Author: Rick Schrynemeeckers Amplified Geochemical Imaging, LLC, 106 Wimberly Way, The Woodlands, Texas 77385 Optimizing Lateral Placement and Production while Minimizing Completion Costs: An Eagle Ford Case Study Session: Extracting Hydrocarbons from Source Rocks (GRBCC, Room 320ABC) Monday, September 21, 2015, 9:25 am Abstract: Shale plays are an extremely difficult arena in which to explore. Lack of heterogeneity […]

Authors: Manas Pathak1, Milind Deo1, and Raymond Levey2 1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, 50 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 3290, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 2Energy & Geoscience Institute, 423 Wakara Way, Ste. 300, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 Examination of the Generation of Overpressure in the Eagle Ford Session: Extracting Hydrocarbons from […]

Author: Malleswar Yenugu Ikon Science Americas, 12140 Wickchester Ln., Houston, Texas 77079 Source Rock Maturation: Its Effect on Porosity and Anisotropy in Unconventional Resource Plays Session: Extracting Hydrocarbons from Source Rocks (GRBCC, Room 320ABC) Monday,September 21, 2015, 8:35 am Abstract: The interlinking of cross disciplines plays an important role in the successful characterization of shale reservoirs. This […]

Authors: Rocio Bernal Olaya1, Paul Mann1, and Alejandro Escalona2 1Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, 312 Science and Research Bldg. 1, Rm. 312, Houston, Texas  77204–5007  2University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Lower Magdalena Basin, Colombia:  An Example of an Underfilled to Overfilled Forearc Basin Session: Caribbean and Colombia Exploration (GRBCC, Ballroom […]

Authors: Stephen Leslie1 and Paul Mann2 1PanAtlantic Exploration Houston, Texas 2University of Houston Houston, Texas Petroleum Systems of the Tayrona-Rancheria Basin, Offshore Guajira Peninsula, Colombia Session: Caribbean and Colombia Exploration (GRBCC, Ballroom C) Monday, September 21, 2015, 10:45 am Abstract: The Tayrona-Rancheria Basin (TRB) is a large (~29,000 sq. km) forearc basin located offshore of the […]

Author: James Pindell Tectonic Analysis Ltd., Chestnut House, Burton Park, Duncton, West Sussex GU28 0LH, England Role of Caribbean Tectonics in the Tectono­-Stratigraphic Evolution of Southern Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico Session: Caribbean and Colombia Exploration (GRBCC, Ballroom C) Monday, September 21, 2015, 10:20 am Abstract: Jurassic opening of the Gulf of Mexico and Proto-Caribbean […]

Authors: Carlos Sanchez1, Paul Mann1, and Rocio Bernal2 1Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, 312 Science and Research Bldg. 1, Rm. 312, Houston, Texas 77204–5007 2ConocoPhillips, 600 N. Dairy Ashford Rd., P.O. Box 2197, Houston, Texas 77252–2197 Cenozoic Structural, Deformational, and Erosional Events Observed Along a 400­km Long, Onshore-to-Offshore Regional Transect Across […]

Authors: Bryan Ott and Paul Mann Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, 312  Science and Research Building 1, Rm. 312, Houston, Texas  77204–5007 What Lies beneath the Tip of the Iceberg?  Late Cretaceous to Recent Tectonic Evolution of Jamaica and the Nicaraguan Rise with Implications for a Widespread Eocene Petroleum System Session: […]

Authors: Robert Erlich1, James Pindell2, and Leon Dzou3 1Cayo Energy L.P., 1007 Deerfield Rd., Richmond, Texas 77406  2Tectonic Analysis Inc., Chestnut House, Burton Park, West Sussex GU28 0LH, U.K.  3BP America Exploration, 501 Westlake Park Blvd., Houston, Texas 77079 Petroleum Potential of the Florida-Cuba-Bahamas Collision Zone Session: Caribbean and Colombia Exploration (GRBCC, Grand Ballroom C) Monday, September 21, […]

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.