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HGS General Dinner: Seismic Stratigraphy

Monday 8-Feb-10 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM CST

We were unable to register you for this event as the event deadline has passed or the maximum number of seats available has been reached. If you missed the registration deadline, send an e-mail to Art Donovan to determine if walk-up seats are available: donovan@bp.com

Speaker: Dr. Bruce Hart
Conoco Phillips

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Reservoir-Scale Seismic Stratigraphy: A Call to Integration?

The introduction of seismic stratigraphic techniques in the 1970s gave sedimentary geologists in the petroleum industry and Academia new tools for predicting lithology and analyzing the depositional history of sedimentary basins. Seismic stratigraphy originally focused on large-scale exploration problems and was based on analyses of 2-D seismic data in areas that were relatively “data poor” (i.e., few logs, core or production data). Although these conventional seismic stratigraphic analyses are still used fruitfully, new challenges and opportunities confront the Petroleum Industry as it faces the need to improve recovery from mature fields. These areas are commonly data rich (lots of log, core and production data), and covered by relatively small 3-D seismic surveys that do not image all of the sequences or systems tracts that the reservoir rocks are part of. As such, a new mindset is needed, here termed reservoir-scale seismic stratigraphy, to help geoscientists maximize the stratigraphic information they can extract from seismic data. Integration of geologic and geophysical concepts and data is critical. Techniques employed by geophysicists for at least the past decade (inversion, seismic attribute studies, seismic facies analysis etc.) need to become routine parts of the sedimentary geologist’s toolkit, whereas seismic interpreters need to study outcrops, core and modern analogs in order to anticipate the presence of depositional features that cannot be resolved seismically. This cross-disciplinary interaction will undoubtedly spawn new breakthroughs in sedimentary geology, reflection seismology, petroleum geology and related fields (e.g., hydrogeology). These are exciting times.

Speaker Dr. Bruce Hart

Bruce Hart is currently Director of the Shale, Seal and Pressure Systems Group at ConocoPhillips in Houston. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from McMaster University, a Master’s Degree from the Université du Québec à Rimouski, and a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario. He pursued a career in research at the Geological Survey of Canada, Penn State, The New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources and McGill University prior to joining ConocoPhillips in August 2008.

Bruce began his geoscience career as a clastic sedimentologist, but eventually found himself examining stratigraphy with 3-D seismic data. Subsequently, he and his students integrated 3-D seismic, log, outcrop, core, production and other data types to address a range of structural and stratigraphic problems from Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic clastic and carbonate reservoirs from various parts of the globe. Much of that work has been documented in over 50 peer-reviewed publications that cover topics such as seismic attribute analyses, hydrothermal dolomites, fractured tight-gas sandstones, sequence stratigraphy, pore-pressure prediction, and the sedimentology of shoreface conglomerates.

He has taught courses and workshops on 3-D seismic interpretation for industry professionals in Cairo, Calgary, Copenhagen, Houston, Kuala Lumpur, London, New Orleans, The Hague, Vienna, and elsewhere. His current work focuses on the relationships between shale depositional processes and hydrocarbon seals, source rocks, and pressure systems.

Seats 200

Reserved 80

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	Before 5-Feb-10	After 5-Feb-10
Member:	$28.00	$35.00
Non-Member:	$35.00	$35.00
Student Member:	$0.00
Student Non-Member:	$0.00
Emeritus/Life/Honorary:	$14.00	$18.00

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