Staff profiles
Richard SykesOrganic Geochemist; SSIF Contract Leader; Lead Scientist Source Rock Lab
Qualifications
- BSc, Geology
- MSc, Geology
Areas of expertise
- Geochemist: Organic geochemistry
- Geochemist: Organic petrology
- Geology: Coal geology
- Geology: Sedimentary basin analysis
- Geology: Petroleum Exploration
- Geochemist: Petroleum geochemistry
Major Publications
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- Organofacies controls on the oil potential of coaly source rocks in the Late Cretaceous North Cape Formation, Taranaki Basin, Third Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium, EABS III : energy security for the 21st century : symposium proceedings : p. 219-224. p. 219-224
- Leaf biomass : a new paradigm for sourcing the terrestrial oils of Taranaki Basin, Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium II, Adelaide, South Australia, 19-22 September 2004 : p. 553-574. p. 553-574
- Peat biomass and early diagenetic controls on the paraffinic oil potential of humic coals, Canterbury Basin, New Zealand, Petroleum geoscience 10(4): p. 283-303. DOI: 10.1144/1354-079302-568. p. 283-303
- Guidelines for assessing the petroleum potential of coaly source rocks using Rock-Eval pyrolysis, Organic geochemistry 33(12): p. 1441-1455. p. 1441-1455
- Depositional and rank controls on the petroleum potential of coaly source rocks, Eastern Australasian Basins Symposium, 25-28 November 2001, Melbourne, Victoria : p. 591-601. p. 591-601
- Predicting generation and expulsion of paraffinic oil from vitrinite-rich coals, Organic geochemistry 29(1/3): p. 1-21. p. 1-21
- Geology of the Waikato Coal Measures, Waikato Coal Region, New Zealand 236 p., 8 maps