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Roxanna Chairman Publishes New Paper “Thinking Like Oil”

By Nick Downey in Company News, Publications

Roxanna Chairman Publishes New Paper “Thinking Like Oil”

During the AAPG Midcontent Meeting in Wichita, Kansas, Marlan Downey discussed how too much of the technical work purporting to guide exploration for petroleum is trivial, redundant, and has little useful to offer towards finding new oil and gas accumulations.  What follows are the notes for his speech as well as a link to download the presentation.

 

Learn more at www.roxannaoil.com/thinkoil

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