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Explorer Emphasis Article By Kathy Shirley

An increasing number of companies, in an increasing number of places around the world, consider horizontal drilling as an option in all kinds of plays. Through May 1999 Denver-based IHS Energy Group's databases contained records for 20,430 horizontal wells in 67 different countries.

Added on 01 September, 2000

Explorer Geophysical Corner By James Pindell,Lorcan Kennan,Stephen Barrett

A Removal-Restoration Project

This month's column, the third in a four-part series dealing with plate kinematics ('Arm Waving, or Underutilized Exploration Tool?'), is titled 'Building Quantitative Plate Kinematic Frameworks for Regional Exploration Assessments.'

Added on 01 August, 2000

Explorer Wildcat Recollections Column By Marlan Downey,Mike Forrest

'Bright' Investments Paid Off

Area-wide lease sales, inaugurated in 1983, provided the oil industry an opportunity to explore for oil and gas in the deep water Gulf of Mexico, a southern extension of the oil-rich offshore Louisiana shelf province.

Added on 01 July, 2000

Explorer Geophysical Corner By James Pindell,Lorcan Kennan,Stephen Barrett

Kinematics a Key To Unlocking Plays

This month's column, the second in a four-part series dealing with regional plate kinematics ('Arm Waving, or Underutilized Exploration Tool?'), is titled 'Kinematics: Key to Unraveling Basin Histories.'

Added on 01 July, 2000

Explorer Geophysical Corner By James Pindell,Lorcan Kennan,Stephen Barrett

Kinematic Analysis: The Next Step

An unfortunate fact of geology is that most datasets, including seismic, rarely allow for a unique interpretation of a geological problem.

Added on 01 June, 2000

Explorer Article By Thomas Dolan

EKHO Well Goes Deep for Gas

Looking deep for new oil -- a strategy that Tri-Valley Oil and Gas is implementing with EKHO No. 1 -- could make them America's deepest oil producer. Spudded Feb. 7 it is on its way to the projected total target depth of 19,500 feet.

Added on 01 April, 2000

Explorer Article By Kathy Shirley

China's Bohai Bay Yields Big Finds

Oil companies' activities quietly continue in China. Bohai Bay is one hot spot for drilling featured in this article.

Added on 01 April, 2000

Explorer Article By Kathy Shirley

Wyoming Enjoys Coal Gas Play

On the arid high plains of northeast Wyoming, the town of Gillette has become a bona fide boomtown. And it's coalbed methane creating the frenzy. The Powder River Basin has become the site of the hottest natural gas play in the country, a region most so-called experts wrote off as a wasteland for the gas.

Added on 01 April, 2000

Explorer Article By Kathy Shirley

'Weekend Work' Yields Gas Field

Coalbed methane research and development has been a big story for over 20 years with virtually all the focus on the western United States. But what many folks don't know is that small 'mom and pop' shops have been quietly pioneering coalbed methane production in the Arkoma Basin in southeastern Oklahoma.

Added on 01 March, 2000

Explorer Wildcat Recollections Column By Marlan Downey

Luck Rewards Knowledge, Preparation

The special EXPLORER: A Century issue illustrates how at times the 'Story behind the story' is better than the story itself. In an effort to capture this flavor of exploration science and business, Marlan Downey describes his memories of some of the interesting fields found by teams he has been associated with during more than 40 years of exploration and production.

Added on 01 February, 2000

Hot Items

Explorer Article By David Brown

What Will it Take to Get CCUS Ready for Prime Time?

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

Added on 01 March, 2024

Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

How the U Adds Value in CCUS

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

Added on 01 March, 2024

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