The CBTH Project will host its annual sponsor meeting on Thursday, October 9, 2025 beginning at 9 AM CDT. This year's event is hosted TotalEnergies located at 1201 Louisiana Street, Houston, TX 77002. See below for the full meeting schedule, and stay tuned for more details.
Presentation Schedule
- 9:00 AM - Dr. Paul Mann - Welcome, main results from Phase VII, and looking ahead to Phase VIII (2026-2029)
- 9:20 AM - Jeff Storms - CBTH website, deliverables to sponsors, and demo of CBTH mapped surfaces posted to Geopost
- 9:40 AM - Kenneth Shipper - 3D basin model for Guyana-Suriname and predicted areas of future large discoveries
- 10:00 AM - Dr. Jose Gorosabel - 3D basin model for the Equatorial margin of Brazil and predicted areas of future large discoveries
- 10:20 AM - Dr. Sharon Cornelius - 3D basin model for the Campos-Santos basin and predicted areas of future large discoveries
- 10:40 AM - 20 minute coffee break
- 11:00 AM - Ruth Beltran - Structural restorations of the Campos basin, Brazil, and constraints on ultra-deepwater, hydrocarbon provinces
- 11:20 AM - Ary Gustavo Candido - Source rocks and structure of the Pelotas basin, Brazil: Filling the gap separating the Santos basin nd Uruguay
- 11:40 AM - Daniel Maya - Structural impact of the Salado microplate on the deepwater potential of Uruguay
- 12:00 PM - Josh Miller - Paleoscan images illustrating source rock-reservoir pairs of the deepwater margin of Uruguay
- 12:20 PM - 1 hour lunch break
- 1:20 PM - Andy Pepper - Overview of deepwater source rocks of Equatorial West Africa
- 1:40 PM - Jumoke Akinpelu - Comparison of structural evolution and deepwater hydrocarbon potential of two conjugate, rifted margins: Potiguar Basin, Brazil and Niger Delta, Nigeria
- 2:00 PM - Dr. Jose Gorosabel - Mature source rocks on oceanic crust, Part 1: Equatorial Guinea
- 2:15 PM - Kenneth Shipper - Mature source rocks on oceanic crust, Part 2: Atlantic margin of Morocco
- 2:30 PM - Dr. Paul Mann - Meeting summary and discussion with sponsors with future directions of the project in Phase VII, Year 3 and Phase VIII
Posters on Display
- Jumoke Akinpelu - Continent-ocean transition beneath the Niger Delta, West Africa, and implications for its deepwater, hydrocarbon potential
- Dr. Jose Gorosabel - 3D basin modeling and geochemical characterization of Early Cretaceous source rocks in the deepwater Ceará Basin in the Brazilian Equatorial Margin
- Daniel Maya - Crustal structure and basin modeling of Cretaceous source rocks in deepwater settings along the deepwater Uruguay margin
- Estefani Ruiz Toro - Correlation of Jurassic source rocks and basin evolution of the North Slope and Southern Alaska
- Kenneth Shipper - Regional maturation model for hydrocarbons along the Guyana-Suriname margin based on improved estimates of the thickness and thermal structure of the rifted lithosphere
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