU, L., Molyneux, S. & Rawlinson, P. 2010. 3D seismic characterization of large-scale sandstone intrusions in the lower Paleogene of the North Sea: completely injected vs. in situ remobilized saucer-shaped sand bodies. Basin Studies
• Scott, A., Vigorito, M. & Hurst, A. 2009. The process of sand injection: internal structures and relationships with host strata (Yellowbank Creek injectite complex, California). Journal of Sedimentary Research 79, 568-583.
• Hurst, A., Huuse, M., Cartwright, J.A., & Duranti, D. 2007. Sand injectites in deep-water clastic reservoirs: are they there and do they matter? Paper 120, In: Atlas of deep-water outcrops, Nilsen, T.H., Shaw, R.D., Steffans, G.S. and Studlick, J.R.J. AAPG Studies in Geology 56, CD-Rom, 24p.
• Hurst, A. & Cartwright, J.A. 2007. Relevance of sand injectites to hydrocarbon exploration and production. In: Sand Injectites: Implications for hydrocarbon exploration and production, Hurst, A. & Cartwright, J. (eds.), AAPG Memoir 87, Tulsa, p.1-19.
• Hurst, A., Cartwright, J.A., Huuse, M. & Duranti, D. 2006. Extrusive sandstones (extrudites): a new class of stratigraphic trap? In: in, M.R. Allen, G.P. Goffey, R.K. Morgan and I.M. Walker eds., The deliberate search for stratigraphic traps: where are they now? Geological Society (London) Special Publication 254, p. 289-300.

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