Petroleum systems in West Africa and its Conjugate Margin
....revitalising Exploration!
Friday, July 19, 2024
Webinar
Online
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.
Karl Jeffery is editor and co-founder of Digital Energy Journal, and conference producer of Finding Petroleum. He is also publisher of Carbon Capture Journal and Tanker Operator, and co-founder of Digital Ship, a publishing and events company covering digital technology for the deep sea maritime industry. He has a BEng in chemical engineering from Nottingham University
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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.
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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.
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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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