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Price Savings Still Available for Rio

Those heading to Rio for this year’s AAPG International Conference and Exhibition have one more chance to save money on their registration.

Register on or before Oct. 21 and you can save $175 off your registration fees.

Registration is open and the entire technical program is available online for this year’s ICE, which will be held Nov. 15-18 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – AAPG’s first return there since the record-setting conference in 1998.

The technical program is built on the theme “Broader, Further, Deeper,” with the Associaçáo Brasileira de Geologos de Petróleo serving as the host society, and Haroldo Lima, director general of Brazil’s ANP (National Petroleum Agency) the general chair.

Organizers have prepared a program that includes more than 300 oral and poster presentations, 14 short courses and five field trips.

The field trips – three pre- and two post-meeting – offer a variety of exotic and geologically exciting locales, including one trip (“Paleozoic Petroleum Systems of the Intracratonic Paraná Basin”) that includes a visit to the famous Iguaçu Waterfalls (see cover photo).

The conference also offers two special sessions:

• A plenary session on “Opportunities in a High-Stakes Environment.”
• A panel on “Giant Fields of the Decade – E&P Challenges.”

Appropriately, the conference will focus largely on offshore activities while also including sessions that cover upstream areas.

Primary themes the technical program will feature include:

• Regional Geology, Paleogeography and Tectonics.
• Technology Application to E&P Environmental Solutions.
• Stratigraphy – Clastics and Carbonates.
• Reservoir Characterization – Outcrop Analogs, Surface and Subsurface Integration in Reservoirs, Reservoir Diagenesis, EOR and Field Development Studies, Fault Networks and Fractured Reservoirs.
• Structure – Traps and Seals.
• Basin Modeling – New Concepts and Innovative Technologies.
• Petroleum Systems – Geochemistry, Source Rocks, New Technology Applications.
• Formation Evaluation and Drilling Innovations.
• Salt Basins – E&P Challenges.
• Deepwater Environments – E&P Challenges.
• Geophysics – Advances in Subsurface Imaging, Seismic and Non-Seismic Methods, 4-D Seismic Case Studies, Visualization Technology Advances, Imaging Below Salt, Integration.
• Risk Analysis and Assessment – Economic Analysis.
• New and Emerging Regions – New Ways to Look at Old Plays, New Opportunities in Frontier Basins.
• Unconventional Resources – Oil Shale, Shale Gas, Tight Gas, Heavy Oil, Coalbed Methane.
• Industry’s Crew Change – Impact on Hiring, Training and Retaining Skilled Resources.

To register or for more information go to www.aapg.org/rio.