Archives: 'August, 2008'

Borneo Deltas: Challenging the Models

(and implications for deltaic reservoirs in SE Asia) by Joseph J Lambiase. Traditional delta models maintain that: 1) shoreline and sand body geometry and facies distribution reflect dominant hydrodynamic processes, 2) retrogradational stratigraphic successions are rarely, if ever, preserved, 3) reservoir quality is best in progradational, topset sands,... [Read more of this news]

S. Tariq Hasany: Visiting Geologist for Karachi, Pakistan

S. Tariq Hasany visited Department of Geology, Federal Urdu University of Science and Technology (FUUST) Karachi, Pakistan on Saturday, August 9, 2008. He gave two topics, “Petroleum System and Processes” and “Career in Petroleum Geosciences”. The participants in both lectures were about 60 (58 students and 2 faculty members). This... [Read more of this news]

UNSRI SC AAPG Mid Year Report 2008

UNSRI SC AAPG INTRODUCTION First of all, we would like to praise God the almighty for enabling University of Sriwijaya Student Chapter of American Association of Petroleum Geologists (UNSRI SC of AAPG) to submit the Mid Year Report 2008 on our activities program in this year. As the AAPG main purpose that the student chapter organizations to help students... [Read more of this news]

AAPG Asia Pacific Region Election Results

The voting for the AAPG Asia Pacific region officer was closed on Friday, 11 July, 2008. The new officers name have been announced on 15 July for 3 years term, from 15 July 2008 to 30 June 2011. President: Joe Lambiase Vice President Peter Baillie Secretary: Abul (Shams) Shamsuddin Treasurer: Michael McWalter House of Delegates: Click here  Read More →

Christian J. Heine: Visiting Geologist for Beijing, China

Christian J. Heine had three pre-arranged visits while he was in Beijing on July 6th – 11th. He visited The China University of Geosciences (over 50 attendees) on Monday the 7th and The China University of Petroleum (around ~100 attendees) on the 10th. Sinopec Research Institute (40 invited guests) was visited on the 10th. The visits to the Universities... [Read more of this news]