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March 2001

Shale Gas Exciting Again

There’s a new - some might say urgent - sense of excitement when it comes to the role of shale gas production in today’s energy mix, as well as its potential for the coming years.

Lewis Not Overlooked Anymore

The San Juan Basin - the largest producer of natural gas in the Rocky Mountain region and the proving ground for coalbed methane production in the United States - is once again a prolific source of unconventional natural gas resources.

Emphasis: Seismic

Personnel Issues Loom Large

Personnel issues are looming large for geophysical contractors.

3-D Reveals Furrows on Gulf Floor

Seafloor Mapping: Scientists are using 3-D seismic data to map the seafloor at greater depths and higher resolution than ever before.

Being Nimble in a Fluid Industry

Seismic contractors -- What's next? Nobody is ready to proclaim the dark days over for seismic contractors, but companies are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Patterns Reveal Seismic's Tales

Patterns in seismic: Picture a 3-D seismic data sample. Now picture a strand of DNA. Combine the two, and get ready for a new technology that brings pattern recognition to the oil patch.

Seismic, Biology 'Genomes' Analogous

The mammoth task of determining the three billion-letter DNA sequence of the human genome was recently completed - but this milestone in understanding the most complex systems known to mankind is, in fact, only a beginning.

Trenton-Black River Play Expands

For a variety of reasons, an exploration play in the Appalachian Basin is drawing the attention of oil companies around the country: the Trenton-Black River.

Fields Make Big Impact on State's Production

At the end of 1999 - the latest production figures available from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Mineral Resources - three Trenton-Black River fields were producing in New York.

The Boom Began Here ...

Much of the recent success going on today in the Applachian Basin can be traced to old Trenton-Black River fields - some of which are giants in the annals of oil industry lore.

Trenton Well Was A Dream Discovery

The “expertise” of a psychic is to thank for the discovery of the Albion-Scipio Field in Michigan. AAPG Editor Neil Hurley recounted the story of the find in the AAPG Treatise Atlas, Stratigraphic Traps 1 volume.

Standing Columns

Geophysical Corner

Seismic Has Its Multiple Attributes

Analysis of 3-D seismic data with several types of seismic attributes can reveal geologic factors that control the location of productive algal mound reservoirs in the Paradox Basin.

Regions and Sections

International Awards Honor Three

The AAPG Executive Committee has honored two prominent AAPG members with the newly established Gabriel Dengo Best Paper and Ziad R. Beydoun Best Poster Awards at international conferences and exhibits.

Business Side of Geology Column

What Is the Chance for Success?

This month we’ll discuss effective methods for estimating existence factors - our confidence (= probability) that key geologic requirements such as HC-charge, reservoir and closure have been satisfied in the subsurface by Mother Nature.

March 2001

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Emphasis: Seismic

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