Rory Leslie – SAGES

Institution: University of Edinburgh

Theme: Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles: Sustaining Life

Department / group: School of Geosciences

Email: rory.leslie@ed.ac.uk

Institution URL: https://www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences

Personal URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rory-leslie-geoscientist/

Google Scholar URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wCMF3Z8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra

Research interests:

Carbon Capture and Storage

Reservoir Geology

Noble Gas Geochemistry

Career history:

PhD Geology and Geophysics, University of Edinburgh, 2019-2023
Petroleum Geologist, BP 2015-2019
MSc Integrated Petroleum Geoscience, University of Aberdeen 2013-2014
BSc Geology (Hons) First Class, University of Edinburgh 2009-2013

Active research projects:

Quantifying rates of CO2 dissolution in natural CO2 reservoirs through integration of noble gas geochemistry and 3D reservoir modelling

Recent publications:

Quantifying VOI in Geosteering: A North Sea Case Study, M Rabinovich, B D’Arcy, R Leslie – SPWLA 59th Annual Logging Symposium, 2018

Skewering the Pancake: Geosteering Challenges in a Thinly Bedded Sandstone Reservoir, A Love, M Rabinovich, Z Sayer, R Leslie, B D’Arcy… – SPWLA 59th Annual Logging Symposium, 2018