February, 1999 HGS Seminars, Courses and Field Trips

February, 1999Seminars, Short Courses, and Field Trips

The Fault & Fault Seal Forum

Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999 Place: Westlake Club, West Houston Directions to Westlake Club: From downtown take I-10 West and exit Eldridge; go south to Memorial Dr.; take right onto Memorial Dr.; take right on Westlake Park Blvd. (Amoco Complex); take left on Grisby and first left on Westlake Club Dr. Westlake Club is located immediately to the right. Visitor parking available. Time: 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Note: We can accommodate a few more talks and several posters. Please contact Andy Dillon at 281-366-7964 if you are interested.

Speakers: Robert M. Sneider, Keynote Speaker"Importance of Seals in E6P Projects"
Brann Johnson, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics Texas A&M Univ."Preliminary Results of an Integrated Study to Characterize and Correlate the Structure and Permeability Field of a Fault in a Siliciclastic Aquifer"
Dr. Roy D. Nurmi, Schlumberger"Integration of Multidisciplinary Technology for Fault Characterization"
Steve Naruk, Shell"Characteristics of Known Sealing and Non-sealing Faults, Gulf of Mexico Shelf
Karen S. Hoffman, Dynamic Graphics Inc."Three-Dimensional Structural Modeling and Visualization in Fault Analysis"
David Phelps, Apache Corporation"Controls on Low Side Fault Seal in Middle Jurassic Brent Group, Viking Graben, North Sea"
Richard Gibson and Peter Bentham, Amoco Prod. Co."Full-Cycle Fault-Seal Analysis During Discovery and Delineation of mahogany Field, Offshore Trinidad"
Wendy Summer, Chevron Corp."A Comparison Between 3D Stress and Fault Juxtaposition Relationships in Predicting Fault Seal Behavior for the Benin River, Gbokoda, and Dibi Fields, Nigeria"
Steve Hall, British Petroleum Exploration"The Role of Fault Seal Studies in Increasing Exploration Risk in SE Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela"
Richard A. Eisenberg, Chevron USA"Fault Seal Analysis for Risk Assessment and Reservoir Management. Okan and Meren Fields, Offshore Nigeria"
Dr. Mingchou Lee, Mobil Technology Co."Reservoir Quality and Fault Diagenesis"
Posters"Evaluating the Impact ofin-situ Stress on Fault Seal" Susan Agar, Amoco Prod. Co.

HGS Continuing Education Committeein cooperation with GeoGraphix(GESU) presents:GES: The Basics - 1 Day Course

Instructor: Mr. Rod Fries, Geologist; Certified Trainer for GeoGraphix Inc.Date: Monday, February 22,1999Place: North Harris College Technology Training Center If you need directions to the Technology Training Center please call the HGS office and a map can be faxed or mailed to you. Time: 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Cost: $25.00. Registration is limited to the first 20 Houston Geological Society members whose checks are received. Note: To register send your name and check for $25 to the HGS office. Please annotate the check to HGS Course:GES Basics. Your registration will be checked against HGS membership records. Participants will receive Continuing Education Units (0.8 CEU) and a North Harris College Certificate.

Course Outline:
GES: The Basics Getting Started- Your instructor will present an overview of the GES software modules and Microsoft. Topics include:

• The Windows environment.
  
• Starting GES and logging onto the system

Operating the GES WorkBench- You will be introduced to the GES WorkBench and the tools comprising the WorkBench. Topics and lab exercises will include:

• Operating the GES WorkBench, including activating tools, exiting from tools, and resizing and adding tools to the WorkBench.
  
• GES data organization.
  
• Creating a Project area.

WellBase- WellBase, the relational database manager for well data. Topics covered will include:

• Database structure.
  
• Using data tables.
  
• Entering well data manually.
  
• Importing ASCII data into WellBase.
  
• Defining well symbols.
  
• Creating and displaying well layers.
  
• Using the Toolbox to edit and add text, draw lines and polygons, and pattern fill polygons.
  
• "Point and click" access to well information.
  
• Equivalencing formation names.
  
• Customizing WellBase field and table names.
  
• Spotting wells and correcting well spots,
  
• Digitizing well locations, working with deviated well data, and using multiple bore holes

WellBase- Your exploration of WellBase continues, and you will cover the following topics:

• Creating Prospects dynamically.
  
• Displaying Layers in the Prospect.
  
• Using Filters to search for wells meeting specific criteria

Cross Section- The Cross Section utility in GES. Your lab exercises will include:

• Defining a cross section.
  
• Creating a montage in the Presentation window using your cross section and other enhancements.

IsoMap- You will also be introduced to IsoMap, the surface modeling tool in GES. Your exercises will cover:

• Creating structure and isopach maps using data from WellBase and SeisMap.
  
• Importing external XYZ data and digitizing contour maps into IsoMap.
  
• Incorporating normal faults into contoured surfaces

Tectono-stratigraphic Evolution of NE Mexico: outcrop analogues for onshore and offshore Gulf of Mexico Mesozoic exploration and production.

Instructors: Bob Goldhammer, Texaco, Houston, TX, and Katherine Giles, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces Date: Tuesday February 23 - through Sunday February 28, 1999 Place: Monterrey & Saltillo, Mexico Cost: $875.00 ($US) includes round-trip airfare from Houston to Mexico, hotel (double occupancy), ground transportation, guide book and box lunch. Evening meals and breakfast on your own. HGS Coordinator: ">Jeannine Perrot, (713) 669-2944, Phillips Petroleum CompanyRequirements: Non-refundable fee. Substitutions for individuals allowed. Need valid passport, birth certificate or voter's registrations (NOT a driver's license) to obtain free Mexican tourist visa.Registration Deadline: January 25, 1999. Mail check for $875.00 payable to HGS. Participants will be contacted immediately and provided additional trip information.Limit: 17 People. Must be HGS member. Registration Form: Click Here Description:

The trip examines the late Triassic through mid-Cretaceous rift-passive margin development of the GOM by integrating outcrop stratigraphy and facies architecture with age-equivalent subsurface analogues from the onshore and offshore GOM. In particular, we investigate the second order supersequence development, paying particular attention to Mesozoic carbonate systems of NE Mexico as outcrop analogues for onshore GOM carbonate plays (Smackover/Buckner/Haynesville/Cotton Valley Lime "pinnacle reefs," the Sligo-James; the Edwards).
In addition we will examine complex salt tectonics (Callovian-age Louann equivalent) exposed in the Laramide-age foreland La Popa basin (salt diapirs, mini-basin, rim synclines. See HGS Bulletin Sept. 1998 cover story). Finally we will traverse the Sierra Madre foldbelt (Laramide-age) to evaluate fold geometries and investigate fractured carbonate reservoirs. The fold geometries and structural style (box-folds and lift-off anticlines detac