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Andy Attended AAPG Houston

Andy Mort from IGI attended the AAPG meeting in Houston, 10th - 13th April.

Dev Week 2011

Anthony attended DevWeek 2011 (14th - 18th March). DevWeek is Europe's leading independent conference for software developers, database professionals and IT architects. He had a great week but didn't get any free t-shirts!

Geochemistry and Basin Modelling Course

IGI held a 5 day Geochemistry and Basin Modelling course at IGI's offices, Monday 14th - Friday 18th March 2011 which was attended by six geoscientists from five companies. The format comprised 2 introductory days (mainly geochemistry) with a field excursion followed by a choice of 3 days advanced geochemistry or basin modelling.

Newcastle University Wessex Basin Field Trip

Paul Farrimond and Andrew Green recently spent 3 days (8-10 March) as co-leaders of the annual M.Sc. in Petroleum Geochemistry field trip to Dorset. A group of 27 students from Newcastle University enjoyed excellent weather whilst studying oil seeps, reservoir rocks and source rocks along the Jurassic Coast from Lyme Regis to Kimmeridge Bay.

IGI Buzzards Fly High as they Raise £410 for local Hospice Charity

On the evening of the 5 March the IGI Buzzard’s along with 74 other teams (4-6 people) set out on a clear but distinctly chilly evening from Exford to take part in the Ilfracombe Rotary Club organised StarTrek Charity Night Walk over Exmoor National Park. (pointy ears not included)

Supporting this year’s charity of choice, the North Devon Hospice, 3 employees; Andrew Green, Anthony Jones and Gion Kuper, along with an external team member Chris Green completed the 16mile navigational/orienteering challenge while raising £410 for the care of local individuals and families faced with the impact of a life-threatening illness.

Performing well together and with sprits high throughout, aided by a plentiful supply of homemade flat jacks from Anthony’s sister, the team successfully completed 6 course legs while also collecting clues and answering questions en-route. This sense of challenge twinned with competition was to make for a thoroughly enjoyable evening out.

Rob Chow Bogle 2011

IGI are pleased to sponsor Rob Chow who is taking part in the 2011 Bogle a 55-mile walk around Manchester, to be completed in 24 hours. Rob was a placement student at IGI last year and is now in the final year of his degree at the University of Manchester.

He is raising money for the Christie hospital, a specialist cancer treatment centre based in Withington, Manchester.

Software Development Placement Student

We are very happy to announce that this year’s Software Developer industrial placement position has been filled by Cristian Barbu, currently studying a combined Computer Science and Mathematics degree the University of York. Cristian will join us in August, and then spend a year working with Anthony to develop the next generation of IGI software applications.

Many thanks to all who applied for this year’s position. We would like to wish you every success in your future careers.

Ussher Conference 2011

The Ussher Society was held in Bideford. See Ussher website for more information.

Oil-oil and oil-source rock correlation course

Paul Farrimond presented a 3-day training course on oil-oil and oil-source rock correlation at StratoChem Services in Cairo, Egypt on 28th-30th November.

12th ALAGO Congress, Montevideo, Uruguay

November 2010

Paul Farrimond attended the 12th Congress of the Latin American Association of Organic Geochemistry (ALAGO). 14th-19th November. He presented a talk, co-authored by Daniel Stoddart of Lundin Petroleum, entitled "Exploring fluid inclusion stratigraphy (FIS) data from exploration wells".
Information about the ALAGO meeting can be found here:

AAPG European Region Annual Conference

October 2010

Paul Farrimond attended the 2010 AAPG European Region Annual Conference (Exploration in the Black Sea and Caspian Regions) on 17-19 October. He presented a talk, co-authored by Stefania Gheorghe and Heiko Oterdoom of Petrom OMV, entitled "Geochemical evaluation of selected gases and condensates from Southern Romania".

2010 User Group Meeting

This year's p:IGI User Group Meeting was held on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th October 2010. The meeting was well attended by a good range of users from companies as far away as Australia, USA and Scandinavia. For more information on the meeting, please visit the Forum.

September 2010

12th Norwegian Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (Asker near Oslo, Norway from 8th to 10th September 2010)

Paul Farrimond and Raingard Haberer attended this very interesting conference and were pleased to meet so many colleagues and friends.
Paul presented a talk co-authored with Daniel Stoddart of Lundin entitled "Understanding Fluid Inclusion Stratigraphy (FIS) data".

March 2010

Final SPBA meeting in Brussels

The Petroleum Geological Atlas for the Southern Permian Basin Area will be officially presented to the SPBA participants at this final meeting in Brussels. Gion Kuper will attend the meeting to represent IGI, co-sponsors of the project.

Newcastle University Wessex Basin Field Trip

Paul Farrimond recently spent 3 days (2nd-4th March) as co-leader of the annual M.Sc. in Petroleum Geochemistry field trip to Dorset. A group of 15 students from Newcastle University enjoyed excellent weather whilst studying oil seeps, reservoir rocks and source rocks on the Jurassic Coast.

Photo by Andrew Green (Newcastle University M.Sc. student)

February 2010

Operation Wallacea expedition

IGI is pleased to be a sponsor of Bideford College's Operation Wallacea expedition to Peru.