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Explorer Article By Robbie Gries

Visiting Geoscientists Reach Thousands

Since the dramatic expansion of AAPG/ AAPG Foundation’s Visiting Geoscientist program in the fall of 2014, thousands of students around the globe have benefited from it.

Added on 01 January, 2016

Explorer Article By Heather Saucier

New Tool Manages Big Data in Real Time

Called IPSO, which stands for integrated production surveillance and optimization system, the tool has become a solution for an issue presently challenging the industry as a whole: the management of big data.

Added on 01 January, 2016

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Deadline Extended - Submit Your Abstracts for URTeC 2016

Have you submitted your abstracts for ‪‎URTeC 2016‬ in San Antonio? You still have time! The abstract submission deadline has been extended to 21 December 2015. What are you waiting for? Don't miss the chance to share your innovations, ideas and experiences at the premier integrated science and technology event for unconventional resources.

Added on 02 December, 2015

Explorer Policy Watch By Edith Allison

LNG Exports Approved Amid Waning Interest

For over two years Congress has complained about delays in the government permitting process for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals, and several bills were introduced to accelerate the processing of natural gas export applications.

Added on 01 December, 2015

Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

New Tech Predicts Fracturing Performance

A team of structural geologists and seismic processing geophysicists has developed what they believe is a potentially revolutionary technology that can help predict fracture performance before a well is ever drilled.

Added on 01 December, 2015

Explorer ProTracks By Meredith Faber

Finding Opportunity In Downturn

The current industry downturn has made the job market a daunting place for new graduates and YPs, but meetings like GCAGS 2015 provide a venue for new opportunities and professional growth – and perhaps some came away with a new fondness for the GRBCC as well.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Article

Watkins Wins GCAGS A.I. Levorsen Award

AAPG member Elizabeth A. Watkins, with Petrobras America, Houston, has won the A.I. Levorsen Memorial Award for the best paper presentation at the recent Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies annual meeting.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Emphasis Article By Louise Durham

Project Seeks Improved Hydrocarbon Detection

A recent project in the Gulf of Mexico improved on the detection and mapping of hydrocarbons using additional technologies alongside seismic and satellite data.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Explorer Article By Louise Durham

Gulf Coast Land Loss: Who Is To Blame?

There's long been much ado about the ongoing loss of coastal wetlands in south Louisiana. Not surprisingly, many fingers point to the oil and gas industry with its several thousand linear miles of pipelines in the region.

Added on 01 November, 2015

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Submit Your Abstracts Now for URTeC 2016

Share your innovations, ideas and experiences at the industry’s leading multidisciplinary unconventional science and technology event. Widely recognized as the premier sharing venue for best practices that define success in unconventional plays, URTeC received a record number of abstracts this year including more geophysical focused papers.

Added on 23 October, 2015

Workshop

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Tuesday, 21 February – Wednesday, 22 February 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

AAPG Orphan, Idle, and Leaking Wells: Best Practices, Data Access, Funding Sources, and Business Opportunities

This workshop will be held Feb 21-22 in Oklahoma City, and will bring together industry practitioners, government and state agencies, nonprofit and academic institutions in a first of its kind event that will spark new ideas, motivate interdisciplinary and multi institutional collaboration and support the establishment of best practices for cleaning up and repurposing wells across the nation.

Added on 09 January, 2023

Michael F. Erpenbeck President (2022-2023) Upstream Advisors Group (832) 418-0221

Mark William Shuster Past President (2022-2023) Bureau of Economic Geology 512-471-7090

David Lee Clay President Elect (2022-2023) CRA Advisors (713) 417-4937

Sara Elliott Vice President (2022-2023) Bureau of Economic Geology

Bryan Guzman Treasurer (2019-2023) Premier Corex (832) 503-4645

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NOTE: Membership in an affiliated society does not necessarily constitute membership in the AAPG and vice versa.

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