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Explorer Emphasis Article By Brian Ervin

“Spectacular geology and history, together.” That’s how AAPG Honorary member Pinar Yilmaz of ExxonMobil set the scene for the upcoming International Conference and Exhibition (ICE), set Sept., 14-17 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Added on 01 September, 2014

Explorer Article By Heather Saucier

Q and A with Keith Gerdes

Keith Gerdes is the current president of the AAPG European Region, and as such will be making some remarks in the opening ceremony for the AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, set Sept. 14-17 in Istanbul. This article is part of a continuing EXPLORER series on the people who comprise AAPG Region leadership around the world.

Added on 01 September, 2014

Energy Policy Blog By Edith Allison

Fuel Subsidies

In developed countries such as the United States, energy subsidies are usually discussed in terms of tax preferences for renewable or fossil energy sources, or energy efficiency. In other parts of the world, led by Uzbekistan, subsidies take the form of government-funded reductions in retail prices for fossil fuels.

Added on 22 August, 2014

Explorer Article

ICE 2014: History in the Making

There’s still time to register for a historic conference that promises to bring together the best of the worlds of science and industry. This year’s AAPG International Conference and Exhibition (ICE) will be held Sept. 14-17 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Added on 01 August, 2014

Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

UK Creates Centre of Doctoral Training

For the first time in a generation, oil and gas doctoral programs in the United Kingdom have received a surge of financial support from the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC), the main governmental funding body for academic research and training in geosciences in the United Kingdom.

Added on 01 August, 2014

Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

Prof-Turned-'Rock Star' Makes Geology Cool

Call it a mid-life crisis. Call it geology on fire. Whatever it was, something compelled Iain Stewart to leave his job as a college professor in London 12 years ago and essentially stay unemployed with a wife and two children while he figured out the next step in his career.

Added on 01 August, 2014

Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

British TV Star Teaches Down-to-Earth Geoscience

“Geoscience Communication” is appealing to an emerging generation of scientists who are realizing that, in many cases, the value of their technical knowledge is only as great as their ability to communicate it – whether to their peers or to the public.

Added on 01 August, 2014

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

Folding, Thrusting and Syntectonic Sedimentation: Perspectives from Classic Localities of the Central Pyrenees

Participants will examine illustrative outcrops of thrusts, fault-related folds, stratal architectures and facies of depositional systems affected by growing structures, which are good analogues for hydrocarbon reservoirs. Objectives include interpreting complex thrust structures, identifying and understanding strain and fracture systems in fold-thrust belts, and analyzing patterns of growth strata in areas with synsedimentary folding.

Added on 21 July, 2014

Energy Policy Blog By Edith Allison

The Ukraine Crisis and European Natural Gas Supplies

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that Europe consumed 18.7 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas in 2013; Russia supplied 30% (5.7 Tcf) of this volume, and 16% (3.0 Tcf) of the total natural gas consumed in Europe passed through Ukraine’s pipeline network; Slovakia gets 80 percent of its gas, and Bulgaria gets 90 percent of its gas from Russia via pipeline through Ukraine.

Added on 09 July, 2014

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Kurt Marfurt

Quantifying Confidence in Horizon-Picking

Risk analysis is a crucial task in making drilling decisions and involves many factors, such as well logs, modeling results, production maps and interpretation quality. In his book on 3-D seismic interpretation, AAPG award-winning member Alistair Brown presents a workflow for the quantification of interpretation confidence.

Added on 01 July, 2014

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