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Middle East Blog

This three-day workshop aims to provide a forum for professionals from industry, academia and government agencies, who are actively involved in the study of Middle Eastern Source Rocks, to share their advances in source rock related fields, present their experiences and challenges, and demonstrate relevant technologies and solutions.

Added on 23 August, 2015

Latin America Blog By Emily Llinás

Abstract Deadline extended for GTW Peru 2015: Increasing the Recovery Factor in Mature Oil and Gas Fields

Share your knowledge and learn from others at this multidisciplinary workshop to be held in Lima, Peru on 15-16 October 2015. Presentation proposals are due 30 August 2015.

Added on 18 August, 2015

PSGD Blog

PSGD presence at 2015 AAPG ACE

The Petroleum Structure and Geomechanics Division will have a presence at the AAPG annual meeting for 2015. Theme 5 of the Technical Program contains many talks and posters of interest to the PSGD members.

Added on 23 April, 2015

PSGD Blog By David Haddad

The first PSGD-sanctioned publication: 'Faulting and Fracturing in Shale and Self-sourced Reservoirs'

The PSGD is happy to announce the release of our first sanctioned Special Issue of AAPG Bulletin titled Faulting and Fracturing in Shale and Self-sourced Reservoirs (November 2014 issue).

Added on 23 April, 2015

Latin America Blog

Program announced! Extending Mature Fields Geosciences Technology Workshop

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).

Added on 22 April, 2015

Explorer Foundation Update By Lorry Oldefest

Distinguished Lecture Tours Announced for 2014-15

It has a new name, a new energy and a new lineup of experts, all primed to spread geoscience knowledge around the world. “It” is AAPG’s newly named Global Distinguished Lecture Program – emphasis on the “global” – which dates back to 1941 but continues to be the Association’s flagship initiative for offering the latest in geologic science to AAPG affiliated geological societies and universities.

Added on 01 October, 2014

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

Folding, Thrusting and Syntectonic Sedimentation: Perspectives from Classic Localities of the Central Pyrenees

Participants will examine illustrative outcrops of thrusts, fault-related folds, stratal architectures and facies of depositional systems affected by growing structures, which are good analogues for hydrocarbon reservoirs. Objectives include interpreting complex thrust structures, identifying and understanding strain and fracture systems in fold-thrust belts, and analyzing patterns of growth strata in areas with synsedimentary folding.

Added on 21 July, 2014

Bulletin Article

Structural analysis of a salt-cored transfer zone in the South Timbalier Block 54, offshore Gulf of Mexico: Implications for restoration of salt-related extensional structures

The style of faulting in offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, is characterized by short, arcuate regional and counterregional growth faults, which commonly form complex transfer zones above shallow, Miocene level salt bodies. South Timbalier Block 54 (ST54) constitutes one such area where a basinward-dipping regional and a landward-dipping counterregional growth fault form a convergent transfer zone.

Added on 31 March, 2014

Explorer Article By Susan Eaton

AAPG Distinguished Lecturer Mohriak Focuses on Red Sea's Analogies

Current AAPG Distinguished Lecturer Webster Mohriak is one of the confirmed keynote speakers for the upcoming Atlantic Realm Conjugate Margins Conference, set this August in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Retiring in 2011 after

Added on 01 March, 2014

Explorer Article

Four DLs Have Speaking Dates In November

The Distinguished Lecture program, funded in part by the AAPG Foundation, is the Association’s flagship initiative for spreading the latest in science, technology and professional information.

Added on 01 November, 2013

Online Certificate Course

Tuesday, 1 January 2013, 12:00 a.m.–1:00 a.m.

Giant Oil and Gas Fields

There are approximately 1,000 oil and gas fields in the world that have been classified as 'giant,' containing more than 500 million barrels of recoverable oil and /or 3 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Added on 11 December, 2013

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 17 March 2011, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

Basic Tools for Shale Exploration

This e-symposium will provide information on which tools, processes, and procedures all geoscientists, engineers, and technical professionals working in shale plays need to understand and implement.

Added on 02 December, 2013

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 3 June 2010, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

Marcellus & Utica in the Field: Northern Appalachian Basin

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to describe faults and fractures in carbonates, black shales, and coarser clastics as they occur in the northern Appalachian Basin.

Added on 02 December, 2013

Webinar By Juan Pablo Lovecchio

Virtual Webinar

Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Rifting: How Breaking Continents Can Create Exploration Opportunities - Spanish Talk

El geocientífico visitante Juan Pablo Lovecchio revisa aspectos generales de la ruptura, grietas y formación pasiva de márgenes y evolución a través del tiempo, así como elementos del desarrollo del sistema petrolero.

Added on 30 June, 2020

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 15 March 2012, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

Exploring the Geopressure Risk in Deep Water Frontier Plays

This e-symposium presents techniques for predicting pore pressure in seals by examining case studies from the Gulf of Mexico and incorporating the relationship between rocks, fluids, stress, and pressure.

Added on 11 December, 2013

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 30 October 2014, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.

Kerogen Maturity Determinations: New Techniques and Technologies

Cross disciplinary workflows play an important part of successful characterization of shale reservoirs. This course discusses how the artificial kerogen maturity of organic-rich Green River shale affects the petrophysical, micro-structural, geochemical and elastic properties.

Added on 05 August, 2014

Online e-Symposium

Tuesday, 14 December 2010, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

Shale Gas in Quebec's Sedimentary Basins

Recent interest in unconventional gas resources has attracted several oil and gas explorers to sedimentary basins in Southern Quebec.

Added on 02 December, 2013

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 7 June 2012, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

New Production in Old Fields: Case Study in the Hunton Dolomite

Unger Field, discovered in1955, has produced 8.6 million barrels of oil from a thinly (several ft) bedded, locally cherty dolomite containing vuggy and intercrystalline porosity.

Added on 11 December, 2013

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 25 March 2010, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

Mapping Natural Fractures Using 3D Seismic and Well Data: Application to a Shale Play

The presentation describes a well established fracture modeling workflow that uses a standard 3D seismic, conventional logs, image logs and data from one core to build predictive 3D fracture models that are validated with blind wells.

Added on 02 December, 2013

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 19 August 2010, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

Challenging the Paradigm 'Missing Section = Normal Fault' and Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration

This presentation will show where there are cases of missing sections, but none of them can be attributed to normal faulting.

Added on 02 December, 2013

VG Abstract By Juan I. Soto

How Orogens Could Collapse Forming Sedimentary Basins: The Case of the Betic-Rif Orogen

The Betic hinterland, in the westernmost Mediterranean, constitutes a unique example of a stack of metamorphic units. Using a three-dimensional model for the crustal structure of the Betics-Rif area this talk will address the role of crustal flow simultaneously to upper-crustal low-angle faulting in the origin and evolution of the topography.

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Added on 26 June, 2019

VG Abstract By Juan I. Soto

Salt versus Shales in Continental Margins and Orogens

In comparison with the known boundary conditions that promote salt deformation and flow in sedimentary basins, the processes involved with the mobilization of clay-rich detrital sediments are far less well established. This talk will use seismic examples in different tectonic settings to document the variety of shale geometries that can be formed under brittle and ductile deformations.

Request a visit from Juan I. Soto!

Added on 26 June, 2019

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