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This report is being written on Attack Day plus three. An already fast-moving world began changing at warp speed on 9/11.

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All experienced earth scientists, engineers and decision-makers will readily admit that uncertainty is an inherent part of the oil business -- however, they will debate whether uncertainty creates opportunity or creates problems.

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Drawing about 500 geologists from 32 countries, the St. Petersburg meeting in July was far more international than regional in attendance.

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The geophysical data companies have good reason to be excited about some pretty esoteric types of data already in use -- or on the cusp of acceptance -- to enhance the search for hydrocarbons.

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It's mid-August in the land of the midnight sun. High above the Arctic Circle, barges laden with seismic and drilling equipment are moving northwards, navigating the myriad of channels that comprise the Mackenzie River.

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It's the latest 'energy crisis' whizzing by, leaving a near-epidemic of whiplash in its wake.

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Graduating geology students want jobs. Exploration and production companies need young geologists.

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AAPG's Distinguished Lecture program, which only a few years ago became a truly global effort, is ready to once again cover the planet with speakers for the 2001-2002 season.

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The reality of significant natural gas potential found in the Great Lakes region of North America continues to emerge, and states bordering the lakes are becoming yet another battleground for the U.S. energy debate.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Petroleum exploration is a 'repeated trials game.' Whether you are a career prospector generating a succession of drilling deals, or exploration vice president of an oil and gas company overseeing an annual prospect portfolio, you are engaged in a series of risk ventures whose individual outcomes are each uncertain.

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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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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 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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