Second EAGE Conference on Energy Opportunities in the Caribbean
11-13 November, 2026 | Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago
Topics
The Technical Committee invites practitioners, innovators and industry experts to contribute to this conference 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 abstracts of 2-4 pages in length. Submission for posters & oral presentations is welcome on all topics. Professionals, Bachelor, Master or PhD students are invited to share their work.
Abstracts should be submitted via the EAGE website using the downloadable template.
The papers must follow the Abstracts Submission Instructions (Download Here)
Please submit abstracts on the following topics:
| Main Topics | Sub topics | ||
| 1. Exploration | - Energy Needs of the Caribbean - Exploration history of the Caribbean - Exploration & prospectivity in Emerging Caribbean Basins (TnT, Colombia, Cuba) - Exploration in Frontier Caribbean Basins – (TnT, DR, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Barbados, Venezuela, El Salvador, Grenada) - Exploration in the Guyana-Suriname Basin | ||
| 2. Production Present Highlights and Future Plans and Challenges | - Guyana/Suriname Basin - TnT - Venezuela - Colombia | ||
| 3. Petroleum Systems of the Caribbean and Guyana | - Source Rock Presence in the Caribbean: Mesozoic vs Cenozoic source rocks - Geochemical analysis of source rocks - Seeps/slicks from satellite imagery. - Field studies - Source Rock maturation and hydrocarbon migration – Knowns and Uncertainties. - Basin modeling - Heat Flow in the Caribbean | ||
| 4. Geology and Geotectonics of the Caribbean and North-South Atlantic | - Structural geology & tectonics of the Caribbean & North South America - New opportunities in Circum-Caribbean compressional Fold Belt - Clastic reservoir systems of the Caribbean - Carbonate reservoir systems of the Caribbean - Source to Sink and Deepwater Depositional Systems - Impact of contourite currents | ||
| 6. New and Applied Technologies | - Grav/ Mag, AI, Seismic, Advances in seismic technology - Non seismic geophysical technologies: Grav/Mag, CSEM - Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing, including Fiber VSP - Multiphysics technologies the role of digitalization and AI in the future of exploration and development. - Near-surface geochemical. | ||
| 7. Opportunities in the Energy Transition | - Offshore wind - Infraestructure Engineering - CO2 storage potential - Emissions reduction in O&G operations - Hydrogen | ||
| 8. Environmental and Regulatory framework | - Licence Rounds - Fiscal terms - Role of politics - Environmental permitting |
