Explorer Policy Watch

What is your reaction to terms like 'Web 2.0' or 'social networking?' Are all those invitations to be friends on Facebook or MySpace, network on LinkedIn or Plaxo – the list goes on and on – stacked at the bottom of your e-mail inbox, awaiting some indeterminate future action? Do you use blogs as a means to gather or communicate information? To parody a widely played U.S. television ad, have you “found the Internet?”

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Explorer Division Column EMD

Gas shales have advanced to an economic gas play since the year 2000 thanks to a combination of high gas prices, shale reservoir characterization and advances in drilling and completion technology.

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Explorer President’s Column

The U.S. election for president is upon us. The world is watching; as goes the U.S. economy, so goes the global economy.

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Explorer Article

Twenty-nine audio-video presentations from this year’s AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition in San Antonio have been posted toSearch and Discovery, AAPG’s electronic journal.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

The learning curve: Getting small independent producers to embrace 3-D seismic was a process that depended as much on education as on success.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Put your best guess forward: A lot of questions cloud the outlook for geophysical activities in the coming year.

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Explorer Article

State-of-the-art technology is fine, but sometimes the best path to North Sea success is to rely on “old fashioned geology.”

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Explorer Article

Small companies are now exploring with the Big Boys in the offshore of Nova Scotia.

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Explorer Article

Strong demand from both old and new unconventional plays is having a huge impact on drilling technology – and on rig availability as well.

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The November issue of the AAPG Explorer is now online!

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Explorer Director’s Corner

Perhaps you did a double take pulling the April issue of EXPLORER from the mailbox. What is this? If you joined AAPG in the last 40 years, you’ve only known EXPLORER in its long-standing tabloid format. It worked well for many years as our advertisers – particularly seismic companies – loved the large format and the ability to display their data on a sweeping canvas. For readers, it was a little more awkward.

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Explorer Article

Nihal Darraj, carbon capture and storage researcher at Imperial College, London shares barriers to CCUS commercialization, including costs, technology, permitting and more. 

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Explorer Historical Highlights

The Paris Basin offers times of both discoveries and failures, from its first well drilled near Normandy in the 1920s to today. 

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Explorer Article

Carbon capture and sequestration reduces emissions, but it cannot work past cost barriers without the revenue opportunities provided by utilization and storage. 

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