Evelyne is a petroleum geologist by training. She studied for her DEA (MSc equivalent) at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, and subsequently furthered her education at the ENSPM school of the French Petroleum Institute in Paris where she gained an engineering degree in Petroleum Geology.
Over her career in the Oil and Gas Industry she has developed a particular interest in the understanding of minerals relationships at microscopic level. For this, she makes extensive use of Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and associated techniques to obtain detailed visualisation of minerals morphology and their reciprocal relationships, an essential tool to understand how minerals control petrophysical properties of reservoir rocks. She works closely with her colleagues in the X-ray powder diffraction section to characterise clay minerals in particular, and regularly contributes to the delivery of a Clay Mineralogy course.
One of her current interests is the development of an automated SEM method to be used as an advanced surveillance tool to control oilfield scaling during oil production phase. The method was piloted in 2010 to survey the presence of volcanic ash in rain water over Scotland following the Icelandic volcanic eruptions.