This July will mark the 28th anniversary of the 1983 discovery of the giant Caño Limón field (1.1 Billion BO reserves) in Colombia’s Llanos Basin by Oxy Colombia, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum.
Headlines proclaimed the news that automobile drivers already knew: Crude oil and gasoline prices marched ever higher as spring began. In fact, crude oil set a record of “highest March price ever.”
EMD’s Energy Economics and Technology Committee is a resource center for individuals with interests in business, planning and forecasting aspects of the energy industries.
Just one year ago drilling in the off-limits eastern Gulf of Mexico appeared to be on the cusp of getting the green light from the U.S. government as calls for “drill, baby, drill” emanated from politicians as well as the ordinary Joe.
AAPG award-winning geologist Tony Doré once almost tossed a budding career in geology to hit the road with his guitar.
About 10 years ago there was major buzz and much hand wringing over predictions of big time natural gas shortages for the United States.
In the mid-continent Mississippi Lime, it’s the same song and a totally new verse – with a challenging geological chorus.
There is no greater reward to a programmer than seeing his or her creation being used by the target audience!
The annual meeting of AAPG is one of the best opportunities I have to hear from the membership. Nothing tops the face-to-face conversation for communication and this ACE was no different.
We are at the annual meeting in Houston and I am in the Communications booth of the AAPG Center.
Carbon capture and sequestration reduces emissions, but it cannot work past cost barriers without the revenue opportunities provided by utilization and storage.
Nihal Darraj, carbon capture and storage researcher at Imperial College, London shares barriers to CCUS commercialization, including costs, technology, permitting and more.
The Paris Basin offers times of both discoveries and failures, from its first well drilled near Normandy in the 1920s to today.
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.