AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition Technical Program & Registration Announcement

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Hear from industry experts at these special eventsMichel T. Halbouty Lecture featuring Aubrey K. McClendon of Chesapeake Energy Corporation Page 7

All-Convention Luncheonfeaturing Bobby Ryan of Chevron Global Upstream and Gas Page 8

Attend ACe And benefit from:Nearly 1,000 oral and poster presentations•Networking opportunities with an international crowd of geoscientists•200+ exhibits featuring the latest technologies and services•Continuing education pre- and post-convention• Supplement to the AAPG EXPLORER

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Maximize your potential – attend AAPG ACE in New Orleans

Dear Geosciences Professionals,

On behalf of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and host New Orleans Geological Society, I am honored to invite you to attend the AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition (ACE), 11-14 April, in New Orleans. Join us to learn about the latest issues in exploration and production — from

technology to work force trends — all on an international scale.

Attending a world-class convention such as ACE is an investment in your career and your company. In just a few days you can attend short courses, field trips, presentations and special sessions that will help you to do your job more efficiently and effectively. With nearly 1,000 oral and poster presentations expected, you’re sure to find information on the subjects most vital to your career.

In the exhibition hall you can learn about the latest technologies and services available from the 200+ exhibitors. Under one roof you’ll find everything you need for reservoir evaluation, geological modeling, basin studies and modeling analysis, computer software, geological studies and consulting, geophysical interpretation and more. In addition, the International Pavilion offers you a chance to explore opportunities available worldwide.

Networking events at ACE will involve everyone from young professionals to An Evening with America’s Greatest Generation at the National World War II Museum. Many of the AAPG’s 30,000+ members have been attending the annual convention for most of their professional lives, forging professional and personal friendships along the way.

April is the perfect month to enjoy New Orleans. The temperate springtime conditions, along with the city’s famous food and hospitality, make it an excellent destination. Whether you’re coming from Houston or Helsinki, I’m sure you’ll enjoy your time here.

Tom Hudson General Chair, AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition

Sponsors Inside front cover

Welcome Letter 1

Organizing Committee 2

About ACE 3

ACE Highlights 4

Forums & Special Sessions 4

Special Events 5

AAPG Center 5

Teacher Program 6

Halbouty Lecture 7

Networking Opportunities 7

Luncheons 8

Social Activity 9

Exhibition 10

International Pavilion 10

Exhibitor List and Floor Plan 11

Short Courses 12

Field Trips 17

Student Activities 22

Career Center 23

Volunteers Needed 23

Community Outreach 23

SEPM Activities 24

Guest Activities 26

Technical Program at a Glance 28

Technical Program 30

Monday Oral 30

Monday Poster 32

Tuesday Oral 36

Tuesday Poster 39

Wednesday Oral 43

Wednesday Poster 46

General Information 50

Registration Hours 50

Exhibition Hours 50

Business Center 50

Business Meetings 50

New Orleans Climate 50

Convention Center 50

Cyber C@fe 50

Electronic Capturing 50

Juding Information 51

No-Smoking Policy 51

Travel and Transportation 51

Convention Shuttle 51

Getting Around 51

Visa Information 52

Accommodations 54

Registration 56

Membership Application 61

Table of Contents

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Organizing Committee

General Chair Tom Hudson Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

General Vice Chair Nancye Dawers Tulane University

General Technical Program Co-Chair Brenda Reilly Energy Partners, Ltd.

General Technical Program Co-Chair David Reiter ENI Petroleum, Inc.

DEG Vice Chair Mark Winter ENI Petroleum, Inc.

DPA Vice Co-Chair Mike Fogarty Sylvan Energy

DPA Vice Co-Chair Al Baker Beacon Exploration

EMD Vice Chair Art Johnson Hydrate Energy International

SEPM Vice Chair Mike Blum ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.

General Service Chair George Rhoads Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

Sponsorship Chair Robert Rooney Century Exploration

SEPM Sponsorship Chair Howard Harper SEPM

AAPG Oral Sessions Chair Bob Meltz Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

AAPG Poster Sessions Chair Dave Balcer Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

SEPM Oral Sessions Chair John Suter ConocoPhillips

SEPM Poster Sessions Chair John Holbrook University of Texas–Arlington

Short Courses Chair Duncan Goldthwaite Consultant

SEPM Short Courses Chair Vitor Abreu ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.

Field Trips Chair Dave Garner Shell Exploration & Production Co.

SEPM Field Trips Chair Mark Kulp University of New Orleans

AAPG Matson Award and Braunstein Award Chair Mike Fein W&T

Volunteer Co-Chair Mike Ledet Consultant

Volunteer Co-Chair Bill Whiting Consultant

Teacher Program Chair Al Melillo Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

Career Center Chair Jim Swaney MMS

Guest Activities Chair Beverly Kastler

NOGS President-elect Tom Klekamp Amber Resources


Tom Hudson Nancy Dawers Brenda Reilly David Reiter Mark Winter Mike Fogarty Art Johnson Mike Blum

George Rhoads Robert Rooney Howard Harper

Mike Fein Mike Ledet Bill Whiting Al Melillo Jim Swaney Beverly Kastler Tom Klekamp

Bob Meltz Dave Balcer John Suter John Holbrook Duncan Goldthwaite Vitor Abreu

Dave Garner not pictured

Mark Kulp

Steph Benton

Exhibition Sales Manager

Theresa Curry

Operations Coordinator

Terri Duncan

Technical Programs Coordinator

Dana Patterson Free

Special Programs Administrator

Randa Reeder-Briggs

Operations Manager

Jean Reynolds

Events Coordinator

Julie Simmons

Marketing Manager

Kerrie Stiles

Administrative Assistant

Kim Van Delft

Exhibitor and Attendee Services

Supervisor

Kyle Walker

Graphics and Production Coordinator

Alan Wegener

Global Development and Convention Director

AAPG Convention Staff

Al Baker


UNMASK YOUR CAREER POTENTIAL AT ACE

Join AAPG and Save on 2010 ACE RegistrationSign up as a member and save up to $300 on conference registration! Members receive many benefits including monthly access to EXPLORER, the Bulletin and Bulletin archives (dating back to 1917); special member discounts on books, videos and educational materials; access to personal member programs (such as insurance, car rental discounts, etc.), access to the AAPG Career Center, Member Registry and more. To begin enjoying all the benefits of AAPG visit www.aapg.org/neworleans, “Register Now”, “Non-Member” and select “Join and Save”. Or, mail in a completed Associate Membership Form along with your Registration Form (found on page 61). For information on AAPG Membership, please contact:AAPG Membership Services DepartmentP.O. Box 979 • Tulsa, OK 74101-0979 • USATel: +1 918 560 2643 • 1 800 364 2274 (US and Canada only)

Fax: +1 918 560 2694 • E-mail: [email protected]

Who AttendsA total of 7,452 people from 85 countries attended ACE in 2009, including more than 5,500 delegates and students. Geoprofessionals at every stage of their careers come to benefit from the ideas and opportunities presented, including:

CEOs/Presidents• Vice Presidents/Directors• Managers• Staff Geologists/Engineers/Scientists• Technicians/Support Staff• Independent Consultants• Marketing/Sales• Educators/Trainers/Students•

An Unmatched Technical ProgramYour conference registration pass gives you access to the brightest minds in the upstream E&P industry. Abstracts are judged by a team of industry experts and ranked. You’ll find more than 400 oral and nearly 600 poster presentations over three days. In addition, special forums and sessions are available for an in-depth look at some of the most important issues impacting geosciences professionals today. See Technical Program details beginning on Page 28.

More than 200 exhibitors under one roofFrom imaging equipment to mounted minerals, if it’s related to the petroleum E&P industry you’ll find it in our exhibition hall. You’ll gain an understanding of the latest products and technologies from companies of all sizes. Explore the floor to visit with industry leaders such as Baker Hughes, Paradigm, Saudi Aramco, Fugro, TGS-NOPEC, PGS, Schlumberger and Geokinetics as well as independent operators, local/regional companies and more. You’ll also find education providers, associations and more with services and offerings to enhance your career. See complete exhibitor list on Page 13.

NetworkingGeologists at any stage of their career will find the networking opportunities at ACE simply unmatched. Students can gather at the Student Lounge and take advantage of special student courses and rates to further their connections and understanding of this exciting profession. A Career Center is available on-site for anyone looking for a new career opportunity. From Sunday night’s Icebreaker reception to the private alumni functions, you’re sure to find plenty of places to relax with friends or associates and expand your professional network. See networking opportunities on page 7.

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one of the best

organized and

attended conferences.

The poster sessions

and the exhibitors

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professional.”

— Martha S.,

AzuWrite LLC,

Lone Tree, CO


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ACE HIGHLIGHTS All events will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center unless otherwise noted.

Forums and Special SessionsForum: History of Petroleum Geology (AAPG)Date: Sunday, 11 April Time: 1:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Location: Room 243/244/245Co-chairs: S. Testa and M. Barnett

From Drake’s first successful well in Pennsylvania to the installation of the first deepwater spar development, from back room wheeling and dealing for leases in the early days of the East Texas Oil Field to today’s modern computer applications and Internet communication capabilities, and from the early days of divining rods and creekology to today’s modern 3-D seismic and well logging technologies, the petroleum industry has an exceptionally colorful and varied history. An understanding of the history of petroleum geology is a key to avoiding mistakes of the past and allows today’s explorationists insights into how innovative thinking has changed our industry for the better over the last 100 years.

Presenters and their topics include:R. Sorkhabi:• The Miri Oil Field 1910: The Centenary of the First Oil Discovery in Borneo, SE AsiaR. M. Clary, J. H. Wandersee:• Locating the Play: The History of Visualization in Petroleum ExplorationW. G. Frost, R. Hubbard:• The Somewhat Accidental Discovery of the Mobile Bay Gas Field: A Story of Perseverance and Good Fortune.J. P. Martin:• The Oil and Gas Industry in the Empire State: Past, Present and Future

Forum: Discovery Thinking (AAPG/DPA/HOPG) Date: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 1:25 p.m.–5:00 p.m.Location: Room 243/244/245Co-chairs: C. Sternbach and E. Dolly

The “Discovery Thinking” Forum will be the third presentation of the AAPG 100th Anniversary Committee’s program recognizing “100 Who Made a Difference.” The New Orleans forum will feature six invited speakers who have made a difference. They are John Amoruso, Marv Brittenham, Gregg Robertson, Bill Zagorski, Mike Forrest and Dan Smith.

Each is a legendary veteran of the petroleum industry.They are all renowned for their success in exploring for and finding hydrocarbon reserves. Each speaker overcame great challenges and thrived in both business and geological aspects of our profession. Topics to be discussed will include philosophy of exploration, lessons learned from remarkable careers, professional insights and some colorful anecdotes. As technology advances and a new wave of young geoscientists enter our profession, we see continued interest in forums such as this to discuss the personal side of success and what has been called the “art of exploration.” This year’s program focuses on 1) insights derived from hard won experience and 2) discovery thinking behind the hottest “unconventional” resource plays of the Gulf Coast and Eastern sections of interest to the New Orleans venue.

Presenters and their topics include:J. Amoruso:• East Texas, Deep Bossier Sandstone- Amoruso FieldM. Brittenham:• “Unconventional” Discovery Thinking in Resource Plays: Haynesville Trend, N. LouisianaG. Robertson:• From First Idea to 10 TCF in 10 Months: Discovery of Eagle Ford Shale in the Hawkville Field, LaSalle and McMullen Counties, TexasB. Zagorski:• The Appalachian Marcellus Shale Play - Discovery Thinking, Timing and TechnologyM. C. Forrest:• Learning from 40 Years’ Experience Risking Seismic Amplitude Anomaly ProspectsD. Smith:• Discovery Thinking Has Led to 70 Years of Continued Exploration and Development at Stella Salt Dome, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

Global Climate Change Forum: Climate Change, Sea Level Change and Storm Event Impact on Sedimentary Environments and Petroleum Industry Infrastructure, U.S. Gulf of Mexico (AAPG/DEG)Date: Wednesday, 14 AprilTime: 1:15 p.m.–5:00 p.m.Location: Room 243/244/245Co-Chairs: J. Levine and J. Kupecz

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coastal configuration focuses the energy. Since many of the coastal petroleum industry facilities are along estuaries, the focusing of storm surge is probable and the impact on ports and refineries potentially large. This is especially true where regional subsidence amplifies the impact of sea-level rise and storm-surge magnitude. This session seeks to discuss the following:

Historical record of hurricanes and magnitudes of coastal erosion as a result of these storms • The potential impact of climate change on large storms, and storm intensity prediction • Mitigation and adaptation responses•

Presenters and their topics include:A. Sallenger:• An Overview of Extreme Storms in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and Their Coastal ImpactM. Blum:• Impact of Sea-Level Change and Regional Subsidence on Coastal Evolution: Prospects for the Mississippi DeltaJ. Anderson:• Response of Gulf Coast Bays and Coastal Barriers to Changes in the Rate of Sea-Level Rise and Sediment Supply C. Williams:• Petroleum Industry Response to Storms and Sea-Level Changes

SEPM Research Symposium: Autogenic and Allogenic Controls on Sedimentary Successions: Modern and Ancient, Clastic and CarbonateDate: Tuesday, 13 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.–5:00 p.m.Location: Room 343/344/345Co-chairs: C. Paola, M. Perlmutter and M. Blum

Stratigraphy records include both externally forced (allogenic) and internally generated (autogenic) signals. For a long time it was assumed that the two could be readily separated, with allogenic effects dominating at longer space and time scales. Several recent developments have made the situation more interesting: (1) researchers are increasingly interested in extracting high-frequency external signals, especially climate, from stratigraphic records; (2) recent research has expanded the range of effects that autogenic processes can produce and extended their range to surprisingly long space and time scales; (3) the discovery of similarity in autogenic processes has opened the possibility that their stratigraphic effects may be scale independent over some range of scales; and (4) recent work suggests that autogenic and allogenic processes can interact strongly. This session was motivated by developments such as these but is open to any innovative research on the interaction of autogenic and allogenic processes in stratigraphy.

DPA Panel Discussion on Ethics and ProfessionalismDate: Tuesday, 13 AprilTime: 2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.Location: La Nouvelle Orleans Ballroom Moderator: J. Jones and C. Smith

Join the DPA for an informative and thought-provoking talk on issues affecting the DPA, AAPG, geoscientists and society at large. Immediately following the DPA Luncheon, panelists David Curtiss, John Dolson, Lynn Hughes, Pete Rose, Ray Thomasson and Scott Tinker will discuss issues ranging from DPA bylaws to position statements, the role of the DPA and more. Come hear what they have to say on issues such as:

AAPG Constitution and Bylaws — purposes, code of ethics and responsibility.• Tax issues related to our profession are items on which we have position papers. Higher taxes • mean less production and less exploration. Is this type of thing a political or partisan issue?AAPG has an obligation to educate, but what about subjects that are semi-political or largely • political?

And be sure to bring a friend!

Special EventsOpening Session and Awards CeremonyDate: Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 4:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.Location: La Nouvelle Orleans BallroomFee: Included with convention registration

This year’s opening session is guaranteed to get you ready not just for the 2010 ACE, but for the experience that is New Orleans. After all, no one knows better how to have a good time than the good people of New Orleans — and that spirit will be felt throughout the opening session.

This year’s multi-media event will feature live music, exciting videos and colorful sights that will serve as the setting for what promises to be an engaging and entertaining session. Of course, the opening session’s focal point is the annual awards presentation, when the best of AAPG are honored in a fast-moving, often emotional ceremony that pays tribute to the outstanding leaders, scientists, educators, civic leaders and authors of the past year. This year’s session will feature the special presentation of the Michel T. Halbouty Outstanding Leadership Award to independent geologist Patrick J. F. Gratton and conclude with the awarding of the Sidney Powers Memorial Medal to renowned geologist L. Frank Brown Jr., who will offer a few brief remarks of his own.

AAPG CenterThe AAPG Center offers information and answers about your membership and more. Inside you’ll find information about:

Communications (Explorer, web site)•Datapages•Divisions•Education (Short Courses, Distinguished Lecturer)•Foundation•GeoCare Benefits•Global Events•Membership•Publications•Sections/Regions•Student Benefits•

You can also shop for books and AAPG merchandise at our general store.

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ACE HIGHLIGHTS All events will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center unless otherwise noted.

Opening Session and Awards Ceremony (continued)

The opening session also will feature an official welcome by convention General Chair Tom Hudson and the annual AAPG presidential address by John Lorenz. The Icebreaker celebration begins immediately at the end of the session and you may find yourself dancing all the way to the exhibits hall, led by musicians who will be playing the quintessential sounds of New Orleans.

This fast-moving and powerful ceremony will be the talk of the convention, so plan now to start your New Orleans’ experience in style. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Those who will be honored in New Orleans include: Sidney Powers Memorial Award •L. Frank Brown, Jr. Michel T. Halbouty Outstanding Leadership Award •Patrick J. F. Gratton Honorary Member Award •Adebayo O. Akinpelu, John R. Hogg, Pinar O. Yilmaz Outstanding Explorer Award •John Amoruso, J. Denny Bartell, Larry Bartell Robert R. Berg for Outstanding Research Award •Martin P. A. Jackson Distinguished Service Award •Martin M. Cassidy, Rebecca L. Dodge, Bob A. Hardage, Dwight “Clint” Moore, Terence G. O’Hare, Craig W. Reynolds, John W. Robinson Grover E. Murray Memorial Distinguished Educator Award• Wayne M. Ahr, Eric A. Erslev, Murray K. Gingras Special Award •Robert W. Allen, George P. Mitchell Public Service Award •Thomas C. Bergeon, Ahmed N. El Barkooky, William B. Harrison III, Tako Koning Pioneer Award •Thomas D. Barrow Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award •(recognizing the authors of the best AAPG Bulletin article published each calendar year) David R. Pyles Robert H. Dott, Sr. Memorial Award •(recognizing the authors/editors of the best special publication dealing with geology published by the Association) Stephen P. Cumella, Keith W. Shanley, Wayne K. Camp

J. C. “Cam” Sproule Memorial Award •(recognizing younger authors of papers applicable to petroleum geology) David R. PylesJohn W. Shelton Search and Discovery Award• (in recognition of the best contribution to the “Search and Discovery” website in the past year) Paul M. (Mitch) Harris George C. Matson Award• (recognizing the best oral presentation at the AAPG Annual Convention in Denver) Barbara Tilley (Co-authors: Pradeep Bhatnagar, Scott McLellan, Bob Quartero, Byron Veilleux, Karlis Muehlenbachs)Jules Braunstein Memorial Award• (recognizing the best poster presentation at the AAPG Annual Convention in Denver) Nikki Hemmesch (posthumously), Nicholas HarrisGabriel Dengo Memorial Award for Best International Paper •(AAPG 2009 International Conference & Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro) Recipient not known at press time.Ziad Beydoun Memorial Award for International Best Poster •(AAPG 2009 International Conference & Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro) Recipient not known at press time.

Teacher Program – More! Rocks in Your HeadDate/Time: Saturday, 10 April, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m. (Workshop 1)Date/Time: Sunday, 11 April, 8:30 a.m. –4:30 p.m. (Workshop 2)Location: Sheraton New Orleans Leader: Janie SchuelkeFee: $25Includes: Continental breakfast, refreshments, lunch and course materials (see list below)Limit: 60 people per workshop

Educators are invited to participate in More! Rocks in Your Head (MRIYH), a full-day earth science workshop for 3rd–8th grade teachers of the greater New Orleans area.

The community outreach program is dedicated to the memory of Brian J. O’Neill, a Shell Biostratigrapher, who spent many hours bringing Earth Science education to students in New Orleans. Brian passed away in 2008 at the age of 54.


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MRIYH covers a full scope of earth science topics for elementary and middle school teachers, who will be guided in each section with background information, vocabulary and projects, plus cross-curricular segments and ideas for the gifted and talented students. All projects are hands-on, making earth science a fun and memorable learning experience.

Each teacher participant will receive:More! Rocks in Your Head manual • Rock Samples (labeled and bagged) of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks• Mineral Samples (labeled and bagged) and Test Kit• Hunt for Fossil Fuels oil exploration game on CD• USGS Tapestry of Time and Terrain map (AAPG grant) • “Oil and Natural Gas” book (SPE funding) • “Louisiana Rock and Mineral Kit” with 9 specimens and the accompanying booklet “A Guide to • the Rocks and Minerals of Louisiana” (Shell)

Additionally, 20 schools will receive a laminated, framed USGS Tapestry of Time and Terrain map (funded by an AAPG Foundation grant)

Janie Schuelke, MRIYH creator and presenter, holds a bachelor’s degree in geology from University of Houston. After working for GSI, Geophysical Services, Inc., from 1977–81, Janie was a substitute teacher and taught a geology class at College for Kids, a summer program for Gifted/Talented 3rd through 8th graders. Many of the activities taught in the MRIYH workshops were created for College for Kids. Janie has been producing the workshop for 11 years, enhancing and increasing the teaching of earth science across America, and training more than 2600 teachers.

Registration informationIf paying by credit card, register online at http://register.exgenex.com/AAPGTeacher.• If paying by check, download a registration form from www.AAPG.org/NewOrleans (follow the • links to the Teacher Program) and mail the form along with your check to:

AAPG Convention Department, Teacher Program, P.O. Box 979, Tulsa, OK 74101-0979

For additional information about the program, contact Al Melillo at [email protected] or +1 985 773 6756.

Networking OpportunitiesIcebreaker ReceptionDate: Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 5:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m.Location: Exhibition HallFee: Included with convention registration

Refreshment BreaksDates: Monday, 12 April–Wednesday, 14 AprilTimes: 9:45 a.m.–10:25 a.m. 3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. (Monday and Tuesday)Location: Exhibition Hall

All-Alumni ReceptionDate: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 5:30 p.m. –7:30 p.m Location: New Orleans Marriott

Find a former classmate at the All-Alumni Reception. Signs will identify tables for participating colleges and universities. Enjoy cash bars stationed throughout the room. Any alumni group wishing to participate in the All-Alumni Reception or hold a private alumni reception should contact AAPG by 1 February 2010.

Contact: Jean ReynoldsE-mail: [email protected]: +1 918 560 2668Toll Free: +1 888 945 2274 ext 668Fax: +1 918 560 2684

Michel T. Halbouty LectureThe Michel T. Halbouty lecture series is an ongoing special event at the AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition. Lecture topics are designed to focus either on wildcat exploration in any part of the world where major discoveries might contribute significantly to petroleum reserves, or space exploration where astrogeological knowledge would further mankind’s ability to develop resources on Earth and in the Solar System.

Shale Gas and America’s Energy Future Date: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 5:10 p.m.– 6:00 p.m.Location: Room 243/244/245Chair: T. Hudson

The Michel T. Halbouty Lecture speaker will be Aubrey K. McClendon speaking on “Shale Gas and America’s Energy Future.” McClendon has served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Chesapeake Energy Corporation since he co-founded the company with Tom L. Ward in 1989. McClendon graduated from Duke University in 1981.

“Converting just 10% of our vehicles in America to CNG can lower our consumption of foreign oil by more than 1 million barrels per day, potentially saving nearly $50 billion each year,” McClendon said. “CNG costs 40-50% less than a gallon of gasoline today and is much cleaner, plus its consumption keeps American dollars at home and creates jobs across a wide range of industries throughout the nation. Natural gas is currently produced in 31 of our 50 states and

with 22 states blessed with shale gas, there is no fuel more all-American than natural gas.”

“In addition,” he said, “recent large discoveries using new technologies in natural gas shale basins such as the Barnett, Haynesville, Fayetteville, Woodford and Marcellus have provided new evidence that our country has ample natural gas supplies to power America’s economy for more than a century. This newfound abundance means we can now rely on natural gas not only for transportation, but also as a natural partner with renewables such as wind and solar to ensure clean, reliable electricity generation for many decades to come.”

Chesapeake is one of the most active driller of new wells in the U.S. with operations focused on the development of onshore unconventional and conventional natural gas. Additionally, the company is looking at potential shale plays in Eastern Europe, Asia and South America and has launched a bid to explore for shale gas in South Africa with partner Statoil. You won’t want to miss this informative presentation from one of the energy industry’s top leaders.

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LUNCHEONS All events will be held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center unless otherwise noted.

All-Convention LuncheonBeyond Zone Six: The Imperative of Unconventional ThinkingDate: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 11:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.Location: La Nouvelle Orleans BallroomFee: $45

The All-Convention Luncheon is a highlight of the annual convention, featuring riveting presentations, fine food and the chance to network with fellow energy professionals. This year’s speaker is Robert (Bobby) Ryan, Vice President – Global Exploration for Chevron Global Upstream and Gas.

Ryan will speak about the challenges of thinking outside the box. “Sometimes

the greatest impediment to discovery is our certainty of what’s impossible,” he has said. “What was not possible just a few decades ago is now routine. What is the routine of tomorrow?”

Ryan is responsible for Chevron’s worldwide exploration program. He has 30 years of experience in oil and gas exploration and production, beginning his career with Texaco in 1979 as a geologist in the Offshore Division in New Orleans. He held a variety of technical and management positions since then including Assistant Division Manager in the Offshore Division responsible for exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, Vice President - Indonesia Business Unit, Assistant to the Chairman and CEO of Texaco and Texaco lead for the Upstream Integration Team for the Chevron and Texaco merger. At the merger’s close in 2001, he was named General Manager of Exploration for Chevron’s exploration business outside of North America. Ryan assumed his current position in 2003.

In 1990, through the President’s Commission on Executive Exchange in The White House, Ryan was appointed to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewable Energy in the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C., where he assisted with utility policy issues related to renewable energy and energy efficiency. He returned

to Texaco in 1991. He is chairman of the Corporate Advisory Board of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, vice chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Energy & Geoscience Institute at the University of Utah, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of CASP affiliated with the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge University, UK. Ryan has B.S. and M.S. degrees in geology from Tulane University in New Orleans.

Energy Minerals Division (EMD)/Division of Environmental Geosciences (DEG) LuncheonDate: Tuesday, 13 AprilTime: 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.Location: La Nouvelle Orleans BallroomFee: $45Speaker: TBA

Division of Professional Affairs (DPA) LuncheonDate: Tuesday, 13 AprilTime: 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.Location: La Nouvelle Orleans BallroomModerators: Jeff Jones, Quantum Energy Partners, Albany, TX, and Carl Smith, Consultant, Morgantown, WVFee: $45

Join the DPA for an informative and thought-provoking luncheon with discussions on issues affecting the DPA, AAPG, geoscientists and society at large. Panelists David Curtiss, John Dolson, Lynn Hughes, Pete Rose, Ray Thomasson and Scott Tinker will discuss issues ranging from DPA bylaws to position statements, the role of the DPA and more. Come hear what they have to say on issues such as:

AAPG Constitution and Bylaws — purposes, code of ethics • and responsibilityTax issues related to our profession are items in which we • have position papers. Higher taxes mean less production and less exploration. Is this type of thing a political or partisan issue?

AAPG has an obligation to educate, but what about subjects that are semi political or largely political?


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An Evening with “America’s Greatest Generation” at the National World War II MuseumDate: Tuesday, 13 AprilTime: 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.Fee: $50Location: National World War II Museum (Note: Round-trip bus transportation will be provided from the AAPG Convention Co-Headquarters Hotels to the museum and will be available beginning at 6:15 p.m. and lasting until 10:45 p.m.)Includes: Open bar, buffet dinner, museum admission, transportation

Celebrate an evening with “America’s Greatest Generation” at the National World War II Museum. The museum first opened on 6 June 2000, which was the 56th anniversary of the Normandy invasion that liberated Europe. It is the only museum in the United States that addresses all of the amphibious invasions or “D-Days” of World War II, honoring the more than 1 million Americans who took part in this global conflict.

The museum stands as our country’s tribute to the men and women who made the invasions in Europe, Africa and the Pacific theaters successful. It presents their stories to an international audience, preserves material for research and scholarship, and inspires future generations to apply the lessons learned from the most complex military operation ever staged.

Entry into the museum will be through the Louisiana Memorial Pavilion where beneath vintage World War II aircraft and among superbly-restored landing craft you will enjoy an open bar social, a southern buffet dinner catered by renowned New Orleans Chef John Besh, plus access to all the museum’s exhibit areas for touring at your leisure during the evening. For more information about the museum and its various amenities, please visit www.nationalww2museum.org.

About the panelists:David Curtiss is Director of the AAPG Geoscience & Energy Office in Washington, D.C. He spent more than a decade at the University of Utah’s Energy & Geoscience Institute including serving as the American Geological Institute’s Congressional Science Fellow in 2001-2002.

John Dolson has 30 years of oil and gas exploration and development experience in U.S. and international settings. Formerly with BP and now a Director of DSP Geosciences and Associates, LLC., he has held technical leadership positions in Cairo, London and Moscow. He is a long standing AAPG, RMAG and HGS member and served as AAPG Vice President, 2006-2007.

Lynn N. Hughes is federal judge, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Anthropological Association, an advisory director to the Law & Economics Center at George Mason University and taught for the South Texas College of Law. He has been an advisor on constitutional law and privatization to the European Union and several East European countries. He is AAPG’s distinguished lecturer on ethics.

Peter R. Rose is a Certified Petroleum Geologist who was with Shell Oil Company, the U.S. Geological Survey and Energy Reserves Group, Inc. [now BHP Petroleum (Americas), Inc.]. He is a Senior Associate with Rose & Associates, LLP (R&A). Dr. Rose was the 1996/1997 President of DPA and was awarded Honorary Membership in AAPG in 2002. He was AAPG President, 2005-2006.

M. Ray Thomasson has served as Head of Strategic Planning, Shell International (London), Chief Geologist for Shell Oil Company (USA), President and CEO of Spectrum Oil and Gas and Pend Oreille Oil and Gas, and is the founder and owner of Thomasson Partner Associates. Dr. Thomasson was AAPG President, 1999-2000.

Scott Tinker is the Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, the State Geologist of Texas, a Professor holding the Allday Endowed Chair of Subsurface Geology, the Director of the Advanced Energy Consortium, the past President of the Association of American State Geologists, and the immediate past President of AAPG.

This panel will continue its discussion after the luncheon during the DPA Panel Discussion on Ethics and Professionalism (see details on page 5).

AAPG Professional Women in Earth Sciences (PROWESS) LuncheonThe Economics of Diversity — Competing for and Leveraging Employee Diversity in a Global Petroleum IndustryDate: Wednesday, 14 AprilTime: 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.Location: La Nouvelle Orleans BallroomFee: Professionals $45; Students (limited) $15

In the petroleum industry, one size does not fit all. Worldwide, the petroleum industry is made up of a diverse set of employers, including small independents, mid-size exploration and production companies, integrated energy companies and national oil companies, not to mention the numerous service companies, government agencies, and academic institutions that play a role in the exploration for and development of petroleum resources.

How do employers recruit, retain and manage diversity to fit their company’s needs? How do the various sizes and types of companies view and handle employee diversity? What are the perspectives among industry employers and employees regarding diversity in age, gender, technical experience and cultural background in the workplace? How does employee diversity impact corporate culture and vice versa? What really is the bottom line for corporate ‘monocultures’ and diverse corporate ‘polycultures’? These questions will be addressed by a panel of geoscientists and managers representing a range of petroleum industry employers. Panelists will discuss how their corporations integrate diversity in their business plans, focusing on the unique perspectives, driving forces and constraints for each type of employer.

David Curtiss John Dolson Lynn N. Hughes Peter R. Rose M. Ray Thomasson Scott Tinker

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EXHIBITION

By visiting the ACE exhibition hall you can:See what’s new• Compare suppliers• Research products• Meet suppliers and sales representatives• Attend demos• Address specific issues• Benefit from knowledge of industry experts•

You’ll also enjoy:Icebreaker Reception, the Exhibition’s grand opening• Refreshments on the floor all three days• Cyber C@fe, your chance to surf the web and check your • e-mailAAPG Center, where you can discover everything the AAPG • has to offer. Here you’ll find AAPG’s publications, member services, divisions, General Store, Foundation, global events information, AAPG/Datapages and much more!Explore the Floor — your chance to win fabulous prizes • (some restrictions apply).

The Exhibition will be held in halls E and F of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center during these hours:Sunday, 11 April ............. 5:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. (Icebreaker Reception)Monday, 12 April ............ 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.Tuesday, 13 April ........... 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.Wednesday, 14 April ...... 8:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Note: Children under the age of 16 will not be allowed in the exhibition hall during setup or teardown. Children 13 and older will be allowed to attend the exhibition during regular exhibit hours if they are properly registered and wearing their badges. During exhibition hours, children under the age of 13 will not be allowed into any activities within the exhibition hall, including the Icebreaker Reception, unless they are young enough or small enough to be confined in a stroller, backpack or frontpack.


• Angola• Bahrain• Barbados• Benin• British Columbia• Colombia ANH• Cote d’Ivoire• D.P. Congo• Eritrea

• Falkland Islands• France• Gabon• Ghana• Greenland• India• Indonesia• Ireland• Jamaica

• Kenya• Liberia• Mali• Madagascar• Morocco• Mozambique• Namibia• Peru• Poland

• Senegal• Somaliland• South Africa• Tanzania• Trinidad and Tobago• Tunisia• Uganda• Vietnam

Explore the International Pavilion for global opportunitiesThe International Pavilion makes it possible to “visit the world” and make personal contacts with energy ministers, state licensing authorities, national oil company executives and key players from international oil companies. The IP is a valuable information resource for current global activity such as licensing round announce-ments, data package releases, as well as new development and exploration activities and opportunities.

You’re likely to see the following countries represented in the International Pavilion:

Find solutions and specials in the Exhibition Hall

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Member Services

Section/Regions

(ALT) Advanced Logic Technology .......1404

Activation Laboratories Ltd. ...................601

Aera Energy LLC ...................................415

Aeroquest Survey ..................................143

AGM ......................................................701

Alaska Dept of Natural Resources .......1211

American Stratigraphic Company ..........600

ARKeX Limited ....................................1409

Badley Ashton America, Inc. ..................549

Baker Hughes .....................................1233

BEICIP, Inc/IFP ....................................1001

Bird Geophysical ...................................216

BLUEBACK RESERVOIR .....................1303

C&C Reservoirs, Inc. .............................606

Cal Graeber ...........................................443

CGGVeritas ...........................................233

Columbia Trading Company ................1251

Core Lab .............................................1115

Cossey & Associates, Inc. ...................1204

Crescent Geo LLC .................................751

Crown Geochemistry, Inc. ....................1618

Dawson Geophysical Company .............243

dGB Earth Sciences ..............................744

Digital Formation ..................................1010

DOWDCO ...........................................1644

DrillingInfo, Inc. ....................................1309

Dynamic Drilling Systems, LP ................449

Dynamic Graphics Inc ..........................1345

E&P Magazine .......................................605

Elsevier ................................................1308

Energistics ...........................................1304

Energy & Geoscience Institute ...............901

Envoi Ltd. ..............................................518

ESRI ....................................................1000

Fairfield Industries ..................................637

Fluid Inclusion Technologies ...................903

Fugro .....................................................617

Fusion Petroleum Technologies Inc. .......609

Gatan, Inc. .............................................400

GCAGS Bookstore ................................503

Gems & Crystals Unlimited ....................408

GEO ExPro (GeoPublishing Ltd.) ............513

Geo International Ltd. ..........................1153

Geo-Link, Inc. ........................................502

Geo-Microbial Technologies (GMT) ........335

GeoEdges Inc. .....................................1301

GeoFrontiers ........................................1250

Geokinetics Inc. ...................................1420

GeoKnowledge ......................................341

geoLOGIC systems ltd........................1433

Geomap Company ................................702

GeoMark Research, Ltd. ......................1013

GeoMechanics International ................1439

GEOTREASURE MAPS .......................1163

GETECH ................................................442

Global Geophysical Services, Inc. ..........814

Golder Associates Inc. ...........................700

Gore ....................................................1007

Gushor Inc. ..........................................1551

Halliburton Energy Services Inc ..............822

Horizontal Solutions International ...........339

Houston Geological Society .................1651

HPDI, LLC ...........................................1640

HRH Geological Services .....................1004

Hydrocarbon Data Systems .................1541

IHS ........................................................919

IKON Mining & Exploration ...................1351

Ikon Science ........................................1200

Imperial College London ........................603

Intertek Westport Technology Center .....911

ION Geophysical ..................................1415

Isotech Laboratories, Inc. ......................317

Janice Evert Opals .................................454

JEBCO Seismic, L.P. .............................610

JOA Oil & Gas Houston .........................409

Knowledge Reservoir ...........................1315

Komodo Dragon ..................................1519

Louisiana Geological Survey ................1745

Louisiana State University Geology

& Geophysics ....................................1201

Lynx Information Systems Inc. ...............850

Manzanita ............................................1213

Maura’s Treasure Box ........................... TBA

MICRO-STRAT INC. ..............................742

Microseismic .......................................1622

MJ Systems ..........................................514

Moyes & Co. ........................................1151

MVE & Badleys ......................................925

Nautilus ...............................................1145

Neuralog ................................................808

NuTech Energy Alliance, Ltd. ...............1357

OHM Rock Solid Images .....................1101

OilTracers LLC .......................................417

Oklahoma Geological Survey ...............1650

Packers Plus .........................................604

Paleo-Data, Inc. ...................................1350

Paradigm .............................................1220

Pason Systems ...................................1103

PennWell Petroleum Group ....................805

Petroleum Geo Services ........................532

PetroSkills ...........................................1217

Petrosys ..............................................1533

Platte River Associates, Inc. .................1525

ProQuest .............................................1513

Research Partnership to Secure Energy

for America (RPSEA) ..........................1203

Rock Deformation Research Ltd. ...........643

Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center ..509

Rose & Associates, LLP ......................1209

Roxar, Inc. .............................................745

Rps Energy ............................................215

Ryder Scott Petroleum Consultants .......500

Saudi Aramco ......................................1033

Schlumberger ......................................1021

SCM, Inc. ..............................................438

SDI ........................................................543

SeaBird Exploration ...............................852

SEISCO, Inc. .........................................311

Seismic Exchange, Inc. ..........................434

Selman & Associates, LTD ...................1109

SEPM (Soc. for Sed. Geology) .............1645

SMT (Seismic Micro-Technology) ...........517

Southwest Research Institute ................355

Spectrum ............................................1245

Springer ............................................... TBA

Statoil ..................................................1447

Terrasciences Inc. ................................1008

Texas A&M Berg - Hughes Center .........602

TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company .....733

the irf group, inc. .................................1310

The University of Texas at Austin

Jackson School of Geosciences ..........505

Thermo Scientific Niton Analyzers ........1300

U.S. Dept. of Energy - NETL ..................511

U.S. Geological Survey ..........................403

Ulrich’s Fossil Gallery .............................909

University of Miami Comparative

Sedimentology Lab. ...........................1260

University of Oklahoma ........................1652

Utah Geological Survey .......................1547

Weatherford International Ltd. ................422

Weatherford Laboratories ......................322

WellSight Systems Inc. ........................1642

West Texas Geological Society ............1545

Wiley - Blackwell..................................1312

Wood Mackenzie ...................................801

World Oil/Gulf Publishing Company .......649

Worldwideworker.com Recruitment

Event ...................................................133

Explore products and services from more than 200 companies, with suppliers available to answer questions and demonstrate solution to problems. Activities scheduled in the exhibition hall ensure opportunities to see new products, network with peers and have some fun while visiting the show.

Exhibitor list and floor plan subject to change. Updates to exhibitor list and floor plan available online at www.AAPG.org/NewOrleans.


SHORT COURSES


Important notes regarding short coursesShort course enrollment is limited and reserved on a first-come first-served basis.• Registration must be accompanied by full payment.• If you register for a short course only, a $30 non-registrant fee will be added to the short course fee. This fee may be applied toward registration if you decide • to attend the convention.A wait list is automatically created if a short course sells out. The AAPG Convention Department will notify you if space becomes available.• Before purchasing non-refundable airline tickets, confirm with the AAPG Convention Department that the course will take place.• If any of these short courses meet your needs or the needs of your professional staff, you are strongly encouraged to register early. To help us better • anticipate the number of attendees and avoid premature cancellation of short courses, please register well before 11 March 2010.You will receive notification of the specific location of your course.• Courses may be cancelled if undersubscribed; please keep this in mind when purchasing non-refundable airfares.•

Students – A limited number of student discount spots (approximately 50% of professional fee) are available in some short courses and field •trips. Please register for the convention and then contact us at [email protected] or +1 918 560 2617 for availability in the course or trip you are interested in. If a discounted spot is available we will be happy to process your request at that time.

1 From Rocks to Models — Reservoir Geology for Graduate Students (NOGS) Saturday, 10 April – Sunday, 11 April 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. $10 (Graduate Students only)

2 Practical Salt Tectonics (AAPG) Friday, 9 April – Sunday, 11 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. AAPG Members $1,050 (increases to $1150 after March 12) Nonmembers $1,150 (increases to $1,250 after 12 March)AAPG Student members (limited) $525 (increases to $575 after 12 March)Student nonmembers (limited) $575 (increases to $625 after 12 March)

3 Assessment of Unconventional Shale Resources Using Geochemistry (AAPG) Saturday, 10 April – Sunday, 11 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. AAPG members $850 (increases to $950 after 12 March) Nonmembers $950 (increases to $1,050 after 12 March) AAPG Student members (limited) $425 (increases to $475 after 12 March) Student nonmembers (limited) $475 (increases to $525 after 12 March)

4 Geology and Geophysics Applied in Industry (AAPG-SC/SEPM) Sunday, 11 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. $20 (Students and Faculty Advisors only)

5 Fundamentals of Gas Hydrate Resource Evaluation (EMD) Saturday, 10 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Professionals $125 Students $63 (limited)

6 Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students (SEPM) Saturday, 10 April – Sunday, 11 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. $10 (Graduate Students only)

7 3-D Seismic Interpretation for Geologists (SEPM) Saturday, 10 April – Sunday, 11 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Professionals $300 Students (limited) $150

8 Sequence-Stratigraphic Analysis of Shales: Key to Paleoclimate Archives, Subsurface Fluid Flow and Hydrocarbon Source, Reservoir and Seal (SEPM)

Saturday, 10 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Professionals $225 Students (limited) $112

9 Evolution of Neogene Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Systems (SEPM) Sunday, 11 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Professionals $250 Students (limited) $125

10 Reservoir Geophysics: Applications (SEG) (registration and breakfast available at 7:00 a.m.)

Sunday, 11 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. SEG Members $495 (increases to $530 after 10 March)Non-members (includes SEG membership) $585 (increases to $620 after 10 March)Students (limited) $25 (increases to $60 after 10 March)

11 Reservoir Engineering for Geologists (DPA) Thursday, 15 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Professionals $132 Students $66

12 Quality Control for Subsurface Maps (QLTs) (DPA) Thursday, 15 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. DPA Members $165 NonDPA Members $205Students (limited) $85

13 Enhanced Oil Recovery Through Wettability Alteration and Gas-Assisted Gravity Drainage (PTTC)

Thursday, 15 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Professional $300 Students $150

14 Deltas: Processes, Stratigraphy, and Reservoirs — Core Workshop Thursday, 15 April – Friday, 16 April 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Professionals $335 Students (limited) $167

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SHORT COURSES


Pre-Convention Short Course 1 New Orleans Geological Society (NOGS)From Rocks to Models — Reservoir Geology for Graduate StudentsDates: Saturday, 10 April – Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterInstructor: Matt Pranter (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO)Fee: $10 (Graduate Students only)Includes: Course notes and refreshmentsLimit: 40 people

This course provides an introduction to reservoir characterization and modeling concepts and methods. The focus is on geological (e.g., stratigraphic, sedimentological) controls on reservoir characteristics and practical aspects of reservoir modeling (i.e. how reservoir geologists use reservoir modeling as a tool to address geological and reservoir questions).

Different types of sedimentary deposits and reservoirs (siliciclastics, carbonates) are presented, and the techniques to evaluate the reservoir architecture and estimate reservoir properties are addressed. The role and significance of outcrop and modern analogs for reservoir characterization and modeling are emphasized through examples. Topics include:

Overview of petroleum geology and petroleum • systemsSedimentary rock properties• Siliciclastic and carbonate deposits and • reservoirsPay determination and flow units• Reservoir mapping• Reservoir modeling methods• Reserves estimation•

Pre-Convention Short Course 2American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)Practical Salt TectonicsDate: Friday, 9 April – Sunday, 11 AprilTimes: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterFee: AAPG Members $1,050 (increases to $1,150 after March 12) Nonmembers $1,150 (increases to $1,250 after 12 March) AAPG Student members (limited) $525 (increases to $575 after 12 March) Student nonmembers (limited) $575 (increases to $625 after 12 March)Includes: Course notes and refreshmentsInstructor: Mark G. Rowan (Consultant, Boulder, CO)Limit: 50 peopleContent: 2.1 CEU

This course is for exploration and production geologists, geophysicists, and managers working in salt basins worldwide who need either an introduction to salt tectonics or an update in this rapidly evolving field.

Our understanding of salt tectonics has advanced significantly over the past two decades, and this course will help industry geoscientists in understanding and applying the newest concepts, models and techniques. We will use a combination of seismic data, realistic models, field exposures and reconstructed histories to illustrate the varying 3-D geometry and evolution of real salt structures from various salt basins in different tectonic environments around the world. This is an applied course that will introduce practical tools for seismic interpretation and emphasize the impact of salt on fault and trap geometries, sedimentation and hydrocarbon maturation and migration. The course will consist of a combination of lectures and workshop exercises. Content includes:

Origin of evaporite basins• Mechanics of salt deformation• Initiation and growth of diapirs• Near-diapir deformation• Emplacement and evolution of allochthonous • saltSalt in thick-skinned extension• Salt in convergent-margin foldbelts• Salt on passive margins• Salt-sediment interaction• Salt and hydrocarbon maturation/migration•

Pre-Convention Short Course 3American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)Assessment of Unconventional Shale Resources Using Geochemistry Date: Saturday, 10 April – Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterInstructor: Daniel M. Jarvie (Humble Geochemical Services, Humble, TX)Fee: AAPG members $850 (increases to $950 after 12 March) Nonmembers $950 (increases to $1,050 after 12 March) AAPG Student members (limited) $425 (increases to $475 after 12 March) Student nonmembers (limited) $475 (increases to $525 after 12 March)Includes: Course notes and refreshmentsLimit: 50 peopleContent: 1.5 CEU

This course is designed for exploration geologists, but addresses topics of interest to development geologists, engineers, managers and investors seeking a better understanding of shale resource plays.

The objective of this course is to explain basic techniques and applications of organic and inorganic geochemistry in the evaluation of shale resources for commercial hydrocarbons, either oil or gas. This course details the analytical techniques and resulting data with proper interpretation to enable assessment of unconventional shale resource prospects and plays for their gas or oil prospectivity. This course focuses on prediction

of factors that impact the likelihood of successful completion of these resources.

Techniques and interpretation of data for both shale oil and shale gas reservoir evaluation will be included in this course. Topics in organic geochemistry include basic screening analyses to assess organic richness, kerogen type and thermal maturity as well as detailed analyses such as residual oil composition, gas composition, and carbon and hydrogen isotopes. Comparison to well logs will also be included for select well data. Additional topics include mineralogical and microscopic (including SEM) analyses of shales as well as petrological and rock mechanic assessments. For potential shale gas reservoirs, gas contents and carbon isotopes will be fully explained and discussed. For prospective shale oil reservoirs, prediction of oil quality in terms of API gravity and viscosity will be presented. Also included are recommended designs for archived and new well analyses.

Approaches to geological reconnaissance and mapping of various parameters are also discussed and presented. Data from various shale resource basins in the U.S. and Canada are presented and compared with any available production results.Additional guest lecturers will be included as topical speakers. These speakers will be giving 30- to 60-minute talks specializing in different aspects of shale assessment and performance. These will be experts in gas desorption, petrography, mineralogy, SEM, rock mechanics and stimulation.

Pre-Convention Short Course 4AAPG Student Chapter (AAPG-SC/SEPM)Geology and Geophysics Applied in IndustryDate: Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterInstructor: Fred W. Schroeder (ExxonMobil Upstream Research, Retiree, Houston, TX)Fee: $20 (Students and Faculty Advisors only)Includes: Course notes, lunch and refreshmentsLimit: 32 people

This course is designed to give graduate students and seniors majoring in the geosciences insights into how geology and geophysics are applied within the energy industry. Through a combination of short lectures and hands-on exercises, we will look at:

The focus of industry• The basics of prospecting• Fundamentals of the seismic method• Well-seismic ties• Structural analysis of seismic data• Stratigraphic analysis of seismic data• DHI analysis•

During the last 30 minutes, we will discuss career opportunities in the energy industry.

Note: This short course can be bought as a package with the AAPG-SC/SEPM Field Trip for only $35.


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Pre-Convention Short Course 5Energy Minerals Division (EMD)Fundamentals of Gas Hydrate Resource EvaluationDate: Saturday, 10 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterInstructors: Art Johnson (Hydrate Energy International, Kenner, LA) and Tim Collett (U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO)Fee: Professionals $125 Students $63 (limited)Includes: Course notes and refreshmentsLimit: 30 people

Gas hydrates occur at many sites along continental margins and in the Arctic, and much has been learned in recent years regarding their origin, their occurrence and the possibility of using this vast resource in the world energy mix. Only a small fraction of the gas hydrate in the world is concentrated in reservoirs where commercial recovery may be viable, yet the estimates of global gas hydrate abundance are so large that even this fraction represents a vast new frontier for exploration and development.

This one-day workshop provides a solid understanding of the occurrence of gas hydrate in nature, focusing on the geologic controls on gas hydrate formation and the implications of those controls on resource assessment. The course will give guidance on formation evaluation with application to both deepwater and permafrost areas, with focus on recently completed gas hydrate drilling frilling projects in northern Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. Participants will gain an understanding of the inherent variability of gas hydrate accumulations through the analysis of numerous representative gas hydrate accumulations throughout the world. Other topics include the uses and limitations of geophysical methods, gas hydrate prospecting approaches, production scenarios and ongoing domestic and international gas hydrate assessment activities.

Pre-Convention Short Course 6Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate StudentsDates: Saturday, 10 April – Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Location: JW Marriott New OrleansInstructors: Vitor Abreu and Jack Neal (ExxonMobil Exploration Company, Houston, TX)Fee: $10 (Graduate Students only) Includes: SEPM Student Membership, $20 SEPM book coupon, course notes, lunch and refreshmentsLimit: 40 peopleContent: 16 PDH; 1.6 CEU

Designed for the graduate student in geoscience who needs to better understand theory and application of sequence stratigraphy. This course is designed to teach graduate students the

principles, concepts and methods of sequence stratigraphy. Sequence stratigraphy is an informal chronostratigraphic methodology that uses stratal surfaces to subdivide the stratigraphic record. This methodology allows the identification of coeval facies, documents the time-transgressive nature of classic lithostratigraphic units and provides geoscientists with an additional way to analyze and subdivide the stratigraphic record.

Using exercises that utilize outcrop, core, well log and seismic data, the course provides a hands-on experience to learning sequence stratigraphy. The exercises include classic case studies from which many sequence stratigraphic concepts were originally developed. The main objectives of the course are to review:

Basic concepts and terminology of sequence • stratigraphyThe stratigraphic building blocks of • depositional sequencesRecognition criteria for the identification • of depositional sequences and their components in outcrops, cores, well logs and seismicThe application of sequence stratigraphy in • non-marine, shallow marine and submarine depositional settings

Pre-Convention Short Course 7Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)3-D Seismic Interpretation for GeologistsDates: Saturday, 10 April – Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Location: TBA (SEPM Hotel)Instructor: Bruce Hart (ConocoPhillips, Houston, TX)Fee: Professionals $300 Students (limited) $150Includes: Course notes and refreshmentsLimit: 45 peopleContent: 16 PDH; 1.6 CEU

This couse is designed for geologists involved in using or reviewing 3-D seismic data.

This course teaches participants about the principles of 3-D seismic interpretation. The content and level of instruction are scaled to participants’ level of familiarity with the technology. By the end of the course, participants will understand:

The physical basis of the seismic method• The differences between 2-D and 3-D • acquisition, processing and interpretation workflowsHow choices made during acquisition and • processing affect data interpretabilityHow 3-D seismic data are interpreted and • integrated with other data types

Course includes lectures and some in-class problems. Some of the topics to be covered are:

The 3-D seismic revolution — history and • methodsPhysical basis of reflection seismology — • seismic waves, reflectors, and rock properties2-D seismic acquisition and processing• 3-D seismic acquisition, processing and display•

Interpreting stratigraphic, structural and rock-• property information from 3-D seismic data and time-lapse (“4-D”) seismic methods

Selected case studies will be used to illustrate the concepts, including:

Stratigraphic control on production from • a basin-centered gas accumulation, Deep Basin, AlbertaFault-controlled diagenesis in a hydrothermal • dolomite reservoir, Appalachian Basin

Pre-Convention Short Course 8Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Sequence-Stratigraphic Analysis of Shales: Key to Paleoclimate Archives, Subsurface Fluid Flow and Hydrocarbon Source, Reservoir and SealDate: Saturday, 10 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Location: JW Marriott New OrleansInstructors: Kevin M. Bohacs, Remus Lazar (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company, Houston, TX), Juergen Schieber (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN), Joe MacQuaker (Memorial University, Newfoundland)Fee: Professionals $225 Students (limited) $112Includes: Course exercises, reference papers and handouts, refreshments and lunchLimit: 60 peopleContent: 8 PDH; 0.8 CEU

This course is designed for geologists who interpret fine-grained rocks, explore for or develop conventional hydrocarbons, shale gas or oil shale.

Mudstones contain the most detailed records of earth history and are sources, reservoirs and seals of hydrocarbons, as well as serving as key elements in reservoir and aquifer models as baffles and barriers. Sequence stratigraphy provides an excellent framework within which to integrate the many scales of observations of physical, chemical and biological attributes necessary to understand these rocks across the spectrum of depositional settings. This workshop combines interactive lectures and exercises addressing the expression of depositional sequences in mudstones on seismic, well-log, core and outcrop data. Examples include the New Albany Shale, Barnett Shale, Shublik Formation, Kimmeridge Formation, Kingak Formation, Hue Shale, Mowry Shale and Monterey Formation.

Participants will practice recognition and correlation of significant stratigraphic packages through seismic stratigraphy, stacking pattern analysis of well-log, core and outcrop data, shale sedimentology, thin-section and geochemical data.

Although flooding surfaces and depositional-sequence boundaries may be subtly expressed in mudstones, they can be recognized through distinct changes observed in commonly available physical, chemical and biological data. Beyond the chronostratigraphic utility of the correlative


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conformity, abundant paleoenvironmental information is recorded in fine-grained strata — depositional sequences do not just fade away into obscurity in distal reaches, but have objective attributes that allow extension of stratigraphic frameworks and play-element predictions over very large areas.

Flooding surfaces fundamentally record a critical increase in accommodation relative to sediment supply, commonly recorded in mudstones by laterally extensive accumulations of authigenic and pelagic components, along with evidence of sediment starvation and low bottom-energy levels. Even in mudstones, some may record minor erosion, reworking and lag formation due to low sediment supply, but all are marked by a significant decrease in advected clastic input — contrasting with sequence boundaries.

Depositional-sequence boundaries record a critical decrease in accommodation relative to sediment supply, commonly accompanied by an increase in depositional energy or a significant change in sediment supply — or both — over hundreds to thousands of square kilometers in both fine- and coarse-grained lithologies. This is recorded even in fine-grained lithofacies by regional erosional truncation with subsequent onlap, exposure, reworked fossils, decreased continuity at lamina to bedset scale, along with increased accumulations of advected clastics and fossils or secular changes in biogenic lithology. All of these attributes (except subaerial exposure) are observed in physically correlative distal reaches of unconformities across their correlative conformities.

Interactions of sediment supply and accommodation with pre-existing topography control the expression of depositional sequences. Marine environments tend to have the most widespread, gradually varying facies tracts, whereas paralic facies tracts tend to be most localized and abruptly changing. Lacustrine sequences vary according to lake-basin type, and range from very similar to shallow-marine siliciclastic sequences to very dissimilar.

Pre-Convention Short Course 9Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Evolution of Neogene Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic SystemsDate: Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Location: JW Marriott New OrleansInstructor: André W. Droxler (Rice University, Houston, TX)Fee: Professionals $250 Students (limited) $125Includes: Course notes, exercises and refreshmentsLimit: 50 peopleContent: 8 PDH; 0.8 CEU

This course will be beneficial to geologists, geophysicists and engineers who work exploration or development of mixed carbonate and siliciclastic continental margins.

Mixed carbonate-siliciclastic systems are sedimentary environments characterized by lateral juxtaposition and/or vertical stacking of carbonate and siliciclastic sediments. These systems provide important information for understanding sediment origin, transport pathways and ultimate sinks during different periods of the Earth’s evolution. In many cases, spatial and temporal interactions of carbonate and siliciclastic sediments in the mixed systems can provide significantly more information on such processes as eustatic sea level fluctuations, global and regional tectonics and climate than studying either pure carbonate or pure siliciclastic systems.

This course will help geologists, geophysicists and engineers understand the evolution through time of Neogene mixed carbonate and siliciclastic depositional environments as analogs for subsurface studies and in the context of well-established Plio-Pleistocene eustatic sea level fluctuations, global and regional climatic changes and history of regional tectonic activity. The course will be illustrated mostly based upon recent sedimentary and seismic studies of mixed margins in the Gulf of Papua and Central Belize. Models and concepts described in the course will be applicable to understand the short and long term evolution of most mixed carbonate siliciclastic passive margins.

Pre-Convention Short Course 10Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)Reservoir Geophysics: ApplicationsDate: Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (registration and breakfast available at 7:00 a.m.)Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterInstructor: William Abriel, 2008 SEG/EAGE Distinguished InstructorFee: SEG or AAPG Members $495 (increases to $530 after 10 March) Non-members (includes SEG membership) $585 (increases to $620 after 10 March) Students (limited) $25 (increases to $60 after 10 March)Includes: A copy of the 2008 DISC book, Reservoir Geophysics: Applications, by William Abriel, continental breakfast and refreshmentsLimit: 60 people

The objective of the course is to demonstrate how and why geophysics adds value in reservoir management using examples from multiple geological environments (deepwater turbidites, onshore fluvial, near shore deltaics and carbonates). The course is designed to examine and illustrate the dependencies of geology and engineering data on geophysical applications during reservoir management and to expose the viewer to the variety of geophysical tools used in reservoir work. The viewer will become familiar with the application and value of geophysics for users (customers) as well as the inherent risks and uncertainties. This course will be of interest to geophysicists of all backgrounds who are or will be supporting delineation, development and/

or production of oil and gas fields. This includes interpreters, processors, researchers and service employees.

To register, contact SEG:http://www.seg.org/SEGportalWEBproject/prod/SEG-Education/Documents/AbrielcourseNewOrleansRegForm.pdf

Post-Convention Short Course 11Division of Professional Affairs (DPA)Reservoir Engineering for GeologistsDate: Thursday, 15 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterInstructor: Stephen Norris (J-W Operating Company, Centennial, CO)Fee: Professionals $132 Students (limited) $66Includes: Course notes and refreshmentsLimit: 80 people

This course is designed for geologists (and others) who wish to have a basic understanding of common reservoir engineering methods and practices. At the conclusion of this course, for under-saturated oil reservoirs without water drive and volumetric gas reservoirs, the participants will be able to: calculate oil or gas in place; obtain oil and gas fluid properties from correlations; calculate EUR (estimated ultimate recovery) from production data using common decline curve analysis methods; compute basic economic parameters and cash flow; and participate in reserves discussions. Topics include:

Basic methods for computing oil and gas in • place will be covered, including volumetric and material balance methods. Correlations for oil and gas properties needed for these calculations will be presented.Various methods for production decline • analysis will be presented, with special emphasis on tight gas and shale gas reservoirs. New techniques for improving estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) will be discussed.Basics of petroleum economics will be • presented, including the time value of money, interest calculations, before and after tax cash flow models and discounted cash flow analysis. Economic metrics such as rate of return, net present value, discounted payback period, discounted net to investment ratio and growth rate of return will be discussed.A brief discussion of reserve categories and • the new SEC rules will conclude the class.

Post-Convention Short Course 12Division of Professional Affairs (DPA)Quality Control for Subsurface Maps (QLTs)Date: Thursday, 15 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterInstructor: Daniel (Dan) Tearpock (Subsurface Consultants & Associates LLC, Houston, TX)


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Fee: DPA Members $165 Non DPA Members $205 Students (limited) $85Includes: Course notes and refreshmentsLimit: 50 people

Don’t be too quick to drill that next dry hole. Success is not the result of serendipity, but is based on solid scientific work. This course addresses the need for a systematic approach for quickly screening interpretations, maps, prospects and potential resources or reserves, and identifying fundamental interpretation, mapping and estimating errors. The reverse applications of methods and techniques as presented in our courses such as Applied Subsurface Geological Mapping and Advanced Structural Geology is the core of this course. The most common errors found on subsurface interpretations and maps are illustrated with numerous examples from around the world.

The course begins with a review of examples of interpretation and mapping errors that led to poorly located wells that are uneconomic or dry, as well as inaccurate reserves or resources estimates. Methods used to address the risk factors that can cause dry holes are reviewed. The participants are then challenged with a series of real exploration and development prospects. The participants are to evaluate each project. After their evaluation, the projects are reviewed and the QC techniques that are applicable to evaluate each project are discussed. A course manual, including the challenging projects with solutions, is provided for their course.

Post-Convention Short Course 13Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC)Enhanced Oil Recovery Through Wettability Alteration and Gas-Assisted Gravity DrainageDate: Thursday, 15 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterInstructor: Dr. Dandina Rao (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA)Fee: Professional $300 Students (limited) $150Includes: Course notes and refreshmentsLimit: 50 peopleContent: 7 PDH

Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) offers significant potential in mature oil fields, both large and small, and can be attractive for the smallest independent to major operators. Understanding wettability and its alteration is essential to evaluating a

reservoir for an EOR process. Material will highlight wettability issues. A major portion of the workshop will focus on gas-assisted gravity drainage (GAGD) as an EOR process. Material will outline the GAGD process itself, key variables and the geological environments/reservoir conditions attractive for the process. The different gases (CO2, flue gas, N2, natural gas) that may be used in the GAGD will be discussed. Content will describe the screening that must occur to determine if a reservoir is truly a candidate for effective GAGD.

Dr. Dandina Rao is the Emmett C. Wells Jr. Distinguished Professor, Craft & Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering, Louisiana State University. His primary research interests are in reservoir engineering and enhanced oil recovery (EOR). Recent work in EOR has focused on wettability and gas-assisted gravity drainage (GAGD), working with regional independents on a field test of the GAGD process. GAGD is not restricted to a single gas; CO2, flue gas, and N2 are options. He has published extensively on wettability and GAGD topics. Rao joined LSU in 1999. He has extensive industry and academic research experience in EOR in both the U.S. and Canada. Rao earned a bachelor’s in Technology, Osmania University, India; an M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan; and a Ph.D. in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Calgary.

Post-Convention Short Course 14Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Deltas: Processes, Stratigraphy and Reservoirs – Core WorkshopDates: Thursday, 15 April – Friday, 16 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Location: Ernest N. Morial Convention CenterInstructors: Instructors: John Snedden and Rob Wellner (ExxonMobil, Houston, TX) and John Suter (ConocoPhillips, Calgary, Canada)Fee: Professionals $335 Students (limited) $167Includes: AAPG Getting Started #5 — Deltas, course exercises, reference papers, handouts and refreshmentsLimit: 50 peopleContent: 16 PDH; 1.6 CEU

Geoscientists responsible for interpreting and mapping lithofacies within deltaic reservoirs and generating stratal architectures for deltaic modeling and subsurface prediction will benefit

from this workshop, as well as graduate and post-graduate students interested in learning about topics spanning the entire spectrum from exploration-scale considerations to production-scale behavior of flow units for both conventional and unconventional hydrocarbon-bearing deltaic reservoirs. Deltas are extremely important depositional systems and often source and contain prolific hydrocarbon accumulations. This short course will use modern, experimental, outcrop, and subsurface examples to describe the major variables governing the stratigraphic architecture of deltas. Controlling factors discussed will include paleogeography, paleoclimate (high-latitude vs. tropical/temperate), sediment supply and lithology (coarse-grained vs. fine-grained), sequence Stratigraphy and accommodation (lowstand vs. highstand; shelf phase vs. shelf-margin deltas), and depositional environments (active vs. abandoned, river /wave/tide-dominance).Inputs and influences on geomodels, including variations in reservoir geometry, continuity, and heterogeneity, will be a primary focus. This workshop includes topical lectures, key cores, and a suite of exercises that integrate core, well logs, experimental flume-tank data, and seismic sections to develop identification and subsurface mapping skills within deltaic settings. Exercises include an experimental delta tank exercise and core exercises from modern (Wax Lake Delta of Louisiana), ancient outcrop (Lower Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone and Upper Cretaceous Panther Tongue Sandstone of central Utah), subsurface fields (Vicksberg), and Quaternary (Lagniappe) and ancient (South Timbalier 26) seismic-based exercises. Participants will gain a full appreciation for the depositional processes associated with all types of deltas, recognition criteria for deltaic facies, insight into typical distributions for these lithofacies, as well as the development of key stratigraphic surfaces that can partition deltaic systems into reservoirs and flow units.


Important notes regarding field tripsField trip enrollment is limited and reserved on a first-come first-served basis. • Registration must be accompanied by full payment.• If you register only for a field trip, a $30 non-registrant fee will be added to the field trip fee. This fee may be applied toward registration if you decide to attend • the convention.A wait list is automatically created if a field trip sells out. The AAPG Convention Department will notify you if space becomes available. Undersubscribed field • trips will be cancelled.Before purchasing non-refundable airline tickets, confirm with the AAPG Convention Department that the trip will take place.• It is important that you note your gender on your registration form for room assignments.• Several weeks prior to the trip, you will receive an itinerary with details of meeting points, transportation during the trip, phone and fax numbers and e-mail • addresses of hotels and trip leaders, etc. Please indicate your fax and e-mail on your registration.If any field trips meet your needs or the needs of your staff, you are encouraged to register early.• To help us better anticipate the number of attendees and avoid premature cancellation of field trips, please register well before 11 March 2010.• Neither AAPG nor trip leaders maintain insurance covering illness or injury for individuals.•

Students – A limited number of student discount spots (approximately 50% of professional fee) are available in some short courses and field •trips. Please register for the convention and then contact us at [email protected] or +1 918 560 2617 for availability in the course or trip you are interested in. If a discounted spot is available we will be happy to process your request at that time.

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1 The Wax Lake and Atchafalya Deltas: The New Regressive Phase of the Mississippi River Delta Complex (NOGS and SEPM)

Friday, 9 April 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Professionals $260Students (limited) $130

2 Hurricane Katrina — What Happened? The Geology of the Katrina Disaster in New Orleans (NOGS)

Saturday, 10 April 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.(departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)


3 Evolution and Sedimentary Architecture of the Wax Lake Delta, LA, USA (AAPG-SC/SEPM)

Saturday, 10 April 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

$25 (Students and Faculty Advisors only)

4 CO2 EOR and Sequestration Project Near Natchez, Mississippi (DEG) Friday, 9 April – Saturday, 10 April 7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)


5 Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise in Coastal Louisiana (SEPM) Friday, 9 April – Saturday, 10 April 7:00 a.m. – 9:30 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)


6 Geology of the Louisiana Coastal Zone: Implications for Coastal Management and Restoration (SEPM)

Saturday, 10 April 6:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)


7 Geology of Unconventional Gas Plays in the Southern Appalachians (SEPM and EMD)

Wednesday, 14 April – Friday, 16 April Trip departs 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, 14 April from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and ends at the Birmingham International Airport at 4:00 p.m. Friday, 16 April. Registrants must book their own transportation from Birmingham.


8 Fluvial-Deltaic-Submarine Fan Systems: Architecture and Reservoir Characteristics in a Convergent Setting – Jackfork, Atoka and Hartshorne Formations, Arkansas (SEPM)

Wednesday, 14 April –Saturday, 17 April

9:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.Trip begins and ends at Little Rock National Airport with expected arrival on 14 April prior to 9:00 p.m. and departure on 17 April after 5:00 p.m. Registrants must book their own travel arrange-ments to and from Little Rock.


9 Heterogeneity in Oolitic, Skeletal and Reefal Systems: Insights from the Holocene of the Abacos, Bahamas (SEPM)

Thursday, 15 April – Monday, 19 April Trip starts 6:00 p.m. 15 April at Royal Palms Hotel, Freeport, Bahamas, for dinner and ends in Freeport around 9:30 a.m. on 19 April. Registrants must book their own transportation to and from Freeport, Bahamas.

Professionals $1,500

10 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Shales: Expression and Correlation of Depositional Sequences in the Devonian of Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana (SEPM)

Thursday,15 April – Sunday, 18 April Trip starts 1:00 p.m. 15 April at Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN, and ends at the Indianapolis International Airport, Indianapolis, IN, at 12:00 p.m., Sunday, 18 April. Registrants must book their own transportation to Nashville and from Indianapolis.



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Pre-Convention Field Trip 1New Orleans Geological Society (NOGS) and Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)The Wax Lake and Atchafalya Deltas: The New Regressive Phase of the Mississippi River Delta ComplexLeader: Dr. Harry Roberts (LSU School of the Coast and Environment- Coastal Studies Institute, Baton Rouge, LA)Date: Friday, 9 April, 8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)Includes: Transportation, guidebook and refreshmentsFee: Professionals $260 Students (limited) $130Includes: Transportation, guidebook, refreshmentsLimit: 27 peopleContent: 9 PDH; 0.9 CEU

The Wax Lake and Atchafalaya deltas represent the embryonic stage of a new Mississippi River Delta Complex which is being added to the previous five delta complexes that have formed Louisiana’s coastal plain. Historical accounts document that the Atchafalaya River has been a distributary of the Mississippi since the 1500s. Since the mid-1900s it has been evident that the Atchafalaya River was steadily capturing more and more discharge from the Mississippi. In 1963 a control structure was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Old River, the confluence of the two rivers. This structure limits flow down the Atchafalaya River to about 30% of the Mississippi discharge. Following the enormous flood of 1973 the Old River Control Structure was almost lost. Now there are two control structures at Old River. This same flood caused both the Atchafalaya and Wax Lake deltas to evolve from being subaqueous features to exposed deltas.

This field trip will offer the opportunity to learn about the Wax Lake Delta, its general evolution, sedimentary architecture and how it fits into the framework of the larger Mississippi River Delta depositional system. An orientation lecture at the Wax Lake boat launch will discuss the overall setting for Atchafalaya-Wax Lake delta

development, including the precursor filling of Atchafalaya Basin. We will then travel by boat to different deltaic environments, and concentrate on the processes of formation and sedimentary architecture of the Wax Lake bayhead delta. We will collect vibracores from a representative lobe of the delta to serve as focal points for discussing sedimentary facies and facies successions, as well as porosity and permeability trends and other reservoir characteristics. The trip will be valuable for sedimentary geologists, stratigraphers, other geoscientists and students.

Pre-Convention Field Trip 2New Orleans Geological Society (NOGS)Hurricane Katrina — What Happened? The Geology of the Katrina Disaster in New Orleans Leader: Dr. Stephen Nelson (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA)Date: Saturday, 10 April, 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)Fee: Professionals $115 Students (limited) $58Includes: Transportation, guidebook, refreshments and lunchLimit: 45 people

A combination of historical and geological factors in combination with inadequate design of levees and floodwalls resulted in a series of levee overtoppings and levee breaches in the New Orleans area during the passage of Hurricane Katrina on 29 August 2005. This field trip will travel to the sites of the major levee breaches where we will explore the geological, historical, and engineering factors responsible for the breaches and resulting flooding. During the trip, we will also get a better feel for the scale of the destruction caused by the levee breaches and discuss some of the issues involved in the rebuilding of New Orleans and protecting the city from future storms. A preliminary field trip guide and other material can be found at http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/Katrina.

Pre-Convention Field Trip 3AAPG Student Chapter (AAPG-SC/SEPM)Evolution and Sedimentary Architecture of the Wax Lake Delta, LA, USA Leaders: Harry H. Roberts (Louisiana State University Coastal Studies Institute, Baton Rouge, LA, John B. Wagner (Nexen Petroleum USA, Plano, TX) and Robert T. Clarke (Consultant, Irving, TX)Date: Saturday, 10 April, 8:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)Fee: $25 (Students and Faculty Advisors only)Includes: Transportation, lunch, refreshments and guidebookLimit: 27 people

This trip is oriented to all geoscience students and faculty advisors as an opportunity to study some of the dynamic modern environments associated with the classic Mississippi River delta system.

The Wax Lake and Atchafalaya deltas represent the embryonic stage of a new Mississippi River delta complex which is being added to the previous five delta complexes that have formed Louisiana’s coastal plain. Historical accounts document that the Atchafalaya River has been a distributary of the Mississippi since the 1500s. Since the mid-1900s it has been evident that the Atchafalaya River was steadily capturing more and more discharge from the Mississippi. In 1963 a control structure was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Old River, the confluence of the two rivers. This structure limits flow down the Atchafalaya River to about 30% of the Mississippi discharge. Following the enormous flood of 1973 the Old River Control Structure was almost lost. Now there are two control structures at Old River. This same flood caused both the Atchafalaya and Wax Lake deltas to evolve from being subaqueous features to exposed deltas.

This field trip will offer the opportunity to learn about the Wax Lake delta, its general evolution, sedimentary architecture and how it fits into the framework of the larger Mississippi River delta depositional system. An orientation lecture

Depositional Environments of Lower Mississippi River Deltaic Plain - New Orleans Metro Area.

This 2009 LANDSAT image of the Wax Lake Delta shows a pattern of distributaries and exposed delta lobes that are basically unaltered by human activity. Delta growth patterns, depositional processes, and the fundamental sedimentary architecture of the system will be focal points of discussions in the field using vibracores and other datasets.

This 2009 LANDSAT image of the Wax Lake Delta shows a pattern of distributaries and exposed delta lobes that are basically unaltered by human activity. Delta growth patterns, depositional processes, and the fundamental sedimentary architecture of the system will be focal points of discussions in the field using vibracores and other datasets.


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at the Wax Lake boat launch will discuss the overall setting for Atchafalaya-Wax Lake delta development, including the precursor filling of Atchafalaya Basin. We will then travel by boat to different deltaic environments, and concentrate on the processes of formation and sedimentary architecture of the Wax Lake bayhead delta. We will collect vibracores from a representative lobe of the delta to serve as focal points for discussing sedimentary facies and facies successions, as well as porosity and permeability trends and other reservoir characteristics. Arrival back in New Orleans is scheduled for the early evening.

Note: This field trip can be bought as a package with the AAPG/SEPM Student Short Course for only $35.

Pre-Convention Field Trip 4Division of Environmental Geosciences (DEG)CO2 EOR and Sequestration Project Near Natchez, MississippiLeaders: Dr. Tip Meckel and Dr. Susan Hovorka (Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas)Dates: Friday, 9 April, 7:00 a.m. – Saturday, 10 April, 5:00 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)Fee: Professionsal $385; Students (limited) $193Includes: Transportation, one night lodging, lunch, refreshments, guidebook, and evening reception at local historic plantation mansionLimit: 40 people

Educate yourself about the rapidly evolving carbon economy. This two-day field trip will focus on the carbon dioxide enhanced oil recovery (CO2-EOR) and carbon sequestration demonstration activities and monitoring under way at the Cranfield Field operated by Denbury Resources in southwest Mississippi. The trip is recommended for those involved in CO2-EOR and/or carbon sequestration activities. We will spend an afternoon and following morning on location at Cranfield to observe and

discuss ongoing injection, hydrocarbon recovery and monitoring of injected CO2 for sequestration assurance.

Pre-Convention Field Trip 5Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise in Coastal LouisianaLeader: Dr. Torbjörn E. Törnqvist (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA)Dates: Friday, 9 April, 7:00 a.m. – Saturday, 10 April, 9:30 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)Fee: Professionals $425 Students (limited) $212Includes: Transportation, one nights lodging (double occupancy), light morning snacks, lunch, dinner and refreshmentsLimit: 20 personsContent: 8 PDH; 0.8 CEU

The Louisiana coastal plain, including the Mississippi Delta in the southeast and the Chenier Plain in the southwest, can be considered one of the classic modern analogs for hydrocarbon reservoirs around the globe. In addition to sediment supply, the accumulation of strata in this area is strongly controlled by the interplay of subsidence and sea-level change, and the Holocene record presents an outstanding opportunity to study these processes at a very high level of detail. The main objective of this field trip is to highlight a number of investigations carried out over the past decade that have led to new insights about rates and causes of relative sea-level rise in this area, including the role of subsidence and its spatial variability. Stops along the way will focus both on the methodology (coring and sampling techniques) of this work, as well as a discussion of key processes (e.g., glacio-isostatic adjustments, subsidence due to deltaic sediment loading, compaction) that control relative sea-level rise and coastal evolution in this region.

Note: The temperature during this time of year can reach up to 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 degrees Celsius). Participants should wear hats, sunglasses, light-weight clothing and closed-toe, rubber sole shoes. Plenty of drinks (water, Gatorade, and soda) will be available.

Pre-Convention Field Trip 6Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Geology of the Louisiana Coastal Zone: Implications for Coastal Management and RestorationLeaders: Dr. Mark Kulp, Dr. Mike Miner, Dr. Ioannis Georgiou (University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA) and Dr. Duncan FitzGerald (Boston University, Boston, MA)Date: Saturday, 10 April, 6:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. (departs from and returns to Ernest N. Morial Convention Center) Fee: Professionals $450 Students (limited) $225Includes: Transportation, light morning snacks, lunch, dinner and refreshmentsLimit: 25 peopleContent: 8 PDH; 0.8 CEU

The Louisiana Coastal Zone is one of America’s most extensively studied and important coastal ecosystems in terms of natural resources, human infrastructure and cultural heritage. It also has the highest rates of coastal erosion and wetland loss in the nation due to a complex combination of natural land loss processes as well as alteration to the coastal zone by human activities. This land loss has prompted the development of regional coastal ecosystem restoration plans that are funded and guided by federal and state agencies with input from local stakeholders. A fundamental requirement for the most cost-effective design and completion of restoration projects is a solid understanding of the regional geologic framework and the processes operating along the barrier shorelines and within the interior wetlands.

Participants of the this field trip will gain first-hand experience of the Louisiana coastal zone by traveling from New Orleans to Fourchon, LA, by vans, then by boats to Timbalier Island. Stops along the way will focus on the modern coastal zone geomorphology, shallow and deep stratigraphy, and shallow and deep processes of the coastal zone with regard to Louisiana coastal zone restoration plans. Proposed restoration plans, socio-economic importance of coastal restoration and the politics of coastal restoration will also be discussed.

Note: The temperature during this time of year is very unpredictable. The possibility for sun and 85

Louisiana Beach Coastline.

The Cranfield test site, including a CO2 injection well completed in the Lower Tuscaloosa Formation at 10,500 feet, and two nearby monitoring wells in the same interval. Monitoring techniques attempted include: In-zone and above-zone pressure monitoring, DTS, ERT, VSP, continuous active cross-well seismic, Saturation logging, and in-situ fluid sampling. Novel completion techniques were employed to accommo-date this diverse monitoring strategy.

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degrees Fahrenheit is as equally likely as windy, wet and 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Participants should be prepared for a range of weather conditions (e.g. be prepared to wear shorts or long pants the day of departure). Regardless of predicted weather conditions, participants should bring a hat/sun visor, sunglasses, rain gear, and closed-toe, rubber-sole shoes that can get wet. Plenty of drinks (water, Gatorade, and soda) will be available. Any participants with seafood allergies should notify the field trip leaders beforehand.

Post-Convention Field Trip 7Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) and Energy Minerals Division (EMD)Geology of Unconventional Gas Plays in the Southern AppalachiansLeaders: Jack C. Pashin, Richard E. Carroll, Marcella R. McIntyre and Rashmi L. B. Grace (Geological Survey of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL)Dates: Wednesday, 14 April, 4:00 p.m. – Friday, 16 April, 4:00 p.m. (departs from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport and ends at Birmingham International Airport). Registrants must book their own transportation from Birmingham.Fee: Professionals $650 Students (limited) $325Includes: Airfare from New Orleans to Birmingham, AL, field transportation, two nights lodging based on double occupancy, breakfasts, lunches, refreshments in the field and guidebookLimit: 25 peopleContent: 17 PDH; 1.7 CEU

The southern Appalachian thrust belt of Alabama hosts diverse unconventional gas plays in Paleozoic strata. Pennsylvanian-age coal-bearing strata in this region form the cradle of the modern coalbed methane industry and new natural gas plays are active in Cambrian and Devonian shale. This field trip will feature many of the best exposures of unconventional reservoir strata

in the southern Appalachians. Discussions will emphasize the numerous depositional, tectonic and hydrogeologic factors that affect resource distribution and production performance in structurally complex sedimentary basins.

Note: Most outcrops will be along major roadways. However, one outcrop will require participants to hike and climb along a significant bluff and waterfall. To ensure a safe and productive field trip, participants are encouraged to bring steel-toed hiking boots or work boots, safety glasses and hard hats.

Post-Convention Field Trip 8Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Fluvial-Deltaic-Submarine Fan Systems: Architecture and Reservoir Characteristics in a Convergent Setting – Jackfork, Atoka and Hartshorne Formations, ArkansasLeaders: Charles (Chuck) E. Stelting, (TierraStrat GeoConsulting, Rio Rancho, NM), G. Rick Kear (Schlumberger, New Orleans, LA), Arnold H. Bouma, (Texas A&M University, College Station, TX), Will Schweller (Walnut Creek, CA) and Charles (Charlie) G. Stone (Little Rock, AR)Dates: Wednesday, 14 April, 9:00 p.m. – Saturday, 17 April, 4:00 p.m. (departs from and returns to Little Rock National Airport). Registrants must book their own travel arrangements to and from Little Rock to arrive prior to 9:00 p.m. Wednesday, 14 April, and depart after 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 17 April.Fee: Professionals $730 Students (limited) $365Includes: Bus transportation in Arkansas, three nights lodging based on double occupancy, three breakfasts, three lunches and guidebook materialsLimit: 40 peopleContent: 24 PDH; 2.4 CEU

The fluvial, deltaic, shelf and submarine fan depositional environments are all part of one large depositional system. It starts at the base of the mountains where grains of many sizes are generated, and terminates at the distal end of the turbidite system. Tectonics, climate, sediment characteristics, and sea-level fluctuations work interactively on the transport of sedimentary material. All these depositional systems contain sandstones and shales, channels and levee-overbank deposits, and they have a tendency to look alike on 2-D and 3-D seismic records.

Close-up studies reveal differences in architecture and reservoir characteristics. It is the purpose of the field trip to visit outcrops that contain these different types of depositional environments and to make the participants better aware of the criteria that reveal small and large-scale differences. All the outcrops that we will visit are in Arkansas and belong to the Mississippian Hartshorne, Atoka and Jackfork Formations. The sediments consist of fine-grained sands and shales and their equivalents are found in offshore siliciclastic basins worldwide (e.g., Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, North Sea and West Africa).

The field theme on Thursday will be continental depositional systems. On the second day, channel deposits of continental slope systems will be the field theme. The more distal deposits of the Ouachita Trough depositional system (basin-floor systems) provide the theme for the last day of the field trip.

Note: Most of the site visits will be in active or abandoned quarries. Only moderate hiking will be required but extra footwear (rubber boots and field boots ) and socks are a must, as well as head protection, sunglasses, insect spray, day pack and a lot of curiosity and questions. Standing water can be a problem, especially in the DeGray Spillway. Signed releases will be required as well as hard hats at the quarry site.

Post-Convention Field Trip 9Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Heterogeneity in Oolitic, Skeletal and Reefal Systems: Insights from the Holocene of the Abacos, BahamasLeaders: Gene Rankey (University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS) and Stacy Reeder (Schlumberger-Doll Research, Cambridge, MA)Dates: Thursday, 15 April, 6:00 p.m. – Monday, 19 April, 9:30 a.m. (departs from and returns to Freeport, Bahamas). Registrants must book their own travel arrangements to and from Freeport to arrive prior to 6:00 p.m. Thursday, 15 April, at the Royal Palms Hotel for dinner and depart after 9:30 a.m.

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Cyclic sedimentation style of deep-water Jackfork Group deposits at the DeGray Lake Spillway in central Arkansas, U.S.A.


FIELD TRIPS


Monday, 19 AprilFee: Professionals $1,500Includes: Field transportation, four nights lodging based on double occupancy, boat fees, breakfasts, lunches, dinners, refreshments in the field and guidebookLimit: 13 peopleContent: 20 PDH; 2.0 CEU

Ancient carbonate successions include rich hydrocarbon reserves hosted in shelf margin reef and sand shoal strata. To develop a better understanding of the nature and controls on possible depositional heterogeneity in subsurface systems, Holocene analogs provide the unique opportunity to observe both patterns and processes. This trip will focus on observing the nature and dynamics of shelf margin reef, reef apron, backreef shelf, and ooid shoal systems in the western Abacos, Bahamas.

The goals of the trip are to illustrate the range of variability in depositional facies and geomorphic patterns that can develop at or near carbonate shelf margins. We will place particular emphasis on biologic, geologic and oceanographic processes and how they impact vertical and lateral heterogeneity on this shelf margin. To do so, participants will examine surficial sediments, shallow cores and shallow seismic data, integrated within a spatial framework and within the context of depositional processes. Collectively, these data allow assessment of 3-D variability that could be used as guides for developing conceptual reservoir models.

All of the field localities will be used to generate discussion of how the observations from the Holocene can be most appropriately used to better understand and predict reservoir distribution and architecture in ancient analogs, in both exploration and production settings.

Note: We will spend much of our time in waters from less than a meter to more than 15 meters deep. If you are not comfortable in or on the water, you should not come on the trip. We will make several traverses in the water. These are generally less than a few 100 meters long and at a leisurely pace. Your learning capacity will be greatly enhanced if you are in good physical condition so that you can observe without being

concerned about the water. If you do not swim regularly, you should practice until you can swim comfortably 100 meters non-stop. Similarly, we will be in the subtropics and you should expect that the sun and heat are greater than many expect. Daytime temperatures may exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit. Sunburns are likely.

Post-Convention Field Trip 10Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM)Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Shales: Expression and Correlation of Depositional Sequences in the Devonian of Tennessee, Kentucky and IndianaLeaders: Juergen Schieber (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN); Kevin M. Bohacs and Ovidiu Remus Lazar (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co., Houston, TX)Dates: Thursday, 15 April, 1:00 p.m. – Sunday, 18 April, 12:00 p.m. (departs from Nashville International Airport, and returns to Indianapolis International Airport). Registrants must book their own travel arrangements to Nashville, TN. and from Indianapolis, IN.Fee: Professionals $625 Students (limited) $313Includes: Field transportation, three nights lodging based on double occupancy, breakfasts, lunches, refreshments in the field and guidebookLimit: 35 peopleContent: 24 PDH; 2.4 CEU

Late Devonian black shales of the eastern U.S. are a key analog for hydrocarbon sources and shale gas reservoirs—they have long been studied for clues to ancient climates, past ocean conditions, and mass extinctions. Black shales were commonly thought to represent distal deposits that accumulated more or less continuously in deep waters of stratified anoxic basins. Recent research, however, has shown that these mudstones contain numerous stratal surfaces, primary sedimentary structures, and diverse burrows indicating discontinuous sediment accumulation under relatively energetic and benign conditions. In depth, petrographic and geochemical studies have also revealed that although bottom water conditions were often

oxygen restricted, truly anoxic conditions were probably exceedingly rare.

Experimental work on mud deposition at the Indiana University flume lab has demonstrated that laminated shales most likely record deposition from persistent bottom currents (capable of transporting coarse sand) rather than quiet water accumulation. Similar sedimentary structures are quite common in Devonian black shales, indicating an energetic depositional history.

Within these rocks, large-scale erosion surfaces can be traced for more than 600 km and commonly represent more time than the preserved shale strata. These erosion surfaces record intermittent decreases in accommodation and more energetic bottom conditions. Overlying mudstone strata show distinct stacking patterns bounded by laterally extensive surfaces that can be recognized in systematic changes in physical, biological, and chemical attributes. Participants will tie mudstone properties from outcrop to well-log cross sections and construct an integrated sequence-stratigraphic framework that highlights the distribution of hydrocarbon source, reservoir, and seal potential.

Note: There will be only moderate hiking. Spring temperatures can be highly variable and rain is possible.

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Exposure of Middle to Upper Devonian black shales along Kentucky Route 52, Estill County, Kentucky.


STUDENT ACTIVITIES

Short Courses and Field TripsSpecial student-only continuing education events offer students a budget-friendly way to get hands-on experience in geosciences

Short Course 1 (NOGS)Reservoir Geology for Graduate Students (see details page 13)

Short Course 4 (AAPG-SC/SEPM)Geology and Geophysics Applied in Industry (see details page 13)

Short Course 6 (SEPM)Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students(see details page 14)

Field Trip 3 (AAPG SC/SEPM)Evolution and Sedimentary Architecture of the Wax Lake Delta, LA (see details page 18)

Student and Faculty LoungeDate: Monday, 12 April – Wednesday, 14 AprilTime: During Exhibition HoursLocation: Exhibition Hall

Complimentary refreshments are provided each day during exhibition hours. The lounge offers students their own place to meet with fellow students and industry professionals to develop career contacts and lifelong friendships.

AAPG/SEPM Student ReceptionDate: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.Location: Sheraton New Orleans

All students and faculty attending the convention are invited to the AAPG/SEPM Student Reception. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and refreshments while mingling with your peers.

A talk given by an ExxonMobil representative is scheduled before the top three poster authors from the Shell-sponsored “Selected Academic Research Topics: Student Presentations” receive awards. The Jim Hartman Service to Students Award will be conveyed upon an AAPG member who has contributed exceptional service to AAPG’s Student Programs. The awards program will close with the presentation of the Schlumberger-sponsored Outstanding Student Chapter Awards along with the Imperial Barrel Award prizes.

Student Career SeminarDate: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.Location: New Orleans MarriottFee: $10

This workshop is designed to assist students and recent graduates in their quest for employment in the petroleum and environmental industries by better understanding the activities of day-to-day life in the energy/environmental industries as well as specific job search strategies and tips for finding that perfect job. There is a brief presentation on how to gain employment, practical guidelines for résumé development and interviewing tips. The remainder of the session is a panel format.

Following introductions, students will be encouraged to ask questions and engage the panel in a discussion about the outlook on current staffing needs, recruiting trends, what companies are looking for in future employees, etc. Additional recruiters will also be available to answer questions. This workshop is sponsored by the AAPG/SEG Student Expo Committee, which organizes expos and job fairs across the country at various times of the year. Information about these expos can be found at www.studentexpo.info. This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about careers in the industry and meet potential recruiters.

Imperial Barrel CompetitionThe Imperial Barrel Award competition returns to the AAPG Annual Convention. Universities offering master’s-level degrees in petroleum geosciences are eligible to participate in this international competition. IBA provides a unique opportunity for students to gain valuable experience by participating in an exploration evaluation, presenting to a panel of senior industry experts and competing to win scholarship funding.

This group competition is a global exploration geosciences project focused on the assessment of the petroleum potential of a basin. Teams will be provided a complete data set and will have a few weeks to complete a technical assessment of the basin’s petroleum prospects. The convention teams will give a 30-minute presentation of their work with recommendations for future activity. A panel of industry experts will judge the technical work and presentations. The results of the competition will be announced at the Student Reception on Monday, 12 April, and the top three teams will win generous cash prizes.

If you are interested in sponsorship and attending, or for more information, visit www.AAPG.org/IBA.


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Convention Volunteers Needed

The ability to create a positive and smooth-flowing convention is greatly enhanced by the participation of a strong pool of volunteers. Please consider contributing to the success of the ACE by volunteering in one or more of the following areas:

Judges Room•Opening Session•Oral Sessions•Poster Sessions•Registration•

Volunteer for at least four hours and receive:$25 for every four to six hours worked•Attendee amenity•Program Book•Abstract Volume•CD-ROM of Abstracts•

By registering online at www.AAPG.org/NewOrleans you can select the day(s) and time(s) you are available, as well as the location(s) you prefer. If you are unable to register online, select “I want to be a student volunteer” on your completed registration form and you will be contacted for your preferences.

To receive benefits, volunteers must be either students or employees in the industry who are recent (2008-2009) graduates.

For more information on becoming a volunteer, please contact: Mike Ledet or Bill Whiting at [email protected].

Career CenterDates: Monday, 12 April: 8:30 a.m.– 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, 13 April: 8:30 a.m.– 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, 14 April: 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

The Career Center offers a variety of tools for attendees to connect to employment opportunities. Bring your resume or job listings to the Career Center, where volunteers will assist you in posting it to the AAPG Web site for maximum industryexposure, and on the bulletin boards within the room. Job seekers, your confidentiality will be respected. Resumes or job openings may be posted on AAPG’s Web site (www.AAPG.org)before the convention by following the Career Center navigation buttons.

For more information, contact:Clint Moore, Career Services Committee ChairmanPhone: +1 713 562 5549Fax: +1 281 350 2660E-mail: [email protected]

Community OutreachRebuilding New Orleans: A Volunteer OpportunityDate/Time: Sunday, 11 April 2010, 8:00 a.m.–2:30 p.m.Location: Chevron Tree Farm, New Orleans City ParkLimit: 50 peopleFee: $15Includes: Transportation from the New Orleans Marriott, lunch, drinks and gloves

In town early? Would you like an opportunity to volunteer some of your time to the “re-building” of New Orleans?

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed many of the beautiful trees in the New Orleans area. The hurricane also destroyed an existing urban tree nursery in New Orleans City Park. The nursery has been rebuilt and approximately 4,000 potted tree seedlings are presently in grow-out mode. When grow-out is complete, the trees are distributed throughout the New Orleans area by nonprofit agencies and governmental units.

The nursery project takes a lot of ongoing maintenance and labor, such as potting and re-potting seedlings, watering, fertilizing, insect control, trimming, moving trees, etc. We have planned a half-day of work for you to assist with the ongoing maintenance at the nursery. Come and help us “re-plant” New Orleans.

Please wear appropriate clothing that you don’t mind getting dirty — pants and tennis or walking shoes. A hat and sunscreen may also be helpful. The work project will go until 12:00 p.m. when a box lunch will be served. Following lunch, we will be giving tours of the Botanical Gardens at City Park.

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SEPM ACTIVITIES

SEPM Business Meeting/LuncheonDeath of a Sequence Boundary and Revelations from the Cretaceous Interior Seaway of North AmericaDate: Tuesday, 13 AprilTime: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Fee: $35Location: JW Marriott New Orleans

Dr. Janok P. Bhattacharya is the Robert E. Sheriff Professor of Sequence Stratigraphy at the University of Houston. His research interests include deltaic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, the local control of structure on stratigraphy and reservoir architecture of clastic depositional systems.

He received his B.Sc. in 1981 from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Following his bachelor’s degree, he worked at ESSO Resources in Calgary before completing his Ph.D. in 1989 from McMaster University, Canada. Following a post-doc at the Alberta Geological Survey in Edmonton,

Janok worked for the Bureau of Economic Geology at Austin, ARCO Research in Plano, Texas, and the University of Texas at Dallas before joining the University of Houston in the fall of 2005.

He is an AAPG Grover Murray Distinguished Educator, AAPG Distinguished Lecturer and AAPG SW Section Distinguished Educator. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Sedimentary Research and has also served as associate editor for AAPG Bulletin. He has authored or co-authored over 100 abstracts and over 45 technical papers. He also co-edited SEPM Special Publication 83 titled River Deltas: Concepts, Models and Examples. He is an active member of AAPG, SEPM, GSA and IAS.

Sequence stratigraphy solved the basic problem that genetically related but different lithofacies were routinely assigned to different lithostratigraphic units defined by arbitrary vertical and horizontal cutoffs. Given that “modern” sequence

stratigraphy is now over 20 years old it is timely to revisit the issue of how well sequence stratigraphy actually applies to ancient rock successions.

Use of detailed facies architectural studies, combined with Wheeler analysis and recent modeling studies, point to the uncertainty in dating of fluvial terrace deposits and questions the assumed chronostratigraphic significance that is required in defining many so-called sequence boundaries.

The origin of sequences remains controversial. Although a glacio-eustatic origin for Cretaceous sequences is still highly debated, Plio-Pleistocene glacio-eustatic falls of sea-level are commonly prolonged and irregular, whereas rises are typically very short lived. Sequence boundaries, formed during such prolonged falls are thus less chronostratigraphically significant than the transgressive surfaces formed during rapid rises.

Tectonic unconformities are very significant in the Cretaceous Western Interior. Tectonics produces differential lithospheric deformation, which results in angular unconformities. In the Cretaceous Interior Seaway of North America, such unconformities are expressed by enhanced erosion in basin distal facies that lack evidence for fluvial erosion. In the fluvial realm, such tectonic discontinuities are indicated by changes in paleocurrent orientations as well as provenance changes.

Although sequence stratigraphy provides a powerful methodology and theoretical framework for correlating and understanding the evolution of stratigraphic successions in the context of changing accommodation, many of the original defining characteristics cannot be proven, such as the requirement that sequence boundaries be chronostratigraphic. However, no matter what type of sequence stratigraphy one prefers, it is key to recognize in all cases that sequence stratigraphy is, at its heart, the re-ordering, correlation and sometimes renaming of stratigraphic units on the basis of bounding discontinuities and their correlative surfaces, as opposed to the arbitrary lithofacies–oriented approach using broad facies “shazams” or arbitrary cutoffs, such as is used in traditional lithostratigraphy.

SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), which holds its annual meeting in conjunction with the AAPG Annual Convention & Exhibition, hopes that everyone enjoys a great meeting in New Orleans. Be sure to take advantage of the excellent technical program, short courses and field trips, as well as the specific activities listed here. If you have any questions about SEPM activities, please contact Theresa Scott at SEPM Headquarters ([email protected]).

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SEPM President’s Reception and Awards CeremonyDate: Tuesday, 13 April Time: 7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Location: JW Marriott New Orleans

SEPM President Steve Driese invites you to an evening of celebration to honor the 2010 award winners of SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) and the perfect place to network and visit with colleagues. The Twenhofel Medal, the highest award of SEPM given in recognition of a career of outstanding contributions to sedimentary geology, will be presented to William Galloway. SEPM Honorary Membership, given for both scientific contributions and service to the society will be awarded to Rick Sorg.

The other science award recipients are: David Piper, who will receive the Francis P. Shepard Medal in recognition of excellence in marine geology; Jere Lipps, the Raymond C. Moore Medal in recognition of excellence in paleontology; Donald Swift, the Pettijohn Medal for excellence in sedimentology; and Shanan Peters, the Wilson Award for excellence in sedimentary geology by a younger scientist.

SEPM also will honor the recipients of the Best Paper Awards for 2008 in both of our journals, Journal of Sedimentary Research and PALAIOS. SEPM will also recognize the Best Presentation Awards from the 2009 Annual Meeting in Denver. The Best Oral Presentation Awardees presented “Palaeozoic Carbonates from the Subsurface Barents Sea Part II: Paleokarst Distribution and Heterogeneity from 3-D Seismic Data” by David W. Hunt, Arnout Colpaert, Florian Miquelis, Brita Graham-Wall, Gaynor Fisher and Anthony Avu.

The Best Poster Presentation is a two-way tie, going to “Carbonate Pore Type Classification in Tengiz Field, Republic of Kazakhstan” by Jeroen Kenter and Mark Skalinski, and “Integrating Outcrop and Subsurface Data to Define Regional and Reservoir-Scale Patterns in Prograding Systems, Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Wyoming” by David Pyles and Roger Slatt.

As always, SEPM will also recognize the members of the 2010 Annual Meeting Organizing Committee, without whom the meeting could not take place, and SEPM Foundation Student Grant recipients. The reception will begin at 7:00 p.m., with cocktails (available at cash bars) and substantial hors d’oeuvres. The awards ceremony will start at 7:30 p.m.

SEPM Research Symposium: Autogenic and Allogenic Controls on Sedimentary Successions: Modern and Ancient, Clastic and Carbonate Date: Tuesday, 13 AprilTime: 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Location: Room 343/344/345Co-chairs: C. Paola, M. Perlmutter and M. Blum

Stratigraphy records include both externally forced (allogenic) and internally generated (autogenic) signals. For a long time it was assumed that the two could be readily separated, with allogenic effects dominating at longer space and time scales. Several recent developments have made the situation more interesting: (1) researchers are increasingly interested in extracting high-frequency external signals, especially climate, from stratigraphic records; (2) recent research has expanded the range of effects that autogenic processes can produce, and extended their range to surprisingly long space and time scales; (3) the discovery of similarity in autogenic processes has opened the possibility that their stratigraphic effects may be scale independent over some range of scales; and (4) recent work suggests that autogenic and allogenic processes can interact strongly.

This session was motivated by developments such as these but is open to any innovative research on the interaction of autogenic and allogenic processes in stratigraphy.

SEPM Field Trips and Short CoursesDate: Pre- and Post-Convention

Be sure to check out the great array of trips and courses available for this meeting. Students, be sure to check out the Sequence Stratigraphy Course for Graduate Students (sponsored by ExxonMobil) and the discounted student seats available for each course and trip (sponsored by several companies).

SEPM Research Group Meetings and ReceptionDate: Monday, 12 April Time: 7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m. Location: JW Marriott New Orleans

The Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) would like to invite anyone who is interested in research group activities to attend the SEPM Research Group Meetings. Individual Research Groups will meet on Monday, 12 April. Specific locations will be announced later. Check the SEPM Web site for updates at www.sepm.org.

AAPG/SEPM Student ReceptionDate: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 6:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m.Location: Sheraton New Orleans

The Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) would like to invite all students to attend the combined AAPG/SEPM Student Reception sponsored by ExxonMobil. The reception is held just prior to the SEPM Research Group meetings on Monday, 12 April. Students can enjoy food and drink and then go on to the SEPM Research Group topic of their choice to network and listen to the latest discussions.

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GUEST ACTIVITIES

Hospitality Room HoursSunday, 11 April ........................ 12:00 noon–3:00 p.m.Monday, 12 April ....................... 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.Tuesday, 13 April ...................... 8:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.Wednesday, 14 April ................. 8:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.

We look forward to welcoming you to New Orleans! You might even want to come a few days early to enjoy the music and food of the French Quarter Festival from 9–11 April. Experience the true flavor of New Orleans style southern hospitality for yourself!

Swamp TourDate: Sunday, 11 AprilTime: 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.Fee: $60Includes: Transportation, tour guide, boat admission, bottled waterLimit: 100 people

A narrated boating tour of the Louisiana swamps and wetlands is an unforgettable experience. This was the dwelling place of the legendary pirate Jean Lafitte and it is in these murky waters that he lived and buried his treasures.

From the relaxed comfort of the covered Swamp Tour Boat, you will drift slowly past a 2,000-year-old Indian burial mound, a

Cajun cemetery and fishing village. You may see the alligators and other wildlife that made our swamps the crown jewel of the Louisiana Purchase. The slow drift of the tour boats through moss draped trees and small waterways will provide ample opportunity for viewing and photography.

Notes: Refreshments are available for purchase at boat embarkment point.

Crescent City TourDate: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.Fee: $40Includes: Narrated tour, transportation, tour guide, bottled water Limit: 50 people

You will be guided through the fascinating circle that is the Crescent City: past, present and future. Starting where it all began, in the French Quarter, lacy balconies and secluded patios speak of the city’s European forebears. Travel down Esplanade Avenue, “Promenade of the Creoles,” to languid Bayou St. John, and one of the city’s most historic cemeteries. Next, view the historic “dueling oak,” the New Orleans Museum of

Art and the Sculpture Gardens among the magnificent oaks of City Park.

The tour follows the crescent of the river and the route of the St. Charles Streetcar to the heart of the Uptown and Garden District neighborhoods, where you will view some of the city’s loveliest homes. Returning to the “new” city, the Central Business District, brings you full circle: New Orleans past, present and future.

River Road RestorationDate: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 12:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.Fee: $85Includes: Transportation, tour guide, admission to Laura Plantation, admission to Oak Alley Plantation, bottled waterLimit: 50 people

Wonderful things are happening on River Road these days as restoration is revitalizing an important portion of St. James Parish. First, you will view the newest addition to the River Road, Laura Plantation, whose reconstruction began in 1992 on the Big House and continues today. Built in 1805 as a sugar plantation by the Spanish Commandant of Pointe Coupee, it was originally named DuParc. Since 1875, the

lovely plantation has been known as Laura, named for DuParc’s granddaughter, Laura Lacoul.

You will then visit Oak Alley, probably the most famous of the River Road plantations. At the entrance to the plantation, blooming bougainvillea and fragrant magnolia frame towering columns and wide verandas. Imagine cypress floors polished by time, gleaming chandeliers and gracious furnishings. The birthplace of several early Louisiana governors, this home is southern graciousness personified.

Notes: The plantation homes on this tour are historic and cannot provide complete access in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Both homes have staircases with no elevator access.

Spirits and Spirits Walking TourDate: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 3:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.Fee: $40Includes: Narrated walking tour, cocktail demonstration with sample alcoholic beveragesLimit: 27 people

A walking tour, the Spirits and Spirits Tour explores the grim and ghastly deeds of the old French Quarter. Then, to wash it all down, we will give you a demonstration and history on two of New Orleans’ cocktails — or spirits — and how they are made.

First, it is time to experience the secret and sinister events that occurred a very long time ago. You will visit sights of documented

haunting, ghosts and spirits and see the French Quarter locations in which unbelievable events took place.

Next we will take you to one of the city’s oldest restaurants, Tujague’s, which has been in existence before New Orleans even bore its name. As a Spanish armory, it survived decades of war, depression, fire and plague, and is now a recognized local institution. Here you will learn how to make a Sazarac and Pimm’s Cup cocktails as well as try a sample of each.

The Guest Activities Committee has planned a fun and exciting program for your visit to the Crescent City. We hope you’ll take part in some of our tours which offer a glimpse into the life and culture that makes New Orleans such a unique city! Enjoy some of the delicious food and music that makes our city world famous!

The Guest Hospitality Suite, located in the Rhythms Ballroom on the 2nd floor of the Sheraton New Orleans will be available for you to meet friends while enjoying refreshments with a taste of New Orleans. It is open to all registered spouses and guests. Our hostesses will be there to welcome you with a fun-filled Mardi Gras celebration and they will be happy to help you plan activities during your stay.



Garden District Mansion Tour with Commander’s PalaceDate: Tuesday, 13 AprilTime: 9:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.Fee: $98Includes: Transportation, narrated walking tour, luncheon and non- alcoholic beverage at Commander’s PalaceLimit: 100 people Dress: Tennis shoes, flip-flops, t-shirts, shorts or jeans are NOT allowed at Commander’s Palace

Walking through the architecturally phenomenal Garden District, you feel as if you have entered an entirely separate city from New Orleans as defined by the French Quarter or, perhaps more specifically, entered a different period of time. Although the Garden District was indeed once a separate city (Lafayette) from the Vieux Carré and was established during a later period, the

fact that this neighborhood was created by a different group of people most profoundly distinguishes it from the old section, the French Quarter.

After the Louisiana Purchase, thousands of Americans flooded the city and clashed with the Creoles due to language barriers, religious division, mutual snobbery and competition over burgeoning commerce. Americans, kept out of the already overcrowded French Quarter, felt snubbed and moved upriver to create a residential district of astounding opulence.

The Garden District is a study of a cultural clash reflected through architecture, with Americans creating an identity by boldly introducing styles and forms familiar to them and previously unknown in colonial Louisiana.

A visit to a private home and a delicious lunch at famed Commander’s Palace is included — where chefs Paul Prudhomme and Emeril Lagasse both began their Crescent City careers.

Notes: Please advise of any special dietary needs. The homes on this tour are historic and cannot provide complete access in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. These homes have staircases with no elevator access.

New Orleans School of CookingDate: Tuesday, 13 AprilTime: 9:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m.Fee: $35Includes: Tour guide, admission, lunch and non-alcoholic beverageLimit: 70 people

The New Orleans School of Cooking occupies a renovated molasses warehouse that was built in the 1830s. After a leisurely 20 minute walk through the French Quarter, you will learn to prepare the distinctive dishes for which New Orleans is famous Join us as the chef shares the secrets of preparing flavorful Crescent City cuisine. Fun is the key ingredient in the kitchen as the

entertaining chefs teach the basics of Louisiana cooking, seasoned with history, trivia and Louisiana lore.

Examples of dishes being prepared are gumbo, shrimp creole and bread pudding. After the entertaining experience, you will be able to sit back and enjoy the delectable feast that was prepared. Upon your return home, you can serve up some authentic New Orleans cuisine in your own kitchen for friends and family.

Riverboat Cruise and Mardi Gras WorldDate: Wednesday, 14 AprilTime: 9:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.Fee: $45Includes: Tour guide, narrated tour aboard the Creole Queen, admission to Mardi Gras World, refreshments (king cake and beverages)Limit: 120 people

Mardi Gras World is the home of Carnival magic, and the best way to get there is to cruise the mighty Mississippi River on the Creole Queen, a real New Orleans paddle-wheeler.

Upon departure from the hotel, you will take a short 5 block walk to the Canal Street Dock where you will begin your cruise, narrated by the captain himself,

past Algiers Point, through one of the world’s busiest ports and past the world famous French Quarter.

Mardi Gras World is the one place where every day celebrates Mardi Gras. You will experience all of its color, pageantry and magic while watching the master sculptors and artists of Blaine Kern Studios create the towering figures and brilliantly animated floats that make Mardi Gras the greatest party on earth.”

Your tour will end with a riverboat ride to the Canal Street Dock where you can venture on your own into the French Quarter, visit the Aquarium or Insectarium, shop at Canal Place or return to the hotel.


New Orleans Cuisine: A Fascinating JourneyDate: Monday, 12 AprilTime: 9:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m.Fee: $10

While other great American food cities have wonderful and diverse ethnic restaurants, New Orleans has developed a cuisine of its own, assimilating and adapting French and Spanish dishes along with unique spices and vegetables of West Africa and the Caribbean islands. Join us as we experience this fascinating food journey!

Liz Williams is a passionate Louisiana “foodie” and President and Director of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum (SoFab) at the Riverwalk. Her lively discussion about our unique culinary heritage will delight you as she explains the differences between Creole and Cajun food, and explores the fascinating history of and myriad influences on New Orleans cuisine.

The Katrina Perspective: Why New Orleans MattersDate: Tuesday, 13 April Time: 2:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m.Fee: $15

During Katrina, Dr. Walter Maestri was the Emergency and Homeland Security Manager for Jefferson Parish, an upscale New Orleans suburb. He oversaw the planning for and response to Hurricane Katrina and served as a local connection between state and federal officials. In this informative and provocative presentation, Dr. Maestri explains the historic risk of below-sea level New Orleans to storms of Katrina’s magnitude.

He will discuss how recovery exercises practiced months before Katrina became so important in the days following the floods. His entertaining lecture is full of personal stories of the catastrophe, the resilience of South Louisiana’s citizenry, the outpouring of rehabilitation efforts and “voluntourism” and finally, how and why New Orleans is experiencing a future of promise, prosperity and a renewed passion for our unique New Orleans lifestyle.

Join us for Enrichment Activities inside the Rhythms Ballroom — Sheraton New Orleans



monday Am

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Geological Operations (AAPG) Oral Room 238/239

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Current Issues in Marine Geohazards (AAPG/SEPM) Oral Room 238/239

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Geophysical Integration: A Road Map to Exploration Success (AAPG) Oral Room 243/244/245

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Petroleum Geochemistry (AAPG) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Paleoclimates and Paleoceanography in Deep Time: Improved Data-Model Integration in Paleoclimate Analysis (SEPM) Oral Room 255/256/257

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Circum-Arctic (AAPG) Oral Room 338/339

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Australasia (AAPG) Oral Room 338/339

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy New Depositional Models for Shallow Marine Mudrocks: Modern Processes and Ancient Successions (SEPM) Oral Room 343/344/345

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Siliciclastic Deep-Water Depositional Systems, Modern and Ancient I (SEPM) Oral Room 353/354/355

Theme VII: The Gulf of Mexico: Regional to Local, Mesozoic to Recent Deltaic Coasts and Society: The Mississippi Delta and Beyond (SEPM) Oral Room 356/357

Theme XII: Student Poster Sessions Selected Academic Research Topics: Student Presentations (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme X: U.S. Energy Future of U.S. Energy (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries North Africa (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VI: Tectonics and Sedimentation Sedimentation and Tectonics in Rifts (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Climatic Controls on Sedimentation (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Numerical and Physical Modeling of Climatic and Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation (SEPM/AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy SEPM Research Symposium: Autogenic and Allogenic Controls on Sedimentary Successions: Modern and Ancient, Clastic and Carbonate Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Intra-plate Deformation and Inversion Tectonics: Causes and Petroleum Implications (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Rock Physics and Quantitative Seismic Analysis (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Salt, Sub-Salt and Pre-Salt Tectonics, Models and Hydrocarbon Traps (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Slope Systems Deformed by Gravity Processes (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Middle East (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Mixed Siliciclastic and Carbonate Depositional Environments and Systems, Modern and Ancient (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Siliciclastic Non-Marine, Shallow-Marine and Shelf Depositional Systems and Exploration Models (SEPM/AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

tuesday Am

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Exploration for Gas Hydrate Resources (EMD/AAPG) Oral Room 238/239

Theme IX: Expanded Applications of Geosciences CO2 Sequestration: Strategies and Technologies for Storage and Monitoring (DEG/EMD) Oral Room 243/244/245

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Basin Modeling (AAPG/SEPM) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme X: U.S. Energy Plays (AAPG) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme VI: Tectonics and Sedimentation Regional Interactions of Tectonics and Sedimentation: Examining Relationships Between Deformation and Basin Evolution (SEPM) Oral Room 255/256/257

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Petroleum Systems of the Tethyan Region (AAPG) Oral Room 338/339

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy SEPM Research Symposium: Autogenic and Allogenic Controls on Sedimentary Successions: Modern and Ancient, Clastic and Carbonate I Oral Room 343/344/345

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Siliciclastic Non-Marine, Shallow-Marine and Shelf Depositional Systems and Exploration Models II (SEPM/AAPG) Oral Room 353/354/355

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Mapping, Modeling, and Understanding Facies Heterogeneity in Carbonate Deposits (SEPM) Oral Room 356/357

Theme XII: Student Poster Sessions SEPM Student Research Papers Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Best of Hedberg (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Interaction of Hydraulic Fracture Treatments with Natural Fractures in Tight Gas Reservoirs (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IX: Expanded Applications of Geosciences Environmental Impact (EMD) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Capturing Critical Fault Seal Issues (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme III: Resource Assessment Methodology & Techniques (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Exploration and Production of Shale Oil Resources (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Stratigraphic Compartmentalization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Coal: Versatile Fuel Source for the Future (EMD) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Conjugate South Atlantic Margins (AAPGSEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Conjugate Central and Northern Atlantic Margins (AAPG/SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Complex Structural Modeling in Honor of Ted Apotria (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VII: The Gulf of Mexico: Regional to Local, Mesozoic to Recent Palentology in the 21st Century: A symposium dedicated to Ed Picou (SEPM/AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Wednesday Am

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Rock Physics and Quantitative Seismic Analysis (AAPG) Oral Room 238/239

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Evolving Technology (AAPG) Oral Room 238/239

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Conjugate Central and Northern Atlantic Margins (AAPG/SEPM) Oral Room 243/244/245

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Baffles and Barriers — Conduits & Impediments to Fluid Flow (SEPM) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Stratigraphic Compartmentalization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs (SEPM) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Petroleum System Analysis (AAPG/SEPM) Oral Room 255/256/257

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Source-to-Sink Sediment Dispersal, Modern and Ancient I (SEPM) Oral Room 338/339

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Exploration and Production of Shale Gas Resources (AAPG/EMD) Oral Room 343/344/345

Theme VII: The Gulf of Mexico: Regional to Local, Mesozoic to Recent Paleontology in the 21st Century: A Symposium Dedicated to Ed Picou (SEPM/AAPG) Oral Room 353/354/355

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences for Deepwater Exploration and Production (SEPM) Oral Room 356/357

Theme XII: Student Poster Sessions Additional Student Posters Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IX: Expanded Applications of Geosciences Astrogeology — Impact of Collisions on Earth’s History and the Occurence of Hydrocarbon and Mineral Resources (EMD) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VI: Tectonics and Sedimentation Salt Sediment Interaction (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Genesis of Shale Gas — Physicochemical and Geochemical Constratints Affecting Methan Adsorption and Desorption (EMD) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Reservoir Modeling (AAPG/SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Reservoir Characterization (AAPG/SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Fractured Reservoirs: From Fundamental Processes to Technological Advancements (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Exploration for Gas Hydrate Resources (EMD) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Continental Breakup Processes and Their Implications for Exploration Models in Rift and Passive Margin Settings (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IX: Expanded Applications of Geosciences CO2 Sequestration: Strategies and Technologies for Storage and Monitoring (DEG/EMD) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme XI: Global Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Sequestration (DEG/EMD) Poster Exhibition Hall

TECHNICAL PROGRAM AT A GLANCE



monday Pm

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Climatic Controls on Sedimentation (SEPM) Oral Room 238/239

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Discovery Thinking Forum (AAPG/DPA/HOPG) Oral Room 243/244/245

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Halbouty Lecture: Shale Gas and America’s Energy Future (AAPG) Oral Room 243/244/245

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Seismic Interpretation of Faulted Reservoirs: How to Get the Right Answer the First Time (AAPG) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes: Intra-plate Deformation and Inversion Tectonics: Causes and Petroleum Implications (AAPG) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Numerical and Physical Modeling of Climatic and Tectonic Controls on Sedimentation (SEPM/AAPG) Oral Room 255/256/257

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Middle East (AAPG) Oral Room 338/339

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries North Africa (AAPG) Oral Room 338/339

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Assessment of Unconventional Resources (EMD) Oral Room 343/344/345

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Siliciclastic Non-Marine, Shallow-Marine and Shelf Depositional Systems and Exploration Models (SEPM) Oral Room 343/354/355

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Mixed Siliciclastic and Carbonate Depositional Environments and Systems, Modern and Ancient (SEPM) Oral Room 356/357

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Continental Breakup Processes and Their Implications for Exploration Models in Rift and Passive Margin Settings (AAPG) Oral Room 356/357

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Assessment of Unconventional Resources (EMD) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Geophysical Integration: A Road Map to Exploration Success (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy New Depositional Models for Shallow Marine Mudrocks: Modern Processes and Ancient Successions (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme III: Resource Assessment U.S. Onshore & Offshore (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Current Issues in Marine Geohazards (AAPG/SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Geological Operations (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Circum-Arctic (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Shale Behavior from Pore to Basin Scale (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VII: The Gulf of Mexico: Regional to Local, Mesozoic to Recent Deltaic Coasts and Society: The Mississippi Delta and Beyond (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IX: Expanded Applications of Geosciences Environmental Remediation and Hydrogeological Characterization (EMD/AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Exploitation of Unconventional Resources (EMD) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Paleoclimates and Paleoceanography in Deep Time: Improved Data-Model Integration in Paleoclimate Analysis (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Petroleum Geochemistry (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Lacustrine Depositional Settings, Modern and Ancient (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Siliciclastic Deep-Water Depositional Systems, Modern and Ancient (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

tuesday Pm

Theme IX: Expanded Applications of Geosciences Astrogeology — Impact of Collisions on Earth’s History and the Occurrence of Hydrocarbon and Mineral Resources (EMDAAPG) Oral Room 238/239

Theme X: U.S. Energy Future of U.S. Energy (AAPG) Oral Room 238/239

Theme XI: Global Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Sequestration (DEG/EMD) Oral Room 243/244/245

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Complex Structural Modeling in Honor of Ted Apotria (AAPG) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme VI: Tectonics and Sedimentation Sedimentation and Tectonics in Rifts (SEPM) Oral Room 255/256/257

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Conjugate South Atlantic Margins (AAPG/SEPM) Oral Room 338/339

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy SEPM Research Symposium: Autogenic and Allogenic Controls on Sedimentary Successions: Modern and Ancient, Clastic and Carbonate II Oral Room 343/344/345

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Siliciclastic Deep-Water Depositional Systems, Modern and Ancient II (SEPM) Oral Room 353/354/355

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Best of Hedberg (AAPG) Oral Room 356/357

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Carbonate Systems in the Subsurface — Capturing Heterogeneity with Geophysical Methods (SEPM) Oral Room 356/357

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Petroleum System Analysis (AAPG/SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Innovative Interpretation and Use of Seismic Data (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme X: U.S. Energy Plays (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Basin Modeling (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Asia (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries Petroleum Systems of the Tethyan Region (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VII: The Gulf of Mexico: Regional to Local, Mesozoic to Recent Understanding the Gulf of Mexico: Depositional Systems, Play Concepts and Structure (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Source-to-Sink Sediment Dispersal, Modern and Ancient (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Exploration and Production of Shale Gas Resources (AAPG) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Mapping, Modeling, and Understanding Facies Heterogeneity in Carbonate Deposits (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Theme VI: Tectonics and Sedimentation Regional Interactions of Tectonics and Sedimentation: Examining Relationships Between Deformation and Basin Evolution (SEPM) Poster Exhibition Hall

Wednesday Pm

Theme VII: The Gulf of Mexico: Regional to Local, Mesozoic to Recent Understanding the Gulf of Mexico: Depositional Systems, Play Concepts and Structure (AAPG) Oral Room 238/239

Theme XI: Global Climate Change Forum: Climate Change, Sea Level Change, and Storm Event Impact on Sedimentary Environments and Petroleum Industry Infrastructure,

U.S. Gulf of Mexico (AAPG/DEG) Oral Room 243/244/245

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Reservoir Modeling (AAPG/SEPM) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Reservoir Characterization (AAPG/SEPM) Oral Room 252/253/254

Theme I: Technology and Techniques Innovative Interpretation and Use of Seismic Data (AAPG) Oral Room 255/256/257

Theme III: Resource Assessment Methodology & Techniques (AAPG) Oral Room 338/339

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy Source to Sink Sediment Dispersal Modern and Ancient (SEPM) Oral Room 338/339

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources Genesis of Shale Gas — Physiochemical and Geochemical Constraints Affecting Methane Adsorption and Desorption (EMD/AAPG) Oral Room 343/344/345

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Interaction of Hydraulic Fracture Treatments with Natural Fractures in Tight Gas Reservoirs (AAPG) Oral Room 353/354/355

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes Fractured Reservoirs: From Fundamental Processes to Technological Advancements (AAPG) Oral Room353/354/355

Theme VI: Tectonics and Sedimentation Salt Sediment Interaction (AAPG) Oral Room 356/357

TECHNICAL PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Judge your peers’ papers and postersYour participation in the judging of papers and posters is requested. This important function determines the winners of the Matson Award, Braunstein Award, SEPM Best Paper and Best Poster Awards

and Division Awards. Your effort will involve judging and evaluating one or more oral or poster sessions. Please mark your registration form to volunteer to be a judge at the 2010 Convention!



theme i: Geological operations (AAPG) Room 238/239

Co-Chairs: A. W. Milne and S. Kimbrell

8:00 Introductory Remarks

8:05 D. Jiang, B. Bennett*, S. R. Larter: Heavy Oil and Bitumen Viscosity

Measurement During Drilling Activities

8:25 G. Eaton: Realising the Value of Drilling Data — Back to the Future

8:45 M. Bedrock, D. Moody: The Deployment of an Azimuthal Resistivity

Tool for Geosteering — A Case Study from the Foinaven Field (North Sea)

9:05 C. M. Artur: Geo-Stopping, the Real Value of At-Bit Measurements in

Deep Water Angola

9:25 M. S. Taylor: Visualization and the Use of Real Time Data While

Geosteering, Onshore Algeria

theme i: Current issues in marine Geohazards (AAPG/SePm) Room 238/239

Co-Chairs: D. Mosher and R. C. Shipp


10:30 D. J. Piper, E. Tripsanas, D. Mosher, K. MacKillop: Seismic

Hazard in Passive Margin Frontier Basins: Geological Estimates of the

Frequency of Large Earthquake-Triggered Submarine Landslides in

Orphan Basin, Offshore Canada

10:50 S. M. Blasco, R. Bennett, K. A. Blasco: Marine Geohazard

Investigations in Extreme Arctic Offshore Environments

11:10 M. Vanneste, C. Forsberg, T. Kvalstad, C. Madshus, A. Solheim,

J. Strout: On the Role of Excess Pore Pressure in Offshore

Geohazards

11:30 R. C. Shipp, D. R. McConnell: Gas Hydrate as a Geohazard in

Deepwater Settings

theme i: Geophysical integration: A road map to exploration Success (AAPG)Room 243/244/245

Co-Chairs: S. Earle, L. R. Sternbach and C. Moore


8:05 R. Roden, M. Forrest, R. Holeywell: Threshold Effects on Prospect

Risking

8:25 D. Yanchak: Wide Azimuth Seismic Acquisition (WATS) Vastly

Improves Subsalt Resolution in the Deepwater GOM: Case Studies in

Atwater Valley, Mississippi Canyon and Green Canyon Areas

8:45 W. Tate, O. Ozen, V. Singer, B. G. Jardine, M. Helgerud: 4-D

Seismic Integration from Interpretation to History Match: A Case Study

from a Mature Deepwater Field

9:05 J. Allen: Adventures in Pre-Stack Depth Migration

9:25 J. Mulligan, B. Schellhorn: Stratigraphic Details Illuminated Using

Modern 3-D Seismic Techniques in Upper Cretaceous Lenticular

Reservoirs, Optimizing EOR Production with CO2

9:45 Break

10:30 N. K. Boyd, M. Cardenas, M. Galarraga: New Exploration Leads in

the M1 Sandstone, Eden Yuturi Field, Ecuador

10:50 R. W. Keach, L. P. Birgenheier, W. Hokanson: Integrated

Interpretation of the Dakota and Cedar Mountain Channel Complexes

Play Using 3-D Seismic Attribute Analysis and Well Logs, Uinta Basin, Utah

11:10 J. A. Sanchez-Ramirez, C. Torres-Verdin, G. L. Wang, A.

Mendoza, D. Wolf, Z. Liu, G. Schell: Field Cases of the Combined

Deterministic Petrophysical Inversion of Gamma-Ray, Density, and

Resistivity Logs Acquired in Thinly Bedded Clastic Rock Formations

11:30 S. Chopra, K. J. Marfurt: Delineating Fractures Using Seismic

Attributes

theme i: Petroleum Geochemistry (AAPG)Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: W. Dow, D. Schumacher and G. Rice


8:05 M. A. Abrams, G. Graham: Geochemical Evaluation of Ocean

Surface Slick Methods to Ground Truth Satellite Seepage Anomalies

for Seepage Detection

8:25 M. Bjorøy, I. L. Ferriday: Preferred Analyses and Sample Preparations

for Surface Geochemical Sediment Samples in Petroleum Exploration

8:45 D. Schumacher, D. Hitzman, B. Rountree, L. Clavareau: When

3-D Seismic Is Not Enough: Improving Success by Integrating

Hydrocarbon Microseepage Data with 3-D Seismic Data

9:05 G. Rice, G. King, J. Henson: Cheeseburger Field, a Case for

Integration

9:25 S. C. Teerman, R. Hwang, R. Lytton: A Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Source Rock Penetration: Applications to Mesozoic Source Rocks and

Depositional Systems

9:45 Break

10:30 J. M. Moldowan, D. Zinniker, J. Dahl, P. Denisevich,

S. Moldowan, A. A. Bender, S. M. Barbanti, M. R. Mello:

Determination and Quantification of Petroleum Mixtures

10:50 M. C. Fay, S. Larter, B. Bennett, L. Snowdon: Oil Mixing Versus

Biodegradation as a Control on Oil Properties — A Study from the

West Canada Heavy Oil Belt

11:10 Z. Wei, M. Moldowan, S. Zhang, H. Wang, F. Song, F. Fago,

J. Rullkotter: Geochemical Models for the Hydrocarbon Yield

Potential of Source Rocks and Effects of Thermal Stress on Molecular

Biomarkers During Hydrous Pyrolysis

11:30 L. Sitdikova, I. Kosachev, V. Izotov: Processes of Synthesis of

Hydrocarbons in Strata of Sedimentary Rocks on Clay Catalysts

theme ii: Paleoclimates and Paleoceanography in deep time: improved data-model integration in Paleoclimate Analysis (SePm)Room 255/256/257

Co-Chairs: T. J. Algeo, L. Soreghan and M. A. Perlmutter


8:05 J. Kiehl: The Importance of Modeling Deep Time Climates for

Understanding Future Climate Change

8:25 A. D. Herrmann, B. Haupt: The Time-Scale Problem in Model-Data

Comparison Studies

8:45 B. J. Haupt, A. Herrmann, T. J. Algeo: Modeling the Middle-Late

Pennsylvanian North American Midcontinent Sea

9:05 T. J. Algeo, A. Herrmann, B. Haupt: Gradients in Sediment

Geochemistry as a Constraint on Modeling Epeiric Sea Circulation

9:25 A. J. Mitchell, P. A. Allison*, G. Hampson, C. C. Pain,

M. D. Piggott, G. J. Gorman: Modelling Paleo-Tides and Bed Shear

Stress in an Ancient Epicontinental Sea: The Laurasian Seaway

9:45 Break

10:30 J. M. Eros, I. Montanez, D. A. Osleger: Carboniferous

Cyclostratigraphy and Relative Sea Level History, Donets Basin,

Ukraine

10:50 A. Winguth, C. Scotese, C. Winguth, A. P. Osen: Changes of Late

Permian Ocean Circulation and Deep-Sea Anoxia in Response to

Tectonic Changes — A Model Study with CCSM3

11:10 G. R. Upchurch: Integrating Climate Model Output and Paleoclimate

Proxies: An Example from the Latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)

11:30 C. Huang, L. Hinnov: Astronomically Forced Climate Change

Recorded in Late Middle Eocene-Early Oligocene Lacustrine

Sediments, China

theme iV: Circum-Arctic (AAPG)Room 338/339

Co-Chairs: J. Hogg and M. E. Enachescu


8:05 R. Kirschner, J. R. Crews, Y. Chevalier, R. W. Krantz, R. Morse, T.

Neely, M. Northrop, H. Perfetta, M. Olson, J. Scorer, B. O’Reilly,

K. Dorrington, T. Morahan: Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the

U.S. Chukchi Basin

8:25 R. H. Peterson, J. Craig, K. Sherwood, L. Aleshire: Alaska’s Arctic

Offshore Activity

8:45 A. Embry: Petroleum Prospectivity of the Triassic-Jurassic Succession

of Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

9:05 G. Dam, M. Larsen, M. Sønderholm: Benchmarking Arctic Plays

Offshore East and West Greenland and Conjugate Margins

9:25 J. A. Bojesen-Koefoed, P. Alsen, M. Bjerager, F. G. Christiansen,

H. P. Nytoft, H. I. Petersen, S. Piasecki, H. J. Vosgerau: Frontiers

of Exploration in Northeast Greenland: Is an Upper Jurassic Petroleum

Source Rock Present in the Danmarkshavn Basin?

theme iV: Australasia (AAPG)Room 338/339

Co-Chairs: M. Bradshaw and C. I. Uruski


10:30 C. I. Uruski: Exploration of New Zealand’s Deepwater Frontier

10:50 G. W. O’Brien, L. Goldie-Divko, M. Harrison, P. Tingate,

J. Hamilton, K. Liu: Basin-Scale Fluid Flow, Sealing, Leakage and

Seepage Processes in the Gippsland Basin, Australia

11:10 S. W. Johnston, L. J. Strachan, J. Cassidy: Late Pliocene to

Recent Seismic Stratigraphy of the Northland Basin, New Zealand:

Implications for Complex Passive Margin Delta to Slope Evolution

11:30 G. Simon, G. Ellis, A. Bond: The Kitan Oil Discovery, Timor Sea, Joint

Petroleum Development Area, Timor Leste and Australia

theme ii: new depositional models for Shallow marine mudrocks: modern Processes and Ancient Successions (SePm) Room 343/344/345

Co-Chairs: B. Hart, M. Allison and J. H. Macquaker


8:05 S. Kuehl, L. E. Rose, T. Kniskern: Sedimentary Structure Distribution

and Modification on the Continental Shelf: Relative Roles of River

Input, Sediment Transport and Oceanographic Setting

8:25 R. A. Wheatcroft: Emplacement and Post-Depositional Alteration of

Sedimentary Event Layers: Lessons from the Eel River Margin

8:45 J. Schieber, J. Southard: Experimental Mudstone Sedimentology —

Making the Connection Between Flume Studies and the Rock Record

9:05 P. K. Pedersen, J. H. Macquaker, B. Hart: Detached Fine-Grained

Shelf Edge Wedges Within Shale Dominated Successions, Depositional

Model and Reservoir Significance

9:25 F. Trincardi, A. Cattaneo, D. Ridente: Anatomy of Late Quaternary

Adriatic Clinoforms: Mechanisms of Sediment Transport and Mud

Accumulation on the Continental Shelf

9:45 Break

10:30 J. M. Rine: Along-Strike Traction Flow of Muddy Sediments — Key to

Understanding Depositional Processes of Shallow Marine Argillaceous

Mudrocks: A Comparison of the Quaternary Amazon-Derived Shallow

Marine Sediments with Haynesville and Mancos Shales

10:50 S. J. Bentley: Preservation Potential of Primary Depositional Fabric

in Event-Dominated Muddy Shelf Settings: A Semi-Quantitative Facies

Model

11:10 J. H. Macquaker, S. J. Bentley, K. Bohacs, R. Lazar, R. Jonk:

Advective Sediment Transport on Mud-Dominated Continental Shelves:

Processes and Products

TECHNICAL PROGRAM *Denotes speaker other than first author

Theme I: Technology and Techniques

Theme II: Sedimentation and Stratigraphy

Theme III: Resource Assessment

Theme IV: Evolving Plays and Significant Discoveries

Theme V: Structural Geology: Styles and Processes

Theme VI: Tectonics and Sedimentation

Theme VII: The Gulf of Mexico: Regional to Local, Mesozoic to Recent

Theme VIII: Unconventional Resources

Theme IX: Expanded Applications of Geosciences

Theme X: U.S. Energy

Theme XI: Global Climate Change

Theme XII: Student Poster Sessions

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11:30 E. P. Kvale, B. Coffey: Depositional Model for the Devonian Woodford

Shale, Southeast Oklahoma, USA

theme ii: Siliciclastic deep-Water depositional Systems, modern and Ancient i (SePm)Room 353/354/355

Co-Chairs: D. Minisini and C. E. Stelting


8:05 M. L. Sweet: New Insights into the Sequence Stratigraphy of

Deepwater Deposits Gleaned From the Study of Quaternary Deepwater

Systems

8:25 R. Steel, A. Petter, C. Carvajal, P. Plink-Bjorklund: Greenhouse

and Icehouse Margins and Shelf-Edge Trajectories: Significance for

Sediment By-Pass

8:45 D. A. Armitage, J. A. Covault: “Exceptional” Turbidite Systems in

High-Latitude and Tectonically Active Settings and the Obsolescence

of Ubiquitous Sequence Stratigraphic Models

9:05 B. W. Romans, A. Fildani, S. M. Hubbard, J. A. Covault, S. A.

Graham, J. C. Fosdick: The Influence of Tectonic Evolution on Deep-

Water Stratigraphic Architecture, Magallanes Basin, Chile

9:25 H. Macdonald, D. McGee: Weakly Confined Minibasins: A Study of

Architecture and Depositional History

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10:30 R. G. Loucks, S. P. Dutton, S. Sakurai, R. Eastwood: An Approach

to Understanding Deep- to Ultradeep-Reservoir-Quality (Porosity) Risk

using a Large, Regional Wireline-Log-Based Petrophysical Database in

the Deep Shelf Area Along the Texas Gulf Coast

10:50 K. L. Maier, A. Fildani, C. K. Maier, S. A. Graham, T. R. McHargue,

D. W. Caress, M. M. McGann: Evolution of Depositional Architecture

in the Lucia Chica, A Weakly Confined Deep-Water Slope System

Offshore Central California

11:10 A. M. Fernandes, J. Buttles, D. Mohrig, R. J. Steel, S. Henriksen:

Laboratory-Scale Channel Formation by Sheet-Like Density

Underflows

11:30 K. J. Amos, J. Peakall, P. Bradbury, M. Roberts, G. Keevil,

S. Gupta: Channel Sinuosity and Sedimentation in Submarine

Channels

theme Vii: deltaic Coasts and Society: the mississippi delta and beyond (SePm)Room 356/357

Co-Chairs: T. E. Torqvist and S. L. Goodbred


8:05 J. R. Suter: The Role of the Mississippi in Deltaic Research and the

Contributions of J.M. Coleman, H. H. Roberts, and P. Shea Penland

8:25 M. Blum, H. H. Roberts: Inevitable Drowning of the Mississippi Delta

Region Due to Insufficient Sediment Supply and Global Sea-Level Rise

8:45 M. A. Kulp, D. FitzGerald, M. D. Miner, I. Georgiou: Geoscience-

Based Management of the Transgressive Mississippi River Delta:

Considerations for the Next Century

9:05 T. E. Tornqvist, S. Yu, Z. Shen, G. A. Milne, M. A. Kulp,

J. Gonzalez: Coastal Subsidence and Accelerated Sea-Level Rise: A

Dual Threat for the Mississippi Delta

9:25 J. P. Syvitski, A. J. Kettner, I. Overeem, E. W. Hutton, M. Hannon:

Human and Natural Controls on a Delta’s Surface Elevation Relative to

Local Mean Sea Level

9:45 Break

10:30 V. Burkett: Anticipating and Adapting to Climate Change in Coastal

Deltas

10:50 S. L. Goodbred, K. G. Rogers: Predicting Long- and Short-Term

Climate-Related Impacts in the Bengal Delta, a Robust Natural System

Limited by Societal Constraints

11:10 A. Amorosi: Response of Mediterranean Deltas to Millennial-Scale

Climatic and Sea-Level Fluctuations During the Holocene

11:30 L. Giosan: Danube Delta in Anthropocene














Monday Afternoon Oral Sessions

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theme ii: Climatic Controls on Sedimentation (SePm) Room 238/239

Co-Chairs: C. M. Fraticelli and I. Overeem


1:20 C. M. Fraticelli: Climatic Influences on Stratigraphy — Summary and

Paths Forward

1:40 I. Overeem: Climatic Influences on Stratigraphy — Applications of

Numerical Models

2:00 S. Banerjee, K. Ferguson, R. Gregory, P. Morrow: Variation of the

Organic Carbon Isotope Ratio (δ13Corg) and the Total Organic Carbon

(TOC) Within the Barnett Shale (Texas, USA): A signal of 2nd Order Sea

Level Change in the Mississippian.

2:20 B. Foreman, P. L. Heller: The Alluvial Response to Climate Change

During the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (~55 Ma) in the

Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

2:40 M. H. Hofmann, A. Shultz, C. Hill, C. Paola: Stratigraphic

Architecture and Key Stratigraphic Surfaces Formed by Punctuated

Flow Events — An Experiment on Fluviodeltaic Responses

3:00 Break

3:45 J. A. Covault, B. W. Romans, A. Fildani, M. M. McGann,

S. A. Graham: Rapid Climatic Signal Propagation from Source-to-Sink

in a Southern California Sediment-Routing System

4:05 T. Nakajima, H. Katayama, T. Itaki: Climatic Control of Turbidite

Deposition During the Last 70 ka Along the Toyama Deep-Sea

Channel, Central Japan Sea

4:25 A. Husinec, F. J. Read: Sequence Stratigraphy, Carbon Isotope

Signature, and Dolomitization of a Late Jurassic Greenhouse Platform,

Croatia

4:45 J. Li: Analysing the Character and Cause of Formation of Redbeds of

Yaojia Formation in the North of Songliao Basin

theme iV: discovery thinking forum (AAPG/dPA/HoPG) Room 243/244/245

Co-Chairs: C. Sternbach and E. Dolly


1:30 J. Amoruso: East Texas, Deep Bossier Sandstone — Amoruso Field

2:00 M. Brittenham: “Unconventional” Discovery Thinking in Resource

Plays: Haynesville Trend, North Louisiana

2:30 G. Robertson: From First Idea to 10 TCF in 10 Months: Discovery

of Eagle Ford Shale in the Hawkville Field, LaSalle and McMullen

Counties, Texas

3:00 Break

3:40 B. Zagorski: The Appalachian Marcellus Shale Play — Discovery

Thinking, Timing, and Technology

4:10 M. C. Forrest: Learning from 40 Years Experience Risking Seismic

Amplitude Anomaly Prospects

5:35 D. Smith: Discovery Thinking Has led To 70 Years of Continued

Exploration and Development at Stella Salt Dome, Plaquemines Parish,

Louisiana

michel t. Halbouty Lecture: Shale Gas and America’s energy future (AAPG)Room 243/244/345

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Chair: T. Hudson

5:10 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Speaker: Aubrey McClendon

theme V: Seismic interpretation of faulted reservoirs: How to Get the right Answer the first time (AAPG) Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: R. W. Krantz and G. Yeilding


1:20 T. Neely, R. W. Krantz: Perceptive Interpreter Training: Integrating

Structural Insights, Volumetric Tools and Spatial Thinking

1:40 A. Mironova, J. Thompson: Enhanced Visualization of Seismic

Attributes for Structural Interpretation

2:00 S. R. Freeman, S. D. Harris, N. A. McCabe*, V. O’Connor, K. Wood:

Streamlining Seismic Interpretation Within the 3-D Workspace

2:20 C. E. Bond, Z. K. Shipton, E. Macrae, C. Philo: When There Isn’t a

Right Answer — Dealing with the Uncertainty of Seismic Interpretation

to Maximise Success

2:40 E. Macrae, C. E. Bond, Z. K. Shipton: Uncertainty Analysis of

Geological Interpretations

theme V: intra-plate deformation and inversion tectonics: Causes and Petroleum implications (AAPG) Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: B. Trudgill and J. R. Underhill


3:45 P. Krzywiec: Paleozoic to Miocene Intra-Plate Tectonics and Basin

Inversion Along the Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone in Poland and Its Bearing

on Hydrocarbon Potential: A Synthesis

4:05 G. Bayona, A. Mora Bohorquez, M. Cortes, A. Cardona,

C. Jaramillo, C. Montes, V. Valencia: Migration of Synorogenic

Cenozoic Depocenters Due to Multi-Phase Inversion of the Eastern

Cordillera of Colombia

4:25 P. A. Emmet, P. Mann: Early Cenozoic Rift Inversion: Key to

Understanding the Structural Framework and Petroleum Potential of

the Nicaraguan Rise

4:45 S. Dorobek: Driving Forces and Regional Effects of Cenozoic Tectonic

Inversion Across the South China Sea Region

theme ii: numerical and Physical modeling of Climatic and tectonic Controls on Sedimentation (SePm/AAPG) Room 255/256/257

Co-Chairs: C. Lerch and K. Straub


1:20 M. Lamb, D. Mohrig, B. McElroy, B. Kopriva, J. Shaw: Source-to-

Sink: Connecting Hyperpycnal-Flow Deposits to River-Flood Dynamics

1:40 A. B. Peyret, D. Mohrig, M. Lamb, B. McElroy: Determining How

Much Topographic Complexity Must Be Incorporated into Models for

Depositional Turbidity Currents Filling Sinuous Submarine Channels

and Constructing Channel Levees

2:00 R. Manica, J. Baas, R. Maestri, J. Peakall, A. O. Borges: A First

Experimentally Derived Classification of Submarine Sediment Gravity

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2:20 B. Chauveau, V. Teles*, P. Joseph: Modeling Turbiditic Currents

Based on the Minimization of Energy: Importance of the Turbulent

Energy Budget.

2:40 M. Nasr-Azadani, S. Saegeler, M. Zoellner, E. Meiburg*,

B. Kneller: Computational Investigations of Turbidity Currents in

Complex Topographies

3:00 Break

3:45 M. A. Wolinsky: Upscaling Sedimentary Processes: From Bed to

Basin

4:05 S. F. Leclair: Predicting Preserved Stratigraphy from Dunebed

Topography After Annual Peak Flows in a Modern Large River

4:25 M. M. Perillo, M. Yokokawa, T. Sekiguchi, T. Takagawa,

Y. Hasegawa, F. Pedocchi, M. H. García, J. Best: Bedform

Morphology Under Combined Flows

4:45 P. L. Paraizo, M. A. Moraes, R. N. Elias, A. L. Coutinho: 3-D

Turbulent Process Modeling of the Dynamical Flow-Bottom Interaction

theme iV: middle east (AAPG) Room 338/339

Co-Chairs: C. Caughey, C. Heine and T. Hassan


1:20 D. I. Sanabria: Shale Gas Opportunities in Saudi Arabia: Initial

Screening of the Mazalij Area, Eastern Province

1:40 J. W. Buza: An Overview of Heavy Oil Carbonate Reservoirs in the

Middle East

2:00 G. D. Zaeff, C. Liu, K. A. Soofi, T. Hassan: Characterizing Fracture

Sets at Outcrop Exposures Using High Resolution Remote Sensing

Data; Developing a Fracture Model as Input into a Static Geomodel

2:20 W. Kent: Structures of Northern Iraq and Syria, and Their Implications

for Interpretation of the Region’s Stratigraphy

2:40 R. F. Lindsay, W. Hughes, S. Aba Al-Hassan: Khuff-A Reservoir

Porosity Creation and Destruction: A Product of Depositional and

Diagenetic Processes

theme iV: north Africa (AAPG) Room 338/339

Co-Chairs: B. Bosworth and J. Redfern


3:45 F. Wehr, W. AbdelAziz, S. Grant, A. Gray, D. Reiber, P. Sackmann,

J. St. John, B. Bosworth: Recent Oil and Gas Discoveries in the

Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of Northwestern Egypt (Western

Desert) and Implications for Future Prospectivity

4:05 J. C. Fiduk: Examination of the Libyan Mediterranean Margin Using

Regional 2-D Seismic Data

4:25 E. P. Lewandowski, H. Jäger, R. Zuehlke*, T. Bechstädt,

U. A. Glasmacher, B. Wirth: Integrated Basin and HC Systems

Model, Silurian-Carboniferous, Southern Algeria

4:45 B. Ghorbal, P. Andriessen: Importance of the Early Cretaceous

Exhumation of the Western African Craton for the Oil Exploration

theme Viii: Assessment of Unconventional resources (emd) Room 343/344/345

Co-Chairs: R. R. Charpentier and P. Stark


1:20 T. Cook, R. R. Charpentier: Assembling Probabilistic Performance

Parameters of Shale-Gas Wells

1:40 R. R. Charpentier, T. A. Cook: Applying Probabilistic Well-

Performance Parameters to Assessments of Shale-Gas Resources

2:00 K. J. Steffen: Using Bayesian Belief Networks to Evaluate Continuous

Gas Resources (Shale Gas, Tight Gas, and Coal Bed Methane): Tools to

Calibrate the Expert and Exploit Knowledge

2:20 G. M. Kaufman, J. Schuenemeyer: Assessing Alaskan Gas Hydrates

— How to Handle Probabilistic Dependencies

2:40 R. A. Olea, T. A. Cook, J. L. Coleman: Modeling of an Unconventional

Gas Accumulation Taking into Account Spatial Correlation

3:00 Break

3:45 K. C. Hood, D. A. Yurewicz: Incorporating Geologic Insights into

Shale Gas Assessments

4:05 F. E. Walles: Shale Gas System Producibility Characteristics — How/

Why May Producibility Vary?

4:25 D. A. Edwards, J. M. Coss, K. M. Dickerman, R. A. Gilcrease,

J. C. Weaver, G. C. Wiszneauckas: Oil and Gas Resource Estimates

for Permian Wolfberry Trend Reservoirs in Eastern Reagan County,

West Texas

4:45 Z. Caineng, T. Shizhen, Y. Xuanjun, Z. Rukai, H. Lianhua,

J. Jinhua, W. Lan, G. Xiaohui, Z. Xiangxiang, Y. Chun, Y. Zhi:

Concepts, Geological Characteristics and Evaluation Techniques for

Continuous Petroleum Accumulations in China

theme ii: Siliciclastic non-marine, Shallow-marine and Shelf depositional Systems and exploration models i (SePm) Room 353/354/355

Co-Chairs: J. Dischinger and R. J. Steel


1:20 B. J. Willis, B. Bracken, T. Payenberg: Another Look at Fluvial

Sequence Stratigraphy

1:40 P. L. Heller, E. Hajek, J. L. McHarge: Channel-Belt Clusters as an

Exploration Target in Alluvial Basins

2:00 S. M. Hubbard, D. G. Smith, D. A. Leckie, M. Fustic: Predicting

Heterogeneity in Meandering River Deposits: The Point Bar to Counter

Point Bar Transition

2:20 M. E. Donselaar, I. Overeem: Processes and Reservoir Architecture

of Terminal Sheet Sandstone in a Low-Gradient Fluvial Setting:

Integrated Outcrop, Subsurface and Numerical Forward Modeling

Approach

2:40 G. W. Lowey: Sedimentology and Petroleum Source-Rock Potential

of Hyperpycnites in the Laberge Group (Jurassic),Whitehorse Trough,

Yukon, Canada

3:00 Break

3:45 T. M. Smith, L. R. Bartek: Stratigraphy of Lower Hinton Formation: A

record of Transgressive-Regressive Episodes Preserved in the Ancient

Coastal Plain and Estuaries of the Upper Mississippian Appalachian

Basin, West Virginia, USA

4:05 U. P. Agharanya: C. O. Okogbue, O.C. Egbu: Sequence Stratigraphy

and Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of the Cretaceous-Tertiary

Successions of the Western Rim of the Anambra Basin, S. E. Nigeria

4:25 R. Boyd: Facies Models for Transgressive Wave Dominated Coasts

4:45 E. Nickel, D. Kohlruss: The Bakken Oil Play of Southeast

Saskatchewan: Stratigraphy, Facies Analysis and Sedimentology

theme ii: mixed Siliciclastic and Carbonate depositional environments and Systems, modern and Ancient (SePm) Room 356/357

Co-Chairs: B. Coffey and L. Eliuk


1:20 L. Eliuk, G. D. Wach: Large Scale Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic

Clinoform Systems: Three Types from the Mesozoic North American

Atlantic Offshore

1:40 A. Embry: Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of Mixed, Reefal

Carbonate and Siliciclastic Systems

2:00 P. F. Holterhoff: Proximal to Distal Expression of Carbonate —

Mudrock Rhythmites of the Lower Permian Lueders Limestone, Texas:

Record of High-Frequency Climate Change on the Eastern Shelf,

Midland Basin

2:20 M. Morsilli, F. Bosellini, L. Pomar, M. Aurell, C. A. Papazzoni:

Coral Buildups in Oligophotic, Nutrient-Rich, Siliciclastic Prodelta

Settings (Late Eocene, Southern Pyrenees, Spain): An As Yet

Unexplored Play?

2:40 E. Gischler, R. N. Ginsburg, J. Herrle: Mixed Carbonates and

Siliciclastics in the Quaternary of Southern Belize: Pleistocene Turning

Points in Reef Development Controlled by Sea-Level Change

theme V: Continental breakup Processes and their implications for exploration models in rift and Passive margin Settings (AAPG) Room 356/357

Co-Chairs: M. Nemcok and S. T. Sinha


3:45 S. T. Sinha, M. Nemcok, M. Choudhuri, A. Misra, S. P. Sharma,

N. Sinha, S. Venkatraman: The Crustal Architecture and Continental

Break Up of East India Passive Margin: An Integrated Study of Deep

Reflectaon Seismic Interpretation and Gravity Modeling

4:05 N. Kusznir, G. Manatschal: The Mode of Continental Breakup

Lithosphere Thinning and Its Implications for Rifted Margin Crustal

Structure, Subsidence and Heat-Flow History

4:25 L. Geoffroy: Volcanic Margins: Another Way to Break the Lithosphere?

4:45 P. Lonsdale, J. Kluesner: Detachment of Baja California from

Mainland Mexico, and the Ongoing Creation of Rifted and Sheared

Continental Margins Within the Gulf of California

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Monday Morning Poster Sessions

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theme Xii: Selected Academic research topics: Student Presentations (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: S. Waters and B. Hottman

• T. Alvarez, P. Mann: Tectonic Habitat of Hydrocarbons in the Deep-

and Ultra-Deepwater Frontier Areas of Trinidad and Tobago

• J. M. Phillips, M. K. Gingras, M. Caplan: Facies Architecture and

Trace Fossils of the McMurray Formation: Interpreting the Depositional

Setting in the MacKay Area of the Athabasca Oil Sands

• M. L. Boyce, T. R. Carr: Stratigraphy and Petrophysics of the

Middle Devonian Black Shale Interval in West Virginia and Southwest

Pennsylvania

• C. Campbell, C. MacDonald, J. Cribb, J. Adam, M. Nedimovic,

C. Kreszek, D. Grujic: The Salt Tectonic Evolution of the North-

Central Scotian Margin: Insights from 2-D Regional Seismic Data and

4-D Physical Experiments

• A. B. Rodriguez, P. Mann, W. E. Galloway: Effects of Laramide

Foreland Basin Tectonics on Structure, Subsidence, and Hydrocarbons

of the Mexican Sector of the Gulf of Mexico

• C. B. Fefchak, J. Zonneveld, L. McHugh: Development and

Utilization of Geochemical Correlation Techniques for Advanced

Stratigraphic Control in the Charlie Lake Formation, British Columbia,

Canada

• C. R. Neagu, J. A. Cartwright, R. Davies: A New Quantitative

Approach to Predicting Physical Property Changes During Diagenesis

of Mudstones

• J. S. Claringbould, B. L. Blake, T. R. Birdsall, J. Sarg, B. Trudgill:

Intergrated Geomodelling of a Salt-Cored Carbonate Dome, Jebel

Madar, Oman

• M. Giles, D. Mosher, G. D. Wach: Mass Transport Processes on

Slope Sedimentation: Sediment Distribution on the SW Newfoundland

Slope, Eastern Canada

• K. Shalek, K. Cox, J. J. Daniels: Monitoring CO2 Injection with

Seismic and EM Methods

Presenters in their Booths (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)




• M. Swierczek, H. Lever, J. R. Underhill, D. Millward: Role of the

Base Permian Unconformity in Controlling Carboniferous Reservoir

Prospectivity, UK Southern North Sea

• J. Koch, T. Frank: Globally Synchronous Exposure of Tropical

Carbonate Platforms at the Pennsylvanian-Permian Boundary

Correlated with Onset of Major Gondwanan Glaciation: Implications for

Petroleum Exploration

• S. Adams, S. Adams: Modeling Basin Evolution and Assessing

Source Rock Potential Within the Orange Basin, Offshore South Africa

• T. E. Hearon IV, M. G. Rowan, R. Kernen, B. Trudgill: Lateral Salt

Emplacement at the Christmas Tree Diapir, Pinda Springs, South

Australia

• A. M. Ranson, R. Gani, G. Hampson, N. Gani, H. Sahoo: Complex

Land-Ocean Interplay in Marginal-Marine Deposits: Transitions of

Shallow-Marine Star Point Formation to Coastal-Plain Blackhawk

Formation, Wasatch Plateau, Utah

theme X: future of U. S. energy (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: P. A. Moses and P. K. Wieg

• B. L. Kirkland, G. Thibaudeau, K. S. McNeal, K. Sherman-Morris,

N. L. Baghai Riding, E. Meek, O. E. Dickerson, M. M. Jennings,

B. Dutrow, A. M. Lawrence, D. W. Schmitz: Human Resources

for the Energy Workforce of the Future: Finding the Best Employees

Requires Addressing Diversity Now

• S. Rigaud, R. Martini, G. D. Stanley: The Upper Triassic Martin

Bridge Formation (Wallowa Terrane, Oregon): A Potential Carbonate

Petroleum Reservoir?

• A. Lowrie, R. Reynolds: Planetary Spheres (i.e., Atmosphere,

Hydrosphere, Lithosphere, Biosphere) Interact to Form Conditions

Appropriate for Hydrocarbon Existence

theme iV: north Africa (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: B. Bosworth and J. Redfern

• R. Woolam, T. Pearce*: A New Approach to Stratigraphic Analysis in

the Pre-Upper Cretaceous of the Sirt Basin, Libya

• A. Clare, D. Helgeson, M. Pasley, D. Kelly, W. Brown, G.

McDaniel, T. Maher, M. Oldani: Exploring and Developing New Plays

in the Eastern Abu Ghardig Basin, Western Desert, Egypt

• R. G. Ineh, G. U. Agha, O. C. Okparaojiako, S. A. Babalola:

Unveiling Nigeria Petroleum Province Deep Potentials

• A. Elhabab, E. Aladsani: Facies Analysis, Sedimentary Environments

and Depositional Evolution of the Early Cretaceous Sediments at

Elminsheral Mountain, North Sinai, Egypt

• A. S. Alsharhan, H. S. Hassan, C. G. Kendall: Oil and Gas Fields

Database from Sirt Basin, Libya

theme Vi: Sedimentation and tectonics in rifts (SePm) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: K. Giles and C. Yeilding

• C. Xu, X. Zhou: Genetic Types of Paleogene Slope Break Zones and

Their Controls on Depositional System in Bohai Offshore Area

• E. Elliott, J. Lorenzo: Growth Faults and Relay Ramps: A High-

Resolution Seismic Survey, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

• C. A. Elenwa, M. P. Watkinson, M. Anderson: Tectono-Stratigraphic

Controls on Reservoir Distribution in Offshore Sierra Leone Basin

• J. Thurmond, I. Lunt, B. Pilskog: Drainage Area Changes of

Northern Mozambique and Implications for Petroleum Exploration

• V. Singh, K. B. Trivedi, A. N. Lange, N. Jukuda: Strati-Structural

Evolution and Its Signatures on Sedimentation Pattern of the Olifants

Subbasin, Orange Basin, South Africa

theme ii: Climatic Controls on Sedimentation (SePm) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: C. M. Fraticelli and I. Overeem

• A. M. Trendell, S. C. Atchley, L. Nordt: Channels, Overbanks

and Paleosols: The Relationship Between Climate, Base Level and

Lithofacies Heterogeneity Within the Triassic Sonsela Member, PFNP

Arizona

• S. T. Hasiotis, I. Moffat, M. Reilly: Preliminary Report on the

Neoichnology, Sedimentology, and Geomorphology of Pointbar and

Levee Deposits of the Darling River on Bindara Station, Pooncarie,

New South Wales, Australia

• A. C. Templet, L. Soreghan: Paleogeographic and Paleoclimatic

Implications of Widespread Eolian Deposition in the Middle Permian of

Oklahoma

• G. A. Augsburger, L. Soreghan, M. J. Soreghan: Origin and

Paleoclimatic Implications of Silt in the Pennsylvanian Bird Spring

Formation (Arrow Canyon, Nevada)

• P. Labrecque, S. M. Hubbard, J. L. Jensen: Sedimentology and

Architecture of Point Bar Deposits, Cretaceous McMurray Formation,

Alberta: Cyclic Sedimentation and Heterogeneity Prediction

• Z. Feng: Organic Geochemical Response to the Sequence Boundary

Developed During the Depression Stage of the Big Songliao Lacustrine

Basin and Its Paleo-environmental Significance: Evidence from Well

SK1 of the Continental Scientific Drilling

theme ii: numerical and Physical modeling of Climatic and tectonic Controls on Sedimentation (SePm/AAPG)Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: C. Lerch and K. Straub

• N. P. Mountney: A Numerical Stratigraphic Model for Mixed Fluvial-

Eolian Successions: Implications for Reservoir Prediction

• K. J. Cooper, P. L. Smart: Is Milankovitch Cyclicity Recognizable in

Carbonate Sequences? Numerical Experiments Using the Forward

Model CARB3D+

• G. Keevil, W. D. McCaffrey: Submarine Channel Processes:

Experimental Insights into the Location and Magnitude of Channel

Overspill

• Z. Khan, B. Arnott: Experimental Modeling of Multiple Non-Climbing

Ripple Set Beds from Suspended Particle Fallout

• M. Patacci, W. D. McCaffrey, P. D. Haughton: Role of Internal

Waves Within Ponded Turbidity Currents: Experimental Data and

Deposit Implications

• M. Tilston, B. Arnott, C. Rennie: The Role of Grain Size on Flow

Structure and Concentration Profiles in Sediment Gravity Currents

theme ii: SePm research Symposium: Autogenic and Allogenic Controls on Sedimentary Successions: modern and Ancient, Clastic and Carbonate Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: M. Blum and C. Paola

• O. Takano, C. Paola, P. L. Heller: Categorization of Basin-Filling

Succession Trends Based on the Basin Mass Balance Between

Accommodation and Sedimentation

• R. Hocking, P. E. Playford: Tectonics, Eustasy and Climate: Controls

on Cyclicity, Devonian Reef Complexes, Canning Basin, Western

Australia

• W. Paulissen, S. M. Luthi, P. Grunert, M. Harzhauser, S. Çoriç, J.

R. Püttmann: Evaluating the Relative Contributions of Tectonics and

Eustacy from a High-Resolution Stratigraphic Record: A Case Study

from the Vienna Basin

• R. Widiarti, G. Jiang: Carbonate Cycles and Their Controlling

Mechanism During Furongian Greenhouse Time: An Example from the

Big Horse Member of the Orr Formation in Western Utah

• A. Peterhänsel, S. O. Egenhoff*, E. Samankassou: The Latemàr

— A Stayer Carbonate Platform in a Post-Extinction World

• A. Embry: Differentiating Allogenic Deposits from Autogenic Deposits

by the Delineation and Correlation of Maximum Regressive Surfaces

theme V: intra-plate deformation and inversion tectonics: Causes and Petroleum implications (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: B. Trudgill and J. R. Underhill

• F. Garavito, B. Trudgill, C. Kluth: Structural Inversion and

Exploration Implications in the Cagüi Sector, Northern Middle

Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia

• S. Chakrabarti, H. Singh, D. Similox-Tohon, R. E. Polanco

Ferrer, M. S. Akhtar, R. Singh: Structural Style of Assam Shelf and

Schuppen Belt — Revisiting the Naga Imbricate Thrust Complex

• C. S. Whitehill, P. Mann, A. Escalona, C. A. Vargas Jimenez:

Tectono-Stratigraphic Framework of the Western Maracaibo Block,

Colombia-Venezuela: Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration

• C. Armandita, J. A. Paju, M. Mufti, N. Mujahidin: Inverted Intra

Arc Transtensional Deepwater Basin in West Central Java Border: New

Interpretation of Basin Evolution and Its Implication to the Petroleum

System

• F. Ning, L. Tang: Inversion Tectonics in Central Tarim Basin, Northwest

China: Geometric Characteristics and Petroleum Implications

• C. Xiang: Late-Stage Tectonic Inversion and Its Geodynamic

Significance: Evidence from the Uplifting and Denudation History of

the Songliao Basin

theme i: rock Physics and Quantitative Seismic Analysis (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: E. Clark and S. M. Porche

• K. T. Spikes: Statistical Classification and Wavelet-Transform Analysis

for Volumetric Estimates

• B. Woehrl, S. Wessling, A. Bartetzko, J. Pei, J. Renner, T. Dahl:

Comparison of Log-Based Rock Mechanical Properties Utilizing

Different Volumetrics Sources

• M. Fawad, N. H. Mondol, J. Jahren, K. Bjørlykke: Physical

Properties of Sandstones Based on Experimental Compaction

• Q. Dou, Y. Sun, C. Sullivan: Characterization of Carbonate Reservoir

Permeability Heterogeneity by Integrating Rock Physics Model, Core

Measurement and Petrophysical Data

• N. H. Mondol, J. Jahren, T. Berre, L. Grande, K. Bjørlykke:

Permeability Anisotropy in Mudstones

• M. R. Yenugu, M. Angelo, K. J. Marfurt, S. Matson: Seismic

Attribute Analysis of a Mississippian Chat, Osage County, Northeast

Oklahoma

• K. Verwer, G. P. Eberli: Effect of Pore Space Geometry on Electrical

Resistivity in Carbonates

theme V: Salt, Sub-Salt and Pre-Salt tectonics, models, and Hydrocarbon traps (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: I. Davison and M. R. Hudec

• W. R. Wright, R. da Cunha, H. C. Reis, C. M. Quintaes, M. V.

Nunes, M. Tomasso, H. S. Nance, C. Kerans: Pre-Salt Seismic

Sequence and Depositional Evolution of the Campos Basin, Brazil

• X. Zhou, Y. Yu, W. Peng: Salt Structures in the Laizhouwan

Derpession, Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China: Implications for

Structural Models and Hydrocarbon Exploration

• Y. Yu, L. Tang: Salt Structural Deformation and Hydrocarbon Traps in

the Tarim Basin, Northwest China

• C. He, L. Tang: Salt-Related Structural Characteristic, Forming

Mechanism and Related Traps in Tazhong Area, Tarim

• P. Wilson, G. Elliott, C. A. Jackson, R. Gawthorpe, S. Hansen:

Structural Geology and Evolution of an Evaporite-Detached Normal

Fault System: The Bremstein Fault System, Eastern Halten Terrace,

Offshore Mid-Norway

• W. Jones, L. Hawkins, L. Joaquim: The Pre- and Post-Salt

Structure of the Angolan Salt Province — A 3-D Seismic Study

• M. R. Hudec: Is There a Subsalt Foldbelt in the Central U.S. Gulf of

Mexico?

• S. Dorobek: Local to Regional Controls on Syn-Halokinetic Carbonate

Platform Growth Within Extensional Tectonic Settings

theme V: Slope Systems deformed by Gravity Processes (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: G. Apps, F. J. Peel and T. Meckel

• J. D. Chatellier, M. Rueda: Challenging the Paradigm “Missing

Section — Normal Fault” — Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration

• I. Clark, J. Cartwright: Fold Growth in the Salt-Detached Eastern

Nile Deepwater Fold Belt: Influence on Post-Messinian Sedimentation

Processes

• J. Clark: NW Sabah Deepwater Delta Tectonics: A Genetic Link

Between Contrasting Deepwater Structural Domains

• S. King, J. A. Cartwright: Mass Transport Deposits and Their Role in

Thin Skinned Tectonics — An Example from the Northwest Níger Delta

• S. E. Richardson, M. B. Allen, R. Davies, S. F. Grant,

K. J. McCaffrey: Extensive Mass-Wasting on Active Folds of the

Caspian Sea: Geomorphology and Failure Mechanisms

• D. Iacopini, R. W. Butler: Seismic Characterization of Discontinuities

Zones from a Deepwater Fold-and-Thrust System, Niger Delta

• M. T. Ireland, R. Davies, N. R. Goulty: Polygonal Fault Orientations

Disrupted by Underlying Turbidite Channels on the Mauritanian Margin

• D. B. Dunlap, L. G. Moscardelli, L. Wood: Mass-Transport

Complexes from the Northwest African Shelf as Indicators for

Continental Margin Development

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theme iV: middle east (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: C. Caughey, C. Heine and T. Hassan

• C. M. Burberry, M. D. Greb, M. Laughland, B. Dudley-Murphy,

G. Nash, M. Iraqi Kurdistan Region: Integrated Remote Sensing,

Structural and Petroleum Systems Modeling of the Iraqi-Kurdish

Fold Belt

• T. Al-Ameri, M. E. Naser, H. Al-Haydari, J. K. Pitman,

J. Zumberge: Timing and Extent of Oil Generation in the Zubair

Formation, Southern and Western Iraq: Results from 1-D Petroleum

System Models and Geochemical Analysis

• A. Alsharhan, C. Kendall: Holocene Carbonates and Evaporites and

Their Ancient Analogous Assemblages Throughout Permo-Triassic and

Jurassic Reservoirs of the Arabian Basin

• A. M. Bakhiet, D. Z. Tang, A. Gregory, P. Lawrence, P. Rabiller,

B. Macurda: Exploring Jurassic Carbonate Stratigraphic Traps by

Integrating Sequence Stratigraphy, Petrophysical Characterization, and

3-D Seismic Facies Modeling, Northern Saudi Arabia

• N. Marouf, M. Al-Gailani*: Structural Evolution and Development of

Hydrocarbon Accumulations in the Tigris Structures: Tikrit, Samarra,

Balad and East Baghdad Fields

• S. A. Azim, Y. Hassan, H. M. Najeh, B. Al-Otaibi, A. Mousawi,

B. Al-Saad: The Emerging Play in Highstand Systems Tract of Burgan

Formation in North Kuwait.

• N. Marouf, M. Al-Gailani: Structural Analysis of the Zagros Fold Belt

in Northern Iraq

• M. Al-Gailani, N. Marouf: Modeling of Source Rock Maturation and

Hydrocarbon Formation in Northern Iraq

• G. Roberts, C. Harmer, D. Peace: Plays and Prospectivity

Offshore Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus: New Insights from Depth-Imaged

Seismic Data

theme ii: mixed Siliciclastic and Carbonate depositional environments and Systems, modern and Ancient (SePm) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: B. Coffey and L. Eliuk

• D. F. McNeill, S. Elliott, J. S. Klaus, J. Perez: The Nature of

Neogene Mixed System Clinothems: Cibao Basin, Dominican Republic

• L. Navarro, P. Gammon, B. Arnott: Deep-Water Siliciclastic-

Carbonate Sedimentation in the Windermere Turbidite System,

Canada: Influence of Sea-Level, Sediment Supply and Composition

• F. M. Alkhaldi, A. Tawil, J. Read: Controls on Sequence Stratigraphy

of Miocene Mixed-Carbonate-Siliciclastic Systems, Early Miocene,

Dam Formation, Eastern Saudi Arabia

• M. Zeller, K. Verwer, G. P. Eberli, J. Massaferro, E. Schwarz,

L. A. Spalletti: A New Depositional Model for the Upper-Jurassic

— Lower-Cretaceous Mixed Carbonate Siliciclastic System in the

Neuquén Basin, Argentina

• D. Ortega-Ariza, H. Santos-Mercado, E. Franseen: An Emerging

Quantified Sequence Stratigraphy and Relative Sea-Level History for

Mixed Carbonate and Siliciclastic Tertiary Sequences, Puerto Rico

• D. Fike, L. B. Smith: A Combined δ13C — δ34S Approach for

Chronostratigraphic Correlation Across Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic

Systems

• R. Lellis, P. F. Holterhoff: Transgressive-Dominated Architecture of

the Bead Mountain Sequence (Lower Permian), Texas: Implications for

Evolving Sequence Architectures in the Midland Basin

• R. Alway, P. F. Holterhoff, R. Broomhall, G. Ottinger, S.

Kaczmarek, M. Hicks, T. Hensley, E. Miles, C. Iannello-Bachtel:

High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of the Grayburg Formation

(Permian) from Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico.

• D. Udgata, F. R. Ettensohn: Significance of the Marine Green-Clay

Mineral Facies from Lower-Middle Mississippian Rocks in the Western

Appalachian Basin, South-Central Kentucky

• D. L. Marin, H. Niño, V. Ramirez, G. Ojeda, V. Torres, F. Niño:

Imaging and Imagining Transitional Sedimentary Environments: A

Paleogeographic Reconstruction of Northern Colombia

theme ii: Siliciclastic non-marine, Shallow-marine and Shelf depositional Systems and exploration models (SePm/AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: R. J. Steel and J. Dischinger

• M. Tomasso, G. Murrell, B. M. Reyes, G. Thyne, G. G. Forney,

D. D. Shier: Regional Analysis of the Permian Upper Minnelusa

Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Application to Exploration

and Development

• O. Thomas-Ideh: Sequence Stratigraphic Update of the 3-Series of

the Troll Field Reservoir

• M. Horton, P. F. Holterhoff: Depositional Systems and Sequence

Stratigraphic Relationships of the Upper Clear Fork — Lower San

Angelo Interval (Permian), Eastern Shelf, Midland Basin, Texas

• R. Krueger, M. LoParco, J. Bhattacharya: Strike Variability Within a

Wave-Influenced Delta, the Gallup Sandstone, Shiprock, New Mexico

• J. D. Horn, C. Fielding, R. Joeckel, P. R. Hanson, A. Young:

Stratigraphy of the Central Platte River Sand Body Near Grand

Island, Northeast Using Surface and Subsurface Geological and

Geochronological Techniques

• B. Legler, H. D. Johnson, G. Hampson, M. D. Jackson,

C. A. Jackson, A. N. El-Barkooky, R. Ravnas, D. Alsop, X. Le

Varlet: Characterization of a Tide-Dominated Heterolithic Reservoir

Analog: The Eocene Dir Abu Lifa Member (Western Desert, Egypt)

• M. C. Robinson: High-Density Well Log Correlation of the Upper

Cretaceous Section; Webb, LaSalle, McMullen and Atascosa Counties,

Texas

• M. I. Olariu, C. Carvajal, R. J. Steel, C. Olariu: Process and

Architectural Evolution During Deltaic Cross-Shelf Transits — Fox Hills

Deltas, Washakie Basin, Wyoming

• S. Punnette, L. Wood, P. Mann: Tectonic and Eustatic Controls on

the Origin of Shelf Sands and Associated Facies, Offshore NCMA Area

of Trinidad and Tobago

• T. K. Mathuria, A. C. Julka, P. K. Dimri, P. B. Pandey: Hydrocarbon

Prospectivity in the Stratigraphic Traps Within Cambay Shale, Broach

Sub Block, Cambay Basin, India

• P. Lis: Architecture of Miocene Nearshore Bar and Rip-Channel

Deposits (Carpathian Foredeep, Ukraine): Implications for Hydrocarbon

Reservoirs

• K. Choi: External Control on the Architecture of Inclined Heterolithic

Stratification of Macrotidal Sukmo Channel, West Coast of Korea:

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Monday Afternoon Poster Sessions

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theme Viii: Assessment of Unconventional resources (emd) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: R. R. Charpentier and P. Stark

• S. Bujor, D. Thenin, I. Perry, A. Kuran, K. Toews: Evolution of a Field

Scale Static Reservoir Model for a Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage

(SAGD) Project in the Athabasca Oil Sands, Northeast Alberta, Canada

• P. Hackley: Geological Characterization of Lower Cretaceous Pine

Island (Pearsall Formation) Shales as a Potential Resource Play in the

Maverick Basin, South Texas: An Update

• D. Russum: Evaluating Unconventional Gas — The Questions We

Need to Answer

• J. Schieber: The Petrographic and Sedimentological Context of Pore

Types in the New Albany Shale — SEM Observations on Ion-Milled

Samples

• K. A. Heslop: Generalized Method for the Estimation of TOC from GR

and Rt

• P. Leach: Applying Economic Lessons from Unconventional Plays

Back to Conventional Projects

• A. A. Brown: Formation of High Helium Gases: A Guide for

Explorationists

• M. F. Jimenez Jacome, M. Garcia Gonzalez, Y. Cortes:

Geochemistry of Coalbed-Methane Reservoirs in the Bogota Basin,

Colombia

• M. Vasquez, M. Garcia-Gonzalez, E. Torres, T. Joppen: Coal Bed

Methane Potential of the Barco - Los Cuervos Formation in the Cesar

Valley Sub Basin, Colombia

• S. S. Paul: A Synopsis on the CBM Prospect of the Jamalgonj Coal

Field in Bangladesh

• J. J. Graham, S. J. Davies, J. H. Macquaker, M. J. Norry:

Bashkirian Mudstones, Implications for Shale Gas Source Rock

Development

• P. Watson, C. R. Keegan*, M. Urbat, R. Harding, G. Spence:

Utilizing New Technologies to Better Understand Porosity and

Permeability Relationships to Mineralogy and Organic Matter in Shale

Gas Reservoirs

• A. Cui, M. R. Bustin, R. Brezovski, B. Nassichuk, K. Glover,

V. Pathi: Simultaneous Measurements of In-Situ Effective Permeability

and Porosity Under Reservoir Conditions: A Consistent Approach to

Characterize Unconventional Gas Reservoirs

• R. Klimentidis, R. Lazar, K. Bohacs, W. Esch, P. Pedersen:

Petrographic Characterization of Mudstones

• E. I. Egbobawaye, J. Zonneveld, M. K. Gingras: Tight Gas

Reservoir Evaluation in Montney Formation and Lower Doig Formation,

Northeastern British Columbia, Western Canada

theme i: Geophysical integration: A road map to exploration Success (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: S. Earle, L. R. Sternbach and C. Moore

• Y. Zheng, X. Tang, D. Patterson: Identifying Stress-Induced

Anisotropy and Stress Orientation Using Cross-Dipole Acoustic

Logging

• S. Huang, W. Huang, T. Lin, H. Wu, X. Wei, Y. Chen, Q. Zhang, B.

Yang, Y. Zhang, J. Shen: Discussion on High-Resolution Sedimentary

Micro-Facies Mapping Method of Well-Seismic Combination: A Case

from Northern Songliao Basin, China

• S. S. Shaker: Geopressure Impact on Seismic Interpretations: Case

Histories from the Gulf of Mexico

• S. N. Mahapatra, M. Imhof: Integrated Subsurface Imaging in a

Complex Geological Setting

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theme ii: new depositional models for Shallow marine mudrocks: modern Processes and Ancient Successions (SePm) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: B. Hart, M. Allison and J. H. Macquaker

• S. Egenhoff, N. Fishman: Stormy Times in “Anoxic” Basins —

Tempestites in the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken

Formation of North Dakota and Implications for Source Rock

Depositional Models

• R. Faas, A. Reed: Rheological Constraints on Atchafalaya Coastal

Deposits

• A. S. Kolker, A. Mead, V. Cruz, J. P. Donnelly, L. Giosan, J. A.

Nyman, B. Rosenheim: Contrasting Sedimentary Environments in

Dynamic Wetland Settings

• L. B. Smith: Tectonic and Depositonal Setting of Ordovician Utica and

Devonian Marcellus Black Shales, New York State

• A. D. Herrmann: Were Early Permian Cyclothems in Midcontinent

North America Deposited During an Anomalously Cold Time Period?

theme iii: U.S. onshore & offshore (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: J. L. Coleman and D. Cooke

• S. B. Gaswirth, P. G. Lillis, L. N. Roberts, L. O. Anna: Undiscovered

Oil and Gas Resources in the Mission Canyon and Charles Formations,

Williston Basin, North Dakota and Montana

• C. Doolan, O. N. Pearson: Stratigraphic Interpretation of Lower

Cretaceous Strata in Onshore Southeast Texas and Louisiana from

2-D Seismic Data

• R. C. Milici: Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources of

the Appalachian Basin Province, 2002 — An Overview

• E. L. Rowan, J. L. Coleman, C. B. Enomoto, R. C. Mililci: Burial

and Thermal Maturity Modeling of Mesozoic Basins in the South-

Central and Southeastern U.S. to Aid in Assessing Hydrocarbon

Potential

• P. D. Warwick, R. F. Dubiel: USGS Assessments of Undiscovered,

Technically Recoverable Oil and Natural Gas Resources in the Gulf of

Mexico Coastal Plain and State Waters, USA

theme i: Current issues in marine Geohazards (AAPG/SePm) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: D. Mosher and R. C. Shipp

• M. Angell, K. Hanson, R. Youngs, D. O’Connell: Fault Displacement

Hazard Assessment for Critical Offshore Facilities

• A. W. Hill: Comparing Marine Geohazards Risk

• R. Lindholm, A. K. Rutledge: The Changing Face of Site

Investigation: Exploration to Development

• J. Gibson, J. H. Pelletier: Shallow Water Flow in the Deepwater:

Recent Advances

• E. Lee, R. C. Shipp, W. Hack, J. Gibson, F. Dwan: Quantifying the

Probability of Occurrence of Shallow Gas as a Geohazard

• W. J. Berger, J. Weller: Real-Time Rig-Based Monitoring While

Drilling the Riserless Section

theme i: Geological operations (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: S. Kimbrell and A. W. Milne

• A. Morton, A. W. Milne, K. Bleasdale: Heavy Mineral Stratigraphic

Analysis on the Clair Field, UK West of Shetlands — A Unique

Realtime Solution for Redbed Correlation While Drilling

• D. Carlo: Geological Operations in Shale Gas Plays: A Horn River

Example

• P. J. Johnston, R. H. Benthien, R. Wydrinski, R. T. Klein,

K. Hargrove, M. Albertin, E. A. Lemanski, K. Sincock, D. A.

Kercho, K. Andres, H. De Jong, M. Graff: Challenges Associated

with Planning, Drilling, and Evaluating an xHPHT Ultra-Deep Gas Well:

Lessons Learned from Will K, High Island Area, U.S. Gulf of Mexico

• R. J. Fink: Optimization of Real-Time and Memory LWD Data

Acquisition Parameters to Limit LWD Data Resolution Loss at High

Instantaneous Rates of Penetration

• A. Scribner, C. M. Rogers, K. N. Rasmusson: Drillwell Projects in

Mature Fields: The Role of Program Execution

• R. Cerri, A. Malossi*, L. Zappalorto: Real Time Data and People

Integration: The Hardest Job for the Operations Geologist

theme iV: Circum-Arctic (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: J. Hogg and M. E. Enachescu

• M. K. Runge, J. Stilling*, M. P. Brandt, N. P. Arendt: Exploration

Opportunities in the Davis Strait Offshore Southwest Greenland

• M. K. Runge, J. Stilling*, M. P. Brandt, N. P. Arendt: Baffin Bay

North West Greenland — A New Frontier Region Opening Up for Oil

Exploration

• M. B. Redden, A. Davies, W. Prendergast, E. Hilditch, J. Barnet,

M. D. Simmons: Late Jurassic Petroleum Systems of the Circum-

Arctic: Utilising Sequence Stratigraphy to Enhance Understanding and

Prediction

• J. L. Hannah, H. J. Stein, B. Bingen, G. Xu, S. Georgiev:

Application of Re-Os Isotope Systematics to Basin Modeling in the

Norwegian Arctic

• G. Shimer, P. McCarthy, C. Hanks: Facies Analysis of Cretaceous

Strata from the Umiat Wells, National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska

• T. L. Allen, T. A. Fraser*: Another Reason to Venture North: New

Evidence for Petroleum Systems in Paleozoic and Cretaceous Strata,

Peel Plateau, Yukon Territory, Canada

• A. Wright, P. L. Decker, M. A. Wartes: Stratigraphic Characterization

of Lower Cretaceous to Paleocene Formations of the Brookian

Sequence, Alaskan North Slope Foothills, Using a Combined

Chemostratigraphic and Sequence Stratigraphic Approach

theme V: Shale behavior from Pore to basin Scale (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: R. Day-Stirrat and L. Wood

• C. R. Neagu, J. A. Cartwright, R. Davies: A New Quantitative

Approach to Predicting Physical Property Changes During Diagenesis

of Mudstones

• E. Deville, C. Dutrannoy, N. Guilhaumou, B. Vincent, E. Kohler,

J. Schmitz, N. Ellouz, S. Raillard: Shale Tectonics Processes:

Interactions Between Deformation, Fluid Migration and Diagenesis,

Outcrop Evidences from the Parras Basin (Mexico)

• D. Maloney, R. Davies, J. Imber, S. King: The Internal Architecture

of a Shale Detachment Unit: Niger Delta

• K. Roberts, R. Davies, S. Stewart: Spatial Distributions of Extrusive

Vents Within Mud Volcano Systems from Azerbaijan and Lusi (East

Java)

• D. P. Dennie, S. Pannalal, R. Elmore: Paleomagnetism of the

Ordovician Ellenburger Group Carbonates and Mississippian Barnett

Shale, Fort Worth Basin: Preliminary Results

• J. Cartwright, C. Santamarina, H. Shin: A Diagenetic Mechanism

for the Development of Shear Fractures in Shales

• E. Lecomte, B. C. Vendeville*, R. Mourgues: Experimental

Modeling of Gravitational Spreading of Sediment Wedges Above Shale

Subjected to High Pore-Fluid Pressure

• K. McClay, J. De Vera, J. E. Wu, D. Costantino: Fault-Related

Folding in Deepwater Fold-and-Thrust Belts with Shale Detachment

Systems

theme Vii: deltaic Coasts and Society: the mississippi delta and beyond (SePm) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: S. L. Goodbred and T. E. Torqvist

• K. Stattegger, D. Unverricht, R. Tjallingii: Evolution of the Mekong

Delta: Holocene History, Present Situation and Perspectives for the

Future

• R. W. Wellner, B. Hall, T. Sun, J. Martin, M. S. Danilkin: Insight

into the Past, Present and Future Evolution of Wax Lake Delta Using a

Physics-Based, 3-D Numerical Model

• D. Edmonds, R. Slingerland: The Effect of Sediment Cohesion on

Delta Morphology

• J. A. Nittrouer, D. Mohrig, M. Allison, W. Kim, G. Parker:

Backwater Implications for Sediment Transport and Channel

Morphology in the Lowermost Mississippi River

• K. Straub, D. Mohrig, T. George, N. Dawers, E. Martin, C. Paola:

Subsidence Associated with Active Growth Faulting on the Mississippi

Delta: Displacement Rates and Steering of the Mississippi River

• S. M. Gagliano: South Louisiana’s 20th Century Fault-Driven

Transgression

• Z. Shen, T. E. Tornqvist, B. Mauz: Long-Term (~80 ka) Crustal

Movements in the Mississippi Delta and Lower Mississippi Valley

• S. Yu, T. E. Törnqvist, G. A. Milne, M. A. Kulp: Modeling the

Sediment Loading Effect on Land Subsidence in the Mississippi Delta

theme iX: environmental remediation and Hydrogeological Characterization (emd/AAPG)Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: J. Castle and R. Maric

• S. Alloisio, C. Phair, K. Campbell, C. Safadi: Integrated Use of

Petrel and Mudflow in the Modeling of SAGD Produced Water Re-

injection

• J. Castle, J. H. Rodgers, B. Alley, M. Spacil, A. Beebe, M. Pardue,

Y. Song: Biogeochemical Processes for Treating Oil and Gas Produced

Waters Using Hybrid Constructed Wetland Treatment Systems

• P. Campbell, R. J. Rosenbauer, A. Lam: Tracking the Degradation of

the Cosco Busan Bunker Fuel Oil Spill in San Francisco Bay, California

• J. E. Horner, M. Pardue, M. Pham, J. Castle, J. H. Rodgers, J.

E. Myers, C. M. Gulde: Design and Performance of a Pilot-Scale

Constructed Wetland Treatment System for Removing Oil and Grease

from Oilfield Produced Water

• B. Alley, A. Beebe, J. H. Rodgers, J. Castle: A Comparative

Characterization of Produced Water from Conventional and

Unconventional Fossil Fuel Resources

• M. D. Vanden Berg, P. Anderson, C. D. Morgan, S. Carney:

Understanding the Aquifers in the Uinta Basin, Utah: A Key to Solving

the Basin’s Saline Water Disposal Problem

• P. K. Mescher, S. M. Betts, D. Polefko: A Collapsed Paleocavern

System as a Powerplant Wastewater Disposal Reservoir — Cambro-

Ordovician Arbuckle Group of Ford County, Kansas

• P. R. Knox, S. C. Young: Structure, Stratigraphy, and Heterogeneity of

the Gulf Coast Aquifer, Brazos River to Rio Grande, Texas

theme Viii: exploitation of Unconventional resources (emd) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: B. Fryklund and E. Potter

• S. Sonnenberg: Abnormal Pressure Analysis in the Bakken

Formation, Williston Basin, a Key to Future Discoveries

• M. E. Suhrer, S. Arredondo, A. Grader: 3-D Visualization and

Classification of Pore Structure and Pore Filling in Gas Shales

• J. Cockbill, C. M. Finn, D. Seely, J. Martin: Maximum-Reservoir-

Contact Wells for Coalbed Methane Exploitation: Corbett Creek Case

Study

• K. Dickerman, D. A. Edwards: Producing Intervals of the Wolfberry

Trend in Eastern Reagan County, Texas

• S. W. Young, B. D. Torrez, J. E. Engstrom, S. Goehring,

A. B. Harris, G. P. Johnson: Integration — Key to Success of

Austin Chalk and Eagle Ford Wells: A Case Study of the Sugarkane

Cretaceous Field, Live Oak County, Texas

• S. Pan, T. Wang, P. Wei, J. Wang, C. Liu, S. Liang: Pooling

Conditions and Exploration Prospect of Shale Oil & Gas in Songliao

Basin, Eastern of China

• J. Pitcher, B. Richter: Application of Geosteering Technology to

Enhance Development of a Mature Reservoir in the Wattenberg Field,

Colorado

• N. Gupta, Y. Abousleiman, R. Slatt: Factors Behind Variation in

Geomechanical Properties of a Highly Lithified, Quartzose Sandstone

theme ii: Paleoclimates and Paleoceanography in deep time: improved data-model integration in Paleoclimate Analysis (SePm) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: T. J. Algeo, L. Soreghan and M. A. Perlmutter

• A. J. Mitchell, D. Ulicny, P. A. Allison*, G. Hampson, M. Wells,

M. D. Piggott, G. J. Gorman, C. C. Pain: Modeling Tidal Current-

Induced Bed Shear Stress and Palaeocirculation in an Epicontinental

Seaway: the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Central Europe

• T. J. Algeo, H. Rowe: Anoxia in Ancient Epeiric Seas: The Limits of

Modern Analogs

• H. J. Stein, J. L. Hannah, B. Bingen, S. Georgiev, G. Xu: Changing

Conditions Across the Permo-Triassic Boundary: Evidence from the

Re-Os Isotope System

• D. J. Findlay: Belemnite Rostra Geochemistry and Their Utility as

Tools for Investigating Isotope Stratigraphy and Palaeoclimate

• T. Steuber: Cretaceous Carbonate Reservoir Facies as a Function

of Seawater Composition, Paleoclimate, and Evolution of Major

Carbonate Producing Biota

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• A. Husinec, K. L. Marvinney, K. Hoskinson: Core and Log-Based

Carbonate-Evaporite Depositional Sequence Analysis, Late Ordovician

Upper Red River Formation, Western North Dakota

• P. J. Bart, J. B. Anderson: Erosion on the Upper-Pliocene Owl and

Pussycat Canyon on the North Florida Ramp — Possible Genetic

Relationship with the Loop Current

• M. Suarez, L. A. Gonzalez, G. A. Ludvigson: Utilization of Stable

Oxygen Isotopes for Quantification of the Mid-Cretaceous Greenhouse

in the Americas

• A. J. Mitchell, P. A. Allison*, M. D. Piggott, G. J. Gorman,

C. C. Pain, G. Hampson: Numerical Modeling of Tsunami

Propagation with Implications for Sedimentation in Ancient

Epicontinental Seas: The Lower Jurassic Laurasian Seaway

• C. Huang, L. Hinnov, O. Swientek, M. Smelror: Astronomical

Tuning of Upper Jurassic - Lower Cretaceous Sediments (Volgian-

Ryazanian Stages), Norwegian Sea

theme i: Petroleum Geochemistry (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: W. Dow, D. Schumacher and G. Rice

• D. L. Connolly, R. Garcia, J. L. Capuano: Integrating Hydrocarbon

Migration Pathways Detected in Seismic Data with Surface

Geochemistry

• D. Seneshen, J. Fontana: Organic and Inorganic Compositional

Links to Oil and Gas Reservoirs Using Surface Geochemical Methods

• H. Dembicki: Interference from Recent Organic Matter and

Biodegradation in the Interpretation of Biomarker Data from Seafloor

Hydrocarbon Seeps

• D. C. Malizia: Stratigraphic Traps Detection Through Surface

Geochemical Exploration: Examples from Argentina

• S. Monstad, E. Syrdalen, A. A. Pfaffhuber, M. D. Greb,

V. G. Thompson: Frontier Exploration in East Africa: Combining

Unconventional Techniques and Traditional Exploration

• B. B. Bernard, J. M. Brooks, P. Baillie, J. Decker, D. L. Orange:

Geochemical Exploration Case Study of Fifteen Frontier Indonesian

Deepwater Basins

• A. S. Ross, X. Qi, E. Crooke, C. Stalvies, T. Bastow, S. Armand,

H. Volk: Laboratory Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Sensing Devices

with Potential for Seep Detection: A Comparison with Conventional

Analytical Methods

• S. Larter, T. Oldenburg, M. Clements, I. Gates: Beyond

Petroleomics — Petroleum Geochemistry for the 21st Century

• T. E. Ruble, D. Ortiz, D. Hill, W. Paul, B. Binford, M. Tobey:

Wellsite Geochemistry — New Analytical Tools Used to Evaluate

Unconventional Reservoirs in the Wattenberg Field, Colorado

• S. Poole, C. A. Mnich, N. Harris, N. T. Hemmesch: Significance of

Pyrite Morphology to the Geochemistry and Sequence Stratigraphy of

the Woodford Shale, Permian Basin, West Texas

• N. Marcano, B. Bennett, H. Huang, S. Larter: Application of

Petroleum Geochemistry to Monitoring In Situ Upgrading Operations in

Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Reservoirs

• M. Bjorøy, P. B. Hall, I. L. Ferriday, Y. Ismail: Libyan Murzuq Basin

Source Rocks

theme ii: Lacustrine depositional Settings, modern and Ancient (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: A. Carroll and M. Rhodes-Carson

• E. H. Gierlowski-Kordesch: Lacustrine Carbonates

• K. Bohacs, T. Demko, S. Guidry, D. Trainor: Lacustrine Carbonate

Lithofacies from Micrite to Grainstone and Microbial Boundstone-

Hydrocarbon Play-Element Potential and Prediction Within a Lake-

Basin-Type Framework

• P. Buchheim, S. Awramik, L. Leggitt: Lacustrine Stromatolites and

Microbialites as Petroleum Reservoirs

• L. P. Birgenheier, M. D. Vanden Berg: Integrated Sedimentary and

Geochemical Investigation of Core from Upper Green River Formation

Lacustrine Deposits, Uinta Basin, Utah

• M. L. Malinconico: Patterns of Organic Sedimentation and Kerogen

Type in Ancient Rift Lakes, Early Mesozoic Newark and Richmond

Basins, Eastern United States

• H. Eltoum, O. M. Abdullatif: Depositional Environments and

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Lacustrinel/Fluvial Abu

Gabra and Bentiu Formation, Muglad Rift Basin, Sudan

• J. Hargrave, M. Hicks: Lacustrine Carbonate Facies of a Mixed

System: Lake Turkana Rift, Kenya

• K. Bohacs, A. Carroll: Ten Years After: The Expanding Utility of

Lake-Basin-Type Approach from Conventional Source Rocks to

Unconventional Resources

• T. Yin: Deltas in Shallow Water Lacustrine — Examples from Modern

and Subsurface

• S. Jiang, P. Weimer, H. Wang, Z. Zhao, H. Gan, J. Ren, Y. Lu,

J. Luo, J. Lu: The Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture and Petroleum

Accumulations in the Paleogene Saline Lacustrine Biyang Basin,

Eastern China

• S. Stoner, J. Holbrook: Geometric Trends for Floodplain Lakes in

High Accommodation Floodplains and Architecture of Floodplain Lake

Partitioning, Elongate Splay Delta Channels

• M. H. Hofmann, M. S. Hendrix: Fine-Grained Hyperpycnites and

Coarser Grained Turbidites: A Detailed Sedimentary Record of Glacial

Retreat and Catastrophic Floods as Preserved in Pleistocene Pro-

Glacial Lake Sediments

theme ii: Siliciclastic deep-Water depositional Systems, modern and Ancient (SePm) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.


• G. Uramoto, M. Ito: Spatial and Temporal Variations in Geometry

and Distribution Patterns of Sheet-Like Turbidite Sandstone Beds

Within a Forearc Submarine-Fan Succession of the Pliocene Kiyosumi

Formation on Boso Peninsula, Central Japan

• A. E. Fleming, D. Pyles, D. A. Anderson, M. D. Sullivan, B. Trudgill:

Stratigraphic Architecture of Non-Channelized (Lobe) Strata in a

Submarine Fan Setting, Cretaceous Point Loma Formation, California

• C. Pierce, P. Haughton, P. M. Shannon, O. J. Martinsen,

A. Pulham, T. Elliott: First Results from Behind-Outcrop Boreholes in

Clare Basin Turbidites, Western Ireland

• I. Kane, D. Hodgson: Identification of Levee Subenvironments in

Deep Marine Channel Levee Systems: Criteria for Interpretation from

Observations at Outcrop

• J. Funk, R. Slatt: Quantifying Connectivity Between Deepwater

Slope Channel Sandstones and Stratigraphically Adjacent Thin-

Bedded Strata: Implications for Hydrocarbon Production and Timing of

Depositional Events in Deepwater Strata

• J. Clark, D. Pyles, R. Bouroullec, R. Amerman, M. Hoffman,

J. D. Moody, A. Moss-Russell, P. Setiawan, H. Silalahi, T. Heard,

C. Guzofski, A. Fildani, N. Drinkwater, M. Pyrcz: Structural

Controls on Deepwater Architecture and Facies in the Eocene Ainsa

Basin, Spanish Pyrenees

• M. Aehnelt, R. H. Worden, S. J. Hill, D. Hodgson, S. S. Flint,

A. C. Canham: Chemical Architecture of a Submarine Slope Channel

Complex Outcrop, Tabernas Basin, Spain

• R. D. Wilson, J. Schieber: Petrographic Pore Characterization in

the Upper Devonian Geneseo Shale of New York in the Context of

Depositional Setting — SEM Observations from Ion-Milled Samples

• V. Terlaky, H. Longuépée, J. Rocheleau, L. Meyer, G. van Hees,

K. Privett, G. Cramm, A. Tudor, B. Arnott: Detailed Analysis of Small

and Large Scale Architectural Elements in Deep-Marine Basin-Floor

Deposits of the Upper and Middle Kaza Groups, British Columbia,

Canada

• J. Gerard, S. Cossey, M. Louterbach: Deepwater Reservoirs: How

Quantitative Geometric Data and Stratigraphic Hierarchy Can Influence

Exploration and Development Projects

• A. MacDonald, D. J. Piper, P. Jutras: Interpretation of Deepwater

Cenozoic Stratigraphy, Erosion Systems and Salt Tectonics of the

Central Scotian Slope Offshore Nova Scotia

• W. Yingmin: The Comparative Study of the Continental Margin Basins

of the Northern South China Sea and the Typical Passive Continental

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theme Viii: exploration for Gas Hydrate resources (AAPG/emd) Room 238/239

Co-Chairs: B. Hunter and A. H. Johnson


8:05 J. S. Hanor, J. A. Mercer: Spatial Variations in the Salinity of

Pore Waters in Northern Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico Sediments:

Implications for the Stability of Methane Hydrates

8:25 J. A. Majorowicz, J. Šafanda: CO2 Hydrate Formation Heat Release

as a New Tool to Melt In Situ Methane Hydrates

8:45 U. Strecker, A. Morcote, S. Singleton: Quantifying Gas Hydrate

Resources from Cumulative Seismic Attributes, Milne Point 3-D

Seismic Survey, Alaska

9:05 W. Shedd, A. Cook, D. Shelander, M. Frye, R. Boswell,

T. S. Collett, D. Hutcinson, C. Ruppel, P. Godfriaux, R. Dufrene:

The Origin of the Hydrate Filled Fractured Zone in the DOE/Chevron

Hydrate JIP Walker Ridge 313 Wells

9:25 D. R. McConnell, Z. Zhang: Advances in Type Seismic Response for

Gas Hydrate in Light of Recent LWD Drilling

9:45 Break

10:30 J. H. Knapp, C. C. Knapp, L. Macelloni, A. Simonetti, C. B.

Lutken: Subsurface Structure and Stratigraphy of a Transient, Fault-

Controlled Thermogenic Hydrate System at MC-118, Gulf of Mexico

10:50 R. Hunter, S. Digert, T. S. Collett, R. Boswell: Mount Elbert Gas

Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well Results and Implications, Milne Point

Unit, Alaska North Slope

11:10 T. P. Walsh, T. G. Morahan, D. N. Greet, P. J. Stokes, M. Panda,

P. K. Singh, M. D. Dunn: Methane Hydrate Resource Potential

Associated with the Barrow Gas Fields

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11:30 K. G. Osadetz, J. A. Majorowicz, T. A. Brent, P. K. Hannigan,

Z. Chen, J. Šafanda: Gas Hydrates in Canadian Sverdrup Basin,

Canadian Arctic Archipelago: A Potential New Focus for Canadian

Resource Characterization

theme iX: Co2 Sequestration: Strategies and technologies for Storage and monitoring (deG/emd) Room 243/244/245

Co-Chairs: G. C. Blount, T. Meckel and M. K. Harris


8:05 C. E. Bond, R. Wightman, P. Ringrose: Structural Validation and

Fracture Modelling of the InSalah CO2 Storage Site, Algeria

8:25 A. Cavanagh, P. Ringrose: Simulation of CO2 Distribution at the In

Salah Storage Site Using High-Resolution Field-Scale Models

8:45 J. Kaldi: CO2 Storage Capacity Estimation and Storage Site Selection

9:05 R. Surdam, J. Jiao, P. Stauffer, T. Miller, C. Frost: Displaced Fluid

Management: An Operational Imperative in Commercial-Scale CO2

Sequestration Projects

9:25 D. R. Cole, Y. Kharaka, T. Bullen, S. D. Hovorka: Environmental

Impacts of CO2 Sequestration in Sedimentary Basins

9:45 Break

10:30 J. Kozman, K. Lukats: Adapting Oil and Gas Data Strategies for CO2

Sequestration

10:50 G. Johnson, B. Mayer, M. Shevalier, M. Nightingale, I. Hutcheon:

Application of Stable Isotope Techniques to Monitor CO2 Storage at the

Pembina Cardium CO2 Monitoring Pilot, Alberta, Canada

11:10 Y. Oruganti, S. L. Bryant: Evolution of a Pressure-Induced Risk

Management Strategy for CO2 Injection in Deep Saline Aquifers

11:30 D. J. Knudsen, C. D. Gorecki, J. M. Bremer, Y. I. Holubnyak,

B. A. Mibeck, D. D. Schmidt, S. A. Smith, J. A. Sorensen, E.

Steadman, J. A. Harju: Characterization and Modeling of a CO2 Huff

‘n’ Puff to Predict and Verify EOR Production and CO2 Storage

theme i: basin modeling (AAPG/SePm) Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: N. Harris and D. K. Higley


8:05 S. Larter, J. J. Adams: Constraining Oil Charge Rates and Oil

Reservoir Residence Time: Key Variables in Prospect Analysis and

Heavy Oil Fluid Property Prediction

8:25 N. Arian, P. Tingate, R. Hillis, G. W. O’Brien: Palaeo-Stress

Directions as a Guide for Fault Conductivity Prediction in 3-D

Petroleum Systems Modelling

8:45 A. Lemgruber, F. Gonçalves, L. Loures, D. Palmowski,

S. Rostirolla, E. Zagotto, A. Araújo: The Use of Seismic Inversion

Results as an Input in a High Resolution Petroleum System Modeling

in the Santos Basin, Brazil

9:05 Y. Tang, X. Xia: Using Advanced Chemistry of Basin Modeling to

Predict Produced Oil Flow Properties for Deepwater Oil Production

9:25 T. P. Ward, J. D. Pigott: Petroleum Potential of the Jamaican

Wagwater Trough: New Insight Obtained from 3-D Basin Modeling

theme X: Plays (AAPG) Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: E. C. McDade and B. M. Suppes


10:30 R. Haworth, P. J. Menard, G. Denyer, E. C. McDade: Ultra Deep

Play on the Gulf of Mexico Shelf

10:50 S. Egenhoff, A. van Dolah, A. Jaffri: Unconventionally Conventional

— Facies and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper-Devonian-

Mississippian Bakken Formation Reservoir, Williston Basin, North

Dakota

11:10 R. Sassen: Jurassic Condensate from Hudson Canyon, Baltimore

Canyon Trough, U.S. Atlantic

11:30 D. W. Frye, G. Willis: South Louisiana — Today and Tomorrow

theme Vi: regional interactions of tectonics and Sedimentation: examining relationships between deformation and basin evolution (SePm) Room 255/256/257

Co-Chairs: J. L. Aschoff and B. K. Horton


8:05 T. Seeley, D. A. Spratt: Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the

Mackenzie Delta - Beaufort Sea Fold Belt

8:25 G. S. Gordon: Stratigraphic Evolution and Reservoir Quality in a

Neogene Accretionary Forearc Setting: Eel River Basin of Coastal

Northwestern California

8:45 C. Carvajal, R. J. Steel: Source-to-Sink Sediment Volumes Within

a Tectono-Stratigraphic Model for a Laramide Shelf-to-Deep-Water

Basin

9:05 G. N. Mackey, K. L. Milliken, B. K. Horton: Provenance of the South

Texas Paleocene-Eocene Wilcox Group, Western Gulf of Mexico Basin:

Insights from Sandstone Modal Compositions and Detrital Zircon

Geochronology

9:25 J. L. Aschoff: The Role of Sediment Supply and Local Versus

Regional Accommodation on Growth Strata Analysis: Discussion and

Examples

9:45 Break

10:30 M. Hoffman, R. Bouroullec, C. Guzofski, D. Pyles, J. Clark,

P. Setiawan, J. D. Moody, H. Silalahi, A. Moss-Russell:

Constraints on the Timing of Growth Structures in a Deepwater Basin:

Insights from Stratigraphic Growth Indicators and Three-Dimensional

Structural Modeling, Ainsa Basin, Spanish Pyrenees

10:50 J. Londono, J. Lorenzo: Lithospheric Flexure and Related

Stratigraphic Cycles in the Putumayo Basin, Colombia

11:10 C. J. Strohmenger, A. S. Ruf, T. T. Simo, E. M. Johnstone: Tectonic

Controls on Carbonate Production and Facies Architecture: Examples

from Indonesia

11:30 P. Qi, J. Ren, S. Shi: The Difference Between the Tectonic Frameworks

of the Onshore and Offshore and Its Cenozoic Evolution: A Case Study

from Qikou Sag in Bohaibay Basin, China

theme iV: Petroleum Systems of the tethyan region (AAPG) Room 338/339

Co-Chairs: C. G. Kendall, L. Yose and L. Marlow


8:05 F. Berra, L. Angiolini, G. Muttoni: From the Breakup of Rodinia

to Present: A Brief Palaeogeographic Reconstruction of the Tethyan

Region

8:25 C. G. Kendall, A. S. Alsharhan, L. Marlow: Regional Stratigraphy

of the Southern Tethyan Margin, Lithofacies, Sequence Stratigraphy,

Source, Seal, and Reservoir Rocks

8:45 T. S. Ahlbrandt: The Petroleum Endowments of the Total Petroleum

Systems in the Middle East and North Africa Tethys

9:05 H. Droste: Petroleum Geology of the Sultanate of Oman

9:25 F. S. van Buchem, N. B. Svendsen, E. Hoch: Qatar — Geological

History and Petroleum Habitat

9:45 Break

10:30 G. J. Grabowski: Petroleum Geology of Iraq

10:50 S. Luening, J. Kuss: Petroleum Geology of Jordan

11:10 M. Bordenave: Petroleum Systems and Distribution of the Oil and

Gas Fields in the Iranian Part of the South Tethyan Domain

11:30 A. N. El-Barkooky, A. R. Moustafa: Tectono Stratigraphic

Framework of Petroleum Systems in Egypt

theme ii: SePm research Symposium: Autogenic and Allogenic Controls on Sedimentary Successions: modern and Ancient, Clastic and Carbonate i Room 343/344/345

Co-Chairs: C. Paola, M. Perlmutter and M. Blum


8:05 W. Kim, A. Petter, B. W. Fouke, T. M. Quinn, C. Kerans, F. Taylor,

D. Mohrig, C. Paola: Decoupling Allogenic Forcing from Autogenic

Processes: Clastic and Carbonate Experimental Stratigraphy

8:25 E. C. Rankey: Nature and Scales of Autogenic Processes in

Carbonate Sedimentary and Geomorphic Systems

8:45 D. Mohrig, K. Straub, A. C. De la Rosa Illescas: When Does

Spatial Variation in Subsidence Rate Influence the Positioning of

Channels Within Quaternary Strata of Mississippi River Delta?

9:05 E. Prokocki: Holocene Lower Mississippi River Avulsions: Autogenic

Versus Allogenic Forcing

9:25 D. Ventra: Inhibition of Autogenic Dynamics in Alluvial Fans: Field

Examples from the Tertiary of Spain and Implications for Process

Recognition in Fan Successions

9:45 Break

10:30 J. Martin, M. Blum: “Weak” and “Strong” Interactions: The

Coevolution of Autogenic Processes and External Forcing in

Experimental Deltas

10:50 T. Muto, R. J. Steel, J. Swenson, A. Petter: Autostratigraphic

Responses of Deltaic Clinoforms to Sea Level Forcing

11:10 J. Swenson, S. Gupta, C. Paola, D. Jerolmack: Temporal and

Spatial Scales of Autogenic Dynamics in Linked Fluvial-Marine

Systems

11:30 C. Olariu, R. J. Steel: Delta Architecture and Process Variability

During Cross-Shelf Transits; Autogenic and Allogenic Responses

theme ii: Siliciclastic non-marine, Shallow-marine and Shelf depositional Systems and exploration models ii (SePm) Room 353/354/355

Co-Chairs: J. Dischinger and R. J. Steel


8:05 P. J. McCabe: Sequence Stratigraphy of a Large Tide-Influenced

Deltaic System: The Middle Triassic Hawkesbury Sandstone of the

Sydney Basin, Australia

8:25 V. Abreu, J. Neal, M. Blum, J. Marftin: Accommodation Succession

Method and the Meaning of Sequence Stratigraphic Surfaces

8:45 M. D. Miner, M. A. Kulp, D. FitzGerald: Stratigraphic Architecture of

Transgressive Tidal Inlet Fill

9:05 B. Vakarelov, B. Ainsworth, R. A. Nanson: A Novel Database-

Driven Approach to Shallow Marine Classification: Towards Building a

Knowledge Base

9:25 S. Angulo, L. Buatois: Sedimentary Facies Architecture and

Paleogeography of the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken

Formation of Subsurface Saskatchewan

9:45 Break

10:30 W. Li, J. Bhattacharya: Delta Asymmetry and 3-D Facies

Architecture of a Mixed-Influenced Parasequence, Ferron Notom

Delta, Capital Reef, Utah, USA

10:50 E. P. Lewandowski, R. Zühlke, T. Bechstädt, B. Wirth: Seismo-

Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis, Reggane Basin (Paleozoic, Southern

Algeria)

11:10 J. Zonneveld, F. Ferri, T. W. Beatty, M. K. Gingras: Unrecognized

Potential for Thick Triassic Reservoirs in Frontier Areas of NE British

Columbia

11:30 D. L. Kamola, K. E. Hoffmeister: Decoupling of the Sevier Foreland

Basin from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway During Lowstand

Events

theme ii: mapping, modeling, and Understanding facies Heterogeneity in Carbonate deposits (SePm) Room 356/357

Co-Chairs: E. C. Rankey and S. L. Reeder


8:05 N. J. Van Ee, G. P. Eberli, F. S. Anselmetti, J. H. Hudson: Capturing

Carbonate Heterogeneity in Multiple Dimensions and Scales, Glover’s

Reef, Belize

8:25 M. S. Andres, A. Pierre, P. M. Harris, G. D. Jones: Assessing

Depositional Facies Heterogeneity in a Carbonate Ramp Using Forward

Stratigraphic Modeling

8:45 R. F. Lindsay: Carbonate Porosity Families and Their Reservoir

Potential

9:05 C. Kerans, P. M. Harris: Shelf Physiography and Accommodation as

Controls on Permian Grainstone Bodies

9:25 I. Gupta, G. D. Jones, E. Sonnenthal: Reactive Transport Models of

Structurally Controlled Hydrothermal Dolomite in Carbonate Reservoirs

9:45 Break

10:30 M. H. Alnazghah, L. Pomar, M. Aurell, B. Bádenas: Inter-well Scale

Heterogeneity in a Late Jurassic Carbonate Ramp

10:50 G. Grammer, A. K. Noack, H. Qualman, A. Ritter-Varga, J. Wold,

A. E. Sandomierski, W. B. Harrison: Reservoir Characterization of

Silurian (Niagaran) “Pinnacle” Reefs in the Michigan Basin

11:10 M. Minzoni, P. Enos, J. Wei, D. J. Lehrmann: Controls on Seismic-

Scale Reservoir Architecture of Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Platform

Margins: Example from the Triassic Yangtze Platform, South China

11:30 R. M. Phelps, C. Kerans: Facies and Architectural Variability of the

Albian Stuart City Margin

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theme iX: Astrogeology — impact of Collisions on earth’s History and the occurrence of Hydrocarbon and mineral resources (AAPG/emd) Room 238/239

Co-Chairs: W. A. Ambrose and T. Klekamp


1:20 S. P. Gulick, G. L. Christeson, J. Morgan, P. Barton, R. Grieve,

C. Koeberl, G. Collins, M. Warner: Effects of Large Impacts on

Crustal Structure and Basin Evolution: Example of the 65.5 Ma

Chicxulub Impact

1:40 D. T. King, J. Ormö, R. Harris, L. Petruny: Marine Target Impact

Structures and Petroleum Exploration

2:00 H. H. Schmitt: Lunar Impact History as Control on the Hadean Eon

2:20 R. Harris, M. F. Roden, P. A. Schroeder, M. S. Duncan, J. R.

Anderson, C. Gullett-Young, W. Elliott: In Situ Tektite Glass and

Upper Eocene Impact Stratigraphy of the Southeastern United States

2:40 D. Khristoforova: Large-Scale Changes in the Earth History and Their

Relation to the Spiral Structure of the Galaxy

theme X: future of U. S. energy (AAPG) Room 238/239

Co-Chairs: P. A. Moses and P. K. Wieg


3:45 D. Nummedal: A Pathway to Clean Energy

4:05 S. Sewalk: The New Strategic Petroleum Reserve — Shale Oil, An

Opportunity to Increase Energy and Economic Security

4:25 W. H. Smith: Fossil Fuels, Energy Policy, and Common Sense

4:45 R. Nehring: Just How Enormous Is the “Enormous” U.S. Natural Gas

Resource? Implications for Future Supply and U.S. Energy Policy

theme Xi: Carbon dioxide Capture and Geologic Sequestration (deG/emd) Room 243/244/245

Co-Chairs: A. K. Anderson, Y. Kharaka, D. A. Jenkins and J. Drahovzal


1:20 S. M. Benson: CO2 Sequestration in Sedimentary Basins: Major

Remaining Issues

1:40 R. C. Burruss, S. Brennan, M. Merrill, L. Ruppert, P. A. Freeman:

USGS Methods for Evaluating Technically Accessible CO2 Storage

Resources with Minimum Storage Size Criteria

2:00 R. Qi, A. McGarry, T. LaForce*, M. Blunt: Maximizing Subsurface

Storage Capacity in Sedimentary Systems by Combined CO2-H

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Injection

2:20 C. Hermanrud, H. Hansen, O. Eiken, J. Lippard, G. G. Teige,

A. D. Janbu: CO2 Storage Capacity Below Structural Spill Point in the

Utsira Formation

2:40 H. E. Leetaru, R. J. Finley: DOE’s Regional Carbon Sequestration

Partnership Program and CO2 Injection in the Illinois Basin

3:00 Break

3:45 S. D. Hovorka: Deep and Near-Surface Monitoring for Enhanced CO2

Storage Security

4:05 M. Celia: The Role of Existing Wells as Pathways for CO2 Leakage

4:25 B. J. Kobelski: Federal Requirements Under the Underground

Injection Control Program for Carbon Dioxide Geologic Sequestration

Wells

4:45 E. S. Rubin: The Cost of CO2 Capture and Storage

theme V: Complex Structural modeling in Honor of ted Apotria (AAPG) Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: B. Kilsdonk and D. Goff


1:20 T. G. Apotria, E. M. Johnstone*, K. Pomar, A. Gantyno: Structural

Styles in Central Java, East Java Basin, Indonesia: Combining Surface

and Seismic Data

1:40 T. G. Apotria, E. Lanin, R. Myers, I. A. Saikia*, T. T. Simo,

B. Sapiie: Controls on Fracturing in a Structurally Complex Carbonate

Platform Setting (Rajamandala Limestone); Western Java, Indonesia

2:00 G. Schoenborn: Geometries Your Geophysicist Never Told You About:

Cascading Forelimbs

2:20 T. P. Becker, M. McGroder, K. W. Rudolph, T. A. Hauge, M. Fan:

Paleogene Influence of the Moxa Arch on the Architecture of the

Composite Darby-Hogsback-Prospect (DHP) Thrust Sheet near

Labarge, Wyoming, USA

2:40 T. A. Hauge, M. Glascock, J. Harris, J. Schwalbach: 3-D

Structural Analysis of the Ventura Avenue Anticline, California:

Reinterpretation of a Classic Contractional Anticline Using Modern

3-D Methods

3:00 Break

3:45 E. A. Fisher, J. Wakabayashi: Basins in Motion: Tectonic Inversion

and Evolution of Migrating Releasing Step-Overs

4:05 P. R. Cobbold: Seepage Forces and Their Effects on the Development

of Faults and Hydraulic Fractures

4:25 R. G. Gibson: A Methodology for Incorporating Dynamic Salt Evolution

in 3-D Basin Simulation Models: Application to Regional Modeling of

the Gulf of Mexico

4:45 D. Richards, C. Ceballos A., J. Blanco M.: Structural and Kinematic

Model of the Piedemonte Area, Eastern Cordillera Fold and Thrust Belt,

Colombia

theme Vi: Sedimentation and tectonics in rifts (SePm) Room 255/256/257

Co-Chairs: R. Gawthorpe and C. A. Jackson


1:20 I. Lunt, J. Thurmond: Asymmetrical Sediment Input to Rift Margins

— Role of Pre-Rift Drainage

1:40 A. Hartley, S. Archer, A. Fordham, S. Leleu: Controls on Drainage

and Facies Distributions in Continental Rift Basins

2:00 M. Ford, E. Williams, N. Backert, F. Malartre, S. Rohais: Rivers

and Rifting: Interaction of Normal Faulting, Erosion and Sediment

Dispersal in the Corinth Rift

2:20 I. R. Sharp, R. Gawthorpe, J. Lukasik: Mixed Carbonate-Clastic-

Evaporite Depositional Systems in Rift Basins. Insights from the Suez

Rift

2:40 A. Folkestad, T. Odinsen, E. Areklett, H. Fossen: Syn-Sedimentary

Tectonics of the Jurassic Sedimentary Sequence in the Northern

Viking Rift Graben (North Sea), Producing Asymmetrical Stratal

Packages

3:00 Break

3:45 G. Elliott, P. Wilson, C. A. Jackson, R. Gawthorpe: The

Stratigraphic Evolution of a Salt-Influenced Rift System: The Middle-

Upper Jurassic of the Halten Terrace, Offshore Mid-Norway

4:05 R. Langford, T. L. Pavlis, P. Budhathoki: Interactions Between Rift

Tectonism and Sedimentation, Cretaceous Chihuahua Trough.

4:25 M. Muravchik, F. Rarity, P. Wilson, D. Hodgetts, R. Gawthorpe:

An Analog Model for Shallow Marine Rift Climax Reservoirs, El Qaa

Fault Block Dipslope, Suez Rift, Egypt

4:45 C. A. Jackson, E. Larsen, S. Hanslien, A. Tjemsland: Rift-Climax

Deposition and Reservoir Architecture on the Hangingwall Dipslope of

a Large Half-Graben; South Viking Graben, Northern North Sea

theme iV: Conjugate South Atlantic margins (AAPG/SePm) Room 338/339

Co-Chairs: A. Danforth and W. Mohriak

1:15 Introductory Remards

1:20 M. Moulin, D. Aslanian, M. Rabineau, L. Matias, M. Patriat: New

Plate Kinematic Evolution on the South and Equatorial Atlantic Oceans:

Geodynamic Implications and Passive Margins Genesis

1:40 D. Aslanian, M. Moulin: A Holistic Approach of the Sedimentary

Basins Genesis

2:00 O. A. Blaich, J. Faleide, F. Tsikalas: Crustal-Scale Architecture and

Segmentation of the Argentine Margin and Its Conjugate Off South

Africa

2:20 P. R. Cobbold, R. Lilletveit: Conjugate Margins of the South Atlantic

(West Africa and Brazil): Structural Similarities and Differences,

Resulting from Inheritance

2:40 S. I. Fraser, K. E. Casey, K. K. Reimann, F. Love, R. Davies:

Complex Poly-phase Extension During South Atlantic Rifting — A New

Kinematic Perspective

3:00 Break

3:45 N. Kusznir, A. Alvey, C. Gaina, T. Torsvik: S. Atlantic Crustal

Thickness and Ocean-Continent Transition Location Derived from

Satellite Gravity Inversion: Implications for Plate Reconstructions and

Aptian Ocean Basin Geometry

4:05 F. R. Love, S. I. Fraser, K. E. Casey, K. K. Reimann: Crust Evolution

During South Atlantic Rifting — Insights from Conjugate Structural

Restoration Models

4:25 M. R. Mello, N. C. Azambuja Filho, E. de Mio, A. A. Bender,

A. J. Catto, C. L. Jesus, P. Schmitt, P. Bruno, P. Brooks,

M. Moldowan, S. M. Barbanti: Petroleum System Technology

Applied to the Evaluation of the Oil and Gas Potential of the Brazilian

Supergiant Southeastern Pre-Salt Province: How Big Is It?

4:45 D. Hanley, B. Teggart, S. Wheaton, E. Haas, P. Lowry, B. Miller,

C. Oudin, S. Munsell, C. Weinbel: Jubilee Field: A Step Change for

Ghana

theme ii: SePm research Symposium: Autogenic and Allogenic Controls on Sedimentary Successions: modern and Ancient, Clastic and Carbonate ii Room 343/344/345

Co-Chairs: C. Paola, M. Perlmutter and M. Blum


1:20 D. Jerolmack, C. Paola: Shredding of Environmental Signals by

Autogenic Transport Fluctuations

1:40 O. J. Martinsen, S. Leiknes, I. R. Sharp: Quicker than Most:

Autogenic versus Allogenic Controls on Ultra-High Resolution,

Centennial-Scale Sequences in Arctic Norway

2:00 B. W. Romans, J. A. Covault, A. Fildani: Allogenic and Autogenic

Forcings Within the Context of Sediment-Routing Systems:

Examples from Southern California

2:20 M. Blum: Allogenic and Autogenic Signals in Quaternary Alluvial

Successions of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Passive Margin

2:40 A. Hartley, G. S. Weissmann: Distinguishing Climatic from

Autogenic Signatures in Alluvial Systems: A Quaternary Perspective

with Implications for the Rock Record

3:00 Break

3:45 E. Hajek, P. L. Heller, B. Sheets: Autogenic Organization of

Channel Avulsions During Basin Filling




4:05 P. Plink-Bjorklund, L. P. Birgenheier, J. Golab: Separating

Allogenic and Autogenic Controls in a Super-Greenhouse Fluvial

System

4:25 C. Fielding, L. Birgenheier, M. Corbett: Sheet-Like Fluvial

Architecture on Regional Scales from the Cretaceous Western

Interior Seaway of North America: The Case for Allogenic Control

4:45 S. Leleu, A. J. Hartley: Cycles and Packages in Fluvial Deposits:

What Do We Know? Examples from the Triassic Wolfville Fm (Nova

Scotia)

theme ii: Siliciclastic deep-Water depositional Systems, modern and Ancient ii (SePm) Room 353/354/355



1:20 J. D. Moody, D. Pyles, R. Bouroullec, J. Clark, M. Hoffman,

P. Setiawan: The Eocene Morillo Turbidite System (South-Central

Pyrenees, Spain): Helping to Reduce Uncertainty of Sub-Surface Data

Interpretation in a Deep Marine Growth Basin

1:40 L. Stright, Z. R. Jobe, A. Bernhardt, S. A. Graham: 3-D Modeling

of the Cerro Toro Axial Channel-Belt, Sierra del Toro, Magallanes

Basin, Chile: From Outcrop Observations to Subsurface Uncertainty

2:00 Z. R. Jobe, A. Bernhardt, D. R. Lowe: Quantitative Architectural

Analysis and Depositional Model of an Asymmetric Conglomerate-

Rich Submarine Channel Fill, Cerro Toro Formation, Sierra del Toro,

Magallanes Basin, Chile

2:20 M. Dykstra: Deepwater Tidalites in the Cretaceous Wheeler Gorge,

Southern California

2:40 Z. Khan, B. Arnott, A. Pugin: Levee Topography Formed by

Horizontal Strata — An Outcrop and Synthetic Seismic Example from

the Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup Canada

3:00 Break

3:45 G. W. Lowey: The Dezadeash Formation (Jura-Cretaceous), Yukon,

Canada: An Outcrop Analog for Deepwater Reservoirs in Arc-Related

Basins

4:05 L. Navarro, B. Arnott: Architectural Evolution of an Ancient Basin

Floor to Slope Transition from the Windermere Turbidite System,

Southeastern Canada

4:25 S. M. Hubbard, R. V. Macauley, B. D. Miles, R. Schroeder, A.

Fildani, J. Clark, B. W. Romans, J. A. Covault, T. R. McHargue:

Deep-Water Channel Development in Proximity to the Channel-Lobe

Transition: An Outcrop Example

4:45 P. Haughton, S. Barker, W. D. McCaffrey, A. Jarvie, I. Moore:

Passage of a Deep-Water Transitional Flow Across an Uneven Sea

Floor — Implications for Bed-Scale Heterogeneity

theme i: best of Hedberg (AAPG) Room 356/357

Co-Chairs: R. C. Shoup and C. A. Caughey


1:20 C. R. Fielding, J. Alexander, J. P. Allen, J. D. Trueman: Reservoir

Characteristics of Tropical Sub-Humid Fluvial and Deltaic Deposits

Inferred from Modern and Holocene Sediments of NE Australia and

Some Ancient Examples

1:40 J. J. Lambiase, D. Remus, S. Husein: Transgressive Successions of

the Mahakam Delta Province, Indonesia

2:00 M. E. J. Wilson, M. J. Evans, W. Camp: Paleogene Marine Clastics

of the Mangkalihat Peninsula, Borneo: Implications for Petroleum

System Development

2:20 R. Crossley: Tropical Fluvio-Lacustrine Complexes of Africa and SE

Asia: Implications for Exploration and Development

2:40 N. Kuenphan, K. Kaenmee, Y. Gonecome, R. C. Shoup: Application

of Satellite-Based Analog Studies to Resolving Reservoir Complexity in

the North Malay Basin

theme ii: Carbonate Systems in the Subsurface — Capturing Heterogeneity with Geophysical methods (SePm) Room 356/357

Co-Chairs: A. Colpaert and G. P. Eberli


3:45 G. P. Eberli, K. Verwer: High-Velocity Carbonates with High

Permeability: Implications for Reservoir Quality in High Acoustic

Impedance Intervals

4:05 T. Varslot, M. Knackstedt, R. Sok, T. Senden: Probing

Heterogeneity in Carbonates via Multiple Resolution Imaging Tools

4:25 R. Agersborg, T. Johansen: Estimating Carbonate Reservoir Quality

Using Rock Physics Templates

4:45 R. Ginsburg: Rapid Marine Cementation Can Preserve Porosity and

Permeability of Grainstones













Tuesday Morning Poster Sessions

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theme Xii: SePm Student research Papers Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: M. Blum and J. Holbrook

• M. L. Sandstrom, K. J. Amos, R. F. Daniel, C. B. Krapf: Planform

Morphology, Sedimentology and Stratal Architecture of the Modern

Kalaweerina Terminal Splay Complex, Lake Eyre, Central Australia

• S. A. Wessels, M. A. Kulp: Late Quaternary Depositional Packages of

the Mississippi River Incised Valley

• B. L. Weeks, B. L. Kirkland, D. W. Kirkland, R. J. Moiola,

C. P. Dewey, F. Lynch, C. B. Sellers: Role of Organic Matter in

Formation of Micritic Ooids from Channing Lake Beds; Rita Blanca

Formation; Panhandle, Texas

• S. P. Regan, D. Mosher, A. Husinec, F. J. Read: Late Valanginian

to Late Hauterivian Peritidal and Subaerial Exposure Facies, Adriatic

Platform, Croatia

• A. F. Halfen, S. T. Hasiotis*: New Insights of Soil Bioturbation by the

Ant and Other Soil-Dwelling Organisms: Modern and Paleopedologic

Significance

• Z. Yawar, J. Schieber: Depositional Setting and Pore Distribution

in Mudstones of the Upper Cambrian Eau Claire Formation — SEM

Observations on Ion-Milled Samples

• P. J. Voice, M. Kowalewski, K. A. Eriksson: North American and

Global Patterns in the Detrital Zircon Database

• J. N. Prouhet, K. Yeager, C. Brunner, M. A. Kulp, K. Schindler:

Quantifying Autocompaction of the Pearl River Marsh, Louisiana

• K. Lielke: Paleogene Topography, Drainage Patterns and Climate

Change in Southwestern Montana

• A. Davila, L. G. Moscardelli, L. Wood: Structural Domains in the

Eastern Offshore Area of Trinidad/Venezuela and Their Influence on

Paleo-Orinoco Shelf-Edge Delta Architectures

• M. S. Ellison, M. D. Miner, M. A. Kulp: Mainland Marsh Shoreline

Response to Barrier Island Transgressive Submergence: Preliminary

Results from Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana, USA

• A. D. Pollington, R. Kozdon, T. Ushikubo, N. T. Kita, J. W. Valley:

Conditions of Quartz Cementation in Mount Simon Sandstone:

Evidence from In Situ Microanalysis of Oxygen Isotopes

• S. T. Hasiotis, D. R. Hirmas, B. F. Platt*: Three-Dimensional

Ichnofossil Analyses Using Multistripe Laser Triangulation (Mlt)

Technology: Quantifying Trace-Fossil Morphology, Bioturbation

Patterns, and Ichnopedologic Fabrics in Sedimentary Rocks

• J. Wassenburg, J. Fietzke, A. Immenhauser, D. Richter:

Reconstructing the Late Pleistocene Climate of the Middle Atlas in

Morocco Using Speleothem Records

• P. Martin: The Stratigraphy of the Choptank and St. Marys Formations

in Southern Delaware and Eastern Maryland: Sorting Lithostratigraphy

and Chronostratigraphy

• A. M. Jackson: Quaternary Trace Fossil Assemblages on the Eel River

Shelf, Northern California

• T. Abdullayev, E. L. Stoudt: Illustration of Shallow Water Depositional

Cycles in Core from the Central Texas Ellenburger Group

• W. Guan, W. Yang, B. M. Jeffrey, Q. Feng, Y. Liu, W. Zhao, Q. Wang:

Distinguishing Source Areas of Upper-Permian Fluvial-Lacustrine

Deltaic Sediment Fills of a Half Graben Through Petrographic Study,

Southern Bogda Mountains, the Greater Turpan-Junggar Basin, NW

China

• A. M. Rodriguez-Delgado, L. A. Gonzalez, W. R. Ramirez: The

Mona Reef Complex Revisited: Influence of Tectonics on Carbonate

Facies Distributrion and Reef Evolution

• F. A. Lozano, K. J. Marfurt, J. Bhattacharya: Late Quaternary

Forced-Regressive Wave-Dominated Shelf-Margin Deltas, Northern

Gulf of Mexico

• B. M. Jeffrey, W. Yang, Q. Feng, Y. Liu: Nature and Origins of a

Cycle Boundary in Lower Permian Fluvial-Lacustrine Deposits in a Half

Graben, Southern Bogda Mountains, NW China

• K. D. Almquist: Weathering of Volcanic Ash and the Fate of Organic

Carbon on the Continental Margin of New Zealand

• I. Cemen: Oil and Gas Potential of Extensional Basins in Western

Anatolia, Turkey

• S. L. Hilding-Kronforst: A Closer Look at Mid Eocene 42-43.8 Ma

Biostratigraphic and Environmental Conditions at Blake Nose Western

North Atlantic ODP Leg 171B Site 1051

theme i: best of Hedberg (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: C.A. Caughey and R.C. Shoup

• Bachtiar, A. Sulaiman: Marine Processes in the Northern Lobe

of Mahakam Delta and Marangkayu Spit Bar: Implication on

Paleogeography Model in the Subsurface

• S. Johansen, H. Semimbar: Sand-Rich, Tide-Dominated Deltaic

Systems of the Lower Miocene, Central Sumatran Basin, Indonesia

• Cullen: The Klias Peninsula and Padas River, Northwest Borneo:

A Possible Example of Hinterland Drainage Capture in a Tropical

Orogenic Highland

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theme V: interaction of Hydraulic fracture treatments with natural fractures in tight Gas reservoirs (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: J. F. Gale, M. Thiercelin and J. Le Calvez

• M. Enderlin, M. Mullen, C. Tamayo: Is That Frac Job Really

Breaking Rock? Or Just Pumping Down a Pre-Existing Plane of

Weakness: The Integration of Geomechanics and Hydraulic Fracture

Diagnostics

• S. Maxwell, M. Jones, R. Parker, S. Leaney, D. Dorval, J. Logel,

D. D’Amico, K. Hammermaster: Microseismic Evidence of Fault

Activation During Hydraulic Fracturing

• S. Williams-Stroud, L. Eisner: Using Microseismic Data for Fracture

Failure Mode Analysis and Fracture Modeling

• M. Enderlin, H. Alsleben: One Method for Evaluating the Effects

of Confining Stresses and Rock Strength on Fluid Flow Along the

Surfaces of Mechanical Discontinuities in Low Permeability Rocks

theme iX: environmental impact (emd) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: K. S. Haggar and D. Pate

• S. M. Gagliano, K. S. Haggar: Effects of D-Shaped Fault Deformation

on South Louisiana Landscape

• K. S. Haggar: Goose Point, Louisiana — A Geoecological Model

for Landscape Level Plant Community Succession Driven by Fault

Movement Associated with the Baton Rouge Fault System

• J. M. Lorenzo, J. Hicks, E. E. Vera: Shear-Wave Velocity Anomalies

(60 m/s) and High Vp/Vs Ratios (>16) at Shallow Depths (0-5m) Below

a Distressed Artificial Levee, Marrero, Louisiana, USA

• B. P. Stephens: Basement Controls on Subsurface Geologic Patterns

and Near-Surface Geology Across the Northern Gulf of Mexico: A

Deeper Perspective on Coastal Louisiana

• S. M. Ritter, J. Nicot, A. K. Hebel: Water Requirements for Texas

Shale Gas Industry: Will We Meet Projected Needs?

theme V: Capturing Critical fault Seal issues (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: R. M. Jones and M. Rouen

• B. H. Wagner: Evaluating Salt Weld Permeability and Migration Risk

• S. Scarselli, P. Vrolijk, R. Myers, M. L. Sweet, S. Nollet,

D. Cleveland: Stratigraphic Controls on Fault Zone Complexity and

Evolution: The Little Grand Wash Fault, Utah

• J. Hamilton, S. Reddy, S. Hayon, L. Johnson: Microstructural and

Mineralogical Aspects of Deformation in the Mungaroo Formation, NW

Shelf, Australia

• M. Enderlin, B. Weymer, P. D’Onfro, R. Ramos, K. Morgan: The

Unconfined Compressive Strength of SAFOD Core from Point-Load

Penetrometer Tests

• S. R. Freeman, S. D. Harris, V. O’Connor*, K. Wood, R. K. Davies,

S. Grenfell, R. Russell: Incorporating Stratigraphic, Petrophysical and

Fault Seal Uncertainties Through the Reservoir Characterization and

Simulation Process

theme iii: methodology & techniques (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: G. McMaster and R. Riese

• S. M. Selim: Pressure Regime Evaluation, Role and Contribution in

Well Planning and Formation Evaluation Process, Zeit Bay Fields —

Gulf of Suez, Egypt

• T. C. Coburn: Perspectives on Statistical Approaches for Estimating

Continuous Petroleum Resources

• C. Smalley, T. McKean, B. Ross, B. Merrill: Identifying Future

Resource Potential Using a Reservoir Technical Limits Approach

• Z. Chen, K. G. Osadetz, J. Dixon, J. Dietrich: Oil Resource

Assessment Incorporating Improved Recovery and Variable

Dependencies, the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Canada

• C. D. Norman: Assigning Volumes for Realistic Assessment of Value in

Multiple-Lease Prospects

• M. Mainster, T. Murray, G. Christie: Impact on Faults and Across

Fault Flow on Reserves Calculation

theme Viii: exploration and Production of Shale oil resources (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: D. Reiter

• R. H. Pilger: Recent Geokinematic and Geodynamic Research on

Intracontinental Stress Fields: New Tools for Fractured Reservoirs

• E. Flodin: Tectonic and Non-Tectonic Fractures in the Eocene Green

River Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado

• P. P. Kuhn, R. di Primio, B. Horsfield: Integrated Geochemistry and

Basin Modeling Study of the Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, USA

• M. Schoell, J. Lefever: Carbon and Hydrogen Isotope Systematics in

Bakken Shale Gases: Prediction of Rock and Fluid Properties from Gas

Isotopes as Guide to Mudgas Isotope Data Interpretations

• L. A. Dunn, D. Edwards: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the

Upper Montney Shale Gas Reservoir North East British Columbia,

Canada

• P. Shuler: New Chemical EOR Process for Bakken Shale

theme ii: Stratigraphic Compartmentalization of Hydrocarbon reservoirs (SePm) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: C. Calvert, R. Gani and J. Connolly

• H. Sahoo, R. Gani, G. Hampson, N. Gani, T. O. Jewell, A. Ranson:

Bed-Scale Facies Architecture of Coastal-Plain Channel and Overbank

Deposits in a Tight-Gas Reservoir Analog: Cretaceous Blackhawk

Formation, Wasatch Plateau, Utah

• R. V. Macauley, S. M. Hubbard, B. D. Miles, R. Schroeder:

Architecture of Deep-Water Channel Complex Deposits, Tres Pasos

Formation, Chile: Insights into Reservoir Compartmentalization in

Channel-Lobe Transition Strata

• D. E. Eby, T. C. Chidsey, Jr., D. A. Sprinkel: Carbonate Heterogeneity

Based on Lithofacies and Petrography of the Jurassic Twin Creek

Limestone in Pineview Field, Northern Utah Thrust Belt

• A. Rittersbacher, J. Howell, S. Buckley, N. Richter, A. Sima,

J. Vallet, K. Keogh: Using Oblique Helicopter Lidar to Document

Fluvial Reservoir Architecture: Examples from the Cretaceous and

Tertiary of Eastern Utah

• M. O. Abouelresh, R. M. Slatt: High-Frequency Sequence

Stratigraphic Analysis of the Barnett Shale, Johnson County, Fort

Worth Basin, Texas, USA

• F. S. de Miranda, N. P. Couto: Integrated Petrophysical Analysis to

Discriminate Reservoir Facies and Its Productivity Potential in Fluvial

Eolian Gas Bearing Sandstones

• S. Liang, J. Wang: High-Frequency Stratigraphic Sequence

Characteristics in the Gentle Slope Zones in Large Depression Basins

— Case Study of Qingshankou Formation of Northern Part of Songliao

Basin in China

theme Viii: Coal: Versatile fuel Source for the future (emd) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: W. A. Ambrose and P. D. Warwick

• J. C. Fisk, K. J. Marfurt, H. T. Mai, M. C. Matos, D. Cooke:

Correlating Heterogeneous Production to Lithology and Fractures in

Coalbed Methane Exploitation

• R. C. Milici: Potential Impact of Large-Scale Coal-to-Liquids Utilization

on Remaining Coal Resources of the United States

• G. L. Kinsland, C. Borst, K. Das, M. McWhorter: Interpretation,

Visualization and Presentation of Digital Well-Log Data in 3-D Virtual

Reality Space: Application to Mapping of Coals

• J. Wang, G. Chen, T. Wang: The Geochemical Characteristics of Coal

Measure Strata and Coal-Derived Hydrocarbon in Huhehu Sag, Hailaer

Basin

• X. Lu, X. Zhang: Geological Characteristics of Coalbed Gas in Minhe

Basin, in the Western China

• W. A. Ambrose: Delineating Areas for Clean Coal in Texas: Geology

and Infrastructure

• R. R. Tonnsen, J. Miskimins: A Conventional Look at an

Unconventional Reservoir: Coalbed Methane Production Potential in

Deep Environments

theme iV: Conjugate South Atlantic margins (AAPG/SePm) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: A. Danforth and W. Mohriak

• C. Scholz: Oblique and Orthogonal Rifting in the East African Lakes:

Analogs to the South Atlantic Pre-salt Basins

• D. Aslanian, M. Moulin, M. Rabineau, F. Klingleghoefer,

F. Bache, L. Matias, A. Gailler, A. Afilhado, C. Gorini, P. Schnurle,

M. Patriat, C. Labails, M. Beslier, J. Olivet, E. Leroux, M. Sahabi,

W. Roest: Towards General Rules for the Continental Thinning

Process Through Studies in South Atlantic, Central Atlantic and West

Mediterranean Sea?

• M. V. Grand, I. Deighton: The Prospectivity of Offshore Sierra Leone

Using Newly Acquired 3-D Data

• C. M. Urien, C. Schiefelbein, W. Dickson, M. E. Odegard:

Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of the South West Atlantic Margin

• E. Johnson, R. Eisenberg, J. Francis: Understanding the Influence

of Plate Tectonics, Paleo-Geography, Climate, and Heat Flow on Pre-

Salt Petroleum Systems of the South Atlantic

• M. C. Raddadi, P. Markwick, C. Hill: Palaeogeographic Evolution

and Petroleum Potential of the Equatorial Atlantic Margins

• S. G. Henry, L. Sebastiao, N. Kumar, A. Sebastiao,

S. Venkatraman: Tupi’s Conjugate: New Pre-Salt Plays in the

Angolan Offshore

• A. Danforth, N. Kumar, S. G. Henry, S. Venkatraman, P. Nuttall:

New Views of the Early-Formed Ocean in the South Atlantic Conjugate

Margins Based on PSDM Seismic

• A. Adriasola Munoz, C. Glover, J. Harris, M. Goodrich, L. Hudson,

B. Ady: Modelling Continental Margin Extension Using Combined

Rigid/Deformable Plate Tectonic Reconstructions

• M. D. Wittstrom, R. Fainstein: Oil Without Salt — New Frontiers

Beyond the Salt Basins

theme iV: Conjugate Central and northern Atlantic margins (AAPG/SePm) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: D. E. Brown and G. Tari

• G. D. Wach, D. Mosher: Margin Evolution and Reservoir Distribution

— Examples from Cenozoic of the Central Atlantic Margin

• A. MacDonald: New Cohasset-Panuke-Penobscot-Type Oil Prospects

of Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada. Analogous Plays Within in the

Cretaceous and Jurassic Formation Deltaic Sands

• T. Koning: The East Georges Bank Basin, Offshore Nova Scotia: A

Undrilled Basin with Significant Oil & Gas Potential

• A. Wenke, S. Dedera, R. Zühlke, O. Kluth, J. Schober: Sequence

Stratigraphy and Basin Development — Tarfaya Basin, Morocco

• G. Bertotti, M. Gouiza, M. Hafid, P. Andriessen: Late Jurassic-Early

Cretaceous Tectonics and Exhumation Onshore Morocco: Implications

for Terrigenous Sand Reservoirs in the Offshore of NW-Africa

• B. Ghorbal, P. Andriessen: Potential Oil Reservoirs Along the Central

Atlantic and Western Alpine Tethys Margins Documented by the Post-

Rift Exhumation of Their Hinterlands

• M. L. Malinconico, R. E. Weems: Thermal Maturity of the U. S.

Atlantic Coastal Plain Based on Legacy Exploration and Stratigraphic

Test Wells, Including Hatteras Light Esso #1

• W. Dickson, M. E. Odegard: Northwest Frontier Revisited: Newly

Defined Rift Features Offshore Mauritania, Senegal and the Guineas of

Northwest Africa

• I. Effimoff, L. Martin, M. Laughland, J. O. Medou: Exploration of

the Senegalese Portion of the Greater MSGBC Basin: A New Frontier

Petroleum Province

• D. Jablonski, S. Westlake, C. M. Gumley*: Offshore Jamaica — A

New Frontier? Unmasking the Potential of the Walton Basin

• G. Scaife, S. Jdageo: Modern Seismic Processing Techniques are

Vital to Unlocking the Potential of the Trinidad and Tobago Ultra-Deep

Offshore Area

theme V: Complex Structural modeling in Honor of ted Apotria (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: D. Goff and B. Kilsdonk

• D. A. Ferrill, A. P. Morris, R. N. McGinnis, K. J. Smart: Field Tests

of Geomechanical Models of Natural Rock Deformation: Insights from

the Bargy Anticline, France

• P. J. Lovely, D. D. Pollard, E. Flodin, C. Guzofski, F. Maerten:

Pitfalls Among the Promises of Mechanics-Based Structural

Restoration

• T. D. Carruthers, J. A. Cartwright: Using Polygonal Fault Systems to

Reconstruct the State of Stress Associated with Salt Diapirs

• S. Bose, S. Mitra: Three Dimensional Structural Analysis of a Salt

Cored Convergent Transfer Zone in the South Timbalier Block 54,

Offshore Gulf of Mexico

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• D. Similox-Tohon, A. Scherrenberg, S. Clelland, G. H. Davis: 3-D

Structural Modeling — The Mount Lykaion (Greece) Sanctuary of Zeus

Case Study

• A. A. Henza, M. O. Withjack, R. W. Schlische: Pre existing Zones

of Weakness: An Experimental Study of Their Influence on the

Development of Extensional Faults

• T. E. Majekodunmi, D. V. Wiltschko, B. Kilsdonk: Sedimentation

Aided Salt Flow, Fold Growth, and Faulting: Chinook and Cascade

Folds, Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

• A. P. Morris, D. A. Ferrill, R. N. McGinnis, J. McFarland,

B. Bichon, D. Riha: Slip Tendency and Cumulative Fault

Displacement

• M. Auer, A. Domzig: Application of Forward Modeling in Fold Thrust

Belts — An Alpine Example

• B. Sapiie, A. Pamumpuni, A. Nugraha, W. Kurniawan,

I. J. Saputra, T. T. Simo: Balancing Cross-Sections and Fractures

Characterization of Rajamandala Limestone; Western Java, Indonesia

• N. D. Gani, R. Gani: Deciphering Evolution of Extensional Fault

Systems from Transient Behavior of Bedrock Channels: An Example

from the Incision of the Ethiopian Plateau

• I. K. Mohammad, S. Ahmad, A. Ali Khan, A. Ali: Structural Style,

Evolution and Hydrocarbon Prospects of the Bhittani Range, Northwest

Himalayas, Pakistan

• S. Ahmad, I. K. Mohammad, A. Ali Khan, N. Shoukat: Himalayan-

Induced Deformational Events and Kinematics of the Arcuate Nature of

Trans Indus Salt Ranges, Northwest Himalayas, Pakistan

• T. P. Dooley, M. P. Jackson, M. R. Hudec: Roof Breakup and

Extrusion of Shallow Salt Stocks During Lateral Shortening

theme Vii: Palentology in the 21st Century: A Symposium dedicated to ed Picou (SePm/AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: M. B. Farley, R. Rosen and D. Griffith

• D. S. Van Nieuwenhuise: Foraminiferal and Ostracodal Assemblages

Associated with Tempestite Deposition from Baffin Bay, Texas

• S. Garzon, S. Warny, C. Jaramillo, F. De La Parra: Palynomorphs

from Upper Cretaceous Sequences in Central Colombia: Using

Paleopalynology as a Correlation Tool for Oil Exploration.

• A. Gary, E. Platon: Micropaleontological Ontology: A Link to the

Future Earth Science Semantic Technologies

• R. K. Saxena: Paleogene Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of

Western Offshore Basin, India

• A. Gupta: Neogene Siliceous Multimicrofossils from Deep-Water

Sediments of East Coast of India and Their Efficacy in Age

Determination, Environment of Deposition, Paleoclimate and

Applications in Biochronological Correlations

• R. W. Butler, B. E. Lock: Micropaleontology as a Tool in the

Interpretation of the Del Rio Formation, West Texas

• W. T. Jones, S. T. Hasiotis: Paleoenvironmental Associations of Trace

Fossils in the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation of North-Central

Pennsylvania, USA

• F. Mantilla Duran, S. Garzón, V. Torres: How Palynology Contributes

on Hydrocarbon Exploration: A Case of Study from Colombia, South

America

• L. Reggiani: From Unicellular Algae to the Oceanic Scale:

The Opening of the Atlantic Ocean Documented by Calcareous

Nannofossils

• L. Contreras, G. Rodriguez, M. Rueda, G. Bedoya, C. Santos,

F. De La Parra: Palynological Events from Maastrichtian to Eocene in

the Middle Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombia

• S. Jirin, R. J. Morley, M. Kadir, M. Mohamed: Characterization of

Peat-Forming Environments of Miocene Coal Using Biofacies in the

Malay Basin, Malaysia













Tuesday Afternoon Poster Sessions

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theme i: Petroleum System Analysis (AAPG/SePm) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: L. B. Magoon and K. Peters

• T. Allen, K. Osadetz, B. Mayer: Isotopic Characterization of Natural

Gas Seeps Identified in Peel Plateau, Yukon Territory, Canada

• D. L. Boyd, Z. Anka, R. di Primio, M. de Wit, J. Aldrich: Seismic

Interpretation, Distribution, and Numerical Modeling of Natural Gas

Leakage on Block 2 of the Orange Basin, Offshore South Africa

• M. J. Loegering, J. Autin, Z. Anka, J. F. Rodriguez, D. Marchal, R.

di Primio, E. L. Vallejo, M. Scheck-Wenderoth, G. Kohler,

F. Pangaro: Sedimentary and Tectonic Evolution and Their Possible

Controls on HC Migration in the Colorado Basin, Offshore Argentina,

South America

• F. Wang, Y. Tang, Z. He, J. Li, H. Zhen: Map-Based Isotopic Kinetical

Tool to Simulate the Generation and Accumulation History of Natural

Gas

• G. Liu, M. Sun: Geopressure Regime and Its Effect to Hydrocarbon

Migration and Accumulation: A Case Study of Nanpu Depression Bohai

Bay Basin, China

• H. W. Mueller: General Model for Delivery of Asphaltenes to Tar Mats

• Z. Chen, M. Zha, J. Qu, K. Wu: Multiple Hydrocarbon Accumulation

Systems and the Pathways for Hydrocarbon Migration in Luliang Uplift,

the Junggar Basin, China

• J. Qu, M. Zha, L. Li: Experimental Simulation of Migration Along

Unconformity: A Case Study of the “S” Shape Reservoir-Controlling

System from the Northern Part of Dongying Depression of China

theme i: innovative interpretation and Use of Seismic data (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: T. Maciejewski and D. Smith

• B. J. Black, T. C. Anderson, J. Ng: Characterizing the Lakota

Sandstone Using 3-D Seismic Data and Well Data: Teapot Dome,

Wyoming

• C. A. Vargas Jimenez, P. Mann, C. Gomez, L. A. Briceño, C. Rey:

Trans-Andean Mega-Regional Seismic Reflection Line Extending from

the Caribbean Coast to Cordillera Oriental of Colombia: Implications

for Hydrocarbon Exploration

• W. S. Hammon: Intelligent Defaults and Single-Slice Results for Rapid

Selection of the Best Volume Attribute Parameter Values

• M. J. Padgett: A Comparison of Four Methods for Performing Fluid

Contact and Flat Spot Analysis as Applied to a Single Gulf of Mexico

3-D Seismic Anomaly

• D. Das, S. Akhter, S. K. Roymoulik, H. Singh: Hydrocarbon

Exploration Prospect of Girujan Clay Formation of North Assam Shelf:

A Case Study of Geocellular Modeling of Lakwa Area

• T. Torvela, R. Butler, W. D. McCaffrey: Using the Virtual Seismic

Atlas to Aid Interpretation of Deepwater Fold-Thrust Belts

theme X: Plays (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: E. C. McDade and B. M. Suppes

• R. Smith, G. Severson: SMI 212 Flatrock Field, A Deeper Pool

• S. Sonnenberg: Petroleum Geology of the Giant Elm Coulee Field,

Williston Basin

• D. Rajmon, G. S. Steffens: Hydrocarbon Accumulations and

Exploration Considerations Associated with Impact Structures

• J. P. Martin: Is it Time to Revisit the Eastern Overthrust Belt of New

York and New England?

• T. P. Van Biersel, D. A. Carlson, L. Milner: Haynesville Play

Development: Sustainability Analysis of Local Fresh Groundwater

Resources in Northwest Louisiana

• L. Bingham, A. Escalona, P. Mann: Creaming Curves and Discovery

Trends of Five Basins from the Gulf of Mexico to Northern South

America

theme i: basin modeling (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: N. Harris and D. K. Higley

• G. S. Ellis, P. G. Lillis, S. Cumella, T. J. Dewane: Kinetic Isotope

Fractionation Modeling of Natural Gas Geochemistry in the Mamm

Creek Field, Piceance Basin, Colorado

• R. di Primio, F. Baur*: The Jeanne d’Arc Basin Offshore Canada:

Testing the Predictive Capacity of PhaseKinetic Models Using 3-D

Basin Modeling

• S. O’Connor, R. Swarbrick, R. Lahann, P. Clegg, D. Scott,

S. Green, B. Pindar: Pore Pressure Prediction in Challenging Areas

— Reducing Uncertainty by Understanding Rock Behaviour

• C. F. Odumodu, A. W. Mode: Regional Heat Flow Variations in the

Eastern Parts of the Niger Delta

• R. Ondrak, R. di Primio, T. L. Leith, G. Lescoffit, B. Horsfield:

Reconstruction of the Hydrocarbon-Filling History of a Haltenbanken

Oil Field, Mid-Norway Using Basin Modeling

• E. J. Torres, M. Vasquez, M. Garcia-Gonzalez, T. Joppen: Oil and

Gas Potential of the Cretaceous La Luna Formation in the Cesar Valley,

Colombia. An Application of Basin Modeling in a Complex Thrust

System

• T. M. Gebregergis, W. I. Wan Yusoff: Thermal Maturity Modelling for

Source Rocks in JL Field, Offshore Sarawak Basin, Malaysia

theme iV: Asia (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: J. W. Granath and J. Lambiase

• J. A. Curiale, J. Decker: Eocene Oil-Prone Source Rock Potential of

Central Indonesia

• X. Qinglong, T. Lixin, P. Wen Xu*, S. Hefeng: Hydrocarbon

Accumulation of Neogene Shallow Water Delta: A New Model in the

Yellow River Mouth Depression, Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern

China

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• A. Nandi, S. Sengupta, C. Chaudhury, K. Chakraborty: Seismic

Geomorphology of Mass Transport Complexes (MTCs) and Its

Importance in Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Forearc Deepwater

Basin, Andaman, India

• X. Qinglong, J. Deng, C. Xu: Strike-Slip Faulting Activities in the Tan-

Lu Fault Zone and Their Relationship with Hydrocarbon Accumulation

— An Example from Jinxian Area, Bohai Bay, China

• A. Quallington, K. Wilson, L. Gill, S. Williams, D. Eue, G. Scougal,

N. Henshaw: The Indian Western Margin: An Integrated Assessment

of the Petroleum Potential of a Former Hot-Spot

• P. J. Markwick, R. Bouatmani, S. T. Mazur, M. Hammill, D. Eue,

M. G. Stewart, N. Henshaw, S. Williams, K. Wilson: A New, GIS-

based Structural and Tectonic Map of Southeast Asia

• G. Roberts, C. Harmer: Andaman Basin, India: Hydrocarbon

Prospectivity from Newly Reprocessed Seismic Data

• W. Dickson, M. E. Odegard, J. W. Granath, D. Hughes, J. M.

Christ: Reef, Reef-Topped Volcano, Volcano or Carbonate-Topped

Horst? Discriminating Examples from Indonesia’s Offshore North

Makassar, Gorontalo and Arafura Sea Regions

• W. Zhu, C. Xu, X. Zhou: Characteristic and Forming Mechanism

of Large-Scale Light Oilfield in Continental Basin: An Example from

Jinzhou 25-1 Area in Liaoxi Sag of Bohai Bay Basin, China

theme iV: Petroleum Systems of the tethyan region (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: C. G. Kendall, L. Yose and L. Marlow

• A. Derman: Petroleum Systems of Turkish Basins

• L. Montadert, S. Nicolaides, P. Semb, O. Lie: Petroleum Systems

Offshore Cyprus

• L. Marlow, C. G. Kendall, K. Kornpihl: The Tectonostratigraphic

History and Petroleum Potential of the Levantine Basin

• M. As-Saruri, R. Sorkhabi: Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Plays

of Yemen

• F. H. Nader: Petroleum Prospects of Lebanon

• M. A. Gardosh: Petroleum Systems of Israel — New Discoveries

Highlight Offshore and Onshore Potential

• E. Barrier, L. Machhour, M. Blaizot: Geological Evolution and

Petroleum System of Syria

• H. S. Hassan, C. G. Kendall: Hydrocarbon Provinces of Libya: A

Petroleum System Study

• A. S. Alsharhan, C. J. Strohmenger, A. I. Al Mansoori: Mesozoic

Petroleum Systems of Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates

• A. S. Alsharhan: Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Habitats of

Kuwait

theme Vii: Understanding the Gulf of mexico: depositional Systems, Play Concepts and Structure (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: C. Fiduk and M. G. Rowan

• S. P. Dutton, R. G. Loucks: Detrital Mineral Composition and

Reservoir Quality of Lower Miocene Sandstones, Western Gulf of

Mexico

• T. R. Lovell, A. Weislogel: Provenance and Paleogeography of the

Late Jurassic Norphlet Formation, Eastern Gulf of Mexico

• V. S. Mount, S. H. Mentemeier, A. C. Klein: Structural and

Stratigraphic Complexities in Traps Adjacent to Salt Stocks and Ridges

in Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Subsalt Plays

• L. He, R. Poling: A 500-Mile Seismic Cross Section Through Crucial

Lower Tertiary Wells Exhibits Cenozoic Structure and Stratigraphy

Changes from the West to Northeast in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

• B. J. Radovich, C. D. Connors, D. Howard, G. Aziz: Interpretation of

Reimaged Basin-Scale Long-Offset, Long-Record Length 2-D Seismic

Data from the Northern Gulf of Mexico

• J. J. Daal, E. H. Guevara*: Largest Oil and Gas Discoveries in Mexico

in 2002-2008, Gulf of Mexico Basin

• D. M. Robinson, A. Weislogel, B. Hunt, K. L. Wilson, T. Lovell,

B. Smelser: Evaluating the Basement Architecture and Mesozoic

Prospectivity of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico

• D. Eickhoff, N. Blythe: Compaction and Quartz Cementation

Modeling for Reservoir Quality Prediction in Sub-Salt Reservoirs of the

Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

• R. Boswell, T. S. Collett, E. Jones: International Joint Industry

Project to Assess the Occurrence and Implications of Gas Hydrates in

the Gulf of Mexico

• E. A. Mancini, T. Yancey: Hydrocarbon Potential of Paleogene

(Wilcox) Deep-Water Lowstand Sandstone Facies, Northeastern Gulf

of Mexico: Extension of the Offshore Gulf of Mexico Paleogene (Deep-

Water Wilcox) Play

• J. Nunn: Uplift, Subsidence, and Reactivation of the Sabine Uplift

Due to Changes in Flexural Compensation Between Different

Crustal Blocks: Implications for the Burial and Thermal History of the

Haynesville Shale

• M. J. Roberts: Beyond the Sigsbee: History of Exploration and Future

Prospectivity

• D. A. Leckie, M. Fustic, C. Seibel: Geoscience of One of the Largest

Integrated SAGD Operations in the World — A Case Study from Long

Lake, Northeastern Alberta

theme ii: Source-to-Sink Sediment dispersal, modern and Ancient (SePm) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: O. J. Martinsen, B. Sheets and C. Nittrouer

• C. Nittrouer, K. Lee, K. Boldt, A. Ogston: Tidal Flats in S2S

Systematics: Importers and Exporters of Fine Sediment

• M. S. Ullah, S. L. Goodbred, R. D. Pate, P. Youngs: The Late

Quaternary Avulsion History of the Ganges and Brahmaputra River,

Bengal Basin, Bangladesh: Application of Sr Geochemistry

• L. E. Rose, S. Kuehl, C. Alexander, A. Orpin: Carbon Isotopes

Provide Distinctive Signatures for Tracking Tectonic Forcing and Sea

Level Changes on an Active Margin

• C. Labaune, M. L. Sweet*, M. Bez, T. Marsset, L. Droz, G. Calvès:

Quaternary Deepwater Deposits of the Golo Basin/Corsica Trough:

East Corsica

• Z. Shen, T. E. Tornqvist, W. Autin, B. Mauz: Relative Sea Level

Versus Climate Forcing of the Lower Mississippi River During the Last

Two Glacial-Interglacial Cycles

• A. K. Thurmond, I. Lunt, T. L. Leith, J. Skogseid, O. J. Martinsen:

A New Workflow for Basin-Scale Sediment Prediction: Integrating Plate

Tectonics and Palaeoclimate Models in a Source-to-Sink Context

• D. R. Pyles, A. Moss-Russell, H. Silalahi, D. A. Anderson,

B. Bracken, J. Clark, R. Bouroullec, J. D. Moody: Integrating

Outcrop Data to Define Regional and Reservoir-Scale Patterns in

Prograding Shelf-Slope-Basin Systems, Sobrarbe Formation, Spain

• M. Santra, R. Steel, M. L. Sweet: Basin-Fill Geometry of Eocene

Tyee Basin — From Fluvial Deposits to Extensive Sand-Rich Basin

Floor Fans

• R. W. Weight, J. B. Anderson: Origin of the Texas Mud Blanket,

Central Texas Shelf: Implications for Fine Grain Sediment Flux and

Redistribution During Transgression

• S. Kerrin, P. Bart: Seismic-Stratigraphic Based Reconstruction of

Middle Miocene Meltwater Discharge and Other Glaciogenic Features

on the Eastern Basin Outer Continental Shelf, Ross Sea, Antarctica

• K. M. Roe, B. Rosenheim, B. Roberts, M. Allison, A. S. Kolker,

D. Duncan, J. A. Nittrouer, K. Butcher, A. Nyman, J. Adamic: An

Investigation of the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River System as a Source

or a Sink of Organic Carbon

• S. Tyrrell, P. W. Haughton*, J. Daly, P. M. Shannon: Tracking Sand

Grains from Source to Sink Using the Pb-in-K-feldspar Provenance

Tool: Examples from Sedimentary Basins on the NW European Margin

theme Viii: exploration and Production of Shale Gas resources (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: B. Cardott and W. Dow

• J. F. Gale, S. E. Laubach, L. J. Fidler: Natural Fractures in the

New Albany Shale, Illinois Basin, and Their Importance for Shale-Gas

Production.

• G. Lash, T. Engelder: Thickness Trends and Sequence Stratigraphy of

the Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale, Appalachian Basin: Evidence of

the Influence of Basement Structures on Sedimentation Patterns

• R. M. Portas, R. Slatt: Characterization and Origin of Fracture

Patterns in a Woodford Shale Quarry in Southeastern Oklahoma for

Application to Exploration and Development

• H. Moore, M. Sandstrom, E. Ringer: Inferred Depositional

Environments of Bossier-Haynesville Black Shales in the Greater

Sabine Area, Northwestern Louisiana

• F. P. Wang, U. Hammes: Key Petrophysical Factors Affecting Fluid

Flow in Geopressured Haynesville Shale

• J. D. Edman, J. K. Pitman: Evaluation of Maturation and Petroleum

Generation in the Eagle Ford Shale, First Shot Field, Texas

• M. A. Moreno: Gas Potential of Upper Cretaceous Shales in the

Center and North Areas of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

• J. T. Haynes, T. R. Rose, K. E. Goggin, S. J. Whitmeyer,

S. M. Walker: Petrography and Micropore Systems of Mudrocks,

Concretions, Nodules, and Ash from Devonian Shales in Highland and

Bath Counties, Virginia

• R. Perez: Quantitative Petrophysical Characterization of the Barnett

Shale

• H. Hamlin, U. Hammes: Stratigraphic and Depositional Controls

on Shale-Gas Reservoir Development in the Haynesville Shale,

Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Basin

• H. Rowe, N. Hughes: Strategy for Developing and Calibrating

Shale and Mudstone Chemostratigraphies Using Hand-Held X-ray

Fluorescence Units

• A. I. Younes, B. Gebhart, J. Jamison: Bossier - Haynesville:

Developing Mechanically Layered Shale Gas Plays

• U. Hammes, R. Eastwood, H. Hamlin: Influence of Facies Variations

on Exploration, Production, and Resource Assessment in Gas-Shale

Plays: A Geologic and Petrophysical Evaluation of the Haynesville

Shale, East Texas, USA

• T. Engelder: Speculation on the Role of Low Water Saturation During

Layer-Parallel Shortening of the Marcellus Gas Shale

theme ii: mapping, modeling, and Understanding facies Heterogeneity in Carbonate deposits (SePm) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: E. C. Rankey and S. L. Reeder

• P. M. Harris, J. Ellis: Depositional Facies Patterns and Resultant

Heterogeneity in Carbonate Sand Reservoirs — Insight from Modern

Analogs

• B. Wilkinson, C. Drummond: Lateral Heterogeneity of Carbonate

Lithotopes Across Modern Depositional Surfaces

• S. J. Purkis, K. E. Kohler, B. Riegl, S. Dunn, G. Rowlands: Laws of

Depositional Architecture Atop Modern Carbonate Platforms

• A. J. Barnett, V. P. Wright: Porosity Evolution in the Bassein

Limestone of Panna and Mukta Fields, Offshore Western India: Burial

Corrosion and Microporosity Development

• E. L. Frost, D. A. Budd, C. Kerans, T. Allwardt: Syndepositional

Fault and Fracture Control on Diagenetic Fluid-Flow, Tansil Carbonates

(Permian), Dark Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico

• Z. Li, R. Goldstein, E. Franseen: Mixing of Freshwater and

Evaporated Seawater: A Control on Porosity Distribution in Upper

Miocene Carbonates of Southeast Spain

• D. Katz, T. Playton, P. M. Harris, J. Bellian: Slope Heterogeneity

of a Steep Upper Paleozoic Isolated Carbonate Platform Reservoir,

Karachaganak Field, Kazakhstan

• J. Wendte, A. Byrnes, D. Sargent: Limestone-Fraction Porosity: A

Key Concept in Assessing the Role of Dolomitization on the Origin of

Pores of Dissolution Origin in a Dominantly Limestone Succession,

the Upper Devonian Jean Marie Carbonate of Northeastern British

Columbia

• J. J. Lodge, D. Leverington, P. F. Holterhoff: Classifying Digital

Imagery of Modern Isolated Carbonate Platforms for Facies

Conditioning of Reservoir Models: Examples from Offshore Belize and

Yucatan

• N. M. Alghamdi, M. Pope, J. Read: Integrated Chemostratigraphy

and Facies-Based Sequence Stratigraphic Framework for Reservoir

Characterization of Lower Cretaceous Aptian Shuaiba Reservoir,

Shaybah Field, Saudi Arabia

• K. O. Al-Temimi, F. J. Read: Sequence Stratigraphy of Subsurface

Late Jurassic Arab D Formation, Hawiyah and Harmaliyah fields, Saudi

Arabia

• S. B. Reid, G. P. Eberli, D. F. McNeill, K. Verwer, P. M. Harris:

Facies and Stratigraphic Juxtapoisition of Marine and Eolian Deposits

During Pleistocene Sea level Highstands, New Providence Island,

Bahamas

• D. Lavoie, S. Jackson, I. Girard: Mg Isotopes in High Temperature

Saddle Dolomites from the Lower Paleozoic of Eastern Canada:

Significance for the Source of Magnesium and Their Origin

• L. A. Walters, E. Franseen, R. Goldstein, A. Byrnes: Heterogeneity

of Miocene Deepwater Heterozoan Carbonates and Reservoir Potential

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• A. Hess, R. Goldstein, E. Franseen: Antecedent Topography as a

Control on Facies Heterogeneity in a Shallow Heterozoan Carbonate

System, SE Spain

• G. Butler, P. F. Holterhoff, S. Rosscoe: High-Frequency

Sequence Stratigraphic Controls on Stratal Architecture of an Upper

Pennsylvanian “Regressive Limestone” (Bethany Falls Limestone),

Mid-Continent, USA

• R. Aisner, C. Kerans: Stratigraphic Architecure and Facies of the

Mural Limestone, Southeastern Arizona

• E. M. Young, R. Goldstein, E. Franseen: Faults, Depositional

Setting, Sea-Level Change, and Diagenesis Control on Heterogeneous

Carbonate-Chert Reservoirs Within Mississippian (Osagean) Strata in

South-East Kansas

theme Vi: regional interactions of tectonics and Sedimentation: examining relationships between deformation and basin evolution (SePm) Exhibition Hall 1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: J. L. Aschoff and B. K. Horton

• A. R. Mora, J. Naranjo, J. Tamara, V. Blanco, A. Ortiz, B. K.

Horton, R. A. Ketcham, A. Kammer: Kinematic History of Brittle

Structures and Planar Fabrics in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia

Deduced from Multidisciplinary Evidence

• J. E. Saylor, D. F. Stockli, J. Corredor, N. Sanchez, V. Blanco:

Detrital Zircon (U-Th)/He and U-Pb Geochronology of the Floresta

Basin, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

• J. Nie, B. K. Horton, A. Mora, J. Saylor, T. Housh, J. Rubiano,

J. Naranjo: Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Sm-Nd Isotopic

Constraints on the Evolution of the Magdalena Valley Basin, Colombian

Andes

• B. K. Horton, A. Mora, J. Rubiano, A. Reyes-Harker, D. F. Stockli,

J. E. Saylor, V. Blanco, M. Parra, R. A. Ketcham, J. Nie, D. Garcia:

Tracking Uplift of the Colombian Andes Using Detrital Zircon Ages,

Basin Fill Histories, Low Temperature Thermochronology, and Regional

Structural Relationships

• M. Salazar, L. G. Moscardelli*, W. Fisher, M. A. Lorente:

Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Morichito Piggyback Basin,

Eastern Venezuelan Basin

• L. R. Sternbach, S. Bang, C. Bianchi, J. Cespedes, Y. Han,

D. S. Choi: Offshore Peru, Trujillo Basin, Block Z-46: 2-D PSTM

Seismic Processing Reveals Deep Basins, Deformed by Different

Episodes of Normal and Trans-tensional Faulting, and Thick Eocene/

Oligocene Stratigraphically complex Submarine Fans Linked to

Evidence of Hydrocarbons/DHIs

• Y. Wenxiu, A. Escalona, P. Mann: Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of

the Continental Shelf of Guyana and Suriname

• K. Raines, R. N. Kukulski, B. D. Miles, R. Rose, H. Rose,

S. M. Hubbard, A. L. Leier: Stratigraphic Architecture of the

Jurassic-Cretaceous Nikanassin Group, British Columbia and

Alberta: Evidence for Tectonic Influence on the Initial Coarse Clastic

Depositional Cycle in the Western Interior Foreland System

• J. L. Rothfuss, A. Weislogel, S. Michalak: Influence of Ancestral

and Syndepositional Tectonic Regimes on Sediment Dispersal

Pathways in Intermontane Basins: Facies and Paleoflow Evidence from

the Renova Formation, Southwest Montana

• J. Kluesner, P. Lonsdale: Plate-Boundary Tectonism and Magmatism

Meets Prolific Sediment Supplies in the Young Oceanic Basins of the

Southern Gulf of California

• H. Park: Flexural Modeling: Variable Tectonic Subsidence in the

Paleozoic Appalachian Foreland Basin, Pennsylvanian Sailent, Central-

Northern West Virginia and Southern-Central Pennsylvania

• A. Domzig, Z. Schleder, S. Hoth, D. Knaust, R. Kluge, S. Ottesen:

Controls on Sand Deposition Patterns by 3-Surfaces: A Case Study

from the South Viking Graben, North Sea

• N. Backert, M. Ford, F. Malartre: Tectonic and Eustatic Controls on

the Stratal Architecture of a Giant Gilbert-Delta, Corinth Rift, Greece

• M. Auer, H. Gawlick, S. Missoni, F. Schlagintweit, H. Suzuki:

Basin Formation Along the Propagating Alpine-Carpathian-Dinaride

Thrust Belt (Central-Southeastern Europe)

• V. M. Alania, V. Glonti, O. Enukidze, Z. Lebanidze, S.

Tsertsvadze, R. Chagelishvili: Time and Style of Deformation of the

Kura Foreland Fold-and-Thrust Belt, South-East Georgia (Georgia)

• J. E. Wu, K. McClay: Analogue Modeling of Fold-and-Thrust Belts:

Dynamic Interactions with Syn-tectonic Sedimentation and Erosion

• F. Zhao: Study on the Strike-Slip Fault and Its Relationship with

Petroleum Exploration in the Western Qaidam Basin, China

• K. Zhong, G. Zhang, G. Hou, G. Chen, Y. He, C. Qin, H. Shen,

X. Jin: Contrasting Structural, Tectonic and Sedimentary Features

Between the East and West Qiongdongnan Basin, South China Sea:

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Wednesday Morning Oral Sessions

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theme i: rock Physics and Quantitative Seismic Analysis (AAPG) Room 238/239

Co-Chairs: E. Clark and S. M. Porche


8:05 J. M. Florez: Velocity, Porosity, and Density Compaction Trends for

Shale

8:25 M. T. Myers, L. Hathon: Application of Staged Effective Medium

Models for the Prediction of Velocities

8:45 L. Hathon, M. T. Myers: Observations of Intrinsic Anisotropy in Varied

Geologic Settings

9:05 M. A. Gutierrez, J. Dvorkin: Rock Physics-Based Workflows for

Lithology and Fluid Property Prediction in Frontier Basins

9:25 L. Stright, A. Bernhardt, T. Mukerji, A. Boucher: The Multi-Scale,

Multi-Attribute (MA-MS) Calibration; A Methodology for Predicting

Sub-Seismic Scale Facies from Seismic Attributes

theme i: evolving technology (AAPG)Room 238/239

Co-Chairs: A. Howard and C. P. Siess


10:30 A. Grader, A. Nur, C. Baldwin, E. Diaz*: Multi-Scale Imaging Process

for Computations of Porosity and Permeability on Carbonate Rocks

10:50 D. J. Bate, P. Nuttall, J. Hope, B. Kilner, A. McGrail, B. Radovich:

Gravity Gradiometry and Seismic Data Integration: A New Technology

Being Used to Develop Emerging and Mature Plays in the Gulf of

Mexico

11:10 C. H. Smith, J. Kneedy, S. Ramakrishna: Validation of T2 Bin

Derived Permeability — A Case Study from Atoka Wash, Oklahoma

11:30 M. H. Krieger, P. L. Smilde, O. K. Geisler, S. Hossfeld: Downhole

Gravity Gradiometry: A New Technique for Prospect and Reservoir

Modeling?

theme iV: Conjugate Central and northern Atlantic margins (AAPG/SePm) Room 243/244/245

Co-Chairs: D. E. Brown and G. Tari


8:05 N. Kusznir, A. Alvey: Crustal Thickness and OCT Location for the

Central and Equatorial Atlantic Rifted Margins Derived from Gravity

Inversion

8:25 P. E. Olsen, D. V. Kent, M. Et-Touhami: The Triassic-Jurassic

Transition Across the Nova Scotian - Moroccan Conjugate Margins

8:45 J. Adam, C. MacDonald, C. Campbell, J. Cribb, C. Kreszek,

M. Nedimovic, D. Grujic: Basin-Scale Salt Tectonic Processes

and Post-Rift Basin History of the North-Central Scotian Slope and

Deepwater Basin

9:05 M. E. Enachescu, I. Atkinson, J. Hogg, D. McCallum, C. Rowe:

Kimmeridgian Source Rock Super-Highway in the North Atlantic

9:25 H. Wilson: New Insights on Hydrocarbon Prospectivity Moroccan and

Nova Scotian Conjugate Margins

9:45 Break

10:30 L. Eliuk: Regional Setting of the Late Jurassic Deep Panuke

Field, Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada — Cuttings-Based Sequence

Stratigraphy and Depositional Facies Associations Abenaki Formation

Carbonate Margin — A Unique Hydrocarbon System and Play Type

10:50 J. M. O’Sullivan, S. M. Jones, R. J. Hardy: Geological Modeling

of the Porcupine Median Ridge: Implications for the Hydrocarbon

Prospectivity of North Atlantic Hyper-Extensional Basin and Margin

Systems

11:10 P. Mann, A. Escalona, Y. Wenxiu: Tectonic Setting and Hydrocarbon

Trendology of a Reported 7-8 TCF Giant Gas Discovery, Eastern Gulf of

Venezuela

11:30 L. Martin, I. Effimoff, J. O. Medou, M. Laughland: Hydrocarbon

Prospectivity of Offshore Senegal; Unlocking the Door to a New

Deepwater Petroleum Province

theme ii: baffles and barriers — Conduits and impediments to fluid flow (SePm) Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: W. R. Bailey and W. R. Jorgensen


8:05 W. Meddaugh, N. Toomey, D. Dull, W. T. Osterloh: Geological

Heterogeneity and Compartmentalization in the Wafra First Eocene

Carbonate Reservoir, Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ), Saudi Arabia and

Kuwait

8:25 A. D. Keswani, G. Pemberton: Why Are Mudstones Dolomitized in

Mississippian Midale Beds, Weyburn Oilfield, Saskatchewan?

8:45 H. Camacho, J. R. Boles, G. Garven: Thermal Anomalies Associated

with the Newport Inglewood Fault Zone, Long Beach Field, California

9:05 C. Smalley, H. Mamode, A. Muggeridge: Differentiating Barriers

from Baffles Using Pre-Production Data

9:25 M. Croy, J. Wheeler, K. Williams: Barostratigraphy for Basin

Geopressure Analysis

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theme ii: Stratigraphic Compartmentalization of Hydrocarbon reservoirs (SePm) Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: C. Calvert, R. Gani and J. Connolly


10:30 B. Ainsworth: Stratigraphic Compartmentalization Prediction and

Ranking in Marginal Marine Systems

10:50 J. Howell, S. Buckley, N. Richter, A. Rittersbacher, A. Sima,

K. Keogh: Empirical Understanding of Sedimentary Architecture:

Examples from the Campanian of Central Utah

11:10 V. Terlaky, H. Longuépée, J. Rocheleau, L. Meyer, G. van Hees,

K. Privett, G. Cramm, A. Tudor, B. Arnott: Facies, Architecture and

Compartmentalization of Basin-Floor Deposits: Upper and Middle Kaza

Groups, British Columbia, Canada

11:30 G. Grammer, J. Schulz, D. Barnes, R. Gillespie, W. B. Harrison,

J. E. Thornton: Stratigraphic Control on the Lateral Distribution of

Hydrothermal Dolomites away from Major Fault Zones

theme i: Petroleum System Analysis (AAPG/SePm) Room 255/256/257

Co-Chairs: L. B. Magoon and K. Peters


8:05 L. B. Magoon: History of the Petroleum System Analysis

8:25 M. R. Mello, N. C. Azambuja Filho, A. J. Catto, A. A. Bender, M.

B. Araújo, J. F. Eiras, C. C. Lima: The Giant to Super Giant Sub-Salt

Onshore Hydrocarbon Province of the Solimões Basin, in the Amazon

Jungle, Brazil: How Big Is It?

8:45 N. B. Schoellkopf: Quantitative Assessment of Hydrocarbon Charge

Risk in Exploration New Ventures — Are We Fooling Ourselves?

9:05 D. K. Higley, S. B. Gaswirth, N. Gianoutsos, T. A. Cook: Petroleum

System Assessment of Anadarko Basin Continuous and Conventional

Resources

9:25 P. G. Lillis, D. Selby: Rhenium-Osmium Geochronology of Phosphoria

Oils, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming

9:45 Break

10:30 K. Peters, S. Ramos, L. B. Magoon, P. Lillis, J. Zumberge:

San Joaquin Basin Petroleum Systems: New Evidence for Multiple

Kreyenhagen and Monterey Source-Rock Organofacies

10:50 A. R. Mora, B. K. Horton, A. Reyes-Harker, D. Garcia, V. Blanco,

G. Bayona, L. E. Rojas, C. Lopez, N. Sanchez, J. Rubiano, M.

Parra, R. A. Ketcham, E. Teson: Cenozoic Inversion Patterns in the

Eastern Cordillera of Colombia: Implications for Petroleum Systems

11:10 X. Guo, S. He, K. Liu*: Oil Generation as the Dominant Overpressure

Mechanism in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

11:30 A. V. Milkov: Worldwide Occurrences and Significance of Secondary

Microbial Methane Formed During Petroleum Biodegradation

theme ii: Source-to-Sink Sediment dispersal, modern and Ancient i (SePm) Room 338/339



8:05 T. Sømme, W. Helland-Hansen*, O. J. Martinsen: Partitioning and

Preservation of Sediments over Multiple Time-Scales

8:25 J. A. Covault, G. E. Hilley, B. W. Romans, S. A. Graham, A.

Fildani: Steady Transfer of Sediment from Drainage Basins to the

Deep Ocean over Thousands of Years of Climate Change

8:45 P. J. Markwick, M. C. Raddadi, R. G. Bailiff, K. E. Benny, E. V.

Edgecombe, A. M. Galsworthy, M. Harland, L. K. Raynham, D.

A. Rowland, S. J. Tomlinson, N. E. Wrobel: The Evolution of Global

Source-to-Sink Relationships During the Cretaceous and Tertiary Using

Stage Level Palaeogeographies and PaleoDEMs

9:05 K. Xu, C. K. Harris, R. Hetland, J. Kaihatu, N. Walker, R. Bellotte:

Dispersal of Mississippi and Atchafalaya Sediment on the Texas-

Louisiana Shelf: Numerical Modeling Results

9:25 K. G. Rogers, S. L. Goodbred: Sedimentation Patterns and Transport

Pathways Linking River Mouth to Remote Depocenters in the Ganges-

Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh

9:45 Break

10:30 A. W. Droxler, J. Francis, S. Jorry, G. Mallarino, E. Tcherepanov,

B. Carson: Sea Level Induced Carbonate/Siliciclastic Switch Along

the Gulf of Papua Shelf Edge: Last Glacial Cycle (150 ky) and Plio-

Pleistocene (3.5 My) Records

10:50 G. Lericolais, M. L. Sweet*, M. Bez, V. Abreu, T. Marsset, G.

Jouet, L. Droz, G. Calves, S. Charrier, E. Thereau, E. Marches:

The Golo System of Eastern Corsica: A Quaternary Source-to Sink-

System

11:10 G. Hampson: Sediment Dispersal Across Late Cretaceous Shelf,

Western Interior Seaway, Northern Utah and Colorado, USA

11:30 T. O. Sømme: Source-to-Sink in Rift Basins — Predicting Reservoir

Distribution in Ancient, Subsurface Systems

theme Viii: exploration and Production of Shale Gas resources (AAPG/emd) Room 343/344/345

Co-Chairs: W. Dow and B. Cardott


8:05 L. M. Larsen: Beyond North America: A Brief Survey of International

Gas Shale Activity

8:25 D. I. Close, F. Horn, D. Cho, G. Cameron, M. Malapad: An

Integrated Workflow for Shale Gas in the Western Canadian

Sedimentary Basin: Surface Seismic to Stimulation

8:45 J. Sliwinski, J. Harrington, M. Power, P. Hughes, B. Yeung: A

High-Definition Mineralogical Examination of Potential Gas Shales

9:05 S. Schamel, J. Quick: Manning Canyon Shale: Utah’s Newest Shale

Gas Resource

9:25 N. Fishman, G. S. Ellis, S. T. Paxton, M. M. Abbott, A. R. Boehlke:

From Radiolarian Ooze to Reservoir Rocks—Microporosity in Chert

Beds in the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Woodford Shale in

Oklahoma and Implications for Gas Storage

9:45 Break

10:30 I. Novosel, K. Manzano-Kareah, A. S. Kornacki: Characterization

of Source Rocks in the Greater Sabine Bossier and Haynesville

Formations, Northern Louisiana USA

10:50 A. S. Kornacki: Composition of Produced Gas and Mud Gas Samples

from Greater Sabine Bossier and Haynesville Gas-Shale Reservoirs,

Northern Louisiana USA

11:10 J. Pashin: Devonian Shale Plays in the Black Warrior Basin and

Appalachian Thrust Belt of Alabama

11:30 L. B. Smith, J. Leone: Integrated Characterization of Utica and

Marcellus Black Shale Gas Plays, New York State

theme Vii: Paleontology in the 21st Century: A Symposium dedicated to ed Picou (SePm/AAPG) Room 353/354/355

Co-Chairs: D. Griffith, M. B. Farley and R. Rosen


8:05 H. Brinkhuis: From Greenhouse to Icehouse; to There and Back

Again — Results from Arctic Ocean Drilling

8:25 L. Zarra: Utility of Sparse Paleontologic Data in Addressing

Stratigraphic Problems: Onshore and Deep-Water Wilcox Trend, Gulf of

Mexico

8:45 R. A. Denne: Microfossil Taxonomy in the 21st Century

9:05 R. L. Dickey, T. Yancey: Palynology Across a Sequence Boundary in

the Wilcox Group, Central Texas

9:25 S. Rigaud, J. Chablais, R. Martini, R. Rettori, G. D. Stanley: Upper

Triassic Foraminifers: New Data on Dispersal, Paleogeography and

Stratigraphic Global Correlations

9:45 Break

10:30 P. Grunert, W. E. Piller, M. Harzhauser, H. Sperl, R. Hinsch: High-

Resolution Foraminiferal Micropaleontology in the Oligo-Miocene of

the North Alpine Foreland Basin

10:50 D. Peryt, T. M. Peryt*: Foraminiferal Record of the Onset of the

Middle Miocene Badenian Salinity Crisis in Central Paratethys

11:10 P. Buzas-Stephens, A. R. Simms, M. A. Buzas: Evidence of

Environmental Change from Foraminiferal and Sedimentological

Correlation in an Incised Valley: Baffin Bay, Texas

11:30 M. B. Farley: Integration of Paleontology Key to Building Impact

theme ii: Submarine mass movements and their Consequences for deepwater exploration and Production (SePm) Room 356/357

Co-Chairs: V. Kertznus and L. G. Moscardelli


8:05 J. Cartwright: Topseal Integrity of Mass Transport Deposits

8:25 D. A. Armitage, C. A. Jackson: Role of Mass-Transport Deposit

(MTD) Related Topography on Turbidite Deposition and Reservoir

Architecture: A Comparative Study of the Tres Pasos Formation

(Cretaceous), Southern Chile and Temburong Formation (Miocene), NW

Borneo

8:45 M. Grecula, S. Kattah, P. Shiner: Role of Mass Transport Deposits

in the Creation and Fill of Tectonically Active Slope Accommodation,

Deepwater Sabah, NW Borneo

9:05 J. T. Eggenhuisen, W. D. McCaffrey, P. D. Haughton, R. Butler,

I. Moore, A. Jarvie, W. G. Hakes: Impact of Large-Scale Slope

Remobilisation on Sandbody Architecture: The Deep-Water Lower

Cretaceous Britannia Sandstone Formation, UK North Sea.

9:25 F. Gamberi, M. Rovere, M. Marani: Modern Examples of Mass-

Transport Complexes, Debrite and Turbidite Associations: Geometry,

Stratigraphic Relationships and Implications for Hydrocarbon Trap

Development

9:45 Break

10:30 H. Linzer, R. F. Sachsenhofer: Submarine Large Scale Mass

Movements in the Deepwater Foreland Basin of the Alps —

Implications to Hydrocarbon Generation and Distribution of Source and

Reservoir Rocks

10:50 O. Bakare: Importance of Mass Transport Deposits to Deepwater

Turbidite Reservoirs, Niger Delta, West Africa

11:10 G. Shanmugam: Sandy-Mass-Transport Deposits (SMTD) in Deep-

Water Environments: Recognition, Geometry, and Reservoir Quality

11:30 K. L. Maier, S. A. Graham, P. R. King, G. H. Browne, M. J. Arnot:

Influences on Deep-Water Slope Channel Formation and Fill: Examples

from the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

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theme Vii: Understanding the Gulf of mexico: depositional Systems, Play Concepts and Structure (AAPG) Room 238/239

Co-Chairs: J. C. Fiduk and M. G. Rowan


1:20 P. Weimer: Regional Controls on the Development of Neogene

Deepwater Fields in Mississippi Canyon, Atwater Valley, Desoto

Canyon, and Lloyd Ridge Areas, Northern Deep Gulf of Mexico

1:40 C. H. Nelson, J. Damuth, H. Olson, C. Escutia: Factors Controlling

Modern Abyssal Fan Architecture in the Gulf of Mexico and

Implications for Paleogene to Miocene Petroleum Plays in the Gulf of

Mexico

2:00 M. G. Moore: Exploration, Appraisal, and Development of Turbidite

Reservoirs in the Western Atwater Foldbelt, Deep Water Gulf of Mexico

2:20 C. L. Blankenship, D. I. Rainey, D. H. Knight, D. A. Kercho,

R. H. Benthien, K. Hargrove, R. T. Klein: Will K: Another Step in the

Evolution of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Deep Gas Play

2:40 M. R. Hudec, F. J. Peel: Influence of Basement Structure on Evolution

of the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

3:00 Break

3:25 S. W. Krueger: Dynamics of Tear Faults in the Salt-Detached Systems

of the Gulf of Mexico

3:45 S. Holdaway: Structural History of Keathley Canyon Type Salt Keels,

North-Central Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

4:05 T. S. Buddin: A ‘Sea-Floor to Basement’ Kinematic Model for Green

Canyon and Western Atwater Valley, Central Gulf of Mexico

4:25 M. G. Rowan, R. Hunsdale: Origin and Evolution of Bowl Welds in

the Central Louisiana Deepwater, Northern Gulf of Mexico

4:45 “Best of EAGE”

theme Xi: Global Climate Change forum Climate Change, Sea Level Change, and Storm event impact on Sedimentary environments and Petroleum industry infrastructure, U.S. Gulf of mexico (AAPG/deG)Room 243/244/245

Co-Chairs: J. Levine and J. Kupecz


1:20 To Be Determined

1:50 A. Sallenger: An Overview of Extreme Storms in the U.S. Gulf of

Mexico, and Their Coastal Impact

2:20 M. Blum: Impact of Sea-Level Change and Regional Subsidence

on Coastal Evolution: Prospects for the Mississippi Delta

3:00 Break

3:30 J. Anderson: Response of Gulf Coast Bays and Coastal Barriers

to Changes in the Rate of Sea-Level Rise and Sediment Supply

4:00 C. Williams: Petroleum Industry Response to Storms and Sea

Level Changes

4:30 Q&A Forum Full Panel

theme i: reservoir modeling (AAPG/SePm) Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: H. Alqassab and E. F. Ellis


1:20 M. D. Hogg, G. Shook, M. Pyrcz: Selection of Geological Models for

Uncertainty Assessment with a Novel Streamline Approach

1:40 C. P. North, S. K. Davidson: Shaping the Future of Fluvial Reservoir

Modeling

2:00 C. Toscano, F. Cappanera, A. Francesconi: Modeling the

Uncertainties of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

2:20 T. D. Jobe, A. E. Heris: Static Reservoir Modeling in an Incised Valley

Fill: A Case Study in Optimization from Postle Field, Texas County,

Oklahoma

2:40 V. C. Vahrenkamp, A. Creusen: The Role of Sedimentary Fabric for

Rock Typing and Model Upscaling in Carbonate Reservoirs

theme i: reservoir Characterization (AAPG/SePm) Room 252/253/254

Co-Chairs: R. Kocken and D. Tatum


3:25 C. A. Santacruz, R. Slatt, Y. Akkutlu, K. J. Marfurt: 3-D Geological

Modeling and ‘Reservoir’ Flow Simulation of a Leveed-Channel

Outcrop with Application to Deepwater Leveed-Channel Reservoirs

3:45 L. W. Bellman: Integrated 3-D Reservoir Characterization for Oil

Sands Evaluation, Development and Monitoring

4:05 E. E. Valencia, M. C. Herrera: High Resolution Stratigraphic Controls

on Rock Properties Distribution and Fluid-Flow Pathways in the Upper

Caballos Formation, San Francisco Field, Upper Magadalena Valley,

Colombia

4:25 B. Bennett, D. Jiang, S. R. Larter: Exploiting Natural Variations in

Fluid Properties to Solve Production Problems in Heavy Oil Reservoirs-

Production Allocation, Viscosity Profiling and Barrier Detection


theme i: innovative interpretation and Use of Seismic data (AAPG) Room 255/256/257

Co-Chairs: T. Maciejewski and D. Smith


1:20 Y. V. Ganshin, S. A. Quillinan, R. C. Surdam: Mapping Almond

Reservoir Rocks at Stagecoach Draw Field, Southwestern Wyoming:

Application of Spectral Decomposition Technique

1:40 R. M. Gruenwald, J. Buitrago, J. Dessay, A. Huffman, C. Moreno,

J. Gonzalez Munoz: Pore Pressure Prediction Based on High

Resolution Velocity Inversion in Carbonate Rocks, Offshore Sirte Basin

- Libya

2:00 M. Makhous, P. Rode: Passive Seismic Monitoring Technologies: A

Promising Innovation Tool for Detection of Hydrocarbon Accumulations

and Reservoir Monitoring

2:20 O. C. Ogiesoba, U. Hammes: Understanding Lithologic Significance

of Amplitude Envelope and Acoustic Impedance Within Oligocene and

Miocene Strata, South Texas Gulf Coast

2:40 S. Chopra, K. J. Marfurt: Detecting Stratigraphic Features via

Cross-Plotting of Seismic Discontinuity Attributes and Their Volume

Visualization

3:00 Break

3:25 F. F. Snyder, G. Jamieson, N. Biles: High Velocity Zones in Deep

Mini-Basin Miocene Sediments, Eugene Island, Northern Gulf of

Mexico

3:45 X. Zhang, C. Lin, T. Zhang: Seismic Sedimentology Interpretation

with Comprehensive Information in Shallow Sea Area, Gentle Slope

Belt of Chengning Uplift, China

4:05 I. Schmidt, M. Docherty, S. Lacaze, F. Pauget: Improved 3-D

Seismic Interpretation and Reservoir Model Construction Using

PaleoScan Technology

4:25 S. Sarkar, K. J. Marfurt, R. Slatt: Effect of Volcanic Bodies on

Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in the North-Eastern Part of Chicontepec

Foredeep, Mexico


theme iii: methodology & techniques (AAPG) Room 338/339

Co-Chairs: G. McMaster and R. Riese


1:20 G. Martinelli, M. Drange Førland, J. Eidsvik, R. Hauge: Modeling

Prospect Dependencies with Bayesian Networks

1:40 J. I. Howell: Precision…Decisions and the Workings in Between the

Impact of Psychology and Context on Investment Decisions

2:00 Z. Shang, D. Alfred*, D. Caldwell: Reservoir Average Porosity

Uncertainty Assessment with Limited Well Data

2:20 R. Otis, P. Haryott: Calibration of Uncertainty (P10/P90) in Exploration

Prospects

2:40 T. C. Coburn, E. D. Attanasi, P. A. Freeman: Empirical Evaluation of

Procedures to Assess Unconventional Natural Gas Resources when

Spatial Anomalies are Present

theme ii: Source-to-Sink Sediment dispersal modern and Ancient (SePm) Room 338/339



3:25 H. M. Wadman, J. E. McNinch: Processes Effecting Sediment

Transfer Across the Land-Sea Interface and Resulting Shelf

Stratigraphy

3:45 A. J. Bever, C. K. Harris, J. Swenson: Dispersal Basin Geometry

Influences Sediment Deposition, Shoreline Progradation Rates, and

Grain Size Segregation: A Case Study of Poverty Bay, New Zealand

4:05 L. Strachan, W. D. McCaffrey, B. Kneller: High-Frequency Climatic

Cyclicity Expressed in Deep-Marine Turbidites: The Santa Barbara

Basin, California

4:25 E. Septama, S. J. Bentley: Late Quaternary Deepwater Fan

Depositional Cycles in the Gulf of Papua: Linking Sources, Dynamic

Sedimentation Processes, and Depositional Architecture


theme Viii: Genesis of Shale Gas — Physicochemical and Geochemical Constraints Affecting methane Adsorption and desorption (emd/AAPG) Room 343/344/345

Co-Chairs: D. M. Jarvie and P. K. Mukhopadhyay


1:20 D. M. Jarvie, F. Behar: Decomposition of Organic Matter and Impact

on Shale Resource Play Assessments

1:40 B. Horsfield, R. Littke, U. Mann, S. Bernard, T. T. Anh Vu,

R. di Primio, H. Schulz: Shale Gas in the Posidonia Shale, Hils Area,

Germany

2:00 B. M. Krooss, A. Amann, Y. Gensterblum, F. Han, R. Littke: Gas

Transport and Sorption Processes in Coals and Shales: New Insights

and Concepts from Laboratory Experiments

2:20 T. Bowman: Direct Method for Determining Organic Shale Potential

from Porosity and Resistivity Logs to Identify Possible Resource Plays

2:40 B. Faraj: Key Attributes of Canadian and U.S. Productive Shales: Scale

and Variability

3:00 Break

3:25 B. Beaudoin, J. Shaw: Characterization of the Horn River Basin

Thermogenic Shale Gas Play in Northeastern British Columbia

3:45 B. Law, T. Ahlbrandt, D. Hoyer: Source and Reservoir Rock

Attributes of Neoproterozoic Shale, Beetaloo Basin, Northern Territory,

Australia

4:05 F. Mosca, B. Wright, S. Campbell, D. Curry: 3-D Petroleum

Systems Modeling Applied to Unconventional Shale Gas Play:

Prediction of Sweet Spots Based on Areal and Depth Distribution of

Sorption Capacity in Shale Gas

4:25 W. Marble: The Geologist and the Engineer — In Need of Each Other

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theme V: interaction of Hydraulic fracture treatments with natural fractures in tight Gas reservoirs (AAPG)Room 353/354/355

Co-Chairs: J. F. Gale, M. Thiercelin and J. Le Calvez


1:20 M. Thiercelin, D. Chuprakov, E. Siebrits, R. Jeffrey, X. Zhang:

Hydraulic Fracture Propagation in Fractured Media

1:40 J. Olson, A. Dahi Taleghani: The Influence of Natural Fractures on

Hydraulic Fracture Propagation

2:00 A. Ghassemi: Numerical Simulation of Hydraulic Fracture Propagation

in the Vicinity of a Natural Fracture

2:20 W. Xu, M. Thiercelin, J. Le Calvez: Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing

Stimulation of a Lateral Well in Barnett Shale

2:40 J. Stokes, H. Moros, J. H. Le Calvez, K. Brosnan, J. Greer: Real-

Time Borehole-Based Microseismic Monitoring of Hydraulic Fracturing

Treatments in Adjacent Horizontal Wells in the Barnett Shale: Example

of a Faulted Reservoir

theme V: fractured reservoirs: from fundamental Processes to technological Advancements (AAPG)Room 353/354/355

Co-Chairs: P. Eichhubl, C. Zahm and C. Fiduk


3:25 V. Chavez Valois, R. Castellanos, A. Marin, N. Olaez,

M. Hernandez, L. Hernandez, C. Prieto Ubaldo: Fracture Systems

Characterization: From the Regional Frame to the Reservoir, Sureste

Basin, Chiapas-Tabasco, Mexico

3:45 C. Zahm, C. Kerans: Small Faults, Big Damage Zones — An Example

of Fault-Related Fractures and Dissolution Collapse in a Ramp Crest

Carbonate System, Lower Pecos River Canyon, Texas

4:05 D. W. Hunt, P. Gillsepie, J. Thurmond, G. Casini, E. Monsen:

Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs Part 1: Development and Testing of

New Automated Methods for the Capture of Quantitative Fracture Data

from Outcrop Analogues

4:25 E. Flodin, P. Balossino, W. Narr: Well Log and Production Based

Analysis of Fractures in Karachaganak Field, Northwestern Kazakhstan


theme Vi: Salt Sediment interaction (AAPG)Room 356/357



1:20 R. K. Davies, W. Bradbury, R. Fletcher, G. Lewis, M. Welch,

R. Knipe: Outcrop Observations and Analytical Models of Deformation

Styles and Controls at Salt-Sediment Margins

1:40 B. Trudgill: Development of Progradational Sequences on the Flank

of an Evolving Salt Wall: Controls on Salt-Sediment Interaction, Salt

Valley-Fisher Valley Salt Wall, SE Utah

2:00 K. Giles, M. G. Rowan, T. F. Lawton: Concepts in Halokinetic

Sequence Development

2:20 M. G. Rowan, K. Giles, T. F. Lawton, T. E. Hearon IV, T. Hannah:

Salt-Sediment Interaction During Advance of Allochthonous Salt

2:40 S. S. Shaker: Dirty Versus Clean Salt: Their Impact on the Subsalt

Wilcox Deep Water Exploration Plays

3:00 Break

3:25 R. Gawthorpe, A. P. Oluboyo, F. Hadler-Jacobsen: The Variable

Role of Salt Tectonics on Turbidite Channels Along Continental Margins

3:45 J. L. Morgan, L. Wood: Seismic Geomorphology of Pliocene-Age

Leveed Channels in the Southern Atwater Fold Belt and Implications

for Timing of Salt Emplacement.

4:05 K. L. Kendell, M. E. Deptuck: Salt Evacuation History and

Depositional Corridors in the Annapolis and Crimson Region —Do

These Wells Really Provide an Accurate Test of Sand Presence in Nova

Scotia’s Deepwater?

4:25 S. Blanke, L. Meibos, P. Kline: A Seismically Defined Ancient Anoxic

Intraslope Basin in Hardin County, Texas—Potential Source and

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Wednesday Morning Poster Sessions

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theme Xii: Additional Student Posters (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Chair: D. Balcer

• A. P. Oluboyo, R. Gawthorpe, F. Hadler-Jacobsen: Tectonic

Controls on Cenozoic Submarine Channel Evolution on the West

African Margin

• R. Barnes, K. McClay: Fracture Systems in Fault Related Folds,

Zagros Fold Belt, Southern Iran

• C. C. Velez, P. P. McLaughlin, S. McGeary, S. L. Sargent: Seismic

Imaging of a Cretaceous Fluvial System

• C. F. Cassle, S. Egenhoff: The Upwelling Myth and Phosphate

Accumulation in a Semi-enclosed Basin: Counterarguments from the

Phosphoria Formation, Wyoming and Idaho, USA

• C. Serie, M. Huuse: Seismic Imaging of Fluid Migration in Petroleum

Basins

• J. Salazar, R. Gani, N. Gani, S. O’Brien: Tectono-Sedimentary

Evolution of the Late Cenozoic Slope Fan Complex in Garden Banks

Area, Offshore Louisiana

• J. G. Ridgway: Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation Facies

Characterization at Little Cedar Creek Field, Conecuh County, Alabama

• J. Bagley, B. Henk, J. Holbrook: Sedimentology, Ichnology,

Depositional Environment Interpretation, and Reservoir

Characterization of the Cotton Valley Sandstone in the Amoco Grace

Lowry #1, Harrison County, Texas

• A. E. Bande, B. K. Horton, A. Mora, J. Ramírez: Relative Timing of

Deformation Along the Western Margin of the Llanos Foreland Basin,

Colombian Andes: Evidence from Growth Strata and Depositional

Systems

• C. M. Sanchez, R. J. Steel, C. S. Fulthorpe, J. A. Austin: Miocene

Shelf-Edge Delta Behaviour and Influence on Deepwater Slope

Morphology, Northwest Shelf of Australia

• M. A. Islam, P. Skalle, N. H. Mondol: In Situ Stress Pattern and Its

Impact on Stable Drilling Operation — A Sensitivity Study

• C. D. Althoff: Depositional Megacycles in the Woodford Trough of

Central Oklahoma

theme iX: Astrogeology — impact of Collisions on earth’s History and the occurence of Hydrocarbon and mineral resources (emd) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: W. A. Ambrose and T. Klekamp

• K. Singh, L. Wood: The Impact of Astroblems on Earth’s History and

Its Implications for Hydrocarbon Production

• S. Evans, D. P. Dennie, S. Dulin, R. Elmore: The Alamo Breccia as a

Conduit for Remagnetizing Fluids: Testing the Hypothesis

• A. H. Johnson, M. D. Max, S. M. Clifford: Petroleum System

Analysis of Mars and Beyond

• W. A. Ambrose: A Survey of Impact Craters in the Inner Solar System:

Perspectives from Earth

theme Vi: Salt Sediment interaction (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.


• C. P. Platon, A. Weislogel: Influence of La Popa Salt Wall on the

Depositional Patterns and Stratal Architecture of the Shallow-Marine

Siliciclastic Deposits of the Viento Formation, La Popa Basin, Mexico

• J. Andrie, K. Giles: Halokinetic Sequence Stratigraphy and Structural

Geometry of the Eocene Fluvial Carroza Formation Along the La Popa

Salt Weld, La Popa Basin, Mexico

• P. R. Graham, B. Trudgill, J. L. Aschoff: Evolution of the Onion

Creek Salt Diapir and Related Salt-Withdrawal Minibasin During

the Plio-Pleistocene: Analysis of Growth Strata and Progressive

Unconformities, Grand County, Utah

• R. Kernen, K. Giles, T. F. Lawton, T. E. Hearon IV, M. G. Rowan:

Characteristics of a Tapered Composite Halokinetic Sequence Within

the Wonoka Formation Adjacent to the Ramping Patawarta Salt Sheet,

Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia

• T. E. Hearon IV, M. G. Rowan, R. A. Kernen, B. Trudgill: Lateral

Salt Emplacement at the Christmas Tree Diapir, Pinda Springs, South

Australia

• C. He, L. Tang, P. Wang, Y. Yang: Salt Deformation and Salt-

Sediment Interaction in Forelimb of the Forbulge, Kuqa Forland Basin

Systems in Tarim

• W. Xu: Seafloor Brine Pools/Lakes: Roles of Gas Expulsion, Gas

Hydrate and Buried Salt Mass

theme Viii: Genesis of Shale Gas — Physicochemical and Geochemical Constratints Affecting methan Adsorption and desorption (emd) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: K. Giles, P. K. Mukhopadhyay, D. M. Jarvie and C. Yeilding

• P. K. Mukhopadhyay: Physicochemical Constraints of Shale Gas

Potential Within Mississippian Horton Shale Sequences of New

Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Eastern Canada: Dependency of Liquid

and Gaseous Adsorptions

• G. E. Michael, Z. He: Shale Gas Play Evaluation Using Basin Modeling

• M. A. Vasilache: Fast and Economic Gas Isotherm Measurements

Using Small Shale Samples

• M. D. Lewan, M. J. Kotarba: Upper Thermal Maturity Limit for Gas

Generation from Humic Coals as Determined by Hydrous Pyrolysis

• G. R. Chalmers, M. R. Bustin: The Effects and Distribution of

Moisture in Gas Shale Reservoir Systems

• M. C. Dix, D. Spain, C. Walling, J. Sano, N. Casarta,

A. Richardson: Stratigraphy and Depositional Dynamics of the

Haynesville-Bossier Sequence: Inferences from Whole-Rock Elemental

Data

• A. Chaouche: Are Gas Shale and Tight Sands Really Unconventional

from a Petroleum Systems View Point?

• D. M. Jarvie: Worldwide Shale Resource Plays and Potential

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theme i: reservoir modeling (AAPG/SePm) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: H. Alqassab and E. F. Ellis

• M. D. Jackson, R. P. Sech, G. Hampson: Surface-Based Modeling

to Capture High-Resolution Facies Architecture and Its Impact on

Hydrocarbon Volumes and Recovery

• H. Li, T. Garner, C. Genty, K. Ghayour, T. Sun: Hierarchical Reservoir

Modeling Using Process-Based Models as Digital Analogs

• J. A. Bellian, C. Kerans: Laser-Mapping and 3-D Reconstruction

of the Lower Ordovician El Paso Group Collapse Breccias, Franklin

Mountains, Texas

• S. R. Freeman, S. D. Harris, J. M. Campbell*, K. Wood: Integrating

Structural Uncertainty into the Reservoir Simulation Process

• M. E. Donselaar, D. T. Gilding, R. M. Groenenberg, C. J. Wiggers,

K. A. Wolf: Targeting Reservoir Sandstone for Deep Geothermal

Energy Production: Challenges and Heterogeneous Reservoir Model

Construction

• C. T. Dang, N. Nguyen, W. Bae, T. Phung: A Successful Story of

Integrating Geological Characterization, Reservoir Simulation, Assisted

History Matching & EOR in Extremely Heterogeneous Reservoir

• Y. Yamada, K. Baba, M. Yagi, M. Higashi, H. Takedomi, A. Kato,

K. Okada: Facies Architecture of Subaqueous Felsic Lava Dome —

Building of Training Image for Multi-point Geostatistical Reservoir

Modeling

• G. Chen, J. Pan, W. Pan: Geological Model of Carbonate Weathering

Crust Karst Reservoir

theme i: reservoir Characterization (AAPG/SePm) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: R. Kocken and D. Tatum

• B. Seyler, J. Grube, B. G. Huff, C. S. Blakley, P. Johanek: Reservoir

Characterization for Enhanced Oil Recovery in Middle Mississippian

Cypress Sandstones at Lawrence Field, Illinois

• F. H. Nader, J. Daniel, O. Lerat, B. Doligez: Implications of

Conceptual and Numerical Modeling of Dolomitization for Reservoir

Characterization

• A. Seyedolali, A. Dombrowski, S. Crouch: Modification of

Seal Capacity by Digenesis at Peace River, Alberta, Canada — An

Integrated Study on Subsurface Reservoir and Seal Quality Evaluation

for Acid Gas Injection

• C. A. Polo, G. M. Baniak, M. K. Gingras: Biogenic Influences on

Resource Quality Within the Upper Cretaceous Nise Formation, More

Basin, Norwegian Sea

• D. J. Hills, D. C. Kopaska-Merkel, J. C. Pashin: Depositional

and Diagenetic Factors Influencing CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery in

Estuarine Sandstone Facies of the Donovan Sand (Lower Cretaceous),

Citronelle Field, Southwest Alabama

• L. F. De Ros, K. Goldberg, N. Dani, G. Armelenti, A. S. Carvalho,

E. E. Zambonato: Diagenetic Processes in Clastic Pre-salt Reservoirs,

Onshore Espírito Santo Basin, Eastern Brazil

• A. C. Hewlett, M. Pranter, S. Cumella: Stratigraphic Architecture,

Reservoir Quality, and Sandstone-Body Connectivity of the Mesaverde

Group, Central Mamm Creek Field, Piceance Basin, Colorado

• S. Carney, P. Millitz, S. Chai: Low Resistivity, Low Contrast Pay

Definition Using Multi-Resolution Graphical Clustering Techniques on

the Complex Miocene Reservoirs of the North Malay Basin

• A. L. Maldonado, W. J. Clark: Characterization of Sand Injectites

in the Mississippian-Devonian Lower Bakken Shale, Williston Basin,

North Dakota

• M. W. French, R. H. Worden, E. Mariani, R. R. Mueller, H. von

Eynatten, C. Fischer: Low-Temperature Porosity Preserving

Microquartz from Upper Cretaceous Sandstones of the Subhercynian

Basin (Germany)

• T. Borgohain, P. N. Baruah, P. K. Kakoty: Reservoir Fairway Analysis

of a Barail Interval of Deohal Area in Upper Assam Basin Using High

Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Seismic Attributes

• D. A. Wytovich, D. R. Watts, E. Hauser, G. Watts, D. Dominic, K.

Crampton: Reservoir Characterization of the North Canton Gas Field

“Clinton” Interval Using Well Log, Production, Hydraulic-Fracture, and

Seismic Data

• G. J. Dean, D. A. Spratt, C. M. Henderson: Fracture Analysis and

Diagenetic Characterization of an Upper Paleozoic Gas Play, East-

Central British Columbia, Rocky Mountains, Canada

• M. M. Shah, F. H. Nader, R. Swennen, J. Dewit, D. Garcia:

Fracture-Controlled High Temperature Dolomites in the Cretaceous

Ramales Formation (Cantabrian Mountain Chain, NW Spain):

Implications for Reservoir Characterization

• A. Badi, O. Ali, A. Farwa, O. M. Abdullatif: Reservoir Modeling of

Yabus and Samaa Formations (Tertiary), Agordeed Field, Melut Rift

Basin, Sudan

• S. Sathar, R. H. Worden, D. R. Faulkner, C. Smalley: An Analogue

Approach to Understand the Effect of Oil Emplacement on Pressure

Solution in Reservoir Rocks

• S. Huang, T. Zhang, D. Wang, G. Liang, Z. Hou, M. Zhao, J. Liu,

Z. Jiang: Discussion of Petrotectonic Facies and Their Meaning for

Reservoir Study

• I. Panarin: Peculiarities of the Structure of the Upper and Middle

Jurassic Formations — Reservoirs of the Zapolyarnoye, Yamburgskoe

and Tazovskoe Fields

theme V: fractured reservoirs: from fundamental Processes to technological Advancements (AAPG)Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: C. Fiduk, C. Zahm and P. Eichhubl

• D. Moos, C. A. Barton, D. W. Montgomery, P. W. Whiteley:

Predicting Injection Pressure for Natural Fracture Stimulation — A

Case Study

• B. Tilley, S. McLellan, S. Hiebert, B. Quartero, M. Qayyum,

K. Muehlenbachs: Isotopic Evidence for Tectonically Induced Mixing

of Deep Shale Gases in Foothills Reservoirs of the Western Canada

Sedimentary Basin

• P. Marchesini, M. P. Grasmueck, G. P. Eberli, M. Zeller,

R. Van Dam: Tracking Fluid Flow with 4-D Ground Penetrating Radar

(GPR) in a Fractured Carbonate Reservoir

• A. R. Mora, W. Robles, J. Tamara, A. Ramirez, E. Zambrano,

G. Meza, A. Ortiz, A. Kammer: Integrated Fracture Analysis in

Complex Areas. Colombian Eastern Foothills

• G. Casini, S. Homke, J. Embry, I. Romaire, N. Fernández,

I. R. Sharp, P. Gillsepie, D. W. Hunt*: Fractured Carbonate

Reservoirs Part 2: High-Resolution Mechanical Stratigraphy Derived

from Kilometre-Scale Outcrop Analogues

• H. Boro, G. Bertotti, S. M. Luthi: 3-D Fracture Patterns in

Outcropping Reservoir-Scale Anticline: New Acquisition Methods and

Results from the Tata Anticline (Morocco)

• S. Sonnenberg, S. K. Appleby, J. Sarg: Quantitative Mineralogy and

Microfractures in the Middle Bakken Formation, Williston Basin, North

Dakota

• M. Frass, N. Harvey: Fracture Evaluation from Image Logs, A New

Development: Image Petrophysics

• C. Prieto Ubaldo, F. Monroy Santiago, P. Flores Avila: Structural

Diagenesis: Application in Fractured Reservoirs Characterization.

Examples from Southeastern México

• G. Strijker, S. M. Luthi, G. Bertotti, J. Klaver: Evolution of a Multi-

scale Fracture System as a Result of Stress Re-orientation, Cambrian

Umm Ishrin Formation, Jordan

• F. A. Nenna, X. Zhou, A. Aydin: Field Investigation and Numerical

Modeling of Pressure Solution Seam Growth and Evolution Observed

in Clastic Rocks, County Cork, Ireland

• S. E. Laubach, M. A. Ellis, P. Hargrove, P. Eichhubl, A. Fall:

Contrasts in Fracture Array Intensity, Connectivity and Porosity

Associated with Faults in Tight Fluvial and Marine Sandstones

• R. N. McGinnis, G. R. Walter, F. P. Bertetti, M. M. Roberts,

D. A. Ferrill, A. P. Morris, K. J. Smart: Influence of Fault Zone

Deformation on the Permeability of the Glen Rose Formation: Hidden

Valley Fault Zone, Comal County, Texas

• J. C. Martin, R. E. Holdsworth, K. McCaffrey, A. Conway, M.

Krabendam: Characterizing Fracture Networks in the Lewisian

Gneiss Complex, NW Scotland: Implications for Petroleum Potential in

the Clair Field Basement, Faroe-Shetland Basin

• K. Pomar, G. P. Eberli, M. P. Grasmueck, J. Lamarche, M. Coll:

Integration of 3-D Ground Penetrating Radar and Outcrop Analysis

for Characterizing Solution Enhanced Fractures in Cretaceous

Carbonates, Cassis, France

• S. P. Cooper, J. C. Lorenz: Fracture Patterns Associated with Tightly

Folded Laramide Structures: The Example of Beer Mug Anticline,

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• M. A. Pearce, R. Jones*, S. Smith, K. J. McCaffrey: Relationship

Between Folding and Fracturing in Outcrop-Scale Reservoir Analogues

• S. Wilkins, M. Doe, H. White, R. Cole, R. Stands-Over-Bull: The

Influence of Fluvial Channel Architecture on Joint Characteristics:

Examples from Mesaverde Outcrop, Douglas Creek Arch, Colorado

theme Viii: exploration for Gas Hydrate resources (emd) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: B. Hunter and A. H. Johnson

• O. Takano, T. Saeki, T. Fujii: Turbidite Facies Control on the

Distribution Patterns of Matrix Pore Filling-Type Gas Hydrates in the

Eastern Nankai Trough Area, Central Japan

• D. Shelander, J. Dai, G. Bunge, T. S. Collett, R. Boswell, E. Jones:

Predictions of Gas Hydrates Using Pre-stack Seismic Data, Deepwater,

Gulf of Mexico

• N. Waldmann, H. Haflidason, C. Zühlsdorff, B. Hjelstuen:

Dynamic Response of Gas Hydrates to Lithological Changes: Evidence

from the Mid-Norwegian Continental Margin

• J. Tomasini, H. de Santa Ana, A. H. Johnson: Identification of

New Seismic Evidence Regarding Gas Hydrate Occurrence and Gas

Migration Pathways Offshore Uruguay

• N. Hwang, K. Lee, D. Yoo: Spatial Distribution of Seismic Signatures

of Gas and Gas Hydrate in the Ulleung Basin, East Sea, Offshore Korea

• J. Behseresht, Y. Peng, S. L. Bryant, W. Winters: Sedimentological

Control on Hydrate Saturation Distribution in Arctic Gas-Hydrate-

Bearing Deposits

• D. Feng, H. H. Roberts: Authigenic Carbonates from MC 118 (Gulf of

Mexico) and Their Possible Relation to Gas Hydrate Destabilization

• B. M. Figueira, J. M. De Silva, W. Clarke: Delineation of Gas

Hydrate Deposits, Block 27, Eastern Offshore, Trinidad

• C. C. Knapp, J. H. Knapp, A. Addison, L. Macelloni, M. Waddell:

Geophysical Baseline Characterization of Subsurface Gas Hydrates at

MC118, Gulf of Mexico

• C. B. Lutken, L. Macelloni, L. Lapham, S. Caruso, M. Lodi,

R. Camilli, V. Asper, A. Diercks, J. H. Knapp, C. Knapp: Monitoring

Seafloor Morpho-Geological Evolution of the MC118 Hydrate/

Carbonate Mound via Multiple AUV Missions

theme V: Continental breakup Processes and their implications for exploration models in rift and Passive margin Settings (AAPG) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: M. Nemcok and S. T. Sinha

• G. Elliott: Influence of Margin Segmentation upon the Breakup of the

Hatton Bank Rifted Margin, NE Atlantic

• J. Skogseid, L. Gernigon, H. C. Bender, M. G. Abdel Salam,

A. K. Thurmond, C. Gaina: Microcontinent Formation in a Mantle

Plume and Plate Tectonic Perspective

• S. Dehler, K. Welford: Variations in Rifting Style and Structure of the

Scotian Margin, Atlantic Canada, from 3-D Gravity Inversion

• W. Mohriak, A. Duarte: Breakup Processes in the South Atlantic:

An Integrated Approach Based on Geological and Geophysical

Interpretation and Tectonic Reconstructions

• K. B. Trivedi, V. Singh, A. N. Lange, N. Jukuda: Hydrocarbon

Exploration in West Coast of South Africa: An Enigma or a Point to

Cogitate

theme iX: Co2 Sequestration: Strategies and technologies for Storage and monitoring (deG/emd) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: G. C. Blount, T. Meckel and M. K. Harris

• K. Chang, T. Meckel, M. A. Hesse, J. Nicot: Across-Fault Pressure

Perturbation Induced by CO2 Injection

• T. M. Sodagar, D. C. Lawton: Seismic Characterization of the

Redwater Leduc Reef, Alberta, Canada

• T. Meckel, S. D. Hovorka, J. Ajo-Franklin, D. Reiter: Downhole

Passive Microseismic Observations During Continuous CO2 Injection at

Cranfield, Mississippi

• S. A. Smith, J. A. Harju, E. Steadman, J. A. Sorensen: Overview of

the Zama Acid Gas EOR, CO2 Sequestration, and Monitoring Project

• Y. I. Holubnyak, D. J. Knudsen, B. A. Mibeck, J. M. Bremer,

S. A. Smith, C. D. Gorecki, J. A. Sorensen, E. Steadman,

J. A. Harju: Geochemical Modeling of Carbon Dioxide Injection into

Carbonate Formation in the Northwest McGregor Oil Field for CO2

Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR)

• G. D. Wach, M. Zentilli: Subsurface CO2 Storage in Nova Scotia,

Eastern Canada

• G. Falorni, A. Tamburini, F. Novali, A. Ferretti: Multi-interferogram

InSAR Techniques for Monitoring Surface Deformation in CO2

Sequestration

• N. Dobrzinski, D. Haberlah, M. Bunch, S. Holl, B. Ainsworth,

S. Mockler, J. Kaldi: Modeling Geological Storage of CO2: A Workflow

Perspective

• Q. Tao, S. L. Bryant: Model of CO2 Leakage Rates Along a Wellbore

theme Xi: Carbon dioxide Capture and Geologic Sequestration (deG/emd) Exhibition Hall 8:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Co-Chairs: A. K. Anderson, Y. Kharaka, D. A. Jenkins and J. Drahovzal

• L. Goldie Divko, J. Hamilton, G. W. O’Brien: Evaluation of the

Regional Top Seal for Geologic Carbon Sequestration, Gippsland Basin,

Southeastern Australia

• M. A. Hesse, J. Neufeld, A. Riaz: Convective Dissolution of CO2 in

Saline Aquifers

• R. J. Rosenbauer, J. L. Bischoff, B. Thomas: Experimental and

Theoretical Alteration of Basalt by Supercritical CO2: Implications for

CO2 Sequestration

• D. R. Cole, Y. Kharaka, T. Bullen, S. D. Hovorka: Environmental

Impacts of CO2 Sequestration in Sedimentary Basins

• M. A. Simms, G. Garven: Post-Closure Buoyancy-Driven Leakage of

Sequestered CO2 Along Fault Zones

• A. Hartling: Geological Carbon Sequestration and Shale Gas

Development in Northeast British Columbia, Canada

• C. Sullivan, F. A. Spane, P. MCGrail: Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

in Continental Flood Basalts: Meeting Subsurface Imaging and

Characterization Challenges in Eastern Washington

• J. R. Damico, J. P. Grube, S. M. Frailey, B. Seyler: Integrated

Development of Geologic Models and Field Test Results in

Sequestration/EOR Pilots in the Illinois Basin

• D. Palombi, T. E. Hauck, S. Bachu: Geological and Hydrogeological

Site Characterization for Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage in the Redwater

Leduc Reef, Alberta, Canada

• R. W. Olson: Review of Data Indicating the Historical Effect of the Sun

on Climate Change

• S. D. Hovorka: Deep and Near-Surface Monitoring for Enhanced CO2

Storage Security

• E. Rehmer: Regulatory and Policy Implications for Basin Scale

Geologic Carbon Sequestration Projects

• D. Pudlo, R. H. Gaupp: The Relevance of Chlorite-/Biotite-Fluid

Interaction on Porosity/Permeability Attributes of CO2 Reservoir Rocks.

• G. Wang, T. R. Carr: Evaluation of CO2 Geologic Storage Resource in

the Ordos Basin, China

• C. Hermanrud, H. M. Nordgård Bolås, G. G. Teige: Risking

of Hydrocarbon Exploration and CO2 Storage — Similarities and

Differences

• G. J. Kirkpatrick, J. Phipps Morgan, J. Hasenclever: PorousM3,

a Finite Element 2-D and 3-D Porous Flow Modeling Code Being

Developed to Model Carbon Sequestration

• S. Menacherry, S. Mockler, S. Holl: Assessing a Regional to Site-

Specific Potential for Geologic Sequestration in the Sydney Basin,

Australia

• M. Sturmer, R. N. Tempel, J. G. Price: Evaluating Carbon

Sequestration Potential by Modeling Mineral Carbonation of Mafic

Rocks from Nevada Using Both Pure CO2(g) and Flue Gas

S. Beers, Y. Kharaka, J. Thordsen, W. Herkelrath, P. Campbell, •

J. Birkholzer, R. Trautz, H. Rauch, K. Gullickson: Groundwater

Chemistry Changes as a Result of CO2 Injection at the ZERT Monitoring

Field Site, Bozeman, Montana

S.R. Kelley, K.J. Patterson*, D.A. Barnes:• Geological Controls on

Mount Simon Sandstone Reservoir Quality and Geological Carbon

Sequestration Potential in the Michigan Basin, USA: Conventional Core,

Petrographic, and Petrophysics Analysis

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Non AAPG members registering for the AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition receive the AAPG member rate by paying the associate membership dues at the time of registration

See page 60 for details or visit our web site at www.AAPG.org/NewOrleans

american association of Petroleum geologists 2010 international Conference & exhibition12-15 September • Calgary TELUS Convention Center (CTCC) • Calgary • www.AAPG.org/Calgary

Call For AbstractsFrontiers of Unconventional Thinking: Saddle Up for the Ride

Industry professionals and students are invited to submit abstracts for the AAPG 2010 International Conference & Exhibition. The technical program committee encourages abstracts that relate to any of the topics listed below. Planned sessions and formats (oral or poster) may be modified depending on actual submittals. Visit www.AAPG.org/Calgary for abstract submittal updates and additional information.

Sedimentology — Depositional Models for High Latitude Systems•

Circum-Arctic Tectonics and Basin Formation — Arctic Basin Tectonics, Deepwater and Ultra-deepwater Arctic Basins, UNLOS Surveys•

Mixed Carbonate/Evaporite Successions — Depositional Models and Reservoirs•

Petroleum Systems — Source Rock, Migration, Trap, Seals•

Geophysics — Advances in Harsh Environment Acquisition and Processing, Advancements on Seismic Acquisition on Ice, Under Basalts•

Rift to Drift, Passive Margin, Transition Tectonics — Source Rocks, Reservoirs, Migration from Rift to Drift•

Exotic Reservoirs of the World — What Produces Where in the World? Chalks, Cherts, Phosphates, Granites, Hydrates•

Reservoir Management: From Discovery to Abandonment — Geological and Reservoir Modeling, Second, Tertiary Recovery, Multidisciplinary • Teams of Professionals

Risk Analysis and Assessment — Oil Sands, Shales and Tight Sands•

Environmental — Environmental Concerns of Unconventional Development•

North American Unconventional Oil — Oil Sands, Tight Oil Sands and Carbonates, Oil Shale, Heavy Oil•

North American Unconventional Gas — Coal Bed Methane, Tight Gas Sands and Carbonates, Shale Gas•

International Unconventional Oil — Oil Shales, Tight Oil Reservoirs•

International Unconventional Gas — Coal Bed Methane, Shale Gas •

Geoscience Investigations and Petroleum Search Beyond Traditional Exploration Confines — Remote Exploration, “First Ever” Basin Exploration; • Ultra-deepwater Drilling and Development in Shallow Productive Basins

Proposed themes for the AAPG 2010 ICE Technical Program include:

Submit your abstracts online today!Deadline for submitting abstracts is 4 February 2010.


GENERAL INFORMATION

Registration HoursSaturday, 10 April ................................7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.Sunday, 11 April ..................................7:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m.Monday, 12 April ..................................7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.Tuesday, 13 April .................................7:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.Wednesday, 14 April ............................7:30 a.m.–12:00 noon

Exhibition HoursSunday, 11 April ..................................5:00 p.m.–7:30 p.m. (Icebreaker Reception)Monday, 12 April ..................................8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.Tuesday, 13 April .................................8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.Wednesday, 14 April ............................8:30 a.m.–12:00 noon

Children under the age of 16 will not be allowed in the exhibition hall during setup or teardown. Children 13 and older will be allowed to attend the exhibition during regular exhibit hours if they are properly registered and wearing their badges. During exhibition hours, children under the age of 13 will not be allowed into any activities within the exhibition hall, including the Icebreaker Reception, unless they are young enough or small enough to be confined in a stroller, backpack or frontpack.

Business CenterOperated by Rhino Business Services, located in Lobby “F” of the Morial Convention Center. The business center offers copying services (b&w and color), laser printing (b&w and color), office supplies, exhibit supplies, small parcel shipping and packaging, mobility wheelchair rental, sign and banner production, instant business cards, international phone cards and more.

Business MeetingsAAPG House of Delegates MeetingSunday, 11 April, 8:00 a.m.

SEPM Business Meeting/LuncheonTuesday, 13 April

New Orleans ClimateNew Orleans has a subtropical climate with pleasant year-round temperatures. Temperatures in April generally range from 59 to 79 degrees Fahrenheit. Rainfall is common in New Orleans, with an average of 4.5 inches falling in April.

Convention CenterLocated along the mighty Mississippi River, within walking distance of the French Quarter, fine dining, attractions and numerous first-class hotel rooms, the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (MCCNO), the nation’s sixth largest convention center, is the engine that drives the Crescent City’s hospitality industry. Together with New Orleans’ popular destination appeal, the MCCNO’s spaciousness, service and flexibility has enabled the facility to consistently rank in the top 10 for hosting the most national conventions and tradeshows annually since its 1985 opening. Destination address for GPS or online mapping: 900 Convention Center Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70130.

Cyber C@féCheck in at home or the office with the free e-mail service available in the Cyber C@fé, located inside the Exhibition Hall during show hours.

Electronic CapturingCapturing or photographing contents of oral or poster presentations or exhibition booths via any electronic media is strictly prohibited at all AAPG conventions and conferences.


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Judge Your Peers’ Papers and PostersYour participation in the judging of papers and posters is requested! This important function determines the winners of the Matson Award, Braunstein Award, SEPM Best Paper and Best Poster Awards and Division Awards. Your effort will involve judging and evaluating one or more oral or poster sessions. Stop by the Judges’ Room to pick up your packet of judging materials and enjoy a beverage or snack on your way to the session. Please mark your registration form to volunteer to judge at the 2010 convention!

No-Smoking PolicySmoking is prohibited at the convention center.

Travel and TransportationAirport InformationThe Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is approximately 11 miles from the Central Business District. Taxicabs, shuttle buses and public transportation routes can get you to the CBD 24 hours a day. Passengers are advised to arrive 2 hours prior to your scheduled departure time. Airport officials also recommend booking your flight early as flights out of New Orleans are operating at or near capacity.

The airport now offers wi-fi services in 85 percent of the airport terminal’s main level, which includes most gates, sitting areas and food courts. Airport travelers can get real-time flight arrival and departure updates from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport website, browse information about the retail and restaurant offerings in the airport, and get the latest travel tips.

Ground Transportation (prices subject to change)Taxicabs: A cab ride costs $33.00 from the airport to the Central Business District (CBD) for • one or two persons and $14.00 (per passenger) for three or more passengers. Pick-up is on the lower level, outside the baggage claim area. There may be an additional charge for extra baggage. Airport Shuttle: Shuttle service is available from the airport to the hotels in the CBD for $20.00 • (per person, one-way) or $38.00 (per person, round-trip). Three bags per person. Call +1 866 596 2699 or +1 504 522 3500 for more details or to make a reservation. Advance reservations are required 48 hours prior to travel for all ADA-accessible transfers. Please call well enough in advance for the specially equipped shuttle to be reserved. For group reservations of 50 or more people please dial +1 866 596 2699. Ticket booths are located on the lower level in the baggage claim area.Jefferson Transit: The Airport-Downtown Express (E-2) Bus picks up outside airport Entrance • #7 on the upper level. The fare for Airport-Downtown Express (E-2) is $1.10. The fare boxes will accept $1, $5, $10, $20 dollar bills and all U.S. coins. The fare boxes will provide change in the form of a value card that can be used for future fares. The Airport-Downtown Express (E-2) provides service from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Kenner, down Airline Drive into New Orleans. The Airport bus stop is on the second level of the Airport, near the Delta counter, in the median (look for the sign and bench). At Carrollton at Tulane it connects with RTA’s 27-Louisiana and 39-Tulane buses. (Visit the RTA website to check their current schedules.)

Convention ShuttleThe AAPG shuttle bus system provides convenient transportation Sunday through Wednesdaybetween selected convention hotels and the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Please note that some hotels are within walking distance of the convention center and will not be serviced by the shuttle buses. Lobby E is the pick-up and drop off point for the convention center. Look for “AAPG Shuttle” signs for more information.

Getting AroundNew Orleans is one of the world’s busiest ports and the cultural capital of the South, yet the city is remarkably compact and easy to navigate. Visitors are always pleasantly surprised to learn that many of the city’s attractions, accommodations and event venues are within walking distance of each other; in fact, “hoofing it” (in New Orleans’ case, translated as walking or grabbing a mule-drawn carriage) is a favorite means of transportation in the Crescent City.

But, if you prefer wheels to legs, New Orleans has a very accessible and reasonably priced public transportation system, too. It only costs $1.25 to take an RTA bus… or one of the city’s famed streetcars, which travel the Riverfront and Canal Street. Where else can you actually ride on a historic landmark?

Local Public TransitFor fare information, detailed maps and schedules, go to www.norta.com. The website is also now available in Spanish courtesy of Google. The RTA Rideline, +1 504 248 3900, is available weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for live assistance with routes and schedules. In addition, the Rideline can also now be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

Streetcars — RTA is fully operating its #2 Riverfront Streetcar line (runs from French Market • Riverfront stop at Esplanade to the Convention Center) and its full #45 Canal Streetcar line (runs the full length of Canal Street to the Cemeteries terminal, also including the Carrollton Spur). Both lines are using the historic olive-green Perley Thomas-type streetcars, which usually run


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along the St. Charles Avenue line, for this service 7 days per week from 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.

The streetcars, because of their historic designation under ADA, are not accessible to the disabled. However, PARATRANSIT service is available by calling +1 504 827 7433. RTA apologizes for the inconvenience, but hopes to have its only undamaged accessible streetcar available within the next few months. The Canal bus, which is accessible for the disabled, will continue to run the full length of Canal Street. New Orleans Bus Routes — In Orleans Parish, RTA • now runs the 28 lines. This service includes 61 buses during peak hours on weekdays (51 during the midday), 36 buses on Saturdays, 32 buses on Sundays and 5 streetcars every day of the week. 2 Riverfront Streetcar (French Market, Aquarium, Cruise • Ships, Thalia)5 Marigny-Bywater (Convention Center, French Quarter, • Marigny, Bywater)10 Tchoupitoulas (CBD-Uptown)• 11 Magazine (CBD-Uptown)•

Obtaining a VisaIt is your responsibility to apply for a passport, visa or any other required documents and to demonstrate to consular officials that you are properly classifiable as a visitor under United States law. AAPG cannot assist you with the interview process, nor can anyone representing the sponsoring organizations call an embassy or consulate on your behalf to provide support for granting a visa. Should

your application be denied, AAPG can neither intervene in the process nor change the decision of the governmental agency. All expenses connected with obtaining proper documentation are your responsibility.

If you need a visa letter from AAPG, you must be registered and fully paid for the convention. You may request a letter by selecting the box either online or on the printed registration form.

AAPG supplies this letter for visa purposes only. All expenses involved with attending the convention are your responsibility. If your visa application is denied and AAPG receives a copy of the denial by fax (+1 918 560 2684) before 14 April 2010 your registration fee only will be refunded, less a cancellation charge.

Visa Policy and ProceduresTo learn about the visa application process, understand current requirements and get updates on recent developments go to www.unitedstatesvisas.gov.

Visa Waiver Program (VWP)The VWP enables nationals of certain countries to travel to the United States without obtaining a visa. For more information go to www.travel.state.gov or link to it from www.aapg.org/NewOrleans.

Registering with Your EmbassyTravel advice to tourists suggests that you register with your country’s consulate or embassy when traveling abroad.


The global forum to buy, sell and promote worldwide deals with key international players

For eight years the AAPG Prospect and Property Expo (APPEX) has brought together principals, senior managers, business developers and new venture managers for an unmatched opportunity to network and do business with country and NOC representatives, suppliers and government representatives from around the world. This year’s 2½-day program will offer sessions on Europe and the Former Soviet Union, the Caribbean and South America, Africa and Far East, as well as the future of stratigraphic plays and global frontier plays. The program is rounded out by four Prospect Forums, an International Pavilion Forum and two short courses.

How you’ll benefit by attending APPEX 2010:One-stop shopping for upstream opportunities•

Meet, discuss and negotiate deals with global decision makers from the majors • to independents of all sizes, consultants, governments and national oil companies

Information and education to advance your career• An exhibition featuring prospect and supplier booths from around the globe•

2–4 March 2010 | Business Design Centre | London

www.APPEXLondon.com

FARMOUTS • NOCs • NEW VENTURES • NEW REGIONS • ASSET SWAPS

Early-bird pricing ends 12 January. save up to

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Convention AccommodationsPlease book your room through the AAPG Housing Bureau. This helps AAPG meet hotel room block commitments, plan shuttles and avoid penalties that may ultimately increase convention expenses.

Deposits All hotels require a credit card guarantee equal to the first night’s stay as a deposit. A valid credit card and expiration date should be provided with your room request. Your credit card may be charged for your first night’s stay (including taxes), approximately one month prior to arrival.

Hotels may cancel room reservations without notification if one night’s deposit is not received prior to your scheduled arrival. If you would like to make your deposit via check, first complete the housing form and mark the appropriate box (paying via check) and then fax to +1 847 996 5401.

Please do not send your check to the housing bureau. Checks or cash received for hotel deposits will be returned to you. Mail your check directly to the hotel after 19 March 2010, along with your hotel acknowledgement letter.

OnlineAll reservations made online must include a credit card number and expiration date for your room deposit.

Multiple Room RequestsYou may reserve up to five rooms online with individual names. One credit card or individual credit cards may be used.

Suite RequestsPlease contact the AAPG Housing Bureau at [email protected] to request a suite. We suggest you reserve a standard hotel room in the event suites are unavailable. You may cancel this reservation by contacting the AAPG Housing Bureau once you have received confirmation of your suite reservation.

RatesTo receive the convention room rate, all hotel reservations must be made through the Housing Bureau. New hotel reservations must be booked with the Housing Bureau by 12 March 2010. Any changes or cancellations after 12 March 2010 must be sent directly to the hotel.

At many hotels, any guaranteed room reservation not cancelled 72 hours prior to arrival and not used will subsequently be billed by the hotel to your credit card account. In addition, some hotels will charge a penalty for early check-out if they are not notified prior to your arrival.

TransportationWhen choosing your hotel preference, please consider the modes of transportation available to your hotel.

Hotel Single/ Double

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Parking** Pool Fitness Center

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Internet Coffee Maker/Hair Dryer

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1 New Orleans Marriott* - AAPG Co-Headquarters $219 12 blocks 4 4 4 $30/$34 4 4 4 4 4 4

2 Sheraton New Orleans* - AAPG Co-Headquarters $209 12 blocks 4 4 4 $30 4 4 4 4 4 4

3 Courtyard New Orleans Downtown* $159 14 blocks breakfast $16 4 4 4 4 4 4

4 Hampton Inn & Suites N.O. Convention Center $159/$169 1 block breakfast 4 $27 4 4 4 4 4 4

5 InterContinental $159 12 blocks 4 4 4 $29 4 4 4 $10.95/day 4 4

6 JW Marriott New Orleans* - SEPM Headquarters $229 13 blocks 4 4 4 $32 4 4 4 4 4 4

7 Marriott Convention Center* $209 2 blocks 4 4 4 $20/$28 4 4 4 4 4 4

8 Residence Inn Convention Center* $159 4 blocks breakfast $18 4 4 4 4 4 4

9 Royal Sonesta Hotel (Frech Quarter) $159 16 blocks 4 4 4 $31 4 4 4 4 4 4

10 W New Orleans $179 8 blocks 4 4 4 $33 4 4 4 4 4 4

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*Nonsmoking hotel / **Parking rates are subject to change / Hotel rates do not include taxes



Convention Accommodation RegistrationHousing reservations due to Experient by 12 March 2010. Make reservations online at www.AAPG.org/NewOrleans or fax your completed form to +1 847 996 5401

First/Forename Last/Surname

Company/University Title

Company Address

City State Zip/Postal Code

Day Telephone Mobile Telephone

E-mail Fax

Acknowledgements will be sent to the above E-mail or fax number

Arrival Date: Departure Date:

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Multiple room requests You may reserve up to five rooms online or by completing a form with individual names and fax it to +1 847 996 5401 or +1 800 521 6017 (U.S. and Canada).

Suite requests Please contact the AAPG Housing Bureau at [email protected] to request a suite. We suggest you reserve a standard hotel room in the event suites are unavailable.

You may cancel this reservation by contacting the AAPG Housing Bureau once you have received confirmation of your suite reservation.

Single (1 person/1 bed) q smoking q non-smokingDouble (2 person/1 bed) q smoking q non-smokingDouble/Double (2 persons/2 beds) q smoking q non-smokingTriple (3 persons/2 beds) q smoking q non-smokingQuad (4 persons/2 beds) q smoking q non-smoking

q Handicapped-accessible room

Other requests:

Guarantee/Form of PaymentAll reservations must be guaranteed. Quoted prices do not include taxes.

q Check (Payment by check must be sent directly to the hotel along with your hotel acknowledgment letter after 19 March)

q Credit Card: q Visa q MasterCard q American Express q Diners Club q Discover

Credit Card Number Expiration Date

Printed Name on Card Signature

Complete this form and mail or fax by 12 March 2010 to:

AAPG Housing BureauAAPG 2010 Hotel Reservations568 Atrium DriveVernon Hills, IL 60061 USA

Fax: +1 847 996 5401 +1 800 521 6017 (U.S. and Canada)

Tel: +1 847 996 5876 +1 800 974 3084 (U.S. and Canada)

All reservations must be received •by 12 March in order to guarantee convention rates.

Reservations will be assigned on •a first-come, first-served basis.

A written acknowledgement will •be sent to you via e-mail or fax from PASSKEY indicating which hotel you have been reserved in, based on availability.

Reservations not secured with a •credit card will require a check deposit to be sent directly to the assigned hotel along with your acknowledgment letter after 19 March.

Thank you for booking your room through the Housing Bureau. This helps meet our hotel room blocks and avoid penalties.

Hotel Map Legend(See page 57)

New Orleans Marriott - AAPG 1. Co-HeadquartersSheraton New Orleans - AAPG 2. Co-HeadquartersCourtyard Downtown3. Hampton Inn & Suites N.O. 4. Convention CenterInterContinental5. JW Marriott - SEPM 6. HeadquartersMarriott Convention Center7. Residence Inn Convention 8. CenterRoyal Sonesta Hotel9. W New Orleans10.

Questions:Please direct all housing questions to [email protected].

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Convention Registration InformationRegister on or before 16 February for the best deal. Cancellations and refunds are accepted through 11 March 2010.

AAPG Member and Associated Member* US $420 US $500 US $620

AAPG Emeritus Member** US $210 US $250 US $310

Nonmember US $520 US $600 US $720

Student and Associated Member* US $35 US $35 US $50

Student Nonmember US $50 US $50 US $65

One-day Member and Associated Member* (q Monday q Tuesday q Wednesday) US $255 US $255 US $255

One-day Nonmember (q Monday q Tuesday q Wednesday) US $335 US $335 US $335

Exhibition Only (Valid Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) US $75 US $75 US $75

Field Trip/Short Course Registration Only US $30 US $30 US $30

GuestName of guest:

US $85 US $85 US $85

Guest of an AAPG Emeritus MemberName of guest:

US $43 US $43 US $43

*AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists), AASP (American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists), AWG (Association of Women Geoscientists), CPC (Circum-Pacific Council For Energy & Minerals Resources, Inc.), GSL (Geological Society of London), GSA (Geological Society of America), IAMG (International Association of Mathematical Geology), NABGG (National Association of Black Geologists & Geophysicists), NOGS (New Orleans Geological Society), SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), SIPES (Society of Independent Earth Scientists), SPWLA (Society of Professional Well Log Analysts), TSOP (The Society For Organic Petrology)

**You must be a current member for a minimum of 30 years and 65 years old before you qualify. Contact AAPG Member Services at +1 918 560 2643 to verify Emeritus status.

On or before 16 February

On or before 22 March

After 22 March

On-Site RegistrationRegistration will be in Lobby E of the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.

Registration hours:Saturday, 10 April ...................................... 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Sunday, 11 April ........................................ 7:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.Monday, 12 April ........................................ 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Tuesday, 13 April ....................................... 7:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Wednesday, 14 April .................................. 7:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

It’s Easy to RegisterOnline Registration by Credit Card www.AAPG.org/NewOrleans Online registration allows you to know immediately which events (short courses, field trips, luncheons, tours, etc.) are available and if you are registered for an event. If an event is not available, it will not appear on the screen or it will indicate “sold out.”

Faxing or mailing your registration will delay this process and events may sell out while your registration is in transit. To add an event after you have registered, follow the instructions on the next page under the heading “Changes/Cancellation/Refund Policy.” Please be careful not to register online again, as this will result in duplicate charges.

Mail-In RegistrationDownload a registration form at www.AAPG.org/NewOrleans or use the form on pages 58-59.

AAPG Registration Center c/o Exgenex437 Turnpike St.Canton, MA 02021-1411United States

Phone-In Registration+1 781 821 6732Monday – Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST)

Duplicate registrations and charges may occur if you send more than one copy of a registration form.

Fax-In Registration+1 781 821 6720

Duplicate registrations and charges may occur if you send more than one copy of a registration form.

Registration TypesMembers, Associated Society Members, Nonmembers and Student •Registrants: Receive access to the Opening Session, Icebreaker, Technical Sessions, Refreshment Breaks and Exhibition, as well as a copy of the Program Book and Abstracts (print volume and CD) and attendee amenity.One-Day Registrants:• Receive access to the Technical Sessions, Refreshment Breaks and Exhibition for the day of registration, as well as a copy of the Program Book and Abstracts (print volume and CD) and attendee amenity.Exhibition Only Registrants:• Receive access to the Icebreaker and the Exhibition, as well as a Convention Pocket Guide.Field Trip/Short Course Registration Only:• Receive access only to short courses and field trips for which you register. If you do not register for the convention and exhibition in addition to the short courses and field trips, you will not receive access to any activities or events during the convention and exhibition.Guest Registrants:• Receive access to the Opening Session, Icebreaker, Technical Sessions, Refreshment Breaks and Exhibition. A guest must be registered by a convention registrant; a person who qualifies as a guest may not be a member of AAPG or a professional in the industry.

ConfirmationsA detailed confirmation, including information about the registration type, products selected, payment information, receipt, etc., will be e-mailed to you within 24-48 hours. Please retain this acknowledgement for your records. Should you not receive a confirmation, please contact the AAPG Registration Center/Exgenex by e-mail at: [email protected] or phone at +1 781 821 6732.

Save time on-site by bringing your confirmation that includes a barcode. Badges and tickets will be printed when you check in on-site.

Note: Some company systems will not print the barcode on the confirmation. In this case, your registration ID number or name will be used.



Convention Registration InformationRegister on or before 16 February for the best deal. Cancellations and refunds are accepted through 11 March 2010.

PaymentRegistrations cannot be processed unless full payment is received with the registration. Payment may be made by check, money order, credit card or wire transfer. Cash payments in U.S. dollars are accepted onsite only. AAPG does not accept purchase orders as a form of payment and does not invoice for conventions.

Checks or Money OrdersMake payable in U.S. dollars to: AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition

Credit CardsAmerican Express, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard and Visa are accepted.

Wire TransferPlease e-mail [email protected] for information on paying by wire transfer. If you plan to pay your registration fee by wire transfer, please allow ample time so that AAPG receives notification of the transfer prior to 29 March. If a wire transfer is received after this date, we cannot guarantee that it will be applied to the individual record.

Name Badge and TicketsTo be admitted to any convention activity, you must wear your official AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition name badge. Information on your badge will appear as it is completed on your registration form. To ensure accuracy, please print clearly. Preregistered attendees may pick up badges and tickets at the Registration Desk.

Changes/Cancellations/Refund PolicyChanges can be made by following the instructions on your confirmation or contacting the AAPG Registration Center/Exgenex by e-mail ([email protected]), fax, telephone or mail (see page 56 for fax number, telephone and mailing address). Amendments to your registration or events will be accepted until 11 March 2010.

Cancellations can be made by following the instructions on your confirmation or contacting the AAPG Registration Center/Exgenex by e-mail ([email protected]), fax, telephone or mail (see page 56 for fax number, telephone and mailing address) by 11 March. Cancellations received on or before 11 March will be fully refunded less a $50 processing fee. Refunds will not be issued after 11 March or for “no-shows”; however, substitutions are always allowed.

Cancellation of Under-Subscribed EventsPlease register early to help avoid cancellation of events. We realize the inconvenience and expense you may incur due to cancellation and will make every effort not to cancel any events held in conjunction with the convention. However, at times it does become necessary to cancel events due to under-subscription. We cannot accept responsibility for costs associated with any cancellations of under-subscribed events, i.e. airline tickets, hotel deposits, etc. Refund of the event fees will be issued if an event is cancelled.

Sold Out EventsIf an event is sold out, it will be noted on the web site. If you register online and wish to be placed on the wait list, please mark the event. If your registration is received by mail or fax, you will automatically be placed on the wait list.

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AAPG Member and Associated Member* US $420 US $500 US $620 $

AAPG Emeritus Member** US $210 US $250 US $310 $

Nonmember US $520 US $600 US $720 $

Student and Associated Member* US $35 US $35 US $50 $

Student Nonmember US $50 US $50 US $65 $

One-day Member and Associated Member* (q Monday q Tuesday q Wednesday) US $255 US $255 US $255 $

One-day Nonmember (q Monday q Tuesday q Wednesday) US $335 US $335 US $335 $

Exhibition Only (Valid Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday) US $75 US $75 US $75 $

Field Trip/Short Course Registration Only US $30 US $30 US $30 $

GuestName of guest:

US $85 US $85 US $85$

Guest of an AAPG Emeritus MemberName of guest:

US $43 US $43 US $43 $

*AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists), AASP (American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists), AWG (Association of Women Geoscientists), CPC (Circum-Pacific Council For Energy & Minerals Resources, Inc.), GSL (Geological Society of London), GSA (Geological Society of America), IAMG (International Association of Mathematical Geology), NABGG (National Association of Black Geologists & Geophysicists), NOGS (New Orleans Geological Society), SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), SIPES (Society of Independent Earth Scientists), SPWLA (Society of Professional Well Log Analysts), TSOP (The Society For Organic Petrology)

**You must be a current member for a minimum of 30 years and 65 years old before you qualify. Contact AAPG Member Services at +1 918 560 2643 to verify Emeritus status.

Full payment is due with registration form. Please make checks payable to: AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition

By registering for the AAPG 2010 Annual Convention and Exhibition, I release and agree to indemnify The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and the New Orleans Geological Society (NOGS) and the agents, officers, servants and employees or each, from all liability for any loss, damage or injury sustained by me while involved in any way with the Convention and Exhibition except that each of AAPG and NOGS is not released from such liability to the extent the same is caused by its actual negligence or willful misconduct. I have read and understand this waiver and release.

Total amount due for registration $

Total amount due from page 2 products $

Total amount due (registration and products) $

STEP THREE: PRODUCTS FROM PAGE TWO (Please include page two when mailing or faxing your registration form if products are selected)

Convention Registration Form Page 1

Four ways to registerOnline: www.aapg.org/neworleansFax: +1 781 821 6720Mail: AAPG Registration Center c/o Exgenex 437 Turnpike Street Canton, MA 02021-1411Phone: +1 781 821 6732 (Mon – Fri; 8:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m. EST)

Use one form for each registrant (professional/student). All authors, speakers,chairs, co-chairs and session chairs mustregister and pay the appropriate fee.

Cancellations received by 11 March 2010 will be refunded less a $50 cancellation fee.

Please fill out the following questionnaire

Are you a member of any of the following? Check all that apply

o AAPG o AASP o AWG o CPC

o GSL o GSA o IAMG o NABGG o NOGS

o SEG o SEPM o SIPES o SPE o SPWLA

o TSOP

I belong to the following AAPG Divisions:

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I am an: Check all that apply

o AAPG Section President

o AAPG Region President

o Affiliated Society President o DEG President

o DEG Officer o DPA President o DPA Officer

o EMD President o EMD Officer

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o Speaker o Poster Presenter o Session Chair

o Field Trip Leader o Short Course Instructor

Which best describes your occupation?

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o Geophysicist o Landman

o Other ____________________________

Which best describes your position?

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o Manager o Staff Employee

o Independent Consultant o Professor

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STEP ONE: CONTACT INFORMATION

STEP TWO: SELECT REGISTRATION TYPE

Convention Registration Form Page 2



Four ways to registerOnline: www.aapg.org/neworleansFax: +1 781 821 6720Mail: AAPG Registration Center c/o Exgenex 437 Turnpike Street Canton, MA 02021-1411Phone: +1 781 821 6732 (Mon – Fri; 8:00 a.m.– 5:00 p.m. EST)

Use one form for each registrant (professional/student). All authors, speakers,chairs, co-chairs and session chairs mustregister and pay the appropriate fee.

Cancellations received by 11 March 2010 will be refunded less a $50 cancellation fee.

SHORT COURSES AND FIELD TRIPS

Short Courses P=Professional, S=Student, F=Faculty Advisor, G=Graduate Student

Fee Tickets Total

1 From Rocks to Models — Reservoir Geology for Graduate Students (G) $10 ____ ____

2 Practical Salt Tectonics (AAPG Member) *$1,150 after 12 March *$1,050 ____ ____

2 Practical Salt Tectonics (Nonmember) *$1,250 after 12 March *$1,150 ____ ____

2 Practical Salt Tectonics (AAPG Student Member) *$575 after 12 March *$525 ____ ____

2 Practical Salt Tectonics (Student Nonmember) *$625 after 12 March *$575 ____ ____

3 Assessment of Unconventional… (AAPG Member) *$950 after 12 March *$850 ____ ____

3 Assessment of Unconventional… (Nonmember) *$1,050 after 12 March *$950 ____ ____

3 Assessment of Unconventional… (AAPG Student Member) *$475 after 12 March *$425 ____ ____

3 Assessment of Unconventional… (Student Nonmember) *$525 after 12 March *$475 ____ ____

4 Geology and Geophysics Applied in Industry (S, F)* $20 ____ ____

5 Fundamentals of Gas Hydrate Resource Evaluation (P) $125 ____ ____

5 Fundamentals of Gas Hydrate Resource Evaluation (S) $63 ____ ____

6 Sequence Stratigraphy for Graduate Students (G) $10 ____ ____

7 3-D Seismic Interpretation for Geologists (P) $300 ____ ____

7 3-D Seismic Interpretation for Geologists (S) $150 ____ ____

8 Sequence-Stratigraphic Analysis of Shales: Key to Paleoclimate Archives…(P) $225 ____ ____

8 Sequence-Stratigraphic Analysis of Shales: Key to Paleoclimate Archives…(S) $112 ____ ____

9 Evolution of Neogene Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Systems (P) $250 ____ ____

9 Evolution of Neogene Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Systems (S) $125 ____ ____

10 Reservoir Geophysics… (Contact SEG as instructed on page 15) N/A

11 Reservoir Engineering for Geologists (P) $132 ____ ____

11 Reservoir Engineering for Geologists (S) $66 ____ ____

12 Quality Control for Subsurface Maps (DPA Members) $165 ____ ____

12 Quality Control for Subsurface Maps (Non DPA Members) $205 ____ ____

12 Quality Control for Subsurface Maps (S) $85 ____ ____

13 Enhanced Oil Recovery Through Wettability Alteration and… (P) $300 ____ ____

13 Enhanced Oil Recovery Through Wettability Alteration and … (S) $150 ____ ____

14 Deltas: Processes, Stratigraphy, and Reservoirs — Core Workshop (P) $335 ____ ____

14 Deltas: Processes, Stratigraphy, and Reservoirs — Core Workshop (S) $167 ____ ____

SHORT COURSE TOTAL $ ________

Field Trips P=Professional, S=Student, F=Faculty Advisor, G=Graduate Student

Fee Tickets Total

1 The Wax Lake and Atchafalya Deltas: The New Regressive Phase… (P) $260 ____ ____

1 The Wax Lake and Atchafalya Deltas: The New Regressive Phase… (S) $130 ____ ____

2 Hurricane Katrina — What Happened? The Geology of the Katrina Disaster…(P) $115 ____ ____

2 Hurricane Katrina — What Happened? The Geology of the Katrina Disaster…(S) $58 ____ ____

3 Evolution and Sedimentary Architecture of the Wax Lake Delta, LA, USA (S/F)* $25 ____ ____

4 CO2 EOR and Sequestration Project Near Natchez, Mississippi (P) $385 ____ ____

4 CO2 EOR and Sequestration Project Near Natchez, Mississippi (S) $193 ____ ____

5 Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise in Coastal Louisiana (P) $425 ____ ____

5 Subsidence and Sea-Level Rise in Coastal Louisiana (S) $212 ____ ____

6 Geology of the Louisiana Coastal Zone: Implications for Coastal… (P) $450 ____ ____

6 Geology of the Louisiana Coastal Zone: Implications for Coastal… (S) $225 ____ ____

7 Geology of Unconventional Gas Plays in the Southern Appalachians (P) $650 ____ ____

7 Geology of Unconventional Gas Plays in the Southern Appalachians (P) $325 ____ ____

8 Fluvial-Deltaic-Submarine Fan Systems: Architecture… (P) $730 ____ ____

8 Fluvial-Deltaic-Submarine Fan Systems: Architecture… (S) $365 ____ ____

9 Heterogeneity in Oolitic, Skeletal and Reefal Systems… (P) $1,500 ____ ____

10 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Shales: Expression and Correlation of… (P) $625 ____ ____

10 Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of Shales: Expression and Correlation of… (S) $313 ____ ____

FIELD TRIP TOTAL $ ________

MEMBERSHIP

Becoming an Associate Member of AAPG enables you to register at the member rate. See page 61 for application.

Fee How Many Total

Associate Member (with a North American mailing address) $45 ____ ____

Associate Member (with a international mailing address) $65 ____ ____

MEMBERSHIP TOTAL $ ________

EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES

Luncheons P=Professional, S=Student

Fee Tickets Total

All-Convention Luncheon, Monday $45 ____ ____

DPA Luncheon, Tuesday $45 ____ ____

EMD/DEG Luncheon, Tuesday $45 ____ ____

SEPM Business Meeting & Luncheon, Tuesday $35 ____ ____

AAPG PROWESS Luncheon, Wednsday (P) $45 ____ ____

AAPG PROWESS Luncheon, Wednesday (S) $15 ____ ____

Career Program

Fee Tickets Total

Student Career Seminar, Monday $10 ____ ____

Community Outreach

Fee Tickets Total

Rebuilding New Orleans, A Volunteer Opportunity, Sunday $15 ____ ____

Guest Activities

Fee Tickets Total

Swamp Tour $60 ____ ____

Crescent City Tour $40 ____ ____

River Road Restoration $85 ____ ____

Spirits and Spirits Walking Tour $40 ____ ____

Garden District Mansion Tour with Commander’s Palace $98 ____ ____

New Orleans School of Cooking $35 ____ ____

Riverboat Cruise and Mardi Gras World $45 ____ ____

New Orleans Cuisine: A Fascinating Journey $10 ____ ____

The Katrina Perspective: Why New Orleans Matters $15 ____ ____

Social Activity

Fee Tickets Total

An Evening with “America’s Greatest Generation” at the National WWII Museum $50 ____ ____

EVENTS AND ACTVITIES TOTAL $ ________

TOTAL AMOUNT DUE FROM ALL SECTIONS $ ________

Be sure to send this page along with page one when

mailing your registration form if products are selected.

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Onward and UpwardJoining the American Association of Petroleum Geologists is a great way of actively participating in the geology community. Since its founding in 1917, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists has been a pillar of the worldwide scientific community. The original purpose of AAPG — to foster scientific research, advance the science of geology, promote technology and inspire high professional conduct — still guides the Association today.

Currently the world’s largest professional geological society with more than 30,000 members, AAPG provides publications, conferences and educational opportunities to geoscientists and disseminates the most current geological information available to the general public.

AAPG, an international geological organization, has members in more than 116 countries around the world. Included among its members are geologists, geophysicists, CEOs, managers, consultants, students and academicians.

Benefits of AAPG MembershipMembers of AAPG are eligible for a variety of benefits. In addition to sub-scriptions to both the Bulletin and the Explorer and discounts on publica-tions, meetings and courses, each member is eligible for:

group insurance programs, including life, health and disability insurance• monthly receipt of the AAPG Bulletin and the AAPG Explorer• online access to past issues of AAPG Bulletin, Explorer and current ab-• stracts from meetings and lecture tours

discounts on books and other publications• many types of education forums from schools to videotapes to DVDs• services of the AAPG Foundation Energy Resources Library• AAPG Foundation Grants-in-Aid Program• registration savings on conferences and exhibitions• AAPG GeoCare Benefits Insurance Program• AAPG Career Center and Membership Registry•

Membership ClassificationsActive MembershipApplicants for Active Membership must have a bachelor’s degree in the geo-logical sciences and a minimum of three years experience in the professional practice or teaching of geology. A master’s degree subtracts one year from the experience requirement, and a doctorate subtracts two.

Associate MembershipAny person not qualified for any other class of membership who is a gradu-ate of a college of acceptable standards whose employment is associated with geology may apply for election as an Associate. The Executive Com-mittee may waive degree requirements — if in its judgment an applicant has adequate professional experience and has attained professional standing.

Student MembershipThose students majoring in geology or a related field at a college of accept-able academic standards are eligible to become student members.

IT’S EASY TO JOIN AND SAVE!Non-members registering for the AAPG 2010 Annual Convention & Exhibition receive the Member rate by paying the Associate Membership dues at the time of registration. For fastest service, go to at www.AAPG.org/New Orleans and click “Register Now”, “Non-Member” and select “Join and Save”. You may also

use the appliccation form on page 61 of this Announcement and mail your completed Registration Form along with your Associate Membership Form to AAPG Headquarters at the address listed below. Convention Registration Forms are downloadable at www.AAPG.org/New Orleans.

For more information on AAPG Membership, please contact:

AAPG Membership Services DepartmentP.O. Box 979 • Tulsa, OK 74101-0979 • USA

Tel: +1 918 560 2643 • +1 800 364 2274 (US and Canada only)Fax: 918 560 2694 • E-mail: [email protected]

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AAPG ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP APPLICATIONPlease print legibly and complete all information.

NAME

COMPANY/SCHOOL

ADDRESS

CITY STATE ZIP/POSTALCODE

COUNTRY

TELEPHONE FAX E-MAIL

DATE OF BIRTH (MONTH/DAY/YEAR) CITIZENSHIP q MALE q FEMALE

EDUCATIONI HAVE RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING DEGREE(S): q B.S. q M.S. q Ph.D. q OTHER (specify):

MY MAJOR WAS: q GEOLOGY q GEOPHYSICS q ENGINEERING q OTHER:

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EXPECTED GRADUATION DATE (STUDENTS) q GRADUATE q UNDERGRADUATE q OTHER (specify):

EXPERIENCEMY PRESENT EMPLOYMENT IS WITHIN EXPLORATION, RESEARCH OR TEACHING OF: q GEOLOGY q GEOPHYSICS q PETROLEUM ENGINEERING q OTHER (specify):

MY EXPERIENCE LEVEL AS OF THIS DATE IS: q LESS THAN ONE YEAR q 1-3 YEARS q 4-6 YEARS q 7-10 YEARS q MORE THAN 10 YEARS

IF REQUESTED, I WILL SUBMIT A COMPLETE RÉSUMÉ OR CV AND DOCUMENTATION OF MY TRAINING. I UNDERSTAND MEMBERSHIP IS SUBJECT TO REVIEW AND I AGREE THAT AAPG’S CONSTITUTION, INCLUDING BYLAWS AND CODE OF ETHICS, SHALL BE THE SOLE MEASURE OF MY RIGHTS.

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