GCSSEPM Perkins-Rosen Conference

39th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation

Perkins-Rosen Research Conference Deepwater Systems, Processes and Exploration Potential

4-6th December, 2023

Location:  Equinor US 

2107 CityWest Blvd, Suite 100,  Houston, Texas 77042

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The 39th annual Perkins-Rosen Research Conference celebrates nearly three decades of progress in understanding deepwater sedimentary systems. The conferences in the 1990s – including the 1994 GCSSEPM Perkins-Rosen Research Conference – emphasized submarine fans, reservoir presence, depositional architecture and outcrop analogs. 

The focus of the 2023 conference will include what has been learned from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic margins, to frontier basins as well as in laboratory studies and outcrops worldwide. We want to show the progress that has been made in the following areas: 

1. the range and variability in new deepwater play types globally, 
source-to-sink linkage of terrestrial, to deltaic, to deepwater systems,  mixed deepwater sedimentary systems that incorporate a wide range of oceanic and seafloor processes (turbidite, contourite, hemipelagite/pelagite and mass-transport deposit inputs, etc.),
2 physical modeling approaches as well as the advances in technology and process modeling in understanding the distribution of petroleum elements, including the use of artificial intelligence and digital workflows, deepwater mudrocks and more specifically their role as seals and source rock intervals as well as natural seafloor seeps,  the influence of mobile substrates, including evaporites and mud, on deepwater sedimentary architecture above and below the mobile substrate. 3 Advancements in the understanding of deepwater sedimentary systems based on direct measurements of sedimentary basins including cores and outcrops, seismic and borehole imaging, physical and numerical modeling, and fieldwork or any new aspect from around the world are welcome.

Most importantly, examples of diverse deepwater exploration plays that have worked (or failed) as well as yet-to-be-tested plays are welcome. This conference will attempt to review the number of deepwater-related challenges that are yet to be solved, therefore providing a roadmap of where deepwater may go over the next three decades.