Scholarship Night 2024 with Bob Lindsay

Monday, February 12, 2024 Magnolia Room
ROOM • Norris Conference Center • 816 Town and Country Blvd #210
Site Map • Floor Plan
Social Hour 5:30–6:30 pm
Dinner 6:30–7:30 pm, Presentation 7:30- 9:00 pm
Member/Emeritus/ Honorary Life- $65.00 Non-Member- $75.00 Student- $65.00
WALKUPS: $75.00
To guarantee a seat, you must pre-register on the HGS website and pay with a credit card.  You may walk up and pay at the door if extra seats are available.  Please cancel by phone or email within 24 hours before the event for a refund.  Online & pre-registration closes Monday, February 12, at 5:00 a.m.

Hosted by Fang Lin and Jeff Lund

Guest Speaker

Robert (Bob) Lindsay

“How Geological Field Work in the Guadalupe Mountains Helped Solve Oil Field Production Problems in the Permian Super Basin: Real Case Studies - and Houston Geological Society Guadalupe Mountain Field Trip.”

Guadalupe Mountain outcrops have proven to be the perfect laboratory for subsurface reservoir studies in the Permian Super Basin. This talk focuses on Grayburg Formation outcrops, composed of grain-rich to mud-rich dolostone and interbedded dolomitic sandstone, and how these strata helped answer key production-related problems/questions in Grayburg oil fields that transitioned from primary recovery to secondary recovery (waterflood) and on to tertiary recovery (CO2 enhanced waterflood) operations.

Bob Lindsay has studied the stratigraphy of the Grayburg in both the Guadalupe Mountains and in the subsurface of giant oil field like Eunice Monument field in the Permian Basin. He will talk to the audience about his experience solving oil and gas production problems and complex sub-surface stratigraphy. His presentation style focuses on audience interaction. He will try and get the students thinking attendees can expect audience interaction during the talk about the Guadalupe Mountains and his Permian Basin research.

Check out these facts and consider some questions on the geology of the Permian Basin:

The Grayburg formation subsurface reservoirs present the following problems/questions for the audience to consider, such as:

1. The fact reservoir geometries dramatically change from an up-dip thickness of 300 ft (91 m) to a down-dip thickness of nearly 600 ft (183 m) in 5 miles (8 km).

Is the Grayburg reservoir associated with a ramp, distally steepened ramp, or rimmed shelf margin geometry?

Is the Grayburg reservoir associated with inner ramp/inner shelf, ramp crest/shelf crest, and middle ramp/shelf slope, or basin lithofacies?

2. How does reservoir architecture and connectivity change from up-dip to down-dip?

What lithofacies/rock types are up-dip and down-dip?

How thick are individual flow units up-dip and down-dip?

What are reservoir stacking patterns up-dip and down-dip?

3. Does the Grayburg reservoir act like one big tank, or is it subdivided into small-scale cycles, cycle sets, high frequency sequences, simple sequences, and a composite sequence?

How were interbedded dolostones and dolomitic sandstones deposited and what are their reservoir potential? How was reservoir connectivity created? Are high porosity-permeability flow units of strata present?Is there interwell-scale heterogeneity?

Surprisingly, Grayburg outcrops in the Guadalupe Mountains are striking similar to subsurface reservoirs with respect to: 1) overall thickness variations; 2) reservoir geometry; 3) position upon ramp/shelf; 4) reservoir architecture and connectivity; 5) lithofacies/rock type distribution; 6) flow unit distribution; 7) stacking patterns; 8) cyclicity; 9) depositional setting; 10) reservoir connectivity creation; 11) high porosity-permeability distribution; and 12) interwell-scale heterogeneity.

This presentation will be both challenging and informative.

About the speaker

Robert (Bob) F. Lindsay hails from Utah, and served in the U.S. Army Special Forces, known by their nickname “The Green Berets.” He graduated from Weber State College 1974 with a B.Sc. in Geology;   also Brigham Young University 1976 with a M.S. in Geology; and from the University of Aberdeen Scotland in 2014 earning a Ph.D. in Geology. Lindsay’s professional career includes employment at Gulf Oil (1976-85) and Chevron (1985-2001) as a research geologist in production, and supervisor of Enhanced Oil Recovery. His other duties included applied research, carbonate petrography, laboratory supervisor, and stratigrapher.

Lindsay worked for Saudi Aramco (2002-2015) as a Geological Specialist, Sr. Geological Consultant (Geological Technical Services Division), carbonate sedimentologist and sequence stratigrapher. He organized many Aramco carbonate field trips, and taught graduate level carbonate sedimentology at King Faud University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM).

Currently Lindsay consults as Lindsay Consulting LLC and teaches as Affiliated Professor at Brigham Young University, 2015-Present; Consulting on Permian Basin oil fields, leading field trips, teaching graduate level courses. Courses include, 1) Rock-based Integrated Reservoir Characterization; 2) Modern Carbonate Field Trip to the Bahamas; 3) Petroleum Systems; and 4) short courses

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Instructions to Norris Conf. Center:

The Norris Conference Center is on the Second (2nd) Floor, and cannot be seen from the street. From Town and Country Blvd, turn west at Plaza Way and go past "Kendra Scott" store to STOP sign.  Turn right = North and go to Level 3 of the parking structure.The parking structure can also be reached from the northbound Beltway 8 frontage road. Turn into the driveway that is 0.33 mi. north of Kimberley Ln., just before the Amegy Bank sign.