Fabio Contreras is a Petroleum Geoscientist with a BSc degree from the National University of Colombia and a MSc in Petroleum Geophysics from Imperial College London. As a geoscientist, Fabio has been involved in several positions from exploration to reservoir characterisation projects in the Oil & Gas sector. He joined Eni in 2015, where he focusses on the characterisation and delineation of a number of East African gas fields. He also is an essential part of an internal R&D project, which aims to understand the sedimentological concepts behind the deposition of the turbidite reservoirs in Mozambique. His interests include: sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, geophysics, seismic interpretation and geo-modelling.

 

See ‘Sedimentology and Architecture of Deepwater Turbidite Systems Offshore Mozambique – from Concept to Application’ at 14.00 Friday 1^st September at the Africa Conference see full program here

 

Eni`s development projects in Mozambique offer a unique and comprehensive dataset that was extensively studied inside and outside the gas bearing intervals. Data ranges from seafloor surfaces and shallow cores to 3D seismic and exploration wells. The overburden sequence (above the reservoirs) was studied as a high resolution analogue to develop concepts and to create a new sedimentological model. This illustrates how some of the East African turbidite systems develop vertically and laterally through time and space. The concepts were applied to investigate reservoir intervals and to create a new generation of more geological static reservoir models. The formation of the thick, high net to gross reservoirs offshore Mozambique can be explained by a combination of the system’s sequence stratigraphic evolution and their interaction with bottom currents.