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Monday, 10 May 2023, Regal Heights
8:00 1:00:00 9:00 Registration
9:00 0:05:00 9:05 HSE Briefing 9:05 0:05:00 9:10 Welcome by SEG 9:10 0:15:00 9:25 Welcome by Mr Sameh Sabry 9:25 0:15:00 9:40 Welcome by Dr Samir Raslan 9:40 0:15:00 9:55 Opening by MOP Panel 1 Session Chairs: 9:55 1:30:00 11:25 Panel 1: Challenges and opportunities in the Mediterranean 11:25 0:20:00 11:45 Committee and Sponsor Recognition 11:45 0:10:00 11:55 Group Photo 11:55 0:15:00 12:10 Coffee Break - 15 min Panel 2 Session Chairs: 12:10 1:30:00 13:40 Panel 2: How to unlock future potential in the Mediterranean 13:40 1:00:00 14:40 Lunch - 1hr Session 1 Regional tectonostratgraphic framework Part 1 Session Chairs: 14:40 0:20:00 15:00 Ahmed Abdel Aal Geological Consultant East Mediterranean Basin Architecture and its Impact on Future Cretaceous Carbonate Buildup Plays, Offshore Egypt 15:00 0:20:00 15:20 Mohamed Radwan Egypt Upstream Gateway Carbonates Buildup Distribution & Its Regional Seismic Significance, Levantine basin, East Mediterranean, Egypt 15:20 0:20:00 15:40 Mahmoud khattab EGAS East Mediteranean, Egypt, Whereis the next Giant Carbonate Build Up Gas Discovery? 15:40 0:30:00 16:10 Discussion - 30 min 16:10 0:15:00 16:25 Coffee Break - 15 min Session 2 Regional tectonostratgraphic framework Part 2 Session Chairs: 16:25 0:20:00 16:45 Woody Wilson BP Integrated tectonic controls on basin evolution and critical play elements in the Eastern Mediterranean 16:45 0:20:00 17:05 Mohamed Ali Elgamoudi Mellitah Oil and Gas Company Studying the geometry and boundaries of carbonate build up using Seismic attributes in NC41 offshore Libya Oligo-Miocene Reservoir Characterization and Seismic Response of the Lithology / Fluid Content, Deep Marine Offshore Eastern 17:05 0:20:00 17:25 Mahmmoud Said Eloribi 1 Tanta University Mediterranean Region 17:25 0:30:00 17:55 Discussion - 30 min End of Day 1 18:00 2:00:00 20:00 Ice Breaker Reception Tuesday, 9 May 2023, Regal Heights Session 3 Exploration fundamentals Session Chairs: 9:00 0:20:00 9:20 Amir Omar BP Spatial and temporal variations of the Pre-Messinian deep water systems offshore Nile Delta using rapid interpretation workflows 9:20 0:20:00 9:40 Gihan El-Bakry Consultant Regional Understanding of The Petroleum Systems in The Mediterranean Basin, Offshore Egypt 9:40 0:20:00 10:00 Megan Stearman Chevron Interdisciplinary Approach to Reservoir Surveillance in the Levant Basin 10:00 0:20:00 10:20 Mark Hamilton PGS Exploration potential in Egypt’s frontier west Mediterranean Sea 10:20 0:30:00 10:50 Discussion - 30 min 10:50 0:10:00 11:00 Coffee Break and Poster - 45 min Poster Session 1 Exploration fundamentals Session Chairs: 11:00 0:05:00 11:05 Emily Foley Hansen Woodside Energy Predicting source rock maturity and charge access risk in an active rift: An integrated 3D basin model in the Egyptian Red Sea University M'Hamed Bougara Pore pressure and in-situ stress magnitudes with Image Log Processing and Geological Interpretation in the Haoud Berkaoui hydrocarbon 11:05 0:05:00 11:10 Rafik Baouche Boumerdes field, northeastern Algerian Sahara 11:10 0:05:00 11:15 Ahmad Alzaruk SLB Geophysical Investigations of a Subsurface Structural Anomaly, Gullebi Field, Ghadames Basin, Libya Mohamed Salaheldin A new method for characterization of biogenic and thermogenic Source rocks in petroleum exploration. Examples from East 11:15 0:05:00 11:20 Khalda Petroleum Company Fagelnour Mediterranean and Western Desert of Egypt Ahmed Mohamed Abu El- 11:20 0:05:00 11:25 Belayim Petroleum company The role of Direct Hydrocarbon Indictors (DHIs) and advanced seismic techniques for discovering gas fields in Nile Delta, Egypt Saoud Pitfalls of the Direct Hydrocarbon Indicator (DHI) Assessment in Early Prospecting Miocene Structure Offshore Eastern Mediterranean, 11:25 0:05:00 11:30 Mahmmoud Said Eloribi Tanta University Egypt 11:30 0:05:00 11:35 Mohamed Radwan Egypt Upstream Gateway Unlocking Deeper Hydrocarbon Potentiality by Regional Seismic Gas Chimneys Modeling, Mediterranean, Egypt Session 4 Geological evolution from Tethys to Mediterranean Session Chairs: Adel Moustafa & Ahmed Al Cairo University & Ain Shams 11:35 0:20:00 11:55 TBC Barkooky University 11:55 0:20:00 12:15 Emily Foley Hansen Woodside Energy The Western Desert petroleum system and implications for future exploration in the Herodotus Basin, Egypt 12:15 0:20:00 12:35 Michael Gardosh Israel Ministry of Energy New Exploration Play Concepts in the Levant Basin Offshore Israel 12:35 0:30:00 13:05 Discussion - 30 min 13:05 1:00:00 14:05 Lunch - 1hr Session 5 New seismic acquisition technologies Part 1 Session Chairs: 14:05 0:20:00 14:25 James Southgate BP A First in the Nile Delta – The Atoll and Atoll North ROV Ocean Bottom Nodes Survey 14:25 0:20:00 14:45 Constantine Tsingas Saudi Aramco A novel seabed acquisition technology using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Mostafa Mahmoud Mostafa Pharaonic Petroleum Co. (BP 14:45 0:20:00 15:05 Why OBN in Atoll? The challenge to delivering gas in the Pre-Messinian using legacy data Youseif Egypt JV) 15:05 0:30:00 15:35 Discussion - 30 min 15:35 0:15:00 15:50 Coffee Break and Poster - 45 min Poster Session 2 New seismic acquisition and processing technologies Session Chairs: 15:50 0:05:00 15:55 Denes Vigh SLB Multi-parameter Full waveform inversion addressing the complex geological challenges in the Gulf of Suez 15:55 0:05:00 16:00 Ahmed Hosny Abdulfadeel Rashpetco Successful story of the First Time-Lapse survey in Mediterranean Sea, Offshore Egypt 16:00 0:05:00 16:05 Marwa Elbadry SLB Automation in full-waveform inversion: A way forward 16:05 0:05:00 16:10 Islam Ali Mohamed Rashpetco How to Obtain an Accurate Seismic Inversion despite the Lack of Data? IIT (Indian School of Mines) 16:10 0:05:00 16:15 Aditya Chowdhury Application of Full Waveform Inversion in Coal Bed Methane Exploration Dhanbad Session 6 New seismic acquisition technologies Part 2 Session Chairs: 16:15 0:20:00 16:35 Martin Widmaier PGS Key advances in marine seismic acquisition technology in the Mediterranean revisited and the road ahead 16:35 0:20:00 16:55 Christian EL RAHI TotalEnergies Experience of Hybrid Multiclient Seismic Acquisition/Processing in a Frontier Area 16:55 0:20:00 17:15 Mokhtar Raafat PGS New MultiClient 3D Multisensor Streamer Seismic Data Acquisition And Processing Campaign, Over The Mediterranean West of Egypt 17:15 0:30:00 17:45 Discussion - 30 min End of Day 2 Wednesday, 10 May 2023, Regal Heights Session 7 Digitalization, Data analytics and AI Session Chairs: 9:00 0:20:00 9:20 Andrea Murineddu SLB Advancing towards automated seismic reservoir characterization Unsupervised and Supervised Machine Learning, Application for extracting a deep marine channel gas sand, Off Shore Mediterranean, 9:20 0:20:00 9:40 Ali Mohamed Ali Bakr Rockserv Egypt Earth Resource Management 9:40 0:20:00 10:00 Luc Sandjivy "EARTH INTELLIGENCE®” For Best Solving Exploration Structural Issues : A Case History SERVICES Artificial Intelligence-assisted Seismic Mapping of Mediterranean Complex Turbidite Reservoirs Depositional Architectures for Effective 10:00 0:20:00 10:20 Ahmed Hafez Abdel Aziz Ain Shams University Gas Exploration and Development 10:20 0:30:00 10:50 Discussion - 30 min 10:50 0:15:00 11:05 Coffee Break and Poster - 45 min Poster Session 3 DigitalizationI & Regional tectonostratgraphic framework Session Chairs: 11:05 0:05:00 11:10 Antoine THOMAS Seisnetics Accelerating exploration for gas accumulations using a genetic algorithm to spot the outliers on 3D seismic 11:10 0:05:00 11:15 Ahmed Hosny Abdulfadeel Rashpetco Accurate Velocity Model Building Using Machine Learning Approach – A Case Study from Offshore Nile Delta Ahmed Ashraf Rushdy 11:15 0:05:00 11:20 Baker Hughes Geomechanics Lessons on Hole Stability Management in Kafr El Sheikh shale: Experience from Mediterranean, Egypt Mohamed Baghdadi 11:20 0:05:00 11:25 Teresa Castro Woodside Energy Machine learning denoised data & seismic attribute workflow applied to characterize a Jurassic carbonate ramp in West Mediterranean. Implications of Machine Learning and Multiresolution Analysis for Frontier Hydrocarbon Gas Exploration: Prediction of Reservoir 11:25 0:05:00 11:30 Abdelmoneam Raef Kansas State University Lithofacies, Bindley Field, Kansas, USA Gulf of Suez Petroleum 11:30 0:05:00 11:35 Ahmed A. Kassem Primary and Secondary Controls on the Siliciclastic Reservoir Quality of the Cenomanian-Santonian Sediments, Northeastern Africa Company (GUPCO) 11:35 0:05:00 11:40 Salah El-Ekhfifi NOC Libya Case Studies& Review Of The Petroleum System Evaluation In The Miocene Succession Of The Tethys Basin Of The Mediterranean Region Session 8 Net- Zero Exploration Session Chairs: 11:40 0:20:00 12:00 Jonathan Craig ENI Energy Super Basins and Advantaged Hydrocarbons – a Future for exploration? Scolty Energy Consulting - 12:00 0:20:00 12:20 Bernard P Laugier Unsupervised AI integration toward an efficient timeline reduction in a successful CCUS planning and monitoring process Seisnetics 12:20 0:20:00 12:40 Mahmoud Abu Shabana SLB A regional carbon capture and storage screening study: Offshore Nile Delta, Egypt. 12:40 0:30:00 13:10 Discussion - 30 min 13:10 1:00:00 14:10 Lunch - 1hr Session 9 New seismic processing technologies Session Chairs: 14:10 0:20:00 14:30 Dale Baptiste BP High fidelity model building and imaging using High Frequency FWI and Q imaging to resolve subsurface challenges in the East Nile Delta 14:30 0:20:00 14:50 Mena Farid Ramzy CGG Advances in seismic imaging in the Nile Delta and Mediterranean Sea 14:50 0:20:00 15:10 Dominic Lawrance BP Ocean Bottom Node Processing, Providing A Step Change In Image Quality At Atoll 15:10 0:20:00 15:30 Kai Zhang Chevron Advanced Seismic Reprocessing Led to Optimized Well Placement for the Nargis Discovery 15:30 0:30:00 16:00 Discussion - 30 min 16:00 0:15:00 16:15 Closing by Committee Co-Chairs End of Day 3