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| An Eagle Ford shale outcrop photographed by Lauren Peschier. Courtesy of AAPG. |
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World Oil is pleased to introduce a special section on Geology & Geophysics (G&G). These sections are timed with the major G&G industry conferences: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) and Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). We plan to include a preview of each of the conferences as well as several technical articles covering different aspects of the latest geological and geophysical technologies.
G&G technologies have contributed recently to exploration and production successes in two frontiers: deepwater and shale. G&G advances will be needed as we extend the exploration frontier to the Arctic. World Oil will explore these topics and more in the upcoming G&G sections.
AAPG AT A GLANCE /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
The AAPG 2012 conference will take place April 22–25 at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, 300 East Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, California. Visit aapg.org/longbeach2012 to register for the conference and for up-to-date information. Information about technical sessions is at www.aapg.org/longbeach2012/TechnicalProgram.cfm. The conference will feature five forums or special sessions, 400 oral presentations and 700 poster presentations.
Sunday, April 22. The conference begins on Sunday afternoon from 4-5:15 p.m. with an opening session and an awards ceremony.
Monday, April 23. The morning oral sessions will include topics such as emerging oil and gas plays in Africa, new insights and models on carbonate clastic transitions, and a discussion of faulting, fracturing and stress in shale and tight gas reservoirs. The afternoon oral session will include the Michel T. Halbouty lecture about the search for source rocks through the Mars Science Laboratory Rover Mission.
Tuesday, April 24. The morning oral sessions will include topics such as full field life optimization of producing fields and emerging oil and gas plays in the Arctic areas. There will be several SEPM research symposiums. The afternoon oral session will cover international emerging oil and gas plays and leading edge technologies used to identify emerging frontiers. A noteworthy event on Tuesday from 5:10 to 6 p.m. will be the AAPG ethics lecture: oil spills, ethics and society—how they intersect and where the responsibilities reside.
Wednesday, April 25. The morning oral sessions will include topics such as petroleum systems of the eastern hemisphere, carbonate reservoir characterization and even astrogeology. The afternoon oral session will cover microseismics, electromagnetic and remote sensing, and deciphering stratigraphic record through measurement and quantitative analysis.
Themed luncheons. There will be several themed luncheons during the conference, including the all-convention luncheon on Monday, DPA/Prowess and SEPM luncheons on Tuesday and the DEG and EMD luncheons on Wednesday.
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