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Announcing the 2018-19 AAPG Executive Committee Candidates

AAPG announces the candidates for the 2018-19 Executive Committee. Biographical information, including video interviews and personality profiles, will be available in early 2018.

Added on 04 December, 2017

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Oil at the Nanoscale Spells Huge Production Potential

Big Oil’s next big gusher will happen at a tiny, tiny scale, according to scientists at IBM.

Added on 01 December, 2017

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Announcing AAPG's New Honorees

The AAPG Executive Committee has approved the following list of honors and award winners. The awards will be presented during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Annual Convention & Exhibition, set for May 20-23 in Salt Lake City.

Added on 29 November, 2017

Explorer Historical Highlights By David Holmes

'Sowing the Oil': A Little-Known Venezuelan Oil-Industry Initiative

Since the ‘40s, the stated objective of the Venezuelan government was to use oil revenues to diversify the economy and reduce poverty. The opposite occurred, which set the stage for the so-called “Bolivarian Revolution” in the late 1990s, the principal achievement of which was to reduce income disparities by making everyone equally poor. In contrast, a rather unique socioeconomic development emerged within the oil industry itself during the 1980s.

Added on 01 November, 2017

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Eduardo Trinchero,Ignacio Rovira,Luis Vernengo,Maximiliano Garcia Torrejon

Attributes at Your Fingertips

One of the first questions a seismic interpreter must ask is how to recognize and characterize the reservoir. Understanding the geology and the depositional history of the area is a good start.

Added on 01 November, 2017

Explorer Emphasis Article By Ken Milam

New Tech Promises 'Huge Impact' on Digital Rocks

New developments in digital rocks and digital outcrop models continue to put more data – and more realistic data – on geoscientists’ desktops.

Added on 01 November, 2017

Explorer Article By David Brown

APPEX Global Coincides with High Investment Opportunity

If the recent evidence of an uptick in acquisitions and divestiture activities continues, the next APPEX Global event in London should coincide with many new international prospects in the first quarter of 2018.

Added on 01 November, 2017

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

Calling all DEG Members!

Division of Environmental Geosciences members have an opportunity to help solve the mystery of freshwater contamination in northern Oklahoma, share experiences at AAPG’s 2018 Annual Convention and Exhibition in Salt Lake City, and to help propose funded studies.

Added on 22 September, 2017

Explorer Historical Highlights By Laurens Gaarenstroom

Argentina: 'Country of Eternal Promise and Second Chances'

I read the words of this headline in a local paper in Buenos Aires on my way to Neuquén to celebrate the official inauguration of the first Shell-operated Early Production Facility in Vaca Muerta. These words have since stuck with me.

Added on 01 September, 2017

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

Interview with Daniel Mendez: Innovators in Geoscience Technology

An interview with Daniel Mendez discussing his work in Venezuela and the value of attending an SPE-GCS Upstream Hiring Event

Added on 30 August, 2017

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Added on 16 March, 2018

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Memoir 113: Giant Fields of the Decade 2000-2010

Edited by R. K. Merrill and C. A. Sternbach

Added on 01 September, 2017

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Added on 21 April, 2009

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Memoir 117: Petroleum Basins and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Andes of Peru and Bolivia

This Memoir is critical for exploration geoscientists in the petroleum industry, research institutions, and academia in order to understand the diverse petroleum systems, the tectonic and geologic evolution of sedimentary basins, and the development of hydrocarbon fields in these regions of South America. Product #1303. Price: Member $131 / List $262.

Added on 01 April, 2019

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Studies in Geology 56: Atlas of Deep-water Outcrops

A collection of both qualitative and quantitative data on deep-water outcrops from around the world, this volume contains 154 chapters, and includes papers on all seven continents and 21 countries. Product #736. Price: Member $189/List $239.

Added on 01 January, 2018

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Atlas of Natural and Induced Fractures in Core

This volume is an ultimate resource for reading the story and history of fractures in rocks from core. It is a “must-have” volume for all who have, or wish to have, an intimate knowledge of the rocks they work with from a fracture point of view. (Product #1300. Member price $150 / List price $150.)

Added on 01 September, 2018

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Memoir 111: 3-D Structural Interpretation: Earth, Mind, and Machine

This volume sets out to understand more about the convergence of geology, 3-D thinking, and software, which collectively provide the basis for truly effective interpretation strategies. Product #1280. Price: Member $74/List $148.

Added on 01 December, 2017

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