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Meet Keith Myers from Richmond Energy Partners who is a featured speaker at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. Keith takes a keen interest in the oil sector governance and serves as a member of the Natural Resource Governance Institute and is on the guest teaching faculty of the Blavatnik School of Governance at Oxford University.

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Explorer Historical Highlights

The discovery and untimely loss of the Jusepin Deep Field in Venezuela is a story of creativity, perseverance, technical excellence and emotion – which are qualities we as geoscientists like to feel we bring to our jobs every day.

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Explorer Policy Watch

A burst of new emissions regulations that affect the oil and natural gas industry has cheered the environmental community while distressing the industry and opponents of government regulation.

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The DPA continues to work to provide scientific, business and professional support to its members through sponsored forums.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

As this issue of the EXPLORER arrives in your mailbox, a group of AAPG members has just finished another Geosciences Congressional Visits Days in Washington, D.C. During this annual pilgrimage to the U.S. capital, AAPG members gather with members of our sister geoscience societies to talk to policymakers and their staff about the importance of the geosciences to society.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Experts weigh-in on the current state of the industry, and the geophysical business is struggling just like everyone else.

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Energy Policy Blog

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released an analysis of technologies available to cut water use in hydraulic fracturing and thermoelectric power plant cooling to identify how water-scarce areas of the country could benefit from these technologies (GAO-15-545). Perhaps of special interest to readers is the GAO analysis of waterless or low-water stimulation fluids, although GAO concludes they are either unproven or applicable to only a few geologic formations. Thermoelectric plant cooling, represents 38 percent of U.S. water withdrawals. However, natural gas produced using hydraulic fracturing and natural gas combined cycle power generation reduces water use in power generation by up to 60% relative to coal and nuclear plants.

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Explorer Policy Watch

Congress long has been interested in ending the ban on the export of U.S. crude oil – and their interest in oil exports has increased with the recent international agreement to lift the nuclear-related sanctions on Iran.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

Still feeling optimistic about the near-term future of oil? Here’s something to think about: When Iran, Iraq and Libya return to their full production potential, the world price of crude oil could fall considerably lower.

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Africa Blog

Meet Toyin Akinosho of Africa Oil & Gas Report who will speak on 'Deal Flow in a Low Price Regime' at the 2015 APPEX Regional Conference in November at Nice, France. The talk will focus on African acreages and the need for continued investment in exploration acreages despite current oil trends.

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Executive summary of the AAPG 2022 Member/Customer Planning Survey

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Results of the 2022 AAPG 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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