By Randi Martinsen
Oil prices were at near record highs when I became AAPG president almost exactly one year ago – and immediately thereafter they began to fall.
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Explorer President’s Column
01 June, 2015
By David Curtiss
I don’t want to completely dismiss the role of flashes of insight. But to borrow an old saw, we may miss scientific discoveries because they’re dressed in overalls and disguised as hard work.
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Explorer Director’s Corner
01 June, 2015
By Jeffrey Paine
This seems to be the way public opinion is shaped on most any hot topic: There is quite a bit of early, incomplete information to feed the public’s interest, and this early activity disproportionately shapes society’s attitude and ultimate response.
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Explorer Division Column DEG
01 June, 2015
By Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Sharma
In last month’s Geophysical Corner `we described the different poststack impedance inversion methods that are available in our seismic industry. In poststack seismic inversion – where there is no mode conversion at normal incidence – it is purely acoustic. P-wave impedance is the only information that can be estimated from poststack inversion of P-wave data.
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Explorer Geophysical Corner
01 June, 2015
By Edith Allison
Concerns over aging or inadequate infrastructure and changes in the energy mix led the Obama administration to focus the first Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) on transmission, storage and distribution infrastructure.
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Explorer Policy Watch
01 June, 2015
By Jaime Castillo
This is the story of the drilling of a costly ($60 million) Lahee A-1 well in the Colombian foothills, which presented significant deviations from the prognosticated stratigraphy halfway to the objective – and became an operational nuisance. Nonetheless, it is mainly a story of successful management and prompt response to the geological uncertainty.
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Explorer Historical Highlights
01 June, 2015
By Rachel Henderson
AAPG Europe’s latest Geosciences Technology Workshop (GTW), “Fractured Reservoirs: The Geological, Geophysical and Engineering Tools to Crack Them,” provided the opportunity to visit the island of Sicily, steeped both in beauty and an active geological history. And what is a trip to Sicily without a visit to the tallest volcano in Europe?
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Explorer Regions and Sections
01 June, 2015
By April Stuart
The number of Grants-in-Aid applications for this year’s cycle of awards once again was tremendous. The Foundation is awarding $239,000 to 121 master’s and doctoral students studying various fields of geoscience – more than any year before in number of dollars granted.
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Explorer Foundation Update
01 June, 2015