Workshop 13: Applied Biostratigraphy - A Critical Tool for Subsurface Prediction and Characterization
Tracks
Side Activities
| Monday, June 8, 2026 |
| 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM |
| Room 12 |
Details
Biostratigraphy is vital for understanding and characterizing the subsurface, playing a role at global, regional/basin, prospect, and field scales. The workshop will introduce the fundamental biostratigraphical concepts and their subsurface applications, e.g., biosteering, and their integration with sequence stratigraphy. The predictive power of the latter is emphasized and demonstrated.
Speaker
Prof. Michael Simmons
Technology Fellow for Geoscience
Halliburton
Keynote: The subsurface is in demand – subsurface characterisation and the role of biostratigraphy
9:05 AM - 9:45 AM
Prof. Michael Simmons
Technology Fellow for Geoscience
Halliburton
Prediction – biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy. Looking for new plays around the Bab Basin, Arabian Platform
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Dr Matthew Wakefield
Lealt Stratigraphic Consultants Limited
Keynote: Leave No Dollar Behind – defining your asset and making the most of it
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM
Dr Emma Sheldon
Biostratigrapher, Senior Researcher
Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland - GEUS
Target horizon identification. Picking casing points in the Gorm Field, North Sea
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Dr Mike Bidgood
Director/Senior Geoscientist
GSS Geoscience Ltd.
Biosteering – turn your asset into a goldmine. Valhall & Joanne Fields, North Sea.
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Dr Emma Sheldon
Biostratigrapher, Senior Researcher
Geological Survey of Denmark & Greenland - GEUS
Keynote: Biostratigraphy’s Role in a Low-Carbon Energy World
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
