November 2008

Henry Ford once said, "A person who will use their skill and constructive imagination to see how much they can give for a dollar instead of how little they can give for a dollar is bound to succeed."

Gas shales have advanced to an economic gas play since the year 2000 thanks to a combination of high gas prices, shale reservoir characterization and advances in drilling and completion technology.

This two-part series describes how Sinopec's local operating company, Southwest Petroleum Branch, utilized full-wave seismic data to improve production from a fractured tight-gas reservoir in XinChang Field, Sichuan Province, China.

What is your reaction to terms like "Web 2.0" or "social networking?" Are all those invitations to be friends on Facebook or MySpace, network on LinkedIn or Plaxo – the list goes on and on – stacked at the bottom of your e-mail inbox, awaiting some indeterminate future action? Do you use blogs as a means to gather or communicate information? To parody a widely played U.S. television ad, have you “found the Internet?”

AAPG made history and was part of history during AAPG President Scott Tinker's recent European Region tour. The tour, lasting from Sept. 22 to Oct. 2, marked the first-ever presentation by an AAPG president to a German geologic association.

A new grant-in-aid has been established in memory of Jay McMurray, a uranium consulting geologist who worked on dozens of international projects.