Super Basins 4: Guyana & Suriname case study

....the latest 'Giant Fields' "Super basin" offers lessons as to how to find more of them! 0

Friday, November 26, 2021, Webinar, Online

The history of Exploration offshore Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana - and the crop of big discoveries and disappointments - offers profound lessons in how to find a "Super Basin", how to succeed and also how to fail!

This webinar is at 1pm - 2pm London time

Agenda

13:00

David Bamford - Director - Future Energy Partners Ltd

Watch video of the whole webinar

Talk Description.
The last 10 years of Exploration offshore Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana demonstrate that, for success in finding "Super Basins", Explorers need many tools in their armoury. Here are a few:

  • Using the complexities of Plate Tectonics/Rifting to understand the interplay between - and timings of - the formation of basins, the input of reservoir, seal and trap facies into those basins.
  • Applying seismic stratigraphy to describe the chronostratigraphic history of a basin, and develop gross depostional environment mapping.
  • To model the suite of potential petroleum generating source formations to describe their maturation and petroleum expulsion.
  • To produce high quality seismic indicators such as Impedance and AVO images.

And there are no "short cuts" and there's too much 'lazy thinking' (IMHO!!).
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.

Future Energy Partners Ltd
Future Energy Partners (FEP) is a unique oil and gas advisory service which prides itself on technical excellence in selected fields and supplementing business management and leadership; in the face of uncertainty.

We offer truthful, professional opinion and advice; no playback of what you already know, and no spin.

FEP was founded by 4 senior industry practitioners who consider the challenges faced by today's oil and gas environment are going to require herculean acts of leadership and technical skill in a transforming, transitioning, industry, in order to maintain an energy supply that is sustainable and even recognisable compared to recent history.

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.

Global reach

FEP actively participates in the facilitation and conduct of seminars and webinars worldwide, for example in conjunction with its associate partner Finding Petroleum.

Our presence reaches parts of the globe, such as: the UK, the USA, Sub-Saharan Africa, with partners wherever we work.

13:15

Neil Hodgson & Karyna Rodriguez - - Searcher Seismic

Guyana & Suriname ==> lessons for the search for more "Super Basins"

Talk Description.


Neil:
VP Geoscience

Karyna:
Petroleum geoscientist with 25 years of multidisciplinary experience in global offshore and onshore exploration inclined projects. She worked in companies like BG and PEMEX gaining diverse experience from regional play and prospect generation and evaluation, to working closely with high level management on their portfolio strategies.

Searcher Seismic
Searcher provides high quality exploration data and leading edge tech to the global exploration industries.

Our data library includes seismic, potential fields, multi-beam, coring and well data derived from geophysical and geological projects that we operate world wide.
13:40

David Bamford - Director - Finding Petroleum

Review and Q&A followed by Close no later than 14:15



David Bamford is well known around the oil & gas industry both as an explorer and a geophysicist. He holds a Physics degree from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in Geological Sciences from the University of Birmingham.

Since 2004, he has been a non-executive director at Tullow Oil plc, being recruited for this position especially for his exploration knowledge. He serves on the Nominations and Remuneration Committees, and was chairman of the latter, and Senior Independent Director, for 3 years prior to his retire from the board at the end of April 2014.

He was on the board of Premier Oil from May 2014 to May 2016.

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 served on the boards of Paras Ltd, a small exploration and IS/IT consulting company in which he held 22% equity, until its sale to RPS Energy in 2008 and Welltec a/s, a Danish well engineering company, as the nominee of the private equity investor Riverside.

From 2012 to 201 he was on the board of ASX-quoted Australia Oriental Energy as a non-executive director.

He was a founder of Richmond Energy Partners, a small oil & gas research house, and several media companies that focus on the oil & gas sector, and has served as an advisor to Alliance Bernstein, Opus Executive, the Parkmead Group plc, and Kimmeridge Energy LLP. Since retiring from BP, he has undertaken asset and company valuation projects for investment banks, hedge funds and small oil companies.

Finding Petroleum
Finding Petroleum was established to help the oil and gas industry network, and stay up to date on the latest technological developments. It does this via hosting regular events and with an online social network of nearly 10,000 members.

Sponsors of this event

Registered Delegates

David Roberts
Consultant
3-DMR
United Kingdom
Robert Gales
Chief Geoscientist
Halliburton
United States
Matthew Plummer
Principal Geoscientist
PGS
United Kingdom
Martin Cox
Director
ABerdeen Drilling Management Ltd
United Kingdom
Kouakou YAO
Geologist
Heling
Matthew Pyett
Sales & Services Manager, AMME
PGS
United Kingdom
Will Sutton
Director
ABIS Energy
United Kingdom
David Jenkins
Director
Hurricane Energy plc
United Kingdom
Frederic Yeterian
Director
Philax International (UK) Ltd
United Kingdom
Ian Cloke
Chief Operating Officer & Co founder
Afentra
United Kingdom
Jim Hendry
Director / Consultant Geologist
Iapetus Geoscience Limited
Ireland
Kevin Sylvester
Director
Pinnacle Energy Limited
United Kingdom
Ian Cutler
Consultant Geochemist
Applied Petroleum Technology
United Kingdom
Ray McBride
Petroleum Geochemist
IGI Ltd
United Kingdom
Roger Doery
Retired
Retired
United Kingdom
Patrick Barnard
Director
APT UK
United Kingdom
Peter Chalcraft
Exec Dir
IHS Markit
United States
Richard Walker
Geophysical Consultant
Richard Walker Geoscience Ltd
United Kingdom
John Bain
CEO
Bain Geophysical Services, Inc.
United States
Mark Diaz
Director
IHS Markit
United Kingdom
OLUBUNMI AKANDE
Director
Royal Ray Oil and Gas Procurement LTD (NIGERIA)
Nigel Banks
Director
Banks Geoscience Limited,
United Kingdom
Cody Schulte
Editor
IHS Markit
United States
Martin Smith
Business Development Manager - Operations
RPS Energy
United Kingdom
Chris Walker
Chief Geophysicist
BGP Offshore
United Kingdom
mohamed khiar
Geoscientist
IHSMARKIT
United Kingdom
Rajan Gupta
NV/BD
sasol
United Kingdom
Caroline Burke
Geoscientist
Biota Technology
United States
Edward Prescott
Chief Geophysicist
Impact Oil and Gas
United Kingdom
Denis MOUGENOT
Chief Geophysicist - retired as consultant
Sercel-retired
France
Mark Cowgill
Technical Advisor - Geoscience
CGG (Robertson)
United Kingdom
Abbey Hunt
Geoscientist
Impact Oil and Gas
United Kingdom
Aaron Lockwood
Software Sales Manager - EAME
Shearwater Geoservices
United Kingdom
Adrian Robinson
New Ventures Manager
Chevron
United Kingdom
Neil Simons
Consultant
Independent
United Kingdom
David Owen

Shell
United Kingdom
Li Yanqing
_
China Oilfield Service Limited
China
Robert Murphy
Consulting Geologist
Independent
Ireland
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund
Independent consultant
Sigve Hamilton Aspelund
Norway
Diwin Amarasinghe
Geophysical Specialist
Consultant
United Kingdom
FELIPE RODRIGUEZ MONREAL
Basin and Petrroleum Systems Analysis Independent Consultant
Independent Consultant
United Kingdom
John Argent
VP Geoscience
Sound Energy Plc
United Kingdom
Colin Clarke
Geophysicist
Consulting Geoscience
United Kingdom
Abimbola Durogbitan
GM Geosciences
Independent Consultant/Nigerian Association of Petroleum Exolorationists UK/EUROPE COORDINATOR
United Kingdom
Richard Heath
Manager
SRC
United Kingdom
Anne McAfee
Chief Geologist, Regional Studies
Core Lab
United Kingdom
John Griffith
Upstream Advisor
JJG Consulting International Ltd
United Kingdom
Payal Gangaram-Panday

Staatsolie
David Boote

DBConsulting Ltd
United Kingdom
Nick Johnson
Managing Director
JUC Ltd
United Kingdom
Carol de Seil

Staatsolie
Suriname
Raffaele Di Cuia
Technical Director
Delta Energy Limited Ltd
Italy
Peter Nicol
Advisory
Locin Energy
United Kingdom
Ron Daniel
Geoscience Advisor
Staatsolie
United Kingdom
Wolfgang Nachtmann
Honorary Professor at Montanuniversitaet Leoben
E&P Petroleum Consulting
Austria
Mark Jones
Director - Sales & Business Line
Logstor
United Kingdom
Shereen Abboud
Jr Production Geologist
Staatsolie
Suriname
eskil jersing
business development advisor
eburon resources
United Kingdom
Duncan Macgregor
Consultant Geologist
MacGeology
United Kingdom
Eshita Narain
geologist
Staatsolie
Suriname
Dirk Bodnar
Manager
El Pilar Petrotechnical Consulting
United States
Adrian Gregory
Principal Consultant
MORE Consultancy Ltd
United Kingdom
Arantxa Lieveld
Geologist
Staatsolie
Suriname
Daniel Flores
CEO
EPSEMIPE EIRL
Peru
Maureen Macaulay
Dir Business Development
Moyes & Co
Rageni Goli
Sr Exploration Geologist
Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V.
Ivan Maulana

ERCE
Singapore
Ian Cross
MD
Moyes & Co
United Kingdom
sharon kuhn
petrophysicist
staatsolie n.v.
Murray Johnson
geologist
Europa Oil & Gas
United Kingdom
Neil Mundell
Geophysical Advisor
New Age
United Kingdom
Shahied Chandoe
Geophysicist
Staatsolie Suriname
Suriname
Richard Fox
Director
FEPC Ltd
United Kingdom
Gavin Elliot
Senior Geologist
New Age Ltd
United Kingdom
Richard Brink
_
svl
Canada
Greg Coleman
CEO
Future Energy Partners
United Kingdom
Morten Lindback
Energy economist
Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy
Norway
Andy Harris
Sales Manager
TGS
United Kingdom
Gerry P LOURANTOS
CEO
G.P. LOURANTOS & PARTNERS
Angola
harald granser
Exploration Manager
Omv
Austria
Markus Harting
CEO
The Oryx Group International
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Barbara Holzweber

Gaffney Cline & Associates
Neil Laker
Director
Oolithica Geoscience Limited
United Kingdom
Andrew Pepper
Director
This is Petroleum Systems.com
United States
Nick Cameron
Geological Advisor
GeoInsight Limited
United Kingdom
David Cleverly
Geophysicist
Perenco
United Kingdom
Tim Goodwin
New Ventures Consultant
TJGX Ltd
United Kingdom
Robert FE Jones
Director
Geoko Ltd
United Kingdom
Sebastien Duc
Group Geoscience Manager
Perenco
United Kingdom
Tahir Mehmood Chaudhry
Consultant Geoscientist
TMAG Oil & Gas U.K., Ltd
United Kingdom
Kerri Wilson
Senior Petroleum Geologist
Getech
United Kingdom
Andrew Foulds
Director
Petrafiz Ltd
United Kingdom
Gokay Bozkurt
Sr. Advisor - Geophysics
TotalEnergies
United States
Geoff Marsden
Processing Geophysicist
GM Geophysical
United Kingdom
Carlo Buscaglia
Subsurface Team Lead
Petrofac
United Kingdom
Ugur Algan
Director
Volantice Ltd.
United Kingdom
Lawrie Cowliff
Geoscientist
Halliburton
United Kingdom
Martin Lester
Head of Business Development
PetroStrat Limited
United Kingdom
Adrian Temple-Brown
Researcher and Activist
Wiltshire Climate Alliance
United Kingdom