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They're young, they're old, male and female, company men and independent strivers. What, then, makes these varied people successful oil finders?

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When a panel of experts talked in Austin about the future of oil and gas in North America, a surprising consensus emerged: Get ready for the age of natural gas.

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Too much information: When it comes to oil and gas exploration, how much data is enough -- and when is it too much?

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Two oil company geologists decide to do something good — and literally walk themselves into the hearts of hundreds of Javanese.

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Survey Sez? Analog analysis remains useful in the field.

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It’s technically challenging to drill through 640 meters of permafrost and 110 meters of gas hydrates.

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The recent discovery of a spectacular gas hydrate glacier outcropping on the sea floor of Canada's Pacific margin focuses attention on a potentially huge energy resource.

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Quiz time: Why does the price of gasoline rise before a holiday?

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Education. Education. Education.

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Companies of all sizes are probing the virtually untouched basins all along the coast of West Africa, from Morocco to South Africa.

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Hot Items

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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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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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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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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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