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For the first time in a long time, Calgary is in the AAPG spotlight as the site of the Annual Convention. And, based on pre-meeting registration totals, they're not the only ones who are excited.

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Symposium examines the need and the use of 3-D seismic in the Rocky Mountain region and highlights the need for more.

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AAPG and SPEE respond to a call from regulators and Congress to reform how the industry estimates and reports petroleum reserves.

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Doing the right thing is a concern ethics lecturer John Gibson found throughout the world.

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AAPG President's testimony encourages better support for research in the U.S. Energy and Water Appropriations bill.

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Higher and higher: Salaries in the past year rose -- for some age groups, dramatically so -- according to the annual AAPG Salary Survey.

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Explorer President’s Column

Our Geoscience and Energy Office in Washington, D.C. (GEO-DC), is being formed in direct response to the 2003 All-Member Survey (November President's Column) conducted by Anderson Marketing Service.

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Spotlight on Education: Summer offerings filling up fast.

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A look at industry, individuals and the 'I' Formation -- Scott Tinker begins his season as AAPG's Distinguished Ethics Lecturer.

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Energy companies, in an effort to recruit and retain the very best workers, are becoming very creative in their employee incentive packages. Here's a clue: Baby, you can drive my car...

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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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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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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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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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