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Distinguished Lecture Tours Set for November

Three speakers from the AAPG-AAPG Foundation’s Global Distinguished Lecture Program will be on tour in November, making stops in the western parts of North America and throughout the Asia-Pacific Region.

Added on 01 November, 2014

Explorer Emphasis Article By Kristi Eaton

Oklahoma Center is Part of GE's Global R&D Push

Construction continues for the new GE Global Research’s Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma City – part of the company’s three-year effort to triple R&D investment in the oil and gas industry. The $125 million facility “will be an incubator for new innovative technologies that will enable safe, efficient and reliable exploration, production, delivery and use of unconventional oil and gas.”

Added on 01 November, 2014

Explorer Emphasis Article By Ken Milam

MOOSE Offers Real-World Geophysical Modeling

MOOSE – Multiphysics Object-Oriented Simulation Environment – is a software platform designed to make predictive modeling and simulation faster and easier.

Added on 01 November, 2014

Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

Imperial Barrel Award 2015 – Apply Now

Team registrations are now being accepted for this year’s AAPG-AAPG Foundation’s Imperial Barrel Award program (IBA), an annual prospective basin evaluation competition for geoscience graduate students from universities around the world.

Added on 01 November, 2014

Explorer Regions and Sections By Adrienne Pereira

AAPG Holds Inaugural Myanmar Conference

AAPG held its first conference in Myanmar in August. The technical program titled “Tectonic Evolution of Myanmar and its Basin Development with Special References to its Petroleum Occurrences” was attended by 238 local and international delegates from 16 countries.

Added on 01 October, 2014

Explorer Historical Highlights By Eiichi Sasaki

Toyokawa Field Yields Oil, Prehistoric Asphalt

The Toyokawa field is a small oil field, covering an area of about six square kilometers, located in northeastern Japan’s Akita Prefecture. The hillock area where the Toyokawa oil field is situated formerly was covered with natural asphalt (tar) deposits that had erupted from the subsurface. The current scenery resembles the famous La Brea Tar Pit in Los Angeles.

Added on 01 October, 2014

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Coiled Tubing For Prospecting Drilling

Coiled tubing (CT) has long been used to meet various needs in the oil and gas industry. In some instances, it is used to actually drill a well.

Added on 01 October, 2014

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

Unconventionals Update - Short Course

Learn the latest technologies being successfully applied in the main unconventional plays, and how the knowledge can be applied to other plays world wide.

Added on 15 September, 2014

Explorer ProTracks By Reetu Ragini,Sarah Sausan

YPs Thrive in SE Asia

AAPG Young Professionals (YPs) in the Asia-Pacific Region are quickly moving toward establishing a strong YP group in Indonesia.

Added on 01 September, 2014

Explorer Historical Highlights By Jean Laherrere

Refraction Sparked Huge African Discoveries

Saharan fields Hassi Messaoud (10 Gb reserves, discovered in 1956) and Hassi R’Mel (100 Tcf gas plus 2.4 Gb condensate reserves, discovered in 1957) are by far the largest oil field and the largest gas field in Africa

Added on 01 September, 2014

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