All field trips include guide book, lodging, land transportation, breakfasts, box lunches, and refreshments.
Come and join us at the foot of the mountains on any one of the three field trips we have organized to discuss important topics on the petroleum geology of Mexico. Our field trips have been carefully selected to complement the themes of this convention and will be guided by mature and highly experienced geoscientists. The field trips off er the opportunity to know more about the Tertiary deepwater deposits of the Chicontepec basin, the Cretaceous carbonates rocks of the southern segment of the Sierra Madre Oriental, and the stratigraphy and tectonics of the southwestern part of the Sierra de Chiapas.
Guidelines on registration procedure for field trips:
• Field trips are reserved on a fi rst-come, first-served basis, and registration must be accompanied by payment in full. As field trip enrollment is limited, you are strongly encouraged to register early.
• Undersubscribed field trips will be cancelled. In order for us to anticipate better the number of attendees, and avoid the premature cancellation of a field trip, you are strongly encouraged to register no later than September 17, 2011.
• If a field trip sells out, a waiting list will be automatically generated. You will be contacted as soon as space becomes available.
• Before making non-refundable airline or hotel reservations, make sure that your selected field trip will take place and that your space is confirmed. We caution you about purchasing non-refundable airline tickets in order to attend a course.
• Six weeks prior to the field trip, participants will receive an itinerary with details about meeting points, phone and e-mail addresses of trip leaders and hotels, transportation within the field trip, etc. Please include an e-mail address on your registration.
• If a field trip is cancelled, a further notice will be given as of the second week of September 2011 on the Convention website, and registered participants will be notifi ed by e-mail.
• In case of a last minute cancellation due to weather conditions, the unspent portion of cost will be refunded.
• You will be required to sign and return to GCAGS a release and indemnity agreement, included with the itinerary in order to participate in any field trip.
• Neither GCAGS nor the leaders of the field trips maintain insurance covering illness or injury for individuals. Please check your personal insurance before traveling or read: ”Temporary Medical Insurance” located on the Important Information and Travelers Tips page.. All international attendees are urged to purchase temporary converage, especially if participating in a field trip or spouse/guest tour.
Contact information:
Mario Aranda-García – Field Trips Chairman
E-mail: mario.aranda@pemex.com
Pemex Exploración y Producción
Phone: +52 (993) 3169613
Field Trip #1: Facies and development of turbiditic deposits from Chicontepec Formation, western margin of Chicontepec paleo-channel, Mexico
Leaders: José J. Hernández-Mendoza, Pemex, Exploración y Producción; Uwe Jenchen, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Days: Thursday, October 13, through Sunday, October 16
Departure: October 14, Poza Rica Inn Hotel, 08:00 hrs, Poza Rica, Veracruz
Return: World Trade Center Veracruz, 14:00 hrs
Fee: $1,049.00 USD (includes land transportation, two box lunches, three breakfasts and three dinners, two nights lodging based on single occupancy, and the guide book. Thursday night lodging is not included).
Limit: 20 persons
Who Should Attend? Geoscientists interested in turbidite systems will enjoy and learn from this trip. There are excellent outcrops to learn about and understand sedimentological features and scales of muddy to sandy depth water sediments in a foreland basin of the Sierra Madre thrust belt. It is also an excellent opportunity to make a comparison with subsurface reservoir geology of Chicontepec oilfields.
Summary: Strata of the oil producing paleogene sandstones crop out in the western margin of the Chicontepec basin. On the first day we will study facies of distributional channel, levee, and proximal lobe
deposits. Distal facies will be shown on the second day, as well as syndepositional features represented by mass transport complexes, which reflect Paleocene and Eocene uplift of the Sierra Madre Oriental.
Key points of the field trip (third day) will be detailed from outcrops emphasizing vertical and horizontal facies and stacking patterns to the subsurface models.
All participants must abide by security rules.
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Field Trip #2: Stratigraphic, sedimentological and structural elements of an exhumed Cretaceous reservoir at the frontal Sierra Madre thrust and fold-belt, Veracruz, Mexico
Leaders: Graciela E. González-Mercado, Pemex, Exploración y Producción; Helga Ferket, VITO be; and Samuel Eguiluz de Antuñano, Consultant
Days: Saturday, October 15, through Sunday, October 16
Departure: World Trade Center Veracruz, 07:00 hrs
Return: World Trade Center Veracruz, 16:00 hrs
Fee: $580.00 USD (includes land transportation, two box lunches, one night lodging based on single occupancy, one buff et breakfast, and guide book in English. Saturday breakfast and Friday night lodging are not included).
Limit: 20 persons
Who Should Attend? Geoscientists interested in the stratigraphy and sedimentology of an exhumed Cretaceous reservoir will have the opportunity to learn from discussions on a “reservoir analogue” found on the site. Excellent outcrops at quarries can be visited in order to learn about carbonate karstification and associated meteoric diagenesis, or else learn about selective oil impregnation on platform carbonates vugs and their relationship to diagenesis.
Summary: Outcrops of Cretaceous carbonate platform of the Sierra Madre Oriental are exposed in the environs of the city of Cordoba, an hour and a half drive from Veracruz. Sedimentology, diagenesis, and deformation/fluid fl ow in carbonates indicate an early petroleum migration phase that charged petroleum reservoirs that were exhumed by the frontal thrust-uplift at the Córdoba Platform. In order to reconstruct petroleum history (maturation, migration, trapping, and alteration) thermal modeling results will be shown and discussed, such as diagenesis and paragenesis relationships, paleo-temperature and P-T–modeling from fluid inclusion measurements which allow discriminating several geological scenarios to fi tting the burial and uplift deformation history.
All participants must abide by security rules.
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Field Trip #3: Meaning of the stratigraphy and structure at Sierra de Chiapas in the tectonic evolution and petroleum systems of southeastern Mexico
Leaders: Juan Carlos Salinas Prieto and Francisco Meneses Garibay, GYMSA
Days: Wednesday, October 12, through Saturday, October 15
Meeting Point, Wednesday, October 12, Best Western Tuxtla Gutierrez, afternoon.*
Departure: Thursday, October 13, Best Western , Tuxtla Gutierrez, 08:00 hrs
Return: Saturday, October 15, Best Western , Tuxtla Gutierrez, 14:00 hrs
Fee: $885.00 USD (includes land transportation, welcome reception, three box lunches, three dinners, three nights lodging based on single occupancy, three buffet breakfasts, and guide book in English. Air or land transportation is not included from Tuxtla Gutierrez to Veracruz upon conclusion of the trip, and neither is Saturday night lodging at Veracruz).
*A welcome reception and an Introduction Session are scheduled on Wednesday, October 12, at 20:00 hrs at the Best Western Tuxtla Gutierrez Hotel.
Limit: 20 persons
Who Should Attend? Geoscientists interested in geology of southeastern Mexico, will enjoy and learn from this trip. There are excellent outcrops to learn about and understand the stratigraphy and structure of the Sierra de Chiapas fold belt. It is also an excellent opportunity to make a comparison among outcrops and oil reservoirs found in the producing provinces of southeastern Mexico.
Summary: An updated framework of the whole basement- Mesozoic-Paleogene column is shown with the stratigraphy drilled by wells at western Chiapas range. Thickness and facies differences of the early Jurassic evaporites and Cretaceous platform cover are explained by tectonic subsidence during evolution of the paleogeographic blocks which at present time are bordered by major tectonic features.
Regional understanding of geological models at southeastern Mexico are linked to petroleum systems elements and to processes as well as at the southern margin of the Gulf of Mexico.
All participants must abide by security rules.
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