TDI-Brooks International is making available online a selection of our most recent scientific publications. These articles are an excellent source of information about SGE and heat flow studies. They can be viewed online or downloaded for printing using Adobe Acrobat. To find out more about any of our publications, please contact Dr. Nick Cameron or Dr. James M. Brooks.

Scientific Publications Available From TDI-Brooks:

Seep-hunting in deepwater for frontier basin prospectivity assessment

Multibeam echosounders and seismic data detect seeps, enhancing hydrocarbon
exploration potential.

Dan McConnell, Jamshid Gharib, Jennifer Henderson , Hunter-West Anderson Danque and Adrian Digby , AOA Geophysics, Inc.; Dan Orange , Black Gold Energy

WorldOil Magazine, April2008, Vol. 229 No. 4

Surface Geochemical Exploration and Heat Flow Surveys in Fifteen (15) Frontier Indonesian Basins

Bernie B. Bernard, James M. Brooks , Peter Baillie, John Decker, Philip A. Teas, and Daniel L. Orange

PROCEEDINGS, INDONESIA PETROLEUM ASSOCIATION, Thirty-Second Annual Convention & Exhibition, May 2008.

Alvin Explores the Deep Northern Gulf of Mexico Slope

H. ROBERTS, R. CARNEY, M. KUPCHIK, C. FISHER, K. NELSON, E. BECKER, L. GOEHRING, S. LESSARDPILON, G. TELESNICKI, B. BERNARD, J. BROOKS, M. BRIGHT, E. CORDES, S. HOURDEZ, J. HUNT JR., W. SHEDD, G. BOLAND, S. JOYE,V. SAMARKIN, M. BERNIER, M. BOWLES, I. MACDONALD, H. NIEMANN, C. PETERSEN, C. MORRISON, AND J. POTTER

Eos, Vol. 88, No. 35, 28 August 2007

Relationships Among Parasites and Pathologies in Sentinel Bivales: NOAA NS&T

Yungkul Kim and Eric N. Powell

BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, 79(1): 83–112, 2006

Thermal and visual time-series at a seafloor gas hydrate deposit on the GOM slope

Ian R. MacDonald, Leslie C. Benderb, Michael Vardarob, Bernie Bernard, James M. Brooks

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 233: 45–59, 2005. www.sciencedirect.com

Geothermal heat flow in the north east margins of the Gulf of Mexico

Seiichi Nagihara (Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University), Kelly Opre Jones (Unocal Corporation)

AAPG Bulletin, v. 89, no. 6 , pp. 821–831, June 2005.

Asphalt Volcanism and Chemosynthetic Life in the Campeche Knolls, Gulf of Mexico

I.R.MacDonald,G.Bohrmann, E.Escobar, F.Abegg, P.Blanchon, V.Blinova, W.Bruckmann,
M. Drews, A.Eisenhauer, X.Han, K.Heeschen, F.Meier, C.Mortera, T.Naehr, B.Orcutt, B.Bernard, J.Brooks, M.de Farago

Science, v. 304, May 2004 , www.sciencemag.org

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Three dimensional inverse modeling of refractive heat-flow anomaly with salt diaprism

Seiichi Nagihara (Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University)

AAPG Bulletin, v. 87, no. 7, July 2003

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Application of marine heat flow data important in oil and gas explorations

Article originally published in Oil and Gas Journal, July 2002. May also be viewed at Oil and Gas Journal Online, July 8 2002 edition (requires valid account to view back issues).

Seiichi Nagihara, James M. Brooks, Bernie B. Bernard, Gary Cole, Neil Summer, and Trevor Lewis

Oil and Gas Journal, July 2002

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The Deepwater GoM Petroleum System: Insights from Piston Coring, Defining Seepage, Anomalies, and Background

Cole, G.A., A. Yu, F. Peel, C.H. Taylor (BHP Petroleum), R. Requejo (Geochemical Solutions Int'l), J. DeVay (Phillips Petroleum), J. Brooks, B. Bernard (TDI-Brooks Int'l), J. Zumberge, and S. Brown (Geomark Research)

21st Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Research Conference - PETROLEUM SYSTEMS OF DEEP-WATERBASINS: GLOBAL AND GULF OF MEXICO EXPERIENCE, Houston, Texas, December 2-5, 2001.

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Direct Hydrocarbon Migration Indicator, A Venting Feature in Equatorial Guinea

Canales, Joseph A. (CMS Oil and Gas Company)

SEG/San Antonio Expanded Abstracts, 2001.

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Constraining source and charge risk in deepwater areas

G. A. Cole, A. Yu and F. Peel, BHP Petroleum, Houston; R. Requejo, Geochemical Solutions International, Inc., Houston; J. DeVay, Phillips Petroleum, Houston; J. Brooks and B. Bernard, TDI-International Inc., College Station, Texas; J. Zumberge and S. Brown, GeoMark Research Inc., Houston

WorldOil.com online magazine, Vol. 222:10, Oct. 2001.

Deepwater Petroleum Systems in Nigeria: their identification and characterization ahead of the drill bit using SGE technology

Nick R. Cameron (United Kingdom representative for TDI-Brooks International, Inc. and GeoMark Research, Inc.), James M. Brooks (TDI-Brooks International, Inc.) and John E. Zumberge (GeoMark Research, Inc.)

IBC Nigeria Energy Summit, London, June 15-16, 1999

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The Nature of Gas Hydrates on the Nigerian Continental Slope

James M. Brooks (TDI-Brooks International, Inc.), William R. Bryant (Dept. of Oceanography, TAMU), Bernie B. Bernard (TDI-Brooks International, Inc.), Nick R. Cameron (United Kingdom representative for TDI-Brooks International, Inc. and GeoMark Research, Inc.)

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Third International Conference on Gas Hydrates, July 18-22, 1999, Park City, Utah.

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Exploration Opportunities in Offshore Deepwater Africa

Nick R. Cameron (United Kingdom representative for TDI-Brooks International, Inc. and GeoMark Research, Inc.), Ken White (EIS Energy Information Services Ltd.)

IBC 'Oil and Gas Developments in West Africa', London, 25-26 October 1999.

Surface Geochemical Exploration continues to progress global deepwater frontiers

N.R. Cameron (consultant to TDI-Brooks International, Inc. and GeoMark Research, Inc.), James M. Brooks and Bernie B. Bernard (TDI-Brooks International, Inc.) and John E. Zumberge and Stephen Brown (GeoMark Research, Inc.)

IBC "Worldwide Deepwater Technologies" forum 1998

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Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Processing Using The Supervised Textural-Neural Network Classification Algorithim

Oscar Garcia and Ian MacDonald (Texas A&M University Corpus Christi)

IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Meeting, Harvard University 2008