Explorer President’s Column

This column follows up on a pivotal event at the 2006 Annual Convention in Houston, namely the approval by AAPG’s House of Delegates of Bylaws amendments creating two vice presidents -- one for U.S. Sections, one for International Regions. The amendments passed by an overwhelming margin.

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In the ongoing high price environment there are some major, looming challenges, an APPEX London gathering of about 300 was told in March.

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Even for a faith-based company drilling test wells in Israel, science is at a premium.

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In the search for alternative fuel sources, one AAPG member says he has a low-tech answer to more than just the problem of reliable alternative energy.

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From wind to bio-fuels, Oilmen around the world are looking into alternative energy sources.

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The Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the London Stock Exchange offers project financing to grow small E&P companies.

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Highlights of Peter Rose's four-week eight-nation AAPG tour of Pacific Region Universities.

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Explorer President’s Column

AAPG was one of the sponsors of a vibrant market in early February in Houston: the North American Prospect Exposition (NAPE). This year’s NAPE, as reported in the March EXPLORER, was the largest ever -- more than 12,000 E&P folks crowded into the George R. Brown Convention Center to show their prospects and plays and acreage blocks to a host of prospective investors.

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Like Sidney Powers himself, Robert Mitchum teamed with peers to convert groundbreaking theories into practical applications. Collaboration resonates throughout the lifework of Robert Mitchum, the 2006 recipient of the Sidney Powers Memorial Award.

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A sign of the times: The annual NAPE gathering in Houston was HUGE.

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Short Course
Palermo, Italy
Tuesday, 23 April 2024, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Or maybe open to explore new opportunities within your company? Or perhaps you ready for a complete transformation but you don’t know how to take the first steps? If the answer is YES for any of these questions, join this 3-hour workshop during which you will become more... Aware on where you are and what is holding you back to take your next step in your career. Clear on where do you aspire, what are your opportunities, and who will support your journey. Courageous how to take your next steps. We will be using some fun design-thinking tools and carbonate-related metaphors to explore and plan. All you need is your open, playful mind, your notebook and pen or pencil. Speakers Anita É. Csoma, SEED Anita É. Csoma, Ph.D. is a leadership innovator, business leader, and forever geoscientist with almost two decades of experience working in European and North American Energy Companies such as MOLGroup, ConocoPhillips, and Shell International E&P. Anita has been fortunate to experience working in world-class research teams, designing and building interdisciplinary teams, developing, managing, and implementing portfolio of projects across multiple organizations, and transforming large organizations to support business needs. Her leadership philosophy has always been: “Lead the People, not the Numbers” resulting in high-performing and engaged individuals, teams, and organizations with superior business results. Anita É., Csoma, Ph.D. | LinkedIn In 2023 Anita startedScale.Up Foundations LLCto support innovative companies and organizations in their scale-up process to expedite growth, andLeading Barefoot, to inspire and teach as many people as possible to think unconventional and achieve beyond their dream. She is a faculty member of SEED (School for Executive Education and Development) in Budapest, Hungary, where she is teaching various leadership courses, amongst which she designed and actively teaching an Aspiring Women Leaders program for female leaders and rising talents. Focus Programs - Aspiring Women Leaders • SEED Executive School (seed-uni.com) Anita continues her passion and support for geoscience and the energy industry through her role as President-Elect for AAPG Europe. Pricing Fee: Included in registration Room Assignment TBD Attendee Limit: Min 8 – Max 20

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Field Seminar
Palermo, Italy
Thursday, 25 April 2024, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

This one-day field trip will provide an introduction to a Miocene-Pliocene succession of southern Sicily, which includes outcrops of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC), as well as the Messinian-Zanclean GSSP (Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Point) and Zanclean stratotype. The MSC sedimentary record consists of an evaporitic-carbonate unit at the base (the Basal Limestone), overlain the Lower Gypsum unit, in turn overlain by the Upper Gypsum unit, and sealed by transgressive chalk deposits of the Trubi Fm. The Lower Gypsum unit (massive gypsum with cm-sized selenite crystals) will be visited along the beach of Siculiana Marina (about 15 km NW of Agrigento). Next, we will visit near Capo Rossello (about 10 km NW of Agrigento) an outcrop of the Upper Gypsum unit consisting of clay-gypsum cycles and overlain by the Trubi Fm. The latter, at Scala dei Turchi beach, consists of chalk deposits arranged in a spectacular thick succession (~120 m thick) interpreted as astronomically-controlled depositional cycles. The uppermost interval of the MSC sedimentary record, including the Messinian-Zanclean GSSP, will be observed along the beach of Eraclea Minoa located about 20 km NW of Capo Rossello. Pricing Fee: €50 Attendee Limit: Min 15 - Max 50 People Registration Deadline: 11 April 2024 Field Trip Rendezvous Point Hotel nH Palermo Field Trip Leaders Antonio Caruso University of Palermo Attilio Sulli University of Palermo

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Field Seminar
Palermo, Italy
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

This one-day field trip will focus on Mesozoic (Jurassic to Cretaceous) carbonates outcropping in the fold and thrust belt of western Sicily and equivalent to the aquifer complex of the Sciacca Geothermal Field located in the southwestern part of the island. Participants will have the opportunity to visit in the first stop a spectacular “drowned” carbonate-platform succession at Mt. Maranfusa located in an inactive quarry about 50 km SW of Palermo. The succession consists of Lower Jurassic peritidal cycles overlain by Middle Jurassic to Cretaceous pelagic limestone (e.g. ammonitic limestone, “chalk”) and marked by an unconformity with locally hardground. Syn-depositional Mesozoic tectonic is characterized by neptunian dykes and normal faults, whereas reverse faults, strike-slip faults, and joints are related to subsequent Cenozoic deformation. In the second stop, at Mt. San Calogero, adjacent to the picturesque coastal town of Sciacca (about 100 km south of Palermo), we will visit the surface expression of an extensive karst system linked to uprising geothermal fluids. Furthermore, we will discuss main characteristics of the Sciacca Geothermal Field and its connection to deep mantle-derived fluids. Outcrop data will be integrated with both 2D seismic lines and exploration well logs showing the stratigraphy and structure of the deep aquifer. Given the presence of faults and joints in the outcrops, this field trip can provide the participants with valuable insights into naturally fractured reservoirs at the sub-seismic scale. Pricing Fee: €50 Attendee Limit: Min15 - Max 45 People Registration Deadline: 11 April 2024 Field Trip Leaders Gianni Mallarino MOL Group Attilio Sulli University of Palermo

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Field Seminar
Krakow, Poland
Monday, 27 May 2024, 8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

This one day pre-conference field trip will be focused on the Upper Jurassic deposits formed within the southern part of epicontinental basin of the Carpathian foreland.

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Field Seminar
Krakow, Poland
Thursday, 30 May Friday, 31 May 2024, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Surface seeps of oil and exhalations of methane have been known in the Northern Outer Carpathians for centuries. During this field trip, key localities will be visited, including frontal deformed part of the thrust belt accessible in the world-famous Wieliczka salt mine, and outcrops located within more internal thrust sheets (nappes).

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Workshop
Palermo, Italy
Monday, 22 April Wednesday, 24 April 2024, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

This Symposium marks a collaborative event that brings together AAPG Europe and AAPG Middle East, with a central focus on carbonates and mixed carbonate systems worldwide, while highlighting their significance within these two regions. The primary objectives are an overview of controls that govern the evolution of these systems in time and space and the characterization and prediction of their properties across scales.

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The carbonate sequences that were deposited in the now exhumed Tethyan Ocean influence many aspects of our lives today, either by supplying the energy that warms our homes and the fuel that powers our cars or providing the stunning landscapes for both winter and summer vacations. They also represent some of the most intensely studied rock formations in the world and have provided geoscientists with a fascinating insight into the turbulent nature of 250 Million years of Earth’s history. By combining studies from the full range of geoscience disciplines this presentation will trace the development of these carbonate sequences from their initial formation on the margins of large ancient continental masses to their present day locations in and around the Greater Mediterranean and Near East region. The first order control on growth patterns and carbonate platform development by the regional plate-tectonic setting, underlying basin architecture and fluctuations in sea level will be illustrated. The organisms that contribute to sequence development will be revealed to be treasure troves of forensic information. Finally, these rock sequences will be shown to contain all the ingredients necessary to form and retain hydrocarbons and the manner in which major post-depositional tectonic events led to the formation of some of the largest hydrocarbon accumulations in the world will be demonstrated.

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