“Sub-basalt
exploration” – Preliminary program
29th
– 30th March 2006 at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate,
The
seminar is part of the FORCE (www.force.org) project on sub-basalt
exploration.
Posters
are welcome, and will be displayed in the vicinity of the lecture hall.
The
seminar is open for project proposals, with deadline for submission March 15th.
The
seminar, including lunch and dinner, is free of charge and is open for all.
Please
register before March 15th at www.force.org.
For
further inqueries or information on the seminar,
please contact Mr. Jan Stenløkk, NPD. Office
telephone: +51876756 or E-mail: jan.stenlokk@npd.no
Organizing Committee:
Jan Stenløkk (leader) and Arild Haugen (NPD), Geir Drivenes (Shell), Hardy H.
Nielsen (ConocoPhillips), Jon Bjørgan Kristensen (Statoil), Peter Hanssen
(Hydro), Snorre Olaussen (Eni)
Wednesday 29th March 2006:
GEOLOGY AND ANALOGUES
08:00 Registration and
Coffee
09:00 Opening of seminar by Bente Nyland (Director, Norwegian
Petroleum
Directorate)
Introduction to the seminar by Arild Haugen, FORCE (NPD)
09:15 09:45 “
along margin variations in sub-basalt geology” by Jacob Skogseid
(Norsk Hydro).
09:45 10:10 "Seismic Imaging and Interpretation of Volcanic
Complexes: An
Integrated
approach" by Sverre Planke
(Volcanic Basin Petroleum
Research - VBPR)
10:10 10:35 "Hydrocarbon Exploration in a volcanic province;
case history Faroe
10:35 11:00 "Mapping of volcanic facies
variations onshore West
Asger Ken Pedersen
(Geological Museum, Geocenter, Copenhagen)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 11:55 "Volcanic stratigraphy
as a tool for studying the structure of a volcanic-
Sedimentary
basin: onshore
GEUS)
11:55 12:20 "Weathering and sedimentation events in the
development of the Faroe
Islands
Basalt Group,
Geological Survey)
12:20 12:40 "Analysis of wireline
logs throgh basalt succesions
in 8 explorations wells
in the Faroe Shetland-Channel - a comparative study" by Morten Sparre
Andersen
(GEUS /Univ. Of
12:40 13:00 "ConocoPhillips experience West of
(ConocoPhillips)
13:00 14:00 13:00 -14:00 LUNCH
GEOPHYSICS
14:00 14:30 Geophysics Key-Note speaker Phil Christie: "Reaping
what we sow in
Scattered
fields: remote sensing for rough, high-contrast basalts"
14:30 14:50 "iSIMM looks beneath
the Faroes basalt using low-frequency, long-
offset
seismic from Ocean Bottom Seismometers and Q-Marine
Streamers" by Roman Spitzer (OMV -
The iSIMM working group)
14:50 15:10 "Sub-basalt imaging on the mid-Norwegian Margin,
from 3C Ocean
Bottom
Seismometers" by Breivik, A. J. (
15:10 15:30 "Phase converted reflections in the Glyvursnes 2003 surface seismic
Experiment"
by
Petersen
15:30 16:00 Coffee
Break
16:00 17:00 Panel discussions
20:00 Seminar dinner
at “De Røde Sjøhus”
Thursday 30th March
2006: GEOPHYSICS
10:00 10:30 "Seeing Below the Basalt, Offshore Faroes" by Joseph Gallagher & Peter
10:30 10:50 "Accurate Base of Basalt Mapping
using combined Controlled Source
Electromagnetic
and Magnetotelluric Methods" by Dr. Anthony
Greer
(Offshore
Hydrocarbon Mapping plc
- OHM)
10:50 11:10 “Utilisation of marine FTG
gravity data to resolve basalt and sub-basalt
Geology
in the Faroe-Shetland basin area” by Colm A. Murphy (
Geospace.
11:10 11:30 "Mapping sub basalt features using magnetic data
in a basalt province"
By Heri Ziska (Manager, G&G, Faroese Geological Survey)
11:30 12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 12:25 “Integrating Recent Faroes
Seismic, Full Tensor Gravity (FTG) and
Geological
Studies to unravel the Offshore Faroes Sub-basalt
Prospectivity” by Steve Kleppa and
Dave Ellis
12:25 12:50 "Changing the established truths - Aeromagnetic
re-mapping of
tectonomagmatic units along the
Norwegian continental margin" by
Olesen, O., Ebbing, J., Gernigon,
L., Myklebust, R., Skilbrei,
J.R. & Usov,
S. (NGU and TGS):
Further
talks may be announced
12:50 13:00 Summary and the way ahead by Jan Stenløkk (NPD)
13:00 14:00 LUNCH
Any project
proposals will be presented after lunch. Deadline for application is March
15th.