...-year) programs to better predict the behavior of the Gulf Loop Current and its associated eddies, which in some years create havoc to Offshore Technology Industries and activities in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. The aim is to inform and integrate with Stakeholders for new and better products and agreed...

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... failure occurs and the post-failure dynamics of these mud-rich sediments, but additional work is needed. All these data are part of the geotechnical characterization of shallow, marine sediments from the northern Gulf of Mexico. These types of data will be used to test and calibrate sediment failure...

... Conference is prohibited. Permission to reproduce in print is restricted to an abstract of not more than 300 words; illustrations may not be copied. The abstract must contain conspicuous acknowledgment of OTC copyright. Abstract The northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope is the most thoroughly imaged...

... hazard assessments for the region. The paper concludes with implications and recommendations to existing infrastructure and future engineered structures in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of Mexico Geologic Setting The northern Gulf of Mexico represents a Triassic rifted margin overlain by a very thick...

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... Abstract The Northern Gulf of Mexico has the potential to provide a substantial power source for the United States. Presently, alternative energy is being pursued by governmental agencies and the public. Many ideas being developed to provide energy are flawed due to basic financial...

... Abstract Mass transport complexes (MTCs) in the Ursa region (northern Gulf of Mexico) are identified by their low seismic reflectivity, increased resistivity, increased bulk density, high shear strength, and decreased porosity. We integrate seismic, logging while drilling (LWD), and core data...

...+ hurricanes (Charlie, Ivan, Dennis, Katrina, Rita, and Wilma). Three of the six caused major disruptions to gas and oil production, failure of a substantial number of facilities, and temporary increases in petroleum prices. Figure 1 shows the tracks of the four hurricanes affecting the northern Gulf. Dennis...

...., fax 01-972-952-9435. Abstract For most of the last three decades, the northern Gulf of Mexico has remained relatively free of large and powerful hurricanes. Basically, the tropical waters were relatively cool from 1970-1994. But in 1995, the pattern changed, and the Atlantic Basin heated up in more...

... Abstract Mississippi Canyon Federal Lease Block 118 has been selected as the location for the Gulf of Mexico Hydrates Research Consortium's sea floor observatory. The purpose of the observatory is to monitor activities in the gas hydrate stability zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico...

.... In response to these sporadic but rapid sedimentary loading throughout the Tertiary and Quaternary, a variety of shallow, laterally extensive salt masses are observed on the outer shelf and slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Rowan (1995; 1999) has described the genesis and distribution of these salt...

... Abstract Ever-deeper petroleum exploration has revealed that the continental margin of the northern Gulf of Mexico is surprisingly complex, dynamic and structurally weak. Gas hydrates forming and dissociating, fluids - gases and liquids - migrating and being vented into the water column...

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... Abstract Mounds of various sizes occur as part of the surface geology of the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope. The origins of these mounds vary from buildups created by sediment extrusion, to shale and salt diapirs forced by sediment/salt deformation associated with gas hydrate...

.... This phase lasted throughout part of the Late Cretaceous and all of the Paleogene. (4) Neogene sediment flood in the northern Gulf of Mexico. During the Miocene, clastic depocenters translated rapidly from offshore central Texas to the region of the present-day Mississippi River. Sedimentation rates...

... problems for man's operations in deep water and may be placed in the category of a geohazard. However, the identification of gas hydrates in the shallow subsurface from remotely sensed acoustic data is not straight-forward in complex geological provinces like the continental slope of the northern Gulf...

... Abstract A program has been initiated to monitor outcrops of gas hydrates on the continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico. This will be done by means of a multisensor station deployed on the sea floor for significant periods of time. Sensors will be seismic, acoustic, electromagnetic...

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