Topics 

The workshop will cover a range of themes and aim to prompt discussion. Initial themes and ideas for topics of interest are outlined below but abstracts are invited to be submitted under any topic relevant to hydrocarbon exploration in the area. 

Regional Geology

• Tectono-Stratigraphy of the Eastern Mediterranean
• Role of Structural Inheritance in Controlling Basin Geometry
• Insights from Field Geology for offshore interpretations
• The Impact of Neotectonics on petroleum prospectivity 

Petroleum Systems & Role of Evaporites

• Source Rock Identification and Distribution & Reservoir-Seal Pairs
• Thermal History, Basin Modelling and Charge Mechanisms
• The implications of evaporite-drawdown for petroleum systems
• Importance of Triassic Salt in controlling structural styles

Leveraging on Seismic Imaging 

• The impact of modern imaging technologies on subsalt discoveries
• The importance of salt interpretation to the seismic imaging process
• Salt and carbonates velocity model building
• Imaging the Pre-Salt

Exploration Opportunities

• The history of Exploration Success told through Case Histories
• Carbonate Reservoir Systems
• Unlocking Plio-Pleistocene plays
• Regulatory and Economic terms