• IMAGE 2024 (August 26-29, 2024)
• HGS Annual Student Expo (September 9-10, 2024)
• HGS-GESGB Africa Conference (September 24-25, 2024)
• CBTH Annual Sponsor Meeting (October 11, 2024)
• First EAGE Conference on Energy Opportunities in the Caribbean (November 6-8, 2024)

CBTH Presentations at Upcoming Meetings

IMAGE 2024 (August 26-29, 2024)

CBTH students and researchers will be presenting at IMAGE 2024 on August 26-29, 2024. A full list of accepted presentations is featured below. This year, CBTH researchers Ruth Beltran, Sharon Cornelius, Jose Gorosabel, Daniel Maya, and Chesney Petkovsek will be serving as session chairs. To register for this event, click here.

• Jumoke Akinpelu and Paul Mann - Re-defining the continent-ocean boundary beneath the distal Niger delta and expanding its deepwater, hydrocarbon play fairway based on the wider zone of continental rifts and syn-rift source rocks
  • Session Style: Poster Presentation
  • Session ID: AFR P1
  • Session Title: Approaches to Data Integration 1: Geophysical Workflows
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 28, 2024 from 1:20 PM to 3:00 PM


• Ruth Beltran - Session Chair for Brazil's Presalt Basins 2 - Subsalt Modeling, Session ID LAC 7, Oral, Wednesday, August 28, 2024 10:20 AM to 12:00 PM, Room 351B


• Ruth Beltran and Paul Mann - Crustal structure and hydrocarbon potential of the ultra-deepwater, External rift zone, Campos basin, Brazil
  • Session Style: Poster Presentation
  • Session ID: LAC P1
  • Session Title: Exploration and Development 1
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 28, 2024 from 8:00 AM to 9:40 AM


• Sharon Cornelius - Session Chair for US Gulf of Mexico: Overview, Session ID NA 2, Oral, Tuesday, August 27, 2024 8:00 AM to 9:40 AM, Room 361B


• Sharon Cornelius - Regional 3D basin modeling of the Santos-Campos-Espirito Santo basins, offshore Brazil, for predictive prospectivity of the external rift zone presalt source rock
  • Session Style: Oral Presentation
  • Session ID: LAC 9
  • Session Title: Brazil's Equatorial Margin
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 28, 2024 from 1:20 PM to 1:45 PM


• Jose Gorosabel - Session Chair for Suriname Exploration 1, Session ID LAC 3, Oral, Tuesday, August 27, 2024 1:20 PM - 3:00 PM, Room 351B


• Jose Gorosabel and Paul Mann - 3D seismic characterization of hydrocarbon plays in the deepwater zone of the Rio Muni Basin, deepwater margin of Equatorial Guinea
  • Session Style: Oral Presentation
  • Session ID: AFR 3
  • Session Title: Field-Scale Studies
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 29, 2024 from 8:00 AM to 8:25 AM


• Jose Gorosabel, Paul Mann, Alanny Melo, David de Castro, Diogenes Oliveira - Hydrocarbon potential of the deepwater Barreirinhas Basin and the Equatorial Margin of Brazil based on refined source rock characterization and basin modeling
  • Session Style: Oral Presentation
  • Session ID: LAC 9
  • Session Title: Brazil's Equatorial Margin
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 28, 2024 from 2:10 PM to 2:35 PM


• Daniel Maya - Session Chair for Frontier Offshore Basins, Session ID LAC 2, Oral, Tuesday, August 27, 2024 10:20 AM to 12:00 PM, Room 351B


• Daniel Maya and Paul Mann - Crustal structure of the volcanic-rifted margin of offshore Uruguay based on gravity modeling and application to hydrocarbon basin modeling
  • Session Style: Oral Presentation
  • Session ID: LAC 2
  • Session Title: Frontier Offshore Basins
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 27, 2024 from 10:20 AM to 10:45 AM


• Josh Miller and Paul Mann - Comparison of potential fields and seismic reflection data from known and proposed areas of exhumed mantle on non-volcanic, rifted-passive margins: Implications for frontier hydrocarbon exploration of the ultra-deepwater realm
  • Session Style: Oral Presentation
  • Session ID: ECR 1
  • Session Title: New Insights into Europe 2
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 29, 2024 from 10:45 AM to 11:10 AM


• Chesney Petkovsek - Session Chair for Studies of geological and geophysical processes to further enhance the understanding of the Permian Basin and the Eastern Shelf, Session ID NA3 P2, Oral, Tuesday, August 27, 2024 10:20 AM to 12:00 PM


• Chesney Petkovsek - Session Chair for Geological and geophysical studies and methods of the Permian Basin and Eastern Shelf, Session ID NA5 P4, Poster, Tuesday, August 27 3:40 PM to 5:20 PM


• Juan Pablo Ramos, Paul Mann, and Luis Carlos Carvajal-Arenas - Reassessing the Late Cretaceous basement crustal structure of the Colombian Basin and its implications for ultra-deepwater petroleum systems in the Caribbean Sea
  • Session Style: Oral Presentation
  • Session ID: LAC 10
  • Session Title: Exploration
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 28, 2024 from 4:55 PM to 5:20 PM


• Kenneth Shipper and Paul Mann - Controls on the tectonic evolution of source rock thermal stress patterns in the Moroccan salt basin
  • Session Style: Oral Presentation
  • Session ID: AFR 2
  • Session Title: Play-Scale Studies
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 28, 2024 from 11:10 AM to 11:35 AM


• Kenneth Shipper and Paul Mann - 3D crustal model for the volcanic-rifted margin of Suriname and the non-volcanic margin of Guyana with implications for Jurassic-Cretaceous source rock maturity
  • Session Style: Oral Presentation
  • Session ID: LAC 4
  • Session Title: Suriname Exploration 2
  • Presentation Date and Time: August 27, 2024 from 4:55 PM to 5:20 PM

HGS Annual Student Expo (September 9-10, 2024)

CBTH students plan to attend the HGS Annual Student Expo on September 9-10, 2024. To register for this event, click here. Stay tuned for more details.

HGS-GESGB Africa Conference (September 24-25, 2024)

CBTH researchers plan to present at the HGS-GESGB Africa Conference on September 24-25, 2024. See below for a full list of CBTH presentations at this event. To register for this event, click here. Stay tuned for more details.

• Jumoke Akinpelu - Expanding the play fairway of hydrocarbon systems based on syn-rift Cretaceous source rocks, western Niger Delta, offshore Nigeria
• Jose Gorosabel - Hydrocarbon prospectivity of the deepwater Rio Muni Basin, offshore Equatorial Guinea, based on the 3D seismic characterization of hydrocarbon play
• Upal Shahriar - Impact of the transition from a Jurassic volcanic to non-volcanic rifted margin on hydrocarbon prospectivity in northwest Africa
• Kenneth Shipper - Tectonic history and transient full-lithosphere thermal modeling to predict thermal stress of source rocks within the Moroccan basin

CBTH Annual Sponsor Meeting (October 11, 2024)

CBTH students and researchers will be presenting at at our annual sponsor meeting on October 11, 2024. This event will be held in-person on the UH Campus (exact location TBD). Visitor parking is available in the East Parking Garage, which is just a short walk away from Cemo Hall.


Stay tuned for more updates, including this year's meeting schedule. If you'd like to attend this year's CBTH Annual Sponsor Meeting, please contact us at cbthproject@gmail.com

First EAGE Conference on Energy Opportunities in the Caribbean (November 6-8, 2024)

CBTH researchers plan to present at the First EAGE Conference on Energy Opportunities in the Caribbean on November 6-8, 2024. Stay tuned for more details.