Event Overview
The Libya Petroleum & Geoscience Conference and Exhibition in Tripoli is the leading platform for the region’s upstream industry and geoscience community. With the theme, "Unlocking the Hydrocarbon Potential of North Africa and the Mediterranean," this conference brings together national oil companies (NOCs), international majors, and wildcat explorers to plot the future of the region's vast, oil-rich basins. With Europe focussing on nearby North African supply and Libya aggressively pushing to break production ceilings, the event serves as a potential marketplace for negotiating new concession blocks, securing rig availability, and locking down multi-billion-dollar joint ventures that will define the Mediterranean energy grid for years to come.
Technically the event serves as a premier geological and geophysical conference, deeply rooted in the subsurface complexities of North Africa and the Mediterranean. The agenda highlights the deployment of advanced 3D/4D seismic acquisition, seismic imaging and inversion, structural geology modeling, and high-resolution reservoir characterization to reduce exploration and development uncertainty. Special emphasis is placed on unlocking stratigraphic traps and optimizing development in complex settings like the Sirte, Ghadames, Cyrenaica and Murzuq basins, alongside deepwater offshore plays on the Pelagian Shelf.
Delegates will delve into petrophysics, sequence stratigraphy, sedimentology, petroleum systems, and reservoir geochemistry, leveraging these disciplines to strengthen reservoir understanding and maximize fluid-flow efficiency.
Furthermore, the event bridges traditional geoscience with the energy transition, addressing the geological modeling required for subsurface characterization and monitoring for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS), deep saline aquifer management, geothermal resource assessment, and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning into automated seismic interpretation and reservoir modeling.