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Lafayette Geological Society BULLETIN Joint LGS/SPWLA Luncheon Meeting Wednesday, December 17, 2014 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lafayette Petroleum Club Cost: $20 Luncheon Presentation “Foundered Shelf Edges: Seismic Expression of a Frio Example, Louisiana” Timothy Bennett Orbit Energy, Inc. Visit the LGS website at: lafayettegeologicalsociety.org December 2014 Volume 59, No. 4
Transcript of Lafayette Geological Society BULLETIN
Lafayette Geological Society
BULLETIN
Joint LGS/SPWLA Luncheon Meeting Wednesday, December 17, 2014
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lafayette Petroleum Club
Cost: $20
Luncheon Presentation
“Foundered Shelf Edges: Seismic Expression of a Frio Example, Louisiana”
Timothy Bennett
Orbit Energy, Inc.
Visit the LGS website at: lafayettegeologicalsociety.org
December 2014 Volume 59, No. 4
President Craig Glassinger 337-344-9832 [email protected]
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LGS 2014–2015 Officers Front Row: Jerry Yunker, Justin Guidry, and Rudy Gibbs. Back/Middle Row: Bill Finley, Barry Gidman, Samantha Leone, Craig Glassinger, and Joey Grimball Not Pictured: James Willis and John Boggs
Joint LGS/SPWLA Luncheon Meeting Wednesday, December 17, 2014
11:30 am to 1:00 pm Lafayette Petroleum Club
Cost: $20
“Foundered Shelf Edges: Seismic Expression of a
Frio Example, Louisiana”
Timothy Bennett Orbit Energy, Inc.
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President’s Column Holiday Greetings The December meeting of LGS will be held jointly with SPWLA on Wednesday, December 17th, at the Petroleum Club from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. Our own Tim Bennett will pre-sent “Foundered Shelf Edges—Seismic Expression of a Frio Example, Louisiana.” Tim has expanded his GCAGS talk with additional data. The information is germane to all who are in-terested in the geology of the Gulf Coast. The LGS Board met the evening of December 3rd, at the UL Museum of Geology as the guests of Professors Borrok, Mar-tin, and Duex. The highlight of the tour was the fossil of a gi-ant camel discovered by Dr. Martin’s team. I urge everyone to visit and to support the Museum of Geology. The Museum is housed in the Lafayette Museum of Science and Planetarium located downtown on Jefferson Street. The LGS President-Elect, Bill Finley, is the instructor for the UL subsurface mapping project. Bill is requesting suggestions from the membership in selecting the fields that the students will map as part of the class. Barry Womack is developing a field trip centered in the Denver area. The trip will be in April or May 2015. Jerry Yunker is coordinating with Barry and details will be forthcoming in Jan-uary. Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year to all. See you at the luncheon. Craig Glassinger
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LGS wishes to thank its Cornerstone Members for their annual financial support of speaker programs,
continuing education, UL-Lafayette scholarships, social functions, and community services.
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DECEMBER LUNCHEON PRESENTATION
Foundered Shelf Edges: Seismic Expression of a Frio Example, Louisiana
Timothy Bennett Orbit Energy, Inc.
Abstract*
Foundered shelf edges (FSE) are a geomorphic event that can be sudden in occurrence. They are caused by a rapid shifting of the shelf edge landward. Various geologic features are formed with the failure of the shelf into deeper water. These include slump blocks, ramping, and erosion. This new minibasin then results in an accommodation space that is filled with slope fans, proximal shoreface grainstones, and pro-grading wedges. Capping the sequence is a highstand deposit that is more regional in extent. A well developed FSE in St. Landry and Acadia parishes has previ-ously been documented. Frio-aged incised valley formations have fed into and filled this FSE with deepwater material, shallow shelf proximal material, and prograding wedge deposits. A cross-section through the various parts of the FSE is shown here in Figure 1. A proprietary 3D seismic volume was acquired in 2012. This 3D volume exhibits the various characteristics of the foundered shelf edge fill previously described by Ewing and Vincent’s (1997) subsurface interpretation. Visual examples of incised-valley fill, proximal grain flows, prograding wedge, slope fans, and deepwater shales will be pre-sented, supporting the previously-described model that was based on subsurface information only (Fig. 2).
_______________ *Reproduced (with modification) from Bennett, T. J., 2014, Foundered shelf edges: Seismic expression of a Frio example, Louisiana: Gulf Coast Associa-tion of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 64, p. 501–502. Reproduced with permission of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, whose per-mission for further reproduction is required.
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Figure 1. Well-log cross-section B–B’ of middle and lower Frio strata from Savoy to South Bayou Mallet fields, St. Landry and Acadia parishes, Louisi-ana (from Ewing and Vincent, 1997, reproduced with permission of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, whose permission is required for further reproduction).
Figure 2. Arbitrary seismic line tie to cross-section B–B’. GFS = Guillory flooding surface; SB = sequence boundary; IVF = incised valley fill; B/Frio UC = basal Frio unconformity; PGF=proximal grain flow; PW = prograding wedge; SF = slope fan; and DWS = deepwater shale. Seismic data courtesy of Orbit Energy, Inc. Interpretation is that of the author.
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Hydrocarbon exploration drove the acquisition of this 3D volume over the Frio foundered shelf edge. The seismic data confirmed the subsurface correlations showing the foundered shelf edge fill is very much like the subsurface interpretation. The seismic data clearly illus-trate slump blocks, proximal grain flows, and deepwater slope fans. The variable nature of the fill has shown most traps are stratigraphically controlled. Documented models of foundered shelf edge fills tied with the seismic volume has assisted in the development of numerous explor-atory targets.
Reference Cited and Additional Readings Edwards, M. B., 2000, Origin and significance of retrograde failed shelf margins; Tertiary northern Gulf Coast Basin: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 50, p.81–93. Ewing, T. E., and F. S. Vincent, 1997, Foundered shelf edges—Examples from the Yegua and Frio, Texas and Louisiana: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 47, p. 149–157. Morton, R. A., 1993, Attributes and origins of ancient submarine slides and filled embayments: Examples from the Gulf Coast Basin: Ameri-can Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 77, p.1064–1081.
Biography Tim Bennett, CPG#5632, CES#3174. Tim is a working exploration geologist with 35+ years on the trail. He originated from New Jersey, received a BS at Farleigh Dickinson Univ. and then got in his car to drive to Oklahoma, where he was enrolled to attend OSU. He got a flat in Dayton, OH, and was absconded by a group of professors trying to find warm bodies for their recently opened graduate school at Wright State Univ. A couple of years later, he was holding an MS in Geology/Geophysics, back in his car and heading to Lafayette, LA (and he really thought Louisiana was a suburb of New Orleans). His work experienc-es include Union Oil Company for 20+ years, then Independent when oil hit $12.50 back in ’98. He has consulted for numerous companies as an independent, even holding the fame of being with a company that went bankrupt during the oil boom of 2006! He is now with Orbit Ener-gy, Inc. these last seven years prospecting onshore SW Louisiana. Now with the latest commodity price swing, he just might find himself back in the car driving to OSU to get his room deposit back. Beer money’s where you find it.
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Calendar of Upcoming Events
Dec. 17, 2014 — LGS: Lafayette Geological Society luncheon meeting, 11:30 am at the Petroleum Club in Lafayette — Tim Bennett, Orbit Energy, Inc., Lafayette, will present “Foundered Shelf Edges: Seismic Expression of a Frio Example, Louisiana.” Jan. 8, 2015 — SPWLA: Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Ana-lysts luncheon meeting, 11:30 am at the Petroleum Club in Lafayette — Speaker and topic not available as of press time. Please visit http://www.spwla.org/chapters/lafayette as the meeting date approaches for more information. Jan. 8, 2015 — NOGS and SGS: Joint New Orleans Geological Society and Southeastern Geophysical Society luncheon meeting, 11:30 am at the Le Pavillon Hotel, 833 Poydras St., New Orleans — John R. Dribus, Schlumberger Oil Field Services, New Orleans, will present “A Tour of Abrupt Margin Prospectivity around the African Margin and Major Chal-lenges of the Abrupt Margin Play.” Please visit http://nogs.dotster.com/sitemove/public_html/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Jan2014_DribusAbstract.pdf for abstract and biography. Jan. 9, 2015 — BRGS: Baton Rouge Geological Society luncheon meet-ing, 11:30 am at Mike Anderson Seafood Restaurant, 1031 W. Lee Drive, Baton, Rouge, Louisiana — Speaker and topic not available as of press time. For more information, please visit http://www.brgs-la.org for more information as the meeting date approaches. Jan. 12, 2015 — API: Acadiana Chapter of the American Petroleum Insti-tute, 11:30 am at the Petroleum Club in Lafayette — Speaker and topic not available as of press time. Please visit www.apiacadiana.com for updates. Jan. 13, 2015 — SWLGS: Southwest Louisiana Geophysical Society, 11:30 am at the Petroleum Club in Lafayette — Speaker and topic not available as of press time. Please visit http://www.swlgs.org for updated information as the meeting date approaches. Jan. 13, 2015 — SPE: Society of Petroleum Engineers Evangeline Sec-tion, 11:30 am at the Petroleum Club in Lafayette — Joseph H. Frantz, Jr., Range Resources, will present “Shale Plays: How Technology, Govern-ments, Regulators, Academia, and the Public have Changed the World’s Energy Supply and Demand Equation.” For abstract and biography, please visit http://www.spe-laf.org/site.php?pageID=15&eID=1313. Jan. 14, 2015 — SIPES: Society of Independent Professional Earth Scien-tists luncheon meeting, 11:30 am at the Petroleum Club in Lafayette — no available speaker or topic information as of press time. Jan. 21, 2015 — LGS: Lafayette Geological Society luncheon meeting, 11:30 am at the Petroleum Club in Lafayette — Speaker and topic not available as of press time. For more information, please visit http://lafayettegeologicalsociety.org as the meeting date approaches.
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