Explorer Article

The next big thing? There's nothing passive about the rush toward passive seismic.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the relationship between chance of success for a drilling prospect and various possible outcomes of recoverable reserves. Such confusion could lead to bad E&P business decisions.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Sometimes folks who are dedicated to the status quo, or to a particular philosophy or procedure, may come up with perverse interpretations of data that challenge their existing reference-frames.

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Explorer Article

They're young, they're old, male and female, company men and independent strivers. What, then, makes these varied people successful oil finders?

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Explorer Article

Too much information: When it comes to oil and gas exploration, how much data is enough -- and when is it too much?

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Most of the 'E' part of the E&P business has, by now, embraced the main principles of probabilistic risk analysis:

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

Most of us recall from childhood the Indian fable of the six blind men describing the elephant. In E&P Risk Analysis, it becomes an excellent parable to illustrate how limited perspective leads to overly narrow predictive ranges, and how group wisdom can be a practical remedy.

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Explorer Article

'Once the domestic rig count plunged from a high of about 4,500 in 1981 to about 700 in 1986, it never really recovered,' noted Dan Smith, AAPG president, during the APPEX 'Power Lunch' presentation in Houston. 'Clearly, we must do something about this.'

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Explorer Article

The most ambitious Distinguished Lecture effort in the program's history is announced for 2002-03.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

A global assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources has led to some surprising geologic insights regarding petroleum systems.

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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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