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Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Producing Dissolved Methane From Groundwater

Utah-based professional geologist and AAPG member Gary Player is the inventor and owner of a patent-pending process for extracting commercial quantities of dissolved natural gas from ground water existing in deep, saline aquifers.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Article By Kristi Eaton

AAPG Donates Textbooks to Cambodian University

The Cambodian Institute of Technology (ITC) - locally known as 'Techno' - got a major boost recently in the capital city of Phnom Penh when another donation of textbooks was finalized by the AAPG Publications Pipeline Committee.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Article By Vern Stefanic

2016 Distinguished Lecturers

The AAPG-AAPG Foundation Distinguished Lecture program, the Association's flagship initiative for sharing the latest in scientific thought, concepts and advances, starts its new season in November with a lecture tour of North America.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Article By Heather Saucier

A Match Made In the Oil Patch

While the outcry against the petroleum industry drilling in residential areas is as high as ever, a small, privately-held petroleum and real estate company in Midland, Texas, is making headlines for pulling off what some might consider an impossible feat: creating communities where people are willingly moving onto active oil and gas fields and living harmoniously with t he industry.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Energy Policy Blog By Edith Allison

A Guide to Mitigating Seismicity From Wastewater Injection

The StatesFirst working group on induced seismicity just released its report,” Potential Injection-Induced Seismicity Associated with Oil & Gas Development: A Primer on Technical and Regulatory Considerations Informing Risk Management and Mitigation.” The report describes the causes of and ways to prevent induced earthquakes. It also looks at the interaction between regulators and the public, and the report includes case studies of how states have responded to instances of suspected induced seismicity in California, Oklahoma, Ohio, Illinois, and Colorado.

Added on 29 October, 2015

Energy Policy Blog

BSEE's Well Control Rule and its Potential Impact on Offshore Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

In April 2015, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), proposed an array of new regulations to protect human health and the environment from oil spills. One of these proposals included more stringent design requirements and operational procedures for critical well control equipment for offshore wells.

Added on 20 October, 2015

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2015 APPEX - Pushing Exploration Boundaries in the Heartland Niger Delta

Meet Fidel Onichabor from Seplat Petroleum Development Co. who is a featured speaker at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. This talk will discuss the enormous potential of the onshore Niger Delta as discovered in recent integrated regional evaluation efforts.

Added on 16 October, 2015

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2015 APPEX - Pushing Exploration Boundaries in the Heartland Niger Delta

Added on 16 October, 2015

Europe Blog By Dale Leckie

2015 APPEX - An East African outlook: past present & future exploration and its impact on regional value

Meet Catriona O’Rourke from Wood Mackenzie who is a featured speaker at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. This talk will discuss past present & future exploration in the region and what it takes to create value under the current industry cycle.

Added on 14 October, 2015

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2015 APPEX - Is there a new elephant hiding in the Herodotus Basin?

Meet Øystein Lie from PGS who is a featured speaker at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. The talk focus on a new area open for exploration offshore the Western Desert of Egypt where approximately 5,00- line km of new geophysical data is tentatively planned to be acuired during the first quarter of 2016.

Added on 12 October, 2015

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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 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 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 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 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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