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New Memoir Examines Hot Margin Play

A new publication that studies an area that is among the world's hottest exploration targets has been released by AAPG.

Added on 01 February, 2001

Explorer Article By Rick Fritz

One Day That Shook the World

About 100 years ago a self-taught Texas geologist named Pattillo Higgins had a vision of the future.

Added on 01 February, 2001

Explorer Emphasis Article By Kathy Shirley

West Africa's Time to Shine Arrives

The relatively small, sparsely populated countries along the coast of West Africa are poised to be become major players in the world oil arena.

Added on 01 January, 2001

Explorer Wildcat Recollections Column By Marlan Downey

Open Mind, Flexibility Always Helps

In 1990, Arco International made a technical review of the blocks offered in the Oriente of Ecuador, and offered a bid on Block 10. Arco was successful in its bid, and became operator with a 60 percent interest, and had Agip as partner, with 40 percent.

Added on 01 December, 2000

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Robert E. Wellborn

Finding Limits Of 3-D Seismic

This month's column is titled 'Crooks Gap Field; Limitations of 3-D Seismic Interpretation.'

Added on 01 November, 2000

Explorer Article By Thomas Dolan

Study Quantifies Earthquake Costs

A new government study attempts to quantify and define the potential extent of U.S. earthquake damage.

Added on 01 November, 2000

Explorer Geophysical Corner By James Pindell,Lorcan Kennan,Stephen Barrett

Putting It All Together Again

This month, we further evolve this framework to build a palinspastically quantitative reassembly of continents and continental blocks that were separated during the Mesozoic rifting and subsequent drift in the Gulf of Mexico region -- key features.

Added on 01 October, 2000

Explorer Emphasis Article By Kathy Shirley

The Promise of the Best of Both Worlds

Deep water and subsalt plays are the two hottest exploration frontiers in the Gulf of Mexico and searching for structures below the salt in waters thousands of feet deep is the most exciting play with the greatest potential for reward vs. the risk.

Added on 01 October, 2000

Explorer Article By Thomas Dolan

Well Data Drafted for Quake Duty

One hundred years of petroleum exploration and development in the Los Angeles region have produced a rich legacy of geological and geophysical data -- a legacy that the oil industry has spent billions of dollars to obtain.

Added on 01 October, 2000

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Greenland Wants 'Oil Lamp' to Light

Everyone knows Greenland has oil. But the exploration areas are so frontier they make Dodge City look like the middle of Manhattan, and so far no one has caught a glimpse of commercial Greenland production. So who will be first?

Added on 01 September, 2000

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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

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 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

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