Friday AM Grand Ballroom
OIL AND GAS BUSINESS PANEL DISCUSSION- Bob Wiener, Session Chair
Deal Trends, Investment Outlooks, and Money Flow
8:35 AM Introduction, Bob Wiener. This panel will present discussions on the types of exploration, development, and acquisitions projects that are currently getting funded.
8:40-9:50 ,Steve Brachman, Sr.VP, Wapiti Energy LLC; Igor Effimoff, E&P Consulting Advisor-FAR Ltd; Cody Rice, Research Director- Lower 48 Team; Wood Mackenzie; Geoffrey Davis, Managing Director-Morgan Stanley; Michael Racusin, Energy Funders LLC, CIO.
9:50 Break
10:20-10:45 Panel resumes with audience participation. More information..
Friday AM Briarpark Room
INTEGRATION OF SEISMIC PROCESSING, GRAVITY AND MAGNETICS , GOM, Sharon Cornelius, Session Chair
8:10 AM Kyle Reuber (ION): Initial Observations of New and Reprocessed Caribbean Seismic Data: Character of the Crust Revealed
8:35 AM Bill Beck (PGS): Imaging of an Enigmatic Raft in a Shallow Roho System in The Northern Gulf Of Mexico
9:00 AM Matheus Pila (PGS) Revealing Salt and Sub-Salt Geometries in The Gulf of Mexico Flex Trend Through Rejuvenation of Legacy Data with Advanced Imaging Technologies
9:25 AM Hermann Lebit (PGS): The Port Isabel Fold Belt Driven by Neogene Gravitational Spreading: East Breaks, Western Gulf of Mexico
9:50 AM Break
10:20 AM Sharon Cornelius (U of H) Relationship Between Geothermal and Geopressure Gradients in The Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Garden Banks, Green Canyon, Keathley Canyon, and Walker Ridge
10:45 AM Md. Saiful Islam (College of Engineering, Dhofar): A Pragmatic Way of Incorporating Sub-Seismic Fault Zone Structures into a Production Simulation Model
11:10 AM Randy Keller (OU): Gravity and Magnetic Mapping and Modeling of The Crustal and Uppermost Mantle Across Gulf of Mexico From Coast To Coast (N-S And E-W)
11:35 AM Jason Kegel, Cian O’Reilly (TGS): Crustal Interpretation by Gravity, Magnetics and Seismic Data Over the Gulf of Mexico
Friday AM Ballroom FGH
AFTER HARVEY FLOODING- WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? , Cheryl Desforges, Session Chair
8:35 AM Robert Traylor (Consultant):Basin Tectonics and Harvey Flooding
9:00 AM Davis Tolman (Tolman Interests): Visualizing Houston’s Drainage Systems – An Intuitive Assessment of Flood Risk
9:25 AM Sam Brody (TAMU): The Flooded City: Adapting to the New Reality of Extreme Water Events in TX
9:50 AM Break
10:20 AM J. Neilsen-Gammon (TAMU): Expected Frequency of Extreme Rain: Before and After Harvey
10:45 AM William Dupre (U of H): Geologic Controls on River Morphology and Flooding in the SE Texas Coastal Region
11:10 AM William Sager (U of H): Sonar Mapping of Hurricane Harvey Effects on Bolivar Roads Seafloor
Friday AM Richmond Room
GLOBAL DEEPWATER RESERVOIRS I , Session Chairs: Jon Rotzien , Tim Nicholson (Kosmos) , Lothar Schulte, Philomena Y. Gan
8:05 AM Al-Ramadan, D. Cantrell* (KFUPM Saudi Arabia) : Impact of Basin Architecture on Diagenesis and Dolomitization in a Fault-Bounded Carbonate Platform: Outcrop Analogue of a Pre-Salt Carbonate Reservoir, Red Sea Rift, NW Saudi Arabia
8:35 AM Alex Hairabian (KFUPM Saudi Arabia): Models and Parameters Controlling Carbonate Slopes and Associated Gravity Flow Deposits
9:00 AM Henry Pettingill (Rose Associates):DHIs and Flat spots: the Miocene Levant Basin Within a Global Perspective
9:25 AM Johan LeGoff (KFUPM Saudi Arabia): Internal Geometry of Mass Transport Deposits (MTDs) in modern and Ancient Carbonate Systems
9:50 AM Break
10:20AM Mason Dykstra (Oxy): Using Machine Learning to Interpret Seismic Data Like a Human
10:45 AM Hoang Nguyen (Neptune Energy):Turbidite Systems in The Northern North Sea: Applying Geological Process Modeling
11:10 AM Lothar Schulte*, Bing Wang (Equinor): Late Cretaceous Lysing Turbidite Reservoir Characterization of the Dønna Terrace, Norwegian Sea