Cuban Geologists Sign Cooperation Agreement with its European Counterparts

Havana, Cuba, Apr 7 (acn) The Cuban Geology Society (SCG) and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) signed a cooperation agreement on Friday in Havana.

The document, signed at Havana's Convention Center by the President of the SCG Kenya Nunez Cambra and EAGE's General Manager for Latin America, Colombian Claudia Patricia Rovira Gonzalesz, sets the basis for the creation of workshops, courses, conferences and access to specialized publications.

The signing of the document occurred in one of the sessions of the 7 th Cuban Convention of Earth Sciences which concluded on Friday with the participation of close to one thousand professors from 30 countries.

Rovira Gonzalez told ACN that the cooperation will contribute to major knowledge on the work of the Cuban colleagues for its high professional level.

She characterized as positive the organization of the agreement in a multiple event that gathered experts and students of the geology, geophysics, geosciences, mining and oil and gas sciences compared to others that center the attention on only one of its aspects.

The SCG is the main promoter of the meeting where the countries with most representatives to the event were Mexico with 50, the US 37, China 29, Colombia 19 and Venezuela with 13, according to the organizing committee.

Some of them are world leaders above all in seismology and tsunamis, mineral resources and oil.

The discussions made up the congresses of Geology, Geophysics, Mining, Oil and Gas in addition to Informatics and Geosciences.

It also included the exhibition of products, new technologies and services for Geosciences aimed at the promotion of equipment and accessories developed by Cuban and foreign companies.

The Cuban Geology Society has over one thousand 750 members and 15 territorial branches and on this occasion, it granted its most important award, the Jose Antonio Calvache Dorado (1893-1984).

This special recognition was granted to Doctor in Sciences Manuel Marrero Faz, Secretary of the Cuban Commission of the World Oil Congress for over 20 years and his colleague Jose Antonio Otano Noguel, Professor of the Higher Institute of Mining in Moa in the province of Holguin.