The abstracts submission site has closed. Acceptance letters will be distributed this summer.
Industry professionals and students are invited to submit abstracts online for the AAPG 2010 International Conference & Exhibition. The technical program committee encourages abstracts that relate to any of the topics listed below. Planned sessions and formats (oral or poster) may be modified depending on actual submittals. Please see guidelines for submitting your abstract.
Proposed themes for the AAPG 2010 ICE Technical Program include:
- Sedimentology — Depositional Models for High Latitude Systems
- Circum-Arctic Tectonics and Basin Formation — Arctic Basin Tectonics, Deepwater and Ultra-deepwater Arctic Basins, UNLOS Surveys
- Mixed Carbonate/Evaporite Successions — Depositional Models and Reservoirs
- Petroleum Systems — Source Rock, Migration, Trap, Seals
- Geophysics — Advances in Harsh Environment Acquisition and Processing, Advancements on Seismic Acquisition on Ice, Under Basalts
- Rift to Drift, Passive Margin, Transition Tectonics — Source Rocks, Reservoirs, Migration from Rift to Drift
- Exotic Reservoirs of the World, What Produces Where in the World? Chalks, Cherts, Phosphates, Granites, Hydrates
- Reservoir Management, from Discovery to Abandonment — Geological and Reservoir Modeling, Second, Tertiary Recovery, Multidisciplinary Teams of Professionals
- Risk Analysis and Assessment — Oil Sands, Shales and Tight Sands
- Environmental — Environmental Concerns of Unconventional Development
- North American Unconventional Oil — Oil Sands, Tight Oil Sands and Carbonates, Oil Shale, Heavy Oil
- North American Unconventional Gas — Coal Bed Methane, Tight Gas Sands and Carbonates, Shale Gas
- International Unconventional Oil — Oil Shales, Tight Oil Reservoirs
- International Unconventional Gas — Coal Bed Methane, Shale Gas
- Geoscience Investigations and Petroleum Search Beyond Traditional Exploration Confines — Remote Exploration, “First Ever” Basin Exploration; Ultra-deepwater Drilling and Development in Shallow Productive Basins
Core Conference Themes
- Unconventional Reservoirs – Oil Shales, Gas Shales, Tight Sand Reservoirs, Oil Sands and Heavy Oil
- Frontier Reservoirs – Arctic and Deepwater Discoveries, High Porosity and Permeability Systems in Giant Fields


