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Technical award winners have been announced for presentations at last year’s AAPG International Conference and Exhibition in Perth, Australia.

Added on 01 March, 2007

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Events Aimed at Young Geologists

Are you a student who’s anxious to have a good start in your petroleum career?

Added on 01 March, 2007

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Giants Like Stable Environments

It’s unusual for researchers to predict where future exploration will discover elephants, the world’s largest oil and gas fields. It’s even more unusual when they turn out to be right.

Added on 01 March, 2007

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

EM Detecting Fluids on the Rocks

Widely available and ever-popular seismic technologies are great for detecting subsurface structures and identifying potential reservoirs.

Added on 01 December, 2006

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Bob Hardage,Michael DeAngelo

S-Waves and Fractured Reservoirs

In last month’s Geophysical Corner we showed that fracture orientation across fractured-reservoir intervals can be determined by azimuth-based analyses of S-wave velocities and reflection amplitudes.

Added on 01 November, 2006

Explorer Division Column EMD By Brian Cardott

Gas Shales Tricky to Understand

The success of technological plays such as the Barnett Shale and other shales has proven the potential of shale-gas resources -- and if the recent number of technical sessions, short courses and workshops on gas shales is any indication of its significance, gas shales will be an important component of the world gas supply in the future.

Added on 01 November, 2006

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

PTTC: Passing On the Good Word

Since 1994, the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) has been a recognized force in the realm of technology transfer in the oil and gas industry.

Added on 01 November, 2006

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Deep Lower Tertiary Playing Well

When Chevron in September announced a flow test of 6,000 barrels of oil per day from its Jack 2 well -- which tapped the Lower Tertiary age deposits in the Walker Ridge area of the deepwater Gulf of Mexico -- and simultaneously noted potential reserves as high as 15 billion barrels for the region, the mainstream media hype machine kicked into high gear.

Added on 01 November, 2006

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Shales Require Creative Approaches

Challenges in both new and old shale gas plays are forcing operators into innovative approaches.

Added on 01 November, 2006

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Bouma Picked for Powers

Arnold H. Bouma, who has a sequence named after him because of his discovery of dividing deepwater turbidites into intervals, has been named the 2007 recipient of the Sidney Powers Memorial Award.

Added on 01 November, 2006

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Explorer Article By Emily Llinás

Offshore Opportunities in Suriname

The South American country of Suriname has launched an aggressive campaign to ramp up offshore oil production.

Added on 01 April, 2024

Explorer Article By David Brown

Persistent Prospects of the Permian

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.

Added on 26 March, 2024

Explorer Article By Jhonny Casas

Angelo Pitoni, a Real-Life 'Indiana Jones' in Venezuelan Territory

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.

Added on 01 March, 2022

Explorer Director’s Corner By David Curtiss

Introducing the New EXPLORER, New Digital Newsletters

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.

Added on 01 April, 2024

Explorer Article By Emily Llinás,Sylvia Anjos

The ‘Father of the Pre-Salt’

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.

Added on 01 April, 2024

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