“Sub-basalt exploration” – Preliminary program

29th – 30th March 2006 at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, Stavanger, Norway.

                                       

 

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            Northeast Atlantic tectono-magmatic framework and probability

                                        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

                                        Islands" by Heri Ziska (Manager, G&G, Faroese Geological Survey)

                                       

10:35            11:00            "Mapping of volcanic facies variations onshore West Greenland" by

                                        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 West Greenland" by Lotte Melchior Larsen

                                         GEUS)

                                       

11:55            12:20            "Weathering and sedimentation events in the development of the Faroe

                                        Islands Basalt Group, NE Atlantic" by Simon R. Passey (Faroese

                                        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 Faroe Islands)

                                       

12:40            13:00            "ConocoPhillips experience West of Britain" by Paul McQuillan

                                        (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. (University of Oslo)

                                       

15:10            15:30            "Phase converted reflections in the Glyvursnes 2003 surface seismic

                                        Experiment" by Petersen U.K. (Andersen M.S., White R.S.,

                                        Worthington M., Shaw F., Bias G., and the SeiFaBa group)

                                       

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

                                        W Dromgoole.

                                       

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 (Bell-

                                        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.