Explorer Emphasis Article

When OPEC announced a six-month agreement to curb production and reduce the world’s crude-supply surplus, skeptics quickly observed that a lot of people would have to keep their promises in order to make a meaningful dent in the world’s oil supply.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer Emphasis Article

The terms “resilient” and “flexible” are not often used to describe OPEC. But they might be the best two words to characterize the organization.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer Article

The forum will include presentations given by leading experts from companies who have been successfully operating in the basin.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer Article

Continuing our ongoing series, we look at how rising demand in the developing world will shape the global oil market of the next century.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Learn! Blog

New analytical techniques that work with a massive volume of data of extremely wide variety are enabling geoscientists and engineers to understand the nature and extent of reservoirs in ways never possible before. Welcome to an interview with Kamal Hami-Eddine, Paradigm, who explains big data and deep learning as they are being used today in the petroleum exploration and production.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Middle East Blog

Register now for the fourth edition of the E&P Data Management and Analytics workshop is jointly organized by SPE and AAPG. The event will be held from 27-29 March in Muscat, Oman

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer ProTracks

One subject missing from the industry conversation is – not just discussing how to help those colleagues in transition or offering advice to students looking for jobs – but actually doing something about those challenges.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer Policy Watch

AAPG Members around the world can help provide scientific and technical explanations to help guide new legislation and regulation.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer Division Column DPA

While 100 years is a great milestone, it is also true that our profession is younger than the other scientific professions that serve as cornerstones of our modern industrial society.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer President’s Column

When it comes to politics, there seems to be some confusion among Members regarding the differences between politics, policy, advocacy and legislation.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

Hot Items

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.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer Historical Highlights

The Paris Basin offers times of both discoveries and failures, from its first well drilled near Normandy in the 1920s to today. 

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer Article

Carbon capture and sequestration reduces emissions, but it cannot work past cost barriers without the revenue opportunities provided by utilization and storage. 

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Explorer Article

Nihal Darraj, carbon capture and storage researcher at Imperial College, London shares barriers to CCUS commercialization, including costs, technology, permitting and more. 

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

Headquarters Contacts

Susan Nash
Susan Nash Director, Innovation and Emerging Science and Technology, AAPG +1 405 314 7730