Exploration in West Africa will be assisted by a better understanding of the petroleum system, and also the petroleum system in the conjugate margin in South America, from Suriname to Brazil.
In this webinar, Andrew Pepper - Director & Founder, This !s Petroleum Systems LLC, and one of the world's leading experts on petroleum systems, will share his perspectives, looking at the region from Ghana to Cote d’Ivoire.
Mr Pepper has been studying petroleum systems in the region since the late 1990s, and currently working together with explorers at Staatsolie in Suriname. Public data for the region is very limited.
A petroleum systems study should start by looking for source rock. Work is ongoing to define this, by Daniella Easley and Jose Gorosabel.
The source rock interval may not be La Luna (Colombia) or from the second Cenomanian-Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event, as many people believe. The source beds actually range in age from Aptian to Santonian.
Mr Pepper will also present observations on the distribution of fluids and the source beds they originate from. This should be confirmed by future thermal modelling work.
The modelling is assisted by AI-assisted earth modelling software ExCaliber from Xplorlab.
Andrew Pepper is director of This !s Petroleum Systems LLC, based in Fredericksburg, Texas. He is a geologist, formerly holding positions as petroleum systems network leader at BP, chief geologist and director of new ventures at Hess Corporation, and vice president of geoscience and vice president of unconventional exploration at BHP Petroleum.
Please note - we regret we will not be making any video recording of this webinar available.
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Karl Jeffery - editor - Finding Petroleum
Welcome & Introducton
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Andrew Pepper - Director & Founder - This !s Petroleum Systems LLC
Some thoughts on Petroleum Systems of Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire and the conjugate South African margin from Suriname to Brazil
Talk Description.
We present some ideas of interest to ongoing and future exploration in the Central Atlantic margins:
Ghana-Cote d’Ivoire and the conjugate South African margin from Suriname to Brazil region, based on our
Petroleum Systems experience there, beginning in the late 1990’s and continuing to our current
collaboration with the Staatsolie Team in Suriname using the AI-assisted earth modeling capability of
ExCaliberTM from Xplorlab.
As in our previous webinar on the East Venezuela - Trinidad & Tobago - Barbados - Guyana -
Suriname region, the area is one of limited public data access: an appreciation of the Petroleum Systems
across these conjugate margins is hard to obtain.
Any robust petroleum systems study must start with the source rocks. As in many basins with an
asserted ‘world class source rock’ (‘tick that box!’), there remain many loose ends in the industry’s
understanding. For example: the tendency to conflate the active source rock interval with the “La Luna”
and/or Cenomanian-Turonian OAE II; we discuss ongoing work to define the actual source beds by
Daniella Easley and Jose Gorosabel. Source beds actually range in age from Aptian to Santonian.
In advance of future thermal modeling work, we also present current observations on the
distributions of fluids and their originating source beds.
Andrew Pepper has 39 years of experience in
petroleum geology and petroleum systems
analysis (geochemistry and basin modeling).
He is currently director of This !s Petroleum
Systems LLC, based in Fredericksburg, Texas.
He is a geologist, formerly holding positions as petroleum systems network leader at BP, chief geologist and director of new ventures at Hess Corporation, and vice president of geoscience and vice president of unconventional
exploration at BHP Petroleum.
Andrew’s interests are in regional geology, petroleum systems analysis, and unconventional
reservoirs. He has a bachelor’s degree, first
class, in geological sciences from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom, where he is currently a visiting academic.
This !s Petroleum Systems LLC
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David Bamford - Director - Future Energy Partners Ltd
Q&A followed by Close no later than 1415
David Bamford is well known around the oil & gas industry both as an explorer and a geophysicist. He retired from BP plc in 2003, his last four positions being Chief Geophysicist (1990-1995), Business Unit Leader (General Manager) for first West Africa and then Norway (1995-1999), and finally Head of Exploration until 2003.
He has undertaken asset and company valuation projects for investment banks, hedge funds and small oil companies. He has been a board director of Tullow Oil and Premier Oil.
He holds a Physics degree from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham.
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Similarly nations developing an oil and gas industry face related challenges as they seek to maximise the benefits of this new wealth-creating opportunity - in a responsible manner.
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Ron Daniel
Staff Geologist
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Suriname
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Julian Bessa
VP Exploration
Echo Energy plc
United Kingdom
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Kevin Sylvester
Director
Pinnacle Energy Limited
United Kingdom
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Mike Cooper
MD
1st Subsurface
United Kingdom
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Jimmy Boulter
Regional Manager
Enverus
United Kingdom
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Gerardo Gaitan
Basin Researcher
S&P Global
United Kingdom
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Tony Paul
MD
ACES
Trinidad and Tobago
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Nathalia Costa
Data Analyst
Enverus
United Kingdom
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Keith Holdaway
Advisory Industry Consultant: Global O&G
SAS Institute
United States
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ALASDAIR DUNCAN
DIRECTOR
ALBA ENERGY
Singapore
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Greg Coleman
CEO
Future Energy Partners
United Kingdom
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Andy Benguigui
Senior Geophysicist
Sasol
United Kingdom
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Patrick Barnard
Director
APT UK
United Kingdom
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Kerri Wilson
Senior Petroleum Geologist
Getech
United Kingdom
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Denis MOUGENOT
Chief Geophysicist - retired as consultant
Sercel-retired
France
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Peter Manoogian
Manager
ARZ Resources
United States
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Ian Gath
Product Owner
Halliburton
Spain
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Long Ma
Geologist
Shell
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John Bain
CEO
Bain Geophysical Services, Inc.
United States
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Wally Jakubowicz
Managing Director
Hampton Data Services
United Kingdom
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Eshita Narain
geologist
Staatsolie
Suriname
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Nigel Banks
Director
Banks Geoscience Limited,
United Kingdom
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Mischa Gehlen
Petroleum Geochemist
IGI Ltd
United Kingdom
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Genevieve Hirschfeld
Exploration Geologist
Staatsolie
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Paul Bellingham
Director
Blenheim Energy Advisors
United Kingdom
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Lawrence Jackson
Senior Account Executive
IHS
United Kingdom
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VERITY AGAR
Director geoscience
tgs
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Paul Keane
Business Development
Brightskies Geoscience
United Kingdom
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Abimbola Durogbitan
GM Geosciences
Independent Consultant/Nigerian Association of Petroleum Exolorationists UK/EUROPE COORDINATOR
United Kingdom
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Ali Karagul
Senior Operations Geophysicist
TotalEnergies E&P
United Kingdom
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George McCarthy
Interpreter
CGG
United Kingdom
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Ian Cross
MD
Moyes & Co
United Kingdom
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Allan Scardina
President
Upstream Decisions LLC
United States
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Diwin Amarasinghe
Geophysical Specialist
Consultant
United Kingdom
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Wojtek Mausch
Contracting Geophysicist / Consultant
Nomad Geosciences
Poland
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Mark Shann
CTO head of subsurface
Westlawn Americas Offshore
United States
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scott parker
BD Manager
Core Laboratories Ltd.
United Kingdom
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Sebastien Duc
Group Geoscience Manager
Perenco
United Kingdom
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Janice Weston
Consultant
Weston Stratigraphic Ltd
United Kingdom
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David Boote
DBConsulting Ltd
United Kingdom
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Alexander Ball
Geophysicist
Perenco
United Kingdom
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Graeme Bagley
Head of Global E&A
Westwood Global Energy
United Kingdom
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Peter Dolan
Director
Dolan & Associates Limited
United Kingdom
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Carlo Buscaglia
Subsurface Team Lead
Petrofac
United Kingdom
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