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New kids on the block: International players have discovered the joys — and potential for success — of doing seismic in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Think seismic and you think exploration, right? Well, get ready for something new -- seismic in the realm of the reservoir.

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Blue skies? For today's seismic industry, the pessimism of recent years has been replaced, thanks in part to new uses of familiar technologies.

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Some geologists refer to it as 'HTD' or hydrothermal dolomite.

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Explorer Geophysical Corner

The application of seismic data to stratigraphy and depositional systems analysis has been widespread at least since the publication of AAPG Memoir 26, over 27 years ago.

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A new format for training is introduced through AAPG's Education programs. The WEC may be just what you've been waiting for.

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The petroleum industry and government researchers have joined forces to study gas hydrate accumulations in the Gulf of Mexico.

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An ambitious new drilling program in Australia's offshore Gippsland Basin is about to begin, based on new state-of-the-art 3-D seismic data.

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There's more to Alaska than Prudhoe Bay: New technology and some surprising geological discoveries are helping to reawaken Alaska's petroleum promise.

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Same business, different ... everything else. A look at Louisiana, has fared during the past year, offering a contrasting tale.

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DL Abstract

Around 170 million years ago, the Gulf of Mexico basin flooded catastrophically, and the pre-existing landscape, which had been a very rugged, arid, semi-desert world, was drowned beneath an inland sea of salt water. The drowned landscape was then buried under kilometers of salt, perfectly preserving the older topography. Now, with high-quality 3D seismic data, the salt appears as a transparent layer, and the details of the drowned world can be seen in exquisite detail, providing a unique snapshot of the world on the eve of the flooding event. We can map out hills and valleys, and a system of river gullies and a large, meandering river system. These rivers in turn fed into a deep central lake, whose surface was about 750m below global sea level. This new knowledge also reveals how the Louann Salt was deposited. In contrast to published models, the salt was deposited in a deep water, hypersaline sea. We can estimate the rate of deposition, and it was very fast; we believe that the entire thickness of several kilometers of salt was laid down in a few tens of thousands of years, making it possibly the fastest sustained deposition seen so far in the geological record.

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VG Abstract

In comparison with the known boundary conditions that promote salt deformation and flow in sedimentary basins, the processes involved with the mobilization of clay-rich detrital sediments are far less well established. This talk will use seismic examples in different tectonic settings to document the variety of shale geometries that can be formed under brittle and ductile deformations.

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DL Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) seismic-reflection surveys provide one of the most important data types for understanding subsurface depositional systems. Quantitative analysis is commonly restricted to geophysical interpretation of elastic properties of rocks in the subsurface. Wide availability of 3D seismic-reflection data and integration provide opportunities for quantitative analysis of subsurface stratigraphic sequences. Here, we integrate traditional seismic-stratigraphic interpretation with quantitative geomorphologic analysis and numerical modeling to explore new insights into submarine-channel evolution.

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Request a visit from Jacob Covault!

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