Archive for July, 2011

Marlan Downey receives AAPG’s highest honor, the Sidney Powers Award, at the Annual Convention & Exhibition in Denver, Colorado June 7, 2009.

Imagine you are about to accept the Sidney Powers Memorial Award, the highest honor AAPG can bestow. The award goes only to those individuals who have made “the most distinguished and outstanding contributions to petroleum geology.”

Would you be:
(a) Reflecting on a successful career, or…
(b) Thinking about urban electricity and the sewers in San Antonio?

There’s no suspense. Everyone ...

In April’s AAPG Annual conference and exhibition, Roxanna Oil Company executives presented a paper on a “quick look” determination of oil-in-place shale resource plays.

Download the presentation in PowerPoint or compressed ZIP formats.

Quantitative measurements of gas-in-place volumes for coal gas and shale gas resource plays have been important and powerful starting points for ...

We really thought it about time Roxanna updated our website.  Not least of which is that the team bios haven’t been updated in years!  Today, we’re pleased to announce that Dallas-based modular digital agency, JDM, has been awarded the total overhaul of Roxanna’s website.

“We were so excited we started the build even before we got the news.” Admits Jenee Oxley, Creative Director and head of JDM’s Studios division.

The new site will ...