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About three years ago I bought the first iPhone the day it was released. Within 24 hours I wondered how I had managed my day-to-day life without it. I enjoyed it that much and found it that handy.

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It’s common knowledge, and it’s wrong. The top suppliers of crude oil to the United States are Canada and Mexico.

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As geoscientists we have a good understanding of many of the factors that can affect our industry – but one factor that we may understand the least is water.

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A varied technical program that examines both the onshore and offshore activity – and potential – of one of the world’s most prolific regions has been planned for this year’s AAPG Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies annual meeting, which will be held Oct. 10-12 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.

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Wake-up call: The company that helped turn the shallow Gulf of Mexico into a deep drilling wonderland says the industry has learned much over the past six months.

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Picking themselves up: Operators in the Gulf of Mexico are continuing to push forward in the aftermath of Macondo.

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Going global: Not all shale gas basins are created equal – but countries all over the world are intrigued by the possibilities.

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Colombians elected Juan Manuel Santos as their new president on June 20, the day AAPG’s presidential delegation landed in Bogotá for a whirlwind tour with both tactical and strategic importance.

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John Hofmeister is well known to many in the oil and gas industry as former head of Shell’s U.S. operations. Trained as a political scientist and then working at General Electric, Nortel and AlliedSignal before coming to Shell, his background is one of planning, preparation and pragmatism.

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Despite discouraging economic conditions over the last two years, development of the world’s vast resources of oil shale continues to make progress.

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Executive summary of the AAPG 2022 Member/Customer Planning Survey

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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.

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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.

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Results of the 2022 AAPG Member/Customer Planning Survey.

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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.

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