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World oil production will reach a peak plateau by 2020-40. This was one of several key implications of a Hedberg Research Conference released at the AAPG Annual Convention in Long Beach.
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The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is all about science.
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Alternative energy is where it’s at these days in the minds of plenty of folks who are looking at the potential market for some mighty esoteric sources in some cases.
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Emphasis: Rocky Mountain Roundup

 

During a luncheon talk at the 2006 AAPG Annual Convention in Houston, speaker Peter Dea predicted the Rocky Mountains would become the kingpin of domestic natural gas production owing principally to unconventional reservoir development.

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The Rocky Mountains are the locus of a virtual beehive of industry activity these days.

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They sit on sofas, around coffee tables and on outdoor rocks in the backyard -- sometimes with grandparents and wives and brothers and sisters -- talking the way those in documentaries usually talk.

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Standing Columns

AAPG Pioneer Award winner for 2007 W. Herbert Hunt, of Petro-Hunt in Dallas, has joined the AAPG Foundation Trustee Associates.
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The convention in Long Beach was a huge success by any measure.

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One more annual meeting is “in the books,” and before we can get into a too contemplative mood we are starting to work on the charges, recommendations and ideas from the meeting.

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There is general agreement on the necessity of transition to alternative energy sources, including nuclear power.

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Theoretical models have been developed at the Bureau of Economic Geology that relate formation velocity and resistivity to hydrate concentration (Cgh) in deepwater, near-seafloor sediments.

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After checking in to my hotel in Long Beach at the beginning of the recent annual meeting -- weary from a cross country flight -- and as I was schlepping my luggage across the lobby to the elevators, a familiar voice of a AAPG member and longstanding acquaintance from across the lobby greeted me with:

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The technical program and registration both will be available in early June for the AAPG European Region Energy Conference and Exhibition, which will be held Nov. 18-21 in Athens, Greece.
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