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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wwwUpdate Blog

The November issue of the AAPG Explorer is now online!

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Hot Items

Explorer Article

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 Article

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

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Explorer Article

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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Explorer Article

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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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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