Your Best Strategy for Petroleum Education We think you'll agree with leaders of the world’s largest oil companies. Every year they send their best people and teams to AAPG short courses, schools, and conferences. These companies credit continuing education as necessary “to get the best in upstream training” as part of their career success. Our professors and mentors all draw on actual industry experience to make their teaching more relevant. AAPG emphasizes hands-on experience in addition to formal presentation.