2023 Perkins-Rosen GCSSEPM RC
4-6 December 2023 Houston, TX
Deepwater Systems, Processes and Exploration Potential
Revisited 1994-2023
Where were you in 1994?
2023 GCSSEPM Preliminary Program
Photo credit (left): F. Javier Hernández-Molina from Rodrigues et al., 2021 Marine and
Photo credit: Daniel Minisini
The 39th annual Perkins-Rosen Research Conference celebrates nearly three decades of progress in understanding deepwater sedimentary systems. The conferences in the 1990s – including the 1994 GCSSEPM Perkins-Rosen Research Conference – emphasized submarine fans, reservoir presence, depositional architecture and outcrop analogs.
The focus of the 2023 conference will include what has been learned from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic margins, to frontier basins as well as in laboratory studies and outcrops worldwide. We want to show the progress that has been made in the following areas:
- the range and variability in new deepwater play types globally,
- source-to-sink linkage of terrestrial, to deltaic, to deepwater systems,
- mixed deepwater sedimentary systems that incorporate a wide range of oceanic and seafloor processes (turbidite, contourite, hemipelagite/pelagite and mass-transport deposit inputs, etc.),
- physical modeling approaches as well as the advances in technology and process modeling in understanding the distribution of petroleum elements, including the use of artificial intelligence and digital workflows,
- deepwater mudrocks and more specifically their role as seals and source rock intervals as well as natural seafloor seeps,
- the influence of mobile substrates, including evaporites and mud, on deepwater sedimentary architecture above and below the mobile substrate.
Advancements in the understanding of deepwater sedimentary systems based on direct measurements of sedimentary basins including cores and outcrops, seismic and borehole imaging, physical and numerical modeling, and fieldwork or any new aspect from around the world are welcome.
Most importantly, examples of diverse deepwater exploration plays that have worked (or failed) as well as yet-to-be-tested plays are welcome. This conference will attempt to review the number of deepwater-related challenges that are yet to be solved, therefore providing a roadmap of where deepwater may go over the next three decades.
Member Price: $495.00 USD
Non Member Price: $595.00 USD
Student Price: $375.00 USD (Limited Seats Available*)
*contact Theresa Scott if student assistance is needed
Additional Guest Icebreaker Ticket $50.00 USD, regular registration includes admission
Registration will include conference online proceedings, ice breaker, breakfast, lunches, and refreshments.
Venue:
Equinor US
2107 CityWest Blvd, Suite 100
Houston, Texas 77042
Cassie Turley is the headquarters contact for this conference if you have questions.
Conveners
- Jon Rotzien – jon@basindynamics.com
- Cindy Yeilding – cindy.yeilding@swbell.net
- Richard Sears – rasears@stanford.edu
- F. Javier Hernández-Molina – javier.hernandez-molina@rhul.ac.uk
- Octavian Catuneanu – octavian@ualberta.ca
Technical Program Committee
- Luke Walker – Equinor
- Vitor Abreu – Abreu Consulting and Training
- Juan Fedele – ExxonMobil
- Tao Sun – Chevron
- Jason Flaum – USGS
- Lori Fremin – Haltermann Carless
- Daniel Minisini – Shell
- Samuel Plitzuweit – ExxonMobil
- Kevin Reece – Tulane University
- Clara Rodriguez – Petronas
- John Snedden – UT Institute of Geophysics
- Tian Yang – Chengdu Univ. of Technology
Important Dates and Deadlines:
(Preliminary, subject to change)
September 25, 2023 | Early Bird Registration Opens! |
September 29, 2023 | Final edited manuscript and illustrations due. |
| November 10, 2023 | Early Bird Registration Closed |
| December 1, 2023 | All conference registration closes. |
December 4, 2023
| Conference in Houston Begins Evening Welcome Reception |
December 4-6, 2023
| Conference in Houston Monday - Wednesday Equinor US |
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Thank you to our sponsors!
