Explorer Article
By David Brown
This is a place that’s historic, innovative, hugely resourceful and enormously complex. When it comes to energy, California has it all.
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Added on 01 April, 2012
Explorer Emphasis Article
By Louise Durham
An added dimension: 3-D seismic data is an essential ingredient in operators’ efforts to understand the risks and nuances of shale plays.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2012
Explorer Article
By David Brown
Have an opinion about hydraulic fracturing? So does the person next to you, which is why Steve Leifer, this year’s speaker at the upcoming DEG annual luncheon, says to look at the big picture.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2012
Explorer Policy Watch
By David Curtiss
I first wrote about the Keystone XL pipeline in this column back in September 2010. At the time, the project was nearing the end of a review by the U.S. Department of State for a Presidential Permit.
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Added on 01 February, 2012
Explorer Article
By Louise Durham
Home grown: A recent National Petroleum Council study suggests America has enough oil resources to meet its growing demand for several decades.
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Added on 01 February, 2012
Explorer Policy Watch
By Erin Camp
A wise adage states that anything worth having is not easily obtainable – and it just so happens that the most promising source of cleaner, domestic, cost-effective energy of the near future also is incredibly controversial.
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Added on 01 January, 2012
Explorer Article
Anne Oudinot has won the A.I. Levorsen Award for presenting the best paper at the recent Eastern Section annual meeting.
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Added on 01 January, 2012
Explorer Article
By Dave Cook
On one hand carbon capture and storage lacks governments' support in Europe. On the other hand understanding of CCS technology is growing.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 January, 2012
Explorer Article
By Louise Durham
Hot water, hot potential: The possibility of reaping the rewards of geothermal energy, especially along the Gulf of Mexico coast, is moving closer to reality.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 January, 2012
Explorer Division Column DEG
By David Vance
The use of injected carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) is a process that was first used on Jan. 26, 1972, at the SACROC unit in Scurry County, Texas. Since then carbon dioxide-enhanced oil recovery in primary production zones has expanded across the Permian Basin in west Texas and eastern New Mexico, and to a more limited extent in Kansas, Mississippi, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Alaska and Pennsylvania – and in other countries.
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Added on 01 December, 2011