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Division Talks
Exploration Potential of the Albanian Thrust Belt
SPEAKERS
Mark Cooper, Ph.D., P. Geo
Consultant - International Exploration and Structural Geology
Sherwood Geoconsulting Inc.
Marian J. Warren, Ph.D., P. Geo
Consultant - Structural geology, frontier basin explor. and professional training
Jenner Geoconsulting Inc.
12:00 Noon
Wednesday May 9th, 2012
ConocoPhillips Amphitheatre, 3rd Floor
West End of Gulf Canada Square
401–9th Avenue S.W., Calgary, Alberta
Albania contains the largest onshore oil field in Europe, Patos Marinza (PMean OOIP 5.7 billion barrels) reservoired in Miocene and Pliocene sands and there are also several producing onshore carbonate oil fields in Albania including the Amonica, Visoka, Ballshi, Cakran and Gorisht fields (cumulative production to date of 200 MMbbl). This has been a prolific hydrocarbon producing area for many decades.
All of the hydrocarbons in onshore Albania are located in the Tertiary Albanide fold and thrust belt and its deformed foreland basin. The Miocene to Pliocene deformation of the fold and thrust belt affected the Triassic to Eocene carbonate platform, the Oligocene flysch and the Miocene to Pliocene molasse and developed from northeast to southwest. There are four distinct tectonic/stratigraphic provinces in Albania: the undeformed foreland basin offshore, the deformed clastic foreland basin of the Peri-adriatic depression, the outer Albanides of carbonate thrust sheets and the inner Albanides which includes ophiolites.
The Ionian basin deep-water carbonates of the outer Albanides, and the overlying foreland basin sandstones of the Miocene and Pliocene molasse of the Peri-adriatic depression are responsible for most of the hydrocarbon production in Albania. However, as this talk will illustrate, the platformal carbonate facies of the Kruja Zone in the thrust sheets to the northeast of the Ionian Zone also have hydrocarbon potential and contain abundant seeps that have been typed to the prolific source rocks in the Upper Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous sections that are responsible for the existing producing fields.
Petromanas holds 100% working interest in four onshore Blocks (Blocks A and B, Blocks D and E) and holds a 50% working interest in two onshore Blocks (Blocks 2 and 3) with Shell holding the other 50%. The blocks cover 1.436 million acres and have an extensive 2-D seismic database with over 1,400 km of recently acquired and/or reprocessed data. The mapping of this data set in combination with data from existing wells and the surface geology maps has led to a portfolio of large subthrust, anticlinal traps in highly fractured, massive carbonates of Cretaceous to Eocene age. The portfolio also includes the Shpiragu prospect which is a light oil discovery (37° API) within Block 2 drilled by Oxy. Examples of these prospects will be discussed during the presentation.
BIOGRAPHY
Mark Cooper graduated with a B.Sc. geology degree from Imperial College, London in 1974 and with a Ph.D. from Bristol University in 1977. He taught geology at University College Cork prior to joining BP in 1985 to work on structurally complex basins based in London. Mark moved to BP Canada, Calgary in 1988 where he worked on exploration in the foothills including the successful Sukunka-Bullmoose gas play in NE British Columbia. Mark also worked for BP in Colombia on the team that drilled the discovery wells on the Cupiagua, Volcanera and Florena Fields. In 1994 he joined PanCanadian and worked on the BC foothills, western Newfoundland, Quebec, the Gulf of Mexico, the Scotian Shelf and various international projects. He worked on frontier and international projects in Oman, Qatar, Yemen, Eastern Europe and Greenland after the merger that created EnCana in 2002 managing the Middle East and Global New Ventures groups for EnCana. Mark retired from EnCana as VP Middle East and Global New Ventures at the end of 2007 and now has his own consulting practice specializing in International Exploration and Structural Geology. Mark also holds an Honorary Chair in Petroleum Geology at the University of Aberdeen. He has published over 50 papers, co-edited a book on Inversion Tectonics and has served as an advisory editor for the Journal of the Geological Society. He was a co-winner of the CSPG Link Award in 1997, served as an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer for 1999-2000 and was a co-winner of the AAPG Matson Award in 2002. Mark has been heavily involved with both the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and the AAPG serving on committees in both organizations over the last 10 years.
Marian Warren completed a bachelor’s degree in geology and astronomy/physics at Williams College, Massachusetts, followed by a stint as an instructor and astronomical observatory technician at Williams. She then chose to pursue geology as a career, completing a M.S. in geology (Appalachian structural geology and tectonics) at the University of Vermont, and a PhD in geology (Canadian Cordilleran tectonics) with Ray Price at Queen’s University, Canada. Marian joined EnCana Corporation (then PanCanadian Petroleum) in Calgary in 1997, where she held roles as geologist, geophysical interpreter and structural specialist. Her focus was on exploration in clastic and carbonate exploration plays in structurally complex settings, with projects in the Quebec Appalachians, the Alberta foreland basin and foothills, the central African rift system in Chad, and in the French Aquitaine Basin and Pyrenees foothills. She has also been involved in developing and presenting numerous technical training courses and field trips for EnCana technical staff, the Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Nautilus Geoscience Training Alliance and other organizations. Marian was a co-recipient of the CSPG Medal of Merit in 2003, winner of the AAPG Matson (Best Paper) Award in 2004, and served as an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer in 2006-2007, in the category of Case Studies in exploration. Since 2008, Marian has been the sole owner of Jenner GeoConsulting Inc. in Calgary, Canada, with consulting services focused in structural geology, frontier basin exploration and professional training. Clients and projects for Jenner GeoCOnsulting Inc. have been located in North and South America, Europe, the U.K., Africa and SE Asia.