Explorer President’s Column

What are the reasons for the climate changes in the past century? AAPG members debated the probable causes and many were not in agreement with our existing climate change position paper. Therefore, committees were formed to answer the question and write a change statement.

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Explorer President’s Column

What’s the easiest way to enter a heated argument with your co-worker, neighbor or perhaps even your spouse? Just start talking about the range of possible reasons for the climate changes we have recorded in the past century.

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The Barnett Shale natural gas play has become so prolific it appears to have taken on a life of its own. A major piece of the action is in a highly urbanized area, Fort Worth, Texas.

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This year’s Distinguished Lecture program, funded in part by the AAPG Foundation, will offer 14 lecturers largest slate of speakers in the program’s history– nine domestic and five international.

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Read an interview of U.S. Geological Survey Director Mark Myers. He's an AAPG member, was nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2006, and heads up an entity that has more than 10,000 scientists, technicians and support staff. It covers a range of issues, from research to funding to the tricky areas of politics and science.

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Want to step out and start a business in the oil and gas industry? Here are some tips on how to be an entrepreneur from R. Duane Ireland, Skip Hobbs, and Ted Beaumont.

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Meet America’s top geologist: AAPG member Mark Myers talks about being director of the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Working for a living, big time: Geophysical crews all over the world are keeping real busy these days.

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Explorer Policy Watch

This month marks the twentieth month of operation for the AAPG Geoscience and Energy Office in Washington, D.C., and we will debate on energy legislation and defense spending.

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Explorer Division Column EMD

Geothermal energy is used to produce electricity in 24 countries. Leading the way is the United States, followed by the Philippines, Mexico, Indonesia and Italy.

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Hot Items

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It isn’t news to anyone that prediction is difficult, especially when it’s the future (as a great man once said). Uncertainty and unpredictability are just a part of the job of tracking and predicting the future supply and demand of energy. That being the case, when energy analysts say that the current level of uncertainty is particularly high, it might be easy to dismiss it as a “dog bites man” story. It isn’t.

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Explorer Historical Highlights

The Casablanca oil field, discovered in 1975 and located on the Mediterranean shelf edge, has been greatly significant in the world’s offshore oil industry activity, besides being by far the biggest oil field in Spain.

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A new type of buoyancy model can be used to understand the source of residual oil zones, both thick and thin, to help determine the likelihood that economically viable recoverable oil resides in transition zones of imbibition reservoirs. Application of a buoyancy and breech model will fill a void in reservoir characterization. It will help distinguish between TZs and ROZs, the first of which allows application of primary and secondary (waterflooding) oil recovery methods and the second of which requires more difficult CO2-enhanced oil recovery projects.

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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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Explorer Geophysical Corner

Advancements in processing and imaging techniques have continued over the last several decades, which have gradually improved the quality of the processed surface seismic data. When the quality of the existing seismic data is not adequate to perform an interpretation task reasonably, then the interpreter looks for other options. Is it feasible to acquire a new survey? In the absence of an improved survey, will reprocessing of seismic data be a good option?

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