8th Middle East Geosciences Conference and Exhibition

3-5 March 2008 • Bahrain International Exhibition Centre
Integrated Geoscience -Technical, Business and People Solutions

Call for Abstracts • Submit Online Deadline extended: 4 July

Programme Topics

The Technical Programme Committee welcomes abstract submittal for any of the planned session topics listed below. Not all session topics will be designated as both oral and poster. Sessions may change as submittals are received. Authors will be notified whether their abstract has been accepted after 1 August 2007. Please visit the Geo 2008 website at www.geobahrain.org for more information.

1. Engaging Future Generations

• The Talent Crisis and Strategies to Engage the “Gaming Generation”.
• Retention Strategies in a Competitive Market
• Improved Utilization of Existing Staff and Methods to Accelerate the Development of Geologists and Geophysicists.
• Major Forces Impacting the Global Competition for Talent.
• Partnerships with Education Institutions.

2. Solutions - Combining People and Technology to Solve Complex Reservoir Challenges

• Real Time Decision Making
• E-field/Smart Field Technology
• Shortening Cycle Time
• New Techniques in Modeling – Easier Interfaces
• Enhancements in Integration
• Reservoir – Quality and Outcrop Simulation
• Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
• Low Resistivity Pay
• Low Matrix Porosity Reservoirs
• Accelerating the Transfer from R&D to Production

3. Recent Innovations and Emerging Technologies to Increase Recovery from Mature Fields

• New Approaches to Reservoir Characterization and Modeling
• Advancements in Geostatistical Methods
• Advancements in Non Conventional Seismic Methods (inversion cubes, AVO cubes, 4D seismic etc.)
• Recovering and Identifying By-passed Hydrocarbons and Reservoir Compartments
• Reservoir Management
• Developments in Reservoir Modeling
• Fluid Management
• IOR/EOR
• CO2 management
• Increasing Ultimate Recovery
• Case Studies

4. Developments in Geophysics

• Near Surface Challenges (Statics, Biodegradation, Evaluating Heavy Oil and Tar Sands)
• Seismic Imaging (Multiple Suppression, Improved Signal to Noise Ratio, Advances in Borehole Imaging and Downhole Data Collection)
• Breakthroughs in Processing
• Seismic Techniques and Applications of the Future
• Multi-Component Seismic

5. Next Generation of Advancements in Visualization and Data Acquisition

• Application of Nanotechnologies
• Micro Seismic (Passive)
• Improvements in Remote Sensing and GIS
• Advancement in Data Acquisition
• Real Time Visualization (Advanced)
• Beyond Seismic

6. Petrophysics/GEO-Mechanics

• Lab Core Studies
• Rock Properties Data Base for the Region
• Accurate Calculation of Hydrocarbon Saturation in Non-Conventional Reservoirs
• Fracture Identification and Analysis

7. Geological Studies and Basin Modeling

• Basin Modeling
• Petroleum Systems Analysis
• Models for Developed Fields
• Middle East: Tertiary, Mesozoic, Paleozoic Hydrocarbon Systems
• Middle East: Precambrian Exploration Plays
• Regional Geology of the Middle East

8. New Play Concepts in Exploration, and the Role of Risk Management and Innovation

• New Exploration Concepts
• Risk Management in Exploration
• New Discoveries in the Middle East
• Changing Paradigms in Carbonates
• New Developments in Clastic Stratigraphy
• Breakthroughs in Reservoir Prediction
• Managing HP/HT Reservoirs
• Stratigraphic Traps
• Basin Analysis from Plate to Pore
• Sharing Knowledge: Geology without Boundaries
• Correlating Unfossiliferous Beds

9. Harvesting Unconventional Resources

• Tight Gas Reservoirs
• Heavy Oil
• Oil Shale
• Coal Bed Methane
• Basin Centered Gas (Deep Gas)
• Fractured Shale

10. New Business Relationships Between NOC’s and IOC’s and Service Companies

• New Business Models and Relationships