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Same business, different ... everything else. A look at Louisiana, has fared during the past year, offering a contrasting tale.

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Geologist, entrepreneur, food and drink provider, movie star (well, sorta') -- AAPG member John Hickenlooper has made a name for himself in several ways, but his newest role tops them all: mayor of Denver.

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Show me the money -- please? A look at the current state of the industry (subject to change at any time, of course).

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Working it out ... DOE workshop examines applications for microhole technology.

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AAPG's first Distinguished Lecturer of ethics offers this word of advice: If you wait to teach a person ethics when they're in college, you've waited too long.

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Boom or Bust? A host of statistics indicates the petroleum industry is experiencing the best times in the past 15 years. But if this is an oil and gas boom, why doesn't it FEEL like a boom?

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How prepared are you to be fired?

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Going strong and getting better: APPEX once again proves itself as the place to be for prospect and property action.

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Everyone knows that the geophysical industry is going to make a comeback. The only question is: When?

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The time has arrived: AAPG’s third annual Prospect and Property Expo -- APPEX to all of us -- takes a bow this month in Houston.

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The Paris Basin offers times of both discoveries and failures, from its first well drilled near Normandy in the 1920s to today. 

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Nihal Darraj, carbon capture and storage researcher at Imperial College, London shares barriers to CCUS commercialization, including costs, technology, permitting and more. 

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Carbon capture and sequestration reduces emissions, but it cannot work past cost barriers without the revenue opportunities provided by utilization and storage. 

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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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