Giant Discoveries I
Discovery Thinking Forum
Monday, 8 June 2020, 1:15 p.m.–5:05 p.m. | Houston, Texas
The “Discovery Thinking” Forum will be the twenty-second
presentation of the AAPG 100th Anniversary Committee’s
program recognizing “100 Who Made a Difference.” These
Forums, co-sponsored by AAPG’s Division of Professional
Affairs (DPA), will feature invited speakers who will describe
major and significant discoveries. We are pleased to announce
this Forum will continue at Houston ACE 2020 with four (or
more) very notable discovery presentations.
Each speaker and their colleagues overcame significant
business, technical, and professional challenges. Topics to be
discussed will include philosophy of exploration, stories from
remarkable careers, professional insights, colorful anecdotes,
and lessons learned on the path to success. As technology
advances and younger geoscientists enter our profession, the
organizers see continued interest in forums such as these.
These forums provide a venue for explorers to discuss the
personal side of success and what has been called the “art of
exploration.” As always, the audience is fortunate to hear the
speakers share abundant technical data and insights derived
from costly and hard-won experience.
AAPG offers many technical sessions. “Discovery Thinking”
forums fill an important gap in how technical and professional
skills combine to turn prospects into discoveries. Speakers are
encouraged to share personal stories about discoveries they
know well, to bring forward appropriate technical data, and to
address questions from the audience. As a resource to fellow
explorers, many previous Discovery Thinking presentations can
be found on the AAPG Search and Discovery website, under the
Special Collection tab.
This year, AAPG is pleased to present “Giant Discoveries I.”
Papers presented will be included in the upcoming AAPG Giant
Fields Memoir planned for publication in June 2021. Houston
is a center of pioneering spirit and well-positioned to feature
significant exploration discoveries around the globe. We will
focus on the science that brought about the discoveries and
also the prosperity they bring locally and globally.
Speakers:
- A Step-Change in Success Rates Finding Giant Stratigraphic Traps
in the Past 20 years: How 3-D Seismic and Petroleum Systems
Analysis has Created a ‘Game-Changer’ in New, Non-Structural
Plays: John C. Dolson
- Hunting Hidden Giants in a Mature Basin, North Platte and the
Inboard Lower Tertiary Play, US Gulf of Mexico Deepwater: John
Shinol, Kerry Inman, Tim Nicholson, James Painter,
Jim Farnsworth, Bryan Delph, James Geary, Jean-Marc Pince,
Jean-Yves Froute
- Keys to Unlocking the Frontier Pre-Salt Play in the Deepwater
Kwanza Basin of Offshore Angola: Tim Nicholson, Chris Olson,
John Shinol, Jim Farnsworth, James Painter, Art Saller, Lino Buambua
- The Giant Greater Tortue—Ahmeyim Discovery: Opening the
Mauritania—Senegal Deep-Water Gas Basin Tortue:
Dorie McGinnis, Jackie Reed Kosmos
- Pikka Field and the Opening of the Nanushuk Play, North Slope,
Alaska: Jesse Sommer, Bill Armstrong
- Johan Castberg — The First Giant Oil Discovery in the Barents Sea:
Ketil Sollid, Jan Ove Hansen, Leif Bjørnar Henriksen, Olaf Thießen,
Alf Ryseth Simon Knight, A. Groth
- Integrated Geology of the First Economical Unconventional Play
Outside North America—The Vaca Muerta Play (Argentina):
Daniel Minisini
- Field Growth in the Super Giant Wattenberg Field, Denver Basin,
Colorado: Steven Sonnenberg
Fee:
Included with registration
Co-Chairs:
Charles Sternbach, Robert Merrill,
and John Dolson
Venue
George R. Brown Convention Center
1001 Avenida De Las Americas
Houston,
Texas
77010
United States
(713) 853-8000