OREANDA-NEWS. December 03, 2014. Saudi Aramco and Aramco Services Co. teamed up again at the 84th Annual Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) International Exposition in Denver, which is billed as the world’s largest oil, energy and mineral exhibition with nearly 1,000 presentations and more than 350 companies exhibiting.

Reinforcing a multidisciplinary approach toward advancing exploration, Saudi Aramco and ASC presented more than a dozen technical papers led by experts from Exploration, EXPEC ARC and other departments within the organization.

One of Saudi Aramco’s main areas of interest related to its Red Sea exploration efforts.

“The Red Sea is a new frontier for the company, and SEG gives us a good opportunity to meet with some industry service providers and technology companies who might be able to collaborate with Saudi Aramco,” Saleh Al-Maghlouth, manager of Exploration Operations for Saudi Aramco, said, adding that Denver served as a great host to this year’s event since it has become a prime energy hub — especially in the area of unconventionals.

Michael Zinger, manager of Red Sea Exploration for Saudi Aramco, echoed Al-Maghlouth’s sentiment, noting that the event featured sessions addressing challenges and possible solutions for issues such as trying to subsalt imaging.

With the recent expansion of Saudi Aramco’s global research and development network to now include three U.S.-based research centers in Houston, Detroit and Boston, the visibility at this conference was also important in support of recruitment and awareness to attract top-level industry talent.

Also during SEG, Yi Luo, principal professional, EXPEC ARC of Saudi Aramco, received SEG’s annual Reginald Fessenden Award for his ongoing geophysics work dating back to his 1991 paper “Wave Equation Traveltime Inversion,” which is widely used in earthquake seismology and in exploration geophysics.

Meanwhile, the Saudi Aramco EXPEC ARC Geophysics Technology team unveiled its key strategic research directions and achievements, and Panos Kelamis, chief technologist, EXPEC ARC Geophysics Technology for Saudi Aramco, led a presentation introducing three major technology initiatives: automation, multigeophysics, and bringing geophysics closer to the reservoir.