GCSSEPM Foundation 23rd Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference

" Shelf Margin Deltas and Linked Down Slope Petroleum Systems: Global Significance and Future Potential"

Date: December 7-10,2003

Place: Adam’s Mark Hotel , Houston

Details and Registration: Click the GC SEPM Web site www.gcssepm.org

Contact: Harry H. Roberts: Coastal Studies Institute, LSU: e-mail: hrober3@lsu.edu , Ph. 225-578-2395, Fax: 225-578-2520

Session Topics:

Poster and oral presentations and accompanying papers will cover seven topical areas related to exploration and production of shelf margin deltas and genetically related slope and basin deep-water systems:

1. Quaternary shelf-edge delta studies and models;
2. hydrocarbon exploration and development case histories of expanded shelf margin reservoir complexes;
3. studies of shelf-to-slope transition zones from the perspective of reservoirs and basin-to-shelf-margin hydrocarbon migration;
4. reservoir development in salt-deformed and growth-fault-expanded slope section;
5. petroleum systems that charge shelf margin and associated downdip reservoirs;
6. application of new tools and technologies to shelf-margin-to-basin systems; and
7. shelf margin tectonics and sediment-salt interaction at the rapidly accreting and expanding shelf edge. Presentations of examples from petroleum-producing basins outside of the Gulf of Mexico are especially solicited and will provide information on basin framework geology and tectonic setting to illuminate regional contrasts related to differences in climate, oceanography, and detrital provenance.