Event Topics

The Technical Committee invite practitioners, innovators and industry experts to contribute to this workshop and share their achievements and challenges, lay out innovative ideas and seek new alliances to jointly develop a road for the future.

1. Petroleum Play, Synthesis & De-risking (including syn-rift remaining potential)

  • Play Types and Key Geological Risks in East Africa - What Works and What Doesn’t?
  • Source Rock Development in Transitional to Oceanic Crust

2. New Play Concepts and Play De-risking

  • Stratigraphic Traps in Passive Margins
  • Interplay of gravity driven and bottom currents in deep-water reservoirs
  • Unconventional Potential
    • CBM
    • Shale Gas
3. Applications of New Technology  

  • Fieldwork 
  • Acquisition 
  • Processing 
  • Seismic Quantitative Interpretation (to address amplitude, AVO, petroelastic…) 
4. Deep-water Development Challenges in Eastern Africa 

  • Onshore Challenges 
  • Gas Project Development

5. Applied Geoscience Projects

  • Geothermal Potential and Advances in the Region
  • Mining
  • Clean Water
  • Geohazards Detection and Prevention

6. Above Ground Risk Operating in East Africa

  • Local Content
  • Capability and Resources
  • Terms (legislative changes within the region)



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