Theme 1:
Molecules to Marketplace: The Business of Energy
This theme will include business energy experts from domestic and
international companies who will discuss active oil and gas trends, price,
demand and advice on what might happen in the future.
Theme 2:
Global Deepwater Reservoirs: Giant Leaps in E&P
This theme will present state-of- the-art geoscience investigating
deepwater reservoir studies and deepwater depositional environments in
fields located offshore of the Gulf of Mexico and Africa.
Theme 3:
Worldwide E&P: Opportunities in the New Decade
This theme will cover exploration and production onshore or offshore.
It will include significant new plays and studies of geological trends from
countries of the world including Americas, Brazil, Middle East and Asia.
Theme 4: Challenged Resource Frontiers
Challenged Reservoirs will cover multidisciplinary aspects related to the
characterization, assessment and understanding of gas and oil resources
from less-than-conventional reservoir systems in both the U.S. and
international arena. We encourage contributions ranging in scale from
‘pore-throat to basin’.
Theme 5:
Mudstones and Shales: Unlocking the Promise
This comprehensive theme will include U.S. and international gas- and
oil-productive mudstone case studies, systems geology and geochemistry,
exploration, assessment and ranking techniques, reservoir characterization
and evaluation, and drilling and completion technologies.
Theme 6:
Siliciclastics: Advancing Research to Resource
This theme will cover all aspects of siliciclastic research and reservoir
characterization including, fluvial, shallow marine and deepwater settings,
diagenesis and reservoir modeling.
Theme 7:
Insight into Carbonates and Evaporites
This theme will include oral and poster sessions about carbonate and
evaporite research (ancient and modern), carbonate reservoirs, reservoir
modeling, seismic interpretation and oil and gas studies of carbonates.
Theme 8:
Breakthroughs: Tectonics, Salt and Basin Analysis
This theme will hold sessions concentrating on basin analysis, petroleum
systems and studies of structure and tectonics worldwide, including faulting
styles and salt tectonics..
Theme 9:
Integrating New Technology, Geophysics
and Subsurface Data
This theme will have abstracts and sessions relating to geology integrated
with geophysics and applied to exploration and production, including
surface and subsurface GIS mapping technology.
Theme 10:
Energy and Environmental Horizons:
This theme will have energy and environmental sessions important to today’s
natural resource and environmental geologists. Papers coordinated
by the AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division (EMD) will address alternative
energy resources. The Division of Environmental Geologists (DEG) will
coordinate papers on environmental geology.
Theme 11:
The Next Geo-Generation: Who, What and Where
This theme will explore the trends and dynamics of young professionals
(1-10 years) in the energy industry through an exciting speaker
program and poster sessions. Covered topics will include managing
career development, attracting and retaining geoscience staff and
forecasting new career pathways.