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An important deadline is coming up for those who want to participate as technical paper or poster presenters at the 2005 AAPG Convention.

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Finding oil in the deep water? That's just the first step. What's getting increasingly important is finding quality oil.

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Mexico is a country with enormous potential — but potential is only a first step in a hard struggle for success. And in Mexico, nothing is easy.

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Why is there a disconnect between soaring commodity prices and languishing oil company stock prices?

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Rocky Mountain high? Colorado drilling permits are expected to hit a record this year as drilling techniques boost results.

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Speakers are now picked and preparing for this year's AAPG Distinguished Lecture slate of talks, both in the United States and around the world.

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The challenge of exploration isn't always about understanding what's in the ground. Sometimes, the challenge is getting enough funding to get to the ground.

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They see a good thing going: Louisiana officials are making an all-out effort to encourage increased oil industry activity in their state.

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A new study of sunken vessels in the Gulf of Mexico has ramifications for the oil industry — and it asks the question, can man-made reefs be beneficial in the deep water, too?

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The vision of AAPG's Energy Minerals Division (EMD) is to be the primary professional community for geoscientists working with natural energy resources other than conventional oil and gas, and for professional development, information and networking.

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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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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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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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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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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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