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Explorer Historical Highlights By Jorge Navarro Comet

The Agua Caliente Oilfield and the Boiling River of the Peruvian Amazon

The presence of petroleum in Peru has been known for several centuries from the numerous oil seeps and outcrops of heavy black asphalt located in the Talara coastal region. Ages before the Spanish presence, the natives prepared the pitch for mummifying their dead, for waterproofing boats and as fuel for light. The earliest Spanish explorers used the pitch from these seeps to caulk their boats and tar their ropes. Finally, in 1869, the La Brea-Pariñas oilfield was discovered by cable-tool drilling, making it one of the first oil production fields in the world.

Added on 01 March, 2018

Delegates Voice Article By Dan Billman,David Entzminger

Urgent HoD Update: Seating of Delegates at the Annual Meeting

ACE 2018 will mark a change in Delegate seating. The House leadership wants to ensure every society/Region has full representation, and we want to follow our bylaws.

Added on 06 February, 2018

wwwUpdate Blog

Don't miss your chance to nominate the best of the best!

We know they're out there ... tell us who they are. Help us identify those who are making a difference with their excellence in achievements and contributions to our science, our profession and our Association. Two months remain to submit a nomination recognizing those who continue to make AAPG a valuable asset to the industry and the world of geosciences.

Added on 05 February, 2018

Explorer Historical Highlights By Keith James

Not Written in Stone

The Plate tectonic paradigm – “the unifying theory of geology” – has just turned 50. In 2017, the Geological Society of London’s William Smith Meeting celebrated this historical occasion, perhaps with a touch of self-congratulation, but with little discussion of alternative ideas.

Added on 01 February, 2018

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

Exploring the Vast Potential of Middle America: Interview with Keith H. James, Innovators in Geosciences

Middle America is the location of important new discoveries, is in many ways, still unknown. Middle America refers to the vast region that includes the area between southern North America and northern South America, including the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and offshore South America.

Added on 10 January, 2018

Explorer Emphasis Article By Barry Friedman

Gulf of Mexico: Where Big Fields Are Getting Bigger

Cindy Yeilding of BP America discusses the production history and geology of one of the world’s most prolific hydrocarbon super basins.

Added on 01 January, 2018

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Mexico's Sureste Basin

The resurgence of the Permian Basin in the United States led directly to the concept of the “super basin”: a mature basin that can be rejuvenated to produce as much or more oil and gas than it has so far. Another archetype for super basins lies 1,000 miles southeast of the Permian, in the onshore/offshore Sureste Basin of Mexico.

Added on 01 January, 2018

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

The Imminent Age of the Super Basin

Can super basins save the planet? IHS Markit, the international industry analysis firm, estimates the world will need to replace production of more than 14.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent annually by the year 2040.

Added on 01 January, 2018

Delegates Voice Article By David Entzminger

Announcing AAPG's House of Delegates' New Honorees

The House of Delegates has approved the list of 2018 HoD honors and award winners.

Added on 14 December, 2017

wwwUpdate Blog By David Entzminger

Announcing AAPG's House of Delegates' New Honorees

The House of Delegates has approved the list of 2018 HoD honors and award winners.

Added on 07 December, 2017

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Northern Rocky Mountain Geological Highway Map - Download

Added on 21 April, 2009

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Anomalies: Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology 1917-2017

Robbie Rice Gries

Added on 16 March, 2018

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Memoir 113: Giant Fields of the Decade 2000-2010

Edited by R. K. Merrill and C. A. Sternbach

Added on 01 September, 2017

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Pinedale Field: Case Study of a Giant Tight Gas Sandstone Reservoir

Edited by Mark W. Longman, Stephen R. Kneller, Thomas S. Meyer and Mark A. Chapin

This memoir contains 15 well-illustrated, peer-reviewed chapters that describe the history of field development, the deposition and diagenesis of the reservoir rocks, geophysical characteristics of the field, special core analysis techniques used to better quantify the reservoir, petrophysical characteristics and interpretations of the reservoir, the types and abundance of natural fractures, and fluid production characteristics in the field. Finally, static and dynamic models for the field are presented in an attempt to integrate all the pieces of this giant geologic puzzle.

Added on 15 April, 2015

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Atlas of Natural and Induced Fractures in Core

This volume is an ultimate resource for reading the story and history of fractures in rocks from core. It is a “must-have” volume for all who have, or wish to have, an intimate knowledge of the rocks they work with from a fracture point of view. (Product #1300. Member price $150 / List price $150.)

Added on 01 September, 2018

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Memoir 112: Imaging Unconventional Reservoir Pore Systems

This volume will prove useful to anyone interested in the methods for observing and quantifying the pore systems that control hydrocarbon storage and flow in unconventional reservoirs. (Product #1281. Member price $144 / List price $339.)

Added on 01 July, 2018

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MEMOIR 100: Tectonics and Sedimentation: Implications for Petroleum Systems

This 18-chapter volume is small enough to focus on the interplay among tectonics, sedimentation, and petroleum systems. Yet it is big enough to cover the diversity of structural styles in important petroliferous sedimentary basins around the globe. Product #1174. Price: Member $174 / List $174.

Added on 01 December, 2018

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Studies in Geology 56: Atlas of Deep-water Outcrops

A collection of both qualitative and quantitative data on deep-water outcrops from around the world, this volume contains 154 chapters, and includes papers on all seven continents and 21 countries. Product #736. Price: Member $189/List $239.

Added on 01 January, 2018

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