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The Technical Committee invite practitioners, innovators and industry experts to contribute to this workshop and share their achievements and challenges, lay out big innovative ideas and seek new alliances to jointly develop a road for the future.Contributors are welcome to submit an abstract of 2-4 pages in length. Submission for posters & oral presentations is welcome on all topics. Master or PhD Students and Academia professionals are invited to submit abstracts.

Abstracts should be submitted via the EAGE website using the downloadable template.

The deadline for abstract submission is 23 August 2019. Please submit abstracts on the following topics:

New Exploration Concepts on the Caribbean Shelf

• Prospects, Leads and Discoveries on the Caribbean Shelf

• Emerging plays in the Caribbean province

• New Petroleum Systems• Exploration case studies

• Shelf to Deepwater reservoir systems

• Transition-Zone Exploration

• Geological and geophysical challenges

• Emerging technologies and new aplications of

Understanding Geological Risk and Uncertainties of Caribbean Plays

• Basin entry-scale exploration risk identification andmitigation

• Technology and its impact on: Seismic Image Quality, Well Design, Formation Evaluation

• Reservoir quality prediction

Operational Challenges – Risks and Uncertainties

• Colombian offshore basins in the Caribbean Continental Shelf, differences between South and North (with emphasis on operational risks and lessons learned) Integrated approaches to risk mitigation

Role of Seismic Technologies and Integration in Overcoming Subsurface Challenges

• Technical and Operational Challenges

• High pressures management

• Geohazards identification and evaluation

Shallow-water Seismic Acquisition Solutions

• Ocean-bottom Seismic – Cables and Nodes

• Multi-measurement Streamer Acquisition

• Broadband Acquisition Solutions: Deep Tows, Slanted Streamers, and More

• Specialized Marine Acquisition Designs for Shallow-water Surveys

Seismic Pre-migration Processing in Shallow-water Environments

• General Strategies: Parallel Time and Depth Imaging Sequences

• Random & Coherent Noise Attenuation – From Severe to Subtle

• Broadband Processing (LF): Adaptive Source and Receiver Deghosting Techniques

• Broadband Processing (HF): Bandwidth Extension, Maximizing Vertical Resolution

• Model-Based Surface-Related Multiple Elimination (SRME) in Shallow Waters

• Integration of Multiple Attenuation Techniques – Different Classes of Multiples, Short- vs. Long-period

• AVO/Inversion QC during time-domain, pre-migration processing sequence

• Advanced QC methods

Shallow-water Velocity Modelling and Depth Imaging – From Surface to Basement

• Surface-wave Modelling & Inversion – Scholte- and Guided Waves

• Early-Arrival or Refraction Full-waveform Inversion (FWI), including Data Preconditioning

• High-resolution and Reflection Full-waveform Inversion (FWI)

• Imaging with Multiples and Mirror Imaging – Ocean Bottom and Towed-streamer Seismic

• High-resolution Tomography – Gridded vs. Layer-based

• Geological & Well Constraints for Tomographic Depth Imaging – Fault & Structural Constraints

• Advanced Pre-stack Depth Migration (PreSDM)

• Q-Tomography and Q-PreSDM; Kirchhoff, Beam, RTM

• Least-squares PreSDM – Applications in shallow-water environments

• Anisotropy Analysis and Modelling – Multi-parameter Tomography (Epsilon, Delta, Vp)

• Multi-physics: Joint Inversion and Integration with Non- Seismic Geophysical Datasets

Near-seabed and Overburden Characterization – Integration of Methods

• General Strategies: Early Geohazard Imaging & Assessment with Exploration Seismic Data

• Surface-wave Inversion• High-resolution (2ms) Mirror Imaging

• Near-seabed Characterization

• Geo- and Drilling Hazard Assessment

• 2D and 3D Site Surveys