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AAPG: Unconventional thinking parlays advances

04/19/2010
By Alan Petzet
The oil and gas exploration business has advanced because its people exercised unconventional thought, and more strides are possible, a Chevron Corp. official told the American Association of Petroleum Geologists annual conventional Apr. 12 in New Orleans.All exploration workers have had to break the mindsets of the people from whom they learned the business, said Bobby Ryan, vice-president, global exploration, for Chevron Global Upstream & Gas. In the US Gulf of Mexico, Ryan said, "we always seem to have some new play, and it's a credit to the way people think." Ryan surved Chevron's worldwide exploration staff and offered examples of former "truisms" that have go...
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