2024 Perkins-Rosen GCSSEPM RC

2-4 December 2024 Houston, TX at Equinor US

Old Rocks, New Energies

The Energy Transition in the Gulf Coast and Adjacent Basins

Announcement and Registration

REGISTRATION CLOSES NOVEMBER 25TH

The Gulf Coast and adjacent basins are poised to become a hub for new energies, including continuing and emerging sources such as geothermal and hydrogen, as well as serving as a storage repository for anthropogenic carbon in the subsurface of onshore and offshore areas. The GCSSEPM Foundation 40th Annual Perkins-Rosen Research conference will open with thoughts on the challenges of the energy transition, broad insights on basin fundamentals, and using that knowledge to guide our thinking on these new energy sources and subsurface storage requirements.

This broad research conference aims to attract a diverse set of papers illuminating the near-term and long-range energy future of this complex yet prolific energy-producing sedimentary basin. It will further offer opportunities to explore the range of resource potential in the basin, as well as network with other Gulf basin researchers.

The conference themes will include: 

1. Overview of the new energy challenge for the Gulf Basin
2. Gulf Basin fundamentals relevant to the new energies
3. Carbon capture and storage: simulation, modeling, and site characterization
4. Hydrogen (H2) underground storage and utilization
5. Geothermal energy: subsurface occurrence and practical application
6. Water and critical mineral resources in the Gulf Coast subsurface
7. Transition of existing O&G skills to the new energies; new workforce ideas
8. Machine learning for alternative energies and critical minerals

A mix of invited and volunteered oral and poster presentations will be accompanied by potential short courses and core workshops in Houston, Texas. Student poster sessions and presentations are encouraged.

Numerical modeling of injected C02 plume movement into various small scale bedform types (Ni and Ubilius, BEG UT Austin)

 Important Dates and Deadlines P-R 2024:

Registration for this event is now open. Early Bird Registration ends November 15th.

Register Here!

Member Fee $495.00

Non Member Fee $595.00*

Limited Student Registration Fee $375.00*

*Please contact Theresa Scott for student fee discount at tscott@sepm.org 

Registration Fee includes 3 day conference at Equinor US in Houston, Texas

Welcome breakfast, lunch, conference breaks, and Monday evening reception ticket included with conference registration.

Please direct additional conference questions to Cassie Turley at cturley@sepm.org 

There is no one conference hotel, but several close to Equinor if you are not from Houston area.

Homewood Suites by Hilton Houston - Westchase

Marriott - Houston Marriott Westchase      

SUBMISSION PAPER GUIDELINES:

GCSSEPM P-R 2024 Conference Paper Guidelines.docx

Organizing Committee - Conveners

•    Clare Falcon: cfalcon@lsu.edu - Louisiana Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, LA

•    John Snedden: jsnedden@ig.utexas.edu - UT Institute for Geophysics, Austin, TX

•    Cindy Yeilding: cindy.yeilding@swbell.net – Houston, TX

•    Hailun Ni: hailun.ni@beg.utexas.edu – Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX

•    Robert Bruant: rbruant@outlook.com; BP, Houston Texas

•    Bianca Kennedy: kennedybia@gmail.com; Baton Rouge , LA. 

•    Milly Wright: mwright@rohmtek.com, Houston, Texas

•    Janine Helmich: jhelm@equinor.com; and Matt Croy: mcroy@equinor.com: Houston

The GCSSEPM Foundation supports and complies with the SEPM Code of Conduct

Thank you to our sponsors!

For more information, or to sponsor the Conference, contact John R. Suter, Executive Director, The GCSSEPM Foundation at gcssepm1@gmail.com.

Recap of the 2023 GCSSEPM P-R Meeting in Houston, TX at Equinor US

Post event meeting report by Jon Rotzien: 

GCSSEPM_Perkins_Rosen_Review_Final edits.pdf