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Intimidated at the wellsite? Geologists who keep up to speed on developments involving drilling fluids and new techniques can be enormously valuable.

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AAPG's unofficial expert on the El Niño phenomenon and its effect on natural gas prices says he does not expect to see $10 gas prices again this year -- but he does anticipate steady gas prices through this winter.

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As Americans enter the winter heating season, they must rely upon the security of foreign imports of oil and natural gas to heat their homes, offices and factories -- and Canada, with its highly integrated, transcontinental system of pipelines, is a key energy supplier to the United States.

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The fifth Middle East Geoscience Conference and Exhibition (GEO 2002), a biennial event that focuses on the petroleum geosciences of the Middle East basins, will be held April 15-17 in Bahrain.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Sound assessment of the reserves potential of a wildcat prospect (as well as its derived profitability) requires the exploration team to estimate many different geotechnical and economic parameters.

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Small independents also have chosen an acquisitions strategy to achieve steady growth.

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Oklahoma City-based Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas has been among the busiest independent oil companies in the mergers and acquisitions market.

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John Seitz, president and chief operating office of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., outlined seven key elements to a successful merger or acquisition.

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What's the best way to deal with 'merger mania?' Officials with three successful independents tell how they survive -- and often thrive -- in today's turbulent times.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

What's the most effective way to organize an E&P outfit?

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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 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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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 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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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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