2025 RMS-AAPG Annual Meeting

October 5 - 7

Keystone, Colorado

The AAPG's Rocky Mountain Section represents members who work in a geology related capacity within Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico (apart from the southeast region), Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.

An annual meeting is held by the RMS in conjunction with its 11 affiliated organizations at various sites across the Rocky Mountain region. The exploration and production of hydrocarbons today, unconventional resources, developments in structural geology and stratigraphy, resource potential in a geologic context, geophysical and rock mechanics advancements, and related political and legal challenges are some of the subjects covered.

Keynote Speaker and Career Fair information coming soon!

2025 RMS-AAPG Run of Show

Technical Program and Schedule for the 2025 Rocky Mountain Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting in Keystone, CO, October 5-7, Hosted by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Time	Event	Location
12pm to 7pm	Registration
6pm to 8pm	Ice Breaker	C-Crestone 1-2, Foyer, Terrace

Monday, October 6, 2025

Time	Event	Location
8am to 9:20am	Opening Plenary: Welcome to Keystone	Room 1
9:20am to 9:40am	BREAK
9:40am to 12pm	Geologic Aspects of Carbon Storage 1	Room 1
9:40am to 12pm	Rocky Mountain Petroleum Systems: Data Integration and Modeling	Room 2
12pm to 1:30pm	LUNCH
1:30pm to 2:50pm	Geologic Aspects of Carbon Storage 2	Room 1
1:30pm to 2:50pm	Issues Around Orphaned & Abandoned Wells	Room 2
1:30pm to 2:50pm	Lower Green River, Uinta Basin: Geology and Resources 1	Room 3
2:50pm to 3:20pm	BREAK
3:20pm to 5pm	Geothermal and Critical Minerals Resources in the West	Room 1
3:20pm to 5pm	Helium Resources in the Rockies	Room 2
3:20pm to 5pm	Lower Green River, Uinta Basin: Geology and Resources 2	Room 3

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Time	Event	Location
8am to 9:40am	The Mowry Shale in Wyoming: Play Developments and Resource Recovery	Room 1
8am to 9:40am	Geochemistry of Rocky Mountain Petroleum Systems	Room 2
8 am to 9:40 am	Rockies Exploration & Regional Mapping	Room 3
9:40am to 10:10am	BREAK
10:10am to 11:50am	The Mowry Shale in Wyoming: Geochemistry of Rocks and Oils	Room 1
10:10am to 11:50am	Recent Developments in Williston Basin	Room 2
10:10am to 11:50am	The Mancos Shale in San Juan Basin and Beyond	Room 3
11:50am to 1:00pm	LUNCH
1:00pm to 3:00pm	The Mowry Shale in Wyoming: Geomechanical Properties and Future Directions	Room 1
1:00pm to 3:00pm	Stratigraphy & Sedimentology	Room 2
3:00pm to 3:30pm	BREAK
3:30pm to 5:10pm	Closing Plenary: Future of Exploration in the Rockies	Room 1

For questions about the technical program please contact Justin Birdwell rmsaapg2024@gmail.com

Field Trips!

Pre-Conference Field Trip Sunday October 5, 2025: Departure point at Keystone Conference Center. 8 am to 6 pm. Professionals $250, Students $50. "Cretaceous Stratigraphy of the Niobrara Formation in Colorado's Middle Park Basin: Implications for Exploration and Development Across the Rockies."

Post-Conference Field Trip Wednesday October 8, 2025: Departure point at Keystone Conference Center. 8 am to 6 pm. Professionals $250, Students $50. “The Structural Evolution of the Laramide Foreland integrating subsurface and surface data to build a palinspastically restored cross section across Colorado, examples from the Middle Park and the Eagle basins.”