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New Memoir Examines Hot Margin Play

A new publication that studies an area that is among the world's hottest exploration targets has been released by AAPG.

Added on 01 February, 2001

Explorer Article By Rick Fritz

One Day That Shook the World

About 100 years ago a self-taught Texas geologist named Pattillo Higgins had a vision of the future.

Added on 01 February, 2001

Explorer Emphasis Article By Kathy Shirley

West Africa's Time to Shine Arrives

The relatively small, sparsely populated countries along the coast of West Africa are poised to be become major players in the world oil arena.

Added on 01 January, 2001

Explorer Wildcat Recollections Column By Marlan Downey

Open Mind, Flexibility Always Helps

In 1990, Arco International made a technical review of the blocks offered in the Oriente of Ecuador, and offered a bid on Block 10. Arco was successful in its bid, and became operator with a 60 percent interest, and had Agip as partner, with 40 percent.

Added on 01 December, 2000

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Robert E. Wellborn

Finding Limits Of 3-D Seismic

This month's column is titled 'Crooks Gap Field; Limitations of 3-D Seismic Interpretation.'

Added on 01 November, 2000

Explorer Article By Thomas Dolan

Study Quantifies Earthquake Costs

A new government study attempts to quantify and define the potential extent of U.S. earthquake damage.

Added on 01 November, 2000

Explorer Geophysical Corner By James Pindell,Lorcan Kennan,Stephen Barrett

Putting It All Together Again

This month, we further evolve this framework to build a palinspastically quantitative reassembly of continents and continental blocks that were separated during the Mesozoic rifting and subsequent drift in the Gulf of Mexico region -- key features.

Added on 01 October, 2000

Explorer Emphasis Article By Kathy Shirley

The Promise of the Best of Both Worlds

Deep water and subsalt plays are the two hottest exploration frontiers in the Gulf of Mexico and searching for structures below the salt in waters thousands of feet deep is the most exciting play with the greatest potential for reward vs. the risk.

Added on 01 October, 2000

Explorer Article By Thomas Dolan

Well Data Drafted for Quake Duty

One hundred years of petroleum exploration and development in the Los Angeles region have produced a rich legacy of geological and geophysical data -- a legacy that the oil industry has spent billions of dollars to obtain.

Added on 01 October, 2000

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Greenland Wants 'Oil Lamp' to Light

Everyone knows Greenland has oil. But the exploration areas are so frontier they make Dodge City look like the middle of Manhattan, and so far no one has caught a glimpse of commercial Greenland production. So who will be first?

Added on 01 September, 2000

VG Abstract By Juan I. Soto

How Orogens Could Collapse Forming Sedimentary Basins: The Case of the Betic-Rif Orogen

The Betic hinterland, in the westernmost Mediterranean, constitutes a unique example of a stack of metamorphic units. Using a three-dimensional model for the crustal structure of the Betics-Rif area this talk will address the role of crustal flow simultaneously to upper-crustal low-angle faulting in the origin and evolution of the topography.

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Added on 26 June, 2019

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