Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Sometimes folks who are dedicated to the status quo, or to a particular philosophy or procedure, may come up with perverse interpretations of data that challenge their existing reference-frames.

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OCS report … is it time to increase production in the Gulf of Mexico? Is increase possible?

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A one-day symposium on the global future of oil and gas exploration has been added to the schedule for APPEX London.

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Quiz time: Why does the Middle East have all the oil? (Careful, this might be a trick question.)

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Anthropology and energy exploration may seem to be strange bedfellows, but when it comes to global efforts in exotic locations, it's an increasingly valuable marriage.

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They're young, they're old, male and female, company men and independent strivers. What, then, makes these varied people successful oil finders?

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When a panel of experts talked in Austin about the future of oil and gas in North America, a surprising consensus emerged: Get ready for the age of natural gas.

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Too much information: When it comes to oil and gas exploration, how much data is enough -- and when is it too much?

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Explorer President’s Column

'We want to transfer to a foreign bank account one hundred and twenty six million United States Dollars from a Prime Bank in my country, I want to ask you, if you are not capable. To quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you will be honest and never let me down now or in the future.'

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Explorer Regions and Sections

Fortesa International is a Houston-based exploration and production company with operations in the Frio Trend of Texas and an onshore concession block in Senegal, Africa. We decided to take a booth at the 2002 APPEX Property and Prospect Expo in Houston with the hope that it would be an effective venue for us to promote an interest in our Senegal opportunity.

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Hot Items

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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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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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