Ken W. Glennie

Kenneth W. Glennie (* 1928 ; † November 23, 2019 ) was a British petroleum geologist and sedimentologist who dealt in particular with the general sedimentology of deserts, the geology of Oman and the North Sea.

Life

Glennie completed engineering training in the British Army during World War II and was stationed in Libya and Egypt after the war. He studied geology at the University of Edinburgh from 1949 to 1954 with a master's degree , which was already supported by a Shell scholarship. He then went into oil exploration for Shell , where he first worked in New Zealand in the late 1950s, leading to his first publication on Turbidite . From 1959 he was in exploration in the Canadian Arctic. In 1963 he was sent by Shell to the Middle East (including Libya and Oman) to study sedimentation processes in the desert (with applications to the natural gas storage rocks of the Rotliegend , which existed in the Netherlands and the southern North Sea , which formed in deserts), which led to his first book in 1970. In the late 1960s, he also geologically mapped the mountains of Oman for two years (the maps were published in 1974). From 1972 he turned to North Sea geology as Team Leader Southern North Sea at Shell. A standard work was developed from lectures on the geology of the North Sea , which first appeared in 1984. In 1985 he officially retired there. In 1986 he organized the first Congress on the Petroleum Geology of Northwestern Europe.

He has been Honorary Professor at King's College, University of Aberdeen since 1996 . In 1984 he received an honorary doctorate (D. Sc.) From the University of Edinburgh. He was an honorary member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG).

He received the Major John Coke Medal in 1986, the Petroleum Group Silver Medal in 2000 and the William Smith Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2001 . In 2000 he received the Alfred Wegener Medal and in 1999 the Van Waterschoot van der Gracht Medal of the Geological Society of the Netherlands. In 2005 he received the Sidney Powers Memorial Award from the AAPG. He was one of the few honorary members of the Geological Society of Oman.

Fonts (selection)

• as editor and co-author: Petroleum geology of the North Sea: basic concepts and recent advances . 4th edition, Blackwell Science, 1998 (first 1984).
• Geology of the Oman Mountains . Beaconsfield, Scientific Press, 2nd edition 2005 (first 1995).
• Desert sedimentary environments . Elsevier, 1970.
• The desert of Southeast Arabia . Gulf PetroLink, 2005.
• Editor with J. Brooks: Petroleum geology of North-West Europe . Graham and Trotman, London 1987.
• Editor with AS Alsharhan, GL Whittle: Quaternary deserts and climate change . Taylor and Francis, 1998.
• Desert sedimentary environments, present and past - a summary . Sedimentary Geology, Volume 50, 1987, pp. 135-165.
• Permian Rotliegend of Northwest Europe interpreted in the light of modern desert sedimentation studies . The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, Vol. 56, 1972, pp. 1048-1071.
• Chapter 10: Permian and Triassic . In Nigel H. Trewin (ed): The Geology of Scotland , 4th edition 2002, ISBN 978-1-86239-105-5 .

Web links

• Brief biography
• Jane Whaley A petroleum pioneer , portrait, 2010
• Honored by the Geological Society of Oman