By Paul Weimer
My year as AAPG president started informally and unceremoniously.
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Explorer President’s Column
01 June, 2012
By David Curtiss
The AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition in Long Beach is all wrapped up. And what a great meeting it was!
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Explorer Director’s Corner
01 June, 2012
By Bruce Smith
The SAGEEP meeting had 340 attendees from 21 countries with four concurrent daily sessions, consisting of 210 oral presentations and 31 posters.
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Explorer Division Column DEG
01 June, 2012
By Bob Hardage
Starting in the 1980s people began to see that an efficient way to answer this question was to acquire both P-wave and S-wave seismic data across a rock/fluid system that had to be interpreted.
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Explorer Geophysical Corner
01 June, 2012
By Peter Walmsley
Historical Highlights: In spite of secrecy, lack of access to well data, long-time BP employee was privileged to become involved in a major petroleum province before it was discovered and stayed with it until it reached maturity.
Geophysics,
Seismic,
Structure,
Salt Tectonics,
Structural Traps,
Business and Economics,
Risk Analysis,
Resource Estimation,
Engineering,
Drilling,
Completion and Production
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Explorer Historical Highlights
01 June, 2012
By Carol McGowen
Something new: The spectacular Palo Duro Canyon will be the setting for the Mid-Continent Section's inaugural Biennial Field Conference – a new concept that may bring big dividends to smaller local societies.
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Explorer Regions and Sections
01 June, 2012