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Rifts Renaissance: Stretching the Crust and extending exploration frontiers

August 19 - 21, 2008
Museum of Natural Sciences IMAX Theater
Houston, Texas

Convenors:

Scot Fraser (Cobalt International Energy)
Mike Lentini (Cobalt International Energy)
Alastair Fraser (BP)
Rob Gawthorpe (Univ of Manchester)
Andrew Hurst (Univ of Aberdeen)
Dave Reynolds (ExxonMobil Exploration Co)
Tony Doré (StatoilHydro)
Robin Hamilton (Shell International E&P)

Link to GSL webpage

Conference Program

The Petroleum Group of the Geological Society of London and the Society for Sedimentary Geology are privileged to collaborate with the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences and acknowledge the support of co-sponsors to present this world-class 3-day international conference.

The conference "Rift renaissance: stretching the crust and extending exploration frontiers" provides an important technical forum to challenge rift model paradigms. These paradigms underpin the fundamental understanding and exploration of, pre-cursor rift basins and continental rift basins. Numerous aspects of crustal evolution and lithospheric extension models remain contentious and new sub-surface datasets have highlighted important apparent paradoxes. Heat flow, subsidence and passive margin formation are subject to both temporal and spatial anomalies related to rift processes. The technical program is uniquely constructed to share the most recent observations, interpretations and models from leading industry and academic contributors. The meeting will address the understanding of rift basins and constrain our comprehension of rift-related petroleum geology.

The international conference has attracted an outstanding caliber of technical papers from leading-edge scientists. The convenors are delighted to announce the 42 paper provisional program for the meeting and online registration, both available by accessing the links provided. Please note delegate numbers are restricted.

Keynote papers confirmed: -Gianretto Manatschal, Gwenn Péron-Pinvidic, César Ranero, Nick Kusznir and Ritske Huismans. In addition, industry papers from BP, BHP Billiton, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Cobalt International Energy, ExxonMobil, Hess Corporation, Husky Energy, Petrobras, Shell and StatoilHydro.