Leadership

Advisory Council

Committees

Executive Committee

House of Delegates

Boards

Annual Report

Constitution and Bylaws

Code of Ethics

Sections

Regions

President

The following is an excerpt from the July 2011 President's column as published in the AAPG EXPLORER.

Our future is purchased through the investment we make today. Therefore, I have decided to invest my time by presenting a half-day short course, free-of-charge, for students and professionals around the world – “The Petroleum Industry in the Next Decade: An Overview to the Science, Technology and AAPG.”  

The purpose of this short course is to give students and professionals a strong sense of the spectacular technology with which we work, how much E&P concepts have changed during the past three to four years with the rapid evolution in developing unconventional resources, the future of their profession and what they can expect in their careers.

Along the way, the benefits of AAPG membership will become clear.

Specifically, this short course will address the following themes:

• Rejuvenation of old fields: conventional (and now unconventional) accumulations.
• Frontier exploration in conventional accumulations.
• Introduction to unconventional resources: tight-gas sandstones.
• The future: assumptions (supply and demand), technology (seismic, how we interpret), more on unconventional resources, why belong to AAPG.

The first three themes will be addressed via 50-minute lectures with exercises. For each exercise I will give the students some basic materials to interpret (e.g. seismic profiles, well logs). I will walk through the interpretation of the exercise with them, and then give a summary lecture.

The final lecture will be a look forward (i.e. AAPG in 2035) – where is our industry headed, how can you expect to work (e.g. evolving interpretation technologies, evolving drilling and completion techniques, new play concepts), where will you work and, most importantly, why it is critical that you join AAPG and stay a member throughout your career.

I will emphasize that I could not have given this same lecture three years ago, because industry has changed so much during that time.

About Paul Weimer

Professor, Bruce D. Benson Endowed Chair, University of Colorado Director of Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center Consulting geologist

Born 1956, Denver

Academic Degrees

• 1989 Ph.D., geology, University of Texas at Austin
• 1980 M.S., geology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.
• 1978 B.A. (Hons), geology, Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.

Experience

• 1990-present University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo.; Consulting geologist
• 1988-90 Mobil Oil, international exploration and research
• 1985-87 USGS, volunteer, Menlo Park, Calif., Alaska Division
• 1980-84 Sohio Petroleum, exploration geologist, Northern Alaska

AAPG Activities

Joined AAPG 1978, member DPA, DEG, EMD, Foundation Trustee Associate

• 2007-present AAPG 100th Anniversary Committee
• 1998-present Short course instructor
• 2009-11 Distinguished Lecture Committee
• 2009 Annual Convention, Denver, technical program vice-chairman
• 2008-10 Education Committee; Publications Committee
• 2008-09 Imperial Barrel Adviser
• 2002-05 Distinguished Lecture Committee
• 2002-04 AAPG treasurer; Investment, Insurance, Membership, Geophysical Integration, Research, Reservoir Geology Committees
• 2000-02 Distinguished Lecture Committee, chairman
• 1999 International Convention, Birmingham, England, oral session chairman
• 1998-99 AAPG/SEG Committee on Joint Projects
• 1997-2000 AAPG Bulletin, associate editor
• 1998 AAPG/EAGE Third Research Symposium, Almeria, Spain, co-convener
• 1998-99 Distinguished Lecture Committee, vice chairman
• 1992-98 Student Chapter sponsor
• 1996-97 AAPG Technical Program Liaison Committee
• 1994-97 Field Course leader
• 1994 AAPG Annual Convention, Denver, poster session chairman
• 1991-96 Distinguished Lecture Committee; Geophysics Committee
• 1991-94 Membership Committee; Research Committee
• 1991 AAPG Annual Convention, Dallas, technical program chairman
• 1985 AAPG Pacific Section meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, Technical Program Committee

AAPG Honors and Awards

• 2005 AAPG Grover T. Murray Distinguished Educator Award
• 2003 AAPG Distinguished Service Award
• 1998-99 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
• 1992 AAPG J.C. “Cam” Sproule Memorial Award

Publications

Co-authored two books on petroleum geology of deepwater margins (AAPG Studies in Geology 57).

Co-edited nine books on North Alaskan geology, petroleum geology of deepwater settings, sequence stratigraphy (Memoir 58), 3D seismic interpretation (AAPG Studies in Geology 42).

Co-authored 120 papers on sequence stratigraphy, structural geology, tectonics, petroleum systems, biostratigraphy, including 22 in the AAPG Bulletin (10 in press), six in AAPG Special Publications, 30 in GCAGS Proceedings.