By David Brown
Who knows? It’s a safe bet that carbon sequestration has a big future, but how that’s going to occur remains a gamble.
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By Barry Friedman
One of the largest core workshops ever to focus on a single depositional environment will be offered in Cape Town.
Clastics,
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy,
Deep Sea / Deepwater,
Deepwater Turbidites,
Petrophysics and Well Logs,
Geophysics,
Seismic,
Basin Modeling and Geochemistry,
Engineering,
Reservoir Engineering,
Sequence Stratigraphy,
Business and Economics
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By Ken Milam
What's in a name? A movement is growing to name a new epoch in earth history, and AAPG members are at the forefront of the debate.
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By Ken Milam
The authority for naming rocks, formations and times rests with the International Commission of Stratigraphy, the largest scientific body within the International Union of Geological Sciences and the only organization concerned with stratigraphy on a global scale.
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By Vern Stefanic
On the road again – AAPG’s 2008-09 Distinguished Lecture program gets off to a fast start this month with the announcement of 10 domestic speakers.
Geophysics,
Seismic,
Sedimentology and Stratigraphy,
Carbonates,
Engineering,
Reservoir Engineering,
Business and Economics,
Clastics,
Deep Sea / Deepwater,
Structure,
Tectonics (General)
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By Peter Skelton
A day in the life... AAPG Distinguished Lecturer Peter Skelton takes you along on tour with his DL Diary.
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By Ken Milam
A large and varied program spotlights an emerging global energy power at September's GEO India 2008.
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Biographies and individual information for AAPG officer candidates for the 2009-10 term is available online.
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By Larry Nation
Broadcast news: The explosion of new broadband Internet sites over the past year has opened the door to a lot of niche programming based on industry topics.
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By Carol McGowen
Editor’s note: AAPG’s Workforce Retention Survey targets degreed, women geoscientists of all ages
and at every stage of their careers who have had industry work experience at
one time or another.
The survey closes on Sept. 30.
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By Louise Durham
Watch this: Non-stop advances in visualization technology are giving geologists a front row seat for everything from initial project framing to final project review.
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By Louise Durham
Three-dimensional seismic data can be invaluable with regard to mitigating risk associated with the presence of reservoir, source and seal facies.
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By Jamie Edford
The AAPG Web site family has grown again with the addition of PetroleumGeology.org, a one-stop source for information about petroleum exploration and production geared toward the general public.
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Student Chapter awards and awards for student technical presentations given at the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition in San Antonio have been announced by the Convention Organizing and Student Chapters committees.
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By David Curtiss
Calling for “a robust federal oil and natural gas program – on the scale of oil, nuclear and alternatives, on the order of $500 million per year,” AAPG President Scott Tinker urged U.S. Senate appropriators to significantly boost oil and gas research.
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By David Curtiss
A comprehensive look at the industry’s past and future in the North Sea will be highlighted at this year’s AAPG European Region conference, set Oct. 5-7 at the Hotel Bristol in Oslo, Norway.
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