Here are our posters winners during the conference:
Professional Posters:
3RD: An Integrated Stratigraphic Framework and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of the Southern African Offshore Basins - Jean A. Malan, Getech Group, Petroleum Agency South Africa
2ND TIE:Integrated interpretation of basement structure in the Benin Basin using Falcon gravity gradient magnetic data - Dr. Janine Weber, CGG
2ND TIE:Pleistocene Stratigraphic History of Lake Tanganyika, and influence of upstream rift lakes Kivu and Rukwa - Dr. Christopher Scholz, Syracuse University, NY
1ST: Refinements to chronostratigraphy of Cretaceous anoxic events from the southern South Atlantic conjugate margin (Falkland segment-Africa): comparison of six DSDP sites - Dr. Sudeep Kanungo/Dr. Eiich Setoyama, University of Utah
Student Posters:
3RD: South Atlantic Conjugate Margins: The Significance of Pre-Rift Western Gondwanan Orogenic Domains on Syn-rift Infill. - Kyle Reuber, University of Houston, TX
2ND: Gravity modeling of the flexural response of loading of the Niger and Amazon deltas onto their underlying thinned continental and oceanic crust - Rasheed Ajala, University of Houston, TX
1ST: South Atlantic Conjugate Margins: The Significance of Pre-Rift Western Gondwanan Orogenic Domains on Syn-rift Infill. - Andrew Steier, University of Houston, TX
Oral Session:
3RD: Somalia Offshore-East Africa’s Frontier Oil Province - Neil Hodgson, Spectrum Multi-Client UK
2ND: Petroleum System Analysis of the Deepwater Mauritania/Senegal Basin - Tracey Henderson, Kosmos
1ST: Senegal-The Emergence of a Major New Hydrocarbon Province - Jon Keall, Cath Norman, Peter Nicholls, Simon Horan, Thong Huynh and Igor Effimoff, FAR Limited
The Houston Geological Society and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain (PESGB) achieved a fifteen year milestone with their joint two day conference, September 13 -14, at the Westin Houston Memorial City, attended by over 300 geoscientists. The conference also included two short courses held September 12 and a dinner meeting lecture by Dr Andrew Nyblade of Penn State. The short courses were taught by Dr Duncan MacGregor , and Ian Davison.
Credit for the success of the Africa Conference goes to General Chair and HGS President John Jordan, and co-chair Andrea Peoples, HGS Office Manager , for the successful rollout of two days of talks, exhibits and vendor seismic presentations. The conference committee included: Phil Towle, Technical Chair, and advisors Al Danforth, Ian Poyntz, and Peter Mullin. Session chairs included Bill Dickson, Craig Schiefelbein, Carol Law, Joan Flinch, Katrina Coterill, Pratt Barndollar, and Richard Ramirez. Many more people helped judge talks and posters and contributed to the Africa Conference; thanks to them for their help! Big thanks to the conference corporate sponsors: Noble Energy, Global Data, ION Geophysical, Casmar CO2 ,Burmah Oil and IKON.
The next Africa Conference will be August 31 to September 1, 2017, in London England, at the Business Design Centre. Send 2017 abstract proposals to Helen Doran at Helen.doran@opfir-energy.com to be a speaker at the next Africa Conference.
See Photos from the conference here: http://www.hgs.org/multimedia_PhotoAlbums