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Explorer Article By David Brown

Data Analysis Suggests a Future 'Second Act' for Shale

Pity the Permian Basin. Investors complain about disappointing returns from Permian production. Stockholders worry about the financial outlook for operators in the play. Lenders have started to cast a skeptical eye at the basin’s profit potential. So it’s surprising to find that a data-derived solution for addressing the Permian Basin’s current challenges might be readily available. And it’s somewhat startling to hear that, someday, unconventional resource plays in the United States could fly higher than ever.

Added on 01 December, 2019

Bulletin Article By Adriana Potra,Bryan Bottoms,John R. Samuelsen,Stephen R. Schutter

Mineralogical composition and total organic carbon quantification using x-ray fluorescence data from the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group in southern Texas

Six southern Texas Eagle Ford cores were investigated to quantify mineralogical composition and total organic carbon (TOC). Machine learning of the x-ray fluorescence (XRF) data set was conducted using neural network analysis to predict mineralogies for L1, L2, and L3 and TOC for L1, L2, L3, Iona-1, Innes-1, and well “X.”

Added on 01 December, 2019

Explorer ProTracks By Lauren Dietzel

Have You Attended URTeC?

The Unconventional Resources Technology Conference was held this year in Denver, Colo., and once again, it did not disappoint. It was packed with technical presentations and exhibits and it continued to push boundaries and remain as the premier industry event focused on the latest science and technology in exploration and development of unconventional resources.

Added on 01 November, 2019

Explorer Article By Ken Milam

First 'WinGS' Scholarship Awarded by West Texas Geology Foundation

As women continue to make inroads and contributions to the once male-dominated oil industry, the West Texas Geology Foundation has taken a new step to encourage more women to enter the field. The foundation established and awarded its first Women in Geoscience Studies scholarship to Alondra Soltero, a graduate student at the University of Texas at El Paso. The Women in Geoscience Studies, or “WinGS” scholarship, established in 2018, is a minimum of $5,000 given to a female candidate studying in a geoscience field from a school in or around the Permian Basin.

Added on 01 November, 2019

Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

UH's Jack Kenning Wins AAPG Student Poster Competition

The AAPG Student Poster Competition began in 1996, when a single first-place award was given to Ian Robert Gordon of UT Austin for his poster. Since then, the program has expanded, soon including international schools, leading to 2019, when four awards were given, some to international students. Jack Kenning, a second-year doctoral student in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department at UH, won with a poster entitled “Controls of Cenozoic Mass Transport Deposits on Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of the Mexican Ridges Fold-Belt, Western Gulf of Mexico.”

Added on 01 October, 2019

Explorer Article By Robert Merrill

A Message from the Editor

As I indicated in my candidate statement, AAPG is a business and our purpose is to provide material to our membership that will help them as professional geologists. As a business, we have to consider the purpose of the Association. The AAPG editor is the de facto scientific leader of the AAPG and my task is to deliver publications that are significant to our membership and to manage the legacy publications.

Added on 01 October, 2019

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

New Tech Breathes New Life into Well Logging

Basic. Humble. Old school. Whatever you call them, petrophysical well logs are a workhorse for the oil and gas industry. Today, geoscientists are using machine learning and other artificial intelligence techniques to glean even more information from logs. And a new generation of downhole instruments now provide loggers with more, and more relevant, data

Added on 01 October, 2019

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Time is Running Out, Submit Your Abstracts - ACE 2020

Submit your abstracts today for the AAPG 2020 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE) at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas 7–10 June. Your research, knowledge, and expertise helps our geoscience community navigate towards a successful future.

Added on 10 September, 2019

Explorer President’s Column By Mike Party

The Importance of Geology

At the recent URTeC conference, I gave a luncheon talk about the importance of the geology within the Permian Basin as it relates to the unconventional and horizontal plays within the basin. As we move into the “mining stage,” one tends to forget that these plays exist because of the geology. Technology allows us to get the oil out, but the geology put the oil in.

Added on 01 September, 2019

Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

University of Houston Wins Imperial Barrel Award First Place Honors

For the second time since 2017, the University of Houston has won the coveted Imperial Barrel Award, an annual AAPG-sponsored prospective basin evaluation competition for geoscience graduate students from universities around the world.

Added on 01 September, 2019

Webinar By Michael Abrams

Virtual Webinar

Wednesday, 9 February 2022, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

Surface Geochemistry - Evaluation of Near-surface Hydrocarbons as Indicators of Subsurface Petroleum Generation and Entrapment

This talk will provide information to better understand the principles of surface geochemistry (SG), how best to use SG data in exploration or development programs, how to develop a cost effective sampling and analytical program, and will also explore best practices for the interpretation and integration of SG data.

Added on 24 January, 2022

Online e-Symposium

Tuesday, 9 September 2014, 2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.

Fluid Migration and Accumulation within the Mississippian: Why 2% Oil Cut Here, 15% One Mile Away?

Water cut is a big factor in gauging the success of horizontal drilling in the Mississippi Lime Play (MLP). The contributing factors are related in part to the spectrum of producing lithofacies and reservoir quality encountered that varies laterally and vertically, sometimes dramatically.

Added on 20 June, 2014

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 19 May 2011, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

Shale Gas Prospectivity Case Study: Conasauga Shale, Black Warrior Basin, Alabama, USA

This e-symposium presents and discusses the results of laboratory tests and research relating to determining shale prospectivity in general, and specifically in the Black Warrior Basin, Alabama.

Added on 02 December, 2013

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 23 July 2009, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

3D Seismic Profiles of U.S. Shale Plays

As commodity prices have dropped, many shale plays have become uneconomical as statistical plays and have increasingly become recognized as geological plays demanding new insights from data.

Added on 02 December, 2013

Online e-Symposium

Thursday, 20 August 2009, 12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.

Geothermal Energy in the Oil Field: Developments and Opportunities

This e-symposium covers advances in geothermal energy, integration with petroleum operations, and lessons learned in recent cases.

Added on 02 December, 2013

Webinar By Amy Henry,David Tonner,Larry R. Davis,Matt Bell,Susan Nash

Virtual Webinar

Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m.

Pivoting Week 3: New Revenue and Diversification Strategies

Join us for 'Matching Capabilities and Capacity With Current and Emerging Demand Areas; Building a Business Plan That Reflects the Realities of Opportunities'. Webinar will be presented via Zoom 7pm - 8:30pm CDT, 20 May 2020. During this webinar we will discuss: Matching technologies and companies Keys to Building a Resilient Early-Stage Business Multi-Industry Technology: Robotics as a Service

Added on 17 June, 2020