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What Are They Talking About At CERAWeek?

Whether you are an energy executive, investor, geoscientist, or consultant, AAPG’s Global Super Basins Leadership Conference, held 27-29 March 2018 in Houston, Texas at the Hilton Americas Hotel, will give you the information you need to be successful in the world’s most significant basins. Co-hosted by IHS Markit, the event will feature regional experts who will share their unique first-hand knowledge of each of the globe’s super basins.

Added on 09 March, 2018

Bulletin Article

Evolution of formation waters in the Permian Basin, United States: Late Permian evaporated seawater to Neogene meteoric water

Understanding subsurface waters is important for hydrocarbon exploration and development. Waters from the Permian Basin were collected and analyzed for stable isotopes, ionic concentrations, and strontium isotopes to determine their origin.

Added on 22 February, 2018

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Share Your Knowledge to Advance Arctic Energy Resources

On behalf of the conference Program Committee, the OTC Board of Directors, and the OTC sponsoring organizations, we invite you to submit a paper proposal for the Arctic Technology Conference, an OTC event. The conference is returning to Houston, a key energy hub, on 5–7 November 2018.

Added on 20 February, 2018

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

Interview with Richard Chuchla: Innovators in Energy Education

Innovative graduate programs prepare students to be flexible professionals who possess strong technical backgrounds, as well as the ability to think critically from a number of disciplinary perspectives. Welcome to an interview with Richard Chuchla, Director of the Energy and Earth Resources graduate program at the University of Texas.

Added on 13 February, 2018

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

All About Fractures: Interview with John Lorenz and Scott Cooper

Understanding fractures and fracture networks has become one of the most important elements in designing completions and stimulations in shales, as well as in the case of carbonates and clastics. Welcome to an interview with two renowned experts in fractures, John Lorenz and Scott Cooper, who have just published a groundbreaking Atlas of Natural and Induced Fractures in Core with AAPG. They will also run their popular short course at URTeC this year.

Added on 22 January, 2018

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

Mexico's Sureste Basin

The resurgence of the Permian Basin in the United States led directly to the concept of the “super basin”: a mature basin that can be rejuvenated to produce as much or more oil and gas than it has so far. Another archetype for super basins lies 1,000 miles southeast of the Permian, in the onshore/offshore Sureste Basin of Mexico.

Added on 01 January, 2018

Explorer Emphasis Article By David Brown

The Imminent Age of the Super Basin

Can super basins save the planet? IHS Markit, the international industry analysis firm, estimates the world will need to replace production of more than 14.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent annually by the year 2040.

Added on 01 January, 2018

Bulletin Article

Geomechanical restoration as a tool for fractured reservoir characterization: Application to the Permian Basin, west Texas

We present a three-dimensional (3-D) geomechanical-restoration method as a reservoir characterization tool in the Permian Basin, west Texas. The Oates SW field produces gas from the Lower Devonian Thirtyone Formation within structural traps.

Added on 26 December, 2017

Learn! Blog By Susan Nash

Save the Date! - Playmaker Forum | 26 April 2018 | Marathon Oil Conference Facility | Houston, TX

Innovations Bring Once-dying Shale Plays Back to Life Join us in Houston Texas, on April 26, 2018 to uncover the technologic innovations applied to the Haynesville gas play, that have seen a spike in production due to these advances.

Added on 21 December, 2017

Bulletin Article

Reevaluation of thermal maturity and stages of petroleum formation of the Mississippian Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas

New data including measured reflectance (%Ro), programmed open-system pyrolysis data, and kerogen elemental analyses obtained on the Mississippian Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas indicate that secondary gas generation starts at 1.5 %Ro and not at the previously prescribed 1.1 %Ro.

Added on 01 December, 2017

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