2014 LIPE & AAPG NorthernArabia Geoscience Conference

and ExhibitionNew Frontiers, New Challenges

27 – 29 May 2014

Hilton Beirut Habtoor Grand,Beirut, Lebanon

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS S u b m i s s i o n d e a d l i n e : 3 0 N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 3

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From the Conference Organizers:Under the leadership of Conference Co-Chairmen Wissam Chbat, Ministry of Energy and Water and the Lebanese Petroleum Administration and Fadi Nader, IFP Energy nouvelles, and the Technical Program Committee, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the Ministry of Energy and Water, Lebanonyou are invited to participate in the 2014 LIPE & AAPG Northern Arabia Geoscience Conference.

Submittal Instructions:All abstracts are to be submitted under a technical category. There is a character limit of 2,500 characters for the text of your submitted abstract. Please submit all abstracts, whether oral and/or poster online by following the instructions shown online or have questions, please contact Vicky Douglas via telephone: +971 4 3724201 or by email: vdouglas@aapg.org. The deadline for abstract submission is30 November 2013.

Exhibition:Parallel to the conference an exhibition will take place at the Hilton Beirut Habtoor Grand. A diverse collection of products, services and techniques will be on display.

Introduction from the ChairmenOn behalf of the organizing committee of the 2014 “LIPE & AAPG Northern Arabia Geoscience Conference”, we cordially invite you to join us in Beirut for this special conference and exhibition dedicated to geoscience in Northern Arabia and Lebanon. Since 2011, the Lebanon International Petroleum Exploration (LIPE) Forum and Exhibition has been a successful event providing a platform for government and industry delegates, consultants, and academic researchers. The various LIPE’s managed to display the phenomenal progress that the Lebanese Petroleum Administration achieved for its preparation for the first Lebanon offshore licensing round.

In 2014, together with AAPG Middle East we are moving one step further by hosting Lebanon in its Northern Arabia geo-context in order to enlarge the exchange platform provided by LIPE. The 2014 LIPE & AAPG Conference and Exhibition will tackle the current trends and challenges in the upstream throughout the Northern Arabian Region.

Several new discoveries have been announced in the last decade in the northern part of the Arabian region, encompassing conventional and unconventional reserves and in a variety of environments. Known resources and potential remaining undiscovered hydrocarbons in this region represent a’ game-changer’ in the global oil and gas markets. There remains very significant exploration potential in the region stretching from Turkey in the north to Saudi Arabia in the south. Northern Iraq’s E&P market is currently booming and is witnessing a huge surge in activity. This conference will therefore be a forum for geoscience discussion from Lebanon and other countries such as Syria, Jordan, Northern Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

The organizing committee has outlined an excellent program for the conference with a comprehensive list of topics, that we hope you will find appealing. We do hope that you will grasp this opportunity to be part of the conference by contributing and presenting your work, sharing your knowledge, hearing influential decision makers and executives and networking with other geoscientist from the region and the world.

We invite you to participate in this landmark event and we look forward to meeting you in Beirut.

Wissam E. Chbat (Ministry of Energy & Water and the Lebanese Petroleum Administration)Fadi H. Nader (IFP Energy nouvelles)

Conference organized by:

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1. Geoscience Challenges in Lebanon and Northern Arabia

• PartnershipswithAcademia• NationalResearchCentersandPublic

Institutions• TowardsRegionalR&DProjects• EnvironmentandSafety

2. Levant and Red Sea Exploration• NewPlays,LeadsandProspects• PetroleumSystemsfromSourcetoTraps• SourceRocks• AnalogueReservoirs• TrapMechanismsandTiming

3. Regional Geology and Resource Potential of Northern Arabia

• Geodynamics,TectonicstudiesandImpact on Resources

• SequenceStratigraphyandRegionalCorrelations

• DepositionalSystems• PetroleumSystems(e.g.Permo-

Triassic Kurrachine, Jurassic Plays, Late Ordovician Glacial Sediments)

• BasinAnalyses

4. Drilling and Production Challenges• DeepOffshoreDrillingandProduction• OnshoreOperations(WaterConstraint

Environments, Underbalanced Drilling etc.)• ProductionfromFracturedReservoirs• Productionfromintra-saltreservoirs

5. Unconventional Resources in Northern Arabia• TightGasReservoirs

• HeavyOil

• OilShale

• ShaleGas

6. Case Studies and Integrated Geophysical and Geological Techniques

• SubsaltSeismicImaging

• NewTechnologiesinSeismicProcessing

and Modeling

• Multi-ComponentSeismic

• PassiveSeismic

• NonSeismicMethods

7. Reservoir Studies in Northern Arabia• ReservoirCharacterizationandModeling

• GeostatisticalMethods

• Process-basedModelingofReservoir

Heterogeneities

• ReservoirQualityPrediction

• UpscalingMethods

• FluidIdentifications

• CaseStudies

8. Traps, Seals, Faults and Fracture Networks

• ConstrainingTimingofTraps

• TrapandSealIntegrity

• TrapGeometriesandFractures

Characterization

9. Innovative Technologies

• NewTechniques(Modeling,Downhole

Logging, Microseismic, 3D and 4D

Seismic, EOR etc)

• IntegratedTechnologies

• AcceleratingtheTransferfromR&Dto

Production

• TechnologiesforUnconventionals

10. New Play Concepts in Exploration

• NewExplorationConcepts

• NewDiscoveriesinNorthernArabia

and the Levant Region

• StratigraphicandUnconventional

Plays in Northern Arabia and the

Levant Region

11. Risk and Uncertainty Management

in Exploration

• RiskandUncertaintyModeling

• HistoryMatching

• ManagingHP/HTReservoirs

• CaseStudies

• PetroleumEconomics

12. HR Challenges for the Future

Petroleum Industry

• TalentCrisisandRecruitment

Strategies

• ImprovementofDevelopingStaff

• GlobalCompetitionforTalent

• IncreasingFemaleStaff

Call for Abstracts Technical Categories

Submission deadline: 30 November 2013

Co-Chairman Wissam ChbatMinistry of Energy& Water and the LebanesePetroleum Administration

Co-Chairman Fadi NaderIFP Energies nouvelles

Sa’id Al HajriAAPG Middle East President(2013-2015)

Lucient MontadertBeicip-Franlab

Ali HauwajDragon Oil

Les MorrisonEMGS

Waleed NasrLebanese Petroleum Administration

Per HelgePGS

Anton KoopmanShell

Ahmed Safa El-NakkadiSchlumberger

Ziad JehaSchlumberger

Simon HaddadTotal

Technical Program Committee

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