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Explorer President’s Column By Mike Party

Making the Rounds to AAPG Section Meetings

I received my 40-year certificate from AAPG. At the bottom it reads, “In Recognition and Appreciation of your Loyalty to AAPG,” but it is I who should be thanking AAPG for allowing me to be part of this great organization. AAPG allowed me to network and make contacts with smarter people than me and to learn and expand my knowledge base. This is a great profession, and I have found a career in the geological sciences to be extremely rewarding.

Added on 01 November, 2019

Bulletin Article By Adriana Potra,Bryan Bottoms,John R. Samuelsen,Stephen R. Schutter

Geochemical characterization of the Upper Mississippian Goddard Formation, Noble Ranch Group, and related oils in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma

Biomarker fingerprints of oils of the southcentral Oklahoma oil province are nearly identical to those of Goddard Formation extracts. Thus, these oils appear to originate from a Mississippian source such as the Goddard rather than the Woodford Shale as previously assumed.

Added on 21 October, 2019

Bulletin Article By Adriana Potra,Bryan Bottoms,John R. Samuelsen,Stephen R. Schutter

The magnetic fabric of the Wolfcamp shale, Midland Basin, west Texas: Understanding petrofabric variability, hydrocarbon associations, and iron enrichment

The origin of petrofabrics in the Wolfcamp shale is determined with anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility coupled with handheld x-ray fluorescence. This technique is used to describe clay microstructures and identify paramagnetic minerals.

Added on 21 October, 2019

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Time is Running Out, Submit Your Abstracts - ACE 2020

Submit your abstracts today for the AAPG 2020 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE) at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas 7–10 June. Your research, knowledge, and expertise helps our geoscience community navigate towards a successful future.

Added on 10 September, 2019

Explorer President’s Column By Mike Party

The Importance of Geology

At the recent URTeC conference, I gave a luncheon talk about the importance of the geology within the Permian Basin as it relates to the unconventional and horizontal plays within the basin. As we move into the “mining stage,” one tends to forget that these plays exist because of the geology. Technology allows us to get the oil out, but the geology put the oil in.

Added on 01 September, 2019

Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

University of Houston Wins Imperial Barrel Award First Place Honors

For the second time since 2017, the University of Houston has won the coveted Imperial Barrel Award, an annual AAPG-sponsored prospective basin evaluation competition for geoscience graduate students from universities around the world.

Added on 01 September, 2019

Bulletin Article By Brian Horsfield,David J. Curry,Heather LaReau,Nicolaj Mahlstedt,Richard Wirth,Yuanjia Han

Factors controlling source and reservoir characteristics in the Niobrara shale oil system, Denver Basin

This paper clarifies the controls of oil retention in the Niobrara Formation, Denver Basin, in the western United States. Sweet spots have been recognized using a total of 98 core samples from 5 wells with maturities covering the oil window.

Added on 22 August, 2019

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Top Reasons to Present at ACE 2020

Added on 20 August, 2019

Bulletin Article By Brett Carpenter,Hui Liu,Kurt Marfurt,Ze’ev Reches,Zonghu Liao

Analysis of fault damage zones using three-dimensional seismic coherence in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

Fault damage zones may significantly affect subsurface fluid migration and the development of unconventional resources. Most analyses of fault damage zones are based on direct field observations, and we expand these analyses to the subsurface by investigating the damage zone structure of an approximately 32-km (∼105-ft)-long right-lateral strike-slip fault in Oklahoma.

Added on 22 July, 2019

Explorer Division Column DPA By John Jordan

Strengthening Business Acumen

The Division of Professional Affairs has been busy in the first half of 2019. The DPA’s charge is deepening and expanding geoscience professionalism. We achieve this directive in many ways, one being the strengthening of our business acumen.

Added on 01 July, 2019

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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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