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Authors will be notified this fall of their acceptance. They will also receive detailed instructions for the preparation of their papers and posters.

This theme will include business energy experts from domestic and international companies who will discuss active oil and gas trends, price, demand, and advice on what might happen in the future.

• Natural gas business / supply and demand
• Switching to unconventional plays as a strategic business driver
• Global business perspectives
• Discovery thinking

This theme will present state-of- the-art geoscience investigating deepwater reservoir studies and deepwater depositional environments in fields located offshore of the Gulf of Mexico and Africa.

• Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
• Deepwater Africa E&P
• Deepwater South America
• Emerging deepwater plays around the world

This theme will cover exploration and production onshore or offshore. It will include significant new plays and studies of geological trends from countries of the world including Americas, Brazil, Middle East and Asia.

• Middle East and Iraq
• E&P in the Americas
• Exploration in Russia/ Caspian/China
• Arctic Exploration
• Emerging Worldwide Resource Plays
• other

Challenged Reservoirs will cover multidisciplinary aspects related to the characterization, assessment, and understanding of gas and oil resources from less-than-conventional reservoir systems in both the U.S. and international arena. We encourage contributions ranging in scale from ‘pore-throat to basin’.

• Tight oil sands
• Fractured reservoirs
• Heavy oil plays/ enhanced recovery projects
• Tight rock petrophysics and engineering
• Gas hydrates
• Other

This comprehensive theme will cover the multidisciplinary characterization, assessment, and realization of gas and oil resources from US and international mudstones and shales.

• Global mudstone/shale play inventory and case histories
• Technology: drilling, fracing, completion
• Mudstone/shale evaluation, risking and ranking
• Geology, petrology and petrophysics
• Fractures, seals and pressure systems
• other

This theme will cover all aspects of siliciclastic research and reservoir characterization including, fluvial, shallow marine, and deepwater settings, diagenesis, and reservoir modeling.

• Fluvial, shallow marine and deepwater reservoir characterization
• Comparing modern and ancient siliciclastic systems
• Sequence and seismic stratigraphy
• Process sedimentology, numerical and experimental modeling
• Marine biostratigraphy and paleontology
• SEPM Research Symposium
• Other

This theme will include oral and poster sessions focused on carbonate and evaporate characterization (ancient and modern), carbonate reservoirs, diagenesis, reservoir modeling, seismic interpretation and oil and gas studies of carbonates.

• Carbonate and evaporate reservoir characterization and case studies
• Characterization of ancient and modern carbonate and evaporite systems
• Carbonate diagenesis and fractured carbonates
• Modeling of carbonates and evaporites
• Carbonate seismic stratigraphy

This theme will hold sessions concentrating on basin analysis, petroleum systems and studies of structure and tectonics worldwide, including faulting styles, and salt tectonics.

• Petroleum basin modeling and basin analysis
• Hydrocarbon generation, geochemistry
• Salt tectonics
• Subsalt and pre-salt modeling and exploration
• Thrust and strike slip faulting and plate tectonics
• Other

This theme will have abtracts and sessions relating to geology integrated with geophysics, and applied to exploration and production, including surface and subsurface GIS mapping technology.

• Case studies in integrated geology and geophysics
• Seismic visualization in exploration
• Depth migration, seismic attributes, AVO , pore pressure
• Microseismic application in shale plays
• Mapping and GIS technology.
• Other

This theme will have energy and environmental sessions important to today’s natural resource and environmental geologists. Papers coordinated by the AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division (EMD) will address alternative energy resources. The Division of Environmental Geologists (DEG) will coordinate papers on environmental geology. 

• (EMD) Renewable and alternative energy
• (EMD) Geothermal, uranium and nuclear power
• (EMD) Clean coal technology
• (DEG) Water resource management and impacts related to E&P operations
• (DEG) CO2 capture and sequestration
• (DEG) Case histories of unconventional play contamination and remediation
• Astrogeology: Exploration of the Moon, Mars and asteroids

This theme will explore the trends and dynamics of young professionals (1-10 years) in the energy industry through an exciting speaker program and poster sessions. Covered topics will include managing career development, attracting and retaining geoscience staff and forecasting new career pathways.

• The future is now: Is your company prepared?
• Attraction and retention: Changes in attitude
• Recruiting challenges: Work force issues
• Training the next wave: Challenges of training and developing staff with fewer resources
• Forecasting new career pathways: Cross-over careers -- environmental, hydrology, renewable
• AAPG Student Research Poster Session
• SEPM Student Research Poster Session