Delegates Voice Division Article

As Energy Minerals Division (EMD) President, Chair of the EMD Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) Committee, Member of the DEG Advisory Board, and Member of the AAPG Advisory Council and Astrogeology Committee, I remain busy implementing the changes in EMD organizational structure and communications with AAPG that were begun last year.

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Canada’s Horn River Basin has been described as significantly larger than the Barnett shale area in Texas, which currently produces three billion cubic feet per day. Third-party estimates predict the Horn River area could hold 50-100 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, making it the hottest resource play in North America.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

A whole lotta shakin’ is going on – but the matter of human induced seismicity remains a complex and heavily researched mystery.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

With lower gas prices shale plays look more attractive resulting in increased seismic data to help find that liquid component.

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Explorer Article

Sweet sound of success: The spotlight turns to oil in the Bakken shale, and the focus was squarely on the sweet spots.

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Explorer Article

A crucial shortage in the world’s supply of helium-3 could have a serious impact on an important tool for the oil and gas industry.

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Explorer Division Column DEG

In past years, DEG’s major areas of technical focus have included hydrogeology, environmental geophysics and carbon sequestration as it relates to the petroleum industry. Over the next year we intend to expand our technical focus areas to include:

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Explorer President’s Column

As geoscientists we have a good understanding of many of the factors that can affect our industry – but one factor that we may understand the least is water.

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Explorer Article

A varied technical program that examines both the onshore and offshore activity – and potential – of one of the world’s most prolific regions has been planned for this year’s AAPG Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies annual meeting, which will be held Oct. 10-12 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.

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Explorer Article

The onshore shale petroleum systems of eastern North America will be in the spotlight during the AAPG Eastern Section’s annual meeting, set Sept. 25-29 in Kalamazoo, Mich.

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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.

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AAPG publications are widely read by geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers. Are they your target audience? Then take advantage of the many advertising opportunities available in AAPG’s news and journal magazines.

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Executive summary of the AAPG 2022 Member/Customer Planning Survey

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Results of the 2022 AAPG Member/Customer Planning Survey.

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