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Under the theme ‘Taking Geoscience Beyond the Conventional‘, the GEO 2014 conference will address the following topics:
1. Engaging Future Generations
- The Talent Crisis and Strategies to Engage the “Gaming Generation”
- Improved Utilisation of Existing Staff and Methods to Accelerate the Development of Geologists Geophysicists
- Major Forces Impacting the Global Competition for Talent
- Partnerships with Academia
2. Reservoir Characterisation
- New Approaches to Reservoir Characterisation and Modeling
- Advancements in Geostatistical Methods
- Recovering and Identifying By-passed Hydrocarbons and Reservoir Compartments
- Developments in Reservoir Modeling
- Fluid Identification
- Reservoir Quality Prediction
- Rock Properties, Rock Typing
- Reservoir Quality and Outcrop Analogues
- Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
- Low Matrix Porosity Reservoirs
- Identifying and Recovering (EOR)
- Case Studies
3. Advances in Seismic
- Near Surface Challenges
- Multi-Component Seismic
- Seismic Attributes – Move to 3
- Simultaneous Seismic Data Acquisition
- Passive and Microseismic
- Thin Reservoir Detection – Move to 3
- Seismic Acquisition
- Processing and Imaging
- Quantitative Seismic Interpretation
- Seismic Inversion
- VSP & Well Bore Seismic
- 4D Seismic/Time Lapse
4. Advances in Non Seismic Technologies
- Joint Inversion
- Gravity and Magnetics
- Electro Magnetics
5. Integration and Next Generation Technologies
- Remote Sensing
- Multidisciplinary Studies
- Data Management & Integration
- Geosteering
- Reservoir Monitoring
- GIS Systems
- Real Time Visualisation (Advanced)
- Real-time Decision Making
- Accelerating the Transfer from R&D to Production
6. Petrophysics
- Lab Core Studies
- Rock Properties, Rock Typing
- Core to Log Calibration
- Reducing Uncertainty of Hydrocarbon Saturation
- LWD – Logging While Drilling
- Fracture Identification and Analysis
- Borehole Imaging
- Low Resistivity Pay
- Upscaling
7. Geological Studies and Basin Modeling
- Advances in Organic Chemistry
- Basin Modeling
- Petroleum Systems Analysis
- Models for Developed Fields
- Middle East: Tertiary, Mesozoic, Paleozoic Hydrocarbon Systems
- Middle East: Salt Exploration Plays
- Regional Geology of the Middle East
- Recent Depositional Systems
- Middle East Source Rock Systems
- Tectonic History
- Sequence Stratigraphic Studies
8. Exploration & Production
- New Exploration Concepts
- Risk and Portfolio Management in Exploration
- New Discoveries in the Middle East
- Breakthroughs in Reservoir Prediction
- Managing HP/HT Reservoirs
- Stratigraphic Traps
- Correlating Non-Fossiliferous Beds
- Analogues
- Carbonate and Clastic
- Stratigraphic Tools and Techniques
- New Geochemical Techniques
9. Harvesting Unconventional and Challenging Resources
- Tight Gas Reservoirs
- Heavy Oil
- Oil Shale
- Coal Bed Methane
- Basin Centered Gas (Deep Gas)
- Fractured Shale
- Shale Gas
- Fractured Basement
- Shale Oil
- Tight Oil Reservoirs
- Sour Gas
10. Roles and Responsibilities of Geoscience in the Environment and Safety
- CO2 Sequestration
- Waste Disposal
- Water Disposal and Acquisition
- Hazardous Waste
- H2S
- Shallow Drilling Hazards
- Pore Pressure Prediction
- Modern Marine Environments
- Well Tests and Flaring
11. Rift Basin Exploration
- Subsalt Imaging
- Structural Controls
- Outcrops to Subsurface
- Red Sea Drilling
- Red Sea Hydrocarbon Plays
- Rift Basin Analogues
12. Rock Physics
- Digital Rock Physics
- Carbonate Rock Physics
- Unconventional Rock Physics
- Mechanical Rock Properties
13. Integrated Case Studies
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