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A really big show: Among the many prolific oil fields in the Middle East, the giant Ghawar stands out as the region's crown jewel.

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AAPG's second annual Winter Education Conference, which includes 11 different courses over five days, will be held Feb. 14-18 in Houston.

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A scientific meeting set in a beautiful and culturally rich location established a number of 'firsts' for AAPG and proved to be a 'great success' in an unexpected way — the strength of its technical program.

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Major exploration efforts are essential to identify badly needed new reserves. Yet the exploration segment of the industry remains somewhat lethargic — for a number of reasons.

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AAPG member Ed Capen remembers well the birth of A joint AAPG-SPE meeting on 'Delivering E&P Performance in the Face of Risk and Uncertainty: Best Practices and Barriers to Progress,' is scheduled Feb. 20-24 in Galveston, Texas.the phrase “winner’s curse” – and he has more to say about the subject of bidding strategy.

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AAPG member Ed Capen remembers well the birth of the phrase “winner’s curse” – and he has more to say about the subject of bidding strategy.

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What’s behind the Beaufort Mackenzie Basin’s current exploration renaissance? A strategy focusing on natural gas.

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'New Tracks to New Highs' is the theme of the 2005 AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, to be held in Paris, France, on Sept. 11-14.

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APPEX, AAPG's annual fall prospect and property expo in Houston, kept its trend alive this year by being bigger and better than ever before.

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So, you say you're quite the gambler? When it comes to auctions and bidding on leases for drilling, there's a reason why so many 'winners' read 'em and weep.

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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 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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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 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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