FEBRUARY 2022 LUNCHEON MEETING
Jonathan Rotzien
presents
"Sed/strat ‘ain’t dead yet’:
Exploring the new variability in deep-water sedimentation"
11:30 AM Wednesday, February 16, 2022
at Hollytree Country Club
6700 Hollytree Dr
Tyler, TX 75703
Cost: $25
ABSTRACT
Until recently, the search for conventional turbidite reservoirs promoted a singular focus on deep-water sediment transport and depositional models dominated by downslope processes. Turbidites, debrites and transitional flow deposits were interpreted to be responsible for diverse submarine fan depositional systems comprised of elegantly interconnected canyon, channel, levee, splay and overbank environments. Today, along-slope as well as downslope (i.e., turbidity current) processes are interpreted to sculpt the modern seafloor. Ancient stratigraphic successions in revered outcrops such as the Annot Sandstone (Grès d’Annot) also reveal evidence of along-slope sediment transport and deposition. In response, wildcatters and academic researchers alike have refreshed interpretations and depositional models to communicate these new observations on mixed deep-water sedimentary systems to scientific and industry communities as oil reaches $100 in the New Year.
BIOGRAPHY
Jon Rotzien
Jon Rotzien is President of Basin Dynamics and Adjunct Professor at University of Houston. He specializes in reservoir presence and quality forecasting in conventional and unconventional drilling programs. Prior to his present posts, he served BP and other supermajor and independent operators in a variety of basins and petroleum reservoir technical training programs. As a business owner and scientist, Rotzien has participated in oil and gas exploratory to development drilling, mapping expeditions, technical competency training and consulting and has served as lead geologist in about one-third of those ventures. He is currently serving as Chair of the Houston Explorers Club. Rotzien received a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Stanford University and a B.A. degree in Geology from Colorado College.