Workshop Outline
The stratigraphic traps of the Middle East workshop hosted by AAPG is inviting all professionals to the upcoming 4th edition. This workshop aims to continue the success of proving a platform for industry professionals to share recent knowledge through case studies, new technologies, and latest collaborations to unlock the full potential of stratigraphic traps and deal with upcoming associated challenges.
The past 10 years have seen a natural shift to more complex trapping mechanisms in the mature basins of the Middle East. With previous plateauing creaming curves, the recent stratigraphic discoveries were able to change the game and introduce steeper curves. Missing hydrocarbons predicted by basin models have now been realized providing better predictive outcomes. Each individual stratigraphic discovery made has positive dependencies and implications that open the door to more potential across multiple stratigraphic units. With such incremental success, stratigraphic traps have proven their immense future value for the industry.
The mature basins of the Middle East are leading the industry in identifying complex trapping configurations to all sized traps unlocking the significant value they presented a decade ago. Successful exploration and production in stratigraphic traps often require advanced techniques and technologies to accurately locate and extract hydrocarbon resources. Therefore, the rise in collaboration between all industry professionals and academia is commended to have been a great enabler to overcome the challenges and move the industry closer to the comforts of knowledge and discovery replication.
This workshop will showcase new technologies and best practices that further enhance stratigraphic traps evaluation and associated decision-making processes. In addition, new developments in seismic data focusing on illuminating stratigraphic traps, such as high-resolution seismic data, new processing techniques, new developments of interpretation models and workflows that have unraveled some of the latest discoveries in the area.
Benefits of Attending
The workshop will continue to provide opportunity for attendees to receive up-to-date knowledge about stratigraphic trap exploration of the Middle East covering the prolific Gulf region and surrounding areas, exposure to regional and global stratigraphic case studies. It is also an opportunity for all professionals to share state of the art-technologies utilized to detect and produce these complex-yet-rewarding traps. It is a great networking experience-sharing opportunity. The participants will receive a summary of the breakout sessions and discussions, lessons learned, and the abstracts of papers presented in the workshop.