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Explorer Historical Highlights By Michael Morton

Darkening Skies: The Qatar Well Fires of the 1950s

In a film about the disaster, “Fire at Dukhan,” the narrator breezily announces: “She went up at midday on Saturday, all 3,200 pounds to the square inch of her, and it wasn’t long before the derrick and the upper works collapsed in the heat into a pile of melted junk!”

Added on 01 July, 2018

Explorer President’s Column By Charles Sternbach

Everything is Possible

A magic moment for me happened last year at the Division of Professional Affairs Heritage Luncheon at ACE in Houston. An actor portraying Wallace Pratt read from Pratt’s writing and told a large packed room that “Everything is possible, anything is possible.” In that time and place we believed.

Added on 01 June, 2018

Explorer Historical Highlights By Rasoul Sorkhabi

The First Oil Field in the Middle East

This year marks the 110th anniversary of the discovery of the Masjid Suleiman oil field in southwest Persia (Iran), which ushered in a new era in the history of the Middle East. This is the story of the men whose vision, interests and perseverance made it happen.

Added on 01 June, 2018

Explorer Article By David Brown

Profit and Power: The Rise of Al Saud, Inc.

Other royal families have their crown jewels. For the ruling al Saud family in Saudi Arabia, the crown jewel is Saudi Aramco. So, the Saudi government’s plan to take up to 5 percent of Aramco public in an IPO is a huge development, not just in Saudi Arabia, but in the oil and gas industry and in the world.

Added on 01 May, 2018

Explorer ProTracks By Abdullah Al Kandari

YPs and Students Enjoy Rich Program at GEO 2018

GEO 2018, which was March 5-8 in Bahrain, included several days of educational and career-boosting content for young professionals and students.

Added on 01 April, 2018

Africa Blog By Grant Smith

Just Announced! Deadline Extended - ICE 2018

AAPG, the recognized global leader in the dissemination of high-quality geoscience data and information, brings its International Conference and Exhibition (ICE) to Cape Town, 4-7 November 2018. ICE 2018 will gather geoscientists and petroleum industry professionals from 60+ countries looking to build their knowledge, discover innovations, and network with peers. Submit your abstracts today and help guide our future industry success.

Added on 28 March, 2018

Explorer Article By Brian Ervin

Senate Confirmation Hearing on Jim Reilly as USGS Director

AAPG Member and former NASA astronaut James F. Reilly will appear before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Tuesday to confirm his nomination by the Trump administration to be director of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Added on 01 March, 2018

Explorer Article By Brian Ervin

Former Saudi Energy Minister Receives Inaugural Presidential Award for Global Leadership

Ali Al-Naimi, Saudi Arabia's former minister of energy and mineral resources, is the first recipient of AAPG's Presidential Award for Global Leadership.

Added on 01 March, 2018

Bulletin Article

Seismic stratigraphy of a Lower Cretaceous prograding carbonate platform (Oman) and implications for the eustatic sea-level curve

The Lower Cretaceous of northern Oman consists of a large carbonate platform which prograded over a distance of 280 km (174 miles) in approximately 15 Ma. The seismic stratigraphic interpretation of this system, based on a regional three-dimensional survey (40.000 km2, 15,400 sq miles), revealed a complicated organization of nested clinoforms with changing depositional dips.

Added on 22 February, 2018

Bulletin Article

Fracture characterization in sigmoidal folds: Insights from the Siah Kuh anticline, Zagros, Iran

Fieldwork and remote sensing data from the Siah Kuh anticline, simply folded belt, Zagros, Iran indicate that specific structures and fracture systems formed during the development of its sigmoidal shape, and that conceptual fracture models developed for cylindrical folds are inadequate for the correct evaluation and development of hydrocarbon accumulations in this type of anticline.

Added on 22 February, 2018

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