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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

What's the most effective way to organize an E&P outfit?

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There was a virtual smorgasbord of invaluable information disseminated to the SRO audience during the Dealmakers segment of the recent, highly-successful AAPG Prospect and Property Expo (APPEX) meeting in Houston. Presentations covered a plethora of topics, including capital sourcing, A&D market conditions, establishing a toehold overseas and more.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

All experienced earth scientists, engineers and decision-makers will readily admit that uncertainty is an inherent part of the oil business -- however, they will debate whether uncertainty creates opportunity or creates problems.

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AAPG's Distinguished Lecture program, which only a few years ago became a truly global effort, is ready to once again cover the planet with speakers for the 2001-2002 season.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Petroleum exploration is a 'repeated trials game.' Whether you are a career prospector generating a succession of drilling deals, or exploration vice president of an oil and gas company overseeing an annual prospect portfolio, you are engaged in a series of risk ventures whose individual outcomes are each uncertain.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Many companies now recognize the need for a consistent, systematic process for evaluating all their E&P opportunities.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

An almost universal requirement for team leaders, exploration managers or exploration executives is setting, tracking and fulfilling goals -- objectives that usually relate to reserve additions and finding costs.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

In the early days of E&P risk analysis, one of the most widely used terms was “most likely,” representing some perceived intermediate outcome.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

This month we’ll discuss effective methods for estimating existence factors - our confidence (= probability) that key geologic requirements such as HC-charge, reservoir and closure have been satisfied in the subsurface by Mother Nature.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Finding opportunities is the fun part of the exploration business, the value-adding part. It involves new geography, new geology, new tools, secrecy -- and the competitive excitement of the hunt! However, if we are to stay in business, the measurement part is also important.

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Climate change is not only happening in the atmosphere but also in the anthroposphere; in some ways the former could drive or exacerbate the latter, with extreme weather excursions and extreme excursions from societal norms occurring all over the earth. Accomplishing geoscience for a common goal – whether that is for successful business activities, resource assessment for public planning, mitigating the impacts of geological hazards, or for the sheer love of furthering knowledge and understanding – can and should be done by a workforce that is equitably developed and supported. Difficulty arises when the value of institutional programs to increase equity and diversity is not realized.

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