The EXPLORER takes its
annual look at activity both onshore and offshore in the Gulf of
Mexico -- and, true to form, there’s good news and challenging news
to be found. Among the good news is the continuing success
story of the offshore Gulf of Mexico; challenges include the
continuing climatic threats to
Louisiana wetlands, and what that means to the domestic
energy arena.
Photos courtesy of Meridian
Resource Corp. (Louisiana wetlands), BP (Ocean Confidence drilling
platform/Thunder Horse) and Port Fourchon (right inset).
 How
important has the Gulf
of Mexico been to the petroleum industry over the past five-plus
decades?
 There’s
a battle being fought
daily in the Louisiana marshlands -- and in this war, claiming the
high ground is the name of the game.
 Louisiana
Highway 1 provides access
to Port Fourchon, but for how much longer will this two-lane road
service this vital link to deepwater oil and gas? 
Black
gold isn't
the
only treasure to be found in the Gulf of Mexico? Would you believe
a copper-hulled merchant? an industrialist's steam yacht? How about
a
German U-boat?!
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Candidates:
Alfredo E. Guzmán and Peter
R. Rose, candidates for president-elect of AAPG, present their bios
and explain why they accepted the invitation to be candidates for
AAPG office.
Don’t
laugh, but after years
of being the "coming thing," gas-to-liquids production appears ready
to arrive. Really.
 What
happens when you team
up an earth science teacher and a geologist on field trip to amazing
formations? It's a learning experience you're not soon to forget!
What
a difference a year makes: AAPG’s
Distinguished Lecture program has survived a year of global turmoil
and is now rarin’ to go again.
AAPG’s
Visiting Geologist Program is
ready for its 28th season, and it’s on a mission.
The time has arrived:
AAPG’s third annual Prospect and Property Expo -- APPEX to all of
us -- takes a bow this month in Houston.
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STANDING ARTICLES:
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