Titles
Some speakers tailor their talks to meet the needs of individual schools, so titles listed are subject to change and are provided as an sample. This list does not represent all talks available nor does it include every VGP available, so please refer to individual bios, topics of lectures or contact us to discuss your options.
Wayne C. Ackerman
- Reservoir Engineer? I Thought I Was a Geologist?
- Smart Wells: Advanced Field Development
Sunit K. Addy
- Seismic Facies Analysis Using Neural Net in Delineating Exploration Plays and in Predicting Reservoir Properties
Nadeem Ahmad
- Sequence Stratigraphy
- Plays and Prospects Evaluation
Anwar Al-Beaiji
- Fundamentals of Oil & Gas
- Professional Societies... What’s in it for me? A Personal Successful Experience
- Imperial Barrel Award
Edith Allison
- Future Natural Gas Resources: technological advances
- Gas Hydrate: what is the likelihood that this large untapped resource will tip the world energy balance away from the Middle East
- United States Energy, Past, Present and Future: how technology, economics and politics will continue to shape our energy use
- Gas Shales: Geologic Source Rocks, Economic Reservoirs, Technical Frontiers
- Gas is Found in the Minds of Women (with apologies to Wallace Pratt)
John M. Armentrout
- Slope Tectonics and Turbidite Depositional Systems of the Eastern Niger Cone: Using 3D Seismic Data to Constrain Geologic Modeling
Lyle F. Baie
- Job Search Skills for Students Actively Involved in the Recruiting Cycle
- The Essential Student Guide to 21st Century Career Self-Management
James L. Bedford
- The Independent's View or Thinking Outside the Box
Eduardo Berendson
- 3D Reservoir Modeling: A Systematic Approach to Quantify Uncertainty
- Exploration Risk Assessment: Methodologies to Build a Strategic Portfolio
- Managing Cultural Differences: The Importance of Sensitivity in Global Organizations.
Lee T. Billingsley
- Exploitation of Devonian Chert Reservoir Utilizing 3D Seismic and Horizontal Drilling, Delaware Basin, Texas
- Future Demand Projections for Fossil Fuels and the Role of Petroleum Geologists
Robert W. Blake
- Success and Failure in Frontier Exploration -- Examples from China, Nigeria and Brazil
Jelle Boels
- Petroleum Geology of the Netherlands
- Career Development for Petroleum Geoscientists
Lyle G. Bruce
- Environmental Forensics: Fingerprinting Contaminants
- Understanding Natural Processes in Cleaning Up Environmental Contaminants
Michael D. Campbell
- Uranium Recovery Realities in the U. S. – A Review
- The Role of Nuclear Power in Space Exploration and the Associated Environmental Safeguards: An Overview
Elizabeth B. "Betsy" Campen
- A Method for Putting Together an Oil and Gas Prospect Using a Rocky Mountain Gas Prospect as an Example
Tim R. Carr
- CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery, Sequestration and Climate -- Closing the Loop
- Structural and Hydrodynamic Evolution of the Largest North American Gas Field -- the Hugoton
- Improved Oil Recovery in Mississippian Carbonates
- Trace and Rare-Earth Elemental Variation in a Midcontinent Carbonate Sequence -- Understanding Reservoir Development
Gustavo Castano
- Deep Clastic Sediments -- Regional North Sea
- North Sea Statistics: FSD, Reserves Distribution, Depths, Etc.
Chuck Caughey
- Finding New Oil in Old Fields
- Discovering Large Accumulations in Fractured Basement, South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia
- Finding and Developing Your Geoscience Career
Robert D. Cowdery
- Careers
- Energy -- Past, Present & Future
- Mistakes I Have Made
- Paleogeomorphology vs. Geomorphology -- and Never the Twain Shall Meet, or Will They?
Herman Darman
- Petroleum System of SE Asia
- Tectonics and Sedimentation of Borneo Tertiary Basins
- GIS Application in Petroleum Exploration
Jan de Jager
- Risk & Volume assessment for Hydrocarbon exploration (presentation, or half-day workshop format)
- Risk assessment for exploration prospects in the light of geoiphysical evidence (presentation or half-day workshop format)
- The Netherlands through Geological time
Bob Davis
- Identification and Characterization of Faults and Folds Using Borehole Electrical Images
Joe Dischinger
- 3D Well Planning or Visualization
- Volume Interpretation
Rebecca L. Dodge
- Environmental and Resource Management Applications of Remote Sensing
Marlan W. Downey
- Predicting the Future
- Seals for Hydrocarbons
- Groping Toward a National Energy Policy
Patrick J. F. Gratton
- How to Find an Oil Field
Richard G. Green
- Preparing Yourself for a Career in Petroleum Geology
Willard R. Green
- Iceland and Greenland Expedition
Alfredo E. Guzman
- The Petroleum Geology of Mexico
- The Role of Geology in the Search for Oil and Gas
Joseph L. Haberfeld
- Hydrogeology of the Floridan Aquifer, South Florida
- Hydrogeological Evaluation of Deep Injection Wells for Wastewater Disposal
Syed Tariq Hasany
- Basin Studies, Basin Modeling, Exploration Geology
- Structure Geology (thrust and rift structures)
- Professional growth in petroleum industry,
- Guiding students and young geologists in career pathway for professional growth
- Subject selection for research especially for university students
- Introduction of petroleum geology and petroleum industry for new students or fresh garduates; what to do and how to do?
Chris P.M. Heath
- The Geoscientific, Technical and Soft Skills that Energy Companies Want Their Employees to Possess
- Career Planning
J. Janine Helmich
- My Experience as a Petroleum Exploration Geologist
- Once We Find the Oil, How Do We Decide How Much is There?
Donald A. Herron
- Interpretation of Reflection Seismic Data from the Gulf of Mexico
Debra Higley-Feldman
- Petroleum Systems of the Putumayo-Oriente-Maranon Basin, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
- Reservoir Geologic, Geochemical and Engineering Characteristics of the Wattenberg Basin-Center Gas Field, Colorado
- Material Balance Assessment of the New Albany Shale Petroleum System, Illinois Basin
- 3D Reservoir Characterization of the Upper Cretaceous Sussex 'B' Sandstone, Powder River Basin
- 4-D Petroleum System Model of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin; What it shows of the history of the basin
John R. Hogg
- Oil and Gas Exploration in Atlantic Canada -- Why a Young Geologist Needs to be a Well-Rounded Geoscientist
Sanggam Hutabarat
- Borehole Images Techniques and Applications
- Petrographic Techniques and Applications
- Borehole Images and Dipmeter Analysis For Sedimentary and Structural Interpretations
- Core and Log Analyses For Geological Reservoir Study
Michael A. Jacobs
- The Role of the Environmental Geoscientist in the Oil and Gas Industry
- The Importance of Geological Principles in Site Characterization and Design of Remediation Systems
- Case Study of Selected Technologies to Remediate Soil and Groundwater at Natural Gas Compression Facilities, West Panhandle Field, Texas
- Case Studies of Integrated Approaches to the Cleanup of Groundwater Impacted by Oilfield Brine
Art Johnson
- Gas Hydrates: Assessing a New Energy Resource and Potential Hazard
- The Role of Gas Hydrate in a Global Gas Market
Geovani C. Kaeng
- How AAPG Student Chapter as a Student Organization Contributes to Your Future Career in Industry (for university visit)
- AAPG Student Chapter Operation (for Student Chapter visit)
- G&G Software Technology for Petroleum Exploration and Field Developmen
John Kaldi
- Is There a Future for Professionals in the Petroleum Industry?
- Technical Careers in the O&G Business
Barry J. Katz
- Lacustrine Basin Hydrocarbon Exploration -- Current Thoughts
- Applications of Geochemistry to Exploration and Production Problems
- Significance of DSDP and ODP Results on Deepwater Exploration
Jess B. Kozman
- The Last of the Vikings: A Geoscientist’s Career in the Oilfield
- The Persistence of Wisdom: Managing the Proliferation of Geotechnical Data
- Never Forget It’s Rocks Down There: The Importance of Field Work to Petroleum Discovery
Naresh Kumar
- Oil and Gas Production on the North Slope of Alaska: Is Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Really That Different?
- Opening History of the South Atlantic and Oil and Gas Potential of the Brazilian Basins
Stephen E. Laubach
- Targeting Natural Fractures: Opportunities for the Domestic Petroleum Industry
Woodruff G. "Woody" Leel Jr.
- The Independent Oil Company in the International Arena
- The 4 P's in Thailand and Malaysia
William J. LeMay
- Tomorrow's Petroleum Industry -- a Challenge for Today's Graduates
Louis Liro
- Workstation Visualization Techniques: Translating 'High-Tech' into Day-to-Day Interpretation
- Subsalt Exploration in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Evolving Concepts and Challenges
Peter Lloyd
- Attracting Developing and Retaining Top Technical People
- The Quest for Energy
- Chasing Channel Sands in SE Asia
Bill Maloney
- Creating Value from International Exploration
- Portfolio Management in Exploration
Mantez McDonald
- The Transition from the School Environment into the Petroleum Industry, by a New Hire Geologist
Evelyn A. Medvin
- Where I've been & how I got there - A 30+ year career in the Oil & Gas Industry
- Career Opportunities in the Service Sector of the Oil & Gas Industry
Javier Meneses-Rocha
- Structure, Tectonic Evolution and Petroleum Systems Assessment of Southeast Mexico
- Shear Zones Vs Fold and Thrust Belts and Its Role in Petroleum Occurrence
Mary Mora
- Women in the Geosciences
- My Journey: What I've Learned from 30 Years' Experience in the Oil and Gas Industry, Domestic and International, Onshore and Off
H. Roice Nelson, Jr.
- The Impending Obsolescence of Maps
- Data Mining: An Example of Texas Shelf Re-exploration
- Success Has Many Parents: Stories from the Founding of Landmark Graphics
Robert K. Park
- Equatorial Carbonate Systems
- Miocene Carbonate Reservoirs of SE Asia
Eric S. Pasternack
- Exploding the Myths About the Oil Industry
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Petrophysics
Douglas G. Patchen
- Shale Gas Resources and Reserves: Meeting our Future Energy Needs
- Shale Plays, Environmental Concerns & Government Response
Iain D.R. Percival
- Role of Geology in Development Planning & Project Management
- Rewards & Challenges of 32 Years As A Geologist on the International Oil Business
- Importance of Managing the Non-Technical Aspects of Development Planning To Ensure a Successful Project
Rima Petrossian
- State Water Planning in Texas: State-of-the-Art?
James Pindell
- Upstream Geologic Research in Exploration
- Plate Kinematic Contributions to Exploration
W. C. "Rusty" Riese
- Reserves Analysis, Statistical Predictions and Economic Evaluations
- Coalbed Methane Hydrocarbon Systems Analysis: Geochemical Investigations
- Methane Seeps: Geochemical and Geobotanical Responses
Bonnie B. Robinson
- Coal Combustion Waste Minefill Management Practices
- Environmental Challenges Facing the Petroleum Exploration and Production Industry
- Environmental Challenges Facing the Mining Industry
Abul "Shams" Shamsuddin
- Petroleum System
- Global Oil & Business
- Geology for Non-Geologist
Valary L. Schulz
- Preparing Yourself for a Career in the Natural Resources
Fred W. Schroeder
- Geology & Geophysics Applied to Industry
- Basic Structural Interpretation (with optional exercises)
- Basic Stratigraphic Interpretation (with optional exercises)
- Finding and Developing Your Geoscience Career
Michael M. Thacker
- Time Navigator -- A 700 Million Year Journey Through Earth's Evolution
M. Ray Thomasson
- Developing Exploration Plays in the U.S.: What to Include -- With Examples
- Big Gas in the Rockies
- Fractured Basin Centered Oil Plays
- Geologist's View of Global Climate Change
Berend van Hoorn
- Geological Setting of Turbidite Systems: A Global Comparison
Glen C. Ware
- Factors in Success and Failure in Industry
- Adventures in Field Geology
Jeffrey Warren
- Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy of the East China Sea Continental Margin
David M. Weinberg
- Some Thoughts on Geoscience Careers
- Folds And Faults I've Known -- A Retrospective
- Gas Hydrates -- Initial Seismic Results
- Hydrates -- Where are They, and How Can We Tell?
- A Simple Borehole Device for Detecting Elastic Anisotropies
Stanley Wharton
- Exploration/Exploitation Geology
- Pliocene/Pleistocene Deltaic Sedimentation
- 3D Seismic Facies Analysis
Larry Wickstrom
- Geology and Activity of the Utica-Point Pleasant Play
- History of Oil and Gas Development in Ohio
- Geologic Hazards in Ohio
Douglas E. Wyatt
- Advanced Energy Sources and Concepts
- The Nuclear Energy Resurgence
- The Future of Clean Fossil Energy
- Careers in Clean Fossil Energy
- Overview of Southeastern Coastal Plain Stratigraphy
- Detailed Coastal Plain Stratigraphy and Small-Scale Structure Using Advanced Interpretation Tools
- A Career in the Earth Sciences: Importance, Tools, How to Plan, What to Expect