Salt Tectonics, Sediments and Prospectivity

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This three day international conference aims to bring together academic and industrial geoscientists to review recent advances in our understanding of halokinetic processes and to explore the links between salt tectonics and sediments.  Key technical issues which will be covered in the conference include:

• How does salt tectonics manifest itself in sedimentary basins?
• Comparisons of subsidence rates between tectonically generated basins and salt withdrawal minibasins?
• Prediction of reservoir presence and quality and new generation facies models
• What traps hydrocarbons in salt flank structures - salt side seal or sand pinch out?
• Salt as a trapping and breaching mechanism - are salt welds sealing or leaky?
• To what extent does salt suppress hydrocarbon maturation?
• What role does salt play in sandstone diagenesis?
• Sub-salt imaging - how far have we come, new approaches / techniques to make further improvements?

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ian Davison (GEO International Ltd)
A study of deposition and deformation of layered evaporites in the Santos-Campos and Espirito-Santo Basins Brasil: using Reverse Time Migration Depth imaging

Kate Giles (New Mexico State University, USA)
Halokinetic Sequence Stratigraphy

Mike Hudec (Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, USA)
Influence of Deep Louann Structure on Evolution of the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Hemin Koyi (Uppsala University, Sweden)
The parameters which govern the rate of salt supply to a salt diapir

Ben Kneller (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Modelling of turbidity currents over salt

Webster Mohriak (Petrobras)
Salt: Geology and Tectonics of Selected Brazilian Basins

Brad Prather (Shell)
Sediment Partitioning across Tectonically Active Cenozoic Continental Slopes

Mark Rowan (Rowan Consulting, Colorado, USA)
Emplacement of allochthonous salt: a general model derived from field outcrops in South Australia and seismic and well data from the northern Gulf of Mexico

Simon Stewart (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Salt intrusions in the North Sea

Bruce Trudgill (Colorado School of Mines, USA)
Evolution of Salt Structures in the Northern Paradox Basin: Controls on Evaporite Deposition, Salt Wall Growth and Supra-Salt Stratigraphic Architecture

Bruno Vendeville (University of Lille, France)
Implications of halite’s low strength on forces, stresses, and strain rates associated with salt tectonics in nature and models

Rob Gawthorpe (University of Manchester)
The response of slope channel complexes to salt-related folding and faulting

Mike Bowman (BP Exploration)
Gulf of Mexico Sub Salt Exploration, Appraisal and Field Development – Lessons Learned

Sponsorship

If you are interested in sponsoring the conference, please contact Stuart Archer - s.archer@abdn.ac.uk


For further information about this conference, please contact: Steve Whalley, Event Co-ordinator +44 (0)20 7432 0980 or email: steve.whalley@geolsoc.org.uk