Home

Environmental

Explorer President’s Column By Charles Sternbach

Helping all our members add to the global energy supply is AAPG’s prime goal and will be for a very long time. Research shows that we have underestimated petroleum systems. Combine that with our ever-improving ability to extract energy sources from nano-scale spaces, and we have an energy revolution.

Added on 01 August, 2017

Explorer Article

'The Next 100 Years of Global Energy Use' Presentations Available Online

The AAPG Foundation recently announced the awarding of more than $100,000 to undergraduate students, geoscience student-led groups and seven military veterans, all part of its initiative of supporting geoscience education.

Added on 01 August, 2017

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

EM Tech As a Cost-Saving Complement to Seismic

Over the last decade or so, marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) technology has proven to be an effective tool to de-risk deepwater, really high cost drilling decisions. Yet it, along with magnetotellurics technology (MT), has both good days and bad days in the continuing uncertain financial environment.

Added on 01 August, 2017

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Basin Modeling on the Verge of Major Advances

The fully realized future of basin modeling doesn’t exist quite yet, but the industry is somewhere on the verge of enhanced processing speeds and increased data inputs from seismic and sensors that will enable geoscientists to produce basin models at a level of quality and scope never seen before.

Added on 01 August, 2017

Explorer Article By Heather Saucier

Alaska's ANWR and NPRA Might Soon Open for Exploration

Acting with a goal of “geopolitical security,” U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has begun a heavy push to open Alaska’s oil-rich, yet off-limits, federally-owned areas after decades of legislation and land management policies have kept some of them essentially out of reach.

Added on 01 August, 2017

Explorer Article By David Brown

Could the World's Oil Supply Outlast Demand?

Projections of Peak Demand timing range from “sometime in the next decade” to “never.” The oil industry is following the issue closely because of the whispered possibility of “oil left in the ground.”

Added on 01 August, 2017

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Bent Erlend Kjolhamar,Graziella Kirtland Grech,Ritesh Sharma,Satinder Chopra

Futuristic Efforts to Characterize Shallow Anomalies

In this article, we discuss other efforts directed at performing an integrated assessment for the prospects in the Barents Sea, and lowering exploration risk in the future.

Added on 01 July, 2017

Explorer Article

'The Next 100 Years of Global Energy Use' Presentations Available Online

Added on 01 July, 2017

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Slow Injection For Better Well Re-Fracturing

It’s widely known that refracturing a horizontal well can help to reduce the interaction between so-called parent and child wells by causing a high stress area around the refractured wells and diverting child well fractures away from the parent well.

Added on 01 July, 2017

Explorer Emphasis Article By Emily Llinás

Beyond the Monte Carlo Approach: Unconventionals in Saudi Arabia

In low-price periods, unconventional resource producers measure success largely by their ability to keep operating costs low. But for Dan Georgi, team lead for reservoir engineering technology at the Aramco Houston Research Center, the best strategy moves beyond tweaking fluids and well design.

Added on 01 July, 2017

DL Abstract By Jennifer Wilcox

The Role of Carbon Capture in Meeting Net-Zero Carbon Goals

President Biden has laid out a bold and ambitious goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions in the United States by 2050. The pathway to that target includes cutting total greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and eliminating them entirely from the nation’s electricity sector by 2035. The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management will play an important role in the transition to net-zero carbon emissions by reducing the environmental impacts of fossil energy production and use – and helping decarbonize other hard-to abate sectors.

Request a visit from Jennifer Wilcox!

Added on 20 July, 2022

DL Abstract By Alex Simms

Interactions Between Ice Sheets and Relative Sea Levels: Lessons From Antarctica and NW Scotland

Local sea-level changes are not simply a function of global ocean volumes but also the interactions between the solid Earth, the Earth’s gravitational field and the loading and unloading of ice sheets. Contrasting behaviors between Antarctica and Scotland highlight how important the geologic structure beneath the former ice sheets is in determining the interactions between ice sheets and relative sea levels.

Request a visit from Alex Simms!

Added on 21 July, 2022

Environmental

See Also ...

STAY CONNECTED: