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HGS International Explorationists Dinner -- Second Speaker Added!

Speaker: Al Danforth, Geological Advisor
GX Technology, Houston, TX

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Details for "HGS International Explorationists Dinner -- Second Speaker Added!"

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We are pleased to announce a special addition to the program. Dr. Kiran S. Misra, Consultant to the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons, India , will attend and speak on "Cretaceous Volcanism, Geological Development and Exploration of Mesozoic and Tertiary Hydrocarbon Pools in and around Peninsular India." Based on his extensive experience, Dr. Misra will present some new ideas of oil and gas potential associated with the Deccan Traps.

Misra and Danforth will divide the presentation time equally between their respective topics, so we still plan to conclude the program at or near the usual time.

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India - Historical and Emerging Plays, Identifying New Petroleum Systems Using Regional PSDM Seismic Data

Al Danforth

Independent Geological Consultant

Houston, TX

The history of oil and gas discoveries in India dates back to 1867 in the Assam Basin onshore and to the 1974 discovery offshore of the giant Bombay (Mumbai) High field off the west coast. Earliest east coast discoveries were in the K-G (Krishna-Godavari) Basin near the coast in 1979-80, expanding into the offshore in the 1990�s. Since then, gas was found along the east coast in a few fields in the Mahanadi basin (2003) but the big east-coast gas reserves emerged in the new offshore K-G fields, which have grown to over 30 TCFG and promise a sorely needed source to fuel India�s rapidly growing energy demands. Most recently, discoveries in the Cretaceous beneath the K-G Tertiary gas fields, in the deep water of the Cauvery Basin and on the West Coast in the Kutch Basin suggest additional new potential.

Two examples will be presented that have greatly increased India�s exploration potential. The first, on the east coast, is the 85E Ridge, previously thought to be a hot spot track, and now interpreted to be a continental fragment supporting a very large (50 x 100 km) carbonate platform, underlain by potential Jurassic through Cretaceous source rocks. The second example is a large deep (15-20 km) coastal graben that likely contains Albo-Aptian source rocks in the active oil generation window, beneath the Deccan Traps on the west coast.

Understanding the new play ideas calls on data from India�s conjugate margins in Africa and Antarctica, and analogs of how continental margins of India formed during the breakup of Gondwana. This presentation provides an overview of the historic producing provinces of India and examples of recent emerging plays together with some new play ideas for India�s offshore areas based on results of a campaign of regional PSDM seismic acquired in 2006-2007 by ION-GX Technology.

Speaker Al Danforth

Al Danforth is a regional geologist providing exploration consulting to large and small companies in Houston Texas.

Retired after 30 years of new venture exploration in the international arena for Texaco and Chevron, he is a seasoned explorationist, knowledgeable in all aspects of the business of exploration, and experienced in many of the producing and frontier areas of the world. Focused on the regional geology of Africa and its conjugate margins, especially the historic and emerging plays of West Africa, his specialty is understanding petroleum systems in deltas, rift basins and salt tectonics provinces.

Active in the International Explorationists Group of the Houston Geological Society, he is also organizer of an annual conference on Africa E&P convened jointly with the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB). Currently, he is principal geological advisor to ION-GX Technology on the design and interpretation of regional seismic surveys around Africa and its conjugate margins in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean.

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