Historically, structural geology and plate tectonics had a key role in hydrocarbon exploration and development, becoming essential when it comes to elaborating a well drilling proposal or creating a subsurface geological model.

 

Technological and theoretical advances allowed the incorporation of new types of data and workflows that resulted in more accurate and complete solutions. Following this progress, the fields of structural geology and tectonics have broadened, ranging from the analysis of the effects of tectonics on the development of petroleum systems to the petrographic characterization of naturally fractured reservoirs. More recently, the search and production of unconventional resources expanded this horizon even more, adding the effects of microstructures on reservoir productivity or the role of tectonically driven stress variations on the efficiency of well drilling and stimulation operations.

 

Under this wide range of scales, concepts and workflows, we invite the geoscience community to participate in this Session and, by doing that, capitalize the knowledge gained to create more and better projects.

 

 

Subthemes:

 

• Structural styles in productive and non-productive basins.
• Structural modelling of fields and prospects.
• Characterization of fractured reservoirs.
• Tectonics and petroleum systems.
• Tectonics and structure of offshore basins.
• Analog and numerical modeling.
• Kinematic and deformation history.
• Fault-seal analysis.
• Salt tectonics.

Reference Team:

 

Daniel Starck

Emilio Rojas Vera, YPF

Ernesto Cristallini, UBA Conicet

Facundo Fuentes, YPF

Laura Giambiagi, Conicet

Matías Ghiglione, UBA

José Allard, UNPSJB

José Paredes, UNPSJB

Ramiro Lopez, YPF

René Manceda