Explorer March 2007 Issue: Annual Convention and Exhibition (ACE)

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It's a Great Time to be Prudent

It's a complex and competitive world for exploration. Expensive, too.

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Giants Like Stable Environments

It's unusual for researchers to predict where future exploration will discover elephants, the world's largest oil and gas fiel...

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Pay No Attention to This Headline!

'Geopolitics and headlines have been controlling oil prices for easily the past seven years,' noted Michael J. Economides.

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'Unconventional' Depends on View

Recent, somewhat dramatic price swings in oil and natural gas futures have done little to dampen the overall optimistic outloo...

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China, India Demands Hit Home

As the massive economies of China and India tap into valuable mineral resources worldwide, the fallout is stretching far beyon...

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Gerhard Urges a Look At the Facts

Lee Gerhard has a challenge for you: 'Defend the sciences ... Do a better job of critical reading and analysis. Separate fact ...

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THUMS an Oilman's Island Paradise

For many outside the oil industry, the term scenic oil island may be something of an oxymoron, on the order of concerned banke...

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Independents: Lessons to Teach

Admittedly angry over Big Oil's big profits the past couple of years, a host of elected officials in the nation's capital rece...

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Events Aimed at Young Geologists

Are you a student who's anxious to have a good start in your petroleum career?

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Then You Saw It, Now You Don't

In the under-appreciated 'The Two Jakes,' a 1990 film in part about the burgeoning oil deposits in the Los Angeles Basin circa...

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Geology and Writing Add Up to Suspense

What comes first – the geologist or the writer? For Susan Cummins Miller and Linda Jacobs, two geology mystery writers whose b...

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Long Beach Offers a Lot of Firsts

For the first time in over a decade, AAPG is returning to southern California for the 92nd Annual Convention and Exhibition, w...

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Perth Technical Winners Announced

Technical award winners have been announced for presentations at last year's AAPG International Conference and Exhibition in P...

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TOTY Won Taking It to the Streets

Tulsa native Ryan Henry made history in two ways when he was recently named the winner of the 2007 AAPG Teacher of the Year.

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NAPE Crowd Shows 'Savvy' Side

Once again, the North American Prospect Expo can be declared a winner.

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Copyrights Serious Matter for AAPG

Did you know that the U.S. Constitution addresses the concept of copyright protection as being important in order to 'promote ...

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Libraries Changing With the Times

Old school tradition: A 'library' is a physical place where you can find information on a specific topic, by a particular auth...

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Volunteers: Good For AAPG Climate

As you can tell, this is a special EXPLORER, because it is focused on our Annual Convention and Exhibition in Long Beach, Cali...

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Race to the Long Beach Convention

It's that time of year again -- time for the annual convention, AAPG's main event for the year!

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DEG Getting Ready for Long Beach

This year's DEG program at the AAPG Annual Convention in Long Beach, Calif., includes five technical sessions and the DEG lunc...

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Why Do P-Wave Wipeout Zones Occur?

One hydrocarbon exploration application that has caused multi-component seismic data to be acquired across several offshore ar...

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Students, Schools Aid Get Push

This month I want to highlight three items for member attention.

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AAPG, European Region Join Hands for Athens

On behalf of the Athens 2007 Organizing Committee we want to personally invite all AA...

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