Middle East Blog
By Cora Navarro
The second edition of the AAPG Stratigraphic Traps of the Middle East workshop took place on 11 – 13 December 2017 at the Shangri-La Barr Al Jissah hotel, Muscat, Oman. This year we had seventy two attendees from ten different countries.
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Added on 20 December, 2017
Middle East Blog
By Cora Navarro
The Field Seminar: Strike-Slip Tectonics, Tectono-Stratigraphy And Petroleum Systems Of The Levant Restraining Bend In Lebanon will take place in Beirut, Lebanon from 26-28 April 2018.
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Added on 17 December, 2017
Africa Blog
By Delia Kuye
AAPG Africa Region celebrates the successful delivery of a book shipment to the University de Lubumbashi in the DRC. This shipment was sponsored fully by the AAPG foundation.
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Added on 11 December, 2017
Explorer Historical Highlights
By Peter Baillie
Australia’s first offshore well heralded a new era of hydrocarbon independence for a continent previously thought to have “the wrong geology” to host significant oil and gas deposits. This success did not come easily – the early history of oil exploration in eastern Australia was long and frustrating, and not very successful.
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Added on 01 December, 2017
Explorer Geophysical Corner
By Kurt Marfurt,Ritesh Sharma,Satinder Chopra
The definition of accurate horizons is critical to the construction of the low-frequency component of the impedance model used in seismic impedance inversion.
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Added on 01 December, 2017
Explorer Division Column DEG
By Stephen Testa
Our industry, science and profession have been taking note of the importance of being prominent and proactive in assuring the public and other stakeholders that the energy extraction industry implements environmental stewardship in a manner equivalent to its skill and innovation in extracting the oil, gas and minerals that society needs.
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Added on 01 December, 2017
Explorer Emphasis Article
By Louise Durham
The Energy and Environmental Science & Technology Directorate at the Idaho National Laboratory has scientists working diligently to better understand how fluids might flow through the small pores in shales where the silt- and clay-size particles can measure as small as less than 0.004 millimeters.
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Added on 01 December, 2017
Explorer Emphasis Article
By Louise Durham
Big Oil’s next big gusher will happen at a tiny, tiny scale, according to scientists at IBM.
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Added on 01 December, 2017
Explorer Article
By Erin Potter Sullenger
The industry might be tempted to relax or postpone environmental compliance activities, especially those that might be new or expensive. Succumbing to this temptation is risky and could prove more costly in the long run.
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Added on 01 December, 2017
Explorer Article
By David Brown
We’ve already seen some of the oilfield invention and innovation that will happen during the rest of this century. In science fiction films.
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Added on 01 December, 2017