Second EAGE/SBGf Conference on Deepwater Brazil Equatorial Margin
26-28 May 2026 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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:
| TOPIC | SUBTOPIC |
1. Equatorial conjugate margins: tectonic and geology of conjugate basins | Exploratory challenges from Colombia to Potiguar Basin |
| Compare & contrast West Africa and South America conjugate basins | |
| Conceivable subsurface and resource challenges/uncertainties | |
| Sedimentary basins, structural geology, and stratigraphy | |
| Tectonic history from continental rifting until modern times | |
2. Basin and Petroleum Systems | Source rock challenges |
| Geochemistry | |
| Play elements and risk assessment | |
| Basin models and uncertainty | |
3. Geoscience technologies: current challenges & new advancements | New technologies in seismic acquisition |
| Advances in seismic processing and imaging | |
| New technologies in Petrophysics, reservoir and formation evaluation | |
| Seismic interpretation technologies | |
| Near surface geochemistry and geophysics for environmental applications | |
| Artificial intelligence in Geoscience: applications of machine learning and generative AI | |
| Research consortiums: the active role of academia | |
| Non seismic geophysical technologies: Grav/ Mag, FiberOptics ,Fiber VSP , Lidar and others | |
| Applications of other remote sensing technologies | |
4. Environment, regulations, safety, and socioeconomics: challenges and opportunities | Short- and long-term challenges in infrastructure development |
| Market volatility and litigation trends effects | |
| Community, health, safety, and security | |
| Environment and sustainability | |
| Local economic development | |
| Regulatory trends | |
5. Lessons learned and case studies | Case studies from analogous basins |
| Recent exploration successes and failures | |
| Best practices in data acquisition, and data integration | |
| Learnings from producing fields | |
| Learnings from exploring in deepwater: operations and subsurface | |
| Risk and hazards in drilling evaluation & completions in frontier areas. | |
6. New opportunities in the energy transition | Offshore wind |
| CO2 storage potential | |
| Emissions reduction in O&G operations | |
| Hydrogen and Geothermal energy |
