Field Trips

Hugues Féniès holds a Ph.D. in sedimentology from the Bordeaux University, sponsored by the research center of Total. He has more than 30 years of experience within the oil industry. He has been working for ExxonMobil as a geologist, seismic interpreter and reservoir engineer for 22 years in Europe. He now works with CV Associés Engineering as a consultant specialized in reservoir geology and he organizes training sessions for the petroleum and mining (uranium) industries. He has worked recently for the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP) providing clastic facies reservoir courses to the geoscientists of PDVSA, the national company of Venezuela. He is also an Associate Professor at the Bordeaux University, where he teaches sedimentology, seismic interpretation and reservoir geology and supervises Master's degrees and PhDs research projects. He is also involved in research programs sponsored by major oil companies (Total, Nexen, and Engie) and has published several papers related to the characterization of shallow water reservoirs. He is vice-president of the French Association of Sedimentologists (ASF) and a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS).

Philippe Razin holds a Ph.D. in sedimentology in 1989 from the Bordeaux University, sponsored by the research center of Elf-Aquitaine. He has been working during 8 years in the French Geological Survey before going back to the Bordeaux University in 1998 as aa full-time professor. He is mainly teaching sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and basin analysis. He is also responsible for several field courses in the Spanish Pyrenees, Morocco and Oman. He has supervised 15 PhD students from 2000 to 2018 on various topics. These main research activities concern the architecture and dynamic of wide carbonate and siliciclastic platforms, the relationships between tectonics, diapirism and sedimentation and the carbonate turbiditic systems. These research projects are largely supported by oil companies (Total, Statoil, NIOC, PDO, ADCO,Saudi Aramco,Repsol, etc.) and mainly developed in the Middle-East (Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Yemen, Egypt), in Morocco and in the Pyrenees. He uses to organize various field-trips for oil companies and other institutions in the Middle-East, Morocco and Pyrenees on basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy and tectonic-sedimentation relationships, using both outcrop and seismic data.

Analyst graduated to a Master's degree in Geopolitics and International Security from the Catholic University of Paris, Jean Gaucher has joined Lavoisier H2Geoconsult in May 2023. He follows the natural hydrogen techno-economic ecosystem and develop the company abroad. He assists also Eric C. Gaucher in the research and exploration programs.

Geochemist expert in water-rock-gas interaction, Dr. Eric C. Gaucher is a world leader for natural H2 exploration as the task leader for natural hydrogen (Task 49) in the International Energy Agency's Hydrogen TCP. After 19 years in academic research (CEA, BRGM in France and the University of Bern in Switzerland) and 10 years in industry (TotalEnergies), he is now building bridges between the worlds of research and industry as CEO of Lavoisier H2 Geoconsult since June 2023. His work focuses on water-rock-gas interactions at the laboratory scale up to basin scale using experimental, field and numerical modeling methods. He is committed in all geo-energy sectors (Nuclear Waste management, CO2 & H2 storage, Geothermal energy, lithium extraction from brines, evolution of porous medium in carbonate reservoirs, environmental concerns related to oil&gas shale). He has published more than 120 publications in international journals (Nature Geoscience, Science...) and 3 patents.

Hugues Féniès holds a Ph.D. in sedimentology from the Bordeaux University, sponsored by the research center of Total. He has more than 30 years of experience within the oil industry. He has been working for ExxonMobil as a geologist, seismic interpreter and reservoir engineer for 22 years in Europe. He now works with CV Associés Engineering as a consultant specialized in reservoir geology and he organizes training sessions for the petroleum and mining (uranium) industries. He has worked recently for the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP) providing clastic facies reservoir courses to the geoscientists of PDVSA, the national company of Venezuela. He is also an Associate Professor at the Bordeaux University, where he teaches sedimentology, seismic interpretation and reservoir geology and supervises Master's degrees and PhDs research projects. He is also involved in research programs sponsored by major oil companies (Total, Nexen, and Engie) and has published several papers related to the characterization of shallow water reservoirs. He is vice-president of the French Association of Sedimentologists (ASF) and a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists (IAS).