Abstracts*
(By Author)
AAPG Rocky Mountain Section
October 7-9, 2007, Snowbird, Utah
Search and Discovery Article #90071 (2007)
Posted October 5, 2007
*Appreciation is expressed to Steven Schamel, President, Rocky Mountain Section, and Richard Newhart, Technical Program Co-Chair, for providing these abstracts to post on Search and Discovery.
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Distinguishing Impacts of Natural Gas Production on Water Quality, Piceance Basin, Colorado
by Tamee R. Albrecht and Geoffrey D. Thyne
3-D Architecture of Crevasse Splay and Point-bar Bodies: From Outcrop to Geologic Model
by Donna S. Anderson and Mary M. Carr
Anatomy of an Extensive, Low-accommodation Clastic Wedge: Insights from Isopach
Maps and Regional Correlation in the Uinta-Piceance Basins
by J.L. Aschoff and R.J. Steel
An Improved Understanding of the Utah Hinge Line with the Application of
BlueQube Technology
by Duncan Bate and Mark Davies
The Application of BlueQube Technology to Exploration in the Rocky Mountains
Foothills
by Duncan Bate and Mark Davies
Correlation of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian Strata in the Southern Beaverhead
Mountain Range, Idaho
by Gary S. Billman and William W. Little
Understanding the Complex Geometry of Extensional Faulting in a Compressional
Laramide Structure: Teapot Dome, Wyoming
by Brian J. Black and Mark Milliken
The Rio Grande Rift - A New Oil and Gas Province in New Mexico
by Bruce A. Black and Bill Dirks
Altamont Field, Northern Uinta Basin: Development Operations and Regional
Correlation of the Wasatch and Green River Formations
by Jim M. Borer
Increasing the Odds: Data Analysis of the Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth Basin
by Thomas Bowman, Donald Burch, Eric J. Nelson, and Dwight E. Roberts
Anisotropic Earth Models Improve Completion Design
by Tom Bratton
Regional Petrophysical Properties of Mesaverde Low-permeability Sandstones
by Alan P. Byrnes, John C. Webb, and Robert M. Cluff
Structural Analysis of Aneth Field, Paradox Basin, Southeastern Utah: A Carbon
Storage Study Site of the Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon
Sequestration
by Stephanie Carney, Craig Morgan, Michael Vanden Berg
Hunting Great Basin Elephants with Serial Transect Mapping
by Alan Chamberlain
Why Modelers Need to Look at the Rocks! Examples from Greater Aneth Field,
Paradox Basin, Utah
by Thomas C. Chidsey, David
E. Eby, Michael D. Laine, and J. Thomas Dempster
Thrust Belt Structures and Paleozoic Stratigraphy of the Scott Butte and Snaky
Canyon Quadrangles, Southern Beaverhead Mountains, Idaho
by Robert W. Clayton and William W. Little
Gas Resource Potential of the Woodford Shale, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma
by Bill Coffey
Extensional Inversion of the Central Utah Thrust Belt: More than Just the Sevier
Desert Detachment
by James C. Coogan
Lessons Learned in Vintage Bakken Vertical-Well Completions Provide Answers to
Pay Location and Quality and Stimulation Optimization
by David
Cramer
Stratigraphic Trapping in the Rollins Sandstone of the Mesaverde Group, Mamm
Creek Field, Piceance Basin, Northwest Colorado
by Stephen P. Cumella
Stratigraphy and Petrophysics of Gas-Producing Parasequences in the Rollins
Sandstone of the Mesaverde Group, Mamm Creek Field, Piceance Basin, Northwest Colorado
by Stephen P. Cumella
Shale Gas Potential of the DJ Basin, Wattenberg Gas Field, Denver Basin,
Colorado
by Marshall Deacon, Robert E. Locklair, David
Hill, Emily Miller, and Edmund R. "Gus" Gustason
Calibrating Stable Carbon Isotopes of Reservoir Fluids as a Thermal Maturity
Indicator
by Michael Dolan, Anne Grau, Kevin Ferworn, and Stephen W. Brown
Detailed Analysis of the Nesson Antiform Williston Basin, ND
by Michael Dropkin, Krisitin Campbell, and Robert Ehrlich
Stratigraphic and Depositional Controls on Fluid Migration through Eolian
Sandstones - Comparing Outcrop with Reservoir
by Katy Duncan and Richard Langford
Devonian Shale Gas Potential of the Southern Tier of New York
by Basim Faraj and James Duggan
Caney Shale, Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma
by James M.Forgotson
Natural Fractures in the Barnett Shale: Why They Are Important
by Julia F.W. Gale, Jon Holder, and Robert M. Reed
Basement Fault Control of Offshore Cretaceous Sandbars in the Powder River
Basin, Wyoming
by S. Parker Gay
Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) Improves Fundamental Understanding of
Microseismicity Data and Provides Capabilities for Predicting Events
by Ivan Gil, Marisela Sanchez, Matt Pierce, Paul Young, and Sean Kleiner
An Operation Geologist s Venture into the Land of Geochemistry: Using Mud Gas
Isotopes and Standard Geochemical Analyses to Identify Seals, Source Rocks, Gas
Families, and Prospect Fairways in the Uinta Basin
by Anne Grau, Janell D. Edman, and Michael Dolan
Update on the Cane Creek Fractured Shale Play, Northern Paradox Basin, Grand
County, Utah
by Mark L. Grummon
The Impact of New Technology and Deep Drilling on Oil and Gas Development in the
Uinta Basin
by Edmund R. Gustason
River Gas of Utah No. 1 Core: Window Into the Mancos Shale Gas Reservoir
by Edmund R. "Gus" Gustason and Steven Schamel
Application of n-dimensional Log Analysis in Predicting Reservoir Properties
from Core Data in both Cored and Un-cored Wells in Tight Gas Reservoirs
by David
Handwerger, Roberto Suarez-Rivera, Tim Sodergren, Mary Milner, and Keith Greaves
Origin of the Deformed Basal Uinta Formation in Eastern Utah (Uinta Basin):
Progradational Delta Clinoforms of a Lake Highstand or Ephemeral Fluvial
Sheetfloods of a Lake Lowstand?
by Nicola Harcourt and David
Keighley
Structural Analysis of Pressure Solution Cleavage in the McCartney Mountain
Fold-Thrust Salient, Southwest Montana
by Elizabeth A. Helmke and David
R. Lageson
Development of Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs: West Tavaputs
Plateau, Uinta Basin, Utah
by Gregory Hinds
Geologic Map of Snaky Canyon Quadrangle, Clark County, Idaho
by William H. Hokanson and Robert W. Clayton
A Method to Quantify Gas Saturation in Gas/Water Systems, Using Density and
Neutron Logs Interpretation of Reservoir Properties When Compared With Gas
Saturations from Resistivity Analysis
by Michael Holmes, Antony Holmes, and Dominic Holmes
Comparison of Total and Effective Water Saturations as a Way to Verify the
Validity of Effective Porosity Calculations
by Michael Holmes, Antony Holmes, and Dominic Holmes
Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Lower Cretaceous Conglomerates, San Rafael
Swell Wasatch Plateau, Central Utah
by Gary J. Hunt, Timothy F. Lawton, and George E. Gehrels
Stratigraphic Reservoir Exploration in Liaozhong Strike-Slip Depression, Bohai
Bay, China
by Shu Jiang
The Outflow of Eocene Lake Gosiute Into Lake Uinta and its Affects on
Sedimentation in Lake Uinta in the Piceance Basin of Western Colorado
by Ronald C. Johnson
Characteristics of the Upper Cretaceous Baxter Shale in the Vermillion Basin,
Northwestern Colorado
by Kimberley Kaiser, Erika Davis, Richard Newhart, Mark Longman, and Randy Koepsell
Gathering and Analyzing Vertical Permeability Data to Evaluate Horizontal Wells
in North San Juan CBM
by Alexander Karpov, Charles Morris, Celine Segondy, Reza Naimi-Tajdar, et al.
The Marriage of Eolian Rock Properties and Deformation of the Nugget Formation;
Anschutz Ranch East Field: Northeast Utah and Southwest Wyoming
by Dustin Keele, James P. Evans, and W. David
Liddel
Neoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group of Kings Peak Quadrangle, Utah: A
Marine-Fluvial Interface?
by Esther M. Kingsbury, Paul K. Link, Carol M. Dehler, and C. Mark Fanning
A Review of the U.S. Geological Survey 2002 Geologic Assessment of Resources in
the Uinta Basin
by Mark A. Kirschbaum, Troy Cook, Russell F. Dubiel, Thomas M. Finn, et al.
The Barnett Shale Play of North Texas - Points to Ponder in 2007
by Randal F. LaFollette
Covenant Oil Field, Central Utah Thrust Belt: Possible Harbinger of Future
Discoveries
by Michael D. Laine, Thomas C. Chidsey, Douglas A. Sprinkel, John P. Vrona, and Douglas K. Strickland
Multivariate Modeling of 3D9C Data for Constructing a Static Reservoir Model of
Algal Mounds in the Paradox Basin, CO
by Paul La Pointe, Robert D. Benson, and Claudia Rebne
Exploration Frontiers in the Bakken Formation, Montana and North Dakota
by Julie A. LeFever
Using Alluvial Architecture to Define Stratigraphic Sequences in Foreland
Basins, Upper Cretaceous Strata of the Kaiparowits Basin, Utah
by William W. Little
Enrichment of Organic Carbon and Carbonate in the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara
Formation, Western Interior Basin: The Role of Siliciclastic Flux
by Robert E. Locklair and Bradley B. Sageman
Use of Cores and Image Logs to Interpret Depositional Environments of Sandstones
in the Dakota Group at South Baxter Field, Sweetwater County, Wyoming
by Mark W. Longman, Randy Koepsell, and Stephen Sturm
Lithology and Characteristics of the Upper Cretaceous Baxter Shale, Vermillion
Basin, Northwest Colorado
by Mark W. Longman, Richard Newhart, and Scott Goodwin
Fracture Distributions in the Tensleep-Equivalent Casper Sandstone at Flat Top
Anticline, Wyoming: Implications for Reservoirs
by John C. Lorenz and Peigui Yin
Preventing Proppant Flowback from Stimulated Zones
by Douglas Magill, Muthukumarappan Kumar Ramurthy, and Philip Duke Nguyen
Geo-Steering Horizontal Wells: Case Studies Demonstrate the Value of Fuzzy Logic
Directional Steering Guidance
by Sandra Mark and Michael S. Stoner
Anatomy of a Tight Gas Sand: Upper Lance Core from Pinedale Field, Green River
Basin, Sublette County, Wyoming
by Laura A. Mauro and Mark W. Longman
Outcrop-to-Subsurface Correlation of the Blackhawk Formation, Uinta Basin:
Sequence Framework, Shoreline Trends, and Gas Production
by Jeffrey A. May, Roger W. Falk, Donna S. Anderson, and Anne Grau
Using Core Data to Develop and Calibrate Petrophysical Models in Tight Gas Sands
by Dick Merkel
Design and Execution of Horizontal Wells in Gas Shales Using Borehole Images and
Geochemically-Enhanced Formation Evaluation
by Camron Miller, Rick Lewis, and Keith Bartenhagen
Core Analysis Issues in Tight Gas Reservoirs
by Michael Miller, Robert Lieber, Eugene Piekenbrock, and Thalbert McGinness
Core Interpretation Allows a New Perspective on Tensleep Sandstone Correlations
at Teapot Dome Field, Natrona Co., Wyoming
by Mark D. Milliken and Brian Black
Characterizing Unconventional Reservoirs: an Informal Mudstone and Shale
Classification Based on Core
by Mary Milner, Barbara Marin, and David
Handwerger
Enhanced Oil Recovery Potential in the Uinta Basin, Utah
by Craig Morgan and Milind Deo
The Jurassic Navajo Sandstone as a Partitioned (?) Subsurface Reservoir:
Comparing Reservoir Characteristics and Facies Between San Rafael Swell Outcrop
and Covenant Field Core, Utah
by Thomas H. Morris, Ashley Hansen, Stephanie
Carney, Craig D. Morgan, and Thomas C. Chidsey
Central Utah Thrust Belt-Hingeline: This New Oil and Gas Province Has Enormous
Potential
by Floyd C. Moulton and Michael L. Pinnell
Paleogeography, Climate and the Carbon Cycle of the Mid-Neoproterozoic Red Pine
Shale, Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah
by Caroline A. Myer and Carol M. Dehler
Lost Circulation and Fractures in Wamsutter, WY
by Papia Nandi
Pore Throats and Pore Pressure: Pushing Gas into Small Spaces
by Philip H. Nelson
Gas and Water Production in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming
by Philip H. Nelson, Patrick K. Trainor, and Thomas M. Finn
Diagenetic Coloration Patterns in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of Zion National
Park, Utah
by Gregory B. Nielsen and Marjorie Chan
Natural Fracture Quantification for Optimized Completion Decisions
by Thomas Olsen, Tom Bratton, Randy Koepsell, and Adam Donald
Collaboration Across all Domains for Optimized Unconventional Resource
Development Programs
by K.C. Oren
Another Look at Hartzog Draw Stratigraphy, Powder River Basin, WY
by Clayton S. Painter and Randi S. Martinsen
Effectiveness of Horizontal Wells in Coalbed Methane Plays
by Ian Palmer
Sweet Spot Localization of Production from Fractured Shales
by Willaim Pearson and Richard Inden
Petrographic Analysis of Campanian Sandstones, Kaiparowits Formation,
South-central Utah
by Tyson L. Perkes and William W. Little
Central Utah, A Photographic Essay and Update on Geology and Drilling in
America's Most Exciting New Oil and Gas Exploration Province
by Michael L. Pinnell and Floyd Moulton
Controlling Factors on Productivity in the Love Area, Natural Buttes Field,
Uinta Basin, Utah
by Aisha Ragas, Logan MacMillan, Steve Stancel, and Jerry Cuzella
Western U.S. Basin Shale Trends
by David
D. Reimers
The Vermillion Basin of SW Wyoming/NW Colorado: Structural Styles and Seismic
Pore Pressure Prediction through Over-Pressure
by Vincent G. Rigatti, Tony LeFevre, Richard Newhart, Kimberly Kaiser, et al.
Complex Deformation of Paleozoic Strata due to Folding and Faulting in the
Southern Beaverhead Mountains, Clark County, Idaho
by Stefanie Roemer, William W. Little, and Robert W. Clayton
Evaluating the Shale Gas Resource Potential in Western Canada
by Daniel J.K. Ross and R. Marc Bustin
West Tavaputs, Uinta Basin - A Story of Persistence
by Wilfred R. Roux
Subdividing the Undifferentiated Eastern Uinta Mountain Group, Northeastern Utah
by Dan Rybczynski, Carol Dehler, and Andy Brehm
Rangely Turbidites and Their Linkage to Coeval Shallow-Water Succession,
Rangely, Colorado
by Raffaello Sacerdoti and Piret Plink-Bjorklund
Utah Shale Gas: an Emerging Resource Play
by Steven Schamel
The Steele/Niobrara of Central Wyoming: Insights into Hydrocarbon
Generation-Induced Regional Over-Pressure
by David
Schmude and Mark Tobey
New Techniques for New Discoveries Results from the Lisbon Field Area, Paradox
Basin, Utah
by David
M. Seneshen, Thomas C. Chidsey, Craig D. Morgan, and Michael D. Vanden Berg
What's The Matter With The Ericson? Gas Shows, Calculated Pay, and Water!
by Keith W. Shanley, Robert M. Cluff, and John W. Robinson
Wave- and River Influenced Deltaic Clinoforms of the Chimney Rock Sandstone,
Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Utah
by Jay P. Skinner and Piret Plink-Bjorklund
Study of Almond Reservoir Connectivity in Wamsutter Field
by Luis E. Soto
Sequence Stratigraphy of the Green River FM Fluvio-Lacustrine Clastic Tongues, Uinta Basin, USA
by Ron Steel
Eocene to Oligocene Paleodrainage of Southwest Montana: Evidence from Detrital
Zircon Populations
by Caleb N. Stroup, Paul K. Link, Susanne U. Janecke, and C. Mark Fanning
Laboratory Experiments of Hydraulic Fracturing Help Investigating Conditions for
Fracture Branching and Fracture Containment
by Roberto Suarez-Rivera, Chaitanya Deenadayalu, David
Handwerger, and Sid Green
Elements of Successful Thermogenic Shale Gas Pays
by Mark H. Tobey, Thomas M. Smagala, and David
E. Schmude
Petrophysical Evaluation of the Hiawatha Deep Unit #5 well in the Vermillion
Basin, Northwestern Colorado
by George Tracy, Kimberley Kaiser, and Richard Newhart
New Structural Interpretation of the Elk Range Thrust System, Southwest Colorado
by Justin E. Tully, David
R. Lageson, and James C. Coogan
Utah s Oil Shale Deposits: Stratigraphy and Resource Evaluation
by Michael D. Vanden Berg and David
E. Tabet
Understanding Waterfracs
by Michael C. Vincent
Paleozoic Source Rocks in the Central Utah Thrust Belt: Organic Facies Response
to Tectonic and Paleoclimatic Variables
by D.A. Wavrek, J. Ali-Adeeb, J.C. Chao, L.E. Santon, et al.
Stratigraphy of Tide-Influenced River Deltas in the Sego Sandstone
by Brian J. Willis