Explorer Regions and Sections

September is annual meeting month for four AAPG Sections

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Explorer President’s Column

Ordinarily I tend to be skeptical of crusty old folks who are always claiming that 'the younger generation is going to hell in a hand basket.' Such attitudes often seem to just go with getting old and set in your ways.

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Explorer Article

Houston abstract deadlines are October 4

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Here today, gone tomorrow? A number of forces continue to threaten the Louisiana coastline.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

A gift that keeps on giving: The Gulf of Mexico is not only healthy, it continues to be the star of the show for the U.S. petroleum industry.

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Explorer Article

AAPG takes another step toward opening a full-time, onsite presence in Washington, D.C., with GEO-DC.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

The next big thing? The Suriname Basin is proving itself an appealing target for exploration efforts.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Quiz time: According to the results of a new global survey, what are the world's top 10 exploration targets? (Hint: Think north Africa ...)

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Can loose lips still sink ships? Experts weigh in on security issues that dominate today's energy environment.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

What makes companies successful in exploration? A global survey provides some answers.

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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 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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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 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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