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Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

New Tech Predicts Fracturing Performance

A team of structural geologists and seismic processing geophysicists has developed what they believe is a potentially revolutionary technology that can help predict fracture performance before a well is ever drilled.

Added on 01 December, 2015

Explorer Article By Emily Llinás

U.S. Industry Offers Lessons in Earning Public Trust

The shale boom has propelled the United States oil and gas industry to a leading position, not just in production, but also in navigating the perilous waters of public opinion.

Added on 01 December, 2015

Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

India Gets Aggressive About Oil Exploration

While exploration has slowed in many parts of the world in response to the industry’s lagging downturn, India is moving full steam ahead to encourage exploration and production on a domestic and international scale.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Producing Dissolved Methane From Groundwater

Utah-based professional geologist and AAPG member Gary Player is the inventor and owner of a patent-pending process for extracting commercial quantities of dissolved natural gas from ground water existing in deep, saline aquifers.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Article By Kristi Eaton

AAPG Donates Textbooks to Cambodian University

The Cambodian Institute of Technology (ITC) - locally known as 'Techno' - got a major boost recently in the capital city of Phnom Penh when another donation of textbooks was finalized by the AAPG Publications Pipeline Committee.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Article By Brian Ervin

A Look Back At ICE 2015

This year's AAPG-SEG International Conference and Exhibition (ICE), held for the first time ever in Melbourne, Australia, was by all accounts a technical and networking success.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Article By Vern Stefanic

2016 Distinguished Lecturers

The AAPG-AAPG Foundation Distinguished Lecture program, the Association's flagship initiative for sharing the latest in scientific thought, concepts and advances, starts its new season in November with a lecture tour of North America.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Bulletin Article

Unreliable determination of in situ stress orientation by borehole breakouts in fractured tight reservoirs: A case study of the upper Eocene Hetaoyuan Formation in the Anpeng field, Nanxiang Basin, China

Borehole breakouts do not give an accurate measurement of in situ stress orientation in fractured tight reservoirs. An example is the discrepancy between the maximum horizontal principal compression stress derived from various methods in the Eocene Hetaoyuan Formation, Nanxiang Basin China

Added on 26 October, 2015

Bulletin Article

Source rock facies distribution predicted from oil geochemistry in the Central Sumatra Basin, Indonesia

Facies variations of source rock were determined from molecular and compound specific isotopic composition of the n-alkanes in oil from the Central Sumatra Basin. This study shows the variability of depositional environments that could generate potential source rock intervals.

Added on 26 October, 2015

Bulletin Article

The fluvial and lacustrine sedimentary systems and stratigraphic correlation in the Upper Triassic Xujiahe Formation in Sichuan Basin, China

Multidisciplinary interpretation of borehole images, cores, wireline logs, and seismic data is crucial to the construction of the regional transportation systems and the stratigraphic correlation in the Xujiahe Formation, Sichuan Basin, China. Three major sedimentary systems have been identified.

Added on 26 October, 2015

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