By Lee Krystinik
President Lee Krystinik asks the question: Do we do what we say we do regarding our AAPG business activities? AAPG’s range of activities is broad but do they truly move the Association toward its primary goals and purpose?
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Explorer President’s Column
01 November, 2013
By David Curtiss
Over the past two decades, advances in technology and political choices to encourage the flow of goods, services and capital across borders have contributed significantly to global economic growth.
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Explorer Director’s Corner
01 November, 2013
By Jeremy Boak
A recent story about Shell’s withdrawal from a long-lived project on in situ production of shale oil from oil shale was an interesting example of over-interpretation of a small dataset.
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Explorer Division Column EMD
01 November, 2013
By Paul DeGroot, Nanne Hemstra, Farrukh Qayyum
The attributes in question were derived from a HorizonCube, an interpretation technique that provides fully interpreted seismic volumes where horizons are automatically tracked between a given set of framework horizons and faults.
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Explorer Geophysical Corner
01 November, 2013
By Edith Allison
Over the past two years large variations in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates of the volume of methane released during natural gas production have been used by organizations arguing respectively that natural gas is cleaner than or dirtier than coal.
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Explorer Policy Watch
01 November, 2013
By Don Kent, Melinda Yurkowski
Exploration for oil and gas in Saskatchewan was initiated in 1888 with the spudding of a 472-meter (1,548.5 feet) well near the settlement of Belle Plaine some 32 kilometers (20 miles) west of Regina.
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Explorer Historical Highlights
01 November, 2013
By Carol McGowen
The office: AAPG opens the AAPG Africa Office in Lagos, Nigeria, which will be staffed by AAPG member Delia Kuye.
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Explorer Regions and Sections
01 November, 2013
By Natalie Adams
Most know that it exists to do good things to support the geosciences – but sometimes it’s a good idea to revisit the original intent to make sure we are fulfilling the wishes of the founders.
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Explorer Foundation Update
01 November, 2013