Explorer Division Column DPA

It is hard to believe that a new year already has begun, and my tenure as president of the DPA is half over. I guess it's true that time flies when you are having fun!

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Explorer Article

John Brooks, European Region president, shares his impressions of the tour of the European Region made with Pete Rose.

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Explorer Article

AAPG’s GEO-DC office in Washington, D.C., is up and running – and the first 100 days proved to be eventful, indeed, for director Don Juckett.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

An overview of recent discoveries offers some positive results – but it also warns of some serious challenges.

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Explorer Article

Do you remember the pain? Those who were active in the industry in 1986 call it, simply, the Crash. It was 20 years ago today ...

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Big deal: Giant fields clearly are an important part of the world’s current energy situation. The challenging question is, what about tomorrow?

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Explorer Article

AAPG’s international outreach is reinforced as President Peter Rose meets with more than 1,000 geoscientists, students and industry leaders in a 20-day tour of Europe.

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Explorer President’s Column

As an AAPG member, you might ask, 'How do AAPG's finances impact me?' The answer is simple: 'As AAPG becomes financially stronger (and more efficient), it can provide more services that benefit all members.'

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Explorer Article

APPEX London offers 'a world of opportunities' to prospectors in March, 2006.

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Explorer Article

AAPG's GEO-DC initiative takes a big step forward with the hiring of a director for the Washington, D.C., office.

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Hot Items

Explorer Article

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 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 Article

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 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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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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