2009 Annual Report - American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Table 1. 2006–2007 AAPG Distinguished Lectures
North America Distinguished Lectures International Distinguished Lectures
Steven L. Bachtel
ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas
“Seismic Stratigraphy of the Miocene-Pliocene Segitiga Platform, East
Natuna Sea Indonesia: The Origin, Growth, and Demise of an Isolated
Carbonate Platform”
Stephen Creaney
ExxonMobil Exploration Company, Houston, Texas
J. Ben Carsey Funded Distinguished Lecturer
“Global Petroleum Evaluation-The Role of Integrated Regional Analysis”
Timothy Dixon
University of Miami, Florida
(1) “Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans: Subsidence Measurements
from Space”
(2) “Crustal Deformation Near the San Andreas Fault: Estimating Elastic
Parameters of the Upper Crust With Space Geodesy”
Michael R. Hudec
Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
(1) “Advance Mechanisms of Allochthonous Salt Sheets: Implications for
Predicting Subsalt Pore Pressure”
(2) “Evolution of Suprasalt Minibasins in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico”
Jacob B. Lowenstern
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California
“Intrusion, Deformation and Degassing at the Yellowstone Caldera”
Jean-Laurent Mallet
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie, Nancy, France
Allan P. Bennison Funded Distinguished Lecturer
“Integrated Earth Modeling: From Seismic Interpretation to Flow Simulation
in Reservoirs”
Marian Warren
Encana, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Haas-Pratt Funded Distinguished Lecturer
(1) “An Exploration Case History: How We Made a High-Impact Gas
Discovery in a Maturing Basin (Western Canada)”
(2) “Extensional Faulting, Paleodrainage Patterns and Impact on
Hydrocarbon Reservoir Quality and Distribution During Foreland Basin
Subsidence: A Case Study from the Cretaceous of Alberta”
roster of lectures that demonstrate a
breadth of science to wide audiences.
The costs for the 2006–2007 domestic
and international tours were $214,668.
This included $96,741 for direct travel.
Income from host societies and
universities to partially defray the
expenses amounted to $41,883 with the
AAPG Foundation using its Distinguished
Lecture Fund to subsidize the remainder
of the incurred expenses.
The seven 2006–2007 domestic
Distinguished Lecturers provided a total
of 102 visits, reaching an audience of
5080 students and society members.
AAPG and SEG rotate responsibility for
the AAPG-SEG Inter-Society
Distinguished Lecturer. In 2006–2007,
SEG coordinated the tour for William
Fahmy, the selected speaker, visiting
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36 groups and reaching 1821 people.
Don Lawton was selected to be the
2007–2008 AAPG-SEG Inter-society
Distinguished Lecturer, which AAPG is
administering. This will be an international
tour for the joint lecturer. The title of his
talk is “Anisotropic Depth Imaging and
Interpretation in Thrust-Belt Exploration”.
The slate of domestic Distinguished
Lecturers for 2007–2008 (Table II) has
increased to a total of 9 for the year and
it looks to be a very successful year so
far with a total of 208 requests. As
usual, this number suggests that each
speaker will have a very hectic schedule
as he/she endeavors to broaden AAPG’s
impact in the geosciences.
The International Distinguished Lecture
program consisted of 4 speakers in
2006–2007 who also had very
James R. Markello
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, Texas–Middle East
Tour–January 15-February 9, 2007
(1) “The Carbonate Analogs Through Time (CATT) Hypothesis–A Systematic
and Predictive Look at Phanerozoic Carbonate Reservoirs”
(2) “Integrated Research for Carbonate Reservoirs–It is the Business
Question that Mandates the Multidisciplinary Integration”
Craig Shipp
Shell International Exploration and Production, Inc., Houston, Texas
Roy M.Huffington Funded Distinguished Lecturer
(1) “Significance and Recognition of Mass–Transport Deposits in Deepwater
Environments
(2) Where Offshore Drilling Meets Shallow Geology: Impact of Near–Surface
Depositional Systems on Deepwater Operations”
Henry Posamentier
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Houston, Texas
Dean A. McGee International Distinguished Lecturer
(1) “Imaging Elements of Depositional Systems from Shelf To Deep Basin
Using 3D Seismic Data: Implications for Exploration and Development”
(2) “Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Geomorphology of Deep Water
Deposits Based on Analysis of 3D Seismic Data: Reducing the Risk of
Lithology Prediction”
Mateu Esteban
Repsol YPF, Madrid, Spain
“The Burial of Carbonate Reservoirs: The Rest of the Story”
International Distinguished Instructor
Vitor Dos Santos Abreu III
ExxonMobil Exploration Company, Houston, Texas
“Sequence Stratigraphy for Petroleum Exploration”
successful tours. They made 44 stops in
Europe, the Middle East, Eastern/Central
Asia and Asia/Pacific reaching and
audience of 2310 geoscientists.
For the 2007–2008 year the slate
of international speakers has been
increased due to a continuous desire
from the regions for more speakers. We
are pleased to have 6 speakers traveling
through Asia/Pacific, Latin America, the
Middle East and Europe.
At the Houston Convention in 2005,
the then President-Elect Lee Billingsley
charged the DLC with a new program
referred to as Distinguished Instructors.
He asked the DLC to generate specific
lecturers who could present anywhere
from a half-day workshop to a
two-day short course. The DLC spent
considerable time at the Meeting