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Two of AAPG's members remembered: Bud Reid and Bob Megill.

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Experts agree that exploring and doing business in today’s oil world demands innovative approaches to your work, whether it’s in looking at new areas for hydrocarbons or looking at old areas in a new way. This month’s EXPLORER takes a look at some of the innovative approaches and visions that already have surfaced – plus some hints at new potential. Cover photos include a view of drilling operations at the Coos Bay Basin in southwestern Oregon (top).

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Commentary on Oil Prices.

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Robert M. Mitchum, a research geologist who has been credited as a pioneer in developing the disciplines of sequence and seismic stratigraphy, has been named the 2006 recipient of the Sidney Powers Memorial Award.

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Geophysical officials say that rising energy prices have triggered an increase in demand for seismic services “across the board” — including new data acquisition. The geophysical industry is humming, thanks to recent demands for both land and marine seismic services.

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September is annual meeting month for four AAPG Sections

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Let's make a deal: Summer in Houston is about to get even hotter thanks to the Summer NAPE, a prospects and properties expo that carries the AAPG banner.

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While producers continue in their core business to aggressively explore for fossil fuels, they are expanding their portfolios of energy sources to include wind, solar, 'run-of-river' or small hydro, landfill gas, biomass, hydrogen fuel cells and geothermal, to name just a few.

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Explorer A Look Back Column

Few people remember our past impediments to exploration created by false knowledge.

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AAPG's three Divisions will be honoring members for their service at the AAPG Convention in Calgary.

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What’s trending in exploration geophysics these days, in eight words: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, data, data, data and data. Those concepts fit together into one reality. As the oil and gas industry acquires larger and larger masses of geophysical data, it leans even harder on machine learning and AI to sort it all out.

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Oklahoma State University’s Professional Science Master’s in Geoscience program is on the way to graduating its first cohort next year. The program, with the goal of creating “scientists to run tomorrow’s business,” was developed with input from professionals and partnerships with professional societies including AAPG and Society of Exploration Geophysicists, and targets working geoscience professionals.

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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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In 2024, one of AAPG’s most iconic programs will take an important step into the new energy landscape. The Imperial Barrel Award is a leading global educational subsurface basin analysis program for graduate geoscience students to experience the work of a team evaluating sustainable resource potential using geological and geophysical data within a simulated corporate environment.

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Explorer Historical Highlights

Fate is defined by the American College Dictionary as, “fortune, destiny.” However, in life sometimes the outcome of fate is not so desirable, nor is it predetermined. This is the tale of two situations in which fate played a role in the early oil industry in the United States. The first instance had two fateful moments with very good outcomes, but the second led to some tragically unintended consequences.

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The latest AAPG Geoscience Technology Workshop, “Mixed Systems on Continental Margins,” focused on turbidite, contourite and mass-transport deposits and was held recently in Lisbon, Portugal. More than 75 participants from six continents from the energy industry, academic institutions and government agencies discussed the recent achievements and uncertainties of global deepwater sedimentary systems. Highlights included a geological field trip, deep technical contributions by the presenters, a networking dinner at the local legend Trindade and a geohistory tour of the Alfama, Baixa, Chiado and Mouraria districts of downtown Lisbon.

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