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AIPG-TX Section Webinar: GeoPolitics of Energy: Part 2: What Happened to Our Nuclear Waste Disposal Program?

OUR NOVEMBER SPEAKER: Dr. James Conca is a Trustee of the Herbert M. Parker Foundation at WSU in the Tri-Cities. He has worked on nuclear and energy issues for 40 years at NASA, Washington State University, New Mexico State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Conca has been an advisor to DOE, EPA, state and federal regulatory agencies, and to President Obama’s Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future from 2010 to 2012. He worked on the Yucca Mt and WIPP nuclear waste projects for 25 years, was a Science Contributor to Forbes [...]

By Editor|2025-08-03T20:39:30-05:00December 14th, 2024|AIPG-TX News|

AIPG-TX Webinar: GeoPolitics of Energy: Part 1

Achieving a Just & Sustainable Energy Mix by 2040 October 15, 2024 12:00 Noon Central Time by James Conca, Ph.D. Eradicating global poverty, and its evil stepchildren war and terrorism, presents an unforeseen conundrum with respect to human health and the environment. About 3,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per person per year is necessary for someone to have what we consider a good life. For the 10+ billion humans expected to occupy this planet by mid-century, our total power production must grow from 27 trillion kWh/yr to over 40 trillion kWh/yr. This requires all non-fossil energy sources be developed to their [...]

By Editor|2025-08-03T20:22:35-05:00October 10th, 2024|AIPG-TX News|

A New AAPG Webinar Presentation by AIPG Texas Section Vice President – Eastern Texas Released Yesterday on Uranium & Rare Earth Supply Chains

This presentation was contributed as part of the AAPG Webinar: "Pivoting 2021: Energy Industry Supply Chains" moderated by Susan Nash, Ph.D., Director, Innovation & Emerging Science and Technology, AAPG, Tulsa, OK. For the Webinar program, see: (here) The presentation: "Uranium & Rare Earth Supply Chains: A Brief Discussion" is available on the AAPG EMD YouTube Channel: (here) For the PDF version of this presentation with hyperlinks, see: (here) The rest of the Webinar presentations are now available on the AAPG EMD YouTube Channel playlist: (here)

By Editor|2025-08-04T11:52:35-05:00April 19th, 2021|AIPG-TX News|

Beyond Hydrocarbons … The Rest of the Story

Michael D. Campbell, I2M’s Chief Geologist (and VP-Eastern Texas - AIPG Texas Chapter), and Chairman of UCOM said in a recent AAPG - EMD virtual conference that serious competition is now underway to determine which energy source will dominate the power-grid of the foreseeable future. With coal declining rapidly, only natural gas, uranium (and nuclear power), hydroelectric power, and renewables (wind and solar) are in the running. Both natural gas and nuclear power are providing back-up to the power grid because of the inherent drawbacks of wind and solar, (where the former does not blow all the time and the [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T12:50:38-05:00December 18th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

The 2020 AAPG’s Energy Mineral Division First Virtual Presentation: What’s New in Energy Minerals

Join the experts to hear breaking news about the status of unconventional and alternative energy development in the U.S. and the world from the Energy Minerals Division's Commodity Chairs, including tight-gas reservoirs, uranium for nuclear power, natural gas hydrates, bitumen/heavy oil, coal-bed methane, and status of energy economics: YouTube: https://youtu.be/LwKqFugKvxw EMD Commodity Committees: https://www.aapg.org/about/aapg/overview/committees/emd-committees _____________________________________ Ursula Hammes, Session Moderator: President (2020-2021) Energy Minerals Division of the AAPG https://www.aapg.org/divisions/emd/leadership w/ Introduction by Ursula Hammes She has 25+ years of experience in the oil and gas industry and academia in Europe and USA in positions ranging from exploration, development, research and [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T12:44:04-05:00October 13th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

The Energy Transition and/or Revolution? – 2020

Edith Newton Wilson, President of the Energy Minerals Division of AAPG, asked: A Revolution? What's in a name? Should we call it a transition? A convergence? A transformation? A revolution? A tipping point? A paradigm shift? Consider that perhaps the name is largely irrelevant, except to sell conference tickets. There's a radical shift afoot that affects the business model for global energy delivery and consumption. And with it comes with a wealth of opportunities for energy geoscientists, as well as an obligation for every professional society to help its members prepare for the future. It's Our Job Whether it's [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T13:54:33-05:00April 10th, 2020|AIPG-TX News|

Texas Energy Profile

In case you didn't know the details: Texas leads the nation in energy production, primarily from crude oil and natural gas, providing more than one-fifth of U.S. domestically-produced energy.1 Second only to Alaska in total land area, Texas stretches about 800 miles at its widest points both east to west and north to south.2 Crude oil and natural gas fields are present across the entire state, and Coal (Lignite) is found in bands that outcrop across the eastern Texas coastal plain and in other coal-producing areas in the north-central and southwestern parts of the state.3,4 Texas also has abundant [...]

By Editor|2025-08-04T18:04:43-05:00January 19th, 2019|AIPG-TX News|

“Unconventional Energy Resources: 2015 Review” in the Journal of Natural Resources Research

Michael D. Campbell, AIPG-TX Vice President - Eastern Texas, and James R. Conca, Member of the Advisory Group of the EMD Uranium (and Nuclear and Rare Earth Minerals) Committee have just published a section in the "Unconventional Energy Resources: 2015 Review" in the Journal of Natural Resources Research, Vol. 24, No.4 entitled: "Energy Competition in the Uranium, Thorium, and Rare Earth Industries in the U.S. and the World," updated and summarized from the 2015 Annual Report of the EMD Uranium (and Nuclear and Rare Earth Minerals) Committee, see pp. 8-16, (here).

By admin|2025-08-04T20:00:50-05:00November 25th, 2015|AIPG-TX News|