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The 5th PESGB/HGS African Conference

Africa: The Elephants of the Future

 12 - 13 September 2006
QE2 Conference Centre, Westminster, London

The preliminary programme for this conference is as below. Further poster submissions are still welcome; please contact duncan.macgregor@neftex.com as soon as possible.

Tuesday 12 September 2006

08.30

Registration & Coffee

09.20

Welcome and Introduction

Chris Flavell - PESGB

Session 1

Mediterranean and East African Frontier Basins

09.30

Geological Evaluation of the East African Margin

Alan Collins and Andrea Pardon - Fugro Robertson 

09.55

The Rovuma Basin, northern Mozambique - A Revitalised Exploration Province.  The Petroleum Potential of Areas 2 and 5

B. Pilskog, B. Soderstrom, J. Averty & P. Gomes - Hydro

10.20

Seychelles and their place in the greater East Africa Petroleum System

C. J. Matchette-Downes - East Africa Exploration

10.45

Coffee and Poster Presentations

11.15

New Discoveries in the East African Rift System

Bob Cassie - formerly Hardman Resources, Chas Sheen, Ian Bulley, Justyn Wood - Hardman Resources and P. Burden - Tullow Oil

11.40

Oil and Gas Plays in the East Mediterranean

Evert Breman - Fugro Robertson B.V.

12.05

The Raven Story: A Play Fairway Opener in the Nile Delta

Mark Shann, P. Cook J. Siok, P. Butterworth, D. Cowper, T. Dodd and H. Matheson - BP Egypt

12.30

Lunch and Poster Presentations

Session 2

North African Reservoirs and Reserves

13.45

Keynote: Paleodynamics of the North African Plate Margin

Professor Gérard M. Stampfli - University of Lausanne 

14.10

The Application of Earth System Modelling to Source, Reservoir and Seal Facies Prediction on the African Margins: Examples from the Late Cretaceous of North and East Africa

Paul Markwick, John Jacques - GETECH, Paul Valdes- Univ. of Bristol and Roger Proctor - Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory

14.35

Correlation and Depositional History Recorded in the North Darag and Zaafarana Field, Gulf of Suez, Egypt

W.  W. Wornardt - Micro-Strat Inc.

15.00

Coffee and Poster Presentation

15.30

The remaining oil reserves of Libya, discovered and yet to find, categorised by petroleum province

D. D. Clark-Lowes and Don Hallett - Nubian Consulting

15.55

Hydrocarbon accumulations, reserves and future potential in the Pre-Upper Cretaceous and Basement reservoirs in the Sirt Basin - Libya

Talaat K. Barsoum - Exploration & Development Consultants

16.20

Occurence and distribution of Upper Triassic dolocretes: examples from the Oued Mya Basin and surrounding areas (Algeria)

Nordine Sabaou - BHPBilliton

16.45

Comparison between high and low sediment supply systems in deepwater clastic environments with examples from deepwater Mauritania

Jayne Bird, P. Ventris and N. Marshall - Woodside Energy Ltd

17.10

Keynote: The Petroleum Geology of Southern Libya (MOVIE)

Sebastian Lüning  -  Univ. of Bremen, N. Fello - Repsol Oil Operations and Y. Abutarruma - Earth Science Society of Libya

17.40

Evening Reception and Poster Presentations

Wednesday 13 September 2006

08.30

Registration & Coffee

Session 3

Sub-Saharan and Atlantic Frontier Basins

9.00

Basin Development Dynamic Framework for frontier exploration targeting in Sub-Saharan Africa

S. R. Lawrence, R. Bray and I. Hutchinson  - RPS Energy

9.25

The Bongor Basin in Chad: Characteristics of a frontier lacustrine petroleum system

Alistair Hill  - EnCana

9.50

Exploration Potential of the Republic of Mali

John Scott - Mali Petroleum

10.15

Diachronous Rifting: New evidence from CongoSpan deep PSDM reflectors

Steve Henry - Innovative Exploration Services, A. Danforth - Independent Exploration Consultant and S. Venkatraman - GX Technology

10.40

Coffee and Poster Presentations

11.10

Geometry and evolution of allochthonous salt sheets on the South Angolan margin

Ian Davison, P. Baptista - Earthmoves, S. Henry - Innovative Exploration Services, A. Danforth - Independent Exploration Consultant and S. Venkatraman - GX Technology

11.35

Exploration Potential of the deepwater Lüderitz basin, offshore Namibia

Adrian Robinson - Hunt Oil, C. J. Nolan - Serica Energy  and R. Swart - NAMCOR

12.00

Exploration Potential of the northern Orange Basin, offshore South Africa

David Van der Spuy - Petroleum Agency SA

12.25

Lunch and Poster Presentations

Session 4

Petroleum Systems of the Gulf of Guinea

13.45

Keynote:  Deep Structural Control of the Construction, Progradation and Hydrocarbon Occurrences of the Greater Niger Delta

Luc Saugy  - Independent Consultant

14.10

Insights into the Deepwater Stratigraphy and Structure of Offshore Nigeria from New Long-offset, Pre-stack Depth Migration Imaging

Barbara  Radovich - Silver Grass Enterprises, C. D. Connors - Washington & Lee Univ. A. Danforth - Independent Exploration Consultant and S. Venkatraman - GX Technology

14.35

Petroleum Systems of Rio Muni Basin, Equatorial Guinea

Wisley Martins, N. J. McCormack,  J. Clemson and J. Argent - Amerada Hess and A. S. Pepper

15.00

Coffee and Poster Presentations

15.30

Eastern Gulf of Guinea: Developing new plays and extending old ones

R. Bray, Owain Jackson and R. Kieft - RPS Energy

15.55

Campanian Hydrocarbon System, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa

Ken Nibbelink- Devon Energy Corporation

16.20

New Developments in the Tano Basin, eastern Côte d'Ivoire and western Ghana, West Africa

David Valasek, M. Kaminski, J. Molnar, G. Tari and G. Walters - Vanco Energy Company

16.45

African Gas: Models for Development

Andrew Hayman - IHS Energy

17.10

Closing Address

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