AAPG ERC Lisbon 2015
 
 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME - DAY 1

Monday 18th May 2015


Auditorium 2

09:00 Conference Opening from Co-Chairs, Nuno Pimentel, Lisbon University and Rui Pena dos Reis, University of Coimbra

AAPG European President's Welcome, Keith Gerdes, Shell
09:15-09:30 Welcome Address, António Costa Silva, Chairman of the Management Comission, PARTEX Oil and Gas

Welcome Address, Carlos Gomes da Silva, CEO Galp Energia 

Welcome Address, Paulo Carmona, President ENMC
09:30-10:00
Keynote TalkTectonic controls on deep-water rift basins and associated hydrocarbon potential, Adriano Viana, Petrobras
Atlantic Session
 10:00-10:20 Geology and Petroleum Exploration Play Concepts of the Central Atlantic Conjugate Margins (Nova Scotia – Essaouira-Agadir Morocco): Similarities and Differences - Atika Karim, ONHYM
 10:20-10:40 Central Atlantic Ocean-Continent Transition Structure, Continent Ocean Boundary Location and Crustal Type from OCTek Gravity Inversion - Nick Kusznir University of Liverpool
 10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
 11:00-11:20  

Crustal structure variations along the NW-African continental margin: a comparison of new and existing models from wide angle and reflection seismic data Frauke Klingelhoefer, Ifremer

 11:20-11:40 The Ireland-Newfoundland and Ireland-Southern Greenland Conjugate Margins: An Inverse Deformable Plate Kinematic Model Provides New Insights Into Hyper-extended Basin Development and Prospectivity - Bridget Ady, GeoArctic Ltd
 11:40-12:00 Revised Structural Evolution of the North Celtic Sea Basin, Offshore Ireland, Based on Modern 2D and 3D Seismic Data - Keith Byrne, University College Cork
 12:00-12:20 Geodynamic Assessment of Heat Flow Evolution in the Porcupine Basin, Irish Offshore - Damien Bonte, Utrecht University
 12:20-12:40 Paleocene exploration along the UK Atantic Margin, Nick Loizou, Department of Energy and Climate Change, London
 12:40-13:40 Lunch
 13:40-14:10 Keynote - Freakonomics of the Pre-Salt (offshore Brazil): a perspective of 10 years of exploration, Hugo Matias, Repsol
14:10-14:30 Moroccan Atlantic Margin: Petroleum systems and Play types - Asmae Benarchid ONHYM
14:30-14:50
Challenges in Characterisation of Jurassic Carbonates in an Underexplored Area- Paul Ramsey, Chariot Oil and Gas Ltd
14:50-15:10
Hunting Early Cretaceous clastic reservoirs along a complex “passive” margin. A multi-disciplinary source to sink study from the Atlantic Agadir-Essaouira Basin, Morocco - Tim Luber, University of Manchester
15:10-15:30
Chasing deepwater clastic reservoirs along the Atlantic margin of Morocco: importance of understanding the Early Cretaceous depositional systems on the basin margins - Angel Arantegui, University of Manchester
15:30-15:50
Siliciclastic Reservoir Developments in the Moroccan Atlantic Margin and the Tethys related Basins in the Mesozoic Erathem - Abdallah Ait Salem, ONHYM
15:50-16:20
 Coffee Break
16:20-16:40
Source Rock Potential of the Tarfaya Basin SW Morocco - Bandar Ghassal RWTH Aachen University
16:40-17:00
Evidence for Jurassic Deposition Over the Highly Extended Continental Crust of the Alentejo Basin (Offshore Portugal) - Carolina Liborio, Galp Energia
17:00-17:20
Assessing the hydrocarbon potential of the Peniche Basin, offshore Portugal - Abdul Karim Mansaray Repsol
17:20-17:40 The Cretaceous in the Alentejo Basin (Portugal): From the Delta Wedge to the Basin Floor Fan - Francisco Silva, Galp Energia
17:40-18:00
Dealing With Reservoir Uncertainties in Alentejo Frontier Basin: an Integrated Geological and Geophysical Approach - Teresa Martins, Galp Energia 
18:00-19:00
Poster Session and Drinks Reception
   
 

Auditorium 3

Unconventional Session
10:00-10:20
Looking for a New Player in Old Terranes – is there any shale gas potential in Southern Portugal? - José Sousa, Partex Oil and Gas
10:20-10:40
Organic geochemical results from the shales of the South Portuguese Zone, southern Portugal - Gabriel Barberes, University of Coimbra
10:40-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-11:20
Upper Devonian–Carboniferous Unconventional Gas Plays in Poland - Pawel Poprawa AGH Univ.of Sciences and Technology
11:20-11:40
Mesozoic Salt Tectonics of the Mid-Polish Trough, and its Control on Potential Unconventional Hydrocarbon System - Piotr Krzywiec, Institute of Geological Sciences
11:40-12:00
Shale gas potential of the north-central onshore area of the Baltic Basin - Przemyslaw Karcz, Polish Geological Institute
12:00-12:20
The use of multi-scale 3D models for exploration and evaluation of the shale gas resources in central part of the Baltic Basin, Poland - preliminary results - Bartosz Papiernik, AGH Univ. of Science and Technology
12:20-12:40
Raman Microspectroscopy of Carbonaceous Material in the South Portuguese Zone: Preliminary Results - Paulo Fernandes, Universidade do Algarve
 12:20-13:40 Lunch
 14:10-14:30 Lower Palaeozoic Oil and Gas Shales in te Baltic-Podlasie-Lublin Basin (Poland) - Pawel Poprawa, AGH University of Sciences and Technology
 14:30-14:50 Geological setting and reservoir heterogeneity of Lower Paleozoic shales in the Lublin Basin (Poland) and its impact on exploration -Jaroslaw Zacharski ORLEN Upstream

 14:50-15:10
Liassic Organic-rich Shales in the Peri-Tethys Area. Valid Targets for Unconventional Oil and Gas Exploration - Fivos Spathopoulos, Imperial College London
 15:10-15:30

Tectonics of the Lublin Basin and its impact on shale gas potential – results of seismic data interpretation, Piotr Krzywiec, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences

15:30-15:50
New Rock-Eval method for characterization of unconventional resources - Maria-Fernanda Romero-Sarmiento - IFP Energies Nouvelles
 15:50-16:20 Coffee Break
 Tethyan Session
16:20-16:40
How a Puzzling Set of Geological Features Challenge Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Black Sea Basin - Alexander Kitchka, Naftogaz of Ukraine
 16:40-17:00 The Mesozoic rifting of Alamein Basin (Western Desert, Egypt): 3D evidence of transtension in the Southern Tethyan margin - Pablo Rodríguez, Universitat Aut. de Barcelona
17:00-17:20
Seismic Imaging of the Eastern Algerian Margin off Jijel from Wide-angle and Seismic Reflection Data - Philippe Schnürle, Ifremer
17:20-17:40
Integrated interpretation reveals new Mesozoic play types in the southern and central Croatian Adriatic - Anna Marszalek Spectrum ASA


18:00-19:00
Poster Session and Exhibitor Reception
   
   

Room 4

10:00-10:20
Galkanysh: A Tethyan Super-Gaint Gas Field - Stephen Wright, Gaffney, Cline & Associates
10:20-10:40       
The Strike – Slip Faults Morphotectonic in The Foreland Belt –Iraq - Alaa Hamdon, University of Aberdeen
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:20
Vertical movements and Neogene propagation of the deformation in the Zagros Fold and Thrust Belt (Iran): insights from sections balancing and detrital low temp. thermochronology (U-Th/He on apatites and AFT) - Jean-Christophe Wrobel-Daveaum, Neftex
11:20-11:40

Black Sea Crustal Structure and Crustal Type from Integrated Quantitative Analysis of Deep Seismic and Gravity Anomaly Data Nick Kusznir University of Liverpool

11:40-12:00
A new structural model for the Europe-derived Jurassic Para-autochthonous of Lower Austria - Pablo Granado Institut de Recerca Geomodels
12:00-12:20
Mixing of primary microbial gas and thermogenic hydrocarbons; the Austrian Molasse Basin case study - Lukasz Pytlak, Montan University Leoben
 12:20-12:40 Ordovician Tight Gas Play in Tunisia, Ghadames Basin, North Africa - Habib Troudi, OMV Exploration & Production
12:40-13:40  Lunch
14:10-14:30
Regional uplift and basement deformation recorded by the Quaternary submarine terraces offshore Safi (Morocco margin) - Massinissa Benabdellouahed, Ifremer
14:30-14:50
The Carboniferous of the Bodón Unit (Cantabrian Zone; NW Spain): a case study on partly dolomitized mud-dominated platform sequences in a Paleo-Tethys foreland fold-and-thrust belt - Robin Honlet, KU Leuven
14:50-15:10
Reinterpreting the Paleosalinity and Water Depth of Peripheral Foreland Basin Flysch - Roger Higgs, Geoclastica Ltd
15:10-15:30
Eastern algerian offshore: Tectono-stratigraphy and Related Petroleum Systems - Mohamed Arab,Sonatrach/UBO-USTHB 
15:30-15:50 Vitrinite Reflectance and Thermal Modelling of the Late Cretaceous Magmatic Intrustion at Ponta das Ferrarias (Praia da Luz): Implications for the Regional Maturation of the Algarve Basin - Paulo Fernandes, Universidade do Algarve
15:50-16:20
Coffee Break
16:20-16:40
Fracture Potential of Evaporite Seals - Sérgio Esperancinha, Imperial College London
16:40-17:00
The tectonic paleogeography of the Tarim Basin (NW China) and its constrains to the hydrocarbon accumulation during the Middle and Late Caledonian - Bizhu He, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences
17:00-17:20
The Development of The Geological Structure of The Bengkulu Fore Arc Basin, Western Edge of Sundaland, Sumatra, and Its Relationship to Hydrocarbon Trapping Mechanism - Lauti Dwita Santy, Geological Survey Centre Indonesia


18:00-19:00 Poster Session and Exhibitor Reception
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