Geovani Christopher

For services rendered to the AAPG Asia Pacific Region as Student Chapter Manager since 2006

Agus M Ustad

For services rendered to the AAPG Asia Pacific Region as Website Manager since 2007

Guruh Ferdyanto

For services rendered to the AAPG Asia Pacific Region as Distinguished Lecturer/Visiting Geoscientist Manager since 2008

Vinay Sahay

For services rendered to the AAPG Asia Pacific Region as Student Chapter Assistant since 2008

Congratulations!!! We are very appreciative of your hard work and solid efforts.

Peter Baillie, Vice President, AAPG Asia Pacific, presenting a Certificate of Recognition to Geovani Christopher, Student Affairs Coordinator, Asia Pacific

Peter Baillie, Vice President, AAPG Asia Pacific, presenting a Certificate of Recognition to Agus Ustad, Webmaster for Asia Pacific website

The Presentations put forward by all the schools reflected the effort put in. Well done, Everyone.

The WINNER for the 2011 IBA Asia Pacific competition is :

CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY, THAILAND

who will represent the Asia Pacific Region at the 2011 AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition in Houston, Texas, 9 April 2011.  We wish them all the very best and we know they will do us proud.

Two schools received equal Honourable Mention:

KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY and CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM

Congratulations to the 3 schools and also to all the other Schools who did their best and worked very hard. They showed us what Teamwork is all about, and we here in the AAPG Asia Pacific Region are very proud of you!

Our thanks also go to the three Judges – Dr John Jacques of JMJ Petroleum, Singapore; Dr Mario Aurelio of the University of Philippines and Dr K K Liaw from BHP Billiton, Malaysia for their time and effort.

KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY

CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM

University of Indonesia

Institute of Technology Bandung - Indonesia

University Technology Petronas - Malaysia

Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, India

• Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (India)
• Khon Kaen University (Thailand)
• Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
• China University of Petroleum (China)
• Peking University (China)
• University Technology Petronas (Malaysia)
• Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
• University of Indonesia (Indonesia)

In this global competition, university teams analyze a dataset (geology, geophysics, land, economics, production infrastructure, and other relevant materials) in the eight (8) weeks prior to their local competition. Each team delivers their results in a 25 minute presentation to a panel of industry experts. Students have the chance to use real technology on a real dataset, receive the feedback from an industry panel, have the opportunity to impress potential employers in the audience, and the chance to win cash awards for their schools. The industry panel of judges will select the winning team on the basis of the technical quality, clarity and originality of its presentation. The judging will take place over 1-3 March 2011. We wish the Teams all the best!

More information can be obtained from www.aapg.org/iba

“Pore Pressure and Related Issues: Special Focus: Asia Pacific”

28-29 October 2010, Singapore

This inaugural 2-day workshop will examine pore pressure challenges in the petroleum industry, with a particular focus on the Asia Pacific region. It will consist of presentations, dynamic discussions, exciting cross-disciplinary perspectives on new developments and applications in pore pressure prediction and other related issues, with an emphasis on case studies in the Asia Pacific region.

Event Highlights

• Keynote Addresses from Richard Swarbrick, GeoPressure Technology and Nader Dutta, Schlumberger

• Presenters include Ong See Hong and Sanjeev Bordoloi from Geomi; Philip D Heppard from Conoco Phillips, Brent Couzens-Schulz from Shell, Andrew Buffin and Rex Butler from Senergy; Neil Goulty from Durham University, Peter Van Ruth from Woodside and Derek Buster from Baker Hughes

• Evening Icebreaker on 27 October and a group dinner on 28 October.
• Extra : Pre and Post Short Courses held alongside:

27 October: “Pore Pressure Prediction – Principles and Pitfalls” by Richard Swarbrick, GeoPressure Technololgy UK
30 October: “Petroleum GeoMechanics” by Dr Mark Tingay, Universityof Adelaide

Registration details will be up on the AAPG website soon.

www.aapg.org/gtw/PorePressureSingapore/index.cfm

Mark the page for upcoming full information on the event.

Sponsorship Opportunities are available – Benefit from exposure at this inaugural AAPG GTW event in the Asia Pacific!

If you wish to make a presentation, please submit a title, a short presentation summary and a short CV.

Contact: Adrienne Pereira, Programmes Manager, AAPG Asia Pacific-Singapore
Email: apereira@aapg.org Website : http://asiapacific.aapg.org /  www.aapg.org

Sign up by 30 July to present at the
in the first AAPG Asia Pacific Region GTW

The AAPG Asia Pacific Region will present a GTW (Geosciences Technology Workshop) in Singapore, 27-29 October 2010. The theme is “Pore Pressure Prediction: Special Focus — Asia Pacific”.

Be a part of this inaugural event by signing up to be a speaker!

The Asia-Pacific region is an area of extensive opportunity and capacity for growth in oil and gas production. However, the industry faces many challenges in finding and developing the region’s significant resources. The Asia-Pacific region contains some of the world’s deepest and most rapidly formed basins and associated high magnitude overpressures. Such extreme overpressures pose significant hazards for drilling, exploration, completions and production.

Experts on the theme are invited to make a presentation at the Workshop, or consider chairing a session. Presentations may be based on work you have previously published or can be new work. Submit a brief outline or Speaker nominations to Adrienne Pereira
before 30 July 2010.

Possible Session Themes:

• Pore Pressure Prediction: Asia-Pacific Case Studies
• Origin and Petrophysics of Overpressure
• Pore Pressure Prediction in High Pressure and High Temperature Settings
• Rock Mechanics Considerations for Production Geology
• Pore Pressure and Fluid Flow in Fractured Heterogeneous Reservoirs
• Completion and Production Issues in Over-Pressured Reservoirs
• Case Studies in Exploration and Development
• Lessons Learned
• Using Seismic in Pore Pressure Prediction

The format of the GTW involves brief presentations followed by informal discussions. The goal is to provide the kind of venue for small-group discussion with a combination of practitioners and theories, across disciplines (geochemistry, geology, geophysics, engineering), that are not currently readily available.

SPONSORSHIP PARTNERSHIP
Join us by being a sponsorship partner and enjoy the benefits of exposure at this event.
Please contact Adrienne Pereira to see how your organization can benefit.
Contact Adrienne Pereira for a Sponsorship Schedule.

The GTW will feature:

• cross-disciplinary discussions
• real-life applications
• connections between theory and application
• case studies
• lessons learned

A Preliminary Program of the GTW can be found online.

We look forward to sharing your expertise. Remember, if you are interested in being a presenter, please email Adrienne Pereira before 30 July 2010.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

You may already be aware of my presence in the Asia Pacific region to serve Members in any way I can — one primary function is to provide workshops and courses.

In order to do this, I would be grateful if you would provide me with a wish list of topics for education programmes, as well as information on possible presenters who can provide expertise for teaching courses for AAPG in this region.

To submit your Wish List: Please fill out this form and I will compile the data received and see how we can best fulfill members’ needs.

In addition, if you have a course you would like to teach yourself, we would love to see a proposal from you in order to build a collection of courses available in this region.

Our website provides guidelines for submitting Course Proposals.  You can choose from Short Courses, Field Seminars, Schools, GeoTours, or Training on Demand.  Proposals for courses to be considered as AAPG offerings should be sent to the Education  Director and/or the Education Manager at AAPG. They are evaluated by the Education Department, as well as the Education Committee of AAPG as to content, timeliness, and potential audience appeal. A response is then given to the instructor once a decision about the proposal has been made. If the course is approved, it will most likely be offered in the calendar year following acceptance.

There are two formats to choose from:

1. Conceptual: If you have an idea or “concept” about a course you’d like to teach, and want to find out if the committee would be receptive, you can submit a proposal to give us a brief outline of your idea;

1. Formal: If you have a full course you’ve developed and/or given before, and can include a lot more detail, you can submit the formal proposal. If you initially submit a “concept proposal”, and the committee likes your idea, you will most likely be asked to provide more detail by completing the “formal proposal” form for review by the entire committee.

I look forward to your input in making the AAPG presence strongly felt in our region.

Sincerely,

Adrienne  Pereira

Programs Manager
AAPG Asia Pacific Region – Singapore

p.s. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for further information or to share ideas.

• DL/VGP Manager – Guruh Ferdyanto
• Student Chapters/IBA Manager – Geovanni Kaeng
• Student Chapters – Vinay Sahay
• Young Professionals – Chandan Jaiswal
• Web Site Manager – Agus M. Ustad

Also listed for Honorable Mention was the Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia).

Dr. Joseph Lambiase, President of the Asia Pacific Region accepted the awards on their behalf. From all of us in the Asia Pacific region, Congratulations!

The winning team for the 2010 AAPG Imperial Barrel Award came from the Institut Francaise du Petrole (France), who won the top prize of US$20,000. (See photo). Second place went to the team from the University of Calgary, Canada, who won US$10,000. The King Fahd University, representing the Middle East Region came in third, winning US$5,000.

The remaining nine finalists each earned $1,000 in scholarship funds for their respective schools plus individual medals for themselves as IBA finals participants. The finals teams were (alphabetical order):

* Africa Region – Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
* Asia-Pacific Region – China University of Petroleum, Beijing.
* Latin America – EAFIT University, School of Geology, Medellin, Colombia.
* Eastern Section – West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va.
* Gulf Coast Section – University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
* Mid-Continent Section – Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Okla.
* Pacific Section – San Diego State University, San Diego.
* Rocky Mountain Section – Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colo.
* Southwest Section – University of Texas-El Paso.

The IBA program gives teams of students the chance to evaluate the petroleum potential of a sedimentary basin and to test their creative geological interpretations. Their work must be completed in a six-to-eight week period, with results presented to – and judged by – an independent panel of petroleum industry experts.

A total of 57 teams from 18 countries competed in this year’s IBA program.

Past IBA winners were teams from:

* 2009 – Moscow (Russia) State University, Moscow, Russia.
* 2008 – The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
* 2007 – The University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

For more information on the IBA program go online to www.aapg.org/iba

As the newly appointed AAPG representative for the Asia Pacific section, I will be present at the booth, together with other members as well as our AAPG student chapter from the University of Malaya. We aim to highlight to the industry the many services that AAPG offer, among them, our educational and training programmes. All information on the show can be found online.

We look forward to welcoming you to the event; we are at Booth B5A. I hope to meet many AAPG members then; do come and support AAPG!

Best regards,

Adrienne

Adrienne Pereira
Programmes Manager
AAPG Asia Pacific, Singapore