DEEP-WATER RESERVOIRS OF THE WORLD

20th ANNUAL BOB F. PERKINS RESEARCH CONFERENCE

GULF COAST SECTION SOCIETY OF ECONOMIC PALEONTOLOGISTS AND MINERALOGISTS FOUNDATION

Copyright © 2000 by the Gulf Coast Section
Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation

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The title of the papers are listed by section, alphabetically by senior author. All title listings are hot-linked to the abstract. An asterisk (*) in front of the senior author indicates that a final manuscript has been submitted and received.

Abstracts range from short first efforts to extended, and for the most part should be considered as preliminary and subject to change (several have already); not all abstracts are currently listed as they were not supplied at the time this page was originally formated. Although we will update the listings as required, we do not have time to go back and put in those abstracts that are missing. For the record, this page was last updated on September 28, 2000, with the asteriscs added to those papers now in house.

Section Titles

Gulf of Mexico and North America Reservoirs
International Reservoirs
Outcrop Analog Studies For Reservoir Models
Comparing Sea floor Images with 3-D Seismic


Gulf of Mexico and North America Reservoirs

*Booth, J.R., and A.E. DuVernay III: Sequence Stratigraphic Framework, Depositional Models, and Stacking Patterns of Ponded and Slope Fan Systems in the Greater Auger Basin: Central Gulf of Mexico Slope

*Breard, S.Q., A.D. Callender, R.A. Denne, and M.J. Nault: Gulf Of Mexico Basin Late Tertiary Deep-Water Biostratigraphic Zonation: Relationship To Standard Shelf Foraminiferal And Nannofossil Marker Terminology

*Clark, M.S., Characterization of an Active-margin, Fan-shaped Turbidite Reservoir Complex, Miocene Stevens Sandstone, San Joaquin Basin, California

Clarke, D. and C. Phillips: 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

*Clemenceau, G.R., Jason Colbert, and Dennis Edens: Production Results from Levee-overbank Turbidite Sands at Ram/Powell Field, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

*Cossey, S.P.J.: Producibility of Turbidite Reservoirs: What Factors are Important?

*Dean, M.C., J.R. Booth, and K.M. King: The Present is the Key to the Plio-Pleistocene: Seafloor Analogues at Shell's GB 516 Serrano Discovery

Kendrick, John: Turbidite Reservoir Architecture In The Gulf Of Mexico- Insights From Field Development (keynote address)

*Larue, D.K. and F. Friedmann: The Relationship between Channelized Deep-Water Reservoir Architecture and Recovery from Petroleum Reservoirs

*Lawrence, D.T.and D.F. Bosman - Smits: Exploring Deep Water Technical Challenges in the Gulf of Mexico (keynote address)

*Moslow, T.F.: Reservoir Architecture of a Fine-Grained Turbidite System: Lower Triassic Montney Formation, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

*Okuma, Angelo and Brian Boslaugh: Baldpate Field Exploration History, Garden Banks 260, Central Gulf Of Mexico

*Pfeiffer, D.S., B.T. Mitchell, and G.Y. Yevi: Mensa: Shell's Mississippi Canyon Block 731 Field - An Integrated Field Study

*Reynolds, Tony: Reservoir Architecture in the Mars Field, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, USA: The Implications of Production, Seismic, Core and Well Log Data

*Schofield, Kevin and John Serbeck: The “Above Magenta” Reservoir at Ursa: A Process-Response Model to Explain a Classic Log Signature

*Shanley, K.W., B.C.J. O'Byrne, R.R. Fisher, and T.M. Smith: Preliminary Discussion of Net/Gross Distribution in Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Reservoirs

*Stelting, C.E., W.J. Schweller, J.E. Florstedt, D.S. Fugitt, G.J. Herricks, and M. R. Wise: Production Characteristics of Sheet and Channelized Turbidite Reservoirs, Garden Banks 191, Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A.

Winker, C.D. and J.R. Booth: Sedimentary Dynamics of the Salt-Dominated Continental Slope, Gulf of Mexico: Integration of Observations from the Seafloor, Near-Surface, and Deep Subsurface


International Reservoirs

*Blikeng, Bente and Edith Fugelli: 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

*Jennette, D., and T. R. Garfield: 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

Leonard, A., M. Bowman, and E. Jolley: Reservoir Management in Selected Basin Floor Submarine Fan Reservoirs from the UKCS (keynote address)

*Lonergan,Lidia, Nick Lee, J.A. Cartwright, R.J.H. Jolly, and H.D. Johnson: Remoblization and Injection in Deepwater Depositional Systems-Implications for Reservoir Architecture and Prediction

*Mayall, Mike, and Ian Stewart: Turbidite Slope Systems

*Readhead, Richard, Eko Lumadyo, Art Saller, Jessie Noah, Trevor Brown, Yusri, Yusak, Josaay Inaray, T.A. Ma, and Ronald May: West Seno Field Discovery, Makassar Strait, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

*Sikkema, W., and K.M. Wojcik: 3D Visualization of Turbidite Reservoir Architectures, Lower Congo Basin, Offshore Angola


Outcrop Analog Studies For Reservoir Models

*Amy, Lawrence, Ben Kneller, and Bill McCaffrey: Evaluating the Links between Turbidite Facies and Gross System Architecture: Upscaling Insights from the Turbidite Sheet-system of Peira Cava, Southeast France

*Badescu, M.O., C.A. Visser,, and M.E. Donselaar: Architecture of Thick-bedded Deep Marine Sandstones of the Vocontian Basin, Southeast France

*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: Outcrop Expression of Confined Channel Complexes

*Clark, J.D., and A.R. Gardiner: Outcrop Analogues for Deep-Water Channel and Levee Genetic Units from the Grès d'Annot Turbidite System, Southeast France

*Coleman, J.L.: Re-assessment of the Cerro Toro (Chile) Sandstones in View of Channel-Levee-Overbank Reservoir Continuity Issues

*Coleman, J.L., 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, P.R.C., D.E. Rehmer, and A.H. Bouma: Reservoir-Scale Characteristics of Fine-Grained Sheet Sands, Tanqua Karoo, South Africa

*Elliott, T.: Depositional And Stratigraphic Architecture of a Sand-Rich Turbidite System: The Upper Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Western Ireland

*Joseph, Philippe, Nathalie Babonneau, Aline Bourgeois, Gilles Cotteret, Rémi Eschard, François Fournier, Blaise Garin, Olinto Gomes De Souza, Did ier Granjeon, François Guillocheau, Benoît Guivarc'h, Olivier Lerat, Jean-Marie Quemener, and Christian Ravenne: The Annot Sandstone outcrops (French Alps): Quantification and 3D Modelling of the Reservoir Architecture

*Lomas, S.A., B.T. Cronin, A.J. Hartley, Davide Duranti, Andrew Hurst, Emma Mackay, S.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

*Martinsen, O.J., and R.G. Walker: Upper Carboniferous Slope to Basin Floor Sediments, Western Ireland: Outcrop Analogues for Passive Margin Turbidite Plays

*May, J.A. and John Warme: Bounding Surfaces, Lithologic Variability, and Sandstone Connectivity within Submarine-Canyon Outcrops, Eocene of San Diego, California

*Moraes, M.A.S., M.R. Becker, M.C. Monteiro, S.L. Almeida Netto: Using Outcrop Analogs To Improve 3D Heterogeneity Modeling Of Cretaceous Sand- Rich Turbidite Reservoirs, Campos Basin, Brazil

*Morris, W.R., M.H. Scheihing, De Ville Wickens, and AH. Bouma: Reservoir Architecture of Deepwater Sandstones: Examples from the Skoorsteenber g Formation, Tanqua Karoo Sub-basin, South Africa

*Pickering, K.T., and Jordi Corregidor: 3D Reservoir-Scale Study of Eocene Confined Submarine Fans, South-Central Spanish Pyrenees

*Prather, B.E., F.B. Keller, and M.A. Chapin: Hierarchy of Deep-water Architectural Elements with Reference to Seismic Resolution: Implications for Reservoir Prediction and Modeling

*Pyles, D.R. and R.M. Slatt: A High-Frequency Sequence Stratigraphic Framework for Shallow through Deep-Water Deposits of the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie Basins, Wyoming

Slatt, R.M., C.G. Stone, and Paul Weimer: Updip to Downdip Variations in Turbidite Facies, Lower Pennsylvanian Jackfork Group, Southcentral Arkansas, USA

Steel, Ron, Donatella Mellere, Piret Plink, Jeff Crabaugh, Jack Deibert, Maija Schellpeper, Tore Loeseth, and M. Schellpeper: Deltas vs, Rivers on the Shelf Edge: Their Relative Contributions to the Growth of Shelf Margins and Basin Floor Fans (Barremian & Eocene,Spitsbergen)

*Sullivan, Morgan, Gerrick Jensen, Frank Goulding, David Jennette, Lincoln Foreman, and Anthony Sprague: Architectural Analysis of Deep-Water Outcrops: Implications for Exploration and Production

*Witton-Barnes, E.M., N.F. Hurley, and R.M. Slatt: Outcrop Characterization and Diagnostic Criteria for Confined vs. Unconfined Deep-Water Sandstones Using Outcrops and Borehole Images, Lewis Shale, Wyoming


Comparing Sea-Floor Images with 3-D Seismic

*Badalini, Gianluca, Ben Kneller, and C.D. Winker: Architecture and Processes in the Late Pleistocene Brazos-Trinity Turbidite System, Gulf of Mexico

*Beaubouef, R.T. and S.J. Friedmann: High Resolution Seismic/Sequence Stratigraphic Framework for the Evolution of Pleistocene Intra Slope Basins, Western Gulf of Mexico: Depositional Models and Reservoir Analogs

*Brami, T.R., C.M. Tenney, Carlos Pirmez, K.L. Holman, Curtis Archie, Sookdeo Heeralal, and Rachel Hannah: Late Pleistocene Deep Water Stratigraphy and Depositional Processes Offshore Trinidad & Tobago Using 3D Seismic Data

*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

*Demyttenaere, Renaat, Abdullah Ibrahim, Jan-Pieter Tromp: Brunei Deep Water Exploration: From Sea-Floor Images to Depositional Models in a Slope Turbidite Setting

*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, W. R., and W.R. Normark: Scaling, Sedimentologic and Geometric Criteria for Comparing Modern and Ancient Sandy Turbidite Elements

Morton, C.H. and Paul Weimer: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Alaminos Fan (upper Miocene-Pleistocene), Northwestern Deep Gulf of Mexico

Nelson, C.H., Chris Goldfinger, and The Shipboard Scientific Party: Variation of Modern Turbidite Systems Along the Subduction Zone Margin of Cascadia Basin

Pirmez, Carlos, R.T. Beaubouef, and S.J. Friedmann: Equilibrium Profile and Baselevel in Submarine Channels: Examples from Late Pleistocene Systems and Implications for the Architecture of Deep Water Reservoirs

Posamentier, H.W. and Putri Sari Wisman:Deep Water Depositional Systems - Ultra-Deep Makassar Strait, Indonesia

*Twichell, D.C., Nelson, C.H., Damuth, J.E., and Dunhill, G.: Bryant Canyon Turbidite System Pathway On The Louisiana Continental Slope

*Vittori, Jacques, Bruno Savoye, Alain Morash, Lorette Anquelle, Frances-Luce Spy-Anderson, and Michel Lopez: The Congo Deep Sea Fan : Enlightening Reservoir Complexity in Turbiditic Systems using 2D High Resolution Seismic and Multibeam Data


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