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Explorer Division Column DPA By Robert Sabate

Is it ever ethical to divulge information understood to be confidential for a personally perceived 'higher' purpose?

Added on 01 October, 1999

Explorer Regions and Sections By Marlan Downey

Registration is now open for the inaugural AAPG Regional International Conference, which will be held July 9-12 in Istanbul, Turkey.

Added on 01 October, 1999

Explorer Emphasis Article By Kathy Shirley

Contractors Getting In On the Deal

Dramatic changes over the past 20 years have led to creative approaches to the seismic industry -- not all of which have been accepted wholeheartedly.

Added on 01 October, 1999

Explorer Emphasis Article By Kathy Shirley

Spec Data Faces Market Challenge

Depending on who you talk to, the industry's latest round of merger mania is either a great deal or a great disaster. Guess how geophysical contractors vote.

Added on 01 October, 1999

Explorer Business Side of Geology Column By Marlan Downey

Size Matters -- But So Does Location

In much of the United States, the choice to explore for oil or gas is governed by the expected finding and development cost for equivalent volumes. And ... it's hard to find large volumes of oil or gas in the USA.

Added on 01 September, 1999

Explorer Division Column DPA By Robert Sabate

One Person's 'Proof' Another's Junk

The July ethics question dealt with a topic that recently proved to be a hot issue for professional geologists: Junk science.

Added on 01 September, 1999

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Gulf R&D Funding a Capital Idea

A couple of professors manage to turn their vision for deep water technology research and development into a reality, they propose a revitalization of technology R&D, specifically targeting the deep water (i.e. anything off the continental shelf) Gulf of Mexico.

Added on 01 September, 1999

Explorer Emphasis Article By Kathy Shirley

New Deep Fields Show Gulf Trends

Deep water play in the Gulf of Mexico keeps getting deeper and hotter. A look at some discoveries in 5-6,000 feet of water shows how they may propel the industry into the Gulf.

Added on 01 September, 1999

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Industry Lured into Deep Waters

Exploration in the deep water Gulf of Mexico may be even better than the success of drilling on the Gulf shelf. The deep offshore Gulf has more remaining, recoverable resources than the shoreward provinces. Recent discoveries seem sure to increase resource projections for the Gulf.

Added on 01 September, 1999

Explorer Regions and Sections By Bruce Lemmon

One-Day Registration OK in England

Take advantage now of one- or two-day pre-registration. This annual event incorporates the broadest possible spectrum of UK-based geoscientific society involvement.

Added on 01 August, 1999

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AAPG 2022 Strategic Planning Survey Results

Results of the 2022 AAPG Member/Customer Planning Survey.

Added on 05 April, 2023

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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.

Added on 13 April, 2018

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Free Access to AAPG's Discovery Series 10 and 15 Full Data Set Tutorials

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.

Added on 11 May, 2020