Past Events

Webinar By Mark Tingay

Virtual Webinar

Thursday, 27 August 2020, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

There are over 300 known active onshore mud volcanoes globally, and many more offshore. Mud volcanoes are subsurface fluid escape features in which high pore pressures drive fluids, gases, and subsurface sediments to the surface. This talk will summarize mud volcanoes around the world and examine mud volcano plumbing systems and their link to petroleum systems.

Added on 23 July, 2020

Webinar By Catalina Luneburg

Virtual Webinar

Thursday, 13 August 2020, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Why it is Critical to Balance Your Interpretation

Geologic interpretations are the basis of most exploration workflows, whether building a 3-D framework, a geocellular model, or modeling HC basins and estimating HC reserves. All these workflows rely on the most realistic and accurate interpretation in order to produce high-confidence results. Join us to hear from Catalina Luneburg, founder and director of TerraEx Group and specialist in the validation of HC basins and structural geology modeling.

Added on 23 July, 2020

Webinar By Kevin Hill,Peter Grant

Virtual Webinar

Thursday, 2 July 2020, 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

The Bight Basin, South Australia, One of the World's Largest Unexplored Deltas. Evolution and Prospectivity; Seismic, Structure, and Balanced Sections

Presented by Kevin C. Hill, Associate Professor, University of Melbourne Gravity modelling of Australia's southern margin reveals that the initial rift with Antarctica was beneath the current Ceduna Delta. A regional, high-quality seismic traverse from the coast to oceanic crust across the Bight Basin has been assembled and interpreted in detail, then balanced, restored, decompacted, and replaced at paleo-water depths. The Late Cretaceous Ceduna Delta developed above a Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous rift basin in three stages punctuated by significant pulses of uplift and erosion across areas >100 km wide and with up to 1 km of erosion. The Cenomanian White Pointer delta prograded into deepening water and hence underwent gravitational collapse. This was terminated in the Santonian when the Antarctic margin was pulled out from below, thus supplying heat to a remnant thicker outer margin crust, causing doming and erosion. Importantly, this established the saucer-shaped geometry of the Ceduna Delta that persisted throughout its development, so that any hydrocarbons generated in the southern half of the basin would have migrated towards this outer margin high. The Tiger Formation was deposited in shallow water in a full rift basin prior to breakup, which was followed by regional thermal subsidence. The Hammerhead delta developed on the newly formed passive margin but was terminated by another pulse of uplift and erosion, perhaps associated with a change in plate motion at the end of the Cretaceous. The finite element modelling of this proposed tectonic evolution will test its validity and predict hydrocarbon generation and migration through time.

Added on 02 July, 2020

Webinar By Alexei Milkov

Virtual Webinar

Thursday, 18 June 2020, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Exploration Success Equation, Forecasting Abilities of Explorers, and the Role of Luck in Petroleum Exploration

Presented by Alexei V. Milkov, Director of Potential Gas Agency, Colorado School of Mines An exploration company is successful when it predictably and consistently creates high value from petroleum exploration. When defined like that, exploration success depends on the right combination of property (acreage), processes, people, and luck. In this talk, I will address less-understood elements of the exploration success equation such as forecasting abilities explorers, related biases, and the role of randomness, serendipity, and luck in the outcomes of exploration projects.

Added on 16 June, 2020

Webinar By Chris Jackson

Virtual Webinar

Thursday, 4 June 2020, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

When Salt Disappears: Why Should We Care About Welds?

Salt welds form due to salt thinning by mechanical (e.g., salt-flow) and/or chemical (e.g., salt-dissolution) processes. This webinar explores how we use 3-D seismic reflection, borehole, and biostratigraphic data to constrain the thickness and composition of salt welds, and to test the predictions of analytical models for salt welding.

Added on 24 June, 2020

Webinar By Henry W. Posamentier

Virtual Webinar

Thursday, 21 May 2020, 9:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.

Applications and Workflows of Seismic Stratigraphy and Seismic Geomorphology Applied to Deep-Water Settings

Henry W. Posamentier discusses the application of 3-D seismic stratigraphic analyses to the mitigation of risk associated with lithology prediction prior to drilling – workflows and techniques. Principles and workflows of seismic stratigraphy and seismic geomorphology will be discussed and numerous examples will be shown from a variety of different depositional settings.

Added on 20 August, 2020

Industry Meeting

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

Tuesday, 25 February – Thursday, 27 February 2020, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

1st AAPG/EAGE PNG Petroleum Geoscience Conference & Exhibition

Join us for the 1st AAPG/EAGE Papua New Guinea Petroleum Geoscience Conference & Exhibition is designed primarily for those who explore for petroleum accumulations, appraise them and seek to develop them as producing oil and gas fields. Petroleum Geoscientists of all kinds from: wellsite geologists to exploration program managers; geophysicists to geochemists; and stratigraphers to sedimentologists, and all those others who contribute to the elucidation of the hydrocarbon endowment of a place like Papua New Guinea are most welcome. Go To Website

Added on 28 February, 2019

Research Symposium

Chengdu, China

Saturday, 19 October – Monday, 21 October 2019, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Application of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Oil and Gas Exploration and Exploitation

With the rapid development of science and technology, artificial intelligence, big data and other analytics methods have applied in various fields of social life, industrial development and scientific research. More people are applying analytics to explore reservoirs and manage upstream operations. To strength communication and academic exchange in upstream oil and gas industry, especially in artificial intelligence and big data research results and application experience, AAPG and State Key Laboratory of Oil & Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation will hold a conference named 'Application of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Oil and Gas Exploration and Exploitation' in October 2019. Warmly welcome experts and colleagues to attend the symposium. Topics 1. Big Data, Machine Learning, Deep Learning in Exploration and Production Use of analytics in upstream of oil and gas industry, such as seismic acquisition and processing, petrological analysis, core information, geochemistry, Geomechanics and Converting unstructured into structured data. 2. Analytics for Finding and Producing Hydrocarbons Including: seismic imaging breakthroughs, reservoir characterization techniques, Migration pathways and preferential enrichment (sweet spots), Summary of new applications, programs, cloud-based services 3. Predicting Fluid Behaviors in Reservoirs Including: Predicting in fluid behaviors in the reservoir, drilling, completion and production 4. Analytics in Enhanced Oil Recovery in Mature Fields Including: machine learning for enhanced recovery, harnessing sensors and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), deep learning and pattern recognition for optimizing water flooding and waste discharge, dynamic modeling for production, using hybrid solutions (solar, wind, etc.) 5. Other researches and applications of artificial intelligence and big data analysis related to oil and gas industry Abstract Requirements The submission only requires abstracts, using Chinese or English (English: 600-1000 words; Chinese: 500-800 words). Please submit your abstract by E-mail to [email protected] and [email protected]. The submission deadline is August 31, 2019.

Added on 14 March, 2019

Workshop

Bogor (Greater Jakarta), Indonesia

Wednesday, 7 August – Thursday, 8 August 2019, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

The Art of Hydrocarbon Prediction: Managing Uncertainties

The oil and gas industry will always face tremendous uncertainties. These days, managing the uncertainties is critical as the industry increases the cost efficiency while the petroleum system condition is getting more complex. Therefore, the integration of all subsurface uncertainties is crucial to have the best hydrocarbon prediction methods. Experts will attend, involve and share their experience and insights in understanding and managing the uncertainties from various play types in Asia Pacific and other Regions

Added on 13 August, 2018

Workshop

Auckland, New Zealand

Monday, 15 April – Wednesday, 17 April 2019, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Gas Hydrates – From Potential Geohazard to Carbon-Efficient Fuel?

Natural gas hydrates have been studied extensively in the past three decades broadly, because they may constitute a geohazard, become an energy resource, and play a role in climate change. The workshop will commence on 15 April with an evening Icebreaker and continue on 16 and 17 April and start with latest developments in exploration methods as well as lessons learnt from gas hydrate production tests. Geomechanical models and results from laboratory experiments will focus on hazards from gas hydrates to offshore installations.

Added on 14 May, 2018

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