Hi Y’All,
Do you like rifts AND Texas? If so, this conference might be for you!
The 34th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, which will be held in Houston on January 25th-27th 2015, is entitled “Petroleum Systems in Rift Basins”. This conference is motivated by the observation that extensional and transtensional “rift” basins have been the target of petroleum exploration for nearly 200 years but that, as each of these basins is drilled, new findings continue to confound geoscientists. With advances in exploration, drilling and completion technologies, old, previously nonproductive basins are being re-examined, and it is our belief that a systematic petroleum system comparative analysis approach will help identify the key combination of elements and processes that result in an effective and exploitable petroleum system. This approach may help uncover new discoveries in currently non-productive basins and trends that can be developed with the insights from this conference and new technologies.
For this conference, we are soliciting papers that examine petroleum systems within rift basins regardless of stratigraphic or structural maturity. We are focusing on those systems sourced completely from within the synrift interval. However, because significant petroleum resources that are currently hosted within synrift or earliest postrift/sag basin reservoirs were sourced by prerift source rocks, we wish to include those types of systems as well. In a few instances, petroleum accumulations in prerift reservoir rocks are sourced by synrift source rocks. Papers on these systems are requested as well. For further information, please see the conference website (http://www.gcssepm.org/conference/2015_conference.htm)
Authors interested in presenting a paper at the conference should submit an abstract using the online abstract submission form or by email to one of the technical co-conveners; see here for details (http://www.gcssepm.org/conference/2015_conference.htm)
On behalf of the conference conveners,
Chris Jackson
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