AAPG: Exploration and Production in Challenging Salt Flank and Sub-Salt Settings: Integrated Techniques for Reducing Risk in Subsalt Plays
Room 394-396
Co-Chairs: F. Diegel, M. G. Rowan, and C. Yeilding
8:15 -- Introductory Remarks
8:20 -- J. H. Shinol, H. S. Sumner, J. T. Ford: Subsalt Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater
8:40 -- R. A. Eisenberg, M. J. Roberts, R. Shank, M. A. Beeunas: Integrated risk assessment in sub-salt exploration, deepwater Gulf of Mexico
9:00 -- L. M. Liro, M. S. Kadri, M. J. Lahr, M. B. Jackson: Allochthonous salt distribution, Walker Ridge lease area, deepwater Gulf of Mexico
9:20 -- M. S. Kadri, L. M. Liro, M. J. Lahr, R. Hobbs, P. Montecchi: Occurrence and distribution of seismic reflectors internal to allochthonous salt, Walker Ridge lease area, deepwater Gulf of Mexico
9:40 -- S. Bugosh, T. Fowler, B. Golding, D. Muerdter, D. Ratcliff: Hickory Field: integrated technologies revitalize a sub-salt prospect
10:00 -- Break
10:15 -- R. J. Spang, M. E. Strickler, S. C. Henry, C. G. Sharman: Subsalt development at Gemini, deepwater Gulf of Mexico; the role of sequence stratigraphy to "See" the reservoirs
10:35 -- K. A. Pate, J. Dunbar: Evolution of faulting styles around salt domes
10:55 -- I. Davison: Lithological controls on drag zone shape adjacent to salt diapirs
11:15 -- M. G. Rowan, T. F. Lawton, K. A. Giles: El Papalote diapir, La Popa Basin, Mexico: an exposed analog for northern Gulf of Mexico salt-flank and subsalt structures
11:35 -- M. P. A. Jackson, D. D. Schultz-Ela: Why roho, why counterregional?