The Oil Exploration at the Atlantic Margins Conference, jointly sponsored by the Universities of Coimbra and Lisbon, was held in Lisbon between September 29th and October 1st at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.The Conference brought to Lisbon more than two hundred international experts on technical and scientific areas related to research and oil exploration. Most of the participants were oil industry professionals, academic scholars from universities and Government Agency officials from Europe, North America, South America and Africa, locations with oil in their Atlantic margins.