f North Africa – A Rejuvenated Super Basin

Building on the success of AAPG Discovery Thinking (individual game changing discoveries) and Playmaker Forums (exploration plays), we are up-scaling our efforts to the basin scale and total petroleum system of the world’s most petroliferous basins. The introduction of the Global Super Basin Leadership Conference in March 27–29 in Houston will offer the opportunity to share best practices among the world’s greatest basins. AAPG plans to advance our mission to deliver science and professionalism through multimedia presentations and a new initiative to publish papers on super basins in the AAPG Bulletin. As the traditional exploration plays in the main productive basins of North Africa become more ‘mature’, attention is increasingly focusing on more challenging, older and deeper plays (e.g., Paleozoic and Neoproterozoic) in the main producing basins and on high-risk plays in under-explored frontier areas, both onshore and offshore.