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This Fact Sheet, compiled by the AAPG Division of Environmental Geosciences, addresses groundwater and the Underground Injection Control (UIC) well fracturing concerns under the SDWA.

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Got an aging oil or gas field that's on its proverbial last leg? Not to worry - the tonic du jour is integrated reservoir characterization.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance tools are becoming a standard part of the logging suite for many oil companies, and for good reason.

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Just a few short years ago many oil industry observers were calling the Gulf of Mexico the 'Dead Sea.'

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Deep water and subsalt plays are the two hottest exploration frontiers in the Gulf of Mexico and searching for structures below the salt in waters thousands of feet deep is the most exciting play with the greatest potential for reward vs. the risk.

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The oil and gas business continues to be among the crown jewels of the United Kingdom's economy, sustaining an impressive performance for over three decades -- and through innovative approaches, officials mean to keep it that way.

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Everyone knows Greenland has oil. But the exploration areas are so frontier they make Dodge City look like the middle of Manhattan, and so far no one has caught a glimpse of commercial Greenland production. So who will be first?

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The American Association of Petroleum Geologists, an international organization of over 30,000 earth scientists, supports scientifically designed, state-based environmental oversight of hydraulic fracturing treatments for those coalbed methane and other hydrocarbon wells that may occur near zones of potable water.

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On the arid high plains of northeast Wyoming, the town of Gillette has become a bona fide boomtown. And it's coalbed methane creating the frenzy. The Powder River Basin has become the site of the hottest natural gas play in the country, a region most so-called experts wrote off as a wasteland for the gas.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance wireline tools have become an important part of many companies' operations. How important? Case studies from wells in the Gulf of Mexico and on the Gulf Coast illustrate just what NMR can add to the overall downhole picture.

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