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Blending of vintage 2-D seismic data and new 2-D spec seismic is helping map major faults by identifying even smaller structural features.Vintage 2-D seismic data

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In for the long haul: A new study says the Marcellus Shale play, already a headline grabber, may get even larger.

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Renaissance era: Geoscience research – often more practical than theoretical – is enjoying a strong revival.

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Explorer Regions and Sections

On the last day of the recent AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition in New Orleans nearly 150 people attended the third Professional Women in Earth Sciences Diversity Seminar, this year focusing on “The Economics of Diversity – Competing For and Leveraging Employee Diversity in a Global Petroleum Industry.”

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Explorer Policy Watch

It should come as no surprise that here at GEO-DC we spend a lot of time talking about energy and the future of energy.

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wwwUpdate Blog

In the upcoming Explorer the wwwUpdate tells you about the new feature those outside of the U.S. will experience. We’ve set up our home page to note the ISP through which you are accessing our website then it adds an appropriate banner for that region of the world.

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wwwUpdate Blog

Conjugate Margins in the Spotlight The June Explorer is posted.

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wwwUpdate Blog

I got some good news while on vacation. The word “website” has been embraced as the proper spelling for “Web site”.

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Explorer Policy Watch

The media had been buzzing all morning with news that the administration was planning to open additional areas of the outer continental shelf (OCS) to exploration and production as part of a new energy plan.

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Hot Items

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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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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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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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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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