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Participating at the AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition (ACE) can enhance your career and professional reputation, as well as your company's. Your contribution to the geosciences may help unmask the potential awaiting explorers and producers of conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons and energy minerals in the second decade of the 21st Century.
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, SEPM (the Society for Sedimentary Geology) and host, the New Orleans Geological Society, encourage abstracts relevant to the topics listed below.
All sessions (except where noted) will be offered in both oral and poster formats in order to encourage the largest number of authors and to accommodate a preference for presentation. Sessions may be modified depending on actual submittals.
Proposed Technical Program Topics
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Technology & Techniques
- Reservoir Modeling
- Reservoir Characterization
- Geological Operations
- Innovative Interpretation and Use of Seismic Data
- New Imaging Technology
- Evolving Technologies; e.g., EM
- Current Issues in Marine Geohazards
- Petroleum Geochemistry
- Basin Modeling
- Petroleum System Analysis
- Diagenetic Illite in Sandstones: Occurrences, Hydrocarbon Effects, Age-Dating and Modeling
- Rock Physics and Quantitative Seismic Analysis
- Geophysical Integration: A Road Map to Exploration Success
- Near Surface Geophysical Techniques
Sedimentation & Stratigraphy
- New Depositional Models for Shallow Marine Mudrocks, Modern Processes and Ancient Successions
- Lacustrine Depositional Systems, Modern and Ancient
- Siliciclastic Non-Marine, Shallow-Marine and Shelf Depositional Systems and Exploration Models
- Siliciclastic Deepwater Depositional Systems, Modern and Ancient
- Mixed Siliciclastic and Carbonate Depositional Environments and Systems, Modern and Ancient
- Mapping, Modeling, and Understanding Facies Heterogeneity in Carbonate Deposits
- Carbonate Systems in the Subsurface - Capturing Heterogeneity with Geophysical Methods
- Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences for Deepwater Exploration and Production
- Numerical and Physical Modeling of Sedimentary Processes
- Paleoclimates and Paleoceanography in Deep Time: Improved Data-Model Integration in Paleoclimate Analysis
- Climatic Controls on Sedimentation
- Source-to-Sink Sediment Dispersal, Modern and Ancient
- Baffles and Barriers - Conduits and Impediments to Fluid Flow
- Stratigraphic Compartmentalization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
- SEPM Research Symposium - Autogenic and Allogenic Controls on Sedimentary Successions: Modern and Ancient, Clastic and Carbonate
Resource Assessment
Evolving Plays & Significant Discoveries
- Circum-Arctic
- Conjugate South Atlantic Margins
- Conjugate Central Atlantic Margins
- North Africa
- Middle East
- Asia
- Europe
- Australasia
- Discovery Thinking
- The History of Petroleum Geology
- Petroleum Systems of the Tethyan Region (oral invited only, posters welcome)
Structural Geology: Styles & Processes
- Salt, Sub-Salt, and Pre-Salt Tectonics, Models and Hydrocarbon Traps
- Shale Behavior from Pore to Basin Scale
- Intra-plate Deformation and Inversion Tectonics: Causes and Petroleum Implications
- Continental Breakup Processes and Their Implications for Exploration Models in Rift and Passive Margin Settings
- Capturing Critical Fault Seal Issues
- Complex Structural Modeling — A Session Dedicated to the Memory of Ted Apotria
- Slope Systems Deformed by Gravity Processes
- Seismic Interpretation of Faulted Reservoirs: How to Get the Right Answer the First Time
- Interaction of Hydraulic Fracture Treatments with Natural Fractures in Tight-gas Reservoirs
- Fractured Reservoirs: From Fundamental Processes to Technological Advancements
Tectonics & Sedimentation
- Salt-Sediment Interaction
- Regional Interaction of Tectonics and Sedimentation: Examining Relationships Between Deformation and Basin Evolution
- Sedimentation and Tectonics in Rifts
- Numerical and Physical Analog Modeling of Climatic and Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation
The Gulf of Mexico: Regional to Local, Mesozoic to Recent
- Origin, Basement Architecture, and Early Development of the Gulf of Mexico
- Structural Styles and Provinces on a Complex Passive Margin
- Old and New Discoveries from Onshore to Deepwater
- Remaining Gulf of Mexico Resources
- The Future of the Gulf of Mexico - New and Evolving Play Concepts and Ideas
- Depositional Systems from Regional to Reservoir Scale
- Paleontology in the 21st Century - A Symposium Dedicated to Ed Picou
- Deltaic Coasts and Society: The Mississippi Delta and Beyond
Unconventional Resources: Shales (Oil & Gas), Oil Sands, Gas Hydrates, Uranium, Coal
- Assessment of Unconventional Resources
- Exploration for Gas Hydrate Resources
- Exploration and Production of Shale Gas Resources
- Exploration and Production of Shale Oil Resources
- Exploitation of Unconventional Resources
- Genesis of Shale Gas - Physiochemical and Geochemical Constraints Affecting Methane Adsorption and Desorption
- Drilling, Completion and Production of Unconventional Resources
- Coal: Versatile Fuel Source for the Future
Expanded Applications of Geosciences
- Astrogeology - Impact of Collisions on Earth's History, and Occurrence of Hydrocarbon and Mineral Resources
- CO2 Sequestration: Strategies and Technologies for Storage and Monitoring
- Environmental Impact
- Gulf Coast Geohazards: Wind, Water and Slippery Sediments
- Environmental Remediation and Hydrogeological Characterization
U.S. Energy
Global Climate Change
- Global Climate Change Forum
- Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Sequestration
- Global Climate Change: The Science Behind the Relationship between the Sun and Temperature (invited only)
