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 field trip, led by AAPG Delegate Germán Bayona, helped 16 students learn about depositional environments and their role in hydrocarbon exploration. 

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The YP Colombia Chapter’s Technical Session addressed both current industry trends and the challenging employment situation of young professional geoscientists. Topics covered included offshore exploration, a profile of geoscientists in the energy industry, exploration risk assessment methodologies, geochemistry and geochronology and petroleum systems modeling.

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The AAPG Latin America Region and the Geological Society of Peru invite participation in “Increasing the Recovery Factor in Mature Oil and Gas Fields,” a Geosciences Technology Workshop (GTW) to be held October 15-16 in Lima, Peru.

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Telpico Colombia LLC's donation, a perpetual subscription to AAPG Datapages, provides access to 145,000 publications for students, faculty and visitors to Colombia's largest educational institution.

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Join us in Buenos Aires, Argentina 11-12 May for Extending Mature Fields' Life Cycles: The Role of New Technologies and Integrated Strategies, a Geosciences Technology Workshop organized in partnership with the Asociación Argentina de Geólogos y Geofísicos (AAGGP).

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This year's competition featured a virtual round, with 17 universities participating via WebEx. Four teams advanced to the Semifinal round in Trinidad and Tobago, where students from Simón Bolívar University, of Caracas, Venezuela were named Latin America Region champions.

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The AAPG Latin america Region winners for the Imperial Barrel Award of 2015 are from Simon Bolivar University.

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Ready to maximize resources and thrive during the industry downturn? Join us in Buenos Aires, Argentina at Extending Mature Fields' Life Cycles: The Role of New Technologies and Integrated Strategies, an AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshop organized in partnership with Asociación Argentina de Geólogos y Geofísicos Petroleros (AAGGP).

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Finding resources in changing and challenging environments was the focus of the Expanding Unconventional Resources in Colombia with new Science – from Heavy Oil to Shale Gas/Shale Oil opportunities, a Geoscience Technology Workshop (GTW) held in Bogotá in 11-12 December.

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In August 2014, I attended AAPG’s 34th annual Leadership Days in Snowbird, Utah. I attended because of the passion that I have for volunteering with AAPG and the incentive that there is a lot to learn from an event such as this, where individuals from various committees throughout the world are present. Such knowledge and concepts can then be brought back to the Latin American region for ever growing achievement. I can personally tell you that my expectations were exceeded; Leadership Days truly was a remarkable experience.

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Emily Smith Llinás
Emily Smith Llinás Director, AAPG Latin America and Caribbean Region +57 310 305 7937 +57 601 530 2242 (Bogotá) +1 281 886 8525 (Houston)
Diana Ruiz Vásquez
Diana Ruiz Vásquez Events Manager, Latin America and Caribbean Region, AAPG +57 301 547 8724
Alejandra López Díaz
Alejandra López Díaz Marketing and Events Coordinator, Latin America and Caribbean Region, AAPG +57 311 254 5060