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GEOSCIENTIST the Fellowship Magazine of the Geological Society of London UK / Overseas Where Sold to Individuals: £3.95 SCIENTIST GEO VOLUME 26 NO 2 u MARCH 2016 u WWW.GEOLSOC.ORG.UK/GEOSCIENTIST The Fellowship Magazine of the Geological Society of London UK / Overseas where sold to individuals: £3.95 [ READER O SEE BOOKS AND ARTS, P23 FF ER ]! Hardstoft Britain’s first oilfield PARIS ACCORD HOLMES’S GONGS VOTE! VOTE! VOTE! Mike Daly on the implications Cherry Lewis on Arthur A record 17 people for oil – Online Holmes’s eleven medals standing in Council election 15-17 November 2016 Petroleum Geoscience ExCeL, London Collaboration Showcase Call for Papers The PESGB, Petroleum Group and AAPG SUGGESTED THEMES CONVENORS: (European Region) are co-organising the INCLUDE: Petroleum Geoscience Collaboration 1LFN6FKRÚHOG Showcase (PGCS) as part of PETEX Petroleum systems University of Aberdeen 2016. The PGCS showcases the business 6 challenges addressed by collaborative Stratigraphy and James Churchill 6 research projects, enables researchers sedimentology BG Group to demonstrate societal and economic EHQHÚWVIURPWKHLUUHVHDUFKDQGSURYLGHV 6 Reservoir geology and Jonathan Craig a forum for post-doctoral, PhD and MSc ENI engineering presentations. 6 Structural geology and Neil Grant ConocoPhilips The showcase provides an excellent basin evolution opportunity for industry and academia to 6 Geophysical imaging .DWLH,UHODQG meet, get inspired and demonstrate the BG Group value of collaborative applied research. and interpretation There will be ample opportunity for 6 Unconventional Jenny Omma graduates and potential future employers energy and carbon Rocktype to connect. This year the PGCS will also include extended poster sessions at which sequestration Douglas Paton applicant’s research will be displayed within University of Leeds 6 Analogue and the main events hall for all attendees to view. numerical modelling Simone Silcock We encourage joint presentations by Statoil 6 Novel techniques and industrial sponsors and student/post-doc/ applications academic researchers. This is intended Ian Sharp University of Bergen to frame the industrial problem before 6 Environmental impacts the technical results are reported and/ of petroleum activities Helen Smyth or to conclude by showing the applied, Case histories of Halliburton-Landmark HFRQRPLFEHQHÚWVRIWKHUHVHDUFK:H 6 also welcome overview presentations joint industry - Tom Weight from the principal investigators of major academia research Statoil Joint Industry Projects (JIPS). and knowledge transfer For further information on Abstracts should be no more than 2 sides of A4 abstract submission please and can include a colour diagram. contact: Please email paper and poster contributions /DXUD*ULIÚWKV WRODXUDJULIÚWKV#JHROVRFRUJXNDQGFRS\WR The Geological Society, QVFKRÚHOG#DEGQDFXNE\0D\ Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BG Prizes will be awarded for the best oral and poster +44 (0)20 7434 9944 presentations, which includes the recipients’ /DXUD*ULIÚWKV#JHROVRFRUJXN attendance at the Petroleum Group’s annual dinner. 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