Purpose and Goals
This seminar provides each participant with a thorough introduction to established
Holocene and Pleistocene depositional models from Caicos Platform and other
areas. These models now have been shown to apply to subsurface hydrocarbon
exploration and development geology in the Devonian and Mississippian of
western Canada, the Cretaceous around the Gulf of Mexico, and many other
basins in the world, including the Caspian Sea reservoirs. Emphasis is placed
on:
*Delineating controls on shallow marine carbonate deposition and potential
play development
*Recognizing key attributes of typical carbonate facies and sequences
*Relating reservoir quality to depositional setting and early porosity modification
*Appreciating the role of climate and trade winds on carbonate deposition
*Predicting subsurface facies distribution and geometry
*Developing guidelines for predicting subsurface carbonate play relationships
*Relating observations to pertinent exploration and reservoir petroleum case
studies
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Geologists and geophysicists involved in the exploration or development of
hydrocarbon-
bearing ancient shallow-marine carbonates. Engineers, geophysicists and managers
benefit
from the scale perspective. Earlier seminars were attended by geologists,
geophysicists, engineers,
and managers from major/independent oil companies in the U.S., Canada, England,
Indonesia,
S. America, Germany, Norway and Saudi Arabia doing exploration and development
geology.
WHY CAICOS PLATFORM?
Caicos Platform in the S.E. Bahamas contains a complete spectrum of classical
Holocene
carbonate environments that are ideally suited for applying principles of
carbonate sedimentology to petroleum exploration and development geology.
Additionally, these sedimentary facies display significant differences from
environments in the northern Bahamas and southern Florida. Therefore, one
is exposed to a greater variety of controls on carbonate sedimentation than
are observable on other Caribbean platforms, and, as a result, new models
are now available to guide your exploration/exploitation of comparable facies
tracts in the subsurface.
Holocene facies observed on this seminar include:
*Mature barrier reef complex and associated environments
*Semi-arid channeled tidal flat complex with evaporites
*Platform-margin and platform-interior oolitic sand shoals and marine-cemented
hardgrounds
*Platform-interior muds and grapestones
*Coastal salinas with preserved evaporites and associated Holocene dolomitization
*Oolitic and skeletal beach ridge/dune complexes and associated freshwater
diagenesis
Pleistocene facies observed in outcrop and cores are spectacular and include:
*Platform-margin barrier reef and associated facies
*Upward-shoaling oolitic sand sequences with superb preserved sedimentary
structures
Our Pleistocene outcrops, borehole and seismic data permit:
*Reconstruction of leeward platform-margin sequence evolution
*Climatic controls on early diagenetic modification of porosity, including
karstification
INSTRUCTORS
Jeffrey J. Dravis: Consulting petroleum geologist with over 29 years of experience
and Adjunct Professor of Geology, Rice University; 8 years with Exxon Production
Research and chairman of Exxon's Advanced Carbonate School; field trip
leader to Bahamas and south Florida since 1979 and to Caicos since 1982;
involved in research on Caicos Platform since 1982; since 1986, has consulted
on plays in Ordovician, Silurian, Permian and Pennsylvanian of west Texas;
Jurassic & Cretaceous of U.S. Gulf Coast; Devonian of Western Canada
and Russia; Jurassic/Cretaceous of Africa and Mexico.
Harold R. Wanless: Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Univ. of Miami;
consultant and field trip leader for Exxon and Tenneco; research in modern
and ancient carbonates since 1966;
NSF- and industry-funded research on Caicos since 1982. Worldwide ancient
experience.
INCLUDING PRIVATE VERSIONS, WE HAVE PRESENTED THIS SEMINAR 50 TIMES TO INDUSTRY
SINCE 1988!
Plan to arrive May 3, 2009
and leave Caicos on May 11, 2009. Each delegate must
provide his/her own snorkeling equipment, including a personal safety flotation
vest that must be
worn at all times in the water. Delegates must be physically fit and in good
health.
COST
The total fee for the seminar is $4,495.00 (U.S.).
The fee includes:
*Pre-seminar meeting
*Local transportation
*Boat rentals (5 field days)
*Lunches and drinks in the field (Delegates are responsible for their breakfasts,
two lunches, dinners & personal bar tabs, however).
*Field guidebooks and handouts.
*Chartered overflight (twin-engine plane) of Caicos Platform (up to 1.5 Hours).
*CD of representative annotated Caicos aerial and underwater color slides;
CD of applications to hydrocarbon exploration & development geology.
Please Read Carefully:
The seminar is held at Turtle Cove Inn on Providenciales, and you are responsible
for your room. We will place the room reservation for you. Single rooms cost
about $115 USD/night (with taxes). If you would like to share a room at half
cost (double beds), let us know and we will try to accommodate your request.
Please specify your room preference on the registration form. Turtle Cove
Inn accepts all major credit cards for payment, except Dinner’s Club.
It is more efficient and less expensive for you if you link the American
Airlines flight from Miami to Providenciales (Airport code: PLS) as part
of your travel to Miami, Florida. You should plan to arrive in Providenciales
sometime on Sunday, May 3. On May 4, we will begin the seminar with
a series of lectures, followed by lunch and then a snorkel practice later
that afternoon. The seminar ends on May 11 in the morning,
followed by check out and departure from Provo to Miami on American Airlines
in the early afternoon. American Airlines has several flights a day from Miami
International airport to Providenciales Flight #673 leaves Miami around 11:00
AM and arrives in Providenciales at about 12:42 PM. Another flight leaves
Miami early in the evening and arrives in Provo around 8 PM. Most people
will return to Miami on American Airlines Flight #746, leaving
Providenciales at about 1:05 PM and arriving in Miami at about 3:20 PM. Some
of you can get connecting flights out of Miami that evening, depending on
your final destination. You also have the option of returning to Miami on
American Airlines flight #464 which leaves Providenciales at 7:57 AM and
arrives in Miami at 9:40 AM. In either case, you are responsible for making
your flight reservations to Providenciales, and back. These times are approximate,
as American can (and often does) change their flight schedules without notice.
Call J. Dravis if you have any questions.
REFUND POLICY
A full refund, less the nonrefundable registration fee ($300), will be given
if written
cancellation is received by March 13, 2009. No refunds after March 13, 2009.
LATE REGISTRATION after March 13, 2009 will incur an additional $300 fee,
assuming space is available.
IMMIGRATION REQUIREMENTS
Passport for U.S./Canadian/British citizens; visas for others. It is your
responsibility to determine if you need a visa. Check with a nearby consulate
or embassy. Double check your travel agent!
ENROLLMENT PROCEDURES
*Complete the registration form below and return with fee payable on U.S.
Dollar Account to:
Dravis Interests, Inc., 4133 Tennyson, Houston, Texas 77005
*Enrollment deadline is: March 13, 2009
*Registration is complete only upon receipt of registration form and the
$4,495 (U.S.) fee.
An invoice can be provided upon request.
*All participants must sign a legal liability waiver.
*Registrants will be sent detailed information on logistics. Phone/fax J.
Dravis at (713) 667-9844 for more information, or e-mail: jdravi@rice.edu.
WEBSITE: www.dravisinterests.com
NOTE: Register early!
COMMENTS FROM PAST PARTICIPANTS:
"Quite frankly, it was one of the best seminars that we have had the
privilege to attend. The concepts and field observations presented during
the course will definitely have an effect on our reservoir modeling..."
"To see the spatial relationship of reservoir potential to depositional
setting in the modern was invaluable."
"Reefs are complex. No more big blue blobs on seismic."
“I also wanted to thank you for the great trip. I thought the outcrops
to be the best carbonate outcrops I have ever seen! What a great natural
laboratory, having living reef and Pleistocene reef outcrops adjacent to
each other.”
“Geologists should bring their reservoir engineer with them. That
way, the whole exploration team can get on the same page in terms of facies
and reservoir distribution.”
“I improved my understanding of the geological setting. Allows reasonability
checks of my seismic interpretation. Increased my knowledge of where and
how to search for porosity.”
"This seminar was not a snorkeling 'vacation.' I feel I learned a lot
and my company got their money's worth."
“We don’t think twice about spending $10,000 to buy a seismic
line to help us understand or define a play. This course does infinitely
more in terms of understanding carbonate plays and will go a long way toward
generating new ones.”
“And thanks to you and Hal for the great seminar. I look at my maps
in a different way now.”
“Again, thanks for the recent Caicos field trip. You run the most
professional field trip of those that I have attended...”
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REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 13, 2009.
NOTE: This seminar is always available to be presented on a private basis.
Dravis Interests and Dravis
Geological Services can be contacted by email,
by phone at (713) 667-9844, or by mail at 4133 Tennyson St., Houston, Tx 77005-2749.
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