Appendix G: Abbreviations of Organizations

AAAS AAPG AEG AGI AGL AGU AIMME AIP AIPG AMS ANSI API ASEG BIRPS BLM CSEG DOD DOE EAGE EPA GSA IAGC IEEE IFP IUGG KEGS MMS NOAA OPEC OTC SEG SEGE SEPM SIPES SPE UKOOA USGS American Association for the Advancement of Science American Association of Petroleum Geologists, publishers of the Bulletin of the AAPG Association of Engineering Geologists American Geological Institute Allied Geophysical Laboratories of University of Houston American Geophysical Union American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers American Institute of Physics American Institute of Professional Geologists American Mathematical Society American National Standards Institute American Petroleum Institute Australian SEG British Institutions Reection Proling Syndicate Bureau of Land Management Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists U.S. Department of Defense U.S. Department of Energy European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, formerly EAEG, publishers of Geophysical Prospecting and First Break. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Geological Society of America International Association of Geophysical Contractors Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. Institut Franc ais du Petrole International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Canadian Exploration Geophysical Society U.S. Minerals Management Service U.S. National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries Offshore Technology Conference Society of Exploration Geophysicists, publishers of GEOPHYSICS and THE LEADING EDGE. Society of Economic Geologists Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association United States Geological Survey

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