My Research
My PhD research project is part of GEothermie 2020, a large and multi-scale program for developing the deep geothermal energy resources of the trans-border (Swiss-French) Greater Geneva basin. It aims to characterise facies distribution, petrophysical and thermal properties of potential reservoirs highlighted in the sedimentary sequence ranging from Permo-Carboniferous to Lower Cretaceous.
Detailed rock typing description from petrophysical well measurements and laboratory analysis of core and outcrop samples (facies and micro-facies description; geochemical, petrophysical and thermal properties measurements) will enable me to assess the lateral variations of facies and their reservoir properties.
Data will be pooled with a complementary PhD project - realized by Nicolas Clerc (UniGE) - investigating the basin structural evolution. Full information will be integrated in 3D geological models at both regional and local scale, derived from 2D seismic lines and well data. It will help to understand better the distribution of productive reservoir facies and fractured zone within the studied area, for a successful development of geothermal energy in the Greater Geneva Basin.
This study is financed by Services Industriels Genevois (SIG) and is carried out in collaboration with the République et Canton de Genève, Geneva (Switzerland).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Carbonate sedimentology
- Rock-typing
- Sequence stratigraphy
- Petrophysics
- Structural geology
- Geothermal systems
Lecturer assistant
- Micropaleontology
- Geological fieldtrips for Bachelor students (cartography, structural geology)
MY Publications
Clerc, N., Rusillon, E., Moscariello, A., Renard, P., Paolacci, S., Meyer, M. (2014) Detailed structural and reservoir rock typing characterisation of the Greater Geneva Basin, Switzerland, for geothermal resource assessment. World Geothermal Congress 2015, Melbourne, Australia, 19-24 April 2015. Conference paper
MY Abstracts
2014
Rusillon, E., Clerc, N., Moscariello, A. (2014) Rock typing of deep geothermal reservoirs in the Greater Geneva Basin. International Sedimentological Congress 2014, Geneva, Switzerland, August 2014. Abstract
2012
Rusillon, E., Aubry, N., Davaud, E., Caline, B. (2012) Kimmeridgian bioturbated limestone from the Jura Mountains as a field analogue of Middle East hydrocarbon reservoirs. 20th Swiss Sedimentologists Meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland, February 2012. Abstract
