Thursday AM Grand Ballroom
OFFSHORE GULF OF MEXICO: SUPER BASIN FOR THE FUTURE- Charles Sternbach (HGS-AAPG), Session Chair
8:35 AM Charles Sternbach (HGS-AAPG) : The Gulf of Mexico: Why This Super Basin Will Continue to Thrive Long into the Future
9:00 AM Brian Horn (ION): All Roads Lead to the Gulf of Mexico
9:25 AM John Snedden (UTIG): The Gulf of Mexico Basin Sedimentary Fill History: A Lesson in Depositional Evolution with Practical Applications
9:50 AM Break
10:20 AM Henry Pettingill (Rose and Associates): Deepwater Sands: Energizing the Globe, Past Present and Future
10:45 AM Keith King (IHS) The Road Ahead for US and Mexico Exploration Activity
Thursday AM Briarpark Room
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY-PROTECTING VALUABLE RESOURCES
Session Chair Doug Carlson (LSU)
8:35 AM P. Kirby, A. Donnelly (Stephens and Assoc) : Single County District Groundwater Quality Studies
9:00 AM John Nelson (WSP): Development of Deep Freshwater to Brackish Groundwater Supplies in Part of Southeast Texas
9:25 AM Doug Carlson(LSU):The Springs of Denham Springs, Louisiana: Location, History, Water Chemistry, and Source of Water
9:50 AM BREAK
10:20 AM Doug Carlson (LSU): An Overview of Water Concerns with Unconventional Oil and Gas Fields
10:45 AM Annie Robinson (SFA) Delineating Subsurface Karst Potential Using Electrical Resistivity in the Shell Mountain Region, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas
11:10 AM Brian Rader: Can We Use the North Texas Earthquake History to Predict the Next Earthquake?
Thursday AM Ballroom FGH
OVER THE BORDER -UNDERSTANDING U.S. AND OFFSHORE MEXICO PLAYS I, Peter Mullin and Robert Erlich, Session Chairs
8:10 AM M Dyer(_IHS) Mexico– Perspectives of the Energy reform, It’s Interruption and Active Exploration Year
8:35 AM Edward Smith, J. Halliday (TGS UK) : Exploration History and Petroleum Plays of the Offshore Mexican Gulf: A Retrospective
9:00 AM Jim Pindell (Tectonic Analysis), D. Villagomez: Today’s Pertinent Research Questions: Mexico to Trinidad
9:25 AM P. Mann, J. Kenning, Mei Liu ( U of H): Restoring the Conjugate Margins of the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Pre-, Syn-, and Post-Rift Exploration Fairways
9:50 AM Break
10:20 AM Frank Bilotti (Chevron), C. Guzofski: Structural Evolution of the Perdido Foldbelt, Mexico
10:45 AM Stacy Smith (Chevron), Frank Bilotti , Jiancheng Liu, Chad Holmes
Assessment of the Oligocene Play in the Northern Mexico Deepwater Trend
11:10 AM Don Van Nieuwenhuise (U of H), Steve Cossey: Recognition of Stratigraphic Surfaces and Sequences through the Integration of Geophysical and Biostratigraphic Data: An Example from the Tampico-Misantla Basin, Mexico
11:35 AM Steve Cossey, Mark Bitter, Gerald Dickens: Paleo-Canyons and Contemporaneous Oil Seeps near the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary, Tampico-Misantla Basin, Eastern Mexico
Thursday AM Richmond Room
WILCOX-YEGUA-VICKSBURG ONSHORE CONVENTIONAL PLAYS,
Session chair: Tim Rynott
8:10 AM Peter Rose (Rose Associates) Neogene Evolution of Central Texas
8:35 AM Hongliu Zeng (BEG) : Sediment Dispersal Patterns and Paleoshore-Line Trajectory of Wilcox Group, South-Central Texas Coast
9:00 AM W. Ambrose (BEG), R. Loucks: Transition from Paleosols in the Exposed Cenomanian Woodbine Group into Deepwater Carbonates in the Transgressive Coniacian Lower Austin Chalk in the East Texas Field Area: An Example of a Compressed Transgression from Subaerial Processes to Deepwater Deposition
9:25 AM Osareni Ogiesoba (BEG), A. Eluwa Structural Styles of the Eocene-Jackson and Oligocene-Vicksburg Fms Within the Rio Grande and Houston Embayments, Near the San Marcos Arch, in Refugio and Calhoun Counties, South Texas, Gulf Coast
9:50 am Break
10:20 AM Colin White (Stanford), J. Snedden* (UTIG): Calibrated Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Lavaca/Yoakum Canyon Complex, South Texas
10:45 AM Robert Schneider (TAMUK): Seismic Stratigraphic Visualization of the Lower Vicksburg Formation, South Texas Conventional Oil Fields: A Case Study from Central Louisiana
11:10 AM Tim Rynott (Ridge Resources)New Exploration Techniques In Low Relief, Mature Conventional Oil Fields: A Case Study From Central Louisiana
11:35 AM G. Kinsland (U of LA- Lafayette), A. Brennan, N. Quick: Exploration Scheme for The Wilcox Fm. Central Louisiana: Detailed Structural/Environmental Mapping with Well Logs, Followed by Interpolation/Extrapolation with Surface Sourced Seismic Data
