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AAPG’s international outreach is reinforced as President Peter Rose meets with more than 1,000 geoscientists, students and industry leaders in a 20-day tour of Europe.

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Do you remember the pain? Those who were active in the industry in 1986 call it, simply, the Crash. It was 20 years ago today ...

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Renewable energy sources in the oil patch? It’s a power-ful idea who’s time has come.

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Emphasis: World Development

 

Big deal: Giant fields clearly are an important part of the world’s current energy situation. The challenging question is, what about tomorrow?

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An overview of recent discoveries offers some positive results – but it also warns of some serious challenges.

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Egypt’s historic and vital Whale Valley is now an official World Heritage Site, thanks largely to the writing of an AAPG field trip guidebook.

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Check out some of the major discoveries reported over the past year.

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Standing Columns

This is likely the most important letter I shall write to AAPG members as their president.

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It is the start of a new year, and AAPG is making an assessment of its strategic goals. One of those goals is to develop more intersociety cooperative efforts.

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It is hard to believe that a new year already has begun, and my tenure as president of the DPA is half over. I guess it's true that time flies when you are having fun!

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Seismic stratigraphy has been an important seismic-interpretation science since the 1975 AAPG annual meeting, when its principles were introduced in a series of presentations -- and particularly since its documentation two years later as AAPG’s Memoir 26.

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This year marks the second consecutive year for AAPG to participate as a major partner in oil and gas conferences and exhibitions in the Arabian Gulf Region.

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