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Houston Geological Society Bulletin
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Abstract: What Now - Geologists, Geophysicists?
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There are large significant reserves yet to be found on the onshore in
the United States. These big reserves of the future lie in the less obvious
traps such as paleogeomorphic or stratigraphic. To find these elusive
traps, it will require high imaginative thinking combined with the use of
the tools of every significant discipline employed in the pursuit of petroleum
reserves. We should be drilling many thousands more wildcat wells
per year than we have been in each of the last few years, which means we
must find many new thousands of good meritorious wildcat prospects each
year. It is evident that we cannot find these additional prospects, and the
required new reserves to meet our future needs, by employing present
exploration philosophy and methods.
There is no question that explorers for petroleum are facing a challenge
of the greatest magnitude. Geologists and geophysicists can rise to
the challenge of finding our needed future petroleum reserves by abandoning
old prejudices, adopting new ideas, and exploring the remaining potential
of this vast country of ours with more daring and imagination. End_of_Record - Last_Page 10--------