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A strong technical program and good times in the oil patch are combining to give this year's AAPG Annual Convention a 'must attend' status. The convention, built around the theme 'Perfecting the Search -- Delivering on Promises,' will be held April 9-12 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston.

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Tim Cejka, president of ExxonMobil Exploration and vice president of Exxon Mobil Corp., heads the list of speakers who will be featured at four ticketed luncheons during the AAPG Annual Convention in Houston.

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A special speaker at the opening session at the Houston convention notes that this year world oil consumption will exceed 1,000 barrels per second, consuming 854 million barrels oil a day.

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Forums add variety, depth to the program at ACE 2006 in Houston

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Energizing the World in the 21st Century. A timely business session scheduled for the upcoming AAPG Annual Convention in Houston

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Interpreting the flashes and insights into what our hydrocarbon future is going to look like after Peak Oil.

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Prices are up, but sdIOCs are staring smack in the face of what Scott Tinker refers to as a significant 'trilemma.'

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There's no time to focus on the never-ending gyrations of commodity prices and oil industry stock price movements. Yet the overall fallout from these daily events impacts everyone industry-wide

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Awards given this year include Robert M. Mitchum who will receive the 2006 Sidney Powers Memorial Award. All told, 37 awards will be given at this years annual convention in Houston.

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Call it a dispute. A disagreement. A misunderstanding borne of opposing perspectives. Either way, who can do what with seismic data can be a thorny issue for geologists who use the data and for geophysical companies that acquire and provide the data. The contention revolves around Master License Agreements (MLAs) adopted by the Houston-based International Association of Geophysical Contractors.

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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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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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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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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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