About Lithix
Experience from field scale to pore scale.
Lithix was founded by Dr Dirk Adelmann to provide independent, technically rigorous petrography, reservoir-quality interpretation and geological project advice.
Geologist and sedimentologist with more than 20 years of international experience in oil and gas, deep geothermal energy and subsurface projects, with a particular focus on clastic reservoirs.
Core expertise includes reservoir characterization, sedimentology, diagenesis, petrography and reservoir-quality prediction, plus the integration of geological studies from regional and basin scale down to the individual sample.
1995–2000Scientific Assistant · Free University Berlin, Germany
2001–2003Reservoir Geologist · PanTerra Geoconsultants, The Netherlands
2003–2006Postdoctoral Research Assistant · University of Jena, Germany
2006–2020Reservoir Geologist / Senior Geologist & Sedimentologist · Wintershall / Wintershall Dea, Germany
2020–2021Senior Geologist / Subsurface Manager · GeoThermal Engineering / Vulcan Energy Resources, Germany
2021–2024Lead Geologist / Reservoir Quality Specialist · Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Since 2021Geology Advisor · Terra Geoservice, Germany
Since 2024Founder / Senior Geologist · Lithix Petrographic Services, Germany
Since 2025Senior Geologist – CCS & Geothermal · UGS GmbH, Germany
Selected publications
Research grounded in applied reservoir questions.
- 01The significance of outcrop analogue data for reservoir-quality assessment: Lower Triassic Buntsandstein, Upper Rhine Graben (2022)
- 02Controls on compactional behaviour and reservoir quality in a Triassic Buntsandstein reservoir (2021)
- 03Reservoir-quality controls on Rotliegend fluvio-aeolian wells in Germany and the Netherlands (2019)
- 04Dating anatase-forming diagenetic reactions in Rotliegend sandstones of the North German Basin (2019)
- 05Reservoir-quality and burial-model evaluation by kinetic quartz and illite cementation modelling (2018)
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