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New 3-D seismic data and the injection of CO have given new life to a 100-year-old oil field in Wyoming.

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A field that can be touted as an industry showpiece for what can be accomplished with the right technology in combo with the right commodity price sometimes attains its lofty status only after years of expensive trial and error -- and frustration -- on the part of the operators.

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Unconventional resource plays are sprouting up across the country, especially projects in search of gas or oil production from shale.

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Salaries for petroleum geologists took another jump in 2006-07 with a weighted average increase of 9.1 percent overall in pay, according to the annual AAPG Salary Survey.

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Explorer Policy Watch

This month I want to highlight three items for member attention.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

It’s that time of year again -- time for the annual convention, AAPG’s main event for the year!

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Did you know that the U.S. Constitution addresses the concept of copyright protection as being important in order to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”?

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Once again, the North American Prospect Expo can be declared a winner.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

For the first time in over a decade, AAPG is returning to southern California for the 92nd Annual Convention and Exhibition, which will be held April 1-4 at the Long Beach Convention Center.

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In the under-appreciated “The Two Jakes,” a 1990 film in part about the burgeoning oil deposits in the Los Angeles Basin circa 1940, we hear the line: ' ... you might think you know what's going on around here, but ... you don't.'

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Hot Items

Explorer Director’s Corner

Perhaps you did a double take pulling the April issue of EXPLORER from the mailbox. What is this? If you joined AAPG in the last 40 years, you’ve only known EXPLORER in its long-standing tabloid format. It worked well for many years as our advertisers – particularly seismic companies – loved the large format and the ability to display their data on a sweeping canvas. For readers, it was a little more awkward.

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It isn’t news to anyone that prediction is difficult, especially when it’s the future (as a great man once said). Uncertainty and unpredictability are just a part of the job of tracking and predicting the future supply and demand of energy. That being the case, when energy analysts say that the current level of uncertainty is particularly high, it might be easy to dismiss it as a “dog bites man” story. It isn’t.

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A new type of buoyancy model can be used to understand the source of residual oil zones, both thick and thin, to help determine the likelihood that economically viable recoverable oil resides in transition zones of imbibition reservoirs. Application of a buoyancy and breech model will fill a void in reservoir characterization. It will help distinguish between TZs and ROZs, the first of which allows application of primary and secondary (waterflooding) oil recovery methods and the second of which requires more difficult CO2-enhanced oil recovery projects.

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Explorer Historical Highlights

The Casablanca oil field, discovered in 1975 and located on the Mediterranean shelf edge, has been greatly significant in the world’s offshore oil industry activity, besides being by far the biggest oil field in Spain.

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Explorer Geophysical Corner

Advancements in processing and imaging techniques have continued over the last several decades, which have gradually improved the quality of the processed surface seismic data. When the quality of the existing seismic data is not adequate to perform an interpretation task reasonably, then the interpreter looks for other options. Is it feasible to acquire a new survey? In the absence of an improved survey, will reprocessing of seismic data be a good option?

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