Explorer Director’s Corner

You don’t have to spend much time around the oil and natural gas industry to understand that it is political.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Long captivated by both the onshore and offshore possibilities in Colombia, operators are hoping to turn Caribbean potential into reality soon.

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The supergiant Mamba gas discovery has proved East Africa's potential is real.

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Latin America offers some of the most promising and most perplexing exploration prospects on the planet.

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The Santos and Campos basins continue to be the world's hottest spot in deepwater and ultra-deepwater exploration.

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Explorer Regions and Sections

The last decade has been good for Latin America.

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Explorer Policy Watch

Natural gas production has mushroomed over the past five years. At the same time, natural gas prices have declined.

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Explorer Division Column DPA

What a great privilege it is for me to serve as your president of the Division of Professional Affairs this coming year.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

Global demand for natural gas continues to grow and the search is on to meet that demand in both the eastern and western hemispheres.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

The integrated teamwork approach used to reveal the assets of the Bakken shale has been effectively used for this unconventional conference.

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Hot Items

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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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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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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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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