סמינר בת שבע | אפריל 2013
סמינר בת שבע התקיים בתאריכים 28-30/4/13, בחסות קרן בת-שבע דה רוטשילד של האקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים.
נושא הכנס: "Batsheva De Rothschild Seminar: Hydrocarons Exploration and Development in the Levant Offshore"
מטרתו של הסמינר:
- מפגש שנתי עבור אנשי מהקהילה האקדמית הרלוונטית והתעשייה המקומית והבינלאומית.
- הגדרת יעדים משותפים וטיפוח את הקהילה מקצועית המקומית.
- הפוטנציאל בפיתוח גז ונפט עתידי במים הכלכליים של מדינת ישראל.
תכנית הסמינר כללה שני ימי קורסים, הרצאות, דיונים ויום שטח אשר כלל טיול לדרום הארץ, אזור ים המלח, מצפה רמון והסביבה.
במסגרת הסמינר הועבר קורס מלווה ע"י פרופ' פול ויימר, מנהל מרכז מחקר אנרגיה ומינרלים (EMARC), המחלקה למדעי גיאולוגיה, אוניברסיטת קולורדו בבולדר. בשנה שעברה הוא נבחר לנשיא של ה- American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), הארגון המוביל בעולם בתחום זה. כמו כן, פרופ' ויימר נתן נאום מרכזי בסמינר בת שבע.
נובל אנרג'י לקח חלק פעיל במפגש חשוב זה ונתנו חסות פלטינה. משרד הכלכלה תמך בסמינר. חברות תעשייתיות אחרות נתנו גם הן חסויות ליום עיון, ביניהם: קוראל, רציו, דלק קידוחים, אבנר חיפושי נפט, Vinci Technologies, SBM Offshore, Paradigm, PWC.
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Held under the auspices of the national Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel and the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, this Batsheva seminar will be the first professional meeting in Israel that focuses on the offshore upstream development.
Celebrating the historic onset of gas supply by Tamar well , the Seminar aims to:
• Create and establish the annual meeting point for the professionals driving offshore upstream development in the Levant Basin and the relevant academic community
• Define mutual objectives and foster a synergetic local professional community
• Outline the future gas and oil development potential in the Israeli offshore
The Seminar’s program includes two days of plenary and poster sessions, discussion forums; and a one day field trip to southern Israel focusing on unique erosive craters within Syrian Arc anticlines and remnants of the Early Miocene trans-Jordanian fluvial system. The presentations will provide an up to date view on the Levantine basin's evolution and hydrocarbon potential based on new drilling results; review the challenges and technical solutions involved in the development of this basin; and present contributions of the Israeli academic community. The perspective of global analogues will be brought by invited keynote speakers. The Seminar will also offer service companies an opportunity to showcase their current and planned activities and capabilities in the region.
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Meeting Chair:
Zvi Ben-Avraham
Head of the Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel; and
Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa
Program Chair:
Yizhaq Makovsky
Department of Marine Geosciences, University of Haifa
yizhaq@univ.haifa.ac.il
Amotz Agnon
Earth Science Institute, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Yair Ein Eli
Grand Technion Energy Program, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Yoni Essakow
Managing Director, Coral Maritime Services Ltd.
Shimon Feinstein
Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Michael Gardosh
The Petroleum Commissioner Office, Israel Ministry of Energy and Water Resources
Abraham Gross
Deputy Chief Scientist for Technology, Ministry of Industry, Trade & Labor
Zohar Gvirtzman
Geological Survey of Israel
Barak Herut
Director, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Solon Kassinis
Director, Energy Services, Cyprus
Henry S. Pettingill
Noble Energy Inc.
Nahum Schneidermann
Chevron Oil retired; and
USA representative to the Convention Program Committee of the World Petroleum Council
Moshe Reshef
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv University
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- An Overview of Offshore Exploration and Development in the Levant Basin
- The Development of the Levant Basin in A Global Perspective
- Tectonics and the Levant Basin Evolution
- Hydrocarbon Systems of the Levant Basin
- Depositional Systems and Reservoirs
- Exploration, Drilling and Production Operations
- Environmental and Geohazard Considerations and Permitting
- Models of Academic – Industry Collaboration
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BatshevaDe Rothschild Seminar: Hydrocarons Exploration and Development in the Levant Offshore, April 28-30, 2013:
Batsheva Seminar at a glance:
1. Plenary sessions poster sessions and exhibition, April 28-29, Hotel Dan Caesarea
2. Geological field trip to the northern Negev, April 30
3. Short course, May 1-2 Tel-Aviv University
Perspectives and Challenges, Dan Caesarea Hotel, Israel, April 28-29, 2013
Batsheva Seminar 2013 Time table
Day I – Sunday, April 28, 2013
09:30-11:00 Session 1: Opening and Overview
Chair: Yizhaq Makovsky, University of Haifa
09:30-09:35 Welcome words – Yizhaq Makovsky
09:35-09:55 Mediterranean Sea Research – the new frontier
Zvi Ben-Avraham, Meeting Chair;Head of the Mediterranean Sea
Research Center of Israel (MERCI);
Head of Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa
09:55-10:15 The case of Cyprus: Plans and developments regarding the offshore
hydrocarbon potential
Solon Kassinis, Executive vice President of Cyprus National Hydrocarbons Company Ltd.
10:15-10:35 Present and planned activity offshore Israel
Alex Varshavsky, Oil Commissioner, Ministry of Energy and Water,
State of Israel
10:35-11:00 Exploration of the deepwater Levant Basin: the opening of a new Petroleum province
Susan Cunningham, John Van Horn, Dan Needham, Jim Demarest and Henry S. Pettingill, Noble Energy inc.
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-14:00 Session 2: Opening and Overview
Chair: Yair ein Eli, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
11:30-12:05 Exploration, geological risk assessment and prospect evaluation
Nahum Schneidermann and Robert Otis, Schneidermann Chevron retired and Otis Rose & Associates
12:05-12:25 Israeli offshore exploration and development – How to manage the risks?
Eitan Glazer, Partner, Energy Practice Leader, PwC Israel
12:25-12:45 Overview of recent marine activity in the Israeli offshore
Yoni Essakow, Coral Maritime Services Ltd.
12:45-13:00 Creating oil and gas knowledge-intensive industry in Israel
Abraham Gross, Deputy Chief Scientist for Technology, Ministry of Industry,
Trade and Labor, State of Israel
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Session 3: Geology and Geophysics – Tectonics and Basin Evolution
Chair: Josh Steinberg, Ratio Oil
14:00-14:20 Tectonic setting of the Levant basin
Zvi Garfunkel, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
14:20-14:45 Development of the Levant continental margin alongside Africa-Arabia breakup
Zohar Gvirtzman, Geological Survey of Israel
14:45-15:10 Tectonic evolution of the Levant basin, offshore Israel
Richard George, Diego Sanabria, Matt Barrett and John van Horn,
Noble Energy inc.
15:10-15:35 The current stress field in Israel-Sinai subplate
Ze'ev Reches, University of Oklahoma
Amotz Agnon, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
Moshe Politi, Adira Energy Ltd.
15:35-16:00 Mega-scale swells and diapirs in the deep Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean and their association with recent world-class gasdiscoveries
Yuval Ben-Gal, ILDC-Energy
Yehezkel Druckman, Eden Energy Discoveries Ltd.
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-18:10 Session 4: Geology and Geophysics – Petroleum Systems and Hydrocarbon Generation
Chair: Moshe Polity, Adira Energy
16:30-16:55 Oil and gas shows in the eastern Levant Basin, Israel: genetic groups and their distribution in the basin; how many "systems" are there?
Shimon Feinstein, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
16:55-17:20 The petroleum systems of the Levant continental margin offshore Israel
Miki Gardosh, Ministry of Energy and Water, State of Israel
17:20-17:45 Climatic response to forced regressions through sub-sea gas systems
Uri Schattner, University of Haifa
17:45-18:10 Challenges in the physico-chemical characterization of deep offshore reservoir fluids
Emmanuel Behar, Institut Francois Du Petrole retired
18:45 Opening Departure to a gala evening at the Beach Bar, Caesarea, including dinner
Chair: Henry S. Pettingill, Noble Energy
Greetings: David Faragi, Rector, University of Haifa, Susan Cunningham, V.P. Exploration and technical Innovation, Noble Energy, Eldad Weiss, CEO, Paradigm
Plausible monetization of gas from Eastern Mediterranean deep water natural gas fields Michael J. Economides, University of Houston
Day 2 – Monday, April 29, 2013
09:00-10:50 Session 1: Geology and Geophysics cont. – Depositional Systems and Reservoir Rocks
Chair: Miki Gardosh, Ministry of Energy and Water Resources, State of Israel
09:00-09:35 An Overview of Deepwater reservoir elements in the eastern Mediterranean
Paul Weimer, University of Colorado Boulder
09:35-10:00 'Unconfined' submarine fan reservoirs of the Tamar area
Gordon Fielder, Henry S. Pettingill, Katie Davis, Scott Fenton, Jim Hosler and
Dan Needham, Noble Energy inc.
10:00-10:25 Trans-Jordanian Miocene fluvial transport to the Mediterranean: the Hazeva Formation Ezra Zilberman, Geological Survey of Israel
10:25-10:50 Applying Iso-geochemical methodology for studying the origin of iliciclastic reservoir rocks offshore Israel – preliminary results Yehudit Harlavan, Geological Survey of Israel
10:50-11:10 Break
11:10-14:00 Session 2: Geology and Geophysics cont. – Geophysical Investigation
Chair: Amotz Agnon, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
11:10-11:45 Key issues in fractured reservoirs: from Sweet Spots to containment assurance
Seth A. Busetti, ConocoPhilips
11:45-12:10 Innovative imaging of fractured reservoirs
Zvi Koren and Anat Canning, Paradigm
12:10-12:35 The value of broad band seismic acquisition for regional exploration – examples from the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond Adrian Burke, PCS
12:35-15:00 Interval velocity model building – considerations for seismic imaging in the Eastern Mediterranean Moshe Reshef, Tel Aviv University
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:20 Session 3: Technology and Environment – Drilling and Development
Chair: Kul Karcz, Delek Drilling
14:00-14:35 Offshore development concepts: capabilities and limitations
Ken Arnold, Sigma Explorations
14:35-15:00 Tamar Development Overview
Yaron Daissy and George Hatfield, Noble Energy Inc.
15:00-15:25 Drilling Challenges in Offshore Israel
Per Inge Remmen, AGR
15:25-15:50 Floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) solutions and application to the Levant Basin Cobie Loper, SBM Offshore
15:50-16:20 Break
16:20-18:00 Session 4: Technology and Environment – Geohazards, environmental issues and permitting
Chair: Barak Herut, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological
16:20-16:45 Active seafloor processes in the Levant offshore: observations and potential implications Yizhaq Makovsky, University of Haifa
16:45-17:10 HSE regulatory developments post-Macondo: implications for international petroleum exploration and production Jim Thomas, HIS
17:10-18:35 Environmental aspects of drilling in the territorial waters of Israel
Gideon Almagor, Adama – Environmental Geology and Geotechnique
17:35-18:00 The submarine landscape of the Mediterranean Israeli continental slope
Oded Katz and Einav Reuven, Geological Survey of Israel
Einat Ahoronov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
18:00-18:25 Operational Mediterranean Sea forecasts supporting marine safety, Cyprus and Israel collaboration George Zodiatis, University of Cyprus
Issac Gertman, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
19:00-20:30 Dinner at the Hotel's restaurant
20:30 Evening session at Vradim hall
The Why and How of Industry – Academia Collaboration, Kul Karcz, Delek Drilling
Where do we go from here? – Marlan Downey, Roxana Oil
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Field trip, April 30, 2013
Day 3 – Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Field trip to the northern Negev desert, Israel:
The Negev Desert is a unique landscape with fascinating geology. While trying to see as much as possible within a single day, the field trip focused on two main highlights. The first is the impressive erosive craters developed at the heart of Syrian Arc anticlines. This is a unique Israeli phenomenon called Makhtesh (a Hebrew term for a crater). The second trip highlight is remnants of a trans-Jordanian fluvial system that transported siliciclastic sediments from Arabia to the Mediterranean before being cut off by the Dead Sea valley. This fluvial system may be particularly important for potential hydrocarbon reservoirs.
Departure from Dan Caesarea Hotel was in the early morning driving southwards along the Judea foothills. We talked about the history of inland uplift that had formed the Mountainous Backbone of Israel. The first stop was over an impressively flat hill (like a giant football yard), which is a relic of a 150-km-long abrasion surface running along the western slopes of the Judea and Samaria mountains. This surface is capped by shallow marine middle Miocene limestone. Looking westwards and downwards we identified another abrasion surface overlain by middle Miocene to Pliocene marine sediments. Looking eastwards and upwards we observed the flat Judea mountain plateau. Considering the present elevations of these surfaces and their age, we set constraints of the rate of uplift and discussed the pulsic nature of the uplifting process.
While heading southward we crossed the “Be’er Sheva channel", a deep (200m) subsurface canyon that entrenched across the Negev in the Middle Miocene and later filled by Late Miocene to Pliocene marine sediments. Continuing southwards the road we crossed several Syrian Arc anticlines with their typical asymmetric structure composed of steep southeast flanks. Following lateral thickness variations, we discussed the age of folding. One of the famous morphological features that are associated with the Syrian Arc Fold Belt in the Negev are the erosion craters (Makhtesh: pl. Makhteshim), a deep valleys, surrounded by 200-400 m high cliffs and drained by a single stream, that developed in the core of the greatest folds: Hazera, Hatira and Ramon. We visited the Hatira crater, had a look at the exposed Jurassic to Turonian sequence, and discussed the peculiar geological and morphological conditions that led to the formation of these unique valleys.
Crossing the Hatira Makhtesh southeastward, we arrived to the Oran synclinal valley, where early Miocene fluvial sediments are still preserved. This sandy sequence is a remnant of a more than 1000 m thick fluvial-lacustrine sequence of the Hazeva Formation. During the Early Miocene the entire Negev as well as eastern Sinai and the western Jordanian Plateau were buried under fluvial sediments, which were originated south east of the Dead Sea Rift and transported to the Mediterranean by a regional fluvial system. This thick regional accumulation of sediments reflects a subsidence of the northwestern margins of the Arabian Plate. We took a close look at the upper part of the Hazeva Formation in a sand quarry near the city of Arad.
The next stop was a fantastic view point overlooking the Dead Sea Rift valley with the special afternoon sun illumination. We particularly observed the white lacustrine Lisan Formation, deposited during the last glacial period in a 200 km long and more than 200 m deep lake that extended along the Dead Sea valley.
General timetable:
06:30 – Departure from the Dan Caesarea Hotel's lobby
08:30 – Breakfast en route (light breakfast box)
13:30 – Lunch en route
18:00 – Estimated finish time and heading back north
19:00 – Dinner in a roadside restaurant (paid by participants)
21:00 – Stop at Ben Gurion airport
22:00 – Back at the Dan Caesarea Hotel
Tour participation was subjected to advanced registration.
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PETROLEUM SYSTEMS OF DEEPWATER SETTINGS
May 1 to 2, 2013, beteen 09:30 – 17:30
Paul Weimer, Director EMARC,
University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado, USA
Meiron Hall, Trubowicz Bldg. (Law Faculty), Tel-Aviv University
Preferred entrance – from gate 4 (George Wise st.). Parking is available next to the gate.
This course is intended to provide the working geologist, geophysicist, and petroleum engineer a broad overview of the petroleum systems of deepwater settings. Deepwater settings are the one reservoir system that cannot be easily reached, observed, and studied in the modern environment, in contrast to other siliciclastic and carbonate reservoir systems. The study of deepwater systems requires many different remote-observation techniques, each of which can only provide information on part of the entire depositional system. As a consequence, the study and understanding of deepwater depositional systems as reservoirs has lagged behind that of other reservoir systems, whose modern processes are more easily observed.
The course will follow the outline of the Weimer and Slatt AAPG book. I describe each of the reservoir elements using seismic reflection data, wireline log expression, outcrops cores, and image logs. Emphasis will be on geologic interpretation through knowledge of depositional systems and processes and their seismic reflection
The material will be presented though a series of lectures, and exercises. The six components of the petroleum systems of deepwater settings will be covered throughout the course. Exercises will involve hands-on experience in the interpretation of different data sets from various basins around the world. Exercises will provide experience in recognizing and interpreting deepwater systems. For most chapters, there will be at least one lab designed to illustrate how integrate systematically multiple data sets.
Registration Fees
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500 ILS |
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Academy* |
250 ILS |
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Student** |
100 ILS |
*Academy registration is supported by the Batsheva de Rothschild Fund for Advancement of Science in Israel
**Subject to receipt of letter from the institute confirming full-time student status.
Prices include a light lunch, coffee breaks, and course material CD.
Participants who register to the Seminar and the course will be eligible to 20% discount on the published course registration rates.
ONLINE REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE SHORTLY
TRAINING METHOD
The course is class-room based and uses a combination of lectures and self contained exercises based on real data sets. Lectures review the key points of each chapter, and exercises will emphasize how to apply the concepts to data sets.
Participants get a complete set of lecture notes and a copy of the text book “Introduction to Petroleum Geology of Deepwater settings.” By Paul Weimer and Roger Slatt (AAPG Studies in Geology 57).
Secondary text is: Rosen N., P. Weimer, et al. eds., 2012, "New Understandings of the Petroleum Systems of Continental Margins of the World," 32nd Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, Dec. 2-5.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This course is intended to provide the working geologist, geophysicist, and petroleum engineer a broad overview of the petroleum systems of deepwater settings. The class is aimed at those who wish to quickly get the 85th to 90th percentile in deepwater activities. The extensive literature review and summary of recent exploration activities give the attendees a current up-to-date status.
TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE
I have divided this outline into two days. The course can range anywhere from 2 to 4 days, depending on the needs of students, and how they wish me to present the data.
Day 1
Chapter 1- Introduction to deepwater settings
Chapter 2- Global overview to deepwater exploration and production
Chapter 3- Sequence stratigraphic setting of deepwater systems
Exercises: seismic interpretation
Chapter 4- Sediment-gravity flows and their processes
Exercises: cores
Chapter 5- Overview of deepwater-reservoir elements
Chapter 6- Deepwater-reservoir elements: channels and their sedimentary fill
Exercises: seismic, cores plus logs
Chapter 7- Deepwater-reservoir elements: levee-overbank sediments and their thin beds
Exercises: seismic, cores plus logs
Day 2
Chapter- 8 Deepwater reservoir elements: sheet sands and sandstones,
Exercises: cores plus logs
Chapter 9-Deepwater-reservoir elements: mass-transport deposits and slides
Exercises: seismic plus logs
Chapter 10-Deepwater reservoir elements: hybrid-type deepwater reservoirs
Exercises: cores, logs, seismic
Chapter 15-Petroleum traps in deepwater settings
Lab: Seismic plus logs
Chapter 16 Petroleum systems of deepwater settings:
Lab: Seismic plus logs
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Day 1, 28/04/2013:
Session 1
Zvi Ben Avraham:
Yuval Ben Gai:
Session 2
Nahum Schneidermann:
Eitan Glazer:
Yoni Essakow:
Session 3
Zohar Gvirtzman:
Session 4
Miki Gardosh:
Uri Schattner:
Emmanuel Behar:
Day 2, 29/04/2013:
Session 1
Paul Weimer:
Ezra Zilberman:
Session 2
Seth Busetti:
Zvi Koren:
Adrian Burke:
Moshe Reshef:
Session 3
Ken Arnold:
Session 4
Yizhaq Makovsky:
Oded Katz:
Marlqn Downey:
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