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Explorer Historical Highlights By Bernard Duval

Creative Thinking Led to Mahakam Success

Despite the fact that exploration in the Mahakam Delta started more than 40 years ago, with large discoveries made in the mid-1970s, plans are being considered to develop and redevelop several gas fields of the area.

Added on 01 September, 2011

Explorer Historical Highlights By Naomoto Komatsu

Pioneer Map Charted Anticlinal Structures

At first glance the structural contour map and the cross section shown here look as if they had been published in the late 1920s by AAPG in the “Structure of Typical American Oil Fields” memoir.

Added on 01 August, 2011

Explorer Article By Jeff Aldrich

Unconventionals Will Get Global Showcase at Milan ICE

The fast-approaching AAPG International Conference and Exhibition in Milan will showcase – in association with EMD – a comprehensive unconventional resources program with global scope, ranging in scale from the nanopore to the petroleum system, exploring the latest in applied geoscience and engineering.

Added on 01 August, 2011

Explorer Regions and Sections By Michael McWalter

PNG Gas Finds Push LNG Plans

It is a little over 25 years since the Iagifu 2-X well drilled by Niugini Gulf Oil discovered Papua New Guinea’s first commercial oil field – the Kutubu field, which was put into production in 1992 by Chevron Niugini Pty Ltd. after they acquired the assets of Gulf Oil.

Added on 01 July, 2011

Explorer Historical Highlights By Peter Newman

Todd Went Where the Oil Was

A winning strategy: When geologist Don Todd was told that Indonesia had a lot of oil in the ground, he knew immediately what his next career move would be.

Added on 01 July, 2011

Explorer Article

Joint Core Workshop a Hit

A collaboration between PESA and AAPG resulted in a two-day core workshop being run in Perth, West Australia, on the Giant Fields of the North West Shelf, Australia.

Added on 01 April, 2011

Explorer Article By Louise Durham

A Gas Find of Leviathan Proportions

The Biblical land of milk and honey, aka Israel, has long been considered a kind of enigma in the oil-rich Middle East.

Added on 01 April, 2011

Explorer Historical Highlights By Rasoul Sorkhabi

Seeps Helped, But Success Was a Higher Calling

Historical Highlight: The Miri Field was discovered in 1910 in northwest Borneo and one year later it produced 1,950 barrels of oil.

Added on 01 March, 2011

Explorer Regions and Sections By Carol McGowen

Work Begins On Singapore 2012 ICE

The 2012 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition (ICE) will be held in late September in Singapore, with meeting dates subject to final confirmation once the Formula One schedule for 2012 is released.

Added on 01 February, 2011