Equipment

Mavic Mini

Image: Christoph Grützner

Image: Kamil Ustaszewski

Compass clinos, handheld GPS devices, drones

Image: Kamil Ustaszewski

Microscope image of dispersed vitrinites in a Rotliegend sandstone of Thuringia under reflected light and oil immersion. On the left Collinite (homogeneous, structureless), on the right Telinite (with distinct cell structures). Pale yellow grains in the centre of the picture represent framboidal pyrite.

Vitrinite reflectance lab

Workstation-PC

For computationally intensive tasks (e.g. 3D photogrammetry), we have two workstation PCs:

AMD Ryzen CPU, 16 cores (3.4 -4.9 GHz), 128 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card
Intel Xeon, 6 cores, 3.3 GHz, 128 GB RAM, GeForce GTX560 Ti

Software

Agisoft Metashape

Petex MOVE

Petex FieldMOVE

StructureSolver

3DStress

Tectonics FP

MOVE | Petex

Within the frame of their academic support programme, Petroleum Experts (Petex) granted 10 licenses for complete MOVE suites (the equivalent of £1,872,218.26) for educational use and research to our university.