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The AAPG Asia Pacific Region is proud to announce our Top Three teams for our 2021 IBA competition: Congratulations to our Winning Team – UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI, PAKISTAN. They will go on to represent out region in the IBA2021 International Finals to be held virtually in May 2021. 2nd Place: INSTITUTE TEKNOLOGI BANDUNG, Indonesia. Third place: UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI PETRONAS, MALAYSIA.

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New upgraded access from the AAPG Bulletin. AAPG Member access to the online AAPG Bulletin is moving to a new platform hosted by GeoScienceWorld. You will still be able to read and download all Bulletin articles, from 1917 to the current issue.

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Explorer Article

University geoscience programs face a challenging future as the world emerges from the coronavirus pandemic – one that could have significant and even dire implications for oil and gas. Educators, mostly outside the United States, are already sounding an alarm.

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Explorer Foundation Update

Bonanza en los Andes” was a two-year Geoscientists Without Borders-funded project focused on the Andean community of Zurite, Perú. Bonanza was designed around three interconnected themes: a community-based irrigation canal development project, a hydrogeologic investigation of water resources in the understudied Andean puna, and an educational program designed to train students in multidisciplinary research to bridge gaps between science and society.

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Explorer Foundation Update

It’s been a year of challenges, uncertainty and transitions – professionally, personally and corporately – but despite the struggles, Jim Gibbs has a year-end message of good news to share: Through it all, and thanks to the ongoing and often generous backing of many supporters, the AAPG Foundation adjusted its approach, increased its focus and found new and successful ways in 2020 to maintain its mission.

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Asia Pacific Blog

International Energy Summit 2020 24-25 October 2020 Artificial Intelligence systems can process millions of data streams to provide actionable insight that compliments human skills. Hence, creating a higher efficiency in fulfilling the increasing demand of energy that oil and gas can serve. In light of hoping to broaden the knowledge of utilizing such artificial intelligence in this field, this year, International Energy Summit (IES) 2020 brings up the theme of 'Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Innovations for Petroleum Industry.' There were three series of events, grand seminar, career talk, and infographic competition, and four great speakers who graced our event: Mr. Bruno de Ribet as Global Director, Strategic Projects at Emerson E&P Software, Mr. Robert “Bob” C. Shoup as Chief Geologist for subsurface consulting & Associates LLC and the Director for Clastic Reservoir System, Mr. Suwarta as an Assistant Manager Upstream Data Science at Pertamina, and Mr. Epo Kusumah as a lecturer in Universitas Pertamina.

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Asia Pacific Blog

Asia Geoscience Student Conference (AGSCE) is an annual event conducted by APPG-UTP-SC and EAGE-UTP-SC and other geoscience clubs of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. It is a collaboration event with all the geoscience clubs. This event was sponsored by ALECA, CGG and CSD UTP.

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This column highlights the incredible individuals that have volunteered and participated in the IBA since AAPG began conducting the program. The inaugural IBA participant/interviewee is Cole Hendrickson, a 2017 graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University and participant of the 2016 IBA competition.  

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Asia Pacific Blog

From 30 November till 2 December 2020, Trisakti University in Indonesia will present 'Geological Excursion, Seminar, and Implemented Competitions (GRANITE) 2020”. Virtual activities will include geological excursions, seminars and implemented competitions.

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For those of you who have enjoyed a career in exploration and even for those of you new to exploration (particularly IBA alums), AAPG has an opportunity for you to become involved in teaching students in the IBA program to achieve a greater understanding of the basin in which they are exploring for hydrocarbons. That is, to be an industry mentor to a requesting school for a coach, as in the Global Mentor program or to continue to be an IBA coach in 2021 at a previously identified school.   

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