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Optimizing Exploration and Development Opportunities in Brazil's New Regulatory Scenario

Occurred Tuesday, 22 June – Wednesday, 23 June 2021, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. | Virtual Research Symposium via Zoom (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil time)

Keynote Speakers

Rodolfo Saboia

General Director, National Agency for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP)

Thiago Pessoa

General Manager for Reservoir and Flow Assurance – Búzios Field, Petrobras

*All times are listed in Brazil Standard Time (GMT -3). US Central Daylight Time (Houston) is two hours earlier.

Tuesday, June 22

I. Optimizing Development in Onshore Basins and Mature Fields Chairs: Ricardo Savini, CEO, 3R Petroleum, Frederico Miranda, Exploration Director, ENEVA
09:00-09:45	Opening Ceremony Sylvia Couto Anjos, ABGP; Victor Vega, AAPG, General Chairs; Marta Vieira, General Manager of Exploration Planning, Business and Operations, Petrobras
09:45-10:25	Keynote Presentation on Brazil’s Regulatory Environment Rodolfo Saboia, General Director, National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP)
10:25-10:35	Break
10:35-11:00	Revitalizing Mature Oilfields Through Interdisciplinarity: A Case Study for the Macau Cluster (RN) Bruno Valle (presenter), Andrés V. Rodriguez, Augusto Silva-Telles, Marcos Pimentel Mendes, Jorge Lorenzon, 3R Petroleum Oleo e Gas S.A.
11:00-11:25	Parnaíba Basin Parque dos Gaviões Gas Fields Integrated Management: A Case Study of a Successful Reservoir to Wire Project Armando Ferreira (presenter), Frederico Miranda, Vilmar Carneiro Barbosa, ENEVA
11:25-11:35	Break
11:35-12:00	Improved Reservoir Characterization of a Mature Field Through an Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Approach. Lagoa Parda Field, ES, Brazil Miguel Nuñez (presenter), Lidiane Garcia, Erick Moreno, Karoline Conti, Kesley Melo, Leandro Lubiana and Jhonny Marquez, IMETAME Energia
12:00-12:25	Rock Physics Modeling for Quantitative Seismic Characterization of Tight Sandstones in the Neuquén Basin, Argentina Atilas Meneses da Silva, Petrobras; Ali Tura, Colorado School of Mines
12:25-12:55	Q&A Session With Presenters and Chairs
12:55-14:00	Lunch Break
II. Exploration Potential and New Opportunities in Post-Salt and Equatorial Margin Basins Chairs: Decio Oddone, CEO, Enauta; Hywel Upshall, General Manager Exploration – Atlantic Margin, Murphy Oil
14:00-14:25	Rift-Associated Magmatism in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin and its Influence on Local Petroleum Systems Mariana Meirelles (presenter), Celso Jardim, Fabio Mendonça, Delzio Machado Jr., Petrobras
14:25-14:50	Upper Cretaceous Turbidite System in the Deep Water of the Pará-Maranhão Basin Eduardo Faria (presenter), Márcia Karam, Felipe Nascimento, Daniel Canellas, Alexandre Souza, Ronaldo Baldi, Enauta
14:50-15:15	Exploration Potential in Ultradeep Waters of the Pará-Maranhão Basin: Geology and Petroleum Systems Pedro Zalán (presenter), ZAG Consulting; Eric Newman, Mike Saunders, TGS
15:15-15:30	Break
15:30-15:55	Sergipe Surprises and Suppositions: Deepwater Test Area for Source, Reservoir and Trap Development William Dickson (presenter), Dickson International Geosciences; Mark Odegard, GrizGeo; Craig Schiefelbein, Geochemical Solutions international (GSI); David Rajmon, Geosophix; and Seva Egorov, GeoExpera
15:55-16:20	Structural Reconstruction and Kinematic Evolution of the Campos Salt Basin, Offshore Brazil Hongjiao Yu (presenter), Paula Brazao, Matteo Molinaro, Long Ma, Mitchell Prante, Shell
16:20-16:50	Q&A Session With Presenters and Chairs
17:00-18:00	Participant Networking Session and Trivia Contest Priscila Amaral and Lizbeth Calizaya, AAPG Brazil YP Chapter

Wednesday, June 23

III. Recent Advances and Challenges in Pre-Salt Basins Chairs: Ana Serrano, Vice President Subsurface, Equinor Brazil; Vanessa Kertznus, Business Opportunity Manager, Shell Brazil
08:45-09:15	AAPG Activities in Latin America and the Caribbean Elvira Pureza Gómez, AAPG LACR President
09:15-9:55	Keynote Presentation on the Brazilian Pre-Salt Thiago Pessoa, General Manager for Reservoir and Flow Assurance - Búzios Field, Petrobras
9:55-10:20	Petroleum Systems Evolution in the Outboard Atlantic Margins of the Campos and Santos Basins, Offshore Brazil: A Regional 3D Basin Modelling Study Antonio Martín-Monge (presenter), Ángel Carrasco, Massimiliano Masini, Antonio J. Olaiz, Keith Buck, Jose Guilherme de Castilho, A. Vayssaire, Repsol
10:20-10:45	Natural Open Fractures in Pre-salt Silicified Carbonate Reservoirs in Block BM-C-33, Outer Campos Basin Ole Petter Wennberg (presenter), Gavin McQueen, Fabio Lapponi, David W. Hunt, Alistair S. Chandler, Arnstein Waldum, Eduardo Castro, Luiz Loures, Equinor; Pedro H. Vieira de Luca, Repsol; Gisele Nery Camargo, Petrobras
10:45-11:00	Break
11:00-11:25	Seismic-Scale Geometries and Sequence-Stratigraphic Architecture of Early Cretaceous Syn-Post Rift Carbonate Systems, Presalt Section, Brazil Alessandro Cantelli, Shell; Marcello Minzoni, University of Alabama; John Thornton, Brent Wignall, Shell
11:25-11:50	Relation Between Tectonic Domains and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity in Campos and Santos Basin Antonio Olaiz (presenter), Massimiliano Masini, Laszlo Benkovics, Jose Guilherme de Castilho, Diana Sineva, Ángel Carrasco, Keith Buck, Rubén Loma, Antonio Martín-Monge, Matthieu Pontet, Repsol
11:50-12:20	Q&A Session With Presenters and Chairs
12:20-13:30	Lunch Break
IV. Technological Advances and Applications Chairs: Antonio Velásquez, Development and Production Manager, Ecopetrol Brasil; Lorena Dominguez Espido, COO, Repsol Sinopec Brasil
13:30-13:55	Stratigraphic Principles as Prior Knowledge for 3D Seismic Facies Segmentation Elton Trindade, Petrobras
13:55-14:20	Using Geophysically-Derived Mechanical Properties to Constrain Fracture Intensity and Distribution in Pre-salt Carbonate Reservoirs Mário Santos and Astrid Fernandez, GALP E&P
14:20-14:45	Reservoir Management using Water Alternate Gas Injection in the Lapa Pre-Salt Field Serugue Santiago(presenter), Julien Couchard, TotalEnergies
14:45-15:00	Break
15:00-15:25	ANP Pre-Salt Round 7: 3D Seismic Data demonstrate Esmeralda and Água Marinha Block Prospectivity Andrew Hartwig (presenter), James Deckelman, Kyle Reuber, ION
15:25-15:50	How it Started, How It’s Going: Quantifying The Impact Of Tupi Field Development Strategies Over Time Jason Eleson (presenter), Jared Kugler, Oma Wilkie, Enverus
15:50-16:20	Q&A Session With Presenters and Chairs
16:20-16:30	Final Remarks Sylvia Couto Anjos, ABGP; Victor Vega, AAPG, General Chairs
17:30-19:00	Special Session with AAPG Brazil Student and Young Professional Chapters

Recorded Presentations

These recordings are available to the participants of the event. They can also be purchased separately through the AAPG Store. Click on the picture or the title of the video for viewing or purchasing options.

The E&P Sector in Brazil

Revitalizing Mature Oilfields Through Interdisciplinarity: A Case Study for the Macau Cluster (RN)

Parnaíba Basin Parque dos Gaviões Gas Fields Integrated Management: A Case Study of a Successful Reservoir to Wire Project

Improved Reservoir Characterization of a Mature Field Through an Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Approach: Lagoa Parda Field, ES, Brazil

Upper Cretaceous Turbidite System in the Deep Water of the Pará-Maranhão Basin

Sergipe Surprises and Suppositions: Deepwater Test Area for Source, Reservoir and Trap Development

Advanced Geochemistry Technology Applied to Hydrocarbon Exploration Assessment in Frontier Areas: A Case History of the Deepwater Sergipe-Alagoas Basin

Committee
Contacts

Victor Vega General Co-Chair Exploration Manager, Caribbean and South America, Shell Americas, USA

Sylvia Anjos General Co-Chair Director, ABGP, Brazil

Ricardo Savini Session Chair CEO, 3R Petroleum, Brazil

Decio Oddone Session Chair CEO, ENAUTA, Brazil

Hywel Upshall Session Chair General Manager Exploration – Atlantic Margin, Murphy Oil, USA

Vanessa Kertznus Session Chair Business Opportunity Manager, Shell, Brazil

Antonio Velasquez Session Chair Development and Production Manager, Ecopetrol, Brazil

Lorena Dominguez Espido Session Chair COO, Repsol Sinopec, Brazil

Emily Smith Llinás AAPG Latin America & Caribbean Region Manager

Diana Ruiz Vásquez AAPG Latin America & Caribbean Region Events Coordinator

Comments (2)

Pricing Explanation

Roberto, Thank you for your comment and for your interest in our events. We would like to respond to your concern with a bit of context. From January 2013 to February 2020 Technical workshops and conference registration fees in the Latin America and Caribbean ranged from $US 695 to $US 895 per person for members. The Virtual Research Symposium (VRS) series was a one-time initiative implemented by the Latin America and Caribbean Region during the second semester of 2020 to provide a service to members and friends of the association during the pandemic. Charging $50 per person for professionals is not sustainable in the long term, even for virtual events, which do have a cost to run and whose income helps to support all of the other education programs that we provide throughout the region. The cost of our 2-day Virtual Technical Symposiums (VTS, not VRS) in 2021 is $195 for AAPG members. This rate is 72% lower than the member registration price of $695 charged at the in-person GTW Brazil event held in Rio in June 2019. AAPG's Latin America and Caribbean Region and partners are working hard to organize events that provide the same technical quality as in-person person events, at a fraction of the registration cost and with no travel expenses or health and safety risks required. Registration fees and sponsorships collected for our events help us to sustain a wealth of other free programming– the Visiting Geoscience Program Tuesday Talks series, Energy Opportunities Executive Forums and the AAPG LACR Distinguished Lecturer Tour, for example – as well as student and young professional programs including the Imperial Barrel Award Competition, the Student-YP Leadership Summit, the Regional YP Conference and the Ready to Work program for recent graduates. These programs would not be possible without the support of our event participants and sponsors, and we thank all of them for helping us to reach geoscientists throughout the region.

5/6/2021 8:31:11 AM

Emily Smith Llinas

Pricing

VRS pricing has raised by almost four times for members since last november.

5/4/2021 8:52:20 AM

Roberto Cunha

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