The AAPG Middle East Exploring Mature Basins GTW is a three-day workshop dedicated to advancing ideas and technology to find undiscovered resources in mature basins. It will delve into methodology for hydrocarbons Yet-to-Find estimation. It will stimulate ideas for new plays, stratigraphic and diagenetic trap concepts, and new source and migration ideas. Learn more…

Technical Program

• Inaugural Keynote Speech: Mature Basins Exploration Strategy, Mohammad Faqira, Saudi Aramco
• Technical Keynote Speech: Exploration Trends in Middle East Basins, Dr. Sarah Haggas, IHS

• Session 1: New Ideas and New Plays in Mature Basin
• Session Chairs: Khalfan Al Mansoori, Mubadala Petroleum and Paul Titley, Saudi Aramco
• Session 2: Adding Resources by Finding By-Passed Pay
• Session Chair: Yahya Al Ansari, BAPCO
• Session 3: Understanding of Stratigraphic Architecture as a Key to Increasing Resources
• Session Chair: Paul Titley, Saudi Aramco
• Session 4: Underexplored Tight Reservoirs in Mature Basins
• Session Chairs: Ilaria De Santo, Schlumberger GSS and Ahmad Bohmail, Saudi Aramco
• Session 5: Technological Advances in Exploring Mature Basins
• Session Chairs: Khalfan Al Mansoori, Mubadala Petroleum and Aziza Moumen Bouhlel, Schlumberger

Presenting Companies: Airbus Defence and Space, BAPCO, Cambridge Carbonates, IHS, Saudi Aramco, Schlumberger, Tatweer Petroleum.

Don't miss out: Cores will be on display will be available throughout the workshop!

Activities:

The half-day Awali field visit offers a unique opportunity to discover outcrops around Jebel Al Dhukhan, the surface expression of the Bahrain anticline, where Eocene Dammam and Rus formations are exposed and more.

The field visit will be followed by dinner at BAPCO Club.

Please note: seats are limited. Registration for activities will be on first come first served basis.

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