New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of Continental ...

New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of
Continental Margins of the World
32 nd Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference
December 2-5, 2012, Houston, TX
(Preliminary Titles)
The following is tentative list of papers that will be presented orally and/or by poster session. Some
papers will be extended abstracts only. Please check periodically as we will try and keep this list updated.
1. Arienti, L., H. Mucelini, R.C. Gontijo, V.S.S. Santos, H.E. Voelcker; Petrobras E&P: Turbidite
systems in the Oligo-Miocene and Miocene of the Campos basin, Brazil.
2. Bache, Francois, Vaughan Stagpoole, Chris Uruski, Rupert Sutherland, Richard Herzer, Julien
Collet, and Pierricl Rouillard; GNS Science, DIMENC, ADECAL: Seismic stratigraphy of the
Reinga Basin, northwest New Zealand.
3. Banerjee, Subho, and Sankar Muhuri; Chevron: Application of geomechanics based structural
analysis in passive margin settings.
4. Barros, Paulo, Edmundo Marques, Jorge Figueiredo, Diogo Michelon, and Heitor Ferraz,; OGX:
Presence of stromatolitic reservoirs (microbilite) in shallow water, Santos Basin.
5. Blauth, M., R.T. Faria, A.R. Maul, M.C. Monteiro, M.P. Franco, S. R.R. Carneiro, and P. Tibana;
Petrobras E&P; UNESP, Brazil: Work flow for geological characterization and modeling of the
Albian carbonate reservoirs from offshore Campos Basin, Brazil.
6. Butterworth, Peter, and Jona Verhaeghe; BP: Middle to lower slope evolution of a Pliocene
slope channel complex: Giza Field, west Nile Delta, Egypt.
7. Cobos, Sophia, and Mike Mayall; BP: Field-scale stratigraphy and architectural elements of a
slope-channel system and implications on dynamic fluid behavior; a case study from offshore
Angola.
8. Cody, John, and Geir Richardson; Statoil: East Canada (title provisional).
9. d'Ablaing, Julie, Joanna Mander, John Howie, David Shepherd, Cherie Lee, Rahila RMNOV, Gill
Apps, and Ken wells; BP: 21st Century Atlantis- Incremental knowledge gained from a stagedapproach
to development illustrated by a complex deep-water field.
10. Davis, Tim, Jack Wang, Greg Holt, Catherine Donohue, Dan Foley, Amanda Beardsley, Diane
O’Connor, Dave McGee, and Dave Jennente; Apache Corp.: Tectonics and petroleum system,
Kenya continental margin.
11. Del Rey, A.C., C.M.O. Falcone, J.G.R. Silva, M.G.C. Meira, I.B. Zorzanelli, and R.A.B. Vierira;
Petrobras E&P: 3D Geological modeling of Jubarte Field based on the integration of outcrop
analogs and elastic seismic attributes.

12. Emmet, Peter A., Kumar Naresh, James A. Helwig, and Menno Dinkelmann; Consulting
geologists, Ion-Geoventures: Petroleum systems and sesimic expression of exploration plays,
Canadian Arctic margin, Beaufort Sea.
13. Figueiredo, Jorge, Ronaldo Baldi, Juliana Sampol, Albano Bastos, and Vernei Stumpf; OGX: An
active petroleum system in shallow water in eastern Pará-Maranhão offshore basin, Brazilian
equatorial margin.
14. Flinch, Joan; Repsol Services: Context, challenges, and future of deep-water plays.
15. Finnstrom, Erik; Statoil: Global assessment of deep-water potential.
16. Gardosh, Michael: Israel Ministry of Energy and Water; Review of Petroleum Systems and
Hydrocarbon plays of the Levant Margin.
17. Guzmàn, Alfredo E., Consultant, Mexico: State of the exploration for oil and gas.
18. Issler, Dale, J. Reyes, Z. Chen, K. Hu, A.M. Grist, and E. Negulic; Geological Survey Canada,
Dalhousie University: Thermal history analysis of the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Arctic
Canada.
19. Kilsdonk, Bill, C. R. Handford, R.T. Murphy, and Hartley Clay; Hess Corp.: Tectonic and
stratigraphic controls on pressure compartmentalization, Pony/Knotty Head field, Green
Canyon, Gulf of Mexico.
20. Kosi, Walter Gabor Tari, Fadi Nader, Cecilie Skiple, and Bruce Trudgill; OMV, Ministry of
Energy and Water, Lebanon, PGS, Colorado School of Mines: Structural analogy between the
“piano key faults” of deep-water Lebanon and the extensional faults of the Canyonlands
grabens, Utah, United States.
21. Kusznir, Nick J., A. Alvey, M. Dinkelman, and Brian Horn; Mapping Siberian Arctic seas crustal
thickness, ocean-continent transition structure and location: Univ. of Liverpool, Badley
Geoscience, ION Geophysical/GX Technologies. (POSTER not oral)
22. Larssen, G.B.; Turid Heide, Leif B. Henriksen, Oddbjørn S. Kløvjan, Ketil Kåsli, Inger Laursen, Alf
Ryseth, Kristin Rønning, Ketil Sollid and Antonina Stupakova; Statoil, Moscow State
University: The Barents Sea – Back in business.
23. Lebit, Hermann; ENI Pet.: Passive Margin Architecture of the South Atlantic Basin.
24. Lericolais, G., J. Bourget, P. Jermannaud, S. Jorry, T. Mulder, I. Popescu, and V. Abreau;
IFREMER, Unov. Bordeau, BEICIP-franlab, GeoEcoMar, ExxonMobil: The “sink” of the Danube
River basin: the distal Danube deep-sea fan.
25. Lottaroli, Fred, Lorenzo Meciani, Paolo Andreotti, and Ivan Staine; ENI: West Africa preo-salt
exploration: Background and perspective of the west African “Tupi” myth. (Extended Abstract)
26. Macdonald, Justin, R. King, S. Holford, G. Backé, P. Green and I Duddy; Univ. Australia,
Geotrack International: Origin structure, and prospectivity of the late Cretaceous Ceduna delta
system, offshore South Australia.
27. Magalhães, P.M., and M.R.F. Lopes; Petrobras E&P: Contrasting tectono-sedimentary styles of
deep-water systems, Campos Basin Brazil.
28. Mantovani, Marco, Paolo Barbbieri Arnaldi, Riccardo Brajucha, Fabio Lottaroli, Vilia Nolli, and
Giacomo Spadini; ENI: Deep-water Angola: Block 15/06, Technology and ideas to turn a risky
challenge in an exploration success case. (Extended Abstract)

29. Mayall, Mike, and Gemma Jones; BP: : Contrasting depositional styles on a slope system and
their control by salt tectonics: through-going channels, ponded fans, and mass transport
complexes.
30. Maynard, James R.; ExxonMobil International: Source to sink assessment of Oligocene to
Pleistocene sediment supply in the Black Sea.
31. Minken, Jon, Hess Corp., Exploration of contemporaneous delta and deep-water deposits:
Berriasian Lowe Barrow Group, Exmouth Plateau, North Carnarvon Basin, Australia.
32. Michelon, Diogo, Edmundo Marques, Jorge Figueiredo, Heitor Ferraz, and Paulo Barros; OGX:
Santonian channelized systems of the Santos basin, Brazil: Startigraphic framework and
reservoir potential.
33. Minken, Jon, Hess Corp., Characterization of channels in the Mungaroo Formation, Exmouth
Plateau, North Carnarvon Basin, Australia.
34. Moriak, Webster, Marcio Rocha Mello, and Nilo C. de Azambuja Filho; HRT O&G: Tectonic
reconstructions and petroleum system correlations in the southern South Atlantic:
exploratory analysis and the search for a new hydrocarbon play.
35. Rush, Patrick E., John B. Waner, Jeff Coryell, and Bill Troyer; Core Lab, Nexen: Gunnison Field:
Reservoir characteristics and compartmentalization from a cohesive mass sediment transport
complex, deep-water Gulf of Mexico.
36. Safronova, Polina, and Karin Andreassen; University of Tromsø: Middle Eocene shelf-margin
clinoforms and their association with coeval deep-water depositional systems in the
Sørvestsnaget basin, southwest Barents Sea.
37. Scott, Erik, Richard Denne, James Kaiser, and David Eickhoff; Marathon Oil: Immediate and
post-event effects of the K/Pg boundary, Chicxulub impact on the northern Gulf of Mexico.
38. Shipp, Craig (Shell), Paul Weimer, University of Colorado, and Henry Posamentier (Chevron):
Mass-transport deposits in deep-water settings: an overview.
39. Silva, Osvaldo Braga, Paulo Ricardo Santos, Leonardo Borges Caixeta, and Carolina Ribeiro;
OGX: Main trap models for OGX’s oil discovery from Albian/Cenomanian carbonate reservoirs,
Cabo Frio High, southern Campos Basin.
40. Smith, Claire, Krystel St. Clair, Pablo Salazar, and Paul Reid; BP: Evolution of the reservoir
interpretation and impact of interpretation uncertainties in a channelized turbidite field, Block
31, Angola.
41. Tari, Gabor, and Mohammad Fallah; OMV: The signature of the Messinian salinity crisis in the
Black Sea and Caspian basins: a comparison.
42. Tscherny, Robert, Marek Kacewicz, Barry J. Katz, Joe Curiale, Lothar Friberg, and Irene Arango;
Chevron: From petroleum systems modeling to fluid prediction; a story choosing the right
kinetics may be the wrong thing to do.
43. Walker, Christopher D., Paul Belvedere, George Clemenceau, Jennifer Petersen, Shalina
Warrior, Andrew Cunningham, Christina Hueninck, and Bob Meltz; BP, BHP, Chevron: Straining
at the leash- Understanding the full potential of the deep-water, sub-salt Mad Dog Field from
appraisal through early production.
44. Weimer, Paul, and Renaud Bouroullec; University of Colorado, Bouroullec Geological
Consulting: Petroleum geology of the Mississippi Canyon, Atwater Valley, western DeSoto

Canyon, and western Lloyd areas, northern deep-water Gulf of Mexico: Traps, reservoir, and
tectono-stratigraphic evolution.
45. Whittaker, R.C., M.G. Dinkelman, P.A. Emmet, and J.W. Granath; GeoArctic, IonGeoventures,
Consultants: Potential for new petroleum systems on the northeast Greenland Shelf.