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Submission Deadline: 16 January 2025

The program committee is seeking abstracts for the themes and sub-themes listed below. They have particular interest in abstracts that highlight innovations in petroleum exploration in the Mediterranean and North Africa Region.

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Theme 1: Hydrocarbon Provinces in Mediterranean & North Africa

  • Hydrocarbon Provinces in Mediterranean & North Africa
  • Petroleum Systems & Play Risk Analysis in MEDiNA Frontier Basins
  • Untapped Trap Types in MEDiNA Frontier Basins
  • North Africa-South Europe Thrust Belt 
  • Western Mediterranean Basins
  • Adriatic and Ionian Basins
  • Sirte & Western Desert Basins
  • Gulf of Suez & Red Sea Basins
  • Nile Delta and East Mediterranean Basins
  • Pelagian-Tripolitana Basin
  • Triassic and Paleozoic Plays in Ghadames, Illizi and Murzuk Basins

Theme 2: Sedimentary Basin Geodynamics

  • Atlantic
  • Mediterranean
  • Red Sea 

Theme 3: Reservoir Geology & Development

  • Clastic, Carbonate and Mixed Systems
  • Reservoir Geometry (Based on Inversion and Sequence Stratigraphy)  
  • Reservoir Modeling & Development
  • Enhanced EOR in Mature and Depleted Fields
  • Reservoir Evaluation Challenges in the Mediterranean and North African Regions

Theme 4: Unconventional Hydrocarbon Plays

  • Tight Reservoirs/Plays
  • Shale Plays 

Theme 5: Hydrocarbon Trapping Mechanisms (Structural & Stratigraphic Styles)

  • Salt Tectonic Plays
  • Stratigraphic Reservoir (Reef, Unconformity etc) 

Theme 6: Peri-Mediterranean Thrust Plays

  • Foredeep Basin
  • Thrust Sheets
  • Sub-thrust Sheets 

Theme 7: Energy Transition 

  • Natural Hydrogen: Concepts, Regional Plays and Exploration Challenges
  • Solar: Advances, Challenges and Future Perspective
  • Geothermal

Theme 8:  Carbon and Energy Storage 

  • Underground Geological Storage
  • CO2 Storage and Sequestration
  • EMS – Energy Management Systems 

Theme 9: Advances in Geophysics

  • Seismic Challenges in Mediterranean and North African Frontier Basins
  • Latest Developments in Seismic Acquisition Technology Onshore and Offshore
  • Is Nodal Ready to Replace Cable Data Acquisition?
  • Low Frequency Vibroseis, What are the Advantages and What is Possible?
  • Sensor Technologies and Capabilities for Land and Marine Seismic
  • Achieving Adequate Real Time Field QC with Nodal Technologies
  • Application of Non-Seismic Methods in Exploration
  • Input of MultClient Seismic Acquisition in Frontier Basins – What is Available, What is Required?
  • Development in Seismic Data Processing and Imaging

Theme 10: Advances in Drilling and Borehole Integrity

  • Geology and Geophysics
  • Image Logs & Geomechanics
  • High Pressure Stimulation
  • G&G Input and Limitations of “Slim Holes” in Frontier Basins  

Theme 11: Advances in QHSE

  • Onshore
  • Offshore
  • Sour Gas Management 

Theme 12: AI Technologies

  • Global Data Management
  • Input and Methods
  • Deep Learning in Geophysics

Theme 13: Investment Opportunities in MEDiNA Frontier Basins

  • Regulation and Legislative Framework
  • Gas Potential
  • Challenges: Infrastructure Gaps, Access to Finance