News and announcements from the Singapore office of the AAPG Asia Pacific Region, brought to you by Adrienne Pereira and friends.
The newly-formed AAPG Malaysian Special Interest Group held their first gathering and welcomed Dr Mazlan Madon, the custodian, author and well known authority on the Malaysian Continental Shelf. Mazlan is a recognized figure for both his experience and also his publications, with the “Petroleum Geology and Resources of Malaysia” still a key reference for petroleum geologists.
AAPG Asia Pacific is proud to announce the first in a series of lectures organized by the newly-formed Special Interest Group.
AAPG Vice President, Regions, Bob Shoup, spoke at a sharing session for AAPG Students from Trisakti University on 3 September 2019.
Continuing on from our highly successful fourth geological conference in November 2018, AAPG and EAGE have great pleasure in organizing a fifth conference in Yangon, 12-14 May 2020. This conference will provide the opportunity to understand the significant progress made over the last 16 months and network and share experiences with colleagues.
From 7-8 August, AAPG Asia Pacific presented a Technical Symposium from 7-8 August, 2019 in Bogor, Greater Jakarta, Indonesia. Helmed by a strong Advisory Board and Committee, this event was highly successful, with 112 registrants from 7 countries.
Mr Appolinaris Stefanus Leo Anis (popularly known as Leo), passed away from a heart attack in Bogor, Indoesia, on 9 August. He had graced us with his presence at our AAPG Technical Symposium, held in Bogor from 7-8 August 2019. Leo was a Keynote Speaker and a Session Chair. We wish his wife Trivina, and children Alvin and Katarina, our deepest and sincerest condolences and much strength during this very hard time. He had just turned 50.
Call for abstracts is now open for the 1st AAPG/EAGE Papua New Guinea Petroleum Geoscience Conference & Exhibition. The conference will focus on those who explore for petroleum accumulations, appraise them and seek to develop them as producing oil and gas fields. Papers on oil and gas fields and their reservoirs and production where it pertains to the subsurface science of the accumulation of petroleum in the region will be considered.
A Geosciences Technology Workshop was presented in Auckland from 15-17 April 2019. Themed : 'Gas Hydrates – From Potential Geohazard to Carbon-Efficient Fuel?', it had a strong technical program, guided by Convenor Dr Ingo Pecher and his committee.
Our student chapter held a Family Day on 24 February 2019. The purpose of this event was to foster friendship and strengthen the bond between the committee members. An enjoyable time was had by all. Photos in Picture Gallery.
The purpose of this event, organised by the AAPG Student Chapter of UTP, was to celebrate the retirement of AAPG Student Chapter Advisor, who is also one of the senior lecturers in the Geoscience Department - Associate Professor Askury Abd Kadir, affectionately known as Papa Askury.
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