FWGS January Luncheon
Tue, Jan 09
|Petroleum Club
Join us for a luncheon and talk at the Fort Worth Petroleum Club. RSVP by Thursday January 4th.


Time & Location
Jan 09, 2024, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM
Petroleum Club, 40th Floor, 777 Main St, Fort Worth, TX 76102, USA
Guests
Event Details
Biography
Brian Horn is currently the Managing Director of The Hatteras Energy Group. He served as Head of
Exploration Portfolio and Assurance at Cairn Oil and Gas in Delhi, India for the past 3 years. Prior to joining
Cairn, he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Geologist of ION E&P Advisors. Brian has worked in oil
and gas exploration and production for over 28 years. His experience includes technical and commercial
advisory, regional exploration, basin and play fairway analysis, petroleum systems, regional stratigraphic and
seismic correlations, and resource assessments. He has led New Ventures exploration teams, created
exploration portfolios through technical and commercial analysis and global opportunity screening. Brian has
worked directly with National Oil Company Executives, Government Ministries and Leaders in multiple
countries. He received his PhD in Geology and Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines
and his MSc and BA degrees in Geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Abstract
A regional exploration perspective of the Gulf of Mexico Basin: Questions that remain
Hatteras Energy Group, Houston, TX
The Gulf of Mexico is one of the most extensively explored basins in the world, and the hydrocarbon
discoveries in the last 70 years demonstrate the GoM is a preeminent Super Basin. With each decade and
phase of exploration the basin brings new technological innovation, new opportunities, and discovered
volumes exceeding 5BBO. Yet, these successes and ideas continue to reveal questions and uncertainty about
the basin’s tectonic history and evolution of depositional systems through time. Some questions are, what
new play ideas remain untested, what known plays may be present in new areas and what is the right
approach to finding new plays and delineating their extent?
The best exploration ideas and concepts are grounded in ‘bottom up’ analysis starting at a basin scale and
working toward the prospect scale. Using a basin-wide seismic framework it is possible to investigate
outstanding questions such as the basin paleogeography prior to salt deposition, and the distribution of
sedimentary successions in the deep water. We present a basin overview and regional framework to evaluate
ideas about basin evolution, the distribution of play fairways, and exploration opportunities to better
understand the future hydrocarbon exploration potential in the Gulf of Mexico.
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