The
impressively large response to the call for papers is an indication
that the 2004 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition in Cancun,
Mexico, is shaping up to be one of the year's most important meetings.
A visit to the ancient Citadel at Tulum, a historic archaeological site that is among the more imressve Maya ruins to be found near Cancun (just south of the new Xel-Ha National Park, an aquatic sanctuary), is an offered attraction on one of the guest tours durin th AAPG International Conference and Exhibition.
Photo courtesy of Cancun Conventions and Visitors Bureau
The conference
will be held Oct. 24-27 at the Cancun Convention Center.
The final
technical program shows there will be 348 technical presentations:
180 full-day posters (60 each day) and 168 oral presentations (four
concurrent sessions).
How high was
the level of interest in this meeting? More than 500 abstracts were
received.
The technical
program is divided into six themes:
- Deep
Water Exploration, Development and Production — Six sessions
dealing with the latest developments from the areas of Gulf of Mexico,
Angola, Brazil and other regions.
- Geology
and Seismic Interpretation — Six sessions devoted to imaging,
interpreting, modeling and understanding subsurface geology from seismic
data.
- Mexican
Basins and Beyond — Three sessions focusing on the host country's
basins, prepared by AMGP, the host society, plus looks at the remaining
potential of the Americas.
- Management
and Strategy — Six special sessions, which include "management
forums" featuring industry leaders; independents' perspectives; a
student session; and reviews of risk and portfolio management.
- Beyond
Conventional Petroleum — Three special sessions on impact structures,
environmental and gas monetization topics.
- Exploration
and Production Concepts and Technologies
— Nine sessions, including two provided by the SPE, on production
and remote control, drilling practices, IT, carbonates, fractures,
heavy oil and mature basins and fields.
Complementing
these sessions are six field trips to classic localities of the Mexican
geology.
- Two
of those are dedicated to tectonics and structures of contrasting
styles: the compression-salt related structures of the La Popa Basin
in the northeast, and the strike-slip fault style of the Sierra de
Chiapas.
- Two trips
offer sedimentology and stratigraphic aspects of eastern and southeastern
Mexico.
- A field
trip to the Sierra de Chiapas will allow outcrop examination of the
famous Chixculub impact crater at the K/T boundary, with its carbonate
breccias, which produces one million bbls a day offshore the Campeche
Sound. This field trip, together with the sessions and short courses
on Mexico, provide a priceless opportunity to learn about the petroleum
geology of this large producing country.
The trips are
complemented by a variety of eco-tours around the Yucatan Peninsula,
visiting a variety of archeological sites of the Maya Civilization,
unique fresh water dissolution features, tropical flora and fauna and
great, pristine beaches of the Caribbean.
Don't delay
— start planning now to join us for this fantastic program and geologic
experience in Cancun.