AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition
June 7-10, 2009 • Denver, Colorado
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Technical Program
Global Deepwater E&P
- Emerging Global Deepwater Plays
- External Controls on the Shaping of Deepwater Margins and Systems: Influences on Reservoir development
- Deepwater Core and Outcrop Analogs - Comparison with Subsurface & Reservoir Prediction
- Understanding Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Predictions vs. Observations
- Deep-water Reservoir Systems Core-Poster
Hydrocarbon Systems and Basin Analysis
- Petroleum Systems Analysis -- Basins around the World
- Petroleum Systems - Source Rocks
- Petroleum Systems - Seals
- NAMS Advances in Biostratigraphy & Paleoenvironmental Analysis
- Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal (CARA)
- Remote Sensing & Integrated Regional Geology -- New Opportunities in Frontier and Non-Frontier Basins
- Basin and Petroleum System Modeling
- Cyclostratigraphy and the Astronomical Time Scale
Siliciclastic Systems
- Continental and Lucustrine Basin Systems
- Coastal and Shallow Marine Siliciclastic Systems
- Imaging Modern Siliciclastic Coastal Changes and Reservoir Geometry
- Sedimentology of Shale and Reservoir Development
- Bioturbation and Its Role in Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Reservoir Quality
- Siliciclastic Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Exploration and Improved Reservoir Prediction
- SEPM Research Symposium: Source to Sink Analysis of Clastic Depositional Systems: Models and Applications
Carbonate Systems
- Modern Carbonate Systems - Processes, Products, and Characterization
- Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Analysis for Exploration and Improved Reservoir Prediction
- Mixed Carbonate/Evaporite Successions: Case Studies and Analogues for Exploration and Reservoir Development
- Origin of Carbonate Breccia Systems - Multiphase Systems, Multi-time Events & Reservoir Qualtity
- Origin of Breccias in Carbonate Rocks Core-Poster
- Fault-Related Burial Diagenesis of Carbonate Reservoirs: Models and Case Studies
- Carbonate Diagenesis -- Shallow-to-Deep Processes & Products
- Carbonate Outcrop Analogs for Reservoir Characterization
- Carbonate Pore Systems, Fluid Flow and Petrophysical Characteristics
Structural Geology
- Stressed Reservoirs — Role of Geomechanics in Reservoir Characterization
- Salt Tectonics of the Northern Gulf of Mexico: New insights from new data
- Salt Basins of the World: Broadening our Understanding of Salt Tectonics
- Fault Seals in Carbonates and Siliciclastics
- 3-D Interaction of Tectonics and Sedimentation
- Role of Mechanical Stratigraphy in Reservoir Development
- Impact of Fracturing and Secondary Faults on Reservoir Play Sweet Spots
- Thrust Belt Plays — Revisit and Application of Emerging Technologies
- Fault Segmentation and Linkage: Impacts on Exploration and Development
- Detecting and Characterizing Fractures and Faults from Borehole, Geophysical and Engineering Data
- Tectonics and Diagenesis in Shale Basins
Exploration and New Plays
- Global E & P: North America
- Global E & P: South America and Caribbean
- Global E & P: Middle East and Africa
- Global E & P: SE Asia, the Pacific, and China
- Global E & P: Central Asia and Europe
- Global E&P: Significant Oil and Gas Discoveries of the 21st Century
- New Opportunities in True Frontier Basins: The Predictive Power of Integrated Regional Geology with Minimal Remote Data
- Discovery thinking
- History of Petroleum Geology
Resource Development and Reservoir Characterization
- Reactive Transport Modeling: Insights into Rock: Water Interactions and Pore System Evolution
- EOR and Field Development Studies
- Siliciclastic Diagenesis - New Insights
- Advances in Static and Dynamic Reservoir Geomodeling
- Developing Stranded Gas
- Perception vs. Reality: Resource vs. Reserves
- Variability and Normalization of Different Analytical Analyses
- Petrographic Techniques and Examples Used in Reservoir Delineation
- How do Fluids Really Move through Rocks - From the Molecular Scale to Fast Paths
Tight Gas
- Tight Gas Sandstones & Carbonates - Micropore Networks and Fracture Systems
- Pore Network and Fluid Flow in Mudrocks
- Petrophysics of Shales and Tight Gas Sands: Converting Resources to Reserves
Unconventional Reservoirs
- Gas Shales Reservoirs - Updates and new insights
- Gas Shales Reservoirs - Updates and new insights
- Coalbed Hydrocarbons
- Hydrates -- Sedimentology and Resources
- Oil Shales - Reservoir characterization and testing
- Oil/Tar Sands - New techniques and resource assessments
- Fractured Shale Reservoirs Core Poster
Astrogeology
- Energy Minerals in the Solar System: Resources for the 21st Century
- The Impacts of Impacts
- Lunar Field Exploration Equipment and Sample Documentation
Alternative and Renewable Energy
- Uranium Minerals and Exploration
- Geothermal Energy Systems -- Their Structure, Stratigraphy, and Rock Mechanics
- Landfills and Digesters--Lessons for Shallow Biogenic Gas Production
Petroleum Geology and Public Policy
Responsible Development, Sustainability, Climate Science
- Imagining a Carbon Constrained World: EOR using Anthropogenic CO2 and Other Options
- Earth System Processes at the Global Scale and Earth Modeling
- Deep-Time Geosystems: Sedimentology, Ancient Climates, and Paleoceanography - Help Imagine the Future
- Carbon Dioxide and Temperature
- Global Climate Change Forum
- Phanerozoic Climate Change: Implications from Stratigraphy, Diagenesis and Modeling of the Late Paleozoic Icehouse
- The Late Cretaceous Greenhouse - Global Climate Patterns and their Significance for Rocky Mountain Gas
- Groundwater and Site Remediation
- Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Sequestration
Geologic Interpretation Case Histories of Geophysical Data
- World-Class E&D Projects-Communicating Ideas within Integrated Teams
- Deepwater Production – 4-D Seismic Case Histories
- Visualizing and Quantifying Uncertainty in Seismic Interpretations
- Thrustbelt Depth Imaging Case Histories
- Depth Imaging using the Salt Flood/ Sediment Flood Approach on Sub-Salt Interpretation
- 3-D & 4-D Seismic Mapping for Oil & Gas Field Development
- Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation - Case Histories for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Exploitation
- 3-D Seismic Geomodeling
- Subtle Traps in Mature Basins - A Geophysically Integrated Approach
- Microseismic Fracture Mapping in Tight Reservoirs
- Seismic Attributes for Curvature and Fracture Detection
- Integrating Gravity/Magnetics/CSEM in Geologic Exploration
- Near-Surface Geophysical Applications for Environmental Solutions
Student Sessions