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May 2006

Tour Unveils Opportunities

Highlights of Peter Rose's four-week eight-nation AAPG tour of Pacific Region Universities.

The Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the London Stock Exchange offers project financing to grow small E&P companies.

GOM Quake Bolsters Theory

Earthquake in the Gulf spotlights the Cretaceous shelf edge, the separation point of the Gulf of Mexico plate from North American plate.

Coal Gas Tapped in Louisiana

Given the revved-up drilling activity targeting tight gas deposits, oil shales, coal bed methane (CBM) and the like, unconventional hydrocarbons are increasingly becoming conventional. In some instances, it’s the locale that may be considered unconventional.

Fractures: A Deal Maker or Breaker

Students at the University of Calgary’s Department of Geology and Geophysics integrate maps and data to help predict where open fractures will deliver oil and gas to well bores from subsurface reservoirs.

Oilmen Looking at the Alternatives

From wind to bio-fuels, Oilmen around the world are looking into alternative energy sources.

A Mighty Wind? 'It Is Energy'

For some oilmen, the decision to focus on wind generation wasn't so much of a stretch as it was a gust.

Simple Twist on Old Tech

In the search for alternative fuel sources, one AAPG member says he has a low-tech answer to more than just the problem of reliable alternative energy.

Industry Gives Big Boost to NOLA

Post Katrina, corporations are trying to decide whether to move operations back to New Orleans. For many oil companies, however the question isn't if, but when and how.

Standing Columns

President’s Column

Membership to Vote On Global VP Idea

This column follows up on a pivotal event at the 2006 Annual Convention in Houston, namely the approval by AAPG’s House of Delegates of Bylaws amendments creating two vice presidents -- one for U.S. Sections, one for International Regions. The amendments passed by an overwhelming margin.

Director’s Corner

Legalities Can Bring Complications

We sometime find ourselves suddenly in complicated conditions. AAPG is experiencing a set of complicated business conditions and we are constantly evaluating the risk of operations. In the past century, surrounding basic business conditions for our Association were sound and “not so slippery.” Now, due to dynamic world events and litigious trends we see major changes -- especially in areas of insurance, safety, security, legality and world politics.

Division Column EMD

Will Oil Shale Be a Major Player?

The recent increases in petroleum prices have spurred renewed interest in the development of oil shale resources worldwide, including the vast deposits of the Green River Formation in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

Geophysical Corner

Hydrate System to be Monitored

A project to design, construct and deploy a seafloor monitoring station across a deepwater hydrate mound in Mississippi Canyon Block 118 (MC 118) has been initiated by the Gulf of Mexico Hydrates Research Consortium, which comprises 15 universities, five federal agencies and several private corporations.

Policy Watch

Congress Visit Day

By all accounts, Congressional Visits Day (CVD) was a success -- not only in the overall number of participants in the events, but in the responses from the many visits that AAPG representatives made to the offices of the Congressmen and Senators.

Regions and Sections

Asia Pacific Region

AAPG’s Asia Pacific Region, geographically the Association’s largest, covers 16 countries, including the world’s first, second and fifth most populated countries (China, India and Indonesia).

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