Energy Minerals Division (EMD)

Professional Associations, Institutes & Societies

Formed in 1977, EMD offered technical information, publications, & meeting programs to its members covering the alternate energy resources of the day, i.e., coal & lignite, uranium, & geothermal energy. Beginning as early as the late 1970s, certain geographical areas with geological indications of unconventional carbon-based energy resources (especially in the black-shale basins of the U.S. and Canada) began to be examined and drilled with surprisingly favorable results.

With time, the natural gas industry began to recognize the opportunities. The unconventional resources occur as: coal-bed methane, gas hydrates, gas shales, tight gas sands & as long as the market prices remain relatively high, oil shale and oil sands. The natural gas resources clearly represent the future for the U. S. energy market. They are an important part of the available carbon-based energy resources that will likely support our transition to nuclear and renewable energy resources over the next 40 years.

For updated URLs: https://www.aapg.org/divisions/emd 

For EMD Commodity Committees: https://www.aapg.org/about/aapg/overview/committees/emd-committees