3P Arctic 2011 – the only event focusing specifically on the exploration and geology of the Arctic Region

The technical program committee encourages abstracts that relate to any of the topics listed below. Planned sessions and formats (oral or poster) may be modified depending on actual submittals.

Abstract submission is now closed.

Regional Themes

New geological and geophysical data, recent exploration activity, and emerging concepts and interpretations for the following regions:

• Baffin Bay – West Greenland – Lincoln Sea – Northeast Greenland Shelf
• Canadian Arctic Islands Rifted Margin
• Canadian Mackenzie Delta and Alaska Eastern Beaufort Deformed Margin
• Arctic Alaska – Onshore, U.S. Chukchi Sea and U.S. Beaufort Rifted Passive Margin
• Siberian Arctic: Laptev, East Siberian and Russian Chukchi Seas
• Northern West Siberia – South Kara Sea
• Barents Sea (Western and Eastern)

Topical Themes

• Appraisal of Arctic Petroleum Resources – Appraisal of Arctic Petroleum Resources – Estimates of undiscovered petroleum resources, includingconventional and unconventional oil and gas; overviews of cumulative production and remaining reserves; estimates of potential for reserve growth; Economic viability of Arctic petroleum resources
• North Atlantic Conjugate Margins and the Arctic Connection – Interpretation of opening history of the North Atlantic; migration of spreading into the Arctic; basin formation associated with early opening; subsidence and heat flow modeling
• Cenozoic Uplift of Arctic Margins and Implications for Petroleum Potential – Geological and geophysical constraints on geometry and magnitude of uplifts; tectonic origins; implications regarding gas expansion, petroleum migration and remigration, and displacement of oil
• Resources Evolving Tectonic Interpretations and Models – Including Insights from New Seismic and Potential Fields Data – Opening of the Amerasia and Eurasia Basins; conjugate margins of the Canada Basin; nature of Canada Basin basement; evolution of the Chukchi Borderland; origin of the Alpha-Mendeleev Ridges
• Arctic Petroleum Systems – Regional source rock character; generation and migration histories; prediction of hydrocarbon phase – oil vs. gas
• The Ellesmerian Orogeny and Basement Rocks of the Western Arctic – Character and age of basement rocks; reconstruction of Ellesmerian orogenic elements across the Canada Basin; interpretation of tectonic boundaries within basement rocks; paleotopographic highs involving basement rocks and their persistence through geologic time
• Northern Cordilleran – Brooks Range Connection – Tectonics and sediment flux to the Canada Basin; nature and origin of the Cordilleran–Brooks Range orocline
• Evolving and Innovative Technologies for Arctic Operations – Offshore drilling technologies; directional drilling technologies
• Geophysical Innovations for Arctic Data Collection, Processing and Interpretation – Seismic acquisition in permafrost and sea ice conditions; processing techniques to optimize signal-to-noise in onshore and offshore data
• Fundamental Geology and Geologic Maps of the Arctic – Historical and current perspectives on circum-Arctic geologic maps
• Impacts of Climate Variability on Arctic Petroleum Potential and Operations – Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and regional source-rock potential; distribution and significance of the Azolla interval; response of Arctic ice pack and permafrost to Holocene climate change
• Arctic Unconventional Resources – Heavy oil; continuous resources in tight sandstone reservoirs; shale gas