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U.S. rig count numbers are down – but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

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That was then, this is now: A new economic reality hits the Rocky Mountains, and state budgets are feeling the pinch.

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Growing pains: Shale gas is abundant in North America, but investment in production has to catch up with discovery.

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Today’s oil and gas industry faces a world of challenges – man-made and otherwise – but Saudi Arabia’s Ali Ibrahim al-Naimi says there are two things geoscientists should seek: Stability and survival.

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Future shock? An impending demographic crunch and the projected shortage of qualified professionals could threaten Canada’s earth science sectors.

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Vive la difference! Boom times come, boom times go, but this time the industry seems better prepared to face the bust.

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wwwUpdate Blog

As the Web becomes more accessible worldwide (via cell phone, smartphones, netbooks, laptops, and regular old computers), people are increasingy receiving their news in electronic format.

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No … this isn’t a new sports car. The AAPG is launching its first Geoscience Technology Workshop in Egypt on April 28

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Are you one of the 1200+ people who voted using the online system? I’d like to know if you found the experience easy or hard. Maybe you could then encourage others to vote by commenting on about that experience here

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These are published issues of the EXPLORER and BULLETIN.

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Hot Items

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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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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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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 Historical Highlights

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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