ETAP
organized, under the topic “New Hydrocarbon
Exploration Targets & Gas Development
Challenges”, the 11th Tunisian Petroleum
Exploration and
Production Conference in Tunisia from 13th
to 18th October , 2008 at the hotel
ELMOURADI – Gammarth , Tunis.
The main objectives of this conference were:
• To promote Hydrocarbons sector and draw up
a balance sheet in Tunisia;
• To exchange ideas and experiments between
the professionals of the sector
• To actualize geological and geophysical
information about Tunisia subsurface, gas
objectives, deep targets…
• To improve knowledge in the oil and gas
fields.
PARTICIPATION
The EPC 2008 has been well supported by
prominent speakers and a large
number of participants (more than 950
participants) from the Oil and Gas
industry including.
International Oil Companies, Maghrebian
National Companies, Universities,
Consultants, Services Companies and Others:
AL Thani, Alpine Oil and Gas, APEX, BGT LTD,
Circle Oil, CNPCI, Cooper,
Derwent, ENI, Medex, Eurogas, Exxoil, Falcan,
Fapco Ltd., GAIA srl, GB
Petroleum, Grove Energy, HBS, HTC,
Independent Resources, Joint Oil,
Kufpec, Med Oil, Mutsibushi, PA Resources
Tunisia, Perenco, Petrovietnam,
Pioneer, Range Petroleum Ltd.Rigo Oil
Company Ltd., Smip, Storm Ventures,
Supex Ltd., Talisman, Tethys, Tgs-Nopec,
TIMGAD, Vietsovpetro, Dualex
Energy, Petrocanada, Canadian Superior, MC
Ginnis Consulting, KGOUP,
Sclumberger, PGS Geophysicals, Halliburton,
Chemostrat, Pioneer, Geotrace,
Hudson Petroleum, OMV, Gas naturel, Oil
Search, Audax, Gwalia, nexus, Gore, Metallium bf, Stephenson & associates,
SHELL, Delta hydrocarbons, Al Furat
Petroleum, Fugro, Ion Geophysical, Solaris,
Oil Plus, Cairn Energy, Corex, GB
Petroleum, Dana Petroleum, Canamens Energy,
Suppex, Petrokav, Larsen oil
and Gas, BG libya, Schlumberger libya, GPX
International, Kuweit Oil
Company, Petroceltic, Med Energy Group.
A key note :
« Prix Du Petrole, Pic de la production ou
bulle financière ? » was presented by Mr
Nicolas Sarkis Directeur du Centre Arabes
d’Etudes
Pétrolières.
PROGRAM
The
Conference programme included technical oral
an poster sessions, technical
exhibits and two field trips.
The Technical Oral Sessions (with 54
presentations) focused on:
1 – Tectonics & Basins : 07
2 - Stratigraphy, sedimentology and
paleontology : 07
3 - Organic geochemistry, Basin Modelling &
Petroleum Systems Evaluation: 09
4 - Field Development / reservoir management
& Enhance recovery: 07
5 - Seismic in E&P: New Technologies and
Applications: 04
6 - Prospecting methods and new
technologies: 04
7 - Data Management and National Oil
Companies in E&P: 04
8 - Oil & Gas : New Technologies : 04
9 - Emerging plays and new concepts: 04
10 - Reservoir management: 04
The Technical Poster Sessions
focused on:
1 – Tectonics & Basins: 12
2 - Reservoir sedimentology: 12
The
Geological field trips:
Two field trips were organized from October
16th to October 18th , 2008:
F1 Field trip : “The Numidian in Northern
Tunisia: a challenging gas target”
Leaders : Chokri El Maherssi, Hela Ben Jemia
& Houda Belghagi From ETAP.
This Field trip saw the participation of 21
people.
F2 Field trip: “Oil Seeps and Source Rocks
in Northern Tunisia”
Leaders : Moncef Saidi, Abdelaziz Meskini
(ETAP) and Habib Belayouni (FST)
Les This Field trip saw the participation of
19 people.
The Technical
Exhibit
A Technical Exhibit was organized in the
hall of the hotel, with the participation of
15 oil and service companies: ACOSERV, CCG
VERITAS, EAGE , ENSAGA, ETAP, FUGRO, GEOREX,
IPC- GROUPE LOUKIL, SAROST S.A.,
SCHLUMBERGER, SHELL, SMH, DIVONA TELECOM,
SVI, TUNISIE TELECOM
SPONSORING
The EPC 2008 was sponsored by BG TUNISIA,
CGGvERITAS, SHELL, AVA, ALTHANI, DUALEX, OMV,
WINSTAR TUNISIA BV., PIONNER NATURAL
RESOURCES, PA RESOURCES, OIL SEARCH
LIMITED, APEX, PETROVIETNAM, SEREPT, TPS.
