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Explorer Historical Highlights By Raymond Pierson

Raymond's Folly: The Codell Play of the Denver Basin

The present day Cretaceous Codell oil and gas development in the central portion of the Denver Basin of Colorado can be attributed to an earlier effort in bringing the Codell to the attention of the industry.

Added on 01 May, 2017

Explorer Director’s Corner By David Curtiss

It's Time to Get Exploring

There are many looming questions for our profession, from the evolving role of geoscience in conventional and unconventional exploration and production to how alternative energy sources will affect global energy markets in the years and decades ahead.

Added on 01 May, 2017

Explorer President’s Column By Paul Britt

Now, On To the Next Century

This year is a pivotal year for the AAPG, in order to make it more nimble and adaptable to a rapidly changing business and social environment. The ultimate goal is for the AAPG to continue to be the “go to” association for petroleum geoscience, regardless of market conditions and budgeting constraints.

Added on 01 May, 2017

Explorer Article By Susan Nash

Drones and UAV Workshop in Houston

A two-day Workshop will be held at Houston’s CityCentre Norris Conference Center, May 23-24 entitled “Drones and UAVs: Solving Problems, Finding Resources” Geoscience Technology. The focus of the Workshop will be to identify and describe how drones and UAVs using new sensors and analytics may help optimize the exploration and production of oil and gas

Added on 01 May, 2017

Explorer Article By Susan Nash

Big Data, Deep Learning Workshop Coming in May

“Big Data and Deep Learning in the Oil Industry: Basics and Applications,” a Geosciences Technology Workshop to be held in Houston on May 22 at the CityCentre Norris Conference Center will focus on new analytics involving Big Data, deep learning and machine learning, and how they are transforming all aspects of the oil and gas industry.

Added on 01 May, 2017

Explorer Article By Susan Nash

Mid-Continent Playmakers Forum in OKC in May

Geologists, engineers, geophysicists and entrepreneurs are invited to the Mid-Continent Playmakers Forum on May 11 in Oklahoma City at the headquarters of the Oklahoma Geological Society.

Added on 01 May, 2017

Explorer Emphasis Article By Ken Milam

The Case for Exploring the Arctic

After the massive discovery offshore Alaska’s North Slope last year, recent recommendations by the National Petroleum Council, among other developments, the Arctic Circle is becoming a hotspot for offshore exploration.

Added on 01 May, 2017

Explorer Emphasis Article By Emily Llinás

Offshore Exploration a Bright Spot for Latin America E&P

Offshore opportunities from Aruba to the Falkand Islands have national and independent companies keeping their eye on Latin America.

Added on 01 May, 2017

Explorer Article By Emily Llinás

Progress and Prowess: 100 Years of Pioneers

Women have come a long way in the last 100 years, transforming the workplace and the oilfield as they’ve fought their way into roles previously considered off-limits to them. As much as attitudes and expectations have changed, however, challenges remain as women continue to blaze new trails in the industry. These were the recurring themes at the Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology Forum.

Added on 01 May, 2017

Explorer Article By Brian Ervin

The Event of the Century: ACE 2017

After a century in the making, AAPG’s100th anniversary Annual Convention and Exhibition is over, and it was a big hit, by all accounts.

Added on 01 May, 2017

Short Course

Texas

Tuesday, 14 April – Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Excel-Based Random Forest Machine Learning Algorithms: Programming and Application

Software engineering is becoming a key skillset in the oil and gas industry. These skills are used to implement data science projects that increase production, lower costs, and improve safety. To boost the value of oil and gas practitioners, this course teaches software development in VBA for machine learning and the creation of a random forest tool in Excel.

Added on 26 February, 2020

Field Seminar

New York

Thursday, 11 June – Sunday, 14 June 2020, 5:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.

ACE FT 8 | Organic-Rich Shales of the Northern Appalachian Basin

This field trip includes an overview of Enterprise Products Partners Houston Regional Operations at Mont Belvieu, Texas. Home of the world's largest salt dome.

Added on 12 December, 2019

Field Seminar

Utah

Thursday, 11 June – Sunday, 14 June 2020, 8:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.

ACE FT 7 | Sedimentologic and Sequence-Stratigraphic Response of Paralic Deposits to Changes in Accommodation: Predicting Reservoir Architecture, the Book Cliffs of Eastern Utah

This field trip includes an overview of Enterprise Products Partners Houston Regional Operations at Mont Belvieu, Texas. Home of the world's largest salt dome.

Added on 12 December, 2019

Field Seminar

San Diego, California

Thursday, 11 June – Saturday, 13 June 2020, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ACE FT 6 | Integrated Deepwater Outcrop Characterization: From Channels to Sheets-San Diego, California

This field trip includes an overview of Enterprise Products Partners Houston Regional Operations at Mont Belvieu, Texas. Home of the world's largest salt dome.

Added on 12 December, 2019

Field Seminar

Houston, Texas

Thursday, 11 June 2020, 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.

ACE FT 5 | The New World of Energy in Texas — The Largest Natural Gas Liquids Hub at Mont Belvieu and Other Aspects of the Texas Energy Scene

This field trip includes an overview of Enterprise Products Partners Houston Regional Operations at Mont Belvieu, Texas. Home of the world's largest salt dome.

Added on 12 December, 2019

Field Seminar

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ACE FT 4 | Inside NASA Space Center Houston

This all-day field trip to NASA Space Center Houston is a unique opportunity to see firsthand the history of U.S. Space exploration with Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt and Shuttle Astronaut Jim Reilly. Be prepared for a full day of exciting and interesting space adventures, including a morning tour of a full-scale model of the Space Shuttle atop a Boeing 747.

Added on 12 December, 2019

Field Seminar

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.

ACE FT 3 | Modern Galveston Island and the Brazos River Delta as Reservoir Analogs

An excursion from the U.S. Corps. of Engineers office at Barker Reservoir to visit locations where where the manifestation of surface faults demonstrates the damage they can cause.

Added on 12 December, 2019

Field Seminar

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

ACE FT 2 | Surface Faults in West Houston

An excursion from the U.S. Corps. of Engineers office at Barker Reservoir to visit locations where where the manifestation of surface faults demonstrates the damage they can cause.

Added on 12 December, 2019

Field Seminar

Houston, Texas

Tuesday, 2 June – Friday, 5 June 2020, 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

ACE FT 1 | Windows to the Pm and K Unconventional Reservoirs of Texas

A five day field trip held in conjunction with AAPG ACE 2020 in Houston, Texas, with visits to outcrops in Austin, Eagle Ford, Wolfcamp, and/or Bone Springs

Added on 12 December, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Thursday, 11 June – Friday, 12 June 2020, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ACE SC 11 | Deltas: Processes, Stratigraphy, and Reservoirs – A Core, Log, and Seismic Workshop

Deltas are extremely important depositional systems and often source and contain prolific hydrocarbon accumulations. This workshop includes topical lectures, key cores, and a suite of exercises that integrate core, well logs, experimental flume data, and seismic sections to develop identification and subsurface mapping skills of hydrocarbon accumulations within deltaic settings.

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Thursday, 11 June – Friday, 12 June 2020, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

ACE SC 10 | Integrated Carbonate Reservoir Prediction – Conventional and Unconventional Exploration and Production

This two-day workshop provides a review of the application of carbonate facies, diagenesis, and seismic sequence stratigraphy to exploration and production. The workshop combines seismic, well log and rock data, to develop interpretations that help predict carbonate hydrocarbon systems, and characterize conventional and unconventional carbonate reservoirs and seals.

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

ACE SC 9 | 3-D Printing in Geoscience and Engineering: Emerging Technology in Education, Research, and Communication

This course provides an overview of different 3-D printing techniques that use both rock-like materials (e.g., sand, gypsum, clay) and polymers (e.g., plastics, resins). Participants will learn how to deploy 3-D-printed models to improve technical communication to diverse audiences (e.g., students, geoscientists, engineers, managers, community stakeholders).

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Sunday, 7 June 2020, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ACE SC 8 | Beginner’s Guide to Unstructured Data and Machine Learning in Oil and Gas

The purpose of the course is to help people who are immersed in the oil and gas industry to gain a practical understanding of what unstructured data is, what value there is in it, how it can be utilized, and why this is now relevant.

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June – Sunday, 7 June 2020, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

ACE SC 7 | Advanced Sequence Stratigraphic Applications for Exploration

A two-day course studying advanced methods in seismic stratigraphy including application of sequence stratigraphy to unconventional resources.

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June – Sunday, 7 June 2020, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ACE SC 6 | Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students

This course is designed to teach graduate students the principles, concepts and methods of sequence stratigraphy.

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ACE SC 5 | Geochemical Applications Throughout the Lifecyle of Unconventional Reservoir Exploration, Appraisal and Development

This is a one-day short course on the various applications of petroleum and inorganic geochemistry throughout the lifecycle of unconventional reservoir from exploration, appraisal, to development.

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ACE SC 4 | Rock Properties Modeling from 2-D Images: Making the Most of Thin Section Image Data

Any complete core analysis program should include companion thin sections for all core plugs on which measurements have been made. This course will describe the use of multimodal thin section imaging and image analysis to make quantitative estimates of rock properties that are important in hydrocarbon exploration and production.

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

ACE SC 3 | Carbon Capture Use OR Storage: Understanding the Geoscience, Engineering, Regulatory, and Business Aspects of CCUS and CCS Projects

Entry cost and CO2 supply have long been barriers to traditional Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) applications, but new tax regulations may break the stalemate, providing both for feasible EOR capture from a larger range of anthropogenic sources, and potential CCS options. The course will provide participants with an overview of CO2 in the framework of the energy transition. Speakers will address the regulatory and policy issues as well as societal concerns.

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ACE SC 2 | Sequence-Stratigraphic Analysis of Shales and Mudstones: Key to Paleoclimate Archives, Subsurface Fluid Flow, and Hydrocarbon Source, Reservoir and Seal

This course is designed for geologists who interpret fine-grained rocks, explore for or develop conventional hydrocarbons, shale gas, or oil shale. Participants will practice recognizing and correlating significant stratigraphic packages through seismic stratigraphy, stacking pattern analysis of well-log, core and outcrop data, and facies analysis.

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

ACE SC 1 | The New Seismic Interpretation: Integrating Relative Geologic Time, Structural Geology and 3-D Seismic for More Effective Stratigraphic Exploration and Development

A short course discussing the Fast Wheeler Transform (FWT) and the role that synkinematic deposition plays in the masking of onlaps, offlaps, etc., and how FWT’s solve this interpretation challenge

Added on 26 November, 2019

Short Course

Spring, Texas

Tuesday, 14 April – Wednesday, 15 April 2020, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

CANCELLED - AAPG Field Safety Leadership Course

This course is designed for anyone who leads or coordinates field activities such as Field Trips, Field Seminars, Field Camps, or general field work, for companies or student groups. Participants will acquire and practice strategies to prepare for and conduct safe and effective field activities. (Although not required, previous participants have suggested that having NOLS - Wilderness First Aid or equivalent training will enhance the course experience.)

Added on 05 February, 2019

Short Course

Houston, Texas

Saturday, 6 June 2020, 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.

Workshop: Speaking Up – How Bystanders Can Change the Conversation in STEM

Ever wondered “Why didn’t I say something?” after witnessing social bias—a stereotype, a prejudice or discrimination—that happened in your everyday life? You’re not alone. Deciding whether and how to respond to bias is complicated. Understanding what motivates us to speak up, the challenges we face when doing so, and strategies for effective responding can help bystanders to bias better evaluate their options and select effective strategies. This interactive presentation will invite attendees to learn about bystander reactions to social biases and how these reactions can help or hinder decisions to speak up.

Added on 05 December, 2018

VG Abstract By Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

Induced Hydraulic Fractures or Reactivated Natural Fractures?

Microseismicity induced by hydraulic fracture stimulation of a horizontal well was mapped with a near-surface buried array. Distinct linear trends of events were not parallel to the direction of fast shear wave polarization measured in the reservoir with a crossed-dipole anisotropy tool. Analysis of core from a nearby well revealed numerous calcite-filled fractures that did not induce shear wave polarization, but did significantly impact the failure behavior of the reservoir rock during the stimulation treatment. Hydraulic fracture simulation with DFN modeling and source mechanism analysis supports the interpretation of reactivated existing fractures rather than the formation of hydraulically-induced tensile fractures.

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Added on 16 November, 2016

VG Abstract By David Weinberg

Fracking - A Curse or a Blessing?

This is a less-technical education topic. It can be condensed to an hour or given as 2 two-hour sessions. It stresses selected controversial aspects of fracking that touch some combination of environment and economics and includes a short video of how fracking is done.

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Added on 19 March, 2015

VG Abstract By Fred Schroeder

The Use of Seismic Data in Industry

The following short course option was developed for geology and geophysics students that have not had much exposure to how geoscience is applied in industry. It can be tailored for undergraduate juniors and seniors or graduate students. The agenda can be modified to meet specific needs and time constraints.

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Added on 08 January, 2014

VG Abstract By Fred Schroeder

Basics of Prospecting

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Added on 08 January, 2014

VG Abstract By Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

A Brief History of Hydraulic Fracturing and Induced Seismicity

Hydraulic fracturing has been around for decades. This talk describes some of the first applications of the technology, how it developed over time, and our current understanding of its impacts with some discussion of both water and earthquake hazards.

Request a visit from Sherilyn Williams-Stroud!

Added on 16 November, 2016

VG Abstract By Fred Schroeder

Basic Stratigraphic Interpretation

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Added on 08 January, 2014

VG Abstract By Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

Fracture Mechanics Interpreted from Stress Inversion Analysis on Microseismic Event Source Mechanisms in the Marcellus Shale

Analysis of microseismicity induced by hydraulic fracture stimulation in the Marcellus Shale shows changes in stress state for different zones of failure. During the treatment, shear failure occurs on both the J1 and J2 fracture orientations in response to different maximum stress orientations, indicating localized changes in the orientation during the treatment. Reactivation of a fault near the wellbore is associated with failure mechanisms with a higher volumetric component, indicating possible inflation of faults and fractures by the introduction of the slurry. Quantification of the stress conditions that are associated with inflation could potentially be used to optimize the stimulation by identifying which fractures will preferentially take on slurry volume.

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Added on 16 November, 2016

VG Abstract By Noelle Joy Purcell

Confounding Carbonates: The Reservoir Rocks that Won't Play Nice

This lecture will discuss the differences between carbonates and siliciclastics from their chemical composition through their distributions in time and space. Building on these fundamental differences, we will explore the challenges carbonates pose to petroleum geologists in terms of seismic interpretation, reservoir quality prediction, field development, etc. Peppered with humorous personal stories, still raging academic debates, and the heartfelt frustrations of real industry professionals, the aim is to inspire students and young professionals to rise to the occasion and embrace the reservoir rocks that petroleum geologists love to hate.

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Added on 17 March, 2015

VG Abstract By Charles Caughey

Discovering Large Gas Fields in Crystalline Basement: Unconventional Exploration in Sumatra

In 1991, Gulf Indonesia and its partners discovered South Sumatra Basin’s first major gas field at Dayung in the Corridor PSC. A key feature of this field is that most of the reserves are held within fractured basement rocks of pre-Tertiary age.

Request a visit from Charles Caughey!

Added on 02 March, 2015

VG Abstract By Fred Schroeder

Basic Structural Interpretation

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Added on 08 January, 2014

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