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August 2000

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It's time to begin a new exploration project.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s the topic of the "greenhouse effect" emerged, and quickly became perhaps the most important scientific question of the era.

Emphasis: Geophysical Review

This Is Thinking Small -- Broadly

A proposed project between the non-profit Geosat Committee Inc. and Chimera Geophysical Corp. would test one of the latest advancements in microseep detection.Through Project MIDAS Geosat is teaming up with Chimera again to test a new remoste sensing tool.

Licensing Issues Become Priority

Last year IAGC sponsored its first conference on data licensing issues — and the topic is so critical that another conference is scheduled for Oct. 31 in Houston, co-sponsored by the Independent Petroleum Association of America.

Seismic Safety Concerns Grow

Is the continuing downturn in the geophysical industry affecting worker performance and safety? "The situation in North America is that we've had seven or eight fatalities since the first of the year. It's the first time in my career that I can remember that kind of thing happening. It's alarming," said Murray Saxton, corporate HSE officer for CGG Americas Inc. in Houston and chairman of the Health and Safety Committee of the International Association of Geophysical Contractors (IAGC).

An Exercise in Geomorphology

Henry Posamentier had success in a study he conducted using seismic geomorphology in the Java Sea while he was with Arco Indonesia.

Stratigraphy Concept Morphing

It's been a constant in the ongoing story of seismic stratigraphy: New types of data have always sparked quantum leaps of geologists' understanding of the discipline.

4-C Projects Harvest Gulf Data

Projects in the Gulf of Louisiana.

Seismic Waits on 'Trickle Down'

Oil has flirted with 30-plus bucks a barrel, gasoline prices have soared into the stratosphere, one presidential candidate wants to open the long-off-limits Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to E&P while his opposition spouts the time-worn rhetoric about Big Oil gouging the public.

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A Removal-Restoration Project

This month's column, the third in a four-part series dealing with plate kinematics ("Arm Waving, or Underutilized Exploration Tool?"), is titled "Building Quantitative Plate Kinematic Frameworks for Regional Exploration Assessments."

Wildcat Recollections Column

Analysis, Guts Trump Paralysis

Indonesia is a prolific oil and gas province with discovered reserves of more than 23 BBO and 150 TCFG. Most of the reserves originate from Tertiary source rocks and are trapped in Tertiary reservoirs on or immediately offshore of Java, Sumatra and Kalimantan.

August 2000

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Emphasis: Geophysical Review

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