The Importance of Stratigraphy in Source Rock Prediction and Hydrocarbon Migration

2007 FORCE Workshop: The importance of stratigraphy in source rock prediction and hydrocarbon migration 4-5 Dec 2007, NPD Stavanger

December 4th 9:00-9:15am: Introduction & welcome (Lorna Richmond, Chair)

SESSION 1: Sequence stratigraphic concepts linked to source rock development & depositional environment

9:15-10:00am Key Note Speaker- J. Suter Sequence Stratigraphic Controls on Deposition of Source Rocks

10:00-10:25am J.P. Nystuen Sequence Stratigraphy and Source Rock Potentials

10:25-10:50am COFFEE BREAK

10:50-11:25am K. Dempster, W. Almon, W. Dawson & M. Hertle Impact of Shale Facies Variation on Source Quality and Hydrocarbon Charge Modeling

11:25-11:50pm F. van Buchem Stratigraphic patterns in carbonate source-rock distribution: second order to fourth order control

11:50-13:00pm LUNCH

13:00-13:25pm J. Macquaker Source Rocks and Sequence Stratigraphy: Dispelling Myths about the Optimal Environments of Source Rock Deposition.

13:25-13:50pm J. H. van Koeverden Palaeozoic and Triassic source rocks in the Southern Barents Sea in their environmental context - Do geochemical results from the lab match the palaeogeography?

13:50-14:15pm COFFEE BREAK SESSION 2: Prediction of source rock development from seismic, sequence stratigraphy, palaeoclimate, palaeolatitude…

14:15-15:00pm J. Harris Global palaeogeography and palaeo-Earth systems: the basis for an innovative source facies prediction method to reduce exploration risk in frontier basins.

15:00-15:25pm A.Y. Huc How to Reconcile Biological Control and Sequence Stratigraphic Concepts for Source Rock Deposition?

15:25-15:50pm U. Mann & J. Knies Source rock modelling of the central Arctic Ocean: Is there an Palaeogene Arctic wide source rock?

15:50-16:00pm Closing remarks & evening logistics

17:00 Conference drinks, Newsman, Stavanger

19:00 Conference dinner, Røde Sjøhus, Stavanger

December 5th

SESSION 2 Continued:

9:00-9:35am G. de Briun Combining Chimney and Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretations in OpendTect

9:35-10:00am L. Wensaas, H. Løseth, M. Gading, L. Leith, J. Lutro & M. Springer Field observations of source rocks. Applications in exploration

10:00-10:25am S. Flint, R. Davies and R. Jerrett Coal Seams as High Resolution Tape Recorders of Base Level Change; examples from Cretaceous and Carboniferous systems

10:25-10:50am COFFEE BREAK

10:50-11:15am H. I. Petersen & H. P. Nytoft Geological age and coal composition: Why Lower Carboniferous coals in the North Sea are inherently gas-prone

11:15-11:40am J. Cole Sequence stratigraphy and source rock prediction in the Late Carboniferous of the S. North Sea and other non-marine/quasi-marine settings 11:40-13:00pm LUNCH

SESSION 3: Applications & Case Studies: Stratigraphy & Source Rocks

13:00-13:25pm F. G. Christiansen, J. A. Bojesen-Koefoed, L. Stemmerik & S. Piasecki A review of Palaeozoic Lacustrine Source Rocks from East Greenland

13:25-13:50pm S. Lüning Sequence Stratigraphy of the Silurian Source Rocks in North Africa and Arabia

13:50-14:15pm M. Inthorn, J. Zweigel, U. Mann The Cretaceous source rock in the Vøring Basin off Mid-Norway: Just a myth or high potential?

14:15-14:40pm S. Ohm, D.A. Karlsen, A. Roberts, E. Johannessen & O. Høiland The Palaeocene Sandy Fairway:an efficient ‘pipeline’ draining the prolific Central Graben?

14:40-15:00pm Conference committee closing remarks