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Explorer Article By Ken Milan

Digital Atlas Keeps Data Flowing

The Internet can serve as an information super-pipeline for the petroleum industry, and the Kansas Geological Survey is one more group trying to keep the data flowing.

Added on 01 June, 2001

Explorer Article By Kathy Shirley

Report Tracks U.S. Gas Reserves

Natural gas industry studies project that United States gas consumption will increase in the early years of this century by up to 50 percent from the current 22 trillion cubic feet to in excess of 33 trillion cubic feet by 2015.

Added on 01 June, 2001

Explorer Article By Ken Milam

Texas Licensure Finally Passes

After more than a decade of effort, five attempts and two near misses in the state legislature, Texas has become the 26th state to require licensure of professional geologists.

Added on 01 June, 2001

Explorer Article By Kathy Shirley

Sneider: A Star on the Team

Houston geologist Robert Sneider and British poet John Donne share a basic philosophy: No man is an island entire of itself. It's the people that make a difference along the way.

Added on 01 May, 2001

Explorer Article

Texas Licensure Proposal Backed

The Professional Geologists Licensure proposal to be considered by the Texas Legislature has been endorsed unanimously by the AAPG Executive Committee.

Added on 01 December, 2000

Explorer Article By Joey Dawes

Treasure Saved from Being Trash

When it comes time to clean out the basement, people usually throw out the 'old' stuff. After all, it's been in a basement untouched for more than 30 years, how much could it really be worth?

Added on 01 July, 2000

Explorer Article By Kathy Shirley

'Weekend Work' Yields Gas Field

Coalbed methane research and development has been a big story for over 20 years with virtually all the focus on the western United States. But what many folks don't know is that small 'mom and pop' shops have been quietly pioneering coalbed methane production in the Arkoma Basin in southeastern Oklahoma.

Added on 01 March, 2000

Explorer Article By Kathy Shirley

Coalbed Methane Comes of Age

Despite conventional thought perceiving coalbed methane as an anomaly and that completion techniques were slow an inefficient, pioneering independents worked to develop an important industry segment.

Added on 01 March, 2000

Explorer Geophysical Corner By Parker Gay

Maps: It's the Basements Fault

The basement fault block pattern started last month continues. This month the author attempts to substantiate the claim that many oil and gas fields are controlled by basement. Some geologists may concede that the evidence for underlying basement control is convincing.

Added on 01 December, 1999

Explorer Article By Roderick W. Tillman

Geology Continues to 'Deliver'

How much effort is going toward improving recover from already producting fields? A survey taken of nearly 300 AAPG members in five U.S. cities by the AAPG Reservoir Development Committee may surprise readers with their answers.

Added on 01 December, 1999

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Virtual Webinar

Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.

South Atlantic Hydrocarbons Through Space and Time

Join the Petroleum Systems Technical Interest Group (TIG) for the next session of the AAPG Petroleum Systems Webinar Series, South Atlantic Hydrocarbons Through Space and Time, on Wednesday, 27 September 2023, 8:00 AM (CST). After forty years of investigation, a super-regional view of South Atlantic conjugate basins has been developed, as the set of representative crude oils exceeds 1700 from an initial selection of

Added on 19 April, 2022

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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