2012 32nd Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference
"New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of Continental Margins of the World"
December 2–5, 2012
Houston, Texas (Hotel to be Announced)
During the past decade, numerous discoveries have been made in many deep-water basins globally, as well as ongoing significant development of previous discoveries. With many new companies operating in deepwater globally, our goal is to assemble an outstanding, innovative technical program that summarizes the recent successes globally, and a CD-ROM with the conference proceedings.
We are soliciting papers that document some or all aspects of the petroleum systems of deep-water margins with major production and/or discoveries (source rocks, seals, generation, migration, reservoirs, and traps). We are interested in papers that address these specific elements in a field, discovery, emerging play or regional setting of a basin.
The conference will address current areas of active exploration/development, and emerging deep-water basins. Current deepwater basins of interest include northern Gulf of Mexico (including the emerging Paleogene and Mesozoic plays), Brazil (Santos, Campos, Sergipe-Alagoas, Espirto-Santo), West Africa (Angola, Congo, Gabon Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Morocco), eastern Mediterranean (Nile Delta, Levantine basin), west of Shetland Islands, Norway (recent discoveries), Indian subcontinent (Krishna Godavari), circum-Borneo (Baram Delta, northwest Borneo basin, Kutei/Makassar), northwest Shelf of Australia, and the Sakhalin Islands.
Emerging deep-water basins of the world: east Africa (Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Somalia), additional West Africa basins, Arctic basins (east- and west-Greenland, North Siberian Shelf, Beaufort Sea), southern Gulf of Mexico, north Africa (Algeria, Libya), eastern Canada (Scotian, Jeanne D'Arc), northern south America (Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname), Caribbean (Trinidad/Tobago), additional Brazilian basins, Argentina, Western India, Black Sea, and New Zealand basins.
Authors interested in presenting a paper at the conference should submit a preliminary title and 250-word abstract using our online submission form, or by email to one of the technical co-conveners.