Technical Program at-a-glance
With 400+ oral presenation and more than 400 full-day posters (including e-posters), the technical program is the heart of the AAPG convention. Here you'll find an international mix of presenters sharing top-quality insights on issues affecting the petroleum geosciences. Check your program book on site for the latest updates. Click on the theme title below to expand the selection.
Due to the number of presenters involved, scheduling changes will be made. For the most up-to-date listing visit the online itinerary planner and be sure to look at the Program Book and Addendums on site.
Itinerary Planner now available online
Plan your way through nearly 1,000 oral and poster presentations by using our online itinerary planner. This handy tool will help you search the technical program and organize your schedule.
Theme 1: Molecules to Marketplace: The Business of Energy
- Panel: Key Factors Shaping the Future – Opportunities and Challenges
- Monday | AM | Oral | General Assembly C
- Forum: Discovery Thinking
- Monday | PM | Oral | General Assembly C
- Michel T. Halbouty Lecture: The Next Era of Exploration
- Monday | PM | Oral | General Assembly C
- Forum: Transforming Global E&P: Unconventional Resource Plays as Strategic Drivers. The Next Giant Leap in Geoscience?
- Tuesday | AM | Oral | General Assembly A
- Forum: Taking Natural Gas Seriously: Opportunities and Challenges
- Tuesday | PM | Oral | General Assembly A
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Theme 2: Global Deepwater Reservoirs: Giant Leaps in E&P
- Deepwater Africa E&P
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Deepwater E&P: Gulf of Mexico
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Emerging Deepwater Plays Around the World
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Prediction of Deepwater Stratigraphic Uncertainty: Quantification, Characterization and Modeling
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Prediction of Deepwater Stratigraphic Uncertainty: Quantification, Characterization and Modeling I
- Tuesday | AM | Oral | General Assembly C
- International Deep Water Exploration Case Studies
- Tuesday | PM | Oral | General Assembly C
- Prediction of Deepwater Stratigraphic Uncertainty: Quantification, Characterization and Modeling II
- Wednesday | AM | Oral | Room 342
- Deepwater E&P: Gulf of Mexico
- Wednesday | PM | Oral | General Assembly C
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Theme 3: Worldwide E&P: Opportunities in the New Decade
- E&P in the Middle East
- Monday | AM | Oral | Room 361
- E&P in the Americas
- Monday | PM | Oral | General Assembly A
- Worldwide E&P: Arctic
- Monday | PM | Oral | Room 351
- E&P in Southeast Asia
- Tuesday | AM | Oral | Room 361
- Worldwide E&P: Africa to India
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Worldwide E&P: In the Americas
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Worldwide E&P: Southeast Asia
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
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Theme 4: Challenged Resource Frontiers
- Challenges in Challenging Reservoirs
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Coal Bed Methane Development
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Gas Hydrates - Understanding a Giant Resource
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- New Insights from Key Tight-Gas Provinces
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Resource Evaluation in Unconventional Systems
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Tight and Heavy Oil
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- New Insights from Key Tight-Gas Provinces
- Wednesday | AM | Oral | Room 351
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Theme 5: Mudstones and Shales: Unlocking the Promise
- From Reservoir to Pores and Volumes I
- Monday | AM | Oral | General Assembly B
- Global Active and Emerging Plays
- Monday | AM | Oral | Room 360
- Sedimentology and Stratigraphy - It Really Does Matter!
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- From Reservoir to Pores and Volumes II
- Monday | PM | Oral | General Assembly B
- Fractures: Natural and Hydraulic - Prediction, Observation and Performance
- Tuesday | AM/PM Poster Exhibition Hall
- From Reservoir to Pores and Volumes
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- U.S. Active and Emerging Plays - Haynesville and Eagle Ford
- Tuesday | AM | Oral | General Assembly B
- U.S. Active and Emerging Plays - Paleozoic Basins and Cretaceous of Rockies
- Tuesday | PM | Oral | General Assembly B
- Fractures: Natural and Hydraulic - Prediction, Observation and Performance
- Wednesday | AM | Oral | General Assembly C
- Global Active and Emerging Plays
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Sedimentology and Stratigraphy - It Really Does Matter!
- Wednesday | AM | Oral | General Assembly B
- U.S. Active and Emerging Plays I
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- U.S. Active and Emerging Plays II
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Forum: Shale Plays: Technical Examination of Today's Reality and Tomorrow's Future
- Wednesday | PM | Oral | General Assembly B
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Theme 6: Siliciclastics: Advancing Research to Resource
- Facies Models of Fluvial Systems: 50 Years On
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Shallow Marine Systems and Processes: A Tribute to Roger Walker and Gerry Middleton I
- Monday | AM | Oral | Room 342
- Shallow Marine Systems and Processes: A Tribute to Roger Walker and Gerry Middleton II
- Monday | PM | Oral | Room 342
- SEPM Research Symposium Source to Sink: Evaluating the Significance of Interdependence of Depositional Systems I
- Tuesday | AM | Oral | Room 342
- Sequence Stratigraphy Examples in a Variety of Lithologies
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Romancing the Stone: New Adventures in Sandstone Reservoir Quality
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Facies Models of Fluvial Systems: 50 Years On I
- Tuesday | PM | Oral | Room 361
- SEPM Research Symposium Source to Sink: Evaluating the Significance of Interdependence of Depositional Systems II
- Tuesday | PM | Oral | Room 342
- Shallow Marine Systems and Processes: A Tribute to Roger Walker and Gerry Middleton I
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Shallow Marine Systems and Processes: A Tribute to Roger Walker and Gerry Middleton II
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Facies Models of Fluvial Systems: 50 Years On II
- Wednesday | PM | Oral | Room 370
- Romancing the Stone: New Adventures in Sandstone Reservoir Quality
- Wednesday | PM | Oral | Room 351
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Theme 7: Insight into Carbonates and Evaporites
- Carbonate Reservoirs: Case Studies & Techniques for Characterization I
- Monday | AM | Oral | Room 370
- Seismic Interpretation of Carbonate Systems
- Monday | PM | Oral | Room 370
- New Geologic Perspectives on the Permian Reef Complex, West Texas
- Monday | PM | Oral | Room 370
- Advances in Modeling Carbonate Systems I
- Tuesday | AM | Oral | Room 370
- Diagenesis and Fracturing: Application of Innovative Concepts, Methods, & Tools II
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Lacustrine, Non-Marine and Microbialitic Carbonates and Reservoirs II
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Modern & Pleistocene Carbonates: Sedimentology, Diagenesis and Process II
- Tuesday | PM | Oral | Room 370
- Advances in Modeling Carbonate Systems II
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Carbonate Reservoirs: Case Studies & Techniques for Characterization II
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Diagenesis and Fracturing: Application of Innovative Concepts, Methods, & Tools I
- Wednesday | AM | Oral | Room 360
- Modern & Pleistocene Carbonate Studies: Sedimentology, Diagenesis and Process II
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Outcrop Analogs for Carbonate and Evaporite Reservoirs I
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Outcrop Analogs for Carbonate and Evaporite Reservoirs II
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Seismic Interpretation of Carbonate & Evaporites
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Lacustrine, Non-Marine and Microbialitic Carbonates and Reservoirs I
- Wednesday | PM | Oral | Room 360
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Theme 8: Breakthroughs: Tectonics, Salt and Basin Analysis
- Breakthroughs in Petroleum Systems Modeling & Geochemistry
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- New Concepts and Methods in Integrated Basin Analysis & Geodynamics
- Monday | AM | Oral | Room 351
- Global Salt Tectonics: Models, Outcrops and Case Studies
- Monday | PM | Oral | Room 360
- Impact of Structural Analysis on Hydrocarbon Exploration
- Tuesday | AM | Oral | Room 351
- New Concepts and Methods in Integrated Basin Analysis
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Rift Basins: Form and Fill
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Salt Related Deformation, Deposition and Petroleum Systems
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Gulf of Mexico: Basement, Salt Tectonics and Depositional Systems
- Wednesday | AM | Oral | General Assembly A
- Impact of Structural Analysis on Hydrocarbon Exploration
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Breakthroughs in Petroleum Systems Modeling & Geochemistry
- Wednesday | PM | Oral | Room 361
- South Atlantic Exploration
- Wednesday | PM | Oral | General Assembly A
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Theme 9: Integrating New Technology, Geophysics and Subsurface Data
- Seismic Hydrocarbon Detection - SEEPS
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Seismic Reservoir Characterization
- Monday | AM | Oral | General Assembly A
- Seismic Structural Interpretation
- Monday | PM | Oral | Room 361
- Seismic Stratigraphic and Source Rock Interpretation
- Tuesday | PM | Oral | Room 351
- Geophysical Basin Evaluation Techniques in Volcanic, Fractured and Source Rich Area
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Seismic Reservoir Characterization
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Seismic Structural Interpretation
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Seismic Visualization & Attributes
- Wednesday | AM | Oral | Room 370
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Theme 10: Energy and Environmental Horizons
- Water Resource Management and Impacts
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Astrogeology
- Monday | PM | Oral | Room 351
- Alternative Energy: Geothermal
- Tuesday | AM | Oral | Room 360
- Alternative Energy: Uranium/Nuclear
- Tuesday | AM | Oral | Room 360
- Clean Coal: Coalbed Methane
- Tuesday | PM | Oral | Room 360
- Alternative Energy: Renewable
- Tuesday | PM | Oral | Room 360
- CO2 Capture and Sequestration
- Wednesday | AM | Oral | Room 361
- CO2 Capture and Sequestration
- Wednesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- Forum: The Deepwater Horizon/Macondo Well Oil Spill - Understanding the Impact
- Wednesday | PM | Oral | Room 342
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Theme 11: The Next Geo-Generation: Who, What and Where
- AAPG Student Research Poster Session
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- SEPM Student Awards Poster Session
- Monday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
- AAPG Additional Student Poster Session
- Tuesday | AM/PM | Poster | Exhibition Hall
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e-Posters — new for 2011
E-posters — For the first time at AAPG ACE there will be e-Posters in addition to the traditional paper posters. An e-Poster is an on-demand electronic version of a traditional poster presented in a brief PowerPoint presentation. Most poster authors present a 5-10 minute overview to interested convention attendees. The e-Poster is an electric version of that overview with the added benefits of animation, audio narration and video segments presented on a large screen in convenient e-Poster stations.
E-Posters will be available for viewing each day of the convention. This means even if you missed the traditional paper poster session, you will still be able to catch the e-Poster version. Any attendee to the convention can select an e-Poster from the computer directory and then sit down at the e-Poster station to view the presentation. Each e-Poster station will have seating for 6-8 people so you can sit and discuss the poster.
