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The AAPG Student Poster Competition began in 1996, when a single first-place award was given to Ian Robert Gordon of UT Austin for his poster. Since then, the program has expanded, soon including international schools, leading to 2019, when four awards were given, some to international students. Jack Kenning, a second-year doctoral student in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department at UH, won with a poster entitled “Controls of Cenozoic Mass Transport Deposits on Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of the Mexican Ridges Fold-Belt, Western Gulf of Mexico.”

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Middle East Blog

Register now for GEO 2020 and save up to USD 185! Inaugurated in 1994, GEO is the largest and best attended technical event of its kind in the region. A world-class exhibition and an exceptional technical conference with presentations by key industry figures combine to offer exceptional networking, business and educational opportunities to all professionals with an interest in the future development of the Middle East’s hydrocarbon resources.

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Latin America Blog

More than 1500 participants convened on Buenos Aires for the first-ever AAPG International Conference and Exhibition (ICE) held in Argentina. ICE was just one of many activities keeping members busy in August.

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Asia Pacific Blog

AAPG Vice President, Regions, Bob Shoup, spoke at a sharing session for AAPG Students from Trisakti University on 3 September 2019.

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Explorer Article

For the second time since 2017, the University of Houston has won the coveted Imperial Barrel Award, an annual AAPG-sponsored prospective basin evaluation competition for geoscience graduate students from universities around the world.

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Latin America Blog

Latin America and Caribbean Region geared up for the International Conference and Exhibition and the YP Bolivia Chapter hosted the first ever Ready to Work Program in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

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Latin America Blog

Latin America & Caribbean Region leadership represented the region at the AAPG Annual Conference in San Antonio and the YP Colombia Chapter conducted its first Ready to Work Program for 30 final year students and recent graduates.

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Asia Pacific Blog

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.

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Asia Pacific Blog

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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Asia Pacific Blog

On 6 March 2019, Dr Liaw Kim Kiat, whose experience in the Geoscience field spans almost 40 years, gave a lecture to students of University Technology PETRONAS.

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