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21st
Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins
Research Conference
PETROLEUM
SYSTEMS OF DEEP-WATER BASINS:
GLOBAL AND GULF OF MEXICO EXPERIENCE
December
2-5, 2001
Adams Mark Hotel
Houston, Texas
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December 2-5, the GCSSEPM Foundation and the Gulf Coast Section hosted
the 21st Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference entitled Petroleum
Systems of Deep-Water Basins: Global and Gulf of Mexico Experience.
Over 370 interested geoscientists anxious to learn about the latest
interpretations and technologies applied to deep-water systems worldwide
attended the conference. Authors and poster presenters represented
most major oil companies, academia, consulting firms and several foreign
national oil companies. Discussion and debate were common and vigorous.
Several new techniques and concepts were showcased including new views
on overpressure, basin classification, hydrocarbon migration, and
tectonic histories. There was especially heated debate about new theories
on the tectonic history of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Basin
and a possible "Messinian-like" event in the gulf at the
close of the Paleocene. |
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Program Committee Members and Foundation Trustees, left to right
Henry Pettingill, Paul Weimer, Nancy Engelhardt-Moore, Berend van
Hoorn, Richard K. Fillon, Jeri Fillon, Allen Lowrie
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The Conference
Program and links to abstracts are provided below. Click here
to download an Adobe Acrobat pdf file (1.76 MB) of the Conference Abstracts.
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Sunday,
December 2, 2001
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| 4:00
- 6:00 p.m. |
Registration - Grand Foyer |
| 6:00
- 8:00 p.m. |
Welcoming Reception and
Poster Preview - Grand Pavilion |
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Monday,
December 3, 2001
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| 7:00
a.m. |
Continuous Registration
- Grand Foyer |
| 7:45
a.m. |
Welcome: Nancy Engelhardt-Moore,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the GCSSEPM Foundation - Grand
Pavilion |
| 7:50
a.m. |
Introduction and Welcome:
Dick Fillon, Program Chairman |
Session I - Global
and Gulf of Mexico Deep-Water Exploration
Presiding: Paul Post, Paul Weimer
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| 8:00
a.m. |
Pettingill, Henry S.,
and Paul Weimer: World-wide deep
water exploration and production: past, present and future (Keynote) |
| 8:30
a.m. |
Hogg, John R., David A.
Dolph, David Mackidd, and Karin Michel: Petroleum
systems of the deep water Scotian salt province, offshore Nova Scotia,
Canada |
| 9:00
a.m. |
Post, Paul J., Peter F.
Harrison, Gregory L. Whittle, and Jeff D. Hunt: Mesozoic
ultra-deep water potential of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico - conceptual
play development and analysis |
| 9:30
a.m. |
Refreshment Break and
Poster Viewing |
| 10:00
a.m. |
Wood, Lesli J.: Intimate
relations: interaction of tectonics and sedimentation in the formation
of roller-style fault families and traps in the eastern East Venezuela
basin, Trinidad and Venezuela |
| 10:30
a.m. |
Colling, Edwin L., Robert
J. Alexander and Ronald L. Phair: Regional
mapping and maturity modeling for the northern deep water Gulf of
Mexico |
| 11:00
a.m. |
Richards, Phil: Falkland
Islands: Past exploration strategies and remaining potential in under-explored
deepwater basins |
| 11:30
a.m. |
Stephens, Bryan P.: Basement
controls on hydrocarbon systems, depositional pathways, and exploration
plays beyond the Sigsbee Escarpment in the Central Gulf of Mexico |
| 12:00
- 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch and Open Poster
Booths |
Session II - Global
and Gulf of Mexico Deep-Water Basin Evaluation
Presiding: Allen Lowrie, Jim Pindell
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| 1:30
p.m. |
Pindell, James and Lorcan
Kennan: Processes and Events in the
Terrane Assembly of Trinidad and Eastern Venezuela (Keynote) |
| 2:00
p.m. |
Pindell, James and Lorcan
Kennan: Kinematic evolution of the
Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean |
| 2:30
p.m. |
Rowan, Mark G., Bruno
C. Vendeville, and Frank J. Peel: The
role of salt in gravitational failure of passive margins |
| 3:00
p.m. |
Refreshment Break and
Poster Viewing |
| 3:30
p.m. |
Lugo-Fernandez, Alexis,
Peter Hamilton, and Walter R. Johnson: New
oceanographic observations of the Gulf of Mexico deep waters |
| 4:00
p.m. |
Dailly, Paul and Kenny
Goh, Phil Lowry and Gene Monson: The
Rio Muni Basin of Equatorial Guinea; a new hydrocarbon province |
| 4:30
p.m. |
Tari, Gabor C., Paul R.
Ashton, Katrina L. Coterill, Jim S. Molnar, Michael C. Sorgenfrei,
Philip W.A. Thompson, David W. Valesek, and Jim R. Fox: Examples
of deep water salt tectonics from west Africa: are they analogs to
the deep water, salt-cored fold belts of the northern Gulf of Mexico? |
| 5:00
p.m. |
Truempy, Bryan P., and
Scott C. Reeve: The Hydrocarbon habitat
of the Agadir Basin, offshore Morocco |
| 5:30
- 8:30 p.m. |
Hot Buffet and Poster
Session |
Tuesday,
December 4, 2001
Session III - Global
and Gulf of Mexico Deep-Water Exploration
Presiding: Dick Fillon, Dan Worrell
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| 8:00
a.m. |
Worrell, Dan M., Michael
W. Bourque and David R. Steele: Exploration
in deep water basins… where next? (Keynote) |
| 8:30
a.m. |
Uruski, Christopher I.,
and Peter Baillie: Petroleum potential
of the Deep Water Taranaki Basin, New Zealand |
| 9:00
a.m. |
Pyles, David R., Paul
Weimer, and Renaud Bouroullec: The
stratigraphic and tectonic framework of the DeSoto Canyon and Lloyd
Ridge protraction areas, northeastern Gulf of Mexico: implications
for the petroleum system and potential play types
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| 9:30
a.m. |
Refreshment Break and
Poster Viewing |
| 10:00
a.m. |
Cole, G. A., R. Requejo,
J. DeVay, A. Yu, F. Peel, C.H. Taylor, J. Brooks, B. Bernard, J. Zumberge,
and S. Brown: The deep water Gulf
of Mexico petroleum system: insights from piston coring, defining
seepage anomalies, and background |
| 10:30
a.m. |
Evans, Douglas G.: The
depositional regime on the abyssal plain of the Congo Fan in Angola |
| 11:00
a.m. |
Liro, Louis, Mary Kadri,
Peter Montecchi, Nathan Weber, Steve O'Hara, Mo Etemadi, Susan Lock
Williams, and Mary Cubanski: Subsalt
exploration potential, Walker Ridge and Keathley Canyon areas, deep
water Gulf of Mexico |
| 11:30
a.m. |
Mojonero, Consuelo Garcia,
and Wenceslao Martinez del Olmo: One
sea level fall and three different gas plays: the Gulf of Cádiz Basin,
southwest Spain |
| 12:00
- 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch and Open Poster
Booths |
Session IV - Global
and Gulf of Mexico Deep-Water Basin Evaluation
Presiding: Ernie Mancini, Harry Roberts
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| 1:30
p.m. |
Moore, M. G., Gillian
Apps, and Frank Peel: The petroleum
system of the western Atwater fold belt in the ultra-deep water Gulf
of Mexico |
| 2:00
p.m. |
Gibbs, Alan, Paul Griffiths,
and Serena Jones: Hydrocarbon systems
- adding structural evolution to the equation |
| 2:30
p.m. |
Boavida, Joaquim, Giancarlo
Biella, Roberto de Franco, Dario Luzio, Alfredo Lozej, Zaingo Group,
and "Terra-Mar Group": The northern
Angolan margin imaged by wide angle seismic data |
| 3:00
p.m. |
Refreshment Break and
Poster Viewing |
| 3:30
p.m. |
Roberts, Harry H., Roger
Sassen, and Alexei V. Milkov: Seafloor
expression of fluid and gas expulsion from deep petroleum systems,
continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico |
| 4:00
p.m. |
Mancini, Ernest A., Marcello
Badali, T. Markham Puckett, Juan Carlos Llinas and William C. Parcell:
Mesozoic carbonate petroleum systems
in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico area |
| 4:30
p.m. |
Gatenby, Glenn: Phase
changes: a major aspect of deep water hydrocarbon migration |
| 5:00
p.m. |
Chen, Jiajie (Jeff), Scott
Pickford, Carlos Acosta Aduna, Fernando Sanchez Lu, Jaime Patino,
and Miguel Olivella: Facies comparison
from bank margin to deep water basin: Golden Lane carbonate depositional
system, southern Gulf of Mexico |
| 6:00
- 8:30 p.m. |
Poster Session |
Wednesday,
December 5, 2001
Session V- Global
and Gulf of Mexico Deep-Water Exploration
Presiding: Roger Sassen, Berend van Hoorn
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| 8:00
a.m. |
Meyer, David B. and David
B. Rains: The past and future exploration
potential of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico |
| 8:30
a.m. |
Sassen, Roger, Harry Roberts,
and Alexei V. Milkov, and Debra A. DeFreitas: Sea
floor vents, seeps, and gas hydrate: relation to flux rate from the
deep Gulf of Mexico petroleum system |
| 9:00
a.m. |
Hooper, Robert J.: On
the importance of understanding why deepwater is deep - a West Shetland
perspective |
| 9:30
a.m. |
Refreshment Break (Poster
Take-Down Time) |
| 10:00
a.m. |
Waltham, David, and Ian
Davison: Obstacles and sinks: effects
on turbidite flow and deposition on deep water continental margins |
| 10:30
a.m. |
Rolón, Luisa Fernanda,
Juan Lorenzo, Allen Lowrie, and Dario Barrero-Lozano: Thrust,
kinematics and hydrocarbon migration in the Middle Magdalena Basin,
Colombia, South America |
| 11:00
a.m. |
Bird, Scott, Kirk Geno,
Peter Van Slyke, Fred Strawson, Gonz Enciso: Potential
deep water petroleum system, Ivory Coast, West Africa |
| 11:30
a.m. |
Fillon, Richard H.: Evolution
of Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposystems in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico:
implications for regional hydrocarbon migration |
| 12:00
- 1:30 p.m. |
Open Poster Booths |
Posters: Global
and Gulf of Mexico Deep-Water Exploration
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| Cathles,
Lawrence M., III: Capillary seals as a cause of pressure compartmentation
in sedimentary basins |
| Cope,
M., and S. Massay: Source rock characterization
and maturity modeling of the coastal and deep offshore basins of Tanzania |
| Cross,
Jr., Edgar K.: Tectonic evolution
of phosphorite bearing deepwater remnants of the San Pedro Del Gallo
Terrane in northeastern Mexico |
| Dickson,
William G., Janice M.Christ, James W. Granath, and Mark E. Odegard:
Seamagic or How to SAMBA in SE Asia:
Reservoir and petroleum system controls, a tectonic recompilation
and prospectivity analysis |
| Erendi,
Alex and L. M. Cathles, III: Gas capillary inhibition to oil production
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| Hart,
W. H., and M. L. Albertin: Subsalt
trap archetype classification: a diagnostic tool for predicting and
prioritizing Gulf of Mexico subsalt traps |
| Lowrie,
Allen, Linda Jenkins, Susan Moffett, Thomas Klekamp and Ian Lerche:
Processes impacting deep-water, sub-salt,
foldbelt hydrocarbons |
| Mitchell,
Bruce T., and Michael C. Dean: A
"healed slope" model for the deposition of turbidite reservoirs is
applied to Shell's Zia and Oregano discoveries in the deep water Gulf
of Mexico |
| Murtuzayev,
Ibrahim: Transtension along ancient
lineations: example from the south Caspian Basin |
| Revil,
Andre and L. M. Cathles, III: The porosity-depth pattern defined by
40 wells in South Eugene Island Block 330 area, and its relation to
pore pressure, fluid leakage, and seal migration |
| Rosenfeld,
Joshua H.: Economic potential of
the Yucatan Block of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize |
| Shosa,
J. D. and L. M. Cathles, III: Experimental investigation of capillary
blockage of two phase flow in layered porous media |
| Somoza,
Luis, Bradley M. Battista, Joan Gardner, and Allen Lowrie: Gulf
of Cadiz (Western Spain): characterized by a complex petroleum system |
| Zuniga-Rivero,
Fernando, Hugh Hay-Roe, Linda Jenkins, and Allen Lowrie: Complex
petroleum systems developed by subduction process, offshore Talara
Basin, Northwest Peru |
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