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Texas will soon require continuing education credits for geoscientists renewing their licenses.

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Explorer Article

Let's make a deal: For today's exploration playmakers, the good times are back, with a very nice twist.

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Ready or not, here they come: Gulf operators face what could be a record hurricane season.

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Energy industry companies and geoscience college students are invited to participate in the fifth annual AAPG/SEG Spring Student Expo, set March 10-12 at the Sarkeys Energy Center at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla.

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Wildcats, yes, elephants, no: A revealing snapshot look back at the top global discoveries for 2004 may help answer the question of what our oil future will be – and from where our energy may come.

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This year's annual Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists' Core Conference, a cornerstone of the CSPG' technical offerings, will be held June 23-24 in Calgary, immediately following the AAPG Annual Convention.

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More than 170 students and a historic number of representatives from 20 companies made the recent AAPG/SEG Student Expo an across-the-board success.

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Explorer Article

AAPG's second annual Winter Education Conference, which includes 11 different courses over five days, will be held Feb. 14-18 in Houston.

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Explorer Article

Major exploration efforts are essential to identify badly needed new reserves. Yet the exploration segment of the industry remains somewhat lethargic — for a number of reasons.

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AAPG member Ed Capen remembers well the birth of A joint AAPG-SPE meeting on 'Delivering E&P Performance in the Face of Risk and Uncertainty: Best Practices and Barriers to Progress,' is scheduled Feb. 20-24 in Galveston, Texas.the phrase “winner’s curse” – and he has more to say about the subject of bidding strategy.

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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