Recap of 2004 Annual Meeting

DPA Forum Covers Independents' Business

Matson, Braunstein Winners

Boone Pickens Mixing It Up

Delegates Raise Dues Ceiling

Halbouty Lecturer: Brian Maxted

Matson, Braunstein Awards Are Announced for Dallas

AAPG award winners have been announced for technical presentations at the recent AAPG Annual Meeting in Dallas.

The winners will receive their awards at the opening ceremony of next year's annual meeting in Calgary.

The 2004 Matson Award, presented for the best oral paper, goes to Marian Warren, with Encana, Calgary, Canada, for "A High-Impact Gas Discovery in a Maturing Basin (Western Canada)."

Warren's paper was part of the session on "North American Provinces: USA, Mexico, Canada -- Onshore."

The Jules Braunstein Memorial Award, presented for the meeting's best poster, goes to Mark Allen, Eric Blanc, Clare Davies, Adrian Heafford, Robert Scott, Stephen Vincent and Larisa Voronova, for the poster "Neotectonic Deformation and Hydrocarbon Accumulation in Russia."

Allen is with CASP, Cambridge University, England; Blanc, Davies, Scott, Vincent and Voronova are with CASP; and Heafford is with Jebco, Cheam, England.

The poster was part of the session on "Asia, Siberia and South Pacific."