PGK - Petroleum Geologische Kring

Coal field trip great succes

Monday 6 May 2013

The PGK Day Trip to Limburg was a great success and with 40 participants it was one of the best attended trips of the past years. Thanks to Hans Erren and Ben Gales the trip provided a nice overview of history and geology of coal mining in the Netherlands. Photos can be found at the fieldtrips page.

Geo-gastronomical fieldtrip to the Languedoc

Thursday 11 April 2013

The PGK is organising a three-day geo-gastronomical fieldtrip to the Languedoc (France). REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! See the fieldtrip section for details and registration.

NOTE: only 6 places left!

SEPM Special publication 98: Rotliegend of The Netherlands

Tuesday 19 February 2013

It has been over a year since the SEPM SP 98, “Rotliegend book” or “Slochteren book” was presented by Jürgen Grotsch on the PGK meeting and sold during the buffet. Thirty paper copies were sold and additional thirteen people registered for a follow up order. In addition, 4 paper copies of the SEPM CSP 8: Carbonate Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy, by Wolfgang Schlager were sold. SEPM (after several attempts from me to get in contact) told me that all paper copies of the SP 98 were sold out and could not be provided.

SEPM suggests the following for those people who did not buy a copy of SP 98 and wish to order one:

1. The GSL (Geological Society of London) bookshop still has several paper copies of the SP 98, ordering there saves shipping costs.
2. The CD version of the SP 98 is available. CD on an out of print book is $28 list and $20 member prices.
3. SEPM and Elsevier are working on making all SEPM books available via the Elsevier Geofacets platform incl. geo-referenced digital maps becoming available next to regional map based literature search facilities. But this will certainly take some more time until it will be available with users and requires licensing from Elsevier.
4. In the future there will be a “print on demand” option of soft cover copies, as well as digital copies in the SEPM online archive, but this is for much later in the year (probably June earliest)

 For the people who bought but not yet paid for their paper copy during the meeting, I would like to ask you to transfer the amont of €65,00 for the Rotliegend book and € 42,00  for the Carbonates book to my personal bank account: Bram van der Kooij, ING bank, account number: 6418553, Leidschendam. Please mention PGK SP98 (Rotliegend) or PGK CSP8 (carbonates) and send me an email upon transfer. I will prepare a receipt for you to confirm the payment (and me receiving it).

Thank you very much for your patience and understanding and my SINCERE APOLOGIES for this late approach and arrangement. For further questions, please contact me by email: bram.vanderkooij@gmail.com

excursion

Friday 14 June 2013 - Monday 17 June 2013  

Geo-gastronomical fieldtrip to the Languedoc

Guide: Michel Lopez (University of Montpellier)

REGISTRATION FOR THE PGK GEO-GASTRONOMICAL FIELDTRIP TO THE LANGUEDOC IS NOW OPEN!

Please fill in this form. Besides registering, it is important that you organize your own travel (details below).

Travel
At own initiative (car, TGV, plane…). Trip is organized around Transavia flights Rotterdam/Den Haag-Montpellier: Friday 14 June, 18h40-20h25 (HV5987) & Montpellier-Rotterdam/Den Haag: Monday 17 June 21h05-22h45 (HV5988) [TO BE BOOKED BY PARTICIPANT]
Where
Lodève region, north of Montpellier
Objective
The trip will focus on siliciclastic sedimentology (including basin geo-history, reservoir architecture, and fractured reservoirs) and Permian Rotliegend analogues (fluvial, aeolian) and the Lodève petroleum system.
Details
Because this is the geo-gastronomical field trip, special attention will be given to local cuisine and wine, including a visit to a vineyard.
Price
€299 for a full program of three days:

• Three nights in Hotel du Nord in Lodève
• Transportation by mini-bus
• Dinner and lunch
• Visit to vineyard
• Geological excursion led by Michel Lopez, professor in sedimentology at Université de Montpellier 2

Note: there are currently only 6 more places available!

lecture · dinner · drinks

Tuesday 18 June 2013  17:00

Annual BBQ and mini-symposium on arctic drilling

Organiser: PGK and SPE
Lecturer: Philip Dyer (Shell) and Faiza Oulahsen (Greenpeace)

17:00 - 18:00 Social hour
18:00 - 19:00 Lecture
19:00 -         BBQ

Philip Dyer (Shell): Arctic potential – risks and opportunities
Faiza Oulahsen (Greenpeace) : Arctic drilling: not worth the risk

Pre-registration with pre-payment is being set up by SPE, but is not available yet. Please keep an eye on the website, details will be published soon.

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lecture · drinks

Wednesday 18 September 2013  17:00 - 19:00

Dinantian plays in The Netherlands

Lecturer: Bastiaan Jaarsma (EBN)

17:00 - 18:00 Social hour

18:00 - 19:00 Lecture

Preceding the September fieldtrip Bastiaan Jaarsma from EBN will discuss the Dinantian plays in The Netherlands.

More information will follow nearer the time.

Location

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excursion

Friday 20 September 2013 - Sunday 22 September 2013  

Ardennes fieldtrip

Guide: Edouard Poty (U. Liège) & Evert van de Graaff

The PGK is organising a three-day field trip to the Dinantian of the Ardennes.

The September field trip will focus on the Dinantian of the Northwest European Carboniferous Basin (NWECB). The Dinantian is receiving increasing attention due to several facts. First of all three wells for geothermal energy have been drilled in an under-explored part of the Netherlands, close to the city of Venlo. It came to many people as a surprise that huge karstic horizons were encountered in the Dinantian limestones. These karstic horizons may provide new insight in the palaeogeographic development of the Dinantian limestones and lead to the identification of new prospective areas in the NWECB. Secondly, several E&P companies and EBN and TNO are currently exploring the distribution of bituminous Dinantian limestones (e.g. Geverik Member) as a source rock for shale gas, in response to promising first results from drillings in the UK.

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