SEPM Sequence Stratigraphy Web - Industrial Associates

INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATES

SEPM website on Sequence Stratigraphy is proud to be supported by an Industrial Association of the following companies:-

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
British Petroleum
Chevron Corporation
ExxonMobil
Norsk Hydro

ExxonMobil provides a grant of $15,000 per year to SEPM to maintain and extend Strata/SEPM site under the direction of Christopher Kendall and a STRATA website committee appointed by SEPM . ExxonMobil expressed the wish that this industrial support will be added to with further contributions to an industrial association other members who support the site. Without this industial support the Strata/SEPM site could not maintain its open domain character for information as it relates specifically sequence stratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy and other aspects of stratigraphy.

In addition to the support of this site Petroleum companies have joined the industrial association to support field work by Peter Haughton, of UCD, and Christopher Kendall, of USC, to build a “public-domain on-line” photographic gallery capturing the classic Carboniferous delta, slope and deepwater outcrops from Loop Head north to the Cliffs of Moher in Co. Clare, Ireland. This gallery is being incorporated into exercises that involve the interpretation of the outcrops, basin fill history and concepts of dynamic stratigraphy using movies, maps and cross sections.

Part of the justification for this support is the provision to industrial associate employees to:

Access to depositional analogues of hydrocarbon fields and plays in a sequence stratigraphic framework explained with text, movies, and exercises
Enhance the training in sequence stratigraphy of employees and university students worldwide
Gain familiarity with new concepts of sequence stratigraphy
Motivate learning new ways to study sequence stratigraphy and geology
Choice of pace and particular interest in the web exercises and courses
Ready access to web site anytime/anywhere
Access easily downloadable published and unpublished sequence stratigraphic contributions, particularly exercises
No longer spend long periods away from the office to attend classes in sequence stratigraphy
Enable instructors to use less time in classroom and more preparing and organizing data from web
Provide a medium for sequence stratigraphers employed by associate member companies to collaborate internally and communicate externally
Effectively teach the use of new technology and media (VR Quick Time movies, Real Media, etc) to pass on new information to fellow workers and instructors

The SEPM sequence stratigraphy web site provides global learning materials and is constantly updated as a sequence stratigraphy repository. Gifts of sequence stratigraphic data from associate company provides teaching materials that enhance the reputation of the doners as the originators of this geological discipline, while showcasing and further developing this burgeoning discipline of earth sciences.

Last Revised: July 12, 2009