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AAPG President Charles Sternbach likes to quote the late Marlan Downey, a past AAPG president, about the secrets to a successful career in the profession. “Go where the energy is.” And in London, during the Discovering Thinking seminar at this year’s ICE, Sternbach, along with others, will revisit the world’s most petroliferous basins with new technology.

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Canada Blog

Charles Sternbach’s keynote address to the CSPG and AAPG Canada Region’s monthly luncheon this week was 'The Permian Basin (Prototype Super Basins) and Other Super Basins: Discovery Thinking, Innovation and Lessons'. It was a terrific talk, presented to a great gathering.

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Explorer Foundation Update

Bob Esser, a longtime AAPG Foundation Trustee Associate who for nearly 25 years has kept the group informed and often entertained regarding the current state of the petroleum industry, has been named the recipient of the 2017 Trustee Associates Service Award.

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Explorer Division Column DEG

As a candidate in 2016, “the Donald” introduced a new plan: his “America First Energy Plan.”

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Explorer Article

Mountains of oil and gas data production data are available, but many in the industry distrust and disregard it because of imperfect information and poorly regulated reporting standards. Despite these misgivings, Sean Clifford, an operations support reservoir engineer at Apache Corp., says public data can become a valuable tool.

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Latin America Blog

Join geoscientists, engineers and technology experts as they share strategies and solutions for operating efficiently and effectively during challenging economic times.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

Earlier last month I opened the 2015 biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance and spent the weekend learning about this visionary and controversial polymath and entrepreneur.

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Explorer President’s Column

Helping all our members add to the global energy supply is AAPG’s prime goal and will be for a very long time. Research shows that we have underestimated petroleum systems. Combine that with our ever-improving ability to extract energy sources from nano-scale spaces, and we have an energy revolution.

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Explorer Article

The AAPG Foundation recently announced the awarding of more than $100,000 to undergraduate students, geoscience student-led groups and seven military veterans, all part of its initiative of supporting geoscience education.

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Explorer Article

Acting with a goal of “geopolitical security,” U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke has begun a heavy push to open Alaska’s oil-rich, yet off-limits, federally-owned areas after decades of legislation and land management policies have kept some of them essentially out of reach.

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Workshop
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tuesday, 18 February Wednesday, 19 February 2025, 7:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Join us for AAPG Orphan, Abandoned, Idle and Marginal Wells Conference 2025. This workshop will focus on orphan, abandoned, idle, and marginal wells and the business opportunities and technology associated with plugging and repurposing wells, reducing methane emissions, protecting water supplies, and extending the lives of marginal wells.

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Field Seminar
Houston, Texas
Saturday, 1 February 2025, 8:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Everyone in Houston lives within a few miles of a bayou. Some people think of them as permanent, but the bayous are constantly changing, especially during high water events like Hurricane Harvey. This trip is a 2.5 mile walk down a section of Buffalo Bayou where we will look at the archives of past storms and discuss what to do for future storms.

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DL Abstract

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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DL Abstract

The Energy sector is a changing business environment. Throughout the 20th century fluctuations of oil supply and demand produced changes in the barrel price that pushed the growth or shrinkage of the industry. In this 21st century, new challenges such as diversification of the energy mix, boosting gas demand, require the exploration of critical minerals and development of new technologies as well.

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