Thursday PM Grand Ballroom
GIANT FIELDS OF THE US DEEPWATER GOM – Charles Sternbach, Session Chair,
Remembering the late D. Clint Moore, original session chair
1:35 PM Ben Slotnik (BP) Asphaltenic-Rich Tar in the Subsurface: Case Study from Reservoir Overburden in a Giant Subsalt Oil Field, Mad Dog Field , Gulf of Mexico
2:00 PM James Saxton (BP) : Mad Dog- Waking a Giant
2:25 PM J.P. Gestel, C Steiner and T. Dore (BP) : Atlantis- Finding a Field Within a Field (BP)
2:50 PM Break
3:20 PM Ted Godo (Murphy, retired): The Smackover-Norphlet Petroleum System in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Oil fields, Oil Shows and Dry Holes
4:10 PM Julie Wilson (WoodMac): Drivers for Creating Value from Deepwater Exploration
Thursday PM Briarpark Room
BREAKTHROUGHS IN DATA ANALYTICS AND WORKSTATION SEISMIC INTERPRETATION, Andrew Silver, Session Chair
1:10 PM Matt Boyce (Epoch): Cluster Analysis in Petrophysics for Unconventionals, and its Influence on Volumetrics
1:35 PM Andrew Silver (Adret): An Application of Hierarchical Clustering in Categorizing Producing Areas and Mitigating Spatial Autocorrelation Issues in Predictive Analysis for the Eagle Ford Shale
2:00 PM Deborah Sacrey (Auburn): How Machine Learning Can Aid Seismic Interpretation and Find Oil and Gas
2:25 PM Coorte Voorhies (): Reservoir Delineation and Amplitude Attribute Analysis Utilizing Visualization and SGY Processing Software, (Or How to Find The Exact Reservoir To Drill In An Anastomosing Channel Sand System)
2:50 PM Break
3:20 PM Jim Brenneke (SCA): Adapting Traditional Reservoir Volumetric Methods to the Workstation
3:45 PM Kris Rimalia (DGBES): Interpretation of Hydrocarbon Migration Pathways Using Latest Developments in Machine Learning – Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico
4:10 PM Jacob Heller*, Sam Green (IKON) 3D PP and Geomechanics: Work Smarter and Faster Integrating Geoscience with Machine Learning
Thursday PM Ballroom FGH
OVER THE BORDER -UNDERSTANDING U.S. AND OFFSHORE MEXICO PLAYS II, Peter Mullin and Robert Erlich, Session Chairs
1:10 PM David Kosmitis (Talos) : Zama Discovery in Offshore Mexico
2:00 PM C. Luysterburg (Shell), V. Brito: Evolution of Sediment Fairways Along the Western Margin of the Saline Basin Deepwater Campeche
2:25 PM Jack Kenning (U of H), P. Mann: Structural and Stratigraphic Controls on Mesozoic, Source Rock Maturity and Hydrocarbon, Play Prospectively of the Deepwater Yucatan and Campeche margins, Southern Gulf of Mexico
2:50 PM Break
3:20 PM Jim Pindell *, Antara Goswami (ION), J. Pindell: Regional Structure and Petroleum Potential of the North Panama Deformed Belt
3:45 PM Lesli Wood (C Mines): The Role of Offshore Strike-Slip Tectonics in Sediment Partitioning and the Morphology of the Paleo-Orinoco in the North Coast Marine Basins of Trinidad and Tobago
4:10 PM Paul Mann ( U of H). J. Sanchez, Luis C. Carvajal. L. Torrado, B. Ott: Cretaceous to Recent Tectonic History and Controls on Hydrocarbons in the Western Caribbean Sea
4:35 PM David King (Auburn), H. Zou, K. Gill, F. Smith: Detrital Zircons from the Margaret Creek Formation of Belize: Provenance of the Basal Red Beds of the Corozal Basin
Thursday PM Richmond Room
EAGLE FORD- HAYNESVILLE-AUSTIN CHALK UNCONVENTIONAL PLAYS- Session Chair: Wayne Camp
1:10 PM Katie Smye (BEG): Variability of Geologic Properties in Shale Gas and Tight Oil Plays
1:35 PM Robert Loucks (BEG): Insights into Early Reservoir Development of the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group and Pepper Shale from Observations of the USGS Gulf Coast #1 West Woodway Low-Ro Research Core in McLennan County, East Texas
2:00 PM Justin Birdwell (USGS): Estimating Overburden Erosion in Southwest Texas using Production Data from the Eagle Ford Shale
2:25 PM Wayne Camp (Oxy): A New Reservoir Quality Prediction Model for Unconventional Shale Reservoirs
2:50 PM Break
3:20 PM Matt Boyce (Epoch): Using Wireline Spectral Gamma to Infer Depositional Environments in Unconventional Resources
3:45 PM Doug Carlson( LSU): Trends and Values for Hydraulic Fracturing for Unconventional Plays Compared to Haynesville
4:10 PM Justin Birdwell (USGS): Geochemical Characterization of Immature Lower Eagle Ford Shale in Drill Cores from Southwest and Central Texas
