The report of exploration's death is an exaggeration. I'll never forget my first oil-and-gas-related trade show. It was the 1995 Society of Exploration Geo-physicists (SEG) annual meeting. I had been with Hart Energy about two weeks and didn't know anything about geophysics, annual meetings or trade publishing. My publisher suggested I spend a day at the show just getting to meet some of the companies and asking them about their businesses. I believe I had two of those conversations. After a polite 15 minutes of hearing really long words that meant nothing to me, I entertained myself by looking at the helicopters and swamp buggies on display.
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