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Heavy Oil Recovery Methods Are Improving

In virtually all regions of sustained production, the industry is steadily improving in situ recovery methods and reducing environmental impacts of bitumen and heavy oil production, especially those associated with surface mining.

Added on 01 February, 2015

Explorer Director’s Corner By David Curtiss

World-Class Knowledge, Experience, Community on Offer

Equipping you to be a world-class geoscientist is our goal here at AAPG. It’s why we exist as a scientific and professional association: To assist you throughout your career to stay at the top of your game.

Added on 01 February, 2015

Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

'Shale Adventure' on Alaska's North Slope

At a time when some operators are slowing production of unconventional resources, and as oil and gas prices continue to fall, three companies have high hopes for producing shale oil north of the Arctic Circle for the first time in petroleum history.

Added on 01 February, 2015

Explorer Article By Louise Durham

Oil Price Slams Beleaguered TMS Play

Following many years of on again/off again activity, the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) was, at long last, being proven in recent months to be a viable commercial play, but the market has done a 180-degree spin owing to the unanticipated, near-devastating drop in oil prices.

Added on 01 February, 2015

Explorer Article By David Brown

No Certainty, But Not All Is Doom and Gloom

Oil prices ... barreling downward. Natural gas prices ... up in flames. Gasoline prices ... tanking. The year got off to a scary start for the oil and gas industry

Added on 01 February, 2015

Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

Obstacles and Opportunity Abound in Mexico

Typically when runners are on their marks, they know the course ahead of them. However, as industry players anxiously wait for Mexico to open its hydrocarbon-rich fields to foreign investors, the shortest course to the pay zone is not so clear.

Added on 01 January, 2015

Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

Tinker Takes His Conversation to Students

This film captures truth about energy and delivers its message with passion. “Public understanding of energy is very low. Energy education is vital.” That’s past AAPG president and newly-named AAPG Honorary member Scott Tinker, who helped create and narrates the film “Switch,” a non-partisan, non-advocacy documentary about the world’s energy needs, on why he thought the project was necessary.

Added on 01 January, 2015

Explorer Article By Louise Durham

New Institute Eyes Global Water Management

There’s a major scientific initiative evolving in Baton Rouge, La., that is expected to have a positive impact around the globe. It’s the relatively new Water Institute of the Gulf, appropriately located in this city bounded on its western edge by the majestic Mississippi River as it wends its way southward to meet the Gulf of Mexico.

Added on 01 January, 2015

Explorer Article By Heather Saucier

How the Shale Boom Birthplace Came to Ban Fracturing

It is perhaps the most ironic move in the industry in years. On Nov. 4, citizens in Denton – a city on the edge of the Barnett Shale in north Texas with a population of 123,000 – voted to ban hydraulic fracturing.

Added on 01 January, 2015

Energy Policy Blog By Colleen Newman

Where Does the Renewable Fuels Standard Stand?

On November 21, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would postpone setting requirements for the volume of renewable fuels that must be blended into motor fuels until some point in 2015.

Added on 22 December, 2014

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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

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AAPG 2022 Strategic Planning Survey Summary

Executive summary of the AAPG 2022 Member/Customer Planning Survey

Added on 05 April, 2023

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Added on 13 April, 2018

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Free Access to AAPG's Discovery Series 10 and 15 Full Data Set Tutorials

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.

Added on 11 May, 2020