Three Lecturers to Hit the Road
U.S., International Visits Set
AAPG's Distinguished Lecture program will
have three speakers on tour in October, including some U.S. and
Canadian talks by this year's AAPG-SEG speaker.
Heloise Lynn, an AAPG member with Lynn Inc., in Houston,
will make four lectures this month as the fifth speaker in the joint
inter-society lecture series. Her tour is being coordinated by SEG.
Her topic is "The Winds of Change: Anisotropic Rocks
— Their Preferred Direction of Fluid Flow and Their Associated
Seismic Signatures," and her schedule is:
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AAPG's Distinguished Lecture program will
have three speakers on tour in October, including some U.S. and
Canadian talks by this year's AAPG-SEG speaker.
Heloise Lynn, an AAPG member with Lynn Inc., in Houston,
will make four lectures this month as the fifth speaker in the joint
inter-society lecture series. Her tour is being coordinated by SEG.
Her topic is "The Winds of Change: Anisotropic Rocks
— Their Preferred Direction of Fluid Flow and Their Associated
Seismic Signatures," and her schedule is:
- Oct. 18 — University of Alberta, Canada.
- Oct. 19 — CSEG, Calgary, Canada.
- Oct. 21 — Dallas Geophysical Society.
- Geophysical Society of Houston.
Also this month will be the U.S. tour of Abdulkader
M. Afifi and the international tour of Robert
S. "Bo" Tye, this year's Roy M. Huffington Distinguished Lecturer.
Afifi's tour is being subsidized by Saudi Aramco
and ExxonMobil. He is senior geological consultant-upstream ventures
department, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. His topics are:
- "Ghawar: Anatomy of the World's Largest
Oil Field."
- "Paleozoic Hydrocarbon Habitat in the
Arabian Plate."
Afifi starts his tour Oct. 1 in Denver. The remainder
of his schedule is:
- Oct. 4 — New Orleans Geological Society.
- Oct. 5 — Tulsa Geological Society.
- Oct. 7 — Arizona Geological Society
and the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.
- Oct. 11 — Houston Geological Society.
Tye's international tour, supported by contributions
from the Huffington family in honor of the oilman-geologist, started
in late September and already has made stops in Korea, China and
Thailand.
His talks are:
- "Alluvial Basin Filling Processes and Quantitative Determination
of Channel and Channel-Belt Dimensions Using Cores and Logs."
- "Reservoir Description and Unique Horizontal-Well
Designs Boost Primary and EOR Production From the Fluvio-Deltaic
Prudhoe Bay Field, Alaska."
His schedule this month is:
- Oct. 5 — University of Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan.
- Oct. 7 — Petronas and the Geological
Society of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
- Oct. 11-12 — Various groups in Jakarta,
Indonesia, including the Indonesian Petroleum Association in Balikpapan
and Jakarta.
- Oct. 14 — PESA, Perth, Australia.
- Oct. 18 — Crown Minerals Group, Wellington,
New Zealand.
- Oct. 20 — JAPT, Tokyo, Japan.
Other dates and speakers may be added.