For those of us in the AAPG European Region, 2011 began where 2010 left off – very busy.
The history of oil in the Middle East is essentially a story of giant oil fields (each containing over 500 million barrels).
BP made headlines in late April by pledging $1 billion for restoration projects along the Gulf Coast.
There’s no doubt that an array of technology innovations have played a key role in advancing exploration activity and successes.
Colorado’s state geologist warned the world is depleting its natural resources as the United States and growing economies scramble for precious metals, oil and gas.
A significant new Bakken Shale oil play has finally warmed up in northwest Montana.
Doug Strickland dreamed big when his work led to discovery of the Covenant oil field in central Utah.
It used to be NIMBY (Not In My Backyard), Harbert said, but BANANA is now a more accurate description: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything.
With the recent addition of many 2011 ACE videos to AAPG’s YouTube channel comes another opportunity to share the ones that interest you personally.
This July will mark the 28th anniversary of the 1983 discovery of the giant Caño Limón field (1.1 Billion BO reserves) in Colombia’s Llanos Basin by Oxy Colombia, a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum.
Courtesy of AAPG and AAPG Datapages, two Discovery Series data sets have been donated free of charge for use as online teaching materials. Discovery Series 10 – Sandstone Petrology: A Tutorial Petrographic Image Atlas 2nd Edition and Discovery Series 15 – Carbonate Petrology: Interactive Petrography Tutorial, both authored by Kitty Milliken, have been posted online for easy accessibility.
AAPG publications are widely read by geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers. Are they your target audience? Then take advantage of the many advertising opportunities available in AAPG’s news and journal magazines.
Results of the 2022 AAPG Member/Customer Planning Survey.
Claudia J. Hackbarth, a Houston-based geologist who has held a variety of management and leadership positions for the Royal Dutch Shell Group, assumed the presidency of AAPG on July 1.
Executive summary of the AAPG 2022 Member/Customer Planning Survey