Jochen Kassan is a sedimentologist and reservoir modeller with 20 years postgraduate experience in consulting to the oil and gas industry.  His expertise spans the range of reservoir characterisation from petrology to reservoir modelling.  Jochen has conducted detailed reservoir characterisation studies using drill core and wireline log data from sedimentary basins in Australia, SE Asia and North Africa, covering a broad range of clastic depositional settings fluvial, deltaic, shallow and deep marine.  His special interests lie in sedimentology from drill core and the integration of sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy into static reservoir models.  He has been involved as a reservoir modeller and sedimentologist in a number of FDP and integrated reservoir characterisation studies for clients in Australia and overseas.  Jochen has conducted professional training courses for geoscience professionals and engineers for international oil and gas companies since 1998, some as part of the Schlumberger NExT training programmes.  This includes class-room courses in sequence stratigraphy, clastic sedimentology, reservoir characterisation, reservoir modelling and geostatistics, as well as field courses to outcrops and modern depositional environments provided annually.  He has maintained an active interest in academic research and training, resulting in a series of publication and conference presentations.  Jochen is a visiting research fellow at the Australian School of Petroleum at the University of Adelaide and is involved in the supervision and examination of PhD theses there.

His formal qualifications include an MSc in Petroleum Geology Aberdeen and a PhD in sedimentology (University of Queensland).  Jochen founded Whistler Research in 1993 and is a director of the company.  Currently he is managing the Whistler Research office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Publications

Lang S.C, Reilly M., Fischer J., Krapf C., Payenberg T, and Kassan J., 2006 A new Facies Model for Terminal Splays in Dryland Fluvial-Lacustrine Basins, AAPG Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California, 2006.  2006 SEPM prize for excellence in oral presentation

Bann K.L., Kloss O., Wood G., Lang S.C., Kassan J., and Benson J. 2005 Recognition of Localized Fluvial Input into a Wave-Dominated, Prograding Shoreface Succession: Tern Formation, Bonaparte Basin, Timor Sea, Australia AAPG International Conference & Exhibition 2005, Calgary

Lang S.C, Payenberg T, Reilly M., and Kassan J., 2004 Reservoir Analogues of Ephemeral Lacustrine Deltas and Terminal Splays - Examples from the Lake Eyre Basin, Central Australia, AAPG Annual Meeting, Denver Colorado, 2004

Reilly M., Lang S.C, Payenberg T, and Kassan J., 2004 Sedimentary Processes and Facies Geometry of a Sandy Ephemeral Terminal Splay Complex, Umbum Creek, Lake Eyre, Central Australia, AAPG Annual Meeting, Denver Colorado, 2004

Lang S.C., Reilly M., Payenberg T, Kassan J, Faulkner T, Hicks T, and Benson J,  2003 Modern Reservoir Analogue for Dryland Fluvial, Crevasse Splay and Lacustrine Delta Successions from Lake Eyre, Central Australia, AAPG International Conference & Exhibition 2003, Barcelona

Kloss O, Wood G, Lang S, Bann K & Kassan J 2003 An Integrated Approach to the Re-Evaluation of the Depositional Model for the Cape Hay Sequence, Petrel Field.  Proceedings of the Timor Sea Symposium 2003, June 18-20, Northern Territory Geological Survey, Special Publication No. 1

Bann K, Lang S, Kloss O, Wood G, Benson J & Kassan J 2003 Depositional Environments, High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of the Tern Field.  Proceedings of the Timor Sea Symposium 2003, June 18-20, Northern Territory Geological Survey, Special Publication No. 1

Reilly M, Lang S & Kassan J 2002 Sedimentation in an ephemeral fluvial-lacustrine inland delta - Umbum Creek, Lake Eyre, Central Australia.  Proceedings Dryland Rivers Conference, Aberdeen, 8-9 August 2002

Lang S. C., Hicks T. R., Benson J., Reilly M. & Kassan J.  2003 Reservoir Analogues for Ephemeral Fluvial, Lacustrine Delta and Terminal Splay Successions - Examples from the Lake Eyre Basin, Central Australia.  2003 AAPG Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, May 11-14

Reilly M, Lang S & Kassan J: 2003 Modern Analogue of an Ephemeral Fluvial-Lacustrine Inland Delta - Umbum Creek, Lake Eyre, Central Australia. 2003 AAPG Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, May 11-14

Lang, S.C., Kassan, J. Benson, J., Grasso, C, Hicks, T., Hall, N, and Avenell, L. C. 2002 Reservoir Characterisation of Fluvial, Lacustrine and Deltaic Successions - Applications Of Modern and Ancient Geological Analogues,  Proceedings, Indonesian Petroleum Association, Twenty Eighth Annual Convention & Exhibition.  paper IPAG-116, 24p – Best Poster Award at the 28th IPA Convention, Jakarta

Strong P.C., Wood G.R., Lang S.C., Jollands A., Karalaus E. and Kassan J. 2002 High Resolution Palaeogeographic Mapping of the Fluvial-Lacustrine Patchawarra Formation in the Cooper Basin, South Australia. APPEA Journal 2002  -- Best Paper Highly Commended Award at the 2002 APPEA convention, Adelaide

Lang S.C., Ceglar N., Forder S., Spencer G. and Kassan J. 2002 High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy, Reservoir Analogues, and 3d Seismic Interpretation— Application to Exploration and Reservoir Development in the Baryulah Complex Cooper Basin, Southwest Queensland. APPEA Journal 2002

Lang S.C., Kassan J., Vasiliev S.V. & Nakanishi T. 2001 West Siberian Peatlands: Modern Depositional Analogues for Petroleum Exploration and Reservoir Development in Permian Cool-Temperate Coal Basins of Eastern Australia.  In: S.V. Vasiliev, A.A. Titlyanova & A.A.Velichko eds West Siberian Peatlands and Carbon Cycle: Past and Present / Proceedings of the International Field Symposium Noyabrsk, August 18-22, 2001 – Novosibirsk: Agentstvo Sibprint, 2001, p. 28.

Lang S.C.; Kassan J; Benson J.M, Grasso C.A. & Avenell L.C. 2000 Applications of modern and ancient analogues in characterisation of fluvial and fluvial-lacustrine deltaic reservoirs in the Copper Basin.  APPEA Journal 2000, p. 393-416.

Holcombe R.J., Stephens C.J., Fielding C.R., Gust D., Little T.A., Sliwa R., Kassan J., McPhie J. & Ewart A. 1998 Tectonic Evolution of the northern New England Foldbelt: The Permian Hunter-Bowen Event  In: Ashley P.M., & Flood P.G. Tectonics and Metallogenesis of the New England Orogen Geological Society of Australia, Special Publication 19, p.52-65

Kassan J. & Fielding, C.R.1996 Evolution of Triassic Depositional Environments in the Bowen Basin, Cuadernos de Geologia Iberica 21 p.171-202
Kassan J. & Fielding, C.R. 1996 Aspects of Triassic Sedimentation in the Bowen Basin, Queensland.  Geological Society of Australia, Extended Abstracts 43 Mesozoic Geology of the Eastern Australian Plate Conference, September 1996, p.292-301.

Fielding C.R., Kassan J. & Draper J.J. 1996  Geology of the Bowen and Surat Basins, Eastern Queensland, Geological Society of Australia, Field Guide Series No. 8, 125p.

Baker J.C., Kassan J. & Hamilton J. 1995 Early diagenetic siderite as an indicator of depositional environment in the Triassic Rewan Group, southern Bowen Basin, eastern Australia  Sedimentology, 43 p.77-88.

Kassan J. & Fielding C.R. 1993. Depositional Environments in the Bowen Basin 11th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, Brisbane, Proceedings, p.59.

Kassan J. & Fielding C.R. 1992 Depositional environments in the southeast Bowen Basin, Queensland Anonymous. 1992 American Association of Petroleum Geologists International Conference and Exhibition; abstracts. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. 76. 7.

Kassan J. 1991 Depositional response to foreland deformation: the Triassic of the Bowen Basin 12th AGC, Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts.

Fielding C.R.; Falkner A.J; Kassan J; Draper J.J 1990 Permian and Triassic depositional systems in the Bowen Basin. Beeston, J. W. Bowen Basin symposium 1990; proceedings; incorporating GSA QLD Division field conference. p.21-26 Geological Society Australia, Bowen Basin Geol. Group.

Kassan J. & Fielding C.R. 1990 Depositional environments of the southwestern Bowen Basin In: Diessel, C. ed Proceedings, 25th Symposium on Advances in the Study of the Sydney Basin, University of Newcastle