This half-day course is for the professional consumer of paleontologic data. It begins with the fundamentals of the living organisms, as it relates to the needs of the interpreter. This is followed by discussions on quality control for paleontologic data, basic applications, and the most extended geologic applications currently available. This is four very busy hours supplemented with a DVD manual of collected examples and charts that go beyond the course, allowing for an extended exploration of the subject.

GCAGS Short Course #2

Seismic Amplitude Interpretation: Lithology and Pore Fluid Estimation

Saturday, October 20, 2007

8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Instructor: Fred Hilterman, Geokinetics, Inc., Houston, Texas

Cost: $100 (includes textbook, course notes, CD reference material, and lunch)

Limit: 50 people

Location: Omni Bayfront Hotel

This one-day course is intended for geologists, geophysicists, and engineers who wish to further understand the relationship of seismic data to lithology and/or pore-fluid properties. The course introduces the empirical and theoretical rock-physics basis for reservoir characterization, and catalogs rock properties to expected seismic signatures. Techniques for recognizing and quantifying hydrocarbons in different rock-property settings, which are often referred to as Class 1-4 AVO, will be introduced and subsequently illustrated with numerous field examples. Various seismic amplitude attributes for distinguishing lithology and pore fluid along with their applicability and robustness in different environments will be introduced.

Rock-property and AVO modeling programs are supplied to each participant to assist in the classroom exercises involving seismic discrimination of lithology and pore-fluid. Case histories involving Class 1, 2, and 3 AVO anomalies are presented along with numerous rock-property studies.

GCAGS Short Course #3

Tracking Past and Projecting Future Geoenvironmental Changes on Barrier Islands

Saturday, October 20, 2007

1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Instructor: James C. Gibeaut, Bureau of Economic Geology/Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin

Cost: $50

Limit: 50 people

Location: Omni Bayfront Hotel

Barrier-island systems are responding to increases in the rate of sea-level rise, land subsidence, sediment budget alterations, development, and storm impacts. This half-day course will discuss data sources and approaches to determining the status and historical trends of barrier-island geoenvironments, including wetland, dune, tidal inlet, and shoreline changes. Data sets such as historical maps, aerial photography, lidar, and imagery will be examined. We will also discuss modeling and projecting future changes in geoenvironments to provide policy makers the information that they will need to plan for change. The Texas coast will serve as the example study area.

GCAGS Short Course #4

Burgos Basin to South Texas Rio Grande Basin: Similarities and contrasts in the Frio/Vicksburg trend.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

8:00 am to12:00 pm

Presenters: Lynne Goodoff, Lou Rivera, Scotia Group, Houston, Texas.

Forum Panelists: William E. Galloway, University of Texas Geophysics

Institute, Austin, TX;

Marilyn Taggi Cisar, Senior Staff Geological Engineer, Shell

E&P Co., Houston, TX;

Janet M. Combes, Staff Geologist, ConocoPhillips, Houston,

TX;

Edward S. Feragen, California and South Texas Exploration

Supervisor, ExxonMobil Exploration Co., Houston, TX.

Forum Moderator: Randy Bissell, Headington Oil, Corpus Christi, TX.

Cost: $50 (includes pertinent published reference articles)

Limit: 50 people

Location: Omni Bayfront Hotel

The Burgos Basin has a rich history of production from the Frio/Vicksburg system, and for decades few details were known outside of PEMEX. This half-day open-forum/seminar will describe many of the key elements of the productive Frio/Vicksburg trend in the Burgos Basin, Mexico, including structural styles, depositional systems, facies architecture, and trap configurations. These are placed into a regional sequence stratigraphic framework and then organized into play trends in a lecture-style format. Material displayed is drawn from a recent study and includes a regional grid of 2D seismic and over 450 well logs. Then, the Burgos Basin elements will then be tied into, and compared with, known Frio/Vicksburg plays of South Texas in a panel discussion forum. Finally, the session will wrap up with a open-floor discourse among seminar participants who wish to share their insights of Frio/Vicksburg basinal systems on either side of the border.

GCAGS Short Course #5

Deepwater Processes and Features in the Gulf of Mexico:

Concepts, Models and Observations for Exploration and Production

Sunday, October 21, 2007

8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Instructors: Andy Pulham, Earth Science Associates Consulting and Training, Boulder, Colorado; Carl Fiduk, CGGVeritas Americas, Inc., Houston, Texas.

Cost: $100 (includes course notes and lunch)

Limit: 30 people

Location: Omni Bayfront Hotel

This one-day course is intended for any geoscientist wishing to refresh or update their knowledge of deepwater Gulf of Mexico geology, or non-geoscientists looking for some cross-disciplinary exposure in Gulf of Mexico deepwater deposition. Participants will learn about the range of deepwater sedimentary processes and features that can impact depositional and stratigraphic models in the Gulf of Mexico Basin with a particular focus on Neogene age sediments. Course contents include: sedimentary lithofacies, petrophysical log signatures and seismic expression of key architectural elements in Gulf of Mexico deepwater settings. Techniques for recognition of deepwater reservoirs, and other critical aspects of Gulf of Mexico deepwater stratigraphy will be delivered via case studies and short exercises.

GCAGS Short Course #6 - CANCELLED

Seabed Logging: Applying CSEM (controlled source electromagnetics) for the detection and delineation of offshore hydrocarbon reservoirs.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Instructors: TBA, emgs Americas, Houston, Texas.

Cost: $100 (includes course notes, pertinent published reference articles and lunch)

Limit: 50 students

Location: Omni Bayfront Hotel

Over the past 5 years, seabed logging (controlled source electromagnetics, CSEM) has become an established tool for reducing risk in offshore drilling projects. Many leading operators now routinely use measurements of reservoir resistivity made from the seabed to maximize the probability of finding hydrocarbons prior to drilling.

In this one-day course, students will learn the basic physics of the technique, as well as all the steps required to execute a successful survey, including modeling, survey design, data acquisition, data processing and interpretation.

The course will be illustrated by a number of case histories taken from projects around the world, in various geologic settings. Emerging techniques such as frontier prospect scanning will also be addressed.

Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

Gulf Coast Section of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists (GCSSEPM)

Corpus Christi Geological Society

Coastal Bend Geophysical Society

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