Seminar and Core Workshop:

Sequence Stratigraphy on the NCS –

Applications, Pitfalls and Possibilities

31 May – 1 June 2011

at
Norwegian Petroleum Directorate
Professor Olav Hanssens Vei 10,
Stavanger

Organising Committee:
Israel Polonio, BG
Andor Hjellbakk, Marathon Petroleum Norge AS
Rikke Bruhn, DONG Energy
PROGRAM:
31 May:
9.00-9.15 Welcome and Introduction
9.15-10.00 Octavian Catuneanu (University of Alberta): Model-independent sequence
stratigraphy. Keynote.
10.00-10.30 Torben Olsen (Noreco) et al.: Stratigraphy for the masses – it's all in an app.
10.30-11.00 Break, tea and coffee
11.00-11.30 Felix Gradstein (University of Oslo) et al.: Mega scale sequence stratigraphy of
slumped chalk and sands complexes in the southern Norwegian Sector.
11.30-12.00 Nauman Sattar (Halliburton) et al.: Seismic Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon
Prospectivity of the Lower Cretaceous Knurr Sandstone lobes along the Southern
Loppa High Margin, Hammerfest Basin, Barents Sea.
12.00-12.30 Colin Turner (Marathon Petroleum): Late Jurassic submarine fan sequences in the
Brae-Gudrun area, Southern Viking Graben.
12.30-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.30 Felix Gradstein (University of Oslo) et al.: From Russia and Barents Sea with love:
High resolution dating and first order linking of sequences and orbital cycles.
13.30-14.00 Rune Mjøs (Statoil): Cook Fm., an offshore sand ridge in the Oseberg area,
northern North Sea. - Introduction to the afternoon's core session.
14.00-16.00 Core viewing: Cook Fm., wells 30/6-2, 30/6-16, 30/6-17A and 30/6-17R

19.00-22.00 Workshop Dinner – Hall Toll, Skansegate 2, 4006 Stavanger

1. June:
9.00-9.30 Ole J. Martinsen (Statoil): Sequence Stratigraphy for the next decades-what does it
look like? Keynote
9.30-10.00 William Helland-Hansen (University of Bergen): Trajectory analysis: Examples of
how a new stratigraphic approach can be applied to the Norwegian Continental
shelf succession. Keynote
10.00-10.30 Terje Hellem (Idemitsu): The transgressive systems tract – proven and future
potential.
10.30-11.00 Break, tea and coffee
11.00-11.30 Michel Bøgh Thomas (Total E&P Norge) et al.: The Balta Fm. over the Hild (NO) -
Alwyn (UK) area; Basal Heather sands or youngest and last Brent transgressive
sandy event?
11.30-12.00 Martin Gowers (Det Norske) et al.: Seismic stratigraphy – does it work? – Lessons
from the Stirby prospect.
12.00-12.30 Rodmar Ravnås (Shell): Halten Terrace Lower to Middle Jurassic megasequence
structure and controlling parameters.
12.30-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.30 Hamish Matheson & Mike Charnock (Lundin Norway): Mesozoic
Sequence Stratigraphy around the Haugaland High: Impact on Exploration.
13.30-14.00 Atle Folkestad and Nicholas Satur (Statoil): Sequence stratigraphy in a rift basin:
an example from the Middle Jurassic Hugin Fm., Southern Viking Graben, North
Sea. - Introduction to the afternoon's core session.
13.45-16.00 Core viewing and discussion with core evaluation teams: Hugin Fm., wells 15/9-1,
15/9-2, 15/9-12.