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April 2001

AAPG is at the forefront of two major initiatives to further the profession of petroleum geology that are planned in Washington, D.C., involving an invited appearance before Congress in March and a special AAPG-convened Energy Summit in April.

Online BULLETIN Now Available

AAPG is introducing MemberNet, an electronic alternative to the printed AAPG BULLETIN that offers members the option of receiving either a printed BULLETIN or an electronic version.

de Boue (Great Geologist?) Gets Last Laugh

Read ten reasons to visit www.sjgs.com, the Web site of the San Joaquin Geological Society (SJGS) in Bakersfield, California.

Questions Cloud Hydrate Potential

The resource known as gas or methane hydrates, which lies frozen in combustible ice crystals below the ocean floor -- or closer to the surface in the Arctic regions -- has been estimated to represent double the energy potential of all of the world's conventional oil, gas and coal reserves combined.

Can Lasers Help Stop Blowouts?

Wouldn't it be nice to have some method to anticipate a blowout and take measures to prevent it before it happens?

Emphasis: Computers in Geology

Outcrops Never Looked So Good

You may never see an outcrop the same again.

AVO Boosted Field Success Rate

No matter how mature the field, geoscientists seem to always come up with either a new technology or another twist on the tried-and-true to pull more hydrocarbons out of the reservoirs. When commodity prices are looking good, producers have an added incentive to use the technology to go after deeper targets and also explore for smaller ones in producing trends that historically have been exploited at shallow depths.

Digits Offer Prospecting Medium

Remember when we all thought that e-commerce was an automatic way to make millions of dollars?

3-D Theater More Than Gee-Whiz

Scattered across Houston -- and, increasingly, other locales as well -- state-of-the-art visualization centers are allowing geoscientists to literally step into the subsurface and explore its mysteries.

Standing Columns

Geophysical Corner

Precision Is Now the Norm for Pool Development

The storage field geologist, while worrying about such things as spill points and thief zones, is primarily concerned with “location, location, location.”

Business Side of Geology Column

A Case Against 'Most Likely'

In the early days of E&P risk analysis, one of the most widely used terms was “most likely,” representing some perceived intermediate outcome.

Regions and Sections

Plans Being Made for St. Peterburg's Meeting

A host of workers are busy preparing for the upcoming regional international conference, to be held July 15-18 in a city that is hailed as one of the most beautiful and most “European” cities in all of Russia.

April 2001

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Emphasis: Computers in Geology

Standing Columns

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