This volume brings together the latest research, insights, and innovations presented at GEOIndia 2024, the flagship conference of the Association of Petroleum Geologists (APG) India—one of Asia’s leading forums for geoscience and energy dialogue. APG India serves as a critical platform for petroleum geologists, fostering international cooperation, scientific discussions, and educational support, all while hosting major events like the GEO India conference series. Edited with the support of the APG Executive Committee and Patron, and published in collaboration with Springer, this book captures contributions from world-class researchers, industry leaders, and emerging voices in the geosciences. This book compiles a wide range of papers that tackle both established and emerging areas within the energy sector, addressing contemporary challenges and pioneering approaches in energy exploration, production, and sustainability. Key topics covered in this book include innovative methodologies in geological and geophysical exploration, energy exploration techniques, advancements in reservoir characterization, and cutting-edge research on unconventional hydrocarbons. Additionally, the proceedings focus on environmental and sustainable practices in energy, underscoring the importance of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), which are pivotal in the global transition toward cleaner energy systems. Exploring New Dimensions of Energy Dynamics serves as an essential reference for academics, industry practitioners, and policy-makers aiming to understand and contribute to the evolving energy dynamics in South Asia and beyond.
The Editors express their sincere gratitude to the Executive Committee of the Association of Petroleum Geologists (APG) and the Patron of APG for their invaluable support and for granting permission to publish the proceedings of the 6th South Asian Geosciences Conference and Exhibition GEOIndia 2024 with Springer. Their encouragement and vision have been instrumental in bringing this volume to fruition.
1. Tectonics, Subsidence, Sedimentation, and Sea Level Changes from Late
Jurassic to Pliocene Revealed Through Paleogeographic Mapping of the Northern
Part of Cauvery Basin.-
2. Response surface approach: an efficient tool for
Uncertainty Management and Risk Assessment in Petroleum System Modelling.-
3.
Geomicrobial Indicator For Hydrocarbon Exploration: A Case Study of
Borholla-Mekrang-Lakhibari Area in Assam Shelf.-
4. Exploring Hydrocarbon
Potential in the Mumbai High Basement Reservoir: A Comprehensive 3D Fracture
Intensity Modelling Approach.-
5. DELIBERATE SEARCH FOR COQUINA/MICROBIALITE
RESERVOIR FACIES: POSSIBLE NEW PLAY OPENER FOR KORI - SHELF MARGIN COMPLEX
AND TAPTI DAMAN BASIN.-
6. Emplacement history of Mannar Volcanics:
Implications to Deccan volcanism in Gulf of Mannar, Cauvery basin.-
7.
Corrigendum of Magnetotelluric Data Due to Topography: Applications in the
Sikkim Himalaya Region.- 8. Unraveling Structural style and Tectonic
evolution of Assam Schuppen Belt: Insights from integrated Structural and
Basin modeling studies.-
9. An integrated machine learning approach for
Rock-type Classification of Synrift sediments of Deepwater Cauvery Basin.-
10. Application of Derivative Filter: A Case Study.-
11. Differentiating
Random Fractal-Fracture Networks: Beyond Fractal Dimension and Iteration
Uniformity.-
12. Integrated facies modelling approaches to characterize
reservoir heterogeneity in green field development â a case study from
Mumbai offshore basin, India.-
13. Geo Cellular Modelling of complex
multi-layered gas reservoirs: A case study from Pasarlapudi field,
Krishna-Godavari Basin.-
14. Risk Segment Mapping of Mahuva and Daman Plays
in Tapti Daman Area, Western Offshore Basin, Mumbai, India.-
15.
Morphostructural analysis of areas with poor or no seismic data: An
alternative approach.-
16. Basement Configuration of Pranhita-Godavari basin
through analysis of Gravity, Magnetic and Seismic data: An integrated
approach.-
17. Fracture Characterization and Estimation of Horizontal Stress
Orientation for Basement Play: A case study from A&AA Basin.-
18. Fracture
identification and evaluation in Pre-Cambrian basement using conventional log
and advanced log data in Mumbai High field, India: An integrated approach-A
Case Study.-
19. Re-assessment of gas reserves based on Material Balance
using flowing pressure: a case study.-
20. Optimizing Hydrocarbon Saturation
through Advanced Log Integration and Re-evaluation of Saturation Modelling in
a developed field.-
21. ANALYSIS OF EARLY-RIFT CLASTIC RESERVOIRS IN GABON
COASTAL BASIN, AFRICA.-
22. EXPLORING NEW OILFIELDS: A GEOCHEMICAL APPROACH
FOR UPPER ASSAM BASIN.-
23. Occurrence of bar-lagoon complex in upper part of
Late Jurassic Succession in Kutch Offshore.-
24. Assessment of Lower Bassein
Carbonate Reservoirs in Mukta-North of Mukta sector, Mumbai offshore Basin.-
25. Quantitative Petrophysical Assessment of Organic Richness of Eocene
Hoogly Shale- a Case Study from Bengal Basin, India.-
26. Geochronological
and geochemical aspects of Khairmalia Volcanics, Vindhyan Supergroup:
Implications to Vindhyan Basin initiation.-
27. Defining Tectonic Regimes
through Subsidence Analysis: A Biostratigraphic Approach to the Rifting and
Evolution of the Cauvery Basin.-
28. Facies discrimination through Hybrid
Rock Physics Modelling approach in high porosity siliclastic reservoirâ A
case study of Pundi field, Cauvery Basin, India.-
29. Evolution and Tectonics
of South Rewa Basin vis-Ã -vis Narmada-Son Lineament.-
30. Multi-Element
Analysis: A Promising Tool to Determine Provenance, Chemical Weathering and
Redox Conditions of Shales in KG and Vindhyan Basin.-
31. Depositional
Framework and Biogenic Hydrocarbon Entrapment: Insights from West Andaman
Offshore Region.-
32. Kinematics of Pliocene-Pleistocene growth sequence in
Krishna-Godavari Offshore, India using 2-D restoration.-
33. Gravity modeling
of selected profiles in between Rajouri and Surinsar area, Himalayan Foreland
basin.-
34. Sediment Recycling to Reservoir Potential: Geochemical and
Provenance Insights from the Bhuban Formation, Assam.-
35. Gravity and
Magnetic modelling along selected profiles in Satpura Basin for understanding
of basement configuration.-
36. Sub basalt imaging using low frequency &
velocity scanning processing workflow â A case study from Western
Continental Margin of India.-
37. Source rock characterization for
hydrocarbon generative potential and thermal maturity of Gondwana Sequences,
NE Himalayas, India.-
38. Delineation of structural configuration using tilt
derivative, theta map, and 3-D Euler deconvolution technique using gravity
data in the Assam-Arakan basin, northeastern India.-
39. Application of
Extended Elastic Impedance for reservoir delineation in deep water of Cauvery
Basin, India: A case study.-
40. Analysis of Reservoir System Quality in
Tight Syn Rift Sequences of Lower Cretaceous Depositions: A Case Study from
Eastern Offshore-India.-
41. Characterizing productive zones through fracture
and facies analysis: A case study from Chhatral reservoir, Gamij field,
Cambay basin.-
42. Geological history of Bikaner Nagaur Sub-basin â A
relook.-
43. Paleoenvironment interpretation of Tertiary Period using carbon
and oxygen isotopes fingerprinting in West Coast Margin of India.-
44.
Pressure compartments and Top seal integrity analysis of Syn-rift reservoir
in ultra-deep water, Cauvery Basin; a Case study.-
45. Heavy mineral analyses
to understand the provenance of different sands encountered in Mandapeta
Area, Onland, KG-PG Basin, India.-
46. A comparative analysis of source rock
model in Ramnad and Palk Bay sub-basins, Cauvery basin: Insights from 3D
petroleum system modelling.-
47. Identification of oil prospects using
structural modelling techniques in Cachar area, Assam-Arakan fold belt, Assam
and Assam-Arakan Basin.-
48. Genetic types of natural gas and gas-source
correlation in different strata of MH-DCS area of Mumbai Offshore Basin,
India.-
49. Identification of hydrocarbon using Lameâs Parameters
(Lambda-Rho and Mu-Rho) overlay technique in conjunction with other rock
mechanical overlays.-
50. A template for sweet spot modelling in
Meso-Proterozoic, Jardepahar Formation of Hatta Field, Vindhyan Basin,
India.-
51. Microfracture characterization and its connectivity analysis
using high-resolution images of Indian Gondwana shale: Unveiling
unconventional reservoir complexity.-
52. Petroleum System Modelling in
Andaman Back-arc Basin.-
53. Exploring syn-rift sediments of Mesozoic â
untouched frontier in Deepwater area of Mumbai Offshore Basin.-
54. A
Systematic approach for Deep water Prospectivity Evaluation through advance
AVO attribute studies for identifying drillable Prospects in
Ariyalur-Pondicherry Sub-Basins in Cauvery Ultra-deep area; a new Paradigm to
be adopted.-
55. A Step Change in Broadband Seismic Technique First
Multi-Component Streamer Data Acquisition in Indian Offshore.-
56.
Morphotectonics, slope stability and paleostress studies from the Bhagirathi
river section, western Himalaya (Uttarakhand, India).-
57. Microbial
Prospecting of ONGCGas Study in In Two Exploratory Blocks of Eastern Valley
of Brahmaputra, Assam.-
58. Is fractal dimension a unique identifier of
connectivity and flow in fracture networks?.-
59. Maximising the Potential of
Frontier Basins: Contrasting the Langkasuka and Kerala-Konkan Basins.-
60.
Core Log Integration of a Low Perm Porcellinite Reservoir, A case Study of
Tight Oil Field Development of Aishwariya Barmer Hill (ABH).-
61. Deformation
bands as fluid flow barriers: importance in high porosity fluvio-deltaic
sandstone reservoirs.
Dr. Annapurna Boruah is a senior associate professor at UPES Dehradun with expertise in energy exploration, geosciences, climate action, and educational development in geology and petroleum sciences. She is well-known for her research contributions to CO2 geosequestration, unconventional hydrocarbons, and geological hydrogen. She is also actively involved in key initiatives of Ministry of Education Innovation cell, MoPNG etc. Her research findings have been widely disseminated through esteemed publishers, 50+ research papers, 4 books, 4 patents and many collaborative projects. Internationally recognized, she is invited to deliver talks and conduct courses at prestigious forums in the USA and Europe.
Dr. Ravi Misra is a distinguished Petroleum Geologist, mentor, and leader with over four decades of diverse experience across domestic and international E&P businesses. He has held leadership roles in ONGC as EDChief E&D, Director OAAL, and Director ACP, Colombia, and served as Regional President, Colombia & MECL. His global assignments include Country Manager in Colombia and Project Manager in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Currently, he is Advisor (G&G and Hydrocarbon Efficiency & New Energy) at DGH, MoPNG, following a stint as Advisor (E&P) at IOCL. Dr. Misra has pioneered shale gas, tight gas, and basin-centered gas exploration, published 84 papers, and contributed significantly to energy transition, carbon management, and digitalization initiatives in E&P.
Shri. Gopal Joshi is currently Head of Institute, KDMIPE, ONGC. He leads multidisciplinary R&D in basin analysis and advanced geoscience, supporting ONGCs exploration goals across Indian sedimentary basins. With over three decades of experience, he has contributed to diverse exploration domains including field geology, reservoir estimation, and technical audits. As Basin Manager Frontier Basins, he played a key role in the Vindhyan Basins commercial hydrocarbon discovery, leading to its category upgrade. He also served in ONGCs E&D Directorate and Director (Exploration)s office, gaining strategic insight into national exploration programs. A prolific author and speaker, he has published widely and currently serves as Vice President, APG India. His expertise spans oil and gas, offshore, and the application of cutting-edge geoscience technologies to optimize exploration outcomes. Under his leadership, KDMIPE has focused on integrating new technologies and sustainable practices to enhance Indias energy security.
