Paris Technical Awards Announced

Technical awards for best paper and poster presentations at the AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, held last September in Paris, have been announced.

The winners will receive their awards April 9 in Houston during the opening session at the AAPG Annual Convention.

They are:

Gabriel Dengo Memorial Award (best international paper)

• Marek Kacewicz, exploration and exploitation technology, Unocal Corp., Sugar Land, Texas, for "Toward a Common Earth Model: Combining Seismic Inversion with Basin Modeling."

The paper was part of the session on "Advances in Basin and Petroleum System Modeling."

Ziad Beydoun Memorial Award (best international poster)

• Denis Marchal and Misael Alvear, both with Petrobras, Caracas, Venezuela, and Jean-Marc Daniel, with the Institut Francais du Pétrol, Rueil Malmaison, France, for "4-D Analog Modeling of Transpressional Structures Growing in a Rheologically Heterogeneous Medium: Methodology, Main Results and Reference Models."

The poster was part of the session on "Faults and Fractures in Modeling and Flow."