First EAGE Guyana-Suriname Basin Conference
26-28 October 2022 |  Hybrid (Georgetown, Guyana - Online)

This meeting aims to piggyback on the huge amount of technical focus on the margin, in an attempt to draw in all of the relevant stakeholders across E&P, technical vendors, and government, and to generate an open sharing discussion environment to allow companies to present the initial results of the discoveries and what lies ahead. The hope is that by sharing as much as possible within the constraints of protecting commerciality and tight data, that all operators in the area, and those with an interest in the area, can workshop some key themes together for their mutual benefit. Operators with experience in deep-water exploration, appraisal and development, including those with diverse experience in hydrocarbon fluids of different quality, from different source rocks, with different migration pathways and diverse trapping styles, can share best practices and discuss technical and geological issues and challenges. It is hoped that the meeting will also draw interest from the conjugate margin in the Gulf of Guinea and regional analogues like the Columbus and Eastern Venezuelan Basins, where in some jurisdictions the provinces are more mature, and sharing of knowledge from technical operations through subsurface expertise to localisation and best ways forward for the well-being and benefit of host countries may well apply to the Guyanese margin from these early days.

There are three main sedimentary deposystems stretching from eastern Venezuela through Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, fed from three principal fluvio-deltaic entry points along the margin, which have shifted laterally over time: (1) the Aptian Demerara fluvio-deltaic system, (2) the Upper Cretaceous Berbice system, and (3) the Miocene-Pliocene Amazon system. These large sand-prone paralic-shelfal systems have had periods of sand charge through deep-water canyons, through mass-transport complex dominated deep-water slopes, into intra-slope ponded systems, channelised slope systems and basin floor frontal splay deposystems. the range of deep-water geological system is very diverse and the need for joined up discussions on the latest understanding of these types of settings is needed urgently.

A number of topics have been proposed for the Conference, based on the perceived needs of the area, by the technical committee. It is hoped that potential presenters will submit talk titles along with a brief (200 word) overview of the proposed talk content, to allow us to high-grade the main topics over the planned three days of the meeting. Parallel sessions are not planned; the meeting will have one rolling technical session with breaks for poster discussion and themed workshops and other special events.