Breakfast

Welcome and Introduction

Shelf-Margin Clinoforms of the Vaca Muerta-Picún Leufú Mixed System 

Regional And Local Variability of TOC in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

Acoustic Properties of Short Core Samples from the Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Rebound Hardness and its Relationship to Mineralogy, Reservoir Quality, and Petrophysical and Rock Mechanical Properties, in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

Coffee Break

A Compaction Index for Calcareous Mudstone in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Early Marine Burial Diagenesis: Insights from Clumped and Calcium Isotopes

Evaluating Microbial Influence on Marine Carbonate Concretions using Clumped Isotope Paleothermometry

Lunch

Using Clumped and Magnesium Isotopes to Constrain Dolomitizing Fluids in the Dengying Formation, Ediacaran, South China

Isotopic Evidence for Bacterial Sulfate Reduction and Recrystallization Within the Sediments and Pore Waters of the Maldives

Ooids as Archives of Past Conditions

“Exotic Mud” - Ocean Chemistry and Hydrodynamics as Controls of Mud Production on Great Bahama Bank

Coffee Break

Reservoir Implications of Facies and Diagenetic Variability in an Oolitic Grainstone – Pleistocene Miami Oolite

Comparative Stable Isotope (d¹³C and d¹⁸O) Analysis of Stromatolites from Hamelin Pool and the Exumas: Implications for Formation Mechanism 

Mapping and Quantifying Cold-Water Corals in the Straits Of Florida

Carbonate Contourites and Drifts: An Overview

Reception 

Return to Hotel

Breakfast

Dolomitization of Shallow Water Carbonates in the Bahamas Revisited

PondView for 3D GPR: A new intuitive Method to visualize Fractures and Clasts inside Carbonate Reservoirs

Current-Swept Terraces and Prograding Drifts in The Straits Of Florida

No Excess Nutrients or Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) Detected in the Drowned Kardiva Platform, Maldives

Coffee Break

Petrophysical Characteristics of Carbonate Drift Deposits in the Maldives

A Cretaceous Carbonate Drift Delta in The Maiella Mountains, Italy

Do Drift Sediments Records the Global Carbon Isotope Signal?

Lessons from Hamelin Pool and the Maldives for the Coquina Reservoirs in Libra, Santos Basin

Lunch

Future Projects 

Core Workshop 

Field Trip: October 17-21, 2018

We were able to reserve the RV Coral Reef for 5 days after the annual review meeting. Thus, this year’s field trip will be to the Great Bahama Bank. 

Figure 1: Satellite image of the Florida Bahamas region with the route of the field trip in orange and the field stops in green Xs. 

This 5-day seminar explores the vertical and lateral facies successions and heterogeneities of Great Bahama Bank.

As modern analogs, the facies belts on Great Bahama Bank display the depositional heterogeneities that may occur in ancient hydrocarbon reservoirs. We explore the spatial heterogeneity within a carbonate platform, a facies belt or individual facies bodies, while simultaneously exploring the fundamental controlling processes. Dimensions and lateral variability of classic reservoir facies are examined during the seminar. Field stops include the leeward platform margin (Cat Cay ooid shoal), the platform interior, the tidal flats of Andros, the ooid shoals of Joulters Cay, patch reefs, and the Andros Island barrier reef. Pleistocene outcrops on Bahamian islands show how these facies are preserved in the ancient rock record.

The objectives are to:

1. Illustrate the depositional characteristics and dimensions of facies belts across an isolated platform.
2. Relate variable accommodation space and facies heterogeneities to reservoir models.
3. Improve the interpretation of subsurface core, log and seismic data of carbonate systems.