Program
07:30 PM
Pre-meeting field trips
07:30 PM
Pre-meeting field trips
08:00 PM
Icebreaker reception
08:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:20
Opening Session
09:20 - 10:00
Keynote 1 -How to model the subsurface? The role of spatial data science in geophysical inverse modelling
Assistant Professor with Habilitation CERENA-IST, University of Lisbon,Portugal
SYNOPSIS
Geophysical inversion is a key step in the geo-modelling workflow as it allows predicting the spatial distribution of subsurface rock properties. However, this is a non-trivial task as the geophysical inverse problem is highly nonlinear, ill-posed and has multiple solutions. Probabilistic inverse modelling has been widely used to solve the geophysical inverse problem as it allows accounting for the uncertainty about the predictions and, therefore allow more informed decision making. Recent advances in probabilistic geophysical inversion leverage spatial data science, a field of machine learning, to predict subsurface properties while honouring multiple data sets including a priori geological knowledge. This presentation navigates within this new set of methods, showcasing successful synthetic and real application examples.
10:00 - 10:40
Room A: Oral Communications 1 – Geodynamics
10:00 – 10:20
Neoproterozoic cratons controlling Cretaceous South Atlantic rifting process
Renata Schmitt1, Evania Alves da Silva1, Pricilla Camões Souza1, João Vitor Mendes Jesus1, Luis Felipe Machado1, Natasha Stanton2, Raphaela Lopes de Andrade e Silva1, Silvia Medeiros, Ursula Lopes Riente1, Marco Antonio Thoaldo Romeiro3, Mario Neto Cavalcanti de Araujo3, Guilherme Martins1, Bernardo Khater, Isabela de Oliveira Carmo3
1Geology Department, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2Faculty of Oceanography, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3CENPES, PETROBRAS - Centro de Pesquisas e Desenvolvimento Leopoldo A. M. de Mello, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
10:20 – 10:40
Carboniferous basin development, heat flow history and calibration of 1D basin models, offshore west of Ireland in the Porcupine Basin
Hannah Rawson1, Jonathan Redfern1, Kevin Taylor1, James Armstrong2
1School of Earth, Atmospheric, and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2Petroleum Systems Limited, Prestatyn, United Kingdom
10:00 - 10:40
Room B: Oral Communications 2 - New Methods
10:00 – 10:20
From shelf break to deep ocean basin: residual bathymetry of the Atlantic Ocean and its geologic implications
David Mosher1, Gonzalo Yañez-Carrizo2, Sebastian Krastel3, Javier Hernández Molina4
1Natural Resources Canada, Halifax, Canada, 2Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 3Institute of Geosciences, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 4 Andalusian Earth Sciences Institute, Spanish Research Council, Granada, Spain
10:20 – 10:40
Plate Tectonics as an interpretation tool in the exploration of conjugate margins
Katya Casey1
1Actus Veritas Geoscience, Sugar Land, United States
10:40 -11:00
Pause
11:00 - 12:20
Room A: Oral Communications 3 – Geodynamics
11:00 – 11:20
Lithospheric mega-transects of the Atlantic Canadian, Iberian, and Moroccan conjugate rifted margins from onshore-to-offshore 3-D gravity inversion with variable meshes
J Kim Welford1
1Memorial University Of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
11:20– 11:40
Deformably restoring Atlantic Canada and its conjugates back to the Paleozoic
J Kim Welford1, Michael T. King1, John W.F. Waldron2
1Memorial University Of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada 2University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
11:40 – 12:00
Late Paleozoic to Mesozoic bedrock exhumation alonLate Paleozoic to Mesozoic bedrock exhumation along the Newfoundland margin recorded by low-temperature thermochronology
Emily Johns-Buss1, Luke Beranek1, Eva Enkelmann2
1Memorial University of Newfoundland, , Canada, 2University of Calgary, Canada
12:00 – 12:20
Tectonic exhumation, volcanism, and source-to-sink processes in magma-poor rift systems: new perspectives from the Newfoundland margin
Luke Beranek1, Emily Johns-Buss1, Eva Enkelmann2, Stephen Schwartz1,3
1Memorial University Of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada, 2University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, 3Equinor Canada Ltd., St. John's, Canada
11:00 - 12:20
Room B: Oral Communications 4 - New Methods
11:00 – 11:20
Redefining the Geometry and Evolution of the Brazilian South Atlantic Margin and its African conjugate: Pelotas, Santos, and Campos Basins.
Paul Markwick1, Douglas Paton2, Mário Neto Araújo3, John Nailboff4, Tahiry Rajaonarison4, Estelle Mortimer2
1Knowing Earth, Otley, United Kingdom, 2TectonKnow Limited, Highlands,, United Kingdom, 3CENPES Research Center, Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 4New Mexico Tech, , United States
11:20 – 11:40
Impact of Gondwana inheritance on the development of transfer zones in the Santos Basin (SE Brazil): insights from physical experiments
Pricilla Camões M. de Souza1, Renata Schmitt1, Guido Schreurs2, Frank Zwaan3, Frank Zwaan4
1Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 3Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 4University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
11:40– 12:00
Solving the Passive Margin Play Map Paradox offshore Uruguay
Katya Casey1
1Actus Veritas Geoscience, Sugar Land, United States
12:00 – 12:20
New seismic constraints on syn-rift magmatism across the continent-ocean transition (COT) offshore central and southwestern Nova Scotia from Vp/Vs modelling
Ka Wai Helen Lau1, Mladen R. Nedimović1, Miao Zhang1
1Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
12:40 – 14:20
Lunch
14:20 - 15:00
Keynote 2 - Geoscience Communication During the Energy Transition
Director of Sustainable Geoscience at Jacobs
SYNOPSIS
In this talk I'll discuss some of the challenges with communicating geoscience principles to the public and politicians at a time when we desperately need geoscience to positively influence our present and future lives.
15:00 - 16:00
Room A: Oral Communications 5 - Geodynamics
15:00 - 15:20
Exploration potential of the Southern Chidley Basin, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador
Victoria Mitchell1, Leona Stead1, David McCallum1, Nick Montevecchi1
1Oil and Gas Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Canada
15:20 - 15:40
Comparing the geology of Gulf of Cádiz and Gharb basins with Nova Scotia conjugate margin
Carlos Giraldo1, Katya Casey1
1U3 Explore, , U.S.A.
15:40 –16:00
The role of basement reactivation in the Accretionary Wedge emplacement and the structural configuration of the Gharb Offshore Basin, Morocco.
Mohamed Amine Manar1, Asmae Benarchid1, Abdellah Ait Salem2
1Office National Des Hydrocarbures Et Des Mines (ONHYM), Rabat, Morocco, 2Petroleum Geoscience Consultant, Rabat, Morocco
15:00 - 16:00
Room B : Oral Communications 6 - New Methods
15:00 - 15:20
Nature of the J-Magnetic Anomaly in the Central Atlantic: New Data and Implications to the Northern West Iberia-Newfoundland Margins
Marta Neres1,2, César Ranero3,4, Manel Prada3, Laura Gomez de la Peña3, Irene Merino3
1IPMA , Lisboa, Portugal, 2IDL-FCUL, Lisboa, Portugal, 3Barcelona Center for Subsurface Imaging, ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain, 4ICREA, ICM-CSIC, Spain
15:20 - 15:40
The Kwanza Basin: Hydrocarbon Potential in an Underexplored Conjugate
Matthew Plummer1, Jeff Tilton2, Thomas Hansen1
1PGS, Weybridge, United Kingdom, 2PGS, Houston, USA
15:40 –16:00
Using thermophilic bacterial endospores as subsurface oil reservoir indicators in seabed sediments offshore Nova Scotia and Morocco
Daniel Gittins1, Natasha MacAdam2, Daniel Yakimenka3, Nathan Moore4, Melissa Chin4, Duncan Wallace4, Adam MacDonald2, Casey Hubert3
1University Of California, Berkeley, United States, 2Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Canada, 3University of Calgary, , Canada, 4Chariot Energy Group, United Kingdom
16:00 – 16:20
Pause
16:20- 17:20
Room A: Oral Communications 7 - Geodynamics
16:20 – 16:40
Detachment faults in Morocco: a review
Fida Medina1
1Moroccan Association Of Geosciences, Morocco
16:40 – 17:00
Tectonic reactivation of the distal West Iberia Margin - The role of inherited Mesozoic rifting structures and Late Cretaceous magmatism
Cristina Roque1,2, Alexandra Afilhado2,3, Ricardo Pereira2,4, Davide Gamboa5,6, Pedro Terrinha2,7
1EMEPC-EMEPC-Task Group for the Extension of Continental Shelf, Paço de Arcos, Portugal, 2IDL-Instituto Dom Luíz, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 3ISEL- Instituto de Engenharia de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, 4GeoBioTec, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Almada, Portugal, 5Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, 6CESAM- Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, 7IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisbon, Portugal
17:00 – 17:20
How significant was Cretaceous magmatism in controlling Alpine tectonic inversion offshore SW Iberia?
Tiago Alves1, Marta Neres2,3
13D Seismic Lab - Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 2IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisbon, Portugal, 3IDL - Instituto Dom Luiz, Lisbon, Portugal
17:20 – 17:40
Style and trends of Mass-Transport Deposits on conjugate South Atlantic salt margins
Davide Gamboa1,² , Ana Maia³
1Departamento de Geociências, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
²Centro de Estudos do Mar e do Ambiente – CESAM, Universidade de Aveiro, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal
³GeoSurveys – Geophysical Consultants, 3800-055, Aveiro, Portugal
16:20- 17:20
Room B: Oral Communications 8 – Geoenergy
16:20 – 16:40
Unlocking Subsurface Compressed Air Energy Storage on continental margins: potential and challenges for sustainable energy transition
Ricardo Pereira1,2, João Silva2, Jorge Maia Alves2
1GeoBioTec, NOVA School of Science and Technology, Monte de Caparica, Portugal, 2Instituto Dom Luiz, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
16:40 – 17:00
Tectonic Controls and Characterization of Generation of Natural Hydrogen and Potential Trapping in Magma-poor Rifted Margins
Javier García-Pintado1, Marta Pérez-Gussinyé1, Tiago Abreu Cunha2
1Marum, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 2IGI Ltd, The Clock House, The Old Stables Business Park , United Kingdom
17:00 – 17:20
Geostorage onshore and offshore Atlantic Canada for CCS, CAES & Hydrogen
Grant Wach1, Bill (F.W.) Richards1, Maurice Dusseault2,Julianne Jager1, Tristan Leclerc1, and John Dickie1
1Dalhousie University, Basin & Reservoir Lab, Halifax, Canada, 2University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
17:20 – 17:40
Triassic sandstone of the Fundy Basin, eastern Canada: A possible deep-saline reservoir for CO2 storage adjacent Large Final Emitters?
David Keighley1
1University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
17:45 – 18:30
Room A: Poster Session
The application of new Late Tithonian biostratigraphic data from the Flemish Pass Basin: an improved understanding of chronostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments
Stephen Schwartz1, Jason Jeremiah2, Anthony Scott1
1Equinor Canada Ltd., St. John's, Canada, 2CGG Services (UK) Ltd, Crawley, England
Unraveling the Mesozoic magmatism on West Iberia Margin: high-resolution marine geophysical surveys on the West Portuguese shelf
Neres M1,2, Terrinha P1,2, Noiva J1, Brito P1, Rosa M1, Batista L1, Ribeiro C3
1IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, 2IDL-FCUL - Instituto Dom Luiz, 3UE - Universidade de Évora
A Multidisciplinary Approach of the Geophysical Complexity of the Santos Basin: A Comprehensive Study from Gravity, Magnetic, and Seismic Data
Darby Pereira Dantas de Lima1, Jorge Picanço de Figueiredo1, João Pedro Rodrigues Areias1
1Departamento de Geologia, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paleoenvironmental and structural factors that controlled the development and organic matter content of the deposits Cenomanian-Turonian in the Tarfaya- Lagouira segment of the Atlantic Moroccan margin.
Malika AADJOUR1,1, Abdellah AIT SALEM2, Said FAKHI3, Karima GUERNOUCHE2, Mohamed OUKHLIFA1
1Faculty of Science Ben M’sick av Driss Elharti sidi Othman, Casablanca, Morocco, 2Laboratory of Applied Geology Geomatics and Environment, Rabat, Morocco, 3National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) - Boulevard prince Moulay Abdellah, Rabat, Morocco
Seismic Tour of Southern Atlantic Deep Water Exploration Trends
KARYNA RODRIGUEZ1, Neil Hodgson1
1Searcher, , United Kingdom
Distinct SDRs segments as primary input data to oceanic opening model: case of the Austral South Atlantic Ocean
Mirela Ribas1, Felipe Costa1, Caesar Rigoti1, Cristiany Pereira1, Pedro Piauilino1, Savio Almeida1, Jose Pinheiro1, Joao Neto1, Elvis Silva1, Luiz Empinotti1
1Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Crustal structure of central and southern Nova Scotia margin
Ana Corbalán1, Mladen R. Nedimović1, K.W. Helen Lau1, Vittorio Maselli1,2
1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 2Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Paraíba do Sul Transfer Zone: basement inheritances controlling sedimentation and deformation interplay
Felipe Costa1, Savio Garcia1, Nolan Dehler1
1Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organic carbon deposition recorded in Late Cenomanian to Early Turonian strata in the Agadir and Tarfaya Basins, West Morocco.
Kevin Taylor1, Jianpeng Wang1, Jonathan Redfern1, Luc Bulot1
1University Of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Crustal structure along and across the northwestern Iberian margin: Insights from new 2D seismic reflection data
Miguel Ángel De La Fuente-Oliver1, Alfonso Muñoz Martín1, José Luis Granja-Bruña1, María Druet Vélez2, Gerardo de Vicente Muñoz1, Adolfo Maestro González2, Jorge Gallastegui Suárez3, Fernando Bohoyo Muñoz2
1Applied Tectonophysics Group. Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME-CSIC), Madrid, Spain, 3Oviedo University, Oviedo, Spain
Post-rift tectono-sedimentary evolution of the deep West Iberian Margin.
Maria Simões1,2, Cristina Roque1,3, Carlos Ribeiro2,4,5,6, João Noiva7, Pedro Terrinha3,7
1EMEPC - Estrutura de Missão para a Extensão da Plataforma Continental, Paço d'Arcos, Portugal, 2Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 3IDL- Instituto Dom Luíz, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 4MARE – Centro de Ciências do Mar e Ambiente, Évora, Portugal , 5ARNET – Aquatic Research Network, Évora, Portugal, 6Departamento de Geociências, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 7IPMA – Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P., Lisboa, Portugal
The exploratory success of an onshore oil field in coquinas in the Brazilian pre-salt
Antônio Jorge Vasconcellos Garcia1,3,4, Gustavo Gonçalves Garcia1,2,3
1University of Coimbra, Department of Earth Sciences, Geosciences Center, Coimbra, Portugal, 14 GKF - Consultoria em Geologia e Engenharia de Petroleo - Room 12E - Nucleus of Competence for Oil, Gas and Biofuels/Progeologia Laboratory, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil, 2University of Coimbra, Science and Technology Faculty, Department of Earth Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal, 3Nucleus of Competence for Oil, Gas and Biofuels/Progeologia Laboratory, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil
Seismo-structural analysis of the Jurassic interval ofEssaouira Offshore basin (Morocco): organisation and Hydrocarbon potential.
B.CHERRADI1&2, M. FARSSI1, A. BENARCHID1,N. MHAMMDI2
1: OfficeNational des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM), RABAT-MOROCCO.
2: Mohammed V University, Rabat,Institut Scientifique GEOPAC Research Center, Geophysics andNatural Hazards Laboratory, Av Ibn Batouta, B.P 703Agdal, Rabat, Morocco.
08:00
Registration
09:00 – 09:40
Keynote 3 - CO2 Geostorage in Europe: stateof the art and future trends
CEO, NET4CO2 Colab
SYNOPSIS
Most prognosticators and recommendations from IPCC envision that fossil fuels will represent progressively less in terms of contribution of the world’s energy needs for the next 40-50 years. As the energy transition moves forward, the knowledge acquired in the oil and gas industry must shift and properly translate into the identification of proper CO2 sinks in the subsurface. Geological storage of CO2 has gained increasing momentum and relevance to tackle significant removal of CO2 from the atmosphere and the number of projects being evaluated reflects that interest. Still, the deployment of this technology faces significant technical hurdles as well as economic, social, and regulatory challenges. As geological storage becomes an increasingly more relevant option to progressively balance CO2 emissions, potential geosites can be tied to existing treatment facilities nearby carbon-intensive industrial areas therefore reducing the environmental and CO2 footprint, thus ensuring a sustainable economic growth.
09:40 – 10:40
Room A: Oral Communications 9 – Geodynamics
09:40 – 10:00
A unique fossilized onset of convergent tectonics in the Atlantic ocean
Patricia Cadenas1,2, Kim Welford1, Gabriela Fernández-Viejo3, João Duarte2, Luis Somoza4
1Earth Sciences Department, Memorial University Of Newfoundland, St John´s , Canada, 2Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon , Lisbon, Portugal, 3Department of Geology, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 4Marine Geological Resources Division, Spanish Geological Survey, Spanish Research Council, Madrid, Spain
10:00 – 10:20
Comparison of deepwater, marginal rifts and their hydrocarbon potential: Examples from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic margin of Morocco
Jose Miguel Gorosabel Araus1, Paul Mann1
1University Of Houston, Houston, United States
10:20 – 10:40
Modelling the Rift-Drift Transition in the Central Atlantic: A Comparison to the Recent Opening of the Gulf of California
Richard Whittaker1, Bridget Ady1
1Global Tectonics Ltd, Canmore, Canada
9:40 – 10:40
Room B: Oral Communications 10 - Geoenergy
09:40 – 10:00
Understanding the riddles of energy and CO2 geostorage in and around salt structures from field examples in Portugal.
Pedro Barreto1
1Geo Logica, Lisbon, Portugal
10:00 – 10:20
Footwall degradation complexes in West Iberia: A target for carbon storage in a setting dominated by Alpine tectonics
Tiago Alves1, Tomas Cupkovic2
13D Seismic Laboratory, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom, 2Cenovus Energy, St John´s, Canada
10:20 – 10:40
Estimation of potential CO2 solubility in formation brines for geological storage of CO2 in the Algarve basin
Pedro Pinto1, Hugo Matias1
1NET4CO2, , Portugal
10:40 – 11:00
Pause
11:00 – 12:00
Room A: Oral Communications 11 – Geodynamics
11:00 – 11:20
Sequence of tectono-magmatic processes and role of dynamic uplift and subsidence during rift–early drift, Guyana–Suriname margin
James Pindell1,2, Teunis Heyn3
1Tectonic Analysis Ltd, Sussex, United Kingdom, 2Rice University, Houston, United States, 3Independent Structural Geologist, Houston, United States
11:20 – 11:40
The deepwater Barreirinhas Basin of the Equatorial Margin of Brazil: Refined basin modeling reveals upside hydrocarbon potential
Jose Miguel Gorosabel Araus1, Paul Mann1, Alanny Melo2, David Castro2, Diogenes Oliveira2
1University Of Houston, Houston, United States, 2Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil, Natal, Brazil
11:40 – 12:00
Cretaceous Volcanism in the Santos Basin (Brazil): Stratigraphy and Eruption Styles
Cicera Neysi De Almeida1, Jessica Silva Castro1, Jorge Picanço de Figueiredo1
1Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
11:00 – 12:40
Room B: Oral Communications 12 - Geoenergy
11:00 – 11:20
Reservoir and seal characterization for CO2 Storage in the offshore Algarve Basin (SW Iberia)
Hugo Matias1, Pedro Pinto1
1NET4CO2, Porto, Portugal
11:20 – 11:40
Estimation of fracture gradient and potential CO2 column heights for geological storage in the Algarve basin
Pedro Pinto1, Toby Harold2, Hugo Matias1
1NET4CO2, Portugal, 2P-ten geomechanics, Spain
11:40 – 12:00
A New Multiphysics Modelling Protocol to Constrain Subsurface CO2 Plume Migration for Optimised Carbon Emissions Monitoring in CCS
Marianne Nuzzo1, Shubhangi Gupta2,3,4, Ewa Burwicz-Galerne3, Tiago Cunha1, Christophe Galerne3
1Integrated Geochemical Interpretation Ltd, Bideford, United Kingdom, 2Department of Geosciences, University of Malta , Msida, Malta, 3MARUM - Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 4GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
12:00 – 12:20
Prospecting for geothermal energy in sedimentary basins of eastern Canada: salt-chimney effects or unreliable data?
Joseph De Luca1, David Keighley1
1University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
12:20 - 12:40
Integrated geophysics workflows to derisk high and low enthalpy geothermal potential in sedimentary basins
Joe Mongan1
1PIPCO Research Studies Group, Dublin , Ireland
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12:40 – 14:20
Lunch
14:20 – 15:00
Keynote 4 - The reactivation of the Atlantic margins and its implications for the dynamics of the Wilson Cycle
Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
SYNOPSIS
The Atlantic conjugate margins are an archetype of the opening phase of the Wilson Cycle, which describes an ocean’s life cycle. Oceans are born from rifting, grow from seafloor spreading and are consumed at subduction zones. The transition from opening to consumption corresponds to the turning point of the Wilson Cycle, which involves major geodynamic reorganisations and the reactivation of passive margins. The Atlantic seems to be undergoing this transition. Notwithstanding, there are still many doubts about how this transition occurs and what are its controlling factors. Subduction zones can form or propagate into passive margins, but observations suggest that the characteristics of the margin, rift inheritance and proximity to collision zones may play fundamental roles in controlling and facilitating their reactivation. In this communication, we will focus on the Atlantic conjugate margins and explore what factors may be controlling their reactivation.
15:00 – 15:40
Room A: Oral Communications 13 - Geodynamics
15:00 – 15:20
Tectonic control on the salt distribution and post-salt deposits in the central-southern portion of the Santos Basin (Brazil)
Thaís Brêda1, Claudio Mello1, Jorge Picanço De Figueiredo1, Leidiane D’Souza1
1Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, , Brazil
15:20 – 15:40
Was salt deposited on the oceanic crust in Santos Basin, Brazil?
Jorge Picanço De Figueiredo1, Leidiane D'Souza1, Aristides Francês1, Darby Lima1, Danniel Peregrino1, Isadora Nascimento1
1Federal University Of Rio De Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
15:00 – 16:00
Room B: Oral Communications 14 - Stratigraphy
15:00 – 15:20
Sedimentology and high sequence stratigraphy resolution of the Triassic series of the Imini basin (Morocco) and correlation with iberian basins
Rachid Essamoud1, Soukaina Obad2
1Higher School of Technology of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco, 2Hassan 2 University of Casablanca, Ben Msik Faculty of Sciences, Geosciences and Applications Laboratory, Casablanca, Morocco
15:20 – 15:40
A new biostratigraphic (palynology) and palaeoenvironment framework for the Aptian-Albian interval on the southwestern Moroccan Atlantic margin (Agadir Basin)
Wafaa Maatouf1, Touria Hssaida2, Khaoula Chafai2, Hanane Khaffou2
1Department of Petroleum Laboratory, Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM), Rabat, Morocco, 2Geosciences and Applications Laboratory. Faculty of Sciences Ben M'sik. Hassan II University Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco
15:40 – 16:00
Prospectivity Atlas of the Moroccan Atlantic Margin: New Insights on Prospectivity from an updated synthesis
Atika Karim1, Asmae Benarchid1, Bouchera Cherradi1, Mohamed Amine Manar1, Ismail Ouahbi1, Karima Guernouche1, Mohammed Farssi1, Walid Kassoui1, Othman Essarrar1, Salwa Didi1, Abdellah Ait Salem2
1Office National des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM), Direction d’Exploration Pétrolière (DEP), Rabat, Morocco, 2Petroleum Geologist Consultant, Rabat, Morocco
16:00 – 16:20
Pause
16:20 – 18:00
Room A: Oral Communications 15 – Geodynamics
16:20 – 16:40
The Lower-Mid. CretaceousEvolution of the Circum- Austral South Atlantic: Integrating the geodynamic,tectonostratigraphic and structural/magmatic development of conjugate margins.
Ken Mc Dermott1,Phil Thompson1,Christian Heine2,Colin Grant1
1Shell, , United Kingdom, 2Shell,Den Haag, Netherlands
16:40 – 17:00
Scotian Margin Exploration and Play Concepts - Missed andOverlooked Opportunities
David E. Brown1, Grant D. Wach1, F.W. (Bill) Richards1, Ricardo L. Silva2,Taylor Campbell3, Charles Carlisle4, Leslie Eliuk5,Anne Hargreaves1 (†), Trevor Kelly6, Yawooz Kettanah1,Natasha Morrison6, Darragh O’Connor7, Carla Skinner8,Neil Watson1, Carlos Wong6, Kenneth Martyns-Yellowe1,and the Basin & Reservoir Lab Team1
1DalhousieUniversity, Halifax NS, Canada
2Universityof Manitoba, Winnipeg MB, Canada
3St.Barbara Limited, Halifax NS, Canada
4CarlisleEarth and Ocean Services, Wexford, Ireland
5Geotours,Limited, Three Hills AB, Canada
6NovaScotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewables, Halifax NS, Canada
7Universityof Manchester, Manchester, UK
8GeologicalSurvey of Canada Atlantic, Dartmouth NS, Canada
9AirborneImaging Inc., Calgary AB, Canada
(† deceased)
17:020 - 17:20
EXPLORATION OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PUNTA DEL ESTE AND PELOTAS BASINS UNLOCKING URUGUAY’S OFFSHORE POTENTIAL
Yermek Balabekov1, Adriana Sola1, Bruno Conti², Pablo Gristo²
1PGS (NSA), 2ANCAP (Uruguay)
17:20 - 17:40
Offshore Freshened Groundwater occurrences on continental margins, a valuable resource for the future
D. Gamboa1,2, M. Giustiani3, A. Micallef4,5, C. Bertoni6, A. Thomas5, H. Wazaz5
1Departamento de Geociências, Universidade de Aveiro,Aveiro, Portugal
2Centro de Estudos do Mar e do Ambiente (CESAM), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
3Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Trieste, Italia
4Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, USA
5University of Malta, Department of Geosciences, Marine Geology and Seafloor Surveying, Msida, Malta
6 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
16:20 – 17:40
Room B: Oral Communications 16 - Stratigraphy
16:20 – 16:40
Offshore Atlantic Margin Turbidites : Truth behind imaging
Karima GUERNOUCHE1, Asmae Benarchid1, Abdellah Ait Salem2
1ONHYM, Rabat, Morocco, 2PetroGeol. Consulting, Rabat, Morocco
16:40 – 17:00
Relationship between Ocean Currents and Global Ocean Gateways during Gondwanan breakup: Implications for exploration within the Austral South Atlantic
Philip Thompson1, Megan Burdek1, Fabian Kostro1, Judit Garcia-Garcia1, Ken Mc Dermott1, Mark Redden1, Hollie Romain1, Niall Sayers1, Mike Steventon1
1Shell, London, United Kingdom
17:00 – 17:20
The earliest marine invasion of the Central Atlantic and implications for the “Hispanic Corridor”
Andrew MacRae1, Georgia Pe-Piper1, Janice F. Weston2, Piero Ascoli3, Kevin E. Cooper4, Robert A. Fensome3, David Shaw5, Graham L. Williams3
1Dept. of Geology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, 2Weston Stratigraphic Ltd., Guildford, UK, 3Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), Dartmouth, Canada, 4KC Stratigraphic Ltd., Woking, UK, 5Biostratigraphic Associates (UK) Ltd., Norton Green, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
17:20 – 17:40
Digitalization and artificial intelligence applied to biostratigraphy - new tools for old and new data
Gil Machado1,2, Laurenz Strothmann3, Frederik Strothmann3
1Chronosurveys Lda, Almada, Portugal, 2Instituto Dom Luiz, Lisbon, Portugal, 3sentin GmbH, Bochum, Germany
17:45 – 18:30
Room A: Poster Session
The application of new Late Tithonian biostratigraphic data from the Flemish Pass Basin: an improved understanding of chronostratigraphy and palaeoenvironments
Stephen Schwartz1, Jason Jeremiah2, Anthony Scott1
1Equinor Canada Ltd., St. John's, Canada, 2CGG Services (UK) Ltd, Crawley, England
Unraveling the Mesozoic magmatism on West Iberia Margin: high-resolution marine geophysical surveys on the West Portuguese shelf
Neres M1,2, Terrinha P1,2, Noiva J1, Brito P1, Rosa M1, Batista L1, Ribeiro C3
1IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, 2IDL-FCUL - Instituto Dom Luiz, 3UE - Universidade de Évora
A Multidisciplinary Approach of the Geophysical Complexity of the Santos Basin: A Comprehensive Study from Gravity, Magnetic, and Seismic Data
Darby Pereira Dantas de Lima1, Jorge Picanço de Figueiredo1, João Pedro Rodrigues Areias1
1Departamento de Geologia, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Paleoenvironmental and structural factors that controlled the development and organic matter content of the deposits Cenomanian-Turonian in the Tarfaya- Lagouira segment of the Atlantic Moroccan margin.
Malika AADJOUR1,1, Abdellah AIT SALEM2, Said FAKHI3, Karima GUERNOUCHE2, Mohamed OUKHLIFA1
1Faculty of Science Ben M’sick av Driss Elharti sidi Othman, Casablanca, Morocco, 2Laboratory of Applied Geology Geomatics and Environment, Rabat, Morocco, 3National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines (ONHYM) - Boulevard prince Moulay Abdellah, Rabat, Morocco
Seismic Tour of Southern Atlantic Deep Water Exploration Trends
KARYNA RODRIGUEZ1, Neil Hodgson1
1Searcher, , United Kingdom
Distinct SDRs segments as primary input data to oceanic opening model: case of the Austral South Atlantic Ocean
Mirela Ribas1, Felipe Costa1, Caesar Rigoti1, Cristiany Pereira1, Pedro Piauilino1, Savio Almeida1, Jose Pinheiro1, Joao Neto1, Elvis Silva1, Luiz Empinotti1
1Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Crustal structure of central and southern Nova Scotia margin
Ana Corbalán1, Mladen R. Nedimović1, K.W. Helen Lau1, Vittorio Maselli1,2
1Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, 2Department of Chemical and Geological Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
Paraíba do Sul Transfer Zone: basement inheritances controlling sedimentation and deformation interplay
Felipe Costa1, Savio Garcia1, Nolan Dehler1
1Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Organic carbon deposition recorded in Late Cenomanian to Early Turonian strata in the Agadir and Tarfaya Basins, West Morocco.
Kevin Taylor1, Jianpeng Wang1, Jonathan Redfern1, Luc Bulot1
1University Of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Crustal structure along and across the northwestern Iberian margin: Insights from new 2D seismic reflection data
Miguel Ángel De La Fuente-Oliver1, Alfonso Muñoz Martín1, José Luis Granja-Bruña1, María Druet Vélez2, Gerardo de Vicente Muñoz1, Adolfo Maestro González2, Jorge Gallastegui Suárez3, Fernando Bohoyo Muñoz2
1Applied Tectonophysics Group. Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME-CSIC), Madrid, Spain, 3Oviedo University, Oviedo, Spain
Post-rift tectono-sedimentary evolution of the deep West Iberian Margin.
Maria Simões1,2, Cristina Roque1,3, Carlos Ribeiro2,4,5,6, João Noiva7, Pedro Terrinha3,7
1EMEPC - Estrutura de Missão para a Extensão da Plataforma Continental, Paço d'Arcos, Portugal, 2Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 3IDL- Instituto Dom Luíz, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, 4MARE – Centro de Ciências do Mar e Ambiente, Évora, Portugal , 5ARNET – Aquatic Research Network, Évora, Portugal, 6Departamento de Geociências, Escola de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal, 7IPMA – Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I. P., Lisboa, Portugal
The exploratory success of an onshore oil field in coquinas in the Brazilian pre-salt
Antônio Jorge Vasconcellos Garcia1,3,4, Gustavo Gonçalves Garcia1,2,3
1University of Coimbra, Department of Earth Sciences, Geosciences Center, Coimbra, Portugal, 14 GKF - Consultoria em Geologia e Engenharia de Petroleo - Room 12E - Nucleus of Competence for Oil, Gas and Biofuels/Progeologia Laboratory, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil, 2University of Coimbra, Science and Technology Faculty, Department of Earth Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal, 3Nucleus of Competence for Oil, Gas and Biofuels/Progeologia Laboratory, Federal University of Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil
Seismo-structural analysis of the Jurassic interval ofEssaouira Offshore basin (Morocco): organisation and Hydrocarbon potential.
B.CHERRADI1&2, M. FARSSI1, A. BENARCHID1,N. MHAMMDI2
1: OfficeNational des Hydrocarbures et des Mines (ONHYM), RABAT-MOROCCO.
2: Mohammed V University, Rabat,Institut Scientifique GEOPAC Research Center, Geophysics andNatural Hazards Laboratory, Av Ibn Batouta, B.P 703Agdal, Rabat, Morocco.
20:00
Gala Dinner
Pateo de Alfama
08.00
Registration
09:00 – 09:40
Keynote 5 - Developments in Sequence Stratigraphy
Faculty of Science - Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Canada
SYNOPSIS
Sequence stratigraphy examines stratigraphic cyclicity and the related changes in sedimentation regimes that can be observed at the scales afforded by the resolution of the data available. Stratal stacking patterns are at the core of the sequence stratigraphic methodology, as they provide the criteria for the definition of all units and surfaces of sequence stratigraphy. The methodology improved significantly since the 1970s, from a model-driven approach underlain by assumptions regarding the dominant role of eustasy on sequence development, with consequent assertions of global correlations, to a data-driven approach that promotes the use of local data and unbiased geological reasoning. This affords realistic constructions of local stratigraphic frameworks, which prove to be highly variable, not only from one basin to another, but also between sub-basins of the same sedimentary basin. The construction of basin-specific stratigraphic frameworks based on local data and free of model assumptions, along with the separation between the observation of stratal stacking patterns and the interpretation of controls on sequence development, are key to methodological objectivity. The standard application of sequence stratigraphy also requires a scale-independent approach to methodology and nomenclature, which transcends the variability introduced by the geological setting and the resolution of the data available.
09:40 – 10:20
Room B: Oral Communications 17 - Geodynamics
09:40 – 10:00
Structural framework and tectonic evolution of the offshore Namibe Basin, Angola
Erich Nepembe1, Stefan Schroeder1, Mads Huuse1, Ansgar Wanke2, Emma Taylor3
1Basin Studies, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2Upstream Exploration Services Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 3PGS Africa, Mediterranean and Middle East, Weybridge, United Kingdom
10:00 – 10:20
Pioneering Depths: Unravelling Exploration for the Unconventional Resources in the Cretaceous Reservoirs in the Deep Offshore Indus Basin
Yasir Shahzad1,2, Ines Pereira1,2, Ricardo Pereira3,4, Rui Pena dos Reis1,2
1University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, 2Centro de Geociências, Coimbra, Portugal, 3GeoBioTec, Dep. Ciências da Terra, FCT-UNL, Monte de Caparica, Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal, 4Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências, Instituto Dom Luiz, Portugal
09:40 – 10:40
Room A: Oral Communications 18 – Stratigraphy
09:40 – 10:00
Central Atlantic ocean circulation and climate change during the Jurassic to Cretaceous: new insights from integrated isotope and biostratigraphic analysis
Jonathan Redfern1, Greg Price2, Camille Frau1
1University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, 2University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom
10:00 – 10:20
Calibrating the Aptian-Albian tectonic history through Re-Os dating of lacustrine shales, Araripe Basin, NE Brazil
Beatriz Caetano1, Renata S. Schmitt1, Silvia R. de Medeiros1, Aristóteles Rios-Netto1, Holly Stein3, Judy Hannah3, Gang Yang2, Joachim E. Amthor4
1Federal University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2AIRIE Program, Innosphere Ventures, Fort Collins, United States, 3Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 4Shell Brazil Technology, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
10:20 – 10:40
Integrated biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental assessment of the Scotian Margin post-rift Lower Cretaceous succession, offshore eastern Canada
Lynn Dafoe, R. Andrew MacRae2, Vânia Correia1, Ricardo Silva3, Robert A. Fensome1, M. Kevin E. Cooper4, Carla Skinner1, Graham L. Williams1
1Natural Resources Canada, Dartmouth, Canada, 2Department of Geology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada, 3Department of Earth Sciences and BETY Lab, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 4KC Stratigraphic Ltd., Woking, United Kingdom
10:40 – 11:00
Pause
11:00 – 12:20
Room A: Oral Communications 19 – Stratigraphy
11:00 – 11:20
The Mesozoic Carbonate Platforms of the Atlantic Margins: Exploration Success and Failure.
Peter Mullin1
1Werrus Aquamarine, Houston, United States
11:20 – 11:40
Building an incipient continental margin from reefs and rivers in the northern Red Sea
Benjamin Rendall1, Asil Newigy1, Maria Mutti1, Sam Purkis2
1Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, 2Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Miami, United States
11:40 – 12:00
Deepwater Cretaceous clastic depositional trends and structural influences offshore Namibia and Uruguay
Thomas Hansen1
1PGS, Weybridge, United Kingdom
12:00 – 12:20
Turbidites vs contourites by first class field analogues of the Kwanza Coast. Preliminary approach geometries, stratigraphic Architecture and depositional system
Cirilo Cauxeiro1
1High Polytechnic Institute of Technology and Sciences - ISPTEC, Luanda, Angola, 2Montpellier 2 University, Montpellier, France