Explorer July 2012 Issue: Shale Gas,Shale Horizons

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Beaumont Takes Helm of AAPG

Edward A. “Ted” Beaumont, senior geologist with SM Energy in Tulsa, assumed th...

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AAPG Officer Candidates Announced

AAPG officer candidates have been announced for the 2013-14...

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Assumed 'Simplicities' Masked Hidden Potenti...

The name game: Unraveling the geologic complexities of the...

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Is the Trap Half-Full or Half-Empty?

Pesky hydrocarbons just want out: Is the trap half-fu...

Extended Reading

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Keeping Science at the Forefront is Difficult

Lee Allison, the state geologist and director of the Arizona Geological Survey, knows...

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YPs Busy in Long Beach

ProTracks: AAPG’s Young Professionals initiative took another big step forward with three specific – and succe...

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... and Shales Need 'Material Plans'

Who's in charge? Successful shale production strategies should include a crucial mantra: 'Plan, Plan, Plan.'

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Teams Finding New Ways to Shale Success

The third dimension: Continued improvements in new technologies such as 3-D seismic are helping some companies deal with the c...

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Collaboration Play

All for one and one for all: It took a team effort to find exploration success in theWolfcamp Shale.

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Shale List Grows

Shale List Grows: Production from unconventional reservoirs, particularly shale, has been a boon to U.S. domestic natural gas ...

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Hydro Fracturing Caution Suggested

A new report from the U.K., headed by a petroleum geologist who's familiar to AAPG audiences, recommends caution and some rest...

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EAGE MOU Signed

AAPG and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation bet...

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Student Poster Winners Named

Student poster award winners for the recent AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition in Long Beach, Calif., have been announced.

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'Deep Index' Coming

The Datapages Exploration Objects (DEO) Project, a deep indexing program of 'exploration elements' used by E&P professiona...

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Concepts Shift Creates Ripples of Change

In North America onshore, the resource play has caused a dramatic shift in the exploration objectives of many, if not most, in...

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Shale Success Creates Opportunities

No matter where I travel and talk with AAPG members there are two topics that I’m certain will come up in conversation: ...

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From Prospect to Discovery, 'Professional' Leads the Way

It is a great privilege for me to serve AAPG as Division of Professional Affairs pres...

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Differential Compaction: 3-D Attributes Can Help

Differential compaction has been used by seismic interpreters to map features of expl...

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Tulsa: Oil Capital of the World

When the appellation was declared by Tulsa, it was a boomtown in Indian Territory fast growing into a city with an entrepreneu...

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Professor Honored

AAPG member Grant Wach, petroleum geoscience professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, has been named the inaugural winn...

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