DPA - Deepwater Reservoirs of Offshore Colombia
Channel: E-Learning Corgi
Date: 2022-12-22

The Caribbean Offshore basin of Colombia, with an extension of more than 250.000 km2 is considered a frontier province in northern South America and becoming an exploratory emerging region. Encouraging results from drilling campaigns in the last 7 years indicate the presence of working petroleum systems, with a hydrocarbon potential in the level of 35 to 90 TCFG, and fair to good chances of finding liquid hydrocarbons.

Exploratory efforts carried out by Colombia national oil company Ecopetrol and several private companies during the 21st century in offshore Colombia, have been executed in a block by block (contract by contract) fashion, with state of the art concepts and technologies, although not necessarily systematic when proving geological concepts.

This work presents the most recent efforts of Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos and the Dirección Técnica de Hidrocarburos (a branch of Servicio Geológico Colombiano) to use play based exploration approach to analyze the Caribbean Offshore in a single systematic project. Sixteen play concepts are reviewed, documented and updated. The results are reported as play fairways map

Victor Ramirez Bio

Geologist from the National University of Colombia, with more than 29 years of experience, Specialist in Economic Geology from the ITC (the Netherlands), Master in Geosciences from the University of Alabama and Diploma in Renewable Energies from the Julio Garavito Engineering School.

As a visiting geologist for AAPG and ACGGP, he has given talks and presentations on Petroleum Systems, Offshore Exploration, Professional development in Geosciences and the Earth's energy future at academic and government institutions and Scout Association meetings in Colombia and in exploration forums in USA, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey and Mexico.

He is currently an independent consultant in hydrocarbons and energy, currently advisor to Gmas Lab and the Hydrocarbons Directorate of the Colombian Geological Service.