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Explorer Regions and Sections By Carol McGowen

AAPG made history and was part of history during AAPG President Scott Tinker's recent European Region tour. The tour, lasting from Sept. 22 to Oct. 2, marked the first-ever presentation by an AAPG president to a German geologic association.

Added on 01 November, 2008

Explorer Policy Watch By David Curtiss

Join the GEO-DC Blog Community

What is your reaction to terms like 'Web 2.0' or 'social networking?' Are all those invitations to be friends on Facebook or MySpace, network on LinkedIn or Plaxo – the list goes on and on – stacked at the bottom of your e-mail inbox, awaiting some indeterminate future action? Do you use blogs as a means to gather or communicate information? To parody a widely played U.S. television ad, have you “found the Internet?”

Added on 01 November, 2008

Explorer Division Column EMD By Brian Cardott

Shales Closing 'Conventional' Gap

Gas shales have advanced to an economic gas play since the year 2000 thanks to a combination of high gas prices, shale reservoir characterization and advances in drilling and completion technology.

Added on 01 November, 2008

Explorer President’s Column By Scott W. Tinker

A Global Energy Policy Bridge

The U.S. election for president is upon us. The world is watching; as goes the U.S. economy, so goes the global economy.

Added on 01 November, 2008

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Video Sessions Posted

Twenty-nine audio-video presentations from this year’s AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition in San Antonio have been posted toSearch and Discovery, AAPG’s electronic journal.

Added on 01 November, 2008

Explorer Emphasis Article By Bob Hardage

3-D Changed Patterns for Drilling

The learning curve: Getting small independent producers to embrace 3-D seismic was a process that depended as much on education as on success.

Added on 01 November, 2008

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Market Sees Ceiling, Looks for Floor

Put your best guess forward: A lot of questions cloud the outlook for geophysical activities in the coming year.

Added on 01 November, 2008

Explorer Article By Ken Milam

'Old Fashioned Geology' Paid Off

State-of-the-art technology is fine, but sometimes the best path to North Sea success is to rely on “old fashioned geology.”

Added on 01 November, 2008

Explorer Article By Susan Eaton

'Small Guys' Get Shot at Big Parcels

Small companies are now exploring with the Big Boys in the offshore of Nova Scotia.

Added on 01 November, 2008

Explorer Article By David Brown

Shales Driving New Rig Technology

Strong demand from both old and new unconventional plays is having a huge impact on drilling technology – and on rig availability as well.

Added on 01 November, 2008

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Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

US Energy Forecast: Even Cloudier Than Usual

It isn’t news to anyone that prediction is difficult, especially when it’s the future (as a great man once said). Uncertainty and unpredictability are just a part of the job of tracking and predicting the future supply and demand of energy. That being the case, when energy analysts say that the current level of uncertainty is particularly high, it might be easy to dismiss it as a “dog bites man” story. It isn’t.

Added on 04 June, 2024

Explorer Historical Highlights By Jorge Navarro Comet

Casablanca: Spain's Biggest Oil Field

The Casablanca oil field, discovered in 1975 and located on the Mediterranean shelf edge, has been greatly significant in the world’s offshore oil industry activity, besides being by far the biggest oil field in Spain.

Added on 01 March, 2019

Explorer Director’s Corner By David Curtiss

Introducing the New EXPLORER, New Digital Newsletters

Perhaps you did a double take pulling the April issue of EXPLORER from the mailbox. What is this? If you joined AAPG in the last 40 years, you’ve only known EXPLORER in its long-standing tabloid format. It worked well for many years as our advertisers – particularly seismic companies – loved the large format and the ability to display their data on a sweeping canvas. For readers, it was a little more awkward.

Added on 01 April, 2024

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Kenneth Bredesen,Kurt Marfurt,Ritesh Sharma,Satinder Chopra

Impact of Reprocessing Seismic Data

Advancements in processing and imaging techniques have continued over the last several decades, which have gradually improved the quality of the processed surface seismic data. When the quality of the existing seismic data is not adequate to perform an interpretation task reasonably, then the interpreter looks for other options. Is it feasible to acquire a new survey? In the absence of an improved survey, will reprocessing of seismic data be a good option?

Added on 01 December, 2023

Explorer Article By J.K. Dietrich

Natural Increase of Oil Column Buoyancy and the Instability of Caprock Seals

A new type of buoyancy model can be used to understand the source of residual oil zones, both thick and thin, to help determine the likelihood that economically viable recoverable oil resides in transition zones of imbibition reservoirs. Application of a buoyancy and breech model will fill a void in reservoir characterization. It will help distinguish between TZs and ROZs, the first of which allows application of primary and secondary (waterflooding) oil recovery methods and the second of which requires more difficult CO2-enhanced oil recovery projects.

Added on 08 May, 2024

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