Events and Conferences
This page seeks to document conferences, meetings, fieldtrips, exhibitions etc that are related to the Petroleum Geology of North Africa. If you know of any events that are not advertised here, or would like to advertise your own event, please feel free to Email us.
Future Conferences
August 13-15, 2008, Halifax, Canada
Central Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference
Website link | Conference poster (pdf) | Information sheets (pdf)
21st-23rd October 2008, Tripoli, Libya
Fourth International Technology of Oil & Gas Forum and Exhibition (TOG2008)
TOG2008 is an open scientific arena that enables all interested academic and industrial rivals to compete through demonstrating their technological accomplishments in a warm welcoming atmosphere that characterizes the nature of Libyans life. The conference is backed by the Libyan Petroleum institute (LPI), supported by the National Oil Coproration (NOC).
Website link | Call for papers
26-29 October 2008, Cape Town, South Africa
AAPG International Conference and Exhibition
Cape Town, South Africa will host the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) 2008 International Conference and Exhibition, 26-29 October at the Cape Town International Convention Center. With a far-reaching technical program, world-class deep water sediment field trips, an extensive short course offering and the must-see Cape Peninsula and Cape Town, you won’t want to miss this event.
Includes: Gondwana and Pangean Petroleum Systems: Exploration, Development and Production — Emerging Plays, Lessons and Analogs
Website link | Conference information (pdf)
17-20th November 2008, Tripoli, Libya
Sedimentary basins of Libya.
The Earth Science society of Libya (ESSL), in collaboration with the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and the Libya Petroleum Institute, is planning to celebrate it's Golden Jubilee in 2008 by organizing the "Fourth Symposium on the Sedimentary Basins of Libya", which will be dedicated to the "Geology of Southern Libya", and will encompass the southern areas of Libya - Al Kufrah Basin, Murzuq Basin, Southern Sirt Basin, Al Qarqaf Arch and the Jabal Bin Ghanimah-Dur al Qussah areas. The aim of the symposium is to complement the previous three symposia that were organized jointly by NOC and ESSL and provide opportunities for Geoscientists working on these areas to exchange ideas, share knowledge and experience.
Includes a multidisiplinary approach, including themes; Sedimentary Rocks and Basin analysis, Source rock studies, Structure and Tectonics, Geophysical studies, Hydrogeological studies, Palaeoclimate and Environmental Geology, Remote sensing and Engineering Geology.
Website link | Second circular (pdf) | Conference field excursions | Education and training programme | Exhibition brochure | All conference registration forms
21-24 February 2009. Cairo University, Egypt
The third Grmena internation conference and exhibition on Oil and Gas Exploration
Website link
19-21 April 2006, London, UK
The Petroleum Systems of Saharan Africa
The Saharan conference (pdf), was held at the Geological society, London, co convened by the North Africa Research Group, and the Geological Society Petroleum Group. The 2 day event was a great success with over 110 attendees, and a waiting list on top of that! All talks were warmly received and general opinion suggested they were enjoyed as well. The 7 sessions included;
- Regional Perspectives
- Understanding Petroleum migration, (Basin studies 1 and 2)
- Developments in Stratigraphy
- Tectonic Controls on Petroleum Systems
- Reservoir Architecture and Depositional models
- Developments in exploration
- Trapping styles and Play types
Talks by the North Africa Research Group included;
- 3D modeling of continental mixed fluvial/aeolian systems integrating "LIDAR" digital outcrop images with high resolution sedimentology of fluvial facies: Upper Triassic, High Atlas, Morocco.
- Hydrocarbon Maturation history of the Ghadames Basin, North Africa: The influence of Exhumation and Erosion.
- Complex controls on facies architecture of Upper Triassic fluvio-aeolian sandstone reservoirs in NW Africa: lessons learned from outcrop studies in Morocco (Argana Valley) in comparison to subsurface data from Algeria.
- Mass - transport - complex and Channel - Levee system interaction: Examples from the offshore Nile Delta.
The conference drew people from exploration and production companies in the region, together with leading academic institutions and consultancy groups.
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