Acknowledgements
We sincerely appreciate the Petroleum
Technology Development Fund of Nigeria (PTDF Grant ID:
PTDF/E/OSS/PHDAOC/385/11), and the University of Liverpool, UK, and
Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA for funding the first
author’s doctoral studies and post-doctoral research fellowship,
respectively. Professor Malcolm Hart (Plymouth University, UK) and Shell
Petroleum Development Company are thanked for their help in terms of
logical suggestions and the provision of the Gravity Cores samples,
respectively.