FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT AND

TECHNICAL PROGRAMME

First EAGE WORKSHOP on

Deepwater Exploration in Mexico:
Foster collaboration to unlock potential

MAIN SPONSOR 13- 15 M a y 2 0 1 8

Ca nc un, Me xi co

GOLD SPONSOR

SUPPORTED BY

www.eage.org
 Technical Committee lenges cover permitting and approval process, environmental
and geotechnical studies optimizations, imaging of reservoirs
Bruno Courme (co-chair) TOTAL & de-risking of resources, drilling hazards identification and
Humberto Salazar Soto (co-chair) AMGE de-risking approaches, pore pressure prediction, complex
Faustino Monroy Santiago AMGP well design, procurement practices, rig and oilfield services
Rodrigo Hernandez Ordoñez SENER synergies, benchmarks, etc… More generally, topics which to
Sergio Chávez-Pérez IMP some extent could be handled by dedicated task-forces on
Jorge Mendoza-Amuchástegui IMP a collaborative mode during the workshop and potentially
Puteri Mokhtar PETRONAS after it also.
Ivan Pei PETRONAS
Olga Torbello STATOIL Who should attend?
Emilio Garcia-Caro STATOIL The audience invited is therefore wide: Mexican Authorities
Christian Longis TOTAL representatives, Oil & Gas business directors, exploration &
Pierre Esquier TOTAL operations managers, companies’ performance champions,
Jean Lassus-Dessus TOTAL geoscience specialists, operations leaders and procurement en-
Alan Melois TOTAL gineers, representatives from rig and well service companies,
Bernard Geiss TOTAL consultants, professors and future young professionals.
Leonardo Meneses SHELL This event will also offer excellent opportunities to network
Bruno S. Rivas-Rincon CHEVRON and create high visibility for your organization.
Alfredo Garcia-Mondragon BP
Steve Pitman PGS
Valente Ricoy EMGS Sponsoring
Oscar Andrade CGG
Jorge Francisco Granados-Hernandez SCHLUMBERGER The EAGE offers excellent sponsoring opportunities to create
Kevin Lyons WESTERN GECO high visibility for companies and institutions. For more informa-
Maxim Mikhaltsev WESTERN GECO tion about sponsoring, please refer to the ‘Sponsor Guide’ avail-
Christopher Walker SEABED able on the workshop website, or contact us via dlz@eage.org
Kevin Bordosky DIAMOND
OFFSHORE Platinum Sponsor
James Hebert DIAMOND
OFFSHORE
Michel Baritu DIAMOND
OFFSHORE Gold Sponsor
Sebastian Borgarello WOODMAC

About the Workshop Silver Sponsor

Exploring the Mexican hot-spot deep-water basins goes along

with outstanding challenges that geoscientists and the Indus-
try will need to solve, in order to unlock the basins hydrocar-
bon potential in the current degraded capital environment. Coffee Points Sponsor
After the competition to access attractive acreage, industry
has now to find ways to ensure it delivers the geophysical and
drilling programs successfully and in a cost-effective way. Be-
cause no stakeholder has all solutions on its own, it is believed Company Display Area
that new initiatives across the Industry have to be developed
in a collaborative mode, as demonstrated last June in Paris
during the EAGE Workshop 12 “How exploration is adapting
to the low price environment”. Student Sponsors
In the same spirit, this first regional workshop aims at deliver- The Technical Committee warmly congratulates the regional
ing concrete initiatives by providing a forum where all stake- students who, thanks to their academic high performance,
holders (Mexican Authorities, Government Bodies, Agencies, have been selected as beneficiaries of free passes for the First
Institutes, NOCs, IOCs, Operating companies, Rig and Service EAGE Workshop on Deepwater Exploration.
companies, Consultants, Professional Associations and Uni- May this be an encouragement for them to pursue their ef-
versities) shall attend. The stakeholders will have the pos- forts towards Mexican excellence in E&P disciplines.
sibility to bring along their requirements and insight, share This is made possible thanks to the generous sponsoring of:
geosciences, technical and procurement practices, discuss and
propose adapted collaborative approaches and solutions, in
order to resolve some of the Industry challenges. These chal-   

2 First EAGE WORKSHOP on Deepwater Exploration in Mexico

 Technical Programme
Sunday 13 May 2018
18:30 Icebreaker Reception
Technical Programme sponsored by
Oral Presentations - Monday 14 May 2018
Fenix Room
SETTING OUR GOALS
08:00 End of check-in Workshop
08:15 Welcome & Aims - by the Organization Committee Chairmen
Humberto Soto Salazar and Bruno Courme
08:45 Mo DEE1 01 - Deepwater Exploration Opportunities in Mexico -
Keynote address - R. Hernández Ordoñez (Secretary of Energy -
SENER)
09:00 Mo DEE1 02 - Challenges and Strategies for Deepwater
Exploration in Mexico: Progress of the Energy Reform & Steps
Forward - C.U. Moya - García (General Director of Petroleum
Potential Evaluation at National Hydrocarbons Commission - CNH)
09:15 Mo DEE1 03 - Environmental Regulation in Deep Water - Keynote
address - C de Regules Ruiz-Funes* (General Director - ASEA
Agencia de Seguridad, Energía y Ambiente - ASEA )
09:30 Mo DEE1 04 - Surest Basin Offshore Mexico “The Making of a
Potential Super Basin” - Keynote address - R. Taylor* (Sierra Oil
& Gas)
09:50 Mo DEE1 05 - Discussion with the panel of speakers (Part I):
"How regulation in Mexico can help collaborative approaches to
boost regional E&P activity"
10:20 Coffee Break
10:30 Mo DEE1 06 - The Deep Water Technology Center of the
Mexican Petroleum Institute: A Brief Introduction to a Big Scope
Research Facility - Keynote address - E. Ríos - Patrón* (General
Director at Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo - IMP)
10:45 Mo DEE1 07 - Laying the Framework for Attracting Exploration -
Keynote address - N. Martin* ( International Association of
Geophysical Contractors President - IAGC)
11:00 Mo DEE1 08 - Deepwater Vision towards 2040 - Keynote address
- A. de la Fuente* (AMEXHI President)
11:15 Mo DEE1 09 - Related Topics about PEMEX Experience in
Deep Water - Keynote - J. A. Escalera - Alcocer* (Director of
Exploration - PEMEX)
11:35 Mo DEE1 10 - Discussion with the panel of speakers (Part II):
"How Profesionnal Associations in Mexico can help collabora-
tive approaches to boost regional E&P activity"
12:20 Lunch Break
Oral Presentations - Tuesday 15 May 2018
First EAGE WORKSHOP on Deepwater Exploration in Mexico
Iguanas Room
OVERCOMING SUBSURFACE CHALLENGES PART I
13:55 Mo DEE1 11 - FWI for Model Updates in Large - Contrast Media -
S. Brandsberg - Dahl* (PGS)
14:20 Mo DEE1 12 - The Zama Oil Discovery: From a Collaboration of
Detailed Seismic Reprocessing Integrated with a Geological
Understanding of the Reservoir Play System, Trap and Seal
Capacity - L. Ambati* (Sierra Oil), M.Shann (Sierra Oil),
K. Alvarado (Sierra Oil), B. Guerra (Sierra Oil), X. Hernandez
(Sierra Oil), K. Vazquez (Sierra Oil), D. Fakih (Sierra Oil)
14:45 Mo DEE1 13 - Mexico’s Deepwater Evolution and Preparing for
the Next Phase - C. Garcia* (Schlumberger)
15:10 Coffee Break
15:30 Mo DEE1 14 - Tectonic Drivers and Structural Deformation in
Campeche Basin: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration
in Deep Water Blocks 1 and 3- A. Afifi* (BP), T. Heyn (BP), A.
Hospedales (BP), C. Warren( BP), J. Jaminski (BP), A. Henza
(Statoil), A. Cazaux Total , L. Jensen (Total)
15:55 Mo DEE1 15 - Ocean Bottom Nodes – Past, Present and Future -
C. Walker* (Seabed)
16:20 Mo DEE1 16 - Benefit and Challenges of the Multiclient Data in a
Mexican Exploration Partnership - H. Rojas *(Total)
16:45 Round Table Discussions per groups
17:45 Day 1 Closes
18:30 BBQ Party
Fenix Room
OVERCOMING OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES PART I
13:55 Mo DEE1 18 - Deepwater Wells, and Drilling Permits in México -
G. Jiménez - Malpica* (Comision Nacional de Hidrocarburos
Mexico - CNH)
14:20 Mo DEE1 19 - Regulation, Logistics and Production challenges
for the “Overcoming Operational Challenges” - A. Brügmann*
(Fieldwood Energy)
14:45 Mo DEE1 20 - Overcoming Logistics & Operational Challenges
by Collaborating with International Operators in its entry to
Mexico - J. Astor* (Halliburton)
15:10 Coffee Break
15:30 Mo DEE1 21 - TEPMx Presentation on the Ongoing “Deep Water
Cost Effectiveness Task Force’’ - J. Lassus - Dessus* (TOTAL)
15:55 Mo DEE1 22 - Regulation/Cuttings Collection and Treatment
Options for Deepwater Mexico - T. Staples* (TWMA)
16:20 Mo DEE1 23 - Oil Spill Preparedness in Mexico – an OSRO
Perspective - D. Wick* (National Response Corporation-NRC)
16:45 Round Table Discussions per groups
17:45 Day 1 Closes
18:30 BBQ Party
Iguanas Room
OVERCOMING SUBSURFACE CHALLENGES PART II
08:10 Welcome & Aims by the Committee Chair
08:25 Tue DEE1 24 - RFWI Technology Applied in Perdido Area -
B. Wray* (CGG), N. Chazalnoel (CGG)
08:50 Tue DEE1 25 - 900 Gulf of Mexico Deep Water Exploration Key
Learnings from the Integration of Electromagnetics and Seismic
Methods - V. Ricoy * (EMGS), H. Salazar- Soto (Pemex), F. Roth
(EMGS)
09:15 Tue DEE1 26 - Tectonostratigraphy and Petroleum Systems
Potential of the Frontier Basins of the Central and Eastern Gulf
of Mexico - R. Pascoe* (Dynamic Group), P. Nuttall (Dynamic
Group) , M.C. Mejía-Hernández (Dynamic Group)
09:40 Coffee Break
3
 10:05 Tue DEE1 27- Campeche DW Blocks 1 & 3: Structural Complexity, Venue
Styles, and Implications on Leads Identification and Portfolio
Maturation - C. Valerio*(BP), C. Warren (BP), T. Heyn(BP), A.
Hospedales(BP), J. Jaminski(BP), A. Henza(Statoil), A. Cazaux Holiday Inn Cancun Arenas 
(Total), L. Jensen (Total) BLVB. KUKULCAN KM 2.5 ZONA HOTELERA
10:30 Tue DEE1 28 - Ocean Bottom Node Solutions for Exploration to CANCUN, ROO
Reservoir Monitoring in Deep Water - J. Smythe*(FairfieldNodal), 77500
D. Hays (FairfieldNodal), P. Docherty (FairfieldNodal), E. Marc
(FairfieldNodal) Mexico
+52 998 287 05 00 ext. 5020 o 5022
10:55 Tue DEE1 29 - Mexico Offshore: Illuminating Campeche Complex
Structures with Seismic Technology - K. Lyons* (WesternGeco) www.holidayinn.com/cancun-arenas
11:20 Round Table Discussion per groups
Reservations To book your accommodation and benefit from
12:20 Lunch Break
the EAGE set rate, please make sure you email just these two:
Fenix Room reservations@cancunarenas.com.mx or reservations2@cancu-
OVERCOMING OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES PART II narenas.com.mx
08:25 Tue DEE1 30 - Well Design, Drilling and Completion for Lakach - In your email, please mention the Corporate & Promotion
F. Flamenco - López* (PEMEX) Code: EAGE2018
08:50 Tue DEE1 31 - Zama Giant Discovery: Challenges and Solutions-
J. Parker*(Talos Energy)
09:15 Tue DEE1 32 - Optimum Exploration Drilling Performance Using Registration
Strategy - T. Zimaro* (Statoil), M. Sutton (Statoil), M. Sullivan
(Statoil)
Overview of registration fees
09:40 Coffee Break Registered and paid
10:05 Tue DEE1 33 - Drilling Benefits of New MPD Technology in Workshop Until 16/03/18 -
Deepwater Exploration Wells - P. Fredericks* (Schlumberger)
15/03/18 Onsite
10:30 Tue DEE1 34 - Pressure Control by the Hour- Improving Subsea EAGE members € 600 € 700
Realiability - R. Chambault* (Baker Hughes, a GE company)
K. Bordosky ( Diamond Offshore) Non-members2 € 650 € 750
Please note:
10:55 Tue DEE1 35 - Advances in Reservoir Testing on Wireline in · To qualify for the member registration fee, your EAGE membership dues for
Deep Water Mexico for Reserves Estimations and Reservoir 2018 must be paid and confirmed. The processing time for membership applica-
Delineation - F. X. Dubost* (Schlumberger) tions or renewals are 10 working days.
· The Non-member fee includes EAGE membership for 2018.
11:20 Round Table Discussion per groups
12:20 Lunch Break
How to register
ENGAGEMENT AND WORK PROGRAMME -
FENIX ROOM
We recommend that you register via the online registration
13:40 Tue DEE1 36 - Restitution of results of Parallel Sub-Sessions form on the EAGE event website.
1&2, Parts I & II - in plenary - by sub-sessions leaders
However, a downloadable registration form is also available
Tue DEE1 37 - Collective selection of key topics - facilitated by
Session chairmen on the event page, which should be completed and returned
to dlz@eage.org
Tue DEE1 38 - Working out SMART work programs for getting
engagement on selected topics - in sub-groups in Round Tables
15:10 Coffee Break
Contact
Tue DEE1 39 - Restitution of work programs - In plenary - by sub-
groups leaders
For up-to-date information, please visit our events website via
Tue DEE1 40 - EAGE Mexico Collaboration Workshop
Conclusions - by Chairmen Humberto Soto Salazar and Bruno events.eage.org or contact the EAGE Latin America Office via
Courme +57 1 4232948 or via dlz@eage.org
17:45 Day 2 & Workshop Closes

Latin American Office

Calle 90 No 19 – 41, of. 801, 110221, Edificio Quantum, Bogota, Colombia
Tel: +57 1 4232948
E-mail: americas@eage.org
Website: www.eage.org

Head Office Europe Office Russia & CIS Office Middle East / Africa Office Asia Pacific Office
Tel.: +31 88 995 5055 Tel.: +31 88 995 5055 Tel.: +7 495 640 2008 Tel.: +971 4 369 3897 Tel.: +60 3 272 201 40
E-mail: eage@eage.org E-mail: eage@eage.org E-mail: moscow@eage.org E-mail: middle_east@eage.org E-mail: asiapacific@eage.org
Website: www.eage.org Website: www.eage.org Website: www.eage.ru Website: www.eage.org Website: www.eage.org