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Peter R. Vail, acclaimed researcher and professor emeritus at Rice University, will be honored in Salt Lake City along with 41 others who will receive honors and awards during the opening session of the AAPG Annual Meeting.

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Noted oilmen to discuss their track records for discovering oil and gas fields in the Rocky Mountain region as Michel T. Halbouty Lecture series guests.

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Access to public lands for natural resources development continues to be a hot-button topic for much of the United States — but in the Rocky Mountains, it is becoming a “battleground.”

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Salt Lake City is the site of the 88th AAPG Annual Meeting — and the program is as compelling as the setting is beautiful.

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Explorer Business Side of Geology Column

There seems to be a lot of confusion about the relationship between chance of success for a drilling prospect and various possible outcomes of recoverable reserves. Such confusion could lead to bad E&P business decisions.

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Premise: Geological applications of well logs are as broad as geology itself and petroleum geologists can learn from their colleagues in other disciplines.

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Response to quantity of seismic data so quiet it's deafening.

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Did you hear the one about the fella with a cell phone for an office and no seismic equipment, jockeying with the big seismic industry's guys for a job?

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OCS report … is it time to increase production in the Gulf of Mexico? Is increase possible?

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Anthropology and energy exploration may seem to be strange bedfellows, but when it comes to global efforts in exotic locations, it's an increasingly valuable marriage.

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Hot Items

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. 

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

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

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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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