About 3P Arctic Conference

The 3P Arctic 2013 Technical Program will consist of 15 to 20 sessions, which are being planned to include 150-160 oral presentations and more than 50 posters.

These will cover all aspects of the geology, petroleum geology and geophysics of the Arctic and Circum-Arctic sedimentary basins.

The main themes of the conference will include:

• Appraisal of Arctic Petroleum Resources
• North Atlantic Conjugate Margins and the Arctic Connection
• Cenozoic Uplift of Arctic Margins and the Implications for Petroleum Potential
• Evolving Tectonic Interpretations and Models – Including Insights from New Seismic and Potential Fields Data
• Arctic Petroleum Systems
• The Ellesmerian Orogeny and Basement Rocks of the Western Arctic
• Northern Cordilleran – Brooks Range Connection
• Evolving and Innovative Technologies for Arctic Operations
• Geophysical Innovations for Arctic Data Collection, Processing and Interpretation
• Fundamental Geology and Geologic Maps of the Arctic
• Impacts of Climate Variability on Arctic Petroleum Potential and Operations
• Arctic Unconventional Resources
• Arctic projects to date – lessons learned

The relevant presentations will be grouped by region into six sessions:

1. Western Norway, East Greenland
2. Barents Sea (Western and Eastern)
3. Northern West Siberia - South Kara Sea
4. Siberian Arctic: Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, Russian ChukchiSea
5. Arctic Alaska – Onshore, U.S. Chukchi Sea and U.S. Beaufort Rifted Passive Margin
6. Canadian Mackenzie Delta and Alaska Eastern Beaufort Deformed Margin
7. Canadian Arctic Islands Rifted Margin
8. Baffin Bay – West Greenland – Lincoln Sea – Northeast GreenlandShelf