October 2026

2nd Edition: AAPG Libyan Sedimentary Basins Virtual Workshop

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

Program

Keynote Speaker
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm

Opening of the Workshop and Introductory Lecture

Dr. Susan Nash

Director of Innovation, Emerging Science and Technology

Tom Wilker

Executive Director

Salah El-Ekhfifi

NOC

Dr. Abdelsalam Aziz

NOC

Technical Presentations

1 session
2:20 pm - 2:50 pm
Lower Paleozoic Depositional Cycles of Libya in a Northern Gondwanan Context: Insights from Borehole Images and Facies Stacking Patterns

Gamal Sultan, Slb

2:50 pm - 3:20 pm
Regional Structural Configuration of the Libyan Cyrenaica Province and Western Desert of Egypt, Implication for Petroleum Sedimentary Evolution in the Area

Aimen Saleh, AGOCO

3:20 pm - 3:50 pm
Seven Decades of Exploration in Libya: Key Publications and Insights from Datapages

John Turvill, AAPG

3:50 pm - 4:20 pm
Petroleum Entrapment and Spatial Distribution Dynamics in a Super Basin Rift Type, Sirt Basin, Libya

Khaled Albriki, PetroChina

4:20 pm - 4:50 pm
Integrated Seismic and Petrophysical Analysis for Hydrocarbon Prospecting of Ordovician–Silurian Reservoirs in the NC-4 Field, Ghadames Basin, Libya

Abdlsaid Ibrahem, Omar Almokhtar University (Libya)

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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