News and announcements from the Bogota office of the AAPG Latin America & Caribbean Region, brought to you by Emily Smith Llinás and friends.

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The AAPG YP Trinidad & Tobago Chapter started 2016 with another successful field trip, this time to Trinidad's Southwest Peninsula. 

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Join E&P leaders at the SPE/AAPG Colombia Offshore Workshop—Challenges and Opportunities for an Emerging Industry to be held 2-3 March 2016 in Bogotá, Colombia. This technical workshop, jointly organized by AAPG and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) provides ground-breaking learning opportunities, including the exchange of ideas and lessons learned from other offshore regions.

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The first international book published on the petroleum geology and hydrocarbon potential of the Colombian Caribbean Margin is now available for purchase in the AAPG Store.

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Presented by two of the world’s largest professional societies, ICE Cancun offers a platform of unmatched exposure for the geosciences community and for you, your company and/or your institutions ideas, innovations and breakthroughs.

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Looking for hassle free, cost-effective ways to keep your employees and your company competitive during the industry downturn? AAPG can provide you with customized in-house courses offered at reasonable rates.

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Raquel Gewehr de Mello writes about how three AAPG Student Chapters from three cities partnered together to learn about how how companies participate in national petroleum agency bid rounds.

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Amrit Cooblal was one of 24 students representing 20 universities at the AAPG Latin America & Caribbean Region Student Chapter Leadership Summit (SCLS) held in Bucaramanga, Colombia on 4-6 September 2015.  He shares his experiences and provides an excellent summary of the SCLS in the following report.

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Core description and preservation, petrophysics and petrology were just some of the topics students from the University of the West Indies – St. Augustine campus covered during a Core Workshop, organized by Centrica Energy at Weatherford Labs in Trinidad on 8 September 2015.

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Share your knowledge and learn from others at this multidisciplinary workshop to be held in Lima, Peru on 15-16 October 2015. Presentation proposals are due 30 August 2015. 

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University of the West Indies – St. Augustine Student Chapter leaders report on a wellsite visit led by Xavier Moonan, Centrica Energy Senior Geologist who currently serves as the  AAPG Latin America & Caribbean Region Treasurer and Immediate Past President of the Geological Society of Trinidad & Tobago. 

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