Badleys and Geoscience Solutions Limited (Nigeria) scoop a prestigious award for a paper presented at the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) Conference in Lagos in 2003. The paper, based on a presentation given by Bashir Koledoye, is entitled "Methods for Fault Seal Prediction: a worked example from the Niger Delta". Click here to view the abstract.

The paper won the ChevronTexaco Best Paper 3rd prize award. The award was presented at the first AAPG Africa Regional Deepwater Conference, organised in partnership with NAPE, in November 2004. The image is of Bashir Koledoye (right) receiving the award from Donnie Mcdonald, General Manager, Deep Water Exploration, ChevronTexaco Nigeria Mid-Africa Unit.

This is the only paper from an independent source to win an award in NAPE's conference history.