abstract: Semi-complete vector fields are, essentially, a local version of complete ones. The germs of singular foliations associated to these vector fields in dimension 2 were totally classified by J. Rebelo and E. Ghys. We shall briefly discuss the main difficulties in extending their result to dimension~3 and then focus on the classification of foliations of saddle-node type associated to semi-complete vector fields in dimension 3. These are a kind of "irreducible" singularities that play an essential role in the program to classify these vector fields in dimension 3.
Semi-complete foliations of saddle-node type in dimension 3