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The upcoming House of Delegates meeting, which will take place April 1 at the AAPG Annual Convention in Long Beach, Calif., promises to be a very important meeting for AAPG.
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Emphasis: Annual Convention

 

Petroleum is serious business in California and is as much a part of the state’s genealogy as starlets, freeways and movie stars turned governors -- maybe more so.

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Rocks always held a special fascination for young Arnold Bouma as he wandered around the natural-gas rich fields near his hometown of Groningen, The Netherlands, turning over stones and puzzling at their shapes and composition.

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It’s always fortunate when an organization has a recognized go-to person it can rely on to assume a position of leadership to rally the membership to accomplish its target goals.

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It’s a complex and competitive world for exploration. Expensive, too.

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It’s unusual for researchers to predict where future exploration will discover elephants, the world’s largest oil and gas fields. It’s even more unusual when they turn out to be right.

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“Geopolitics and headlines have been controlling oil prices for easily the past seven years,” noted Michael J. Economides.

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Recent, somewhat dramatic price swings in oil and natural gas futures have done little to dampen the overall optimistic outlook pervading the industry.

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As the massive economies of China and India tap into valuable mineral resources worldwide, the fallout is stretching far beyond the Asian geographic sphere of influence.

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Lee Gerhard has a challenge for you: “Defend the sciences ... Do a better job of critical reading and analysis. Separate fact from agenda.”

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For many outside the oil industry, the term scenic oil island may be something of an oxymoron, on the order of concerned banker or designer t-shirt.

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Admittedly angry over Big Oil’s big profits the past couple of years, a host of elected officials in the nation’s capital recently cobbled together a package of onerous proposed legislation designed to strip the industry of tax breaks and to force it to increase royalty payments.

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Are you a student who’s anxious to have a good start in your petroleum career?

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In the under-appreciated “The Two Jakes,” a 1990 film in part about the burgeoning oil deposits in the Los Angeles Basin circa 1940, we hear the line: " ... you might think you know what's going on around here, but ... you don't."

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What comes first – the geologist or the writer? For Susan Cummins Miller and Linda Jacobs, two geology mystery writers whose books will be offered in the AAPG Bookstore during the upcoming AAPG Annual Convention in Long Beach, Calif., the answer is: Yes.
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For the first time in over a decade, AAPG is returning to southern California for the 92nd Annual Convention and Exhibition, which will be held April 1-4 at the Long Beach Convention Center.
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Standing Columns

As you can tell, this is a special EXPLORER, because it is focused on our Annual Convention and Exhibition in Long Beach, Calif., which will be held April 1-4.

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It’s that time of year again -- time for the annual convention, AAPG’s main event for the year!

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This year’s DEG program at the AAPG Annual Convention in Long Beach, Calif., includes five technical sessions and the DEG luncheon and awards ceremony.

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One hydrocarbon exploration application that has caused multi-component seismic data to be acquired across several offshore areas is the ability of the converted-S mode to image geology inside broad, thick intervals of gas-charged sediment where P-P seismic data show no usable reflections.

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This month I want to highlight three items for member attention.

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On behalf of the Athens 2007 Organizing Committee we want to personally invite all AAPG members to join us for the unique occasion of this year’s European Region Energy Conference and Exhibition -- the first joint venture between AAPG and the AAPG European Region.

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