By Paul Weimer
In the last few months, I have had the extraordinary opportunity to visit 12 countries and interact with many geologists and students. A few musings regarding the future ...
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Explorer President’s Column
01 December, 2011
By David Curtiss
Last month we talked about why a geoscientist engaged in petroleum exploration and production should be a member of AAPG. This month let’s talk about taking your AAPG membership to the next level.
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Explorer Director’s Corner
01 December, 2011
By David Vance
The use of injected carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a process that was first used on Jan. 26, 1972, at the SACROC unit in Scurry County, Texas. Since then carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery in primary production zones has expanded across the Permian Basin in west Texas and eastern New Mexico, and to a more limited extent in Kansas, Mississippi, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Alaska and Pennsylvania – and in other countries.
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Explorer Division Column DEG
01 December, 2011
By Bob Hardage
Several (12, we think) types of seismic-based curvature attributes have been introduced the last few years – and of these, the most-positive and the most-negative curvatures described in last month’s article are the most popular.
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Explorer Geophysical Corner
01 December, 2011
By Miguel Ramirez, Victor Ramirez
With Colombia rapidly approaching a historical production record of one million barrels of oil per day, and Ecopetrol, the state oil company, celebrating its 60th anniversary, it is worth reviewing the events that led to these milestones.
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Explorer Historical Highlights
01 December, 2011
By Jeremy Richardson
AAPG’s Europe Region has a new president: Welcome to Vlasta Dvorakova, who has been a very active president-elect over the past couple of years before assuming the presidential reins in June.Vlasta works for the Czech Geological Survey in Brno, Czech Republic.
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Explorer Regions and Sections
01 December, 2011
By Natalie Adams
AAPG Foundation trustees approved funding for two projects during their recent meeting at AAPG headquarters in Tulsa.
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Explorer Foundation Update
01 December, 2011