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It's time for a geoscience Fiesta! San Antonio, a famously festive city, is the site of this year's AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, held this month at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.

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The House of Delegates will elect new officers and discuss two amendments at their meeting in San Antonio, before the start of the annual convention.

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Geology is in the blood of this year's AAPG Outstanding Explorer, Dudley Hughes, who has 65 fields and over 200 million barrels of oil to his credit.

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Deep in the heart of Texas . . . there are a lot of new approaches and strategies that are being applied in a lot of older areas, providing a fresh appearance to a familiar face.

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Pass the salt, please: How advances in 3-D seismic technology opened the subsalt exploration door in the Gulf of Mexico – and why that matters to the rest of the industry.

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Explorer Division Column DEG

The coastal Louisiana landscape was built from sediments supplied by the Mississippi River and deposited on its delta or along adjacent shorelines, carried there by longshore currents.

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As previously detailed in the January and February EXPLORER, your upcoming dues statement contains some changes.

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There’s a good way for you to save up to $120 on your registration fee for this year’s AAPG Annual Convention.

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The abstracts are in hand and the final technical program for this year’s AAPG International Conference and Exhibition is being finalized for posting within the next several weeks.

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Explorer Director’s Corner

In an attempt to improve the health of our employees AAPG is looking at several programs this year to help staff eat and exercise better.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Short Course
Houston, Texas
Friday, 28 April 2023, 9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

To go through the different stages of a CCS project and discuss which geophysical data/methods are pertinent: workshop format with short presentation and lots of discussion/Q&A

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Short Course
Houston, Texas
Friday, 28 April 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

As part of the international effort to combat global warming, significant attention is being given to ways to sequester (store for the long-term) carbon dioxide, which is a major contributor to the greenhouse effect. This one-day course will look at some of the ways in which carbon dioxide can be stored and provide a detailed review of the SRMS framework prepared by the Society of Petroleum Engineers to classify and categorize the storage volumes.

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American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Short Course
Houston, Texas
Monday, 24 April 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

This course provides an introduction to Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) utilizing concepts related to oil and gas geoscience and reservoir engineering.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Short Course
Houston, Texas
Monday, 24 April 2023, 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

There is growing recognition that a new energy paradigm is needed to curb the buildup of anthropogenic CO2 emissions in the atmosphere. This course is designed to help subsurface geoscience and engineering professionals position themselves for the impending energy transition.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Field Seminar
Houston, Texas
Monday, 24 April 2023, 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

This course will explore the best techniques and workflows when approaching a whole core analysis program where the end goal is to mitigate risk associated with any carbon monoxide/dioxide injection project. The program will be broken up into the following categories all focused specifically on CCUS injection and confining zones.

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Michael F. Erpenbeck Michael F. Erpenbeck President (2022-2023) Upstream Advisors Group (832) 418-0221
Mark William Shuster Mark William Shuster Past President (2022-2023) Bureau of Economic Geology 512-471-7090
David Lee Clay David Lee Clay President Elect (2022-2023) CRA Advisors (713) 417-4937
Sara Elliott Sara Elliott Vice President (2022-2023) Bureau of Economic Geology
Bryan Guzman Bryan Guzman Treasurer (2019-2023) Premier Corex (832) 503-4645

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