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Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Deep Lower Tertiary Playing Well

When Chevron in September announced a flow test of 6,000 barrels of oil per day from its Jack 2 well -- which tapped the Lower Tertiary age deposits in the Walker Ridge area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico -- and simultaneously noted potential reserves as high as 15 billion barrels for the region, the mainstream media hype machine kicked into high gear.

Added on 01 November, 2006

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Shales Require Creative Approaches

Challenges in both new and old shale gas plays are forcing operators into innovative approaches.

Added on 01 November, 2006

Explorer Article

Bouma Picked for Powers

Arnold H. Bouma, who has a sequence named after him because of his discovery of dividing deepwater turbidites into intervals, has been named the 2007 recipient of the Sidney Powers Memorial Award.

Added on 01 November, 2006

Explorer Article

Five DL Tours Set in November

November will be a busy month for AAPG’s Distinguished Lecture program with six speakers offering their talks.

Added on 01 November, 2006

Explorer Article By Susan Eaton

Cleats Are Keys to Solid Footing

Coalbed methane can be described as a permeability “challenged” reservoir.

Added on 01 November, 2006

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Bob Hardage,Michael DeAngelo

S-Wave Analysis of Fracture Systems

Most rocks are anisotropic, meaning that their elastic properties are different when measured in different directions.

Added on 01 October, 2006

Explorer Article

Carpathian Memoir a Thorough Volume

AAPG’s newest Special Publication – a memoir five years in the making – is intended to provide a valuable source of information on the entire spectrum of regional and applied geology of the Carpathian.

Added on 01 October, 2006

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Antarctica: Too Risky for Business?

The continent of Antarctica is distinctive in myriad ways, including its massive ice cap, mountain peaks and intriguing penguin population. It also has the distinction of being the only continent in the world where an oil exploration well has never been drilled.

Added on 01 October, 2006

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Politics Pose Sakhalin Questions

Call it a Russian miracle. Despite political, environmental and economic pressures, Russia’s Sakhalin oil and gas projects continue to advance.

Added on 01 October, 2006

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Aussie Potential Being Tapped

If you're looking to get in on some big-time E&P action, head “down under” to Western Australia -- it’s a rockin’ scene these days.

Added on 01 October, 2006

VG Abstract By Juan I. Soto

Salt versus Shales in Continental Margins and Orogens

In comparison with the known boundary conditions that promote salt deformation and flow in sedimentary basins, the processes involved with the mobilization of clay-rich detrital sediments are far less well established. This talk will use seismic examples in different tectonic settings to document the variety of shale geometries that can be formed under brittle and ductile deformations.

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Added on 26 June, 2019

DL Abstract By Kurt W. Rudolph

Tectonic Controls on Source Rock Deposition

While there are many habitats that are associated with the deposition of organic-rich marine and lacustrine source rocks, one important pathway is linked to the onset of increased basin subsidence associated with major tectonic events. A key aspect is that this subsidence is spatially variable, with the uplift of basin flanks contemporaneous with the foundering of the basin center, resulting in a steeper basin profile.

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Added on 14 September, 2023

DL Abstract By John Suppe

Probing What Makes the Crust Strong (or Weak): Insight from Boreholes, Earthquakes, Active Fault Systems, and Toy Models

For well over a century there have been conflicting indications of the strength of the crust and of faults and what controls them. Much of our ignorance comes quite naturally from the general inaccessibility of the crust to measurement--in contrast with our understanding of the atmosphere, which is much more accessible to observation as well as more rapidly changing. Crustal strength is best understood in deforming sedimentary basins where the petroleum industry has made great contributions, particularly in deforming petroleum basins because of the practical need to predict. In this talk we take a broad look at key issues in crustal strength and deformation and what we can learn from boreholes, earthquakes, active fault systems, and toy models.

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Added on 14 September, 2023

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