Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Most AAPG members are investors, through company or individual investment plans, 401(k)s, IRAs, SEPs and private accounts. So the recent rash of revelations about corporate fraud, scandal and bankruptcy — and resulting loss of value — generates in most of us, in a very personal way, righteous anger.

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Partial results from a federal oil and gas reserve assessment of domestic unconventional gas reserves will be presented this month in Laramie, Wyo.

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The most ambitious Distinguished Lecture effort in the program's history is announced for 2002-03.

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Explorer Regions and Sections

More than 200 geologists, geophysicists and engineers attended the 'International Symposium on China Petroleum Exploration in the 21st Century: Second Marine Forum on Marine Carbonate Reservoirs,' held recently in Hangzhou, China.

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AAPG's rapidly approaching APPEX 2002, already a 'must do' event for people looking to make a deal -- or for those looking to make their deals better -- just got a little more attractive.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Free-market economics has been taking some heavy hits lately, what with the likes of the Enron scandal, Arthur Andersen obstruction verdict, insider trading revelations, the Merrill Lynch conflict of interest ruling, and on and on.

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A topic to be covered at the Rocky Mountain Section Meeting in September.

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Definition: A statement of a meaning of a word or word group.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Today, you can travel the world over and find U.S. independents putting wells down in darned near every hydrocarbon province, right alongside their big brethren.

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A global assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources has led to some surprising geologic insights regarding petroleum systems.

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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.

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Explorer Geophysical Corner

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?

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Explorer Historical Highlights

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.

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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.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

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.

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