Why Attend?

As the world’s need for energy continues to increase, it is important that geoscientists involved in exploration acquire the skills to equip themselves for the increasingly difficult search for both conventional and unconventional sources of energy. Our varied course program seeks to address this challenge and will be taught by distinguished lecturers from around the world. More than 25 short courses and field trips are planned.

Why Exhibit?

Face-to-face contact at trade shows is the most cost-effective way to meet with clients, find new prospects and promote your brand to a highly targeted audience. And Denver is the perfect location in which to invest your marketing dollars. The Rockies are attracting oil and gas players at an unprecedented rate. In addition to tight gas sands and coalbed methane plays, operators are also focusing on the shale gas potential in the Rockies. The increase in activity means 3-D seismic data acquisitions programs are expanding as well. E&P activity in the Rockies is booming — and that means your business can be too by attending the AAPG ACE in Denver.

Production is growing faster in the Rocky Mountain area than anywhere else in the United States, experts say. Not since the early 1980s has there been so much oil and gas activity, and Denver is reemerging as an energy epicenter. That means geoscientists are heading West — and you’ll want to do so as well for the AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition (ACE). The American Association of Petroleum Geologists and its Divisions, along with SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) and your host, the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, invite all energy industry professionals to attend this world-class event, 7–10 June 2009.

Because the Rockies are teeming with activity, the upstream E&P industry is booming and Denver is the place to be. These factors give the 2009 ACE potential to be one of the most successful AAPG conventions yet, with more exhibitors and attendees than ever before.

What makes the Rockies so hot?

• Colorado's Piceance Basin contains one of the nation’s biggest reservoirs of natural gas and one of the country’s most active plays.
• Recent news that the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken formation in the Williston Basin in Wyoming and North Dakota could harbor about 3.7 billion barrels of oil, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This could potentially be the largest oil play in the nation outside of Alaska.
• Wyoming's Pinedale field is among the most active areas in the Rockies, and is likely the second-largest gas field in North America, experts say.
• Shale gas and coalbed methane plays are significant in the Rockies as well, especially in the Powder River and Wind River Basins in Wyoming.
• Tight gas sands in the Green River Basin of Wyoming and the revived thrust belt play in Utah are also in on the action.