The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Foundation

Grants-in-Aid Program

SEAPEX, the South East Asia Petroleum Exploration Society, is a non- profit organization with objectives as defined in the Constitution being:

• To advance the science of geology and related Earth Sciences, with particular emphasis on petroleum and natural gas exploration, development and production in Southeast Asia,
• To foster the spirit of scientific research throughout its membership,
• To promote technologies for finding, developing and producing hydrocarbons,
• To disseminate information relating to petroleum geoscience,
• To inspire a high standard of professional conduct on the part of its members and
• To act as a body to improve the awareness of oil and gas industry issues in the community.

SEAPEX is based and registered in Singapore and currently has more than five hundred worldwide Active, Associate, Life and Honorary members.

SEAPEX holds regular meetings in Singapore on the second Friday of every second month, which consists of a social gathering and a 45-60 minute presentation on topics related to the "upstream " sector of the oil and gas industry. Members, non-members, visiting guests etc, present papers.

SEAPEX meetings are held on the same day as the Singapore Scout Check Meeting, which attracts representatives from 50 oil and gas member companies from Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Myanmar, China, Philippines, Australia, PNG, and to a lesser extent Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.

SEAPEX meetings are open to both members and non-members.

SEAPEX has also successfully launched several technical "Forums", "Farmout Forums", and "IT Forums", where ten to twelve company representatives each have 20 minutes to make a technical presentation and provided space for display of their technical material.

Informal meetings are held periodically by SEAPEX members in Bangkok, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur.

SEAPEX publishes every two-months, a newsletter/bulletin: "The SEAPEX Press", which is distributed worldwide to members and non-members alike.

SEAPEX organizes every second year, an exploration conference in Singapore as well as publishing Proceedings of its Conferences, books, and/ or maps or reports of general interest dealing with the "upstream" sector.

SEAPEX is an Affiliate of the AAPG and as such is represented by up to three delegates from its ranks at the House of Delegates of the AAPG.

SEAPEX invites you to visit their Web site where members and non-members are kept informed of the dates and programs of forthcoming events. Email address: seapex@seapex.org.