AAPG Paper Award Videos

Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award

The Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award is to honor and reward the author(s) of the best AAPG Bulletin article published each calendar year. More info...

AAPG Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Awards at ACE2019

Presentation of Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Awards to Kurt W. Rudolph and Frank J. Goulding for 'Benchmarking exploration predictions and performance using 20+ yr of drilling results: One company’s experience' (February 2017 AAPG Bulletin) at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas on May 19, 2019.

AAPG Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Awards at ACE2018

Presentation of Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Awards to Mason Dykstra and Juan Pablo Milana for 'Mass-transport and slope accommodation: Implications for turbidite sandstone reservoirs' (February 2016 AAPG Bulletin) at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.

Robert H. Dott, Sr. Memorial Award

The Robert H. Dott, Sr. Memorial Award is to honor and reward the author/editor of the best Special Publication dealing with geology published by the Association. More info...

AAPG Robert H. Dott, Sr. Memorial Awards at ACE2018

Presentation of Robert H. Dott, Sr. Memorial Awards to Paul Mann and Claudio Bartolini for AAPG Memoir 108: 'Petroleum Geology and Potential of the Colombian Caribbean Margin,' at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.

AAPG Robert H. Dott, Sr. Memorial Awards at ACE2010

Presentation of Robert H. Dott, Sr. Memorial Awards to Wayne Camp, Keith Shanley and Stephen Cumella at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 11, 2010.

SEG/AAPG Best Paper in Interpretation Journal Award

The SEG/AAPG Best Paper in Interpretation Journal Award is to honor and award the author(s) of the best paper in the Journal Interpretation. More info...

SEG/AAPG Best Paper in Interpretation Journal Awards at ACE2018

Presentation of SEG/AAPG Best Paper in Interpretation Journal Award to Krzysztof M. Wojcik, Irene S. Espejo, Adebukonla M. Kalejaiye, and Otuka K. Umahi, for 'Bright spots, dim spots: Geologic controls of direct hydrocarbon indicator type, magnitude, and detectability, Niger Delta Basin' (August 2016), at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.

J. C. "Cam" Sproule Memorial Award

The J. C. "Cam" Sproule Memorial Award is given to recognize and reward younger authors of papers applicable to petroleum geology. More info...

AAPG J. C. 'Cam' Sproule Memorial Awards at ACE2019

Presentation of J. C. 'Cam' Sproule Memorial Award to Yuanjia Han, Brian Horsfield, Richard Wirth, Nicolaj Mahlstedt and Sylvain Bernard for 'Oil retention and porosity evolution in organic-rich shales' (AAPG BULLETIN, June 2017) at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas on May 19, 2019.

AAPG J. C. 'Cam' Sproule Memorial Awards at ACE2018

Presentation of J. C. 'Cam' Sproule Memorial Award to Jinyu Zhang (accepting), Ronald Steel and William Ambrose, for 'Greenhouse shoreline migration: Wilcox deltas' (AAPG BULLETIN, December 2016), at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.

AAPG J. C. 'Cam' Sproule Memorial Awards at ACE2010

Presentation of J. C. 'Cam' Sproule Memorial Award to David Pyles at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 11, 2010.

John W. Shelton Search & Discovery Award

The John W. Shelton Search and Discovery Award is given at the Annual Convention of the Association each year in recognition of the best contribution to the Search and Discovery website in the past year. More info...

AAPG John W. Shelton Search & Discovery Awards at ACE2019

Presentation of John W. Shelton Search & Discovery Award to Michael Grammer, Jim Karsten, Dennis Prezbindowski, Benjamin Dattilo and Jonathan Havens for 'Reservoir Characterization and 3D Modeling of Silurian Reef Slopes: Pipe Creek Jr. Quarry, Grant County, Indiana, #51440 (2017)' (Presented at the 2017 AAPG Eastern Section 46th Annual Meeting, Morgantown, W. Va., Sept. 24-27, 2017) at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas on May 19, 2019.

AAPG John W. Shelton Search & Discovery Awards at ACE2018

Presentation of John W. Shelton Search & Discovery Award to Andrew Miall, for 'The Valuation of Unconformities' (Presented at the 2016 ACE in Calgary), at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.

AAPG John W. Shelton Search & Discovery Awards at ACE2010

Presentation of the inaugural John W. Shelton Search & Discovery Award to Paul Mitchell Harris at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 11, 2010.

George C. Matson Memorial Award

The George C. Matson Memorial Award is given each year at the annual convention of the Association in recognition of the best AAPG paper presented the previous year at the annual convention. More info...

AAPG George C. Matson Memorial Awards at ACE2019

Presentation of George C. Matson Memorial Awards to Ayrat Gizzatov for 'Interaction of Surfactants at Nanoscale with Water-Wet and Oil-Wet Calcite Surfaces at Reservoir Conditions' at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas on May 19, 2019.

AAPG George C. Matson Memorial Awards at ACE2018

Presentation of George C. Matson Memorial Awards to Paul G. Lillis, for 'Application of Oil Gravity and Sulfur Content Relationships to Oil Typing and Source Rock Kinetics', at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.

AAPG George C. Matson Memorial Awards at ACE2010

Presentation of George C. Matson Memorial Awards to Pradeep Bhatnagar, Scott Mclellan, Karlis Muehlenbachs, Byron Veilleux, Barbara Tilley and Pietro Quartero at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 11, 2010.

Jules Braunstein Memorial Award

The Jules Braunstein Memorial Award is given each year at the annual convention of the Association in recognition of the best poster session paper presented the previous year at the annual convention. More info...

AAPG Jules Braunstein Memorial Awards at ACE2019

Presentation of Jules Braunstein Memorial Awards to Toti Larson, Benjamin P. Smith and Nick Ettinger, for 'From Carbonate Factory Collapse to Recovery: Insights Through Box Modeling of Carbon Isotope Excursions of Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAEs)' at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas on May 19, 2019.

AAPG Jules Braunstein Memorial Awards at ACE2018

Presentation of Jules Braunstein Memorial Awards to Katie-Joe McDonough, Kenneth McDermott, Elisabeth C. Gillbard, Kyle Reuber, James Pindell and Brian W. Horn, for 'Chronostratigraphy Across a Conjugate Margin Source-to-Sink: Uruguay and Namibia - Why Stop at Basement?' at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.

AAPG Jules Braunstein Memorial Awards at ACE2010

Presentation of Jules Braunstein Memorial Awards to Nicholas B. Harris and Nikki Hemmesch at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 11, 2010.

Gabriel Dengo Memorial Award

The Gabriel Dengo Memorial Award is given each year at the Annual convention in recognition of the best AAPG paper presented at the previous year’s International conference. More info...

AAPG Gabriel Dengo Memorial Awards at ACE2019

Presentation of Gabriel Dengo Memorial Awards to Christopher Jackson (accepting), Michael Oti, Ayonma Mode, Peter Osterloff and George Pemberton at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in San Antonio, Texas on May 19, 2019.

AAPG Gabriel Dengo Memorial Awards at ACE2018

Presentation of Gabriel Dengo Memorial Awards to Nigel Mountney (accepting), Na Yan, Luca Colombera and William McCaffrey at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.

AAPG Gabriel Dengo Memorial Awards at ACE2010

Presentation of Gabriel Dengo Memorial Awards at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 11, 2010.

Ziad Beydoun Memorial Award

The Ziad Beydoun Memorial Award is given each year at the annual convention in recognition of the best AAPG poster session paper presented at the previous year’s International conference. More info...

AAPG Ziad Beydoun Memorial Awards at ACE2018

Presentation of Ziad Beydoun Memorial Awards to Anastasia Polymeni (accepting), Rachel Jamieson and John R. Underhill at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah on May 21, 2018.

AAPG Ziad Beydoun Memorial Awards at ACE2010

Presentation of Ziad Beydoun Memorial Awards to Paul Markwick, Mohamed Raddadi, Lauren Raynham, Steve Tomlinson, Emma Edgecombe, Dennis Rowland, Robert Bailiff, Amanda Galsworthy and Neil Wrobel, for the poster “The Evolution of the South Atlantic Hinterlands from the Late Jurassic to Recent: Mapping Stage Level Changes in Source-to-Sink Relationships”, at the Opening Session, Annual Convention & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 11, 2010.