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Three AAPG Section Meetings Coming Fast

Annual meeting season has arrived for three AAPG Sections, all of which will hold their events in the coming several weeks.

Those meetings include:

♦ The Eastern Section annual meeting, which will be held Sept. 25-27 in Washington, D.C.

The meeting’s theme is “On the Edge of A New Energy Frontier,” and sessions will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Crystal City, in Arlington, Va.

Featured theme sessions include:

• Eastern Shale Gas.
• Carbonate Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis.
• Carbon Sequestration.
• Geochemistry of Produced Waters.

♦ The Mid-Continent Section annual meeting, which will be held Oct. 1-4 in Oklahoma City.

The meeting’s theme is “Exploiting Known Reserves as a Bridge to the Future,” and featured technical sessions include:

• Shale Plays and Unconventional Reservoirs.
• Seismic Techniques and Borehole Evaluations.
• New Ideas in Old Areas.
• Exploration Technologies – Old and New.

♦ The Gulf Coast Section (GCAGS) annual meeting, which will be held Oct. 16-19 in Veracruz, Mexico.

The meeting’s theme is “Sharing Knowledge to Add Value,” and technical sessions will include:

• Remaining Potential in Circum-Gulf of Mexico Petroleum Provinces.
• The Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Setting – Geology and Economics.
• Seismic Imaging and Interpretation of Geological Complex Areas.
• A special symposium on “Jurassic Regional Framework and Reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico.”

Details on all meetings are available via “Meetings Home” on the AAPG website at http://www.aapg.org/meetings/index.cfm.