CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Collaboration Conference for GSL
The Petroleum Geosciences Collaboration Conference will be hosted at the Geological Society of London on the 21st and 22nd of November 2007. This is an annual conference that provides an opportunity for postgraduate research students involved in petroleum industry-supported projects to present their work to a combined audience of academic and industry representatives, and is sponsored in part by the AAPG and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain.
This international conference presents state-of-the-art collaborative industry academia research and addresses a range of geoscience topics. The conference aims to provide forum for postgraduate research students to present their current work to potential future employers, whether directly affiliated with an industry sponsor or not. In turn, this conference provides an excellent opportunity for industry to inspire and meet the latest postgraduate output from academia from across the UK and internationally. The conference is aimed at attracting a wide audience from the geoscience community engaged in academia-industry collaborative research.
Themes include but are not limited to petrophysics, reservoir geology and geological modelling, clastic and carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy, structural geology and basin evolution application of seismic interpretation in geological analysis, and methods and impact of knowledge transfer between Academia and Industry. Seismic Interpretation workshop, a one-day seismic interpretation workshop (affiliated with the British Sedimentological Research Group - BSRG) will be held at Imperial College the day before the conference on the 20th of November. Please email Chris Jackson (c.jackson@imperial.ac.uk) for futher information.
For further details on the Collaboration Conference, please contact Francesca Chapman, events Coordinator: +44 (0)207 432 0980 or email: francesca.chapman@geolsoc.org.uk
The First MAPG International Convention, Conference & Exhibition
Start planning now to join us in sunny Marrakech for the 2007 MAPG In ternational Conference and Exhibition. Parke A. Dickey once said, "We usually find oil in new places with old ideas. Sometimes, also, we fi nd oil in an old place with a new idea, but we seldom find much oil in an old place with an old idea." So it is with North West Africa. It’s time to revisit this region with new ideas developed on the other side of the world. The past five years saw multiple world-class oil and gas discoveries in North West Africa.
Several of these new discoveries rely entirely on new play concepts and attest to the remaining potential in the region. Furthermore, NW Africa is on the cusp of a new cycle of exploration using new ideas and new technology.
Join us in Marrakech to learn more about what is happening all around this region of the world . Even if you are not lucky enough to be working on Pangea geology, please be assured that we will be running thematic sessions which deal with advances in our understanding of global geology and global play systems, the petroleum geology of the world outside NW Africa, new technology, and new evaluation techniques. The Organising Committee has developed a first-class technical program, and an exciting selection of field trips, all of which will be led by recognised experts.
The 19th World Petroleum Congress
On the eve of the World Petroleum Council’s 75th Anniversary, in July 2008, Spain will open the doors to the 19th World Petroleum Congress. The most influential meeting place of the global oil and gas industry will be celebrating 75 years of excellence in Madrid from June 29th until July 3rd. This is where governments and oil companies, IOCs and NOCs, industry and takeholders from around the globe come together to set out the way forward for the petroleum sector. Held every three years, the World Petroleum Congress well deserves its reputation as the ‘Olympics of the oil and gas industry’.
The 19th WPC has already received support from the highest levels in Spain. The King of Spain, H.M. Juan Carlos I, personally extended his support to the Board Members of the World Petroleum Council and the Spanish Association to organize the 19th WPC during an audience at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid.
The Congress Programme Committee is currently preparing a wideranged Technical Programme to recognize the scientific, technological and professional achievements of the petroleum industry.
To reflect the ongoing concerns of the world-wide industry, the official theme for the 19th World Petroleum Congress has been chosen as: A World in Transition: Delivering Energy for Sustainable Growth