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Explorer Article By David Brown

Oil and gas companies usually need loans to operate and survive, so these lending determinations can be crucial. If banks cut back on lending to the industry, drilling can grind to a halt, companies can fail, jobs will be lost. Now there are signs that banks might be ready to do just that.

Added on 01 April, 2016

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

CALL FOR PAPERS-Eighth International Symposium on Tight Sandstone and Shale Plays Exploration and Development

Welcome to a prestigious conference that features the most recent scientific and engineering breakthroughs in the development of tight sand and shale plays in western China. The developments and lessons learned here have great relevance to shale and low permeability reservoirs worldwide. The conference will take place July 15-17 in Chengdu, China. Abstracts accepted now.

Added on 30 March, 2016

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

U.S. Oil and Gas Plays that Work Now for the Small Independent or Small Consultant Team

Here are areas of often-overlooked opportunities that could be a perfect fit for the small independent or new team of independent geoscientists / engineers / landmen / petroleum accountants. This article, which is excerpted from a larger study, is not intended to be all-inclusive, but is a starting point.

Added on 23 March, 2016

Explorer Historical Highlights By Keith Bowman

The History of Central Mississippi's Naturally Occurring CO₂ Fields

The largest naturally occurring CO2 accumulation east of the Mississippi River is currently under exploitation northeast of Jackson, Miss.

Added on 01 March, 2016

Explorer Director’s Corner By David Curtiss

Attending ACE Is As Important Now As Ever

Have you made plans to attend ACE this year? AAPG’s 2016 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE) is a dedicated opportunity for our members and other professionals to get together.

Added on 01 March, 2016

Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

'Faults and Fractures' Sharpens Seismic Imagery

Touted as a “revolutionary” fault-imaging attribute, Thinned Fault Likelihood (TFL) is proving to be a relatively new and successful tool for revealing sweet spots and fracture proximity in highly faulted formations, said AAPG member Hesham Refayee, a geoscientist at dGB Earth Sciences.

Added on 01 March, 2016

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Pittsburgh Playmaker Forum

The forum is sponsored by the DPA in conjunction with two local societies, the Pittsburgh Geological Society (PGS) and the Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists (PAPG). This one-day event will be preceded with a PAPG monthly dinner meeting on the evening of April 12, 2016; providing an opportunity to come to Pittsburgh the day prior to the forum, network with local geoscientists and enjoy an Appalachian Basin technical talk.

Added on 22 February, 2016

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Ritesh Sharma,Satinder Chopra

Poisson Impedance Application to Shale Resource Characterization

The main goal for shale resource characterization is usually the identification of sweet spots, which represent the most favorable drilling targets. Such sweet spots can be identified as those pockets in the target formation that exhibit high total organic carbon (TOC) content, as well as high brittleness. As there is no direct way of computing TOC using seismic data, we adopt indirect ways for doing so.

Added on 01 February, 2016

Explorer Division Column EMD By Paul Morgan

Geothermal's Contributions to the Energy Equation

The Energy and Minerals Division of the AAPG focuses on unconventional hydrocarbon energy resources, such as coalbed methane and gas hydrates and alternative energy resources, such as coal, uranium and geothermal energy. These resources are important to members of AAPG.

Added on 01 February, 2016

Explorer Director’s Corner By David Curtiss

When Will Oil Prices Go Up?

Everywhere I go and in every conversation I have with AAPG members, sooner or later – and it’s usually sooner– I’m asked what I’m hearing about the duration of this low price cycle. We’ve all heard the old saying that prediction is difficult, especially of the future.

Added on 01 February, 2016

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Explorer Article By Ken Milam

AAPG Collaborates with OSU for New Geoscience Master’s Program

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.

Added on 01 October, 2023

Explorer Article By Adriano Viana,Jon Rotzien,Maria Oliveira

Diving into Deepwater Mixed Systems

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.

Added on 01 October, 2023

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Hackbarth Assumes Presidency of AAPG

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.

Added on 30 June, 2023

Explorer Article By Emily Llinás

AAPG’s IBA Program Enters a New Era

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.

Added on 01 October, 2023

Explorer Historical Highlights By William Brice

Twists of Fate in the Early Oil Fields

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.

Added on 01 October, 2023

Explorer Article By David Brown

‘Drawing with More Colors’

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.

Added on 01 October, 2023

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