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The southwest Wyoming region has almost everything you could want in a Rocky Mountain hydrocarbon province.

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New 3-D seismic data and the injection of CO have given new life to a 100-year-old oil field in Wyoming.

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A field that can be touted as an industry showpiece for what can be accomplished with the right technology in combo with the right commodity price sometimes attains its lofty status only after years of expensive trial and error -- and frustration -- on the part of the operators.

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Dan Steward takes pride in doing a good job yet without calling attention to himself. That’s no small achievement. That play was the big reason why Steward was cited as the Explorer of the Year at the recent AAPG Annual Convention in Long Beach, Calif.

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Unconventional resource plays are sprouting up across the country, especially projects in search of gas or oil production from shale.

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In the under-appreciated “The Two Jakes,” a 1990 film in part about the burgeoning oil deposits in the Los Angeles Basin circa 1940, we hear the line: ' ... you might think you know what's going on around here, but ... you don't.'

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Every so often it is good to review and evaluate DEG’s mission and goals. This year AAPG is preparing a five-year tactical business plan, and as an AAPG Division, DEG also is preparing one.

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No one would question there’s an ongoing high level of activity in Saudi Arabia’s oil patch.

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Widely available and ever-popular seismic technologies are great for detecting subsurface structures and identifying potential reservoirs.

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Installation of a permanently placed seismic cable system to acquire time lapse, or 4-D, seismic at the BP-operated Valhall Field in Norway in August 2003 created a goodly bit of buzz -- particularly in the geophysical community. An experimental array had been installed in 1995 by Shell and BP at Foinhaven, but Valhall was the first such system to be financed and purchased by a business unit.

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