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Jens Jahren is affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway and has contributed extensively to Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Engineering. Their research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Mechanics of Materials, Geology, Mechanical Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The main topics of their work focus on:

  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research
  • Geological and geochemical analysis
  • Geological and geophysical studies
  • CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions

Jahren has published in several scientific journals, with frequent contributions to:

  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Basin Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • International journal of greenhouse gas control

The following recent papers illustrate the range and focus of their research:

  • "Top seal assessment of Drake Formation shales for CO2 storage in the Horda Platform area, offshore Norway" (2022), International journal of greenhouse gas control
  • "Chlorite coating patterns and reservoir quality in deep marine depositional systems - Example from the Cretaceous Agat Formation, Northern North Sea, Norway" (2021), Basin Research
  • "Cyclic zoning in authigenic saddle dolomite-ankerite: Indications of a complex interplay between fault-rupturing and diagenetic alteration" (2020), Chemical Geology
  • "Quartz overgrowth textures and fluid inclusion thermometry evidence for basin-scale sedimentary recycling: An example from the Mesozoic Barents Sea Basin" (2020), Basin Research
  • "Linkage and growth of the independent and coherent faults: Insight into the effect of relay ramps on sedimentation patterns in the northern Bonan Sag, Bohai Bay Basin" (2021), Marine and Petroleum Geology

Frequent co-authors working with Jahren include:

  • Helge Hellevang
  • Henrik Nygaard Hansen
  • Beyene Girma Haile
  • Lina H. Line
  • Nazmul Haque Mondol

Best Publications

  • Open or closed geochemical systems during diagenesis in sedimentary basins: Constraints on mass transfer during diagenesis and the prediction of porosity in sandstone and carbonate reservoirs

    Knut Bjørlykke;Jens Jahren

  • Experimental mechanical compaction of clay mineral aggregates—Changes in physical properties of mudstones during burial

    Nazmul H. Mondol;Knut Bjørlykke;Jens Jahren;Kaare Høeg

  • Clay mineral diagenesis and quartz cementation in mudstones: The effects of smectite to illite reaction on rock properties

    Christer Peltonen;Øyvind Marcussen;Knut Bjørlykke;Jens Jahren

  • How does the pore-throat size control the reservoir quality and oiliness of tight sandstones? The case of the Lower Cretaceous Quantou Formation in the southern Songliao Basin, China

    Kelai Xi;Kelai Xi;Yingchang Cao;Beyene Girma Haile;Rukai Zhu

  • Formation of grain-coating chlorite in sandstones. Laboratory synthesized vs. natural occurrences

    P. Aagaard;J. S. Jahren;A. O. Harstad;O. Nilsen

  • Quartz cementation in Late Cretaceous mudstones, northern North Sea: Changes in rock properties due to dissolution of smectite and precipitation of micro-quartz crystals

    Brit Thyberg;Jens Jahren;Turid Winje;Knut Bjørlykke

  • Diagenesis and reservoir quality of the Lower Cretaceous Quantou Formation tight sandstones in the southern Songliao Basin, China

    Kelai Xi;Kelai Xi;Yingchang Cao;Jens Jahren;Rukai Zhu

  • From mud to shale: rock stiffening by micro-quartz cementation

    B. Thyberg;J. Jahren;T. Winje;K. Bjørlykke

  • Experimental compaction of clays: relationship between permeability and petrophysical properties in mudstones

    Nazmul Haque Mondol;Knut Bjørlykke;Jens Jahren

  • Elastic properties of clay minerals

    Nazmul Haque Mondol;Jens Jahren;Knut Bjørlykke;Ivar Brevik

  • Compositional variations in diagenetic chlorites and illites, and relationships with formation-water chemistry

    J. S. Jahren;Per Aagaard

  • Quartz cementation in mudstones: sheet-like quartz cement from clay mineral reactions during burial

    Brit Thyberg;Jens Jahren

  • Cenozoic exhumation on the southwestern Barents Shelf: Estimates and uncertainties constrained from compaction and thermal maturity analyses

    Irfan Baig;Jan Inge Faleide;Jens Jahren;Nazmul Haque Mondol;Nazmul Haque Mondol

  • Recognition and significance of sharp-based mouth-bar deposits in the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

    Edwin Robert Schomacker;Audun Vestheim Kjemperud;Johan Petter Nystuen;Jens Sigurd Jahren

  • Anisotropy of experimentally compressed kaolinite-illite-quartz mixtures

    Marco Voltolini;Hans-Rudolf Wenk;Nazmul Haque Mondol;Knut Bjørlykke

  • Changes in physical properties of a reservoir sandstone as a function of burial depth ― The Etive Formation, northern North Sea

    Øyvind Marcussen;Tom Erik Maast;Nazmul H. Mondol;Jens Jahren

  • Mechanical compaction and ultrasonic velocity of sands with different texture and mineralogical composition

    Manzar Fawad;Nazmul Haque Mondol;Jens Jahren;Knut Bjørlykke

  • Quartz cement and its origin in tight sandstone reservoirs of the Cretaceous Quantou formation in the southern Songliao basin, China

    Kelai Xi;Kelai Xi;Yingchang Cao;Jens Jahren;Rukai Zhu

  • Sandstones and Sandstone Reservoirs

    Knut Bjørlykke;Jens Jahren

  • Microfabric and rock properties of experimentally compressed silt-clay mixtures

    Manzar Fawad;Nazmul Haque Mondol;Jens Jahren;Knut Bjørlykke

  • Physical properties of Cenozoic mudstones from the northern North Sea: Impact of clay mineralogy on compaction trends

    Øyvind Marcussen;Brit I. Thyberg;Christer Peltonen;Jens Jahren

Frequent Co-Authors

Knut Bjørlykke
Knut Bjørlykke University of Oslo
Jan Inge Faleide
Jan Inge Faleide University of Oslo
Per Aagaard
Per Aagaard University of Southern Denmark
Yingchang Cao
Yingchang Cao China University of Petroleum, Beijing
François Renard
François Renard University of Oslo
Alvar Braathen
Alvar Braathen University of Oslo
Lars Henrik Nielsen
Lars Henrik Nielsen Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Keyu Liu
Keyu Liu China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Roy H. Gabrielsen
Roy H. Gabrielsen University of Oslo
Hans-Rudolf Wenk
Hans-Rudolf Wenk University of California, Berkeley

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