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The main course? Frontier exploration may be the industry’s champagne and caviar when it comes to headlines, but generating new prospects in known areas remains its exploration bread and butter.

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The mid-term elections are over and the American people have spoken. The next two months will be informative in terms of the climate of the remaining two years of this presidential tenure.

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One of the privileges of the DPA presidency is the writing of these columns. Many past DPA presidents have discussed why DPA was important to them. Now it is my turn and perhaps I have a different perspective to share.

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Results from one of the year’s most important meetings – the Hedberg Research Conference on Understanding World Oil Resources, are being prepared for a spring unveiling.

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The Mighty Mungaroo: Chevron’s Clio-1 well offshore Western Australia is one of the year’s top success stories.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Quantity, not quality: The past year saw only a few jaw-dropping discoveries, but some important world developments opened new areas, bolstered existing production and provided a solid foundation for the future.

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Explorer Article

Card about Global Climate Change is carefully scrutinized by AAPG's Executive Committee and more comments from members will be requested.

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Explorer Article

What makes a buyer fall in love with an exploration prospect? Don’t laugh: Appearances matter.

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A sinking feeling: A geoscientist makes his case that Louisiana is threatened by a subsidence, a crippling disease that’s far more extreme and extensive than many think.

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Explorer Policy Watch

As you read this column, the results of the mid-term elections will be relegated to the annals of history -- at least we can hope that is the case and we are not mired in issues of “hanging chads” or other election process quarrels.

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Results of the 2022 AAPG Member/Customer Planning Survey.

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Executive summary of the AAPG 2022 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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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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