North Africa is not generally known for its elephants – that is, creatures of an animal nature. But recent activity offers hope for elephants of a hydrocarbon nature.
Europe needs a remedy: Years of worry about reliable gas supply from Russia has Europe looking north for gas exploration. Algeria may be just what the doctor ordered.
AAPG President Dr. Scott W. Tinker became the fourth Association president to visit Nigeria when he attended November’s NAPE 2008 conference in Abuja, Nigeria.
What in the world just happened? When it comes to global oil discoveries, it turns out a lot happened in 2008 – and a lot of it happened in Latin America.
Manpower. It’s been a concern for two decades and remains a challenge that gets more critical with no magic bullet in sight.
One technical barrier plaguing hydrocarbon exploration is the inability to see geologic targets below distorted salt layers that span large areas of numerous depositional basins. The complex geometrical shapes of most salt bodies distort trajectories of seismic raypaths to such an extent that uniform illumination of sub-salt targets cannot be achieved with conventional seismic technology. If there is no uniform illumination of a target, a seismic image of that target cannot be correct. A new technology that addresses this problem of non-uniform illumination of sub-salt targets is a concept called multi-azimuth data acquisition.
I travel quite a lot each year, and there always are a few places in the world that are especially unique and attractive. I found one of those places when I traveled to Cape Town, South Africa, in October for the 2008 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition (ICE).
Spotlight on: L. Frank Brown Jr.
Part 2 of James Wilson’s Dead Sea geology series shows the role geology may have played in some of the Bible's more famous stories.
The LUSI mud volcano continued to generate spirited debate among geoscientists at a special session in Cape Town to discuss its causes.
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