AAPG 2018 Convention, Salt Lake City

Following the great success of the BGS booth at the AAPG 2017 annual convention and exhibition in Houston, BGS attended the AAPG 2018 Convention, this time in Salt Lake City (https://ace.aapg.org/2018).

 

The BGS team included:

• Jan Hennissen giving a talk 'Comparing the potential Bowland Shale play (Pennine Basin, UK) to the established Barnett Shale play (Fort Worth Basin, USA): A geochemical and palynological analysis of Mississippian (Carboniferous) mudstones'; 

• Oliver Wakefield presented a poster entitled 'Lithofacies control on deformation band frequency and geometry: example from the Sherwood Sandstone Group, UK';

• Tracey Gallagher provided information on BGS, in particular the core store, and the forthcoming NGR Core Scanning Facility.

The AAPG is attended by leading oil and gas companies, various national government departments concerned with mining and energy, many geological modelling organisations, and a number of universities from across the world.

 

BGS had a variety of visitors to the booth, including:

• Zoe Shipton (Chair of the Science Advisory Group for the UKGEOS project), who was pleased to see the BGS represented and promoting the Core Scanning facility


• Paul Wright  (PW Carbonate Geoscience & Nautilus (GTA)) enquired about holding more core store workshops


• Nesha Nurse from the Barbados Ministry of Energy and Mining inviting BGS to attend a convention in Barbados …


• We had enquiries about lithium data and hierarchical geological age codes for GIS applications – amongst other topics - and we also had visitors from last year's AAPG dropping by to say hello.   

Oliver and Jan also attended a number of talks and poster presentations. The technical presentations focused mostly on unconventional resources in the USA, with some dedicated sessions to unconventional resources globally. The UK was well represented with presentations from Jack Walker and Tom Fender (both BUFI and Newcastle University PhD students) focusing on the Bowland Shale, as well as Jan Hennissen (BGS).

 

Next year's AAPG Convention will be held in San Antonio, Texas; here's hoping the BGS will be represented again.

Tracey Gallagher, Oliver Wakefield & Jan Hennissen