Thomas Oldenburg

Research Programs Manager
Adjunct Professor

Advanced strategies for clean recovery of fossil fuel energy
Impact of fluid origin and composition on production, transport and surface and in situ processing of petroleum
Soil, peat, coal Geochemistry
Next generation petroleum system assessment technologies
Biogeochemistry (understanding microbiological processes in the deep biosphere)
Petroleomics (targeting the unknown to improve understanding of petroleum systems and to enhance production processes)
O/W Partitioning of petroleum constituents: Influence on migration, water washing, deep water oil spills
Interfacial material in emulsions, rock-fluid (wettability) and corrosion
Oil contaminated water treatment from oil spills, SAGD operations, oilsands mining, fracking

2012-present: Research Programs Manager, Petroleum Reservoir Group, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary
2012-present: Adjunct Professor, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary
2009-present: Manager Tesla Petroleomics Centre, University of Calgary
2004-2012: Research Associate, Petroleum Reservoir Group, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary
2001-2004: Research Associate, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2001: PhD Institute for Petroleum and Organic Geochemistry, Department for Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, Research Centre Jülich, Germany
Thesis title: Geochemical significance of NSO compounds in petroleum systems, offshore Norway
1997: Diplom (equiv Masters) in Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry and Biology of Marine Environment (ICBM), Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
Thesis title: Biomarker and trace element distributions in Dead Sea surface sediments

Research Interests