The hottest event of the season is about to begin.
APPEX,
AAPG's annual Prospect and Property Expo, will be held Sept.
14-16 in Houston at the George R. Brown Convention Center.
As with
the previous three Houston APPEX events, geoscientists will once
again have the chance to buy, sell and trade their work in a professional
marketplace.
The three-day
event is expected to attract up to 2,000 participants this year.
A new workshop
from IHS Energy specifically for independents titled "Tools and
Techniques for Assessing New-Country Entry," will be held Thursday,
Sept. 16, from 7:30-9 a.m.
Another
APPEX offering is a "Perspectives on the Upstream Business of Oil
and Gas" forum, also sponsored by IHS Energy around the theme "The
Exploration Dilemma: What is Exploration's Role in Shaping the Energy
Future?"
The forum,
set from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 14, will address
issues such as financial markets, technology, regulations, politics
and policies.
The forum
is the lead-up, of course, to the expo itself, which begins with
an Icebreaker at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 14 and offers the opportunity
to find and/or sell ideas, prospects and property.
Other APPEX
highlights include:
-
A "perspectives lunch" on Tuesday, Sept. 14, featuring a talk
by John Seitz, geologist and president of Houston-based Endeavour
International, "Who Will Discover the New Oil and Gas Fields?".
- A
"mini-breaker" at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 15.
- A
SIPES/HGS/AAPG short course, "Packaging and Selling Your Prospect:
Geoscience, Land and Financial Return -- A How-To Guide for Presenting
Prospects to Management and Investors," to be held from 1-5 p.m.
on Thursday, Sept. 16.
- Continental
breakfast available on both Sept. 15-16.
Best of
all, online registration and further updated information -- about
both attending and securing space on the exhibit floor -- can be
found at appex.aapg.org.