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Secure Your Sponsorships for an Optimal Mix to Drive Your Success

Use ACE to help spotlight your brand and connect with the global geoscience community. Sponsoring a scientific event like ACE shows your commitment to advancing the geosciences and reinvesting into growing the exploration industry.

Added on 28 January, 2019

Events Blog By Grant Smith

ACE Delivers a Great Audience to You - Book Your Exhibit Space Now

ACE provides a unique business platform that ensures your company’s name and brand are in the minds of your target audience. Showcase your company’s products and services to more than 7,400 attendees from more than 81 countries looking to you for solutions to key challenges facing our industry.

Added on 25 January, 2019

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Hands-On Training Events Set for ACE - Register Now

Register now for the 2019 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE), held 19-22 May 2019, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, and save your seats for these training events.

Added on 23 January, 2019

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Registration Now Open - ACE 2019

Register now for the 2019 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE), held 19-22 May 2019, at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Added on 14 January, 2019

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Attend Two Exciting AAPG Events for Machine Learning in Oil and Gas

Learn how machine learning and analytics are transforming the way that the industry explores for and produces oil and gas with these two training events.

Added on 02 January, 2019

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Christopher P. Ross,David Cole

Two Data Reduction Schemes: A Shallow Oil Field Example

Geoscientists with “too much” data can either choose which data attributes are best, based on some tabulation or crossplot, or attempt to combine different data sets in a linear-based process such as cross-plotting. We review two progressive approaches to systematically reduce data dimensions while synthesizing a best attribute from an ensemble of seismic input attributes.

Added on 01 January, 2019

Explorer Article By Michael Campbell

A History of the Energy Minerals Division of the AAPG: Part 2

The Energy Minerals Division celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2002. The Division emphasized to the AAPG membership that it was AAPG’s center of activity on energy minerals and unconventional energy resources. EMD originally focused primarily on coal, uranium, geothermal energy, oil shales and tar sands. However, its focus expanded and in 2002, EMD’s most active unconventional resource areas were coalbed methane, gas hydrates, and unconventional energy economics.

Added on 01 January, 2019

Explorer Emphasis Article By Emily Llinás

The Permian Lookalike: Tampico-Misantla

Mountains and beaches. Colonial cities, farming communities, indigenous villages. Central Eastern Mexico is full of diverse cultures and landscapes. It is also home to the Tampico-Misantla super basin, a 25,000-square-kilometer area that has produced oil since 1869.

Added on 01 January, 2019

Explorer Article By Mark J. Gallagher

Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists Update

Earlier this year, in a surprise move, the Texas Sunset Advisory Committee recommended to eliminate the Texas Board of Professional Geology and repeal the Texas Geoscience Practice Act. Local Texas geoscience organizations and societies mobilized quickly to protest this decision and move forward.

Added on 01 December, 2018

Explorer Article By David Brown

What Does the Election Outcome Mean for the Oil Industry?

November’s midterm elections in the United States brought a split decision and gave the country a divided Congress. The potential effect of the vote on the oil and gas industry and U.S. energy policy is also a toss-up, according to some analysts.

Added on 01 December, 2018

Hunter Stockdale Carr President (2024-2025) Carr Resources, Inc. (903) 597-2336

David Clay Past President (2024-2025) CRA Advisors (713) 417-4937

Bryan Guzman Treasurer (2019-2025) Premier Corex (832) 503-4645

The House of Delegates of the AAPG is made up of delegates from affiliated societies and international regions throughout the world. They are selected by popular vote from within their respective areas and serve a three year term.

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NOTE: Membership in an affiliated society does not necessarily constitute membership in the AAPG and vice versa.

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