20th Bob F. Perkins Conference Program

GULF COAST SECTION SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC PALEONTOLOGISTS AND MINERALOGISTS FOUNDATION - present - DEEP-WATER RESERVOIRS OF THE WORLD 20^th ANNUAL BOB F. PERKINS RESEARCH CONFERENCE (Adams Mark Hotel, Houston, TX) Program Sunday, December 3, 2000
4:00-6:00 PM	Registration-Grand Pavilion Foyer
6:00-8:00 PM	Welcoming Reception and Poster Preview-Grand Pavilion
Monday, December 4, 2000
7:00 AM	Continuous Registration-Grand Pavilion Foyer
7:45 AM	Welcome: Ed Picou, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the GCSSEPM Foundation
7:50 AM	Introduction and Welcome: Paul Weimer, Program Chairman
Session I: Gulf of Mexico Reservoirs Presiding: David Lawrence, Gary Steffens
8:00 AM	Lawrence, David T. (Shell): Deepwater technical challenges (keynote address)
8:30 AM	Winker, Charles D., and James R. Booth, (Shell): Sedimentary dynamics of the salt-dominated continental slope, Gulf of Mexico: Integration of observations from the sea floor, near surface, and deep subsurface
9:00 AM	Kendrick, John (Shell): Turbidite reservoir architecture in the Gulf of Mexico- Insights from field development (keynote address)
9:30 AM	Refreshment Break
10:00 AM	Shanley, K.W. (Basin Resources), B. C. J. O'Byrne, R. R. Fisher, and T. M. Smith (BP Amoco): Preliminary discussion of net/gross distribution in Gulf of Mexico deep water reservoirs
10:30 AM	Schofield, Kevin, and John Serbeck (Conoco): The "Above Magenta" reservoir at Ursa: A process-response model to explain a classic log signature
11:00 AM	Larue, D., K. Delghani, F. Freimann, S. Ross, and J. Warner (Chevron): Relationship between channelized turbidite reservoir architecture and recovery from petroleum reservoirs
11:30 AM	Pfeiffer, D. S. (BHP), B. T. Mitchell, and G.Y. Yevi (Shell): Mensa: Shell’s Mississippi Canyon Block 731 Field – An integrated field study
12:00-1:30 PM	Lunch and Open Poster Booths
Session II: Gulf of Mexico Reservoirs Presiding: Keith Shanley, Mike Sweet
1:30 PM	Reynolds, Tony (BP Amoco): Reservoir architecture in the Mars Field, deep water Gulf of Mexico, USA: The implications of production, seismic, core and well log data
2:00 PM	Clemenceau, George R., Jason Colbert, and Dennis Edens (BP Amoco): Production results from levee-overbank turbidite sands at Ram/Powell Field, deep water Gulf of Mexico
2:30 PM	Booth, James R., A. E. DuVernay III, D. S. Pfeiffer, and M. J. Styzen (Shell): Sequence stratigraphic framework, depositional models, and stacking patterns of ponded and slope fan systems in the greater Auger Basin: central Gulf of Mexico slope
3:00 PM	Refreshment Break
3:30 PM	Dean, Michael C., James R. Booth, and Kevin M. King, (Shell): The present is the key to the Plio-Pleistocene: Seafloor analogues at Shell’s GB 516 Serrano discovery
4:00 PM	Okuma, A. F., R. R. Pressler, D. B. Walker, K. Kemp, and B. Boslaugh (Amerada Hess): Baldpate Field exploration history, Garden Banks 260, central Gulf of Mexico
4:30 PM	Fugitt, D. S., C. E. Stelting, W. J. Schweller, G. J. Herricks, and M. R. Wise: Production characteristics of sheet and channelized turbidite reservoirs, Garden Banks 191, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A
5:00 PM	Cossey, Stephen P.J.: Producibility of turbidite reservoirs: What factors are important?
6:00-8:30 PM	Hot buffet and Poster session
Tuesday, December 5, 2000 Session III: International Reservoirs Presiding: Tim Garfield, Kevin Schofield
8:00 AM	Bowman, M., A. Leonard, and E. Jolley (BP Amoco): Managing turbidite fields in the North Sea (keynote address)
8:30 AM	Jennette, D. (BEG), and T. R. Garfield (ExxonMobil): The interaction of shelf accommodation, sediment supply, and sea level in controlling the facies, architecture, and sequence stacking patterns of the Forties and Tay basin floor fans, central North Sea
9:00 AM	Lonergan, Lidia, Nick Lee, Joe A. Cartwright, Richard J.H. Jolly, and Howard D. Johnson (Imperial College): Remoblisation and injection in deep water depositional systems- Implications for reservoir architecture and prediction
9:30 AM	Refreshment Break
10:00 AM	Blikeng, Bente, and Edith Fugelli (Statoil): Application of results from outcrops of the deep marine Brushy Canyon Formation, Delaware Basin, as analogues for the deep marine exploration targets on the Norwegian shelf
10:30 AM	Mayall, Mike, and Ian Stewart (BP Amoco): Turbidite slope systems
11:00 AM	Sikkema, W., and K. M. Wojcik (Royal Dutch Shell): 3D visualization of turbidite reservoir architectures, Lower Congo Basin, Offshore Angola
11:30 AM	Redhead, Richard, Noah, Jesse T. Brown, Trevor; Yusri; Lumadyo, Eko; Yusak; Inaray, Jossy (Unocal): West Seno Field discovery, Makassar Strait, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
12:00-1:30 PM	Lunch and Open Poster Booths
Session IV: Comparing Sea floor Images with 3-D Seismic Presiding: Hans Nelson, Jory Pacht
1:30 PM	Vittori, Jacques, Bruno Savoye, Alain Morash, Lorette Anquelle, Francis-Lucie Spy Anderson, and Michel Lopez: The Congo deep sea fan: Enlightening reservoir complexity in turbiditic systems using 2D high resolution seismic and multibeam data
2:00 PM	Badalini, Gianluca, Ben Kneller, and Charles D. Winker (Leeds University/Shell): Architecture and processes in the late Pleistocene Brazos-Trinity turbidite system, Gulf of Mexico
2:30 PM	Beaubouef, R. T., and S. J. Friedmann (ExxonMobil): High resolution seismic/sequence stratigraphic framework for the evolution of Pleistocene intra-slope basins, western Gulf of Mexico: Depositional models and reservoir analogs
3:00 PM	Refreshment Break
3:30 PM	Pirmez, Carlos, R. T. Beaubouef, and S. J. Friedmann (ExxonMobil), Equilibrium profile and base level in submarine channels: Examples from late Pleistocene systems and implications for the architecture of deep water reservoirs
4:00 PM	Brami, Tonya R., Christopher M. Tenney, Carlos Pirmez, Kelly L. Holman, Curtis Archie, Sookdeo Heeralal, and Rachel Hannah (ExxonMobil): Late Pleistocene deep water stratigraphy and depositional processes, offshore Trinidad & Tobago, using 3D seismic data
4:30 PM	Demyttenaere, Renaat, Trey Meckel, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jan-Pieter Tromp, Patrick Allman-Ward (Shell): Brunei deep water exploration: from sea floor images and shallow seismic analogues to depositional models in a slope turbidite setting
5:00 PM	Posamentier, Henry (Veritas Exploration Services); Meizarwin, Putri Sari Wisman, and Tom Plawman (BP Indonesia): Geomorphology and stratigraphy of deep water deposits, offshore eastern Kalimantan, Indonesia
6:00-8:00 PM	Beer, Wine, and Snacks; Poster Session
Wednesday, December 6, 2000 Session V: North American Reservoirs Presiding: Jim Coleman, Trevor Elliott
8:00 AM	Clarke, D., and C. Phillips (City of Long Beach): California subsidence and old data present unique challenges in aging turbidite oil fields: Examples of successful technological solutions from the Wilmington Oil Field, California, USA
8:30 AM	Clark, Michael S. (Chevron): Characterization of an active margin, fan-shaped turbidite reservoir complex, Miocene Stevens Sandstone, San Joaquin Basin, California
9:00 AM	Moslow, Thomas F. (Midnight Oil and Gas): Reservoir architecture of a fine-grained turbidite system: Lower Triassic Montney Formation, Western Canada sedimentary basin
9:30 AM	Refreshment Break
Outcrop Analog Studies For Reservoir Models
10:00 AM	Prather, B. E., F. B. Keller, M. A. Chapin, and J. V. Hinchey (Shell): Seismic-induced scaling of deep water depositional systems
10:30 AM	Morgan, Sullivan, Gerrick Jensen, Frank Goulding, David Jennette, Lincoln Foreman, and Anthony Sprague (ExxonMobil): Architectural analysis of deep water sandstones: Implications for exploration and production
11:00 AM	Morris, William R., Mark H. Scheihing, De Ville Wickens, and Arnold H. Bouma: Reservoir architecture of deep water sandstones: Examples from the Skoorsteenberg Formation, Tanqua Karoo Sub-basin, South Africa
11:30 AM	Moraes, Marco, A. S. Mauro R. Becker, Marcelo C. Monteiro, Sérgio L. Almeida Netto (Petrobras): Using outcrop analogs to improve 3D heterogeneity modeling of Cretaceous sand-rich turbidite reservoirs, Campos Basin, Brazil
12:00-1:30 PM	Lunch and Open Poster Booths
Session VI: Outcrop Analog Studies For Reservoir Models Presiding: Brad Prather, Andy Pulham
1:30 PM	Joseph, Philippe, Nathalie Babonneau, Aline Bourgeois, Gilles Cotteret, Rémi Eschard, François Fournier, Blaise Garin, Olinto Gomes De Souza, Didier Granjeon, François Guillocheau, Benoît Guivarc'h, Olivier Lerat, Jean-Marie Quemener, and Christian Ravenne (IFP): The Annot Sandstone outcrops (French Alps): Quantification and 3D modeling of the reservoir architecture
2:00 PM	Martinsen, Ole J., Roger G. Walker, and Trond Lien: Upper Carboniferous deep water sediments, western Ireland: Outcrop analogues applied to rifted margin turbidite plays
2:30 PM	Elliott, T. (University Of Liverpool): Depositional and stratigraphic architecture of a sand-rich turbidite system: The Upper Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland
3:00 PM	Refreshment Break (POSTER TAKE DOWN TIME)
3:30 PM	Steel, Ron, Donatella Mellere, Piret Plink, Jeff Crabaugh, Jack Deibert, Maija Schellpeper, and Tore Loeseth (Univ. of Wyoming): Shelf-edge rivers and shelf-edge deltas: Some contrasts in how they cause deep water sand development on slope and basin-floor areas, Cretaceous and Eocene shelf edges on Spitsbergen
4:00 PM	Witton-Barnes, E. M., Hurley, N. F., and R. M. Slatt (Colorado School of Mines): Outcrop characterization and diagnostic criteria for confined vs. unconfined deep water sandstones using outcrops and borehole images, Lewis Shale, Wyoming
4:30 PM	Campion, K. M., A. R. Sprague, M. D. Sullivan, D. C. Mohrig, J. A. Ardill, R. W. Lovell, P. A. Drzewiecki, G. N. Jensen, and D. K. Sickafoose (ExxonMobil): Outcrop expression of confined channel complexes
Posters: Gulf of Mexico
Breard, Sylvester Q., Arden D. Callender, Richard A. Denne, Michael J. Nault: Gulf of Mexico Basin late Tertiary deep water biostratigraphic zonation: relationship to standard shelf foraminiferal and nannofossil marker terminology
Posters: Outcrop Analog Studies For Reservoir Model
Amy, Lawrence, Ben Kneller, and Bill McCaffrey (University of Leeds, Leeds): Evaluating the links between turbidite facies and gross system architecture: Upscaling insights from the turbidite sheet system of Peira Cava, SE France
Badescu, M. O., C. A. Visser, and M. E. Donselaar (Delft University): Thick-bedded deep marine sandstones of "Marnes Bleues", Vocontian Basin, as a proxy for North Sea Jurassic reservoirs
Clark, J. D., and A. R. Gardiner (Heriot-Watt University): Outcrop analogues for deep water channel and levee genetic units from the Grès d'Annot turbidite system, SE France
Coleman, J. L. (BP Amoco): Re-assessment of the Cerro Toro (Chile) Sandstones in view of channel-levee-overbank reservoir continuity issues
Coleman, J. L., Jr., G. H. Browne, R. M. Slatt, R. J. Spang, E. T. Williams, P. R. King, and G. R. Clemenceau: The inter-relationships of scales of heterogeneity in subsurface, deep water E&P projects - Lessons learned from the Mt. Messenger Formation (Miocene), Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
Dudley, Philip R.C., Donald E. Rehmer, And Arnold H. Bouma (LSU): Reservoir-scale characteristics of fine-grained sheet sands, Tanqua Karoo, South Africa
Lomas, Simon A., Bryan T. Cronin, Adrian J. Hartley, Davide Duranti, Andrew Hurst, Emma Mackay, Stewart J. Clark, and Sean Kelly: Detailed characterisation of lateral heterogeneities in exceptionally exposed sand-rich turbidite outcrops from the Grès d’Annot, SE France: Stratal continuity and reservoir simulation
May, Jeff, and John Warme: Bounding surfaces, lithologic variability, and sandstone connectivity within submarine canyon outcrops, Eocene of San Diego, California
Pickering, Kevin T., and Jordi Corregidor: 3D Reservoir-scale study of Eocene confined submarine fans, south-central Spanish Pyrenees
Pyles, David, R., and Roger M. Slatt (Colorado School of Mines: A high frequency sequence stratigraphic framework for shallow through deep water deposits of the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie bsins, Wyoming
Slatt, Roger M., Charles G. Stone, and Paul Weimer: Updip to downdip variations in turbidite facies, Lower Pennsylvanian Jackfork Group, south-central Arkansas, USA
Posters: Comparing Sea floor Images with 3-D Seismic
Canals, M., J. L. Casamor, R. Urgeles, G. Lastras, D. G. Masson,S. Berné, and B. Alonso: The Ebro continental margin, western Mediterranean Sea: Interplay between canyon-channel systems and mass wasting processes
Ercilla, G., B. Alonso, J. Baraza, D. Casas, F. Estrada, F. Perez-Belzuz, and M. Farran: The distal Orinoco turbidite system: Morpho-sedimentary characteristics and implications for the dynamics of gravity flows and bottom currents
Morris, William, R., and William R. Normark, Scaling: sedimentologic, and geometric criteria for comparing modern and ancient sandy turbidite elements
Morton, Chris H., and Paul Weimer (University of Colorado): Sequence stratigraphy of the Alaminos fan (upper Miocene-Pleistocene), northwestern deep Gulf of Mexico
Nelson, C. Hans, Chris Goldfinger, Joel E. Johnson, Gita Dunhill, and The Shipboard Scientific Party: Variation of modern turbidite systems along the subduction zone margin of Cascadia Basin
Twichell, D.C., C. H. Nelson, J. E. Damuth, and G. Dunhill: Bryant Canyon turbidite system pathway on the Louisiana continental slope

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