Conferences and Seminars
AAPG-Europe
Short Courses and Other Activities
AAPG-Europe Short Course's
Geologic Mapping & Cross-Section Techniques, by Jewel Wellborn with HED Inc.
Short Course for Students & Professionals
Date: 7 – 11 June 2010
Location: AAPG European Technology Training Centre,
Imperial College, London Register now for this new computer training course for both students and professionals focusing on data management, computer mapping and crosssection design, using the PETRA software program. This course has been designed with exercises that can be carried out in any of the available softwares currently on the market and is aimed at beginning to intermediate level users. Students participating in the AAPG IBA program and who will be using computer software for that competition are encouraged to participate. For further details and to register for this course please visit the AAPG-Europe website.
AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshop on Assessment of Unconventional Gas Resources (GTW):
The AAPG European Region together with the Middle East Region are combining with the Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists to bring you a joint Geoscience Technology Workshop (GTW) in Istanbul on 24-26 May 2010. This Geoscience Technical Workshop (GTW) event will provide a venue to build understanding on best practice methodologies used to assess resources in unconventional tight gas reservoirs, including tight gas sandstone, tight gas carbonates, fractured reservoirs and shale gas. This workshop will build knowledge on the common challenges and potential solutions to assess resources through the exploration, development and production phases. Please check the AAPG-Europe website for further details.
AAPG European Region Annual Conference Exploration in The Black Sea and Caspian Regions:
The AAPG region 2010 Annual Conference will be held on 17th – 19th October 2010 at The Ukrainian House in Kiev, Ukraine with the them The Black Sea and Caspian Regions: Historical Past, Promising Future. This conference will address several exploration aspects of the emerging Black Sea Basin and the mature Caspian Basin. Parallel sessions are planned covering various topics such as:
- Regional geology
- Sedimentation and basin evolution
- Basin formation and tectonics
- Paratethyan sequence stratigraphy
- Traditional and evolving plays
- Significant discoveries
- Proven and speculative petroleum systems
- Resource assessment
- Unconventional exploration potential
- Student poster sessions
Several field trips will also be offered before and after the conference to highlight various segments of the Black Sea and Caspian regions. Please check the AAPG-Europe website for further details.
Education Week
Join us for the region's first Education Week. There is still time to register for this exciting new event held in Aberdeen. Due to the disruption from the Volcano erupting in Iceland, the Education Week had to be postponed but has now been rescheduled for the week of 28 June – 2 July 2010 at the Hilton Aberdeen Treetops Hotel. This educational experience will have an offering of five full days of three parallel Geoscience training sessions to choose from throughout the week.
Please check the AAPG-Europe website for further details and to register for Aberdeen Education Week please visit the AAPG-Europe website.
AAPG-Europe Lunches
Aberdeen Oil Finders Lunch An increasingly popular informal monthly lunch meeting held in Aberdeen, organized by the AAPG Aberdeen Committee to discuss current UK exploration business and related exploration topics.
- Next Aberdeen Oil Finders Lunch:
- Date: 3 June 2010
Topic: 'Dana Petroleum - Exploring for Value on the UKCS'
Speaker: Colin Percival - Future Aberdeen Oil Finders Lunches:
- Date: 2nd September 2010
Topic: Defining Play Fairways on a Strike-Slip Plate Boundary
Speaker: David MacDonald For further details and to register for the Aberdeen Oil Finders Lunch please visit the AAPG-Europe website @ http://europe.aapg.org/aberdeen-oil-finderslunch .
AAPG Conferences
APPEX 2010:
The AAPG Prospect and Property Expo (APPEX) has run for eight years, APPEX 2010 being the most successful yet after having received over 500 delegates to the Islington Business Design Centre in London, now a regular venue for this event that was held on 2nd - 4th March 2010. With programs covering Asia and the Far East, the Caribbean and South America, Europe and Africa, as well as the future of stratigraphic plays and global frontier plays, including four Prospect Forums, and an International Pavilion Forum.
Principles, senior managers, business developers and new venture managers, were given the unmatched opportunity to network and do business with country and NOC representatives, suppliers and government representatives from around the world.
An additional one day short course ‘Petroleum Geology for Financial Professionals’ took place at APPEX taken by Ted Beaumont on 5th March 2010. This course gave professionals without a geology background to evaluate oil and gas plays more effectively. Ted Beaumont will also be holding his course entitled ‘Principles of Petroleum Geology for the Non-Geologist’ at the AAPGEurope Aberdeen Education Week being held on 28th June – 2nd July 2010. Please check the AAPG-Europe website for further details as well as the APPEX website.
The AAPG European region would like to thank all of the sponsors of APPEX 2010 and everyone involved in making the conference a huge success. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this fast growing conference in 2011 for:
- A range of upstream opportunities
- To meet, discuss and negotiate deals with global decision makers from the majors to independents of all sizes, consultants, governments and national oil companies
- Information and education to advance your career
- An exhibition featuring prospect and supplier booths from around the globe
Exhibition and sponsorship opportunities are also available. For more information and to express your interest early, contact
Steph Benton sbenton@aapg.org.
The confirmed dates for APPEX 2011 are 1st – 3rd March 2011, so please make a note of it in your diary.
P.S. as a delegate at APPEX 2010, please look out for the discounted fees that will be on offer if you register early for APPEX 2011 which will be published when registration opens hopefully in September 2010.
Hope to see you there!!!