GESGB London Evening Lecture – September 2024 (In person)

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Speakers: Neil Hodgson and Karyna Rodriguez – Searcher

Topic: The Extensional Orange Basin – Where Everything Collides

Date: Tuesday 24 September 2024

Timings: 17:30 – Doors open / 18:00-19:00 – Lecture / 19:00-20:00 – Networking drinks

*Please note venue change*
Meeting Venue: The Royal National Hotel – 38-51 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0DG
(Gordon Room – 1st Floor)

Catering: Tea/coffee/biscuits to be provided.

Networking Drinks: The London Pub @ The Royal National Hotel
(Complimentary beverages to be provided for a limited period, followed by self-funded bar).

The presentation will be available to view via live stream on Zoom.
Login details will be sent to registered attendees one day prior to the event.

This London Evening Lecture is kindly sponsored by:

The Extensional Orange Basin – Where Everything Collides

The Orange Basin offshore Namibia and South Africa has been a canvass for generations of explorers to push the limits of technology and patience. Explorers have painted their hydrocarbon stories on a beguiling fishnet catwalk – a tangle of red herrings and misleading models. It is in this extensional basin that a series of recent geoscience innovations have been accelerated to high energy to understand new ways of putting hydrocarbon system particles together; appreciation of deep water clastic sediments being mixed contourites – turbidite systems, tools to map and observe source rocks – an AVO based approach, observations on fluid flow indicators, revelations on geotherms from wells and BSR’s, thermal blanketing and Seismic Thermometry, rift-drift and SDR to Morb transitions and counter regional dip mega-trap creation and a new way of thinking about sediment stability (Dynamic Topography). Each of these particles on their own isn’t enough (or even that new), yet colliding them in the synchrotron of the Orange Basin, imaged by modern hyper-visualizing 3D seismic, has revealed three new hydrocarbon fairways, proven by recent exploration success. These suggests the elusive H-Play; super-big, simple and permeable that glues the future of Hydrocarbon exploration together, is not only real – but within our grasp.

Neil Hodgson and Karyna Rodriguez – Searcher

Neil and Karyna have been exploring the world for oil and gas for over 30 years both in operated oil companies and in multiclient seismic acquisition companies. For Searcher Seismic based in the UK, we have been developing new seismic acquisition projects world wide for the last five years and having a ton of fun working this new data to help explorers solve the remaining mysteries of the worlds hydrocarbon systems: and chasing the H-Boson.

Thank you to Searcher for kindly sponsoring this GESGB London Evening Lecture.

Searcher is the leading Private multi-client subsurface provider, with a cutting-edge, non exclusive geoscience library that is assisting the global energy industry to de-risk their exploration portfolios. Creating relevant and useful datasets for our clients is our driver and we offer a full range of seismic products from 2D and 3D, new acquisition and legacy data reprocessing projects. To enhance our extensive data library, Searcher also offer seismic vessel intelligence (Seisintel), post stack rectified project (sAIsmic), prospectivity studies and associated reports, along with Geochemical and Airbourne Surveys.