22 October 2026

2nd Edition: AAPG Libyan Sedimentary Basins Virtual Workshop

Co-Chaired by Dr. Abdelsalam Aziz & Salah El-Ekhfifi, NOC Libya

Program

Keynote Speaker
8:00 am - 8:20 am

Opening of the Workshop and Introductory Lecture

Dr. Susan Nash

Director of Innovation, Emerging Science and Technology

John Casiano

AAPG President 2026-27

Tom Wilker

Executive Director

Salah El-Ekhfifi

NOC

Dr. Abdelsalam Aziz

NOC

Workshop Schedule

1 session
8:20 am - 8:50 am
Lower Paleozoic Depositional Cycles of Libya in a Northern Gondwanan Context

Gamal Sultan, SLB

8:55 am – 9:25 am
Regional Structural Configuration of the Libyan Cyrenaica Province and Western Desert of Egypt

Aimen Saleh, AGOCO

9:30 am – 9:45 am
Seven Decades of Exploration in Libya: Key Publications and Insights from Datapages

John Turvill, AAPG

9:50 am – 10:10 am
Petroleum entrapment and spatial distribution dynamics in a super basin rift type, Sirt Basin, Libya

Khaled Albriki, Tripoli University & PetroChina

10:10 am – 10:30 am
Integrated Seismic and Petrophysical Analysis for Hydrocarbon Prospecting of Ordovician–Silurian Reservoirs in the NC-4 Field

Abdlsaid Ibrahem, Omar Almokhtar University

10:30 am – 11:00 am
Questions and Answers / Discussion

Event Contacts

Dr. Susan Nash
Dr. Susan Nash

Director of Innovation, Emerging Science and Technology

Cora Navarro
Cora Navarro

Marketing Manager, AAPG Middle East & Africa

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