Jalileh Nasseri

PhD Student

Thesis timeline

Octobre 2025 - September 2028

Thesis title

Depositional and post-depositional processes of the Great Oolite (Jurassic, Upper Rhine Graben): paleo-environments, geodynamic significance, and implications for reservoir properties

Supervisors

  • Mathieu Schuster, CNRS-ITES,University of Strasbourg, France

  • Patrick Baud, EOST-ITES, University of Strasbourg, France

Core Collaborators Team

  • Marc Ulrich, EOST- ITES, University of Strasbourg, France

  • Laurent Gindre-Chanu, Terra Geoscience, Dijon, France

  • Stéphane Bodin, Aarhus University, Denmark

Thesis Short Description

The Great Oolite is a carbonate sedimentary formation widespread in northern Europe, deposited during Middle Jurassic (Dogger) in a shallow-marine epicontinental sea that covered central Europe. This Formation has attracted growing interest as a potential intermediate-depth geothermal reservoir within the Upper Rhine Graben (URG), where it is well represented both at the surface (outcrops) and subsurface.

Despite this potential, the geological framework of the Great Oolite in the URG remains limited and outdated compared with better-studied adjacent and other globally significant Jurassic oolitic carbonate formations. Given this context, a renewed investigation into the Great Oolite within the perimeter of the URG is timely and necessary.

The aim of this project is thus to update our geological knowledge about this sedimentary formation in the perimeter of the URG, with a focus on both its depositional conditions in the Tethys Ocean and later its post-depositional evolution influenced by the rifting episode that affected western Europe during the Cenozoic times. In turn, this new knowledge will help better assess its potential as intermediate reservoir.

This research project is co-financed by ITI GeoT and ED413.

Research Interests

Carbonate sedimentology and diagenesis, Stratigraphy, Characterisation of carbonate reservoirs through petrophysical and rock physics analysis, integration of seismic data with reservoir/rock properties

Pervious Thesis

  • Nasseri J. 2025. The Study of the Great Oolite Formation (Jurassic, Dogger) from the Well of Chalampé (Upper Rhine Graben) - supervised by Mathieu Schuster and Patrick Baud - Master 2 thesis, University of Strasbourg
  • Nasseri J. 2024. The influence of pressure on the permeability anisotropy of geothermal reservoir rocks from Soultz-sous-Forêts (France) - supervised by Michael Heap and Patrick Baud - Master 1 thesis, University of Strasbourg

Work experience

Geophysicist, Pares Petro Zagros Geophysics (PPZG), Tehran, Iran, (2011 – 2020)

Contributed to multiple seismic interpretation and O&G field development studies

Conference Publications

  • Maleki, M., Alamshahi, R., Nasseri, J., 2016. Rock Physics Integration to Seismic Reservoir Characterization - A Carbonate Reservoir Case Study. 78th EAGE Conference, Vienna, Austria (Oral). https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.201601573

  • Davarpanah, M., Akhlaghi, J., Nasseri, J., Heydarian, A., 2014. 3D Seismic interpretation and structural analysis of a hydrocarbon field in the Eastern Persian Gulf. 18th Conference of the Geological Society of Iran, (Oral, in Persian)

  • Hooshmand, A., Nasseri, J., Siahkoohi, H.R., 2012. Seismic data denoising based on the Complete Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (CEEMD). SEG Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, (Oral). https://doi.org/10.1190/IST092012-001.28

  • Nasseri, J., Siahkoohi, H.R., 2011. Coherent & random noise attenuation with Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD). 73rd EAGE Conference, Vienna, Austria, (Poster). https://doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609.20149662