Why should you attend?
The EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) and HGS (Houston Geological Society) will host for the fourth time the Latin American Conference, between the 14th and the 16th of September 2022. On this occasion, the EAGE/HGS will bring this event to Cartagena, Colombia aiming for the first fully in person conference since the first event. Considering recent developments taking place in the world since 2019, the aim of the Technical Committee is to deliver to the audience, an integrated and exceptionally enriched conference on Latin America, offering a forum to explore relevant topics affecting the future of energy supply and the key role Latin America can play in the future energy mix to tackle energy poverty.
“Electricity does not end poverty but you cannot end poverty without electricity” Scott Tinker, 2017. With 6 billion people still without access to reliable energy and 3 million people dying every year from cooking with biomass (wood and charcoal), the world needs sustainable, reliable and cost-effective energy sources which also address the environmental concerns we are facing. Latin America can play a key role in ending energy poverty around the globe in an environmentally responsible manner. This conference will provide a series of sessions that will enable a thorough exploration of the way forward to contribute towards this global goal.
Since the last two decades, the Latin American region has faced continuous development in energy resources, which has opened to increased investment. The conference will provide a forum to explore the wide variation in geological settings as well as the latest geological insights from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego, including the most recent views from the conjugate margin and global analogues. Sessions covering advances in seismic imaging and non-seismic methods as well as machine learning and digitalization, are expected to present ways to achieve a more efficient exploitation of these resources.
In recent years, the oil and gas industry has significantly increased exploration and production activities in the southern Caribbean margin, the Andean foreland, Guyana-Suriname offshore, deep-water Brazil and unconventional exploration in Argentina and Colombia. Recent significant hydrocarbon discoveries in deeper water have indicated great rewards in frontier exploration but there is also a strong move towards Infrastructure Led Exploration (ILX) or Advantaged Hydrocarbons and this is expected to be a key topic in the conference.
Sessions with invited speakers are planned to cover above ground and energy transition related issues. These will provide an opportunity to interact and hold more open discussions.
All this makes the fourth HGS/EAGE Conference on Latin America a perfect setting to hold constructive dialogues on energy integration and prosperity of the region and to get up to date with the latest developments in all the key topics which are relevant towards achieving a more efficient exploration of the resources required to provide sustainable, reliable, cost-effective energy.
We look forward to seeing you in person at the fourth Latin American conference hosted by the HGS/EAGE!