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Strong demand from both old and new unconventional plays is having a huge impact on drilling technology – and on rig availability as well.
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You oughta be in pictures: Two AAPG members become the public face of an oil company's marketing strategy.
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New exploration opportunities have turned the global spotlight to the topic at hand at the Central Atlantic Conjugate Margins Conference.
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Small companies are now exploring with the Big Boys in the offshore of Nova Scotia.
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State-of-the-art technology is fine, but sometimes the best path to North Sea success is to rely on “old fashioned geology.”
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The Dead Sea is a geological treasure chest, with salt features, mineral-rich waters, natural asphalt, and - most tantalizing of all – oil prospects.
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AAPG leader and Powers Medalist James E. Wilson died on September 15.
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Emphasis: Geophysical Review

 
Put your best guess forward: A lot of questions cloud the outlook for geophysical activities in the coming year.
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The learning curve: Getting small independent producers to embrace 3-D seismic was a process that depended as much on education as on success.
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Isn't that “sweet?” High resolution aeromagnetic surveys have become a more important tool in the hunt for subtle geological features.
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Geophysical companies in Argentina and Chile don’t let borders stand in the way of acquiring data.
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Sometimes the best way to see if a new technology works is just to take it out to the field (in this case, the Piceance Basin) and try it.
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Standing Columns

The U.S. election for president is upon us. The world is watching; as goes the U.S. economy, so goes the global economy.
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Henry Ford once said, "A person who will use their skill and constructive imagination to see how much they can give for a dollar instead of how little they can give for a dollar is bound to succeed."

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Gas shales have advanced to an economic gas play since the year 2000 thanks to a combination of high gas prices, shale reservoir characterization and advances in drilling and completion technology.

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This two-part series describes how Sinopec's local operating company, Southwest Petroleum Branch, utilized full-wave seismic data to improve production from a fractured tight-gas reservoir in XinChang Field, Sichuan Province, China.

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What is your reaction to terms like "Web 2.0" or "social networking?" Are all those invitations to be friends on Facebook or MySpace, network on LinkedIn or Plaxo – the list goes on and on – stacked at the bottom of your e-mail inbox, awaiting some indeterminate future action? Do you use blogs as a means to gather or communicate information? To parody a widely played U.S. television ad, have you “found the Internet?”

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AAPG made history and was part of history during AAPG President Scott Tinker's recent European Region tour. The tour, lasting from Sept. 22 to Oct. 2, marked the first-ever presentation by an AAPG president to a German geologic association.

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A new grant-in-aid has been established in memory of Jay McMurray, a uranium consulting geologist who worked on dozens of international projects.

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