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Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

Doing Something About the Weather, and Bears

The University Centre in Svalbard, in the Norwegian high Arctic archipelago, has created a geoscientific database for high Arctic training and research, a unique approach to the retrieval, coordination and cataloging of data in a less than hospitable area.

Added on 01 March, 2019

Explorer Article By Brian Ervin

EXPLORER Photo Contest Winner Announced

At long last, the AAPG EXPLORER Cover Photo Contest has concluded and a winner has been chosen.

Added on 01 February, 2019

Explorer Historical Highlights By Jon Gluyas

Helium Shortages and Emerging Helium Provinces

The search for new sources of helium is of paramount importance as a combination of declining production and increasing demand have made helium prices soar. This follows a century in which the United States had a near monopoly on helium reserves and U.S. production met global demand. Although most of the helium production story has taken place in the United States, there are other nations that have produced and are producing helium.

Added on 01 February, 2019

Bulletin Article By Adam MacDonald,Emerson Marfisi,Francky Saint-Ange,Nicolas Hawie

Statistical analysis of forward stratigraphic models in complex salt provinces: The central Scotian Basin case study

Predicting vertical and lateral facies variations in various depositional environments remains a major challenge in the oil and gas industry because it impacts petroleum system assessments and the associated exploration-risking phase.

Added on 21 January, 2019

Explorer Historical Highlights By Jon Gluyas

The Emergence of the Helium Industry

Little more than a novelty when first discovered, helium has become a key commodity. It is used extensively in medical cryogenics, analytical and lab applications, breathing mixtures, as a lift gas, for arc welding, leak detection and, contrary to popular belief, only a little is used to inflate party balloons. There are few substitutes for helium and so, as its applications have become more common, demand has grown and supply is struggling to match demand.

Added on 01 January, 2019

Explorer Article By Michael Campbell

A History of the Energy Minerals Division of the AAPG: Part 2

The Energy Minerals Division celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2002. The Division emphasized to the AAPG membership that it was AAPG’s center of activity on energy minerals and unconventional energy resources. EMD originally focused primarily on coal, uranium, geothermal energy, oil shales and tar sands. However, its focus expanded and in 2002, EMD’s most active unconventional resource areas were coalbed methane, gas hydrates, and unconventional energy economics.

Added on 01 January, 2019

Explorer Article By David Brown

Who Holds the Power in Global Petro-Politics?

With OPEC increasingly overshadowed by Saudi Arabia and Russia’s cooperation, and the United States’ escalating production, who holds the power in the global oil arena?

Added on 01 January, 2019

Explorer Historical Highlights By Peter Rose

A Player in the Emergence of E&P Risk Analysis

By the time they are drilled, almost all exploratory ventures today will have been geotechnically, statistically and economically analyzed to estimate their ultimate recovery of oil or natural gas, or its EUR, and its present monetary value, or PV, given discovery. This process is generally known as “exploration risk analysis” and it evolved primarily as a response to an endemic problem: explorers were discovering less than half of the EURs they forecast for their investors.

Added on 01 December, 2018

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

AAPG's First China GTW Probes the Mysteries of Deep and Ultra-Deep Petroleum Systems

The first AAPG Beijing Geosciences Technology Workshop, October 26-28, took place in Beijing and represented a number of 'firsts.' The theme was 'Deep and Ultra-Deep Petroleum Systems: What We Know and Don't Know' and the event featured a strong technical program and international cases and topics.

Added on 08 November, 2018

Explorer Director’s Corner By David Curtiss

Standing Still Is Not an Option

Notwithstanding the increases in oil prices we’ve seen in recent years, the cost controls put in place in response to the downturn persist. And it’s not just E&P companies looking to the future and tightening their belts. The major oil and gas producing economies are, too.

Added on 01 November, 2018

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