Home

Pennsylvania

Explorer President’s Column By Gretchen Gillis

Listening to “Will the Wolf Survive” as I write got me thinking about the one thing we must keep alive – the core purposes of our Association. These include advancing geoscience, promoting relevant technology, disseminating information, inspiring high professional standards and advancing the professional well-being of members.

Added on 01 August, 2021

Explorer Regions and Sections By Linda Sternbach

Geoscientists ‘Awaken to a New Era’ at Southwest Section Meeting

The Southwest Section Convention sizzled in the Fort Worth heat in late June, marking the first in-person section convention since the pandemic, and attracting a larger than anticipated number of geologists and geophysicists. Southwest Section organizers were thrilled with the large number of on-site registrations resulting in sellout ticketed events at the Radisson Fort Worth meeting site.

Added on 01 August, 2021

Explorer Article By Heather Saucier

World’s First Fully-Renewable Nat’l Gas-to-Gasoline Plant Planned in Permian Region

Energy developer Nacero Inc. recently announced plans to build the world’s first natural gas-to-gasoline plant that will operate entirely on renewable energy. The approximately $7 billion plant, which will be located just outside of Odessa, Texas, will use the abundant natural gas resources in the Permian Basin and ultimately produce 115,000 barrels of gasoline a day for markets in Texas and the Southwest. It will be the nation’s first natural gas-to-gasoline manufacturing facility, according to Nacero, with two others planned by the company in Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Added on 01 August, 2021

Explorer Foundation Update By Vern Stefanic

Foundation Trustee Associates Meeting Set for Marcellus Shale Country

It’s been a long time coming, but this year’s AAPG Foundation Trustee Associates annual meeting definitely promises to have been worth the wait. The meeting will be held Oct. 13-17 at the beautiful Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale country. Originally considered as the site for the 2020 TA meeting, COVID put an end to those plans as well as all other activities. The Foundation TAs, like the rest of the country, haven’t had a chance to meet face-to-face since 2019 – and as meeting chair Jeff Lund points out, that makes this year’s event more special than ever.

Added on 01 July, 2021

Bulletin Article By Hugh Daigle,Kehua You,P. Kevin Meazell,Peter B. Flemings,Stephen C. Phillips,Yi Fang

Skempton’s poroelastic relaxation: The mechanism that accounts for the distribution of pore pressure and exhumation-related fractures in black shale of the Appalachian Basin

Gas-charged porosity can drive natural hydraulic fractures during exhumation. In the foreland fringe of the Appalachian Basin, exhumation allowed the propagation of east-northeast-striking neotectonic joints. These joints appear at shallow depths where they facilitate leakage to form an underpressured gas column.

Added on 15 March, 2021

Bulletin Article By Hugh Daigle,Kehua You,P. Kevin Meazell,Peter B. Flemings,Stephen C. Phillips,Yi Fang

Documenting the geometry and magnitude of shortening at the Allegheny Front: Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States

Strata from the Silurian Salina Group and the Devonian Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian Plateau region of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania shortened through a variety of macroscale mechanisms. Shortening through wedge faulting equals the amount of layer-parallel shortening in the overlying strata.

Added on 23 October, 2020

Explorer Foundation Update By Jensen Angelloz

Announcing the 2020 IBA Finals Winners

Call it unprecedented, call it exciting and unpredictable, call it historic – and you’re right each time. The 2020 Imperial Barrel Award global finals competition was one for the record books – for the first time ever, the entire competition, impacted by the global pandemic that threatened to end it before it began, was held virtually in early June, adding a new chapter in the program’s illustrious history. Indeed, this year’s competition had many firsts – a global pandemic, an entirely virtual competition and the introduction of the IBA Exploration Leadership Series.

Added on 01 July, 2020

wwwUpdate Blog By Drew Waggener

Letter from the ES President

A new website, changes to the Bylaws, Student and Educational Support and the list of new Eastern Section Officers and more. A report from Drew Waggener, Eastern Section AAPG President.

Added on 05 September, 2019

Explorer Article By David Brown

Big Oil Moves Toward Big Shale

Some of the world’s largest oil companies have pumped up their shale investments recently, targeting increased future production from shale oil plays. At the same time, some independents have been cutting back on shale spending, in part because of lower oil and gas prices and shareholder demands for improved returns. The result is a not-so-subtle shift toward shale dominance by Big Oil.

Added on 01 September, 2019

Explorer Spotlight On… By Andrew Smith

Leveraging the Bond of Shared Experiences

The goal for young professionals’ events is always the same: we want to build a network of connections and get YPs excited about their careers and promote AAPG involvement. How do we make an exciting event that’s not just about mingling? How do we celebrate geology in an urban setting where there are no easily accessible outcrops? How do we create a meaningful common experience to really form those connections we’re seeking?

Added on 01 July, 2019

Pennsylvania

States in the Section

Sections

Regions

STAY CONNECTED: