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October 2000

Vice President 2001-2002

Candidates for AAPG Vice President 2001-2002 have been given the opportunity to respond briefly to the subject: "Why I Accepted the Invitation to be a Candidate for AAPG Office."

What Do We REALLY Need?

Are geologists drowning in data? How good are our analytical models? Even when we know what we're doing, do we know that we're doing the right things?

Enviro-Standards Due New Look

Environmentalism has come a long way from its extremist beginnings. Today, it permeates mainstream society, and it's way cool to think green.

World Geologists to Provide Aid

An international group of geologists is forming an organization that will provide geological assistance in the event of natural disasters or other worldwide crises, says a Denver geologist who recently attended a professional conference in Spain.

Well Data Drafted for Quake Duty

One hundred years of petroleum exploration and development in the Los Angeles region have produced a rich legacy of geological and geophysical data -- a legacy that the oil industry has spent billions of dollars to obtain.

UK Pushes Offshore Potential

The oil and gas business continues to be among the crown jewels of the United Kingdom's economy, sustaining an impressive performance for over three decades -- and through innovative approaches, officials mean to keep it that way.

Emphasis: Gulf Coast

Shelf Shoot a Logistics Challenge

Shipping lanes enhance the challenge of this 3-D seismic shoot at the South Pass of the Missippi River's mouth.

Shelf's Gifts Just Keep on Giving

An increasing number of companies and individuals in the domestic oil and gas industry consider the heavily-drilled GOM shelf to hold little promise for the future, particularly its vast array of aging fields. However, by looking at the past, Richard Nehring, president of NRG Associates, paints a more compelling picture. He will present his findings at the upcoming GCAGS annual meeting in Houston.

Data Ready When Gap Close

The historic "western gap" treaty, signed this summer by the U.S. and Mexican governments after more than 22 years of waiting, already is redefining priorities in Gulf of Mexico exploration.

There's a Big Incentive to Go Deep

Just a few short years ago many oil industry observers were calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Dead Sea."

The Promise of the Best of Both Worlds

Deep water and subsalt plays are the two hottest exploration frontiers in the Gulf of Mexico and searching for structures below the salt in waters thousands of feet deep is the most exciting play with the greatest potential for reward vs. the risk.

Standing Columns

Geophysical Corner

Putting It All Together Again

This month, we further evolve this framework to build a palinspastically quantitative reassembly of continents and continental blocks that were separated during the Mesozoic rifting and subsequent drift in the Gulf of Mexico region -- key features.

Wildcat Recollections Column

Carrots, Sticks Are Good Tools

In 1969, Shell Oil began looking for places where its new "bright spot" technology could be useful in the onshore of the United States. Armed with a list of rock and fluid criteria, I began making a search for places where this novel technique could be as useful to Shell in the onshore USA as it was in the Gulf of Mexico.

October 2000

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Emphasis: Gulf Coast

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