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Explorer Emphasis Article By Heather Saucier

Technological Evolution Creates Super Basin Renaissance

Now referred to as a “super basin,” the Gulf of Mexico Basin has joined other top super basins in the world that, despite their maturity, have the potential or have proven to be significant new plays all over again. The driving force behind this renaissance is, for a large part, the evolution of technology over the last two decades that has jumpstarted both offshore and onshore basins.

Added on 01 January, 2020

Explorer Article By David Brown

2019: The Year in Review

The oil and gas industry began 2019 hoping to thrive and ended the year mostly happy to survive. Offshore drilling dominated exploration but, despite several significant discoveries, reserve replacement rates remained low. Global geopolitical tensions simmered and sometimes boiled over throughout last year. In oil and gas prices, “Lower-for-Longer” came back to linger. The world saw abundant crude oil production and a surfeit of natural gas.

Added on 01 January, 2020

Events Blog By Grant Smith

Meet the Instructor – De-Risking Unconventional Reservoirs

Register now for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) short course, De-Risking Unconventional Reservoirs, 4 February 2020 in Houston, Texas. This course will be taking place in conjunction with NAPE Summit 2020.

Added on 19 December, 2019

Explorer Emphasis Article By Barry Friedman

Oil and Gas Slow to Embrace Unstructured Data Management

'The industry, according to Alec Walker, is stuck in its sepia-toned past, especially during the down times, and he thinks it’s past time to move on.'

Added on 01 December, 2019

Explorer Article By David Brown

Data Analysis Suggests a Future 'Second Act' for Shale

Pity the Permian Basin. Investors complain about disappointing returns from Permian production. Stockholders worry about the financial outlook for operators in the play. Lenders have started to cast a skeptical eye at the basin’s profit potential. So it’s surprising to find that a data-derived solution for addressing the Permian Basin’s current challenges might be readily available. And it’s somewhat startling to hear that, someday, unconventional resource plays in the United States could fly higher than ever.

Added on 01 December, 2019

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

Mineralogical composition and total organic carbon quantification using x-ray fluorescence data from the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group in southern Texas

Six southern Texas Eagle Ford cores were investigated to quantify mineralogical composition and total organic carbon (TOC). Machine learning of the x-ray fluorescence (XRF) data set was conducted using neural network analysis to predict mineralogies for L1, L2, and L3 and TOC for L1, L2, L3, Iona-1, Innes-1, and well “X.”

Added on 01 December, 2019

Explorer ProTracks By Lauren Dietzel

Have You Attended URTeC?

The Unconventional Resources Technology Conference was held this year in Denver, Colo., and once again, it did not disappoint. It was packed with technical presentations and exhibits and it continued to push boundaries and remain as the premier industry event focused on the latest science and technology in exploration and development of unconventional resources.

Added on 01 November, 2019

Explorer Article By Ken Milam

First 'WinGS' Scholarship Awarded by West Texas Geology Foundation

As women continue to make inroads and contributions to the once male-dominated oil industry, the West Texas Geology Foundation has taken a new step to encourage more women to enter the field. The foundation established and awarded its first Women in Geoscience Studies scholarship to Alondra Soltero, a graduate student at the University of Texas at El Paso. The Women in Geoscience Studies, or “WinGS” scholarship, established in 2018, is a minimum of $5,000 given to a female candidate studying in a geoscience field from a school in or around the Permian Basin.

Added on 01 November, 2019

Explorer Article By Barry Friedman

UH's Jack Kenning Wins AAPG Student Poster Competition

The AAPG Student Poster Competition began in 1996, when a single first-place award was given to Ian Robert Gordon of UT Austin for his poster. Since then, the program has expanded, soon including international schools, leading to 2019, when four awards were given, some to international students. Jack Kenning, a second-year doctoral student in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department at UH, won with a poster entitled “Controls of Cenozoic Mass Transport Deposits on Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of the Mexican Ridges Fold-Belt, Western Gulf of Mexico.”

Added on 01 October, 2019

Explorer Article By Robert Merrill

A Message from the Editor

As I indicated in my candidate statement, AAPG is a business and our purpose is to provide material to our membership that will help them as professional geologists. As a business, we have to consider the purpose of the Association. The AAPG editor is the de facto scientific leader of the AAPG and my task is to deliver publications that are significant to our membership and to manage the legacy publications.

Added on 01 October, 2019

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