Explorer Policy Watch

A multidisciplinary symposium focused on providing clarity to the estimation and reporting of petroleum reserves and resources was held in July in Houston. The symposium brought together a diverse group of stakeholders represented by 200 people from more than 100 organizations in 17 countries.

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Despite its many productive years, the petroleum-rich Permian Basin is still going strong.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

There’s something in the water: The over-pressured Texas Gulf Coast may be a perfect location to tap geothermal energy.

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Learn! Blog

Join us to learn new techniques for determining heterogeneity in carbonates, and the best ways to find sweet spots and to effectively produce hydrocarbons from complex, often frustrating yet highly productive plays. Sign up for Heterogeneity in Carbonate Reservoirs, an hour-long webinar, plus day’s worth of additional materials / readings / questions (for CEU credit).

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This presentation demonstrates how 3D seismic data will contribute significantly to the understanding of the Marcellus. Geophysical analysis and evaluation, although in the early stages, look very promising for optimizing well locations.

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Join us for a new e-symposium with Brian Stambaugh that shows you how to find overlooked and underexploited pay zones. It will take place on October 6, 2011 at 10 am CDT.

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Learn! Blog

Join us for a new esymposium with Roderick Perez on reservoir characterization and cluster analysis in unconventional reservoirs on September 29, 2011 at 2 pm CST.

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Learn! Blog

AAPG Education is in the process of developing a way for you to log the courses you’ve taken and enter them into a course matrix, or “Professional Pathway.”

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
Learn! Blog

We the entire members of NAPE/AAPG Nnamdi Azikiwe University student chapter wish to express our sincere and profound gratitude to AAPG, SGS Group, Techno-Media and PETROED for the opportunity given to sixteen(16) of our students to undertake three online courses which includes: Basic Principles of Petroleum, Introduction to Well Control, and Oilwell Drilling.

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Explorer Emphasis Article

The word on the street indicates the next potentially big U.S. shale oil play is … drumroll, please: The Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS).

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Director, Bureau of Economic Geology and State Geologist of Texas

The Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) seeks a new Director for the Bureau of Economic Geology (Bureau), the oldest (1909) and second largest (~250 FTE) organized research unit at UT (https://www.beg.utexas.edu/ ). The role of the Director is multifaceted, serving as the chief executive of this dynamic geoscience research unit, which is also the State Geological Survey of Texas. The Director is the State Geologist of Texas.

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