Home

EMD-Related Articles

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

What do the numbers indicate when measuring Niobrara tight oil success in Colorado?

Added on 01 August, 2012

Explorer Emphasis Article By Diane Freeman

Try, try again: Test wells and seismic data have helped lead the way to success in theSan Juan Basin’s Mancos Shale formation.

Added on 01 August, 2012

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Mancos-Niobrara Play Full of Surprises

Surprise! Ordinarily a target for oil production, the Cretaceous Niobrara formation is proving to be more versatile in Colorado’s Piceance Basin.

Added on 01 August, 2012

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Strategies Shift With Commodity Prices

What goes up must come …: Despite the seemingly never-ending cycles of boom and bust, operators in the Rocky Mountain region are finding ways to stay in the game.

Added on 01 August, 2012

Explorer Article By Vern Stefanic

Speakers Announced for N.A. Lecture Tours

Spreading the word: Nine speakers have been selected for AAPG’s prestigious Distinguished Lecture program for the 2012-13 North American tours.

Added on 01 August, 2012

Explorer Article By David Brown

Hydro Fracturing Gets 'Green Tech' Treatment

Coming clean: Service companies are spinning out new hydraulic fracturingtechnologies that promote environmentally sensitive practices.

Added on 01 August, 2012

Explorer Director’s Corner By David Curtiss

Shale Success Creates Opportunities

No matter where I travel and talk with AAPG members there are two topics that I’m certain will come up in conversation: First the price of natural gas and second the role of shale gas in driving this price.

Added on 01 July, 2012

Explorer President’s Column By Ted Beaumont

Concepts Shift Creates Ripples of Change

In North America onshore, the resource play has caused a dramatic shift in the exploration objectives of many, if not most, independent and major petroleum companies.

Added on 01 July, 2012

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Shale List Grows

Shale List Grows: Production from unconventional reservoirs, particularly shale, has been a boon to U.S. domestic natural gas stockpiles.

Added on 01 July, 2012

Explorer Emphasis Article By Ken Milam

Collaboration Play

All for one and one for all: It took a team effort to find exploration success in theWolfcamp Shale.

Added on 01 July, 2012

Join Energy Minerals Division

Hot Items

wwwUpdate Blog

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 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

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 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

Navigation

Headquarters Contacts

Susan Nash Director, Innovation and Emerging Science and Technology, AAPG +1 405 314 7730

Profile

EMD-Related Articles

Hot Items

Navigation

Headquarters Contacts

STAY CONNECTED: