Technical Program
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THEME 1: Latin American Basins and Petroleum Systems
Chairs: Carlos Macellari (Repsol) and Tomas Villamil (C&C Energy)
Theme subcategories:
- Foreland Basins
- Rift Basins and Passive Margins
- Geochemistry
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THEME 2: Unconventional Resources
Chairs: Jaap Veldkamp (Shell) and Angel f. Curet (ExxonMobil)
Theme subcategories:
- Global Perspectives of Unconventional Resources
- Rock and Fluid Characterization of Unconventional Resources
- Controls on Producibility of Unconventional Resources
- Case Studies in Unconventional Resources: Frontier Plays
- Case Studies in Unconventional Resources: Early Development
- Application of New Technologies in Unconventional
Resources
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THEME 3: Challenges in Heavy Oil
Chairs: Jairo Lugo (Pacific Rubiales) and Enrique Velasquez (Ecopetrol)
Theme subcategories:
- Case Studies (traps types, fluid regimes, etc.)
- Technologies (EOR, thermal recovery, etc.)
- Reservoir Characterization
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THEME 4: Mature Fields
chairs: Malcom Allan (Aera Energy LLC) and Hector San Martin (Petroleum and minerals enterprise, llc)
Theme subcategories:
- Enhanced Oil Recovery
- New Ideas in Oil Plays
- Case Histories
- Intergrated Studies
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THEME 5: Deep Water Exploration and Production
Chairs: Silvia Couto dos Anjos (Petrobras), Paul Weimer
(University of Colorado) and Claudia Ruiz-Graham (BP)
Theme subcategories:
- Subsalt and Presalt Imaging, Traps and Play Types
- Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of Deepwater Reservoirs
- Petroleum Systems Modeling and Oil Chemistry of Deep Water Settings
- Emerging Global Deep Water Provinces
- Tectonics, Sedimentation and Stratigraphic Traps in Deep
Water Systems
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THEME 6: Environmental Geology
Chairs: Sergio Sarmiento (Beicip) and Michael Young (BEG, University of Texas at Austin)
Theme subcategories:
- Hydraulic Fracking
- Footprint Reduction and Public Concerns
- Carbon Sequestration
- Oil Spills and Air Emissions
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SPECIAL SESSION: History of Petroleum Geology (oral only)
Chairs: Hans Krause (Independent Consultant) and Daniel Truempy (Gran Tierra Argentina)
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