Authors: Abah Omale and Juan Lorenzo Louisiana State University,  Baton Rouge, LA Using Fault Kinematics to Evaluate the Relationship between Cenozoic Fault Activity, Sedimentation Rates and Salt Movement in the Gulf of Mexico: A comparison between Southwest and Southeast Louisiana Session: Salt Tectonics-Gulf of Mexico and the World (GRBCC, Room 310ABC) Monday, September 21, 2015, 9:25 am Abstract: Fault initiation and reactivation across south Louisiana during the Cenozoic may be driven by either clastic sediment progradation mobilizing underlying salt or by sediment progradation inducing tensional bending stresses during lithospheric flexure. Climate and tectonics within the North American continent during the Cenozoic creates differences in the source location, amount of sediments transported, as well as the spatial and temporal distribution of sediments transported into the Gulf of Mexico. We analyze 140 faults along 11 regional cross sections containing well log data in south Louisiana. Cumulative throw, incremental throw, and fault slip rates show continuous fault activity punctuated by periods of fault inactivity in southwest and southeast Louisiana. Results show a correlation between the timing of fault reactivation and the location of sediment depositional centers in the Cenozoic. In southwest Louisiana and southeast Louisiana faulting increases significantly in the Oligocene Early Miocene and Early Miocene respectively during the emergence of new depositional centers onshore in these areas. The pattern of fault activity correlates with the pattern of sediment deposition by showing a similar shift in major activity from southwest to southeast Louisiana through time. The Eocene period marks a time when most faults are inactive, possibly because the sediment depositional center shifted eastward to central Louisiana. We show that the timing of fault activity correlates with the timing of sediment loading and salt movement in the Cenozoic.

Authors: Constantin Platon1 and Amy Weislogel2 1Shell Exploration and Production Company, 200 Dairy Ashford St., Houston, Texas 77079 2Department of Geology, West Virginia University, 330 Brooks Hall, 98 Beechurst Ave., Morgantown, West Virginia 26506 Salt-Sediment Interaction and Passive Diapirism: A Field-­Based Story of La Popa Salt Diapir Rise Coeval with Deposition of Viento Formation, La […]

Authors: Joshua McFarland1, Katherine Giles1, Richard Langford1, and Mark Rowan2 1Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, Texas 79968–0555 2Rowan Consulting Inc., 850 8th St., Boulder, Colorado 80302–7409 Structural and Stratigraphic Development of a Salt­ Diapir Shoulder, Gypsum Valley Salt Wall, Paradox Basin, Colorado Session: Salt […]

Authors: Shankar Mitra and Pierre Karam ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Sarkeys Energy Center, Ste. 710, 100 E. Boyd St., Norman, Oklahoma 73019 Controls of the Geometry and Evolution of Salt Diapirs: Louann Salt, East Texas Session: Salt Tectonics—Gulf of Mexico and the World (GRBCC, Room 310ABC) Monday, September 21, 2015, 9:00 am Abstract: Experimental models show that […]

Author: Pilar Rojas Shell Exploration and Production, 200 N. Dairy Ashford Rd., Houston, Texas  77079 The Road to Shell’s Appomattox Discovery Session: U.S. Gulf Deepwater Fields I (GRBCC, Ballroom A) Monday, September 21, 2015, 11:10 am Abstract: Appomattox is a significant discovery for Shell in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico.  Appomattox is a faulted 4­way closure […]

Authors: Frank Evans, Ellen Clark, and Henry Posamentier Chevron, 100 Northpark Blvd., Covington, Louisiana 70433 Advances in the Tahiti Field Subsalt Seismic Imaging and Interpretation: Utilizing Seismic Attribute Analysis and Offset/Azimuth Partitions for Imaging and Interpreting Deepwater Subsalt Structure and Facies Session: U.S. Gulf Deepwater Fields I (GRBCC, Ballroom A) Monday, September 21, 2015, 10:45 am […]

Authors: Elizabeth Ann Watkins1, Julio Tamashiro1, Marcelo Cristian Torrez Canaviri2, Nicolas Martin1, Eldar Guliyev1, Renato Leite1, Nhom (Vince) Nguyen1, Abayomi Aina1, and Mauro R. Becker1 1Petrobras America, Inc., 10350 Richmond Ave., Ste. 1400, Houston, Texas 77042 2Petrobras Bolivia, Avenida Leigue Castedo, No. 1700, Barrio Equipetrol Norte, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia A […]

Authors: James Pindell1,2, Barbara Radovich1,3, Ed Haire1,4, Don Howard1,4, Antara Goswami1, Gulce Dinc1, and Brian Horn1 1ION E&P Solutions, ION Geophysical, 2105 CityWest Blvd., Houston, Texas 77042 2Tectonic Analysis Ltd., Chestnut House, Duncton, West Sussex GU28 0LH UK 3Dynamic Upstream E&P Consultants, 10590 Westoffice Dr., Ste. 250, Houston, Texas 77042 4INEXS, 1980 Post Oak Blvd., […]

Authors: Barbara Radovich1, Don Howard2, and Ed Haire3 1Silver Grass Enterprises, 101 N. Hall Dr., Sugar Land, Texas 77478  2ION Geophysical, 2105 CityWest Blvd., Ste. 400, Houston, Texas 77042 3ION Geophysical–INEXS, 1980 Post Oak Blvd., Ste. 2050, Houston, Texas 77056 Correlation of Events for the Jurassic and Cretaceous of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin […]

Authors: Ed Haire1, Jon Gross1, and James Pindell2 1ION Geophysical, 2105 CityWest Blvd., Ste. 400, Houston, Texas  77042–2839 2Tectonic Analysis Ltd., Chestnut House, Burton Park, West Sussex  GU28 0LH, U.K. Onshore Florida Interpretation Utilizing Composited PSDM Seismic Data Integrated with a Mega-­Regional Basinwide Gulf of Mexico PSDM Seismic Program Session: Gulf Mega-Regional Seismic Interpretation (GRBCC, […]