Date:
31 January - 01 February 2024
Event type:
Conference, Hybrid, Specialist Group
Organised by:
Geological Society Events, Energy Group
Venue:
Hybrid In person at Burlington House and Virtual via Zoom
Event status:
EVENT CLOSED
Registration has now closed for in person attendees, you may register for virtual attendance by contacting [email protected]
This Conference will now be taking place over two days (31 January 2024 – 1 February 2024)
North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean area is posed to be a critical global energy hub for the 21st Century. Unlocking oil and gas resources, developing CCS and new renewable energies such as offshore wind, hydrogen/helium, geothermal, and associated critical resources. But this is all dependent on improved understanding of the geology, which requires advances at various scales, from regional basin models to focused studies at the pore scale, to challenge long standing paradigms and develop new play concepts.
Could development of policies for more open data access drive significant advances by improving integration of new data acquisition with the regions vast amount of legacy data? How do we deliver the most sustainable exploration/development of hydrocarbon and also transfer expertise and knowledge into exploration for renewables? What are the business drivers for regional energy hubs and energy transition across the North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean area?
Key Themes:
1. Regional geology: challenging paradigms, new models for mature and frontier basins, tectonics and basin models, influence of the Messinian Salinity crisis on energy systems
2. New and developing plays: advantaged hydrocarbons, going deeper, biogenic sourced systems, unlocking carbonate plays.
3. Energy transition / net zero solutions: geothermal, wind, hydrogen, helium and critical minerals
4. CCS / CCUS: opportunities and challenges5.Data quality/interpretation: advances in enhanced subsurface imaging, role of AI and ML
5. Data access and management: unlocking legacy data, driving research, collaboration, knowledge exchange
6. Future energy trends, business drivers (Gas EMED hub), and energy transition
Call for abstracts
Please submit abstracts for oral and poster contributions to [email protected] by 29 September 2023. See downloads section on the right to view abstract guidelines.
Keynotes
Giovanni Bertotti – TuDelft/NARG
Lorenzo Meciani – ENI
Isabelle Moretti – University of Pau and the Pays de l'Adour
Yolanda Spisto – ExxonMobil
Andrew Latham – Wood Mackenzie
Convenors
Jonathan Redfern – University of Manchester
Ivan Fabuel-Perez – ExxonMobil
Claudia Bertoni – University of Oxford
Mahmoud Khattab – EGAS
Fabio Lottaroli – ENI
Lucien Montadert – BEICIP-FRANLAB
Mohamed Soussi – University of Tunis El Manar
Registration Fees
Registration has now closed for in-person attendees. You may register for virtual attendance by contacting [email protected]
|
In-person |
Virtual |
Fellow |
£200 |
£100
|
Non-Fellow |
£300 |
£150 |
Student Member
|
£25 |
FREE |
Student Non-Member
|
£50 |
£25 |
Speaker |
£175 |
£80 |
Corporate Patron |
£210 |
£110 |
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