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By Susan Nash
Find out about our new Web Symposium Series, GTWs, and listen to a description of upcoming events.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 05 March, 2009
Explorer Emphasis Article
By Louise Durham
An ocean bottom seismic (OBS) node in the Gulf of Mexico passes an important repeatability test.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2009
Explorer Emphasis Article
By Louise Durham
Bottoms up: Ocean bottom seismic nodes prove their value – again – in the Gulf of Mexico’s Deimos Field.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2009
Explorer Emphasis Article
By David Brown
Field (trip) of dreams: AAPG Honorary Member Roger Slatt is leading a research team in a reservoir characterization study of the Barnett Shale.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 March, 2009
Explorer Article
By Louise Durham
Years of damage and destruction have earned the GOM the title “Hurricane Central.” But how bad is it? The Minerals Management Service provides some suprising answers.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 February, 2009
Explorer Article
By Louise Durham
Sometimes finding the Big One doesn’t call for high-tech applications. Past AAPG president John Amoruso talks about having a concept, which led to the 2004 discovery of his namesake.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 February, 2009
Explorer Article
By Louise Durham
East Texas activity thriving: The Deep Bossier play in the Amoruso Field has all the potential components for a huge gas pay.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 February, 2009
Explorer Geophysical Corner
By Bob Hardage
One technical barrier plaguing hydrocarbon exploration is the inability to see geologic targets below distorted salt layers that span large areas of numerous depositional basins. The complex geometrical shapes of most salt bodies distort trajectories of seismic raypaths to such an extent that uniform illumination of sub-salt targets cannot be achieved with conventional seismic technology.
If there is no uniform illumination of a target, a seismic image of that target cannot be correct.
A new technology that addresses this problem of non-uniform illumination of sub-salt targets is a concept called multi-azimuth data acquisition.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 December, 2008
Explorer Article
By Larry Woodfork
Celebration time – C’mon! AAPG members are among those leading the way in raising support for and awareness of the International Year of Planet Earth.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 December, 2008
Explorer Division Column EMD
By Brian Cardott
Gas shales have advanced to an economic gas play since the year 2000 thanks to a combination of high gas prices, shale reservoir characterization and advances in drilling and completion technology.
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Added on 01 November, 2008