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This year, URTeC has added an enhanced preview of “Coming Attractions.” In addition to looking at established plays, URTeC will provide significant information about emerging unconventional resource possibilities in North America and around the world.

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This is Energy Week in the House, bringing a flurry of hearings and votes. But, topics in the news may not be on the agenda; for example, induced seismicity is an area of public concern, but Congress will not be considering the topic.

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Energy Policy Blog

And, it is more complicated than we first thought! It is not just a shortage of workers that the industry is facing, it is going to be a shortage of managers. In a recent analysis, Russell Reynolds Associates, a global recruiting firm, pointed out that 61 percent of senior energy leaders are over 52 and nearing retirement. The next generation is much smaller: 27 percent of senior leaders are 44 to 52.

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Energy Policy Blog

1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity, let alone safe electricity.

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Search and Discovery Article

A collection of 33 abstracts for papers concerning Interpretation and Visualization in the petroleum industry. Abstracts of papers presented at the AAPG Hedberg conference in Houston, TX in June, 2014.

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Energy Policy Blog

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grants natural gas export authorizations to non-Free Trade Agreement (FTA) countries unless the proposed exports will “not be consistent with the public interest.”

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Explorer Policy Watch

Some members of Congress are again proposing rules to accelerate the federal approval process for natural gas export facilities, although any benefits would be years in the future.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

Shale is transforming the energy sector, bringing new oil and natural gas to consumers worldwide. But it wasn’t an invisible hand that found those resources and produced them.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

As Colorado goes, so goes the nation when it comes to energy and environmental policy and the court of public opinion.

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Explorer Article

The energy industry needs to do a better job of engaging communities near drilling sites and informing them of safe energy practices that protect human health and the environment according to Craig Walters, Anadarko Petroleum’s director of Wattenberg field operations in northern Colorado,

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AAPG publications are widely read by geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers. Are they your target audience? Then take advantage of the many advertising opportunities available in AAPG’s news and journal magazines.

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Executive summary of the AAPG 2022 Member/Customer Planning Survey

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Claudia J. Hackbarth, a Houston-based geologist who has held a variety of management and leadership positions for the Royal Dutch Shell Group, assumed the presidency of AAPG on July 1.

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Courtesy of AAPG and AAPG Datapages, two Discovery Series data sets have been donated free of charge for use as online teaching materials. Discovery Series 10 – Sandstone Petrology: A Tutorial Petrographic Image Atlas 2nd Edition and Discovery Series 15 – Carbonate Petrology: Interactive Petrography Tutorial, both authored by Kitty Milliken, have been posted online for easy accessibility.

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Results of the 2022 AAPG Member/Customer Planning Survey.

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