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Explorer Article By David Brown

Understanding source rock provides a key to evaluating the hydrocarbon potential of super basins and an important tool for basin exploration. Geologists get the basics right, in general, but sometimes they might be thinking about source rock the wrong way. They are definitely talking about it in the wrong way.

Added on 01 August, 2020

Events Blog

Now Accepting Nominations for Distinguished Achievement Awards.

Nominations are being accepted through 17 September 2020 for the Distinguished Achievement Awards. If you know an individual or company that has made a significant technological, humanitarian, environmental, or leadership contribution to the offshore sector, consider nominating them for the Distinguished Achievement Award.

Added on 20 July, 2020

Explorer Foundation Update By Jensen Angelloz

Announcing the 2020 IBA Finals Winners

Call it unprecedented, call it exciting and unpredictable, call it historic – and you’re right each time. The 2020 Imperial Barrel Award global finals competition was one for the record books – for the first time ever, the entire competition, impacted by the global pandemic that threatened to end it before it began, was held virtually in early June, adding a new chapter in the program’s illustrious history. Indeed, this year’s competition had many firsts – a global pandemic, an entirely virtual competition and the introduction of the IBA Exploration Leadership Series.

Added on 01 July, 2020

Explorer Article By David Brown

Gulf of Mexico Still a Standout for Super Basin Exploration

Super basins around the world offer plentiful opportunities for exploration and development, even with the temporarily reduced financial outlook of the oil industry. Ask explorationists to pick a favorite in today’s environment and the popular choice is almost a cheat. The Gulf of Mexico isn’t just a super basin. It’s a huge expanse of prospects and possibilities, of proven resources and potential reserves. An onshore, near-shore, offshore and deepwater exploration province that is really a vast collection of basins and geological features.

Added on 01 July, 2020

Bulletin Article By Alexei Milkov,Jack Samis,Phlemon George

High-resolution hyperspectral-based continuous mineralogical and total organic carbon analysis of the Eagle Ford Group and associated formations in south Texas

Hyperspectral imaging, used to generate mineral maps of the Eagle Ford Group, is a powerful tool for studying textural and fabric relationships because it detects and highlights the major mineralogical changes that occur between depositional beds and among depositional features.

Added on 30 June, 2020

Bulletin Article By H. Scott Hamlin,Junwen Peng,Kitty L. Milliken,Qilong Fu,Xavier Janson

Grain assemblages and diagenesis in organic-rich mudrocks, Upper Pennsylvanian Cline shale (Wolfcamp D), Midland Basin, Texas

Grain assemblages in the organic-rich Cline shale in the Midland Basin are dominated by components of extrabasinal derivation. This work examines how the primary composition of grain assemblages in mudrocks affect the postdepositional processes that eventually determine rock properties.

Added on 30 June, 2020

Explorer Emphasis Article By Barry Friedman

A New Approach to Automated Well-Log Correlation in Three Dimensions

Geologists will soon have a set of software tools that can automatically correlate hundreds of stratigraphic tops that will encompass thousands of well logs. The new approach – a software Python package, ChronoLog – will potentially change how such compilations are done.

Added on 01 June, 2020

Explorer Article By David Brown

Can Big River Theory Explain the Permian’s Prolific Production?

The history of the Permian Basin reads like a detective novel in reverse. Geoscientists know how the story turns out. They’re trying to determine exactly how it started. Robert Stern, a professor of geosciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, thinks he and a group of fellow scientists have solved one important part of the mystery. Stern. “We know oil is limited by the nutrients. Oil just doesn’t suddenly appear,” he said. That raises the question, “How did all those nutrients get there?”

Added on 01 April, 2020

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Pitch Your Ideas, Secure Funding, and Commercialize Your New Technology

Join the U-Pitch Technology Showcase at the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE), where you can pitch to prospective customers, commercialization partners, and even potential sources of capital. You’ll have a 15-minute block for your brief presentation and questions and answers. Your presentation will also be available on our website, and we’ll continue to introduce you to possible partners and customers.

Added on 25 March, 2020

Events Blog By Grant Smith

See Spectacular Geology and Access Global Expertise with ACE Field Trips and Short Courses

Register now for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) 2020 Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE), 7–10 June 2020, at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas.

Added on 12 March, 2020

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