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To know where you’re going, sometimes you have to know where you are.

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Take a look through the U.S. perspective regarding the development of energy fuels world wide.

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Looking beyond the next 10 years investors are starting to inquire about how the global climate changes will impact the investments they are making today.

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Thanks to stubbornly-high commodity prices, record profits are being rung up at a host of oil and gas firms. For the most part they're using the accruing volumes of cash to pay down debt and spruce up their financial standing in general.

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The energy industry is at a crossroads — petroleum is in the rearview mirror and a methane-based economy is squarely ahead.

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The Middle East dominates the world's energy scene, the world's politics, the world's media focus — and in Dallas, the Middle East will again be in the spotlight.

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Embrace the Future, Celebrate the Past: It's time for the Association's 89th annual meeting, which will be held this month at the Dallas Convention Center.

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Thirty winters ago, the world was jolted to find how important oil is in their lives.

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Planning to attend the AAPG Annual Meeting in Dallas? If so, an important deadline looms this month.

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An energy blueprint for the next 50 years in the Pacific Rim is now available in DVD format from the AAPG Bookstore.

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The South American country of Suriname has launched an aggressive campaign to ramp up offshore oil production.

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Adventure enthusiasts should enjoy the story of Angelo Pitoni, a larger- than-life geologist whose story includes exploits rivaling any of those portrayed on the big screen. This article focuses specifically on a chapter of his life that took place in my country, Venezuela, and forms part of our country’s oil exploration history.

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Brazil’s famed “Father of the Pre-Salt,” Guilherme de Oliveira Estrella, is credited with several major oil discoveries and with advances in petroleum systems research.

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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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An influx of recent mergers and acquisitions has brought even more operators to the Permian, and there are some regions where there is still much geoscience to be done. 

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