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Headline Here Subhead Here and Here by AUTHOR NAME XXXXXYYYYZZZZ 2 OCTOBER 2017 WWW.AAPG.ORG Vol. 38, No. 10 OCTOBER 2017 PRESIDENT’SCOLUMN 100Headline More Years Here of Science Fueling the Next 100 Years of Prosperity SubheadBY CHARLES STERNBACH Here and Here BY AUTHORhis month, NAME AAPG will hold our professional societies have played a major International Conference and Exhibition role in the technology transfer that continues T(ICE)XXXXYYYYZZZZ in the ExCel center in London, AAPG is dedicated to providing to fuel global prosperity. England. The theme of the event is “100 valuable geoscience and professional YearsX of Science Fueled by 100 Years of What’s Next? Prosperity.” content to fuel prosperity in AAPG’s Kudos to the London ICE organizers for We are presently working out details an outstanding program! second century for the two-day Global Super Basin One session in particular I recommend Leadership Conference previously attendees mark on their calendar is the STERNBACH announced for Feb. 28-March 2, 2018 Discovery Thinking Forum which will be at the Hilton America Hotel in Houston. held on Monday afternoon, Oct. 16, in the geologist Hans Ronnevik at the 2014 people to see Hans Ronnevik’s 2014 talk This new conference will share best conference center Capital Suite. I will be Discovery Thinking Forum. He talked about and that of his colleague Arild Jorstad in practices on energy, economics and the at my usual podium spot co-chairing the the process leading to the 2010 discovery of 2012 in the AAPG Discovery Thinking Video environment. forum along with past AAPG President Paul the giant Johan Sverdrup Field on the Utsira Vault. The discovery methodology is also AAPG is dedicated to providing Weimer and past AAPG European Region high, in the central part of the Norwegian published in AAPG Memoir 113 “Giant valuable geoscience and professional President Jonathan Craig. North Sea. The Norwegian North Sea was Fields of the Decade 2000-2010” edited by content to fuel prosperity in AAPG’s Discovery Thinking Forums began in considered exhausted after more than 40 myself and Robert Merrill. second century, through both publications 2007 and I have spoken about them before. years of disappointing exploration drilling Bob Merrill and I are already working on and events. Since 2010 there has been It was a program initiative created by the before Ronnevik’s team re-assessed the a proposed 2010-2020 AAPG Memoir of a technology-led energy renaissance to 100th Anniversary Committee that featured area. Reserves would become 1.7-3.0 billion Giant Fields. Let us know if you have a giant revisit the world’s most richly endowed geo-discoverers telling stories about finding barrels of oil. The discovery was the result field discovered in that timeline you’d like to super basins. David Gee of Boston new fields or creating new play concepts. of a breakthrough of systematic geoscience write about! It is fun to see the sequence of Consulting Group will present how During Discovery Thinking in London, integration that made use of improved giant fields unfold over the past century of we plan to feature four game-changing broadband seismic data. I encourage AAPG. It is clear to me that AAPG and other See President, page 15 play discoveries (see article on page # for the full story). In addition, I plan to feature several brief representative vignettes of previous presentations spotlighting Message to Hurricane-Affected Members valuable exploration lessons. In the decade APG Members in Houston, Miami Society is AAPG’s largest affiliated society normal – a new and different normal for since inception, 19 Discovery Thinking and other cities and towns along – comprising 18 percent of our total this entire region.” Forums have been hosted at both Annual the Gulf Coast and Caribbean have membership. AAPG’s regional presence But Texas is resilient; Florida is Convention and Exhibition (ACE) and ICE A endured a harrowing and disruptive is even broader when adding the other resilient; and the Gulf coast is resilient. events. More than 100 speakers and their experience over the past weeks. Our areas impacted by the storm, with 7,267 The process of recovery is already co-authors have presented discoveries thoughts and concerns are with them members in the Gulf Coast Section. We underway, and I encourage you to find they know well commonly to standing room and their neighbors as they continue to all have colleagues and friends who are ways to help and support the recovery only audiences. We owe these “100 who deal with the devastating and potentially based there – often very good friends of this region that is so vitally important made a difference” heartfelt gratitude as life-changing impact of Hurricanes we’ve known for decades – and watching to our industry and profession. we celebrate the AAPG centenary. They Harvey, Irma and Maria. the images of the destruction caused by As a global community of petroleum have generously gifted us with hard won As all AAPG Members know, Houston this storm has been horrifying. geologists, AAPG stands with the people and costly insights leading to significant is both an important location for the For the people of this region the pain of the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean. discoveries. We pay tribute to the 115 men energy industry as well as an important and suffering is real. As Texas Gov. and women who have participated in these part of the AAPG family. With 5,330 Greg Abbott said of what’s yet to come, Charles A. Sternbach Discovery Thinking forums. members, the Houston Geological “We need to recognize it will be a new AAPG President 2017-18 I was inspired by meeting the renowned STAFF TABLEofCONTENTS REGULARDEPARTMENTS Managing Editor The Next 100 Years: The energy Historical Highlights ........................... 20 Brian Ervin Rescue 06 industry has an important role to Page 29 [email protected] play in raising the quality of life of Geophysical Corner ........................... 22 the more than one billion people in Art Direction/Production Foundation Update ............................. 30 Matt Randolph the world who suffer under energy [email protected] poverty. Classified Ads .................................... 32 Hurricane Harvey and the Oil In Memory .......................................... 33 Graphics Support Market: What are the implications of Ben McNett 10 having so much of the nation’s oil Director’s Corner ................................ 34 and gas infrastructure concentrated Advertising Coordinators Divisions Report (DPA) ....................... 34 Companies A-K in Houston? Mike Taylor Geology of a Storm: a look at what 1-918-630-5672 [email protected] 14 happened before, during and in the Approximately one billion aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. people in the world lack Companies L-Z According to a presenter at this Tracy Thompson access to electricity and other 1-918-560-9414 24 month’s International Conference and energy resources, which [email protected] Exhibition (ICE), offshore Somalia is experts hope to alleviate by one of the last remaining frontier 2030. This image from the continental margins for oil NASA-NOAA Suomi-NPP CORRESPONDENTS exploration. satellite shows many of those David Brown Energy and Opportunity: the energy-impoverished areas, Barry Friedman Discovery Thinking Forum at this ON THE COVER: which are indistinguishable Ken Milam 25 year’s ICE is as much about future from unpopulated areas. opportunity as past successes. The AAPG EXPLORER (ISSN 0195-2986) is published monthly for Members by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1444 S. Boulder Ave., P.O. Box 979, Tulsa, Okla. 74101-3604, 1-918-584-2555. email address: [email protected]. Periodicals Postage Paid at Tulsa, OK and at additional mailing offices.POSTMASTER: Please send address changes to AAPG EXPLORER, P.O. Box 979, Tulsa, Okla. 74101. Canada Publication Agreement Number 40063731. Return undeliverable Canadian address to: Station A, P.O. Box 54 • Windsor, ON N9A 6J5 • email: [email protected]. Advertising rates: Contact Mike Taylor or Tracy Thompson, AAPG headquarters. Subscriptions: Contact Brian McBroom, AAPG headquarters. Unsolicited manuscripts, photographs and videos must be accompanied by a stamped, self-addressed envelope to ensure return. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) does not endorse or recommend any products or services that may be cited, used or discussed in AAPG publications or in presentations at events associated with AAPG. Copyright 2017 by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved. Note to Members: $6 of annual dues pays for one year’s subscription to the EXPLORER. Airmail service for Members: $55. Subscription rates for Vol. 38, No. 10 Vol. non-members: $75 for 12 issues; add $72 for airmail service. WWW.AAPG.ORG OCTOBER 2017 3 EDITOR’S NOTE: Jack Swickard is a former editor and general manager of newspapers in Roswell, Farmington and Albuquerque, N.M. Energizing and Educating New Mexico’s Future Scientists By JACK SWICKARD wo of New Mexico’s titans of education This year’s dinner raised $202,000, work in offices far from the state’s major of which $180,000 went to university Tuniversities. scholarships and student and teacher To most observers, they are employed in training, bringing the total raised at three oil and gas exploration and development. scholarship dinners over a nine-year period But to people in the know, Bill Owen and to $425,000. past AAPG President Edward K. “Eddie” This resulted in $375,000 going to David are extraordinarily successful, high- scholarships and training programs. dollar fundraisers for college scholarships Additionally, half the seats at the events and educational training. were donated to students and educators. David and Owen call on sponsors every David, who served as AAPG president four years to help fund a major scholarship in 1997-98, is president of David Petroleum dinner at the Roswell Convention and Civic Corp. of Roswell.
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