Explorer November 2006 Issue: Exploration Innovations

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Bouma Picked for Powers

Arnold H. Bouma, who has a sequence named after him because of his discovery of dividing d...

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Bookstore Offers Smith Options

Want to know more about William Smith and his map? The AAPG Bookstore can help in five way...

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Five DL Tours Set in November

November will be a busy month for AAPG's Distinguished Lecture program with six speakers o...

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Quiet Find Trends Well for Keathley

There's been much applause about Chevron's recent announcem...

Extended Reading

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Drake Well Postage Stamp Sought

Elvis has one, as does Henry Fonda, Marian Anderson, the Civil Rights movement and even Kermit the Frog.

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European Region Office Opens

The AAPG European Office, the Association's first Region satellite bureau, opened in London, England, with little fanfare in e...

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Distinguished Instructor Tour Set

Vitor Abreu, AAPG's inaugural international Distinguished Instructor, will offer his presentation in November, starting with a...

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HoD Announces Officer Candidates

Officer candidates for the AAPG House of Delegates have been announced for 2007-08. The election will be held at the April 1 H...

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Shales Require Creative Approaches

Challenges in both new and old shale gas plays are forcing operators into innovative approaches.

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Fayetteville Innovations Paying Off

Southwestern Energy Co. of Houston pioneered the Fayetteville shale play on the Arkansas side of the Arkoma Basin.

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Coalbed Gas Frontier Being Tapped

Alberta's Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB) is underlain by numerous, stacked coal seams permeated with methane, and c...

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Deep Lower Tertiary Playing Well

When Chevron in September announced a flow test of 6,000 barrels of oil per day from its Jack 2 well -- which tapped the Low...

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PTTC: Passing On the Good Word

Since 1994, the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) has been a recognized force in the realm of technology transfer i...

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New Dues Structure Being Considered

In previous columns I have exhorted members to recruit other geoscientists to join AAPG; we can do better at getting more geol...

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Plan Provides Road Map to Goals

Several years ago I took a course on public speaking at the recommendation of then-President Robbie Gries.

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Gas Shales Tricky to Understand

The success of technological plays such as the Barnett Shale and other shales has proven the potential of shale-gas resources ...

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S-Waves and Fractured Reservoirs

In last month's Geophysical Corner we showed that fracture orientation across fractured-reservoir intervals can be determined ...

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OCS Offers Something to Think About

ChevronTexaco's deepwater Jack-2 discovery provided some front page print and, for a few, a sense of wonder about the technolo...

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European Region

In mid-September, while visiting London to meet with AAPG European Region president John Brooks and AAPG European office direc...

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