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AAPG member Ed Capen remembers well the birth of A joint AAPG-SPE meeting on 'Delivering E&P Performance in the Face of Risk and Uncertainty: Best Practices and Barriers to Progress,' is scheduled Feb. 20-24 in Galveston, Texas.the phrase “winner’s curse” – and he has more to say about the subject of bidding strategy.

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The first steps have been taken in an intersociety effort to create a Certification of Petroleum Reserves Evaluators program.

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A new century has brought new challenges to the Circum Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, which is taking steps to expand and enhance its role in the region's energy future.

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When once-rampant drilling activity in a region begins declining and the majors begin losing interest, 'it's all drilled up' becomes the common refrain.

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Brian Maxted, one of his generation's most successful oil finders, has looked around the world and says plenty of work remains for companies and professionals willing to take on the challenges of exploration.

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Ethics, Policy, Certification DPA Dealing with Practical Issues

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Brian Maxted, one of his generation’s most successful oil finders, probed the past and future of exploration during his Michel T. Halbouty Lecture at this year’s AAPG Annual Meeting in Dallas.

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There's nothing closer to a rockhound's heart than the historically edifying field trip, where legions of geologists spend days scurrying up and down the outcrop with rock hammer, hand lens and notebook in hand.

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The old question about reserve estimates: How much oil does the earth have? The new question: Does anyone have any idea?

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'Look West Young Man' comes to mind as many turn their gaze from West Africa and its exciting discoveries, to the potential in Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

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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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