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The Cambodian Institute of Technology (ITC) - locally known as 'Techno' - got a major boost recently in the capital city of Phnom Penh when another donation of textbooks was finalized by the AAPG Publications Pipeline Committee.

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The AAPG-AAPG Foundation Distinguished Lecture program, the Association's flagship initiative for sharing the latest in scientific thought, concepts and advances, starts its new season in November with a lecture tour of North America.

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While the outcry against the petroleum industry drilling in residential areas is as high as ever, a small, privately-held petroleum and real estate company in Midland, Texas, is making headlines for pulling off what some might consider an impossible feat: creating communities where people are willingly moving onto active oil and gas fields and living harmoniously with t he industry.

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Energy Policy Blog

The StatesFirst working group on induced seismicity just released its report,” Potential Injection-Induced Seismicity Associated with Oil & Gas Development: A Primer on Technical and Regulatory Considerations Informing Risk Management and Mitigation.” The report describes the causes of and ways to prevent induced earthquakes. It also looks at the interaction between regulators and the public, and the report includes case studies of how states have responded to instances of suspected induced seismicity in California, Oklahoma, Ohio, Illinois, and Colorado.

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In April 2015, the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), proposed an array of new regulations to protect human health and the environment from oil spills. One of these proposals included more stringent design requirements and operational procedures for critical well control equipment for offshore wells.

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Europe Blog

Meet Fidel Onichabor from Seplat Petroleum Development Co. who is a featured speaker at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. This talk will discuss the enormous potential of the onshore Niger Delta as discovered in recent integrated regional evaluation efforts.

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Africa Blog

Meet Fidel Onichabor from Seplat Petroleum Development Co. who is a featured speaker at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. This talk will discuss the enormous potential of the onshore Niger Delta as discovered in recent integrated regional evaluation efforts.

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Europe Blog

Meet Catriona O’Rourke from Wood Mackenzie who is a featured speaker at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. This talk will discuss past present & future exploration in the region and what it takes to create value under the current industry cycle.

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Europe Blog

Meet Øystein Lie from PGS who is a featured speaker at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. The talk focus on a new area open for exploration offshore the Western Desert of Egypt where approximately 5,00- line km of new geophysical data is tentatively planned to be acuired during the first quarter of 2016.

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Europe Blog

Meet Toyin Akinosho from Africa Oil+Gas Report who is a featured speaker at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. The talk will highlight the rich pickings, those who are selling and those who are buying, as well as the incentives for buying exploration, near term and producing assets.

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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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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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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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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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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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