AAPG International Conference
and Exhibition
26-29 October 2008 • Cape Town, South Africa
600+ global technical presentations • 30+ field trips, courses and networking events • global players from 60+ countries
Housing deadline extended to 15 September!
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Limited sponsorship to cover the full cost of registration, accommodation and meals, has been made available by Petroleum Agency SA to enable African nationals residing in African countries to attend the conference. Fully motivated applications outlining the need for sponsorship and signed by the CEO must be sent to David Broad via email or faxed to +27 21 938 3520. Applications will be evaluated for approval on a first-come first-served basis.
While there is a large part of the technical program that uses examples from the African oil and gas experience to bring lessons of global importance, this conference also looks at the larger issues of worldwide energy resources, the technology employed to image and extract them, the people it takes to successfully commercialize those reserves and how to minimize the impact on the environment in the process.
Multiple operators and basins are featured in this unique special core/poster session, including:
• A complete "Source to Sink" cored cross-section of the 14A Sequence from the Orange Basin of South Africa. This sequence was featured in Frank brown's pioneering AAPG Studies in Geology #41, "Sequence Stratigraphy in Offshore South African Basins" (1995).
• Cores from Angola Blocks 15 and 17, a world-class deepwater producing province with multiple billion-barrel oil fields.
• Cores available for inspection include a full spectrum of turbidite and debrite lithofacies deposited in confined-channel to distributive systems in African paleodeepwater basins.
• Seismic prediction of reservoir continuity and pre-drill net-to-gross estimates in African slope channel systems are greatly enhanced when calibrated with conventional core like.
• The core material highlights several hierarchical scales of erosion and deposition that influence sandstone amalgamation and the preservation of intervening shale-proneunits, thus impacting reservoir connectivity and oil field performance.
• Several of these cores have never before been shown outside of company and license-restricted venues.
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