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AAPG 2016 Pacific Section and Rocky Mountain Section Joint Meeting

New Plays, New Ways, New Days

October 2-5, 2016

Posted September 30, 2016
Search and Discovery Article #90266 (2016)

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Undeveloped petroleum potential of the western-most Santa Barbara Channel, offshore California

Jim Ballard

Chronostratigraphy of the Quaternary Santa Barbara Basin: an integrated geophysical, sedimentologic and paleoceanographic approach

Richard J. Behl, Craig Nicholson, Christopher C. Sorlien, James P. Kennett, Courtney J. Marshall, Sarah Hopkins Decesari and Diane K. Escobedo

Joint inversion of first-arrivals with full waveform inversion: improving the near-surface model for depth imaging the Marcellus shale of Bradford County, PA

Miller L. Bell, Thomas Baltz, Richard Verm and Hui Fan

Previous HitExploringNext Hit Utah's Other Great Lake: What Great Salt Lake Can Tell Us About Ancient Lake Uinta

Michael Vanden Berg, Thomas Chidsey and David Eby

Geochemistry and mineralogy of the Uteland Butte member of the Green River Formation, Uinta Basin

Justin E. Birdwell, Michael Vanden Berg, Ronald C. Johnson and Adam R. Boehike

Aspects of CO2-enhanced oil recovery, from initial field screening to project implementation: Beaver Creek and Big Sand Draw CO2-EOR projects, Wyoming

Brian J. Black, Carlos Periera and Mahmood Ahmadi

The Wolfcamp Horizontal Play of Midland Basin, West Texas

Peter K. Blomquist

Reducing geologic uncertainty in seismic interpretation

James E. Bock

Oil Fields in Railroad Valley Nevada

Louis Bortz

Thickness and extent of clay layers in the Pleistocene Tulare Formation near Elk Hills, California: Implications for water disposal operations and timing of structural growth

Paul Bowles and Janice Gillespie

Hydrocarbon potential of arkosic sands in the Payette Basin, southwest Idaho: a discussion on basin fill, subsurface structure, and syndepositional maturation and migration history

Renee L. Breedlovestrout and M.Ed Ratchford

Monitoring and analysis of surface deformation with InSAR and subsurface data, San Joaquin Valley, California

Graham E. Brew, Mizue Horiuchi, Pieter Bas Leezenberg and Arjan Tabak

Subtle partitioning of a sandstone reservoir: permeability patterns interpreted from fluid-escape geometries in the Early Jurassic Navajo Sandstone

Gerald C. Bryant and Colby Ford

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Alamo Breccia: a key to unravel thrust duplexes in the southern Nevada portion of the western North American Cordillera fold thrust belt

Alan Chamberlain

Great Basin Algorefrauds

Alan Chamberlain

Creating a Master Geologic map of the Great Basin

Alan Chamberlain, Kumar Bhattucharjee and Rick Bailey

Great Basin structure and potential prospects revealed by a structural contour map on top of the Mississippian Joana Limestone

Alan Chamberlain

Newly discovered Chainman shale outcrops in the Spring Mountains west of Las Vegas extends the southern end of the Mississippian Antler foreland basin by about seventy-five miles

Alan Chamberlain

A River Runs Through It

Alan Chamberlain, Kumar Bhattucharjee and Rick Bailey

Mapping and managing Great Basin water resources

Alan Chamberlain, Kumar Bhattucharjee and Rick Bailey

Great Basin oil shales

Alan Chamberlain

Sequence stratigraphy of the Mississippian Antler foreland basin

Alan Chamberlain

Scaling up well log interpretation for groundwater salinity mapping in the age of Big Data

Will Chang, David H. Shimabukuro, Janice Gillespie and Michael J. Stephens

Testing the Mojave-Snow Lake fault hypothesis using Laser-induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

Eduardo Chavez, Valbone Memeti, Nancy McMillan and Hayden Thompson

‘Clay mineral assemblage of a mudstone facies, Upper Jurassic Curtis Formation, east-central Utah’

Robert P. Conner and Mario V. Caputo

Structural Evolution of the Oil Well Flats Detachment System, Cañon City Embayment, Colorado

Lauren Cross and Bruce Trudgill

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Importance of regional geological and petrophysical analysis of the Bakken/Three Forks formations of the Williston basin, North Dakota and Montana

Daniel Hallau, Catherine M. Murphy, Stefani Brakenhoof, Ryan J. Sharma, Nikki Oliver and Robert M. Cluff

Python and pandas, oh my: a rich ecosystem of open Previous HitsourceNext Hit tools for petrophysical and geological assessment

Daniel Hallau

Opportunities for geoscientists beyond the Previous HitconventionalNext Hit

David H. Hawk

The Shell Oil ‘Vilche’ deep test and a better understanding of the Pine Creek Fault, northern Sacramento Basin: what a difference one micropaleontolgy report makes!

Scott T. Hector

Wellsite Log Quality Control - What you don't know can hurt you

Donald G. Hill

‘Potash identification plot (PID) for rapid identification of commercial potash deposits’

Donald G. Hill

Milankovitch stratigraphy in the Miocene-Quaternary marine succession of offshore coastal California

Pamela S. Hill and Richard J. Behl

A Geologic Comparison of the Oil Window and Dry Gas Window within the Tow Creek Member of the Niobrara Formation in the Piceance Basin of Northwestern, Colorado

Marcus J. Hinricher and Steve Sonnenberg

A petrophysical model to distinguish water-wet and oil-wet fractions of Previous HitunconventionalNext Hit reservoir systems using triple-combo log suites

Michael Holmes, Antony Holmes and Dominic I. Holmes

Stratigraphic geochemical variations in the Late Cretaceous Mancos Shale, southwest Piceance Basin, Colorado

William C. Hood and Rex D. Cole

Structure, Evolution and Tectonic Significance of the Eastern Boundary of the Outer Continental Borderland

Greg De Hoogh, Christopher C. Sorlien, Craig Nicholson, Catherine Schindler and Robert D. Francis

Are we there yet? The road towards maturity in the petroliferous Ventura basin, California

Tom Hopps

Some perspective on electrical borehole image logs for the end user

Thomas Howard

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Petroleum generation and migration from the oil shale interval of the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Ronald C. Johnson, Justin E. Birdwell and Tracey J. Mercier

Evolution of the Lower Tertiary Elko Formation, a potential lacustrine petroleum Previous HitsourceNext Hit rock in northeast Nevada

Ronald C. Johnson and Justin E. Birdwell

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Tectonic setting and resulting characteristics of the Paisley Geothermal System, Paisley, Oregon

Kyle Makovsky and Walter Snyder

Depositional model and reservoir characteristics of the Lower Tulare Formation (Plio-Pleistocene), South Belridge Field, San Joaquin Valley, California

Mark G. Maroun

Finding new oil fields in a mature play: BV Nose discovery, Upper Miocene Stevens play, San Joaquin basin, California: A case study

Keith Meyerholtz and Manual Paz

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Simplified Workflow for Target Optimization in Heterogeneous Previous HitReservoirsNext Hit, an Example from the Previous HitMiddleNext Hit Bakken, North Dakota

Mark Millard, Murray Dighans, Sam Fluckiger, Chantel Lines, Riley Brinkerhoff and Sarah Edwards

Stratigraphic Previous HitreservoirsNext Hit as geothermal targets in the Great Basin of the United States

Joseph Moore, Rick Allis and Christian Hardwick

Petrophysical techniques for asset analysis in the Permian Basin

Rachael E. Moreland

Probing the Reno-Area Basin to 2 km Depth with Ultra-Deep Refraction Microtremor Surveys: A New Previous HitDevelopmentNext Hit Tool for Basin Plays of the Intermountain West.

Dan Munger, John N. Louie, Satish Pullammanappallil and Aasha Pancha

Structural and Depositional History of the Early Miocene in the Western San Joaquin Basin: Inferences from 3D Seismic

Gary A. Myers and Gregory Gordon

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Improving tight reservoir definition using seismic object detection within the Woodford Formation

Christopher P. Ross

Stratigraphic framework of the Previous HitMiddleNext Hit—Upper Triassic Shublik Formation, Arctic Alaska: Insights from regional outcrop, core, and well log analyses

William A. Rouse and Katherine J. Whidden

Origin of petroliferous dolomitic beds in the Uteland Butte Member, Lower Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Federico Rueda, Hans G. Machel and Michael Vanden Berg

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Revisiting the Great Basin, Part 1: Regional cross section construction and thrust sheet restoration.

Daniel Schelling and David A. Wavrek

Virtually eliminate dry or sub-economic wells in over-pressured and normal-pressured fields: Jonah Field and Anadarko Basin case studies

Rick Schrynemeeckers

Optimizing lateral placement and production while minimizing completion costs: an Eagle Ford case study

Rick Schrynemeeckers

Characterization of Pliocene Pico and Repetto Formation Turbidites at Ventura Avenue Field, Ventura, California

Jon Schwalbach, Jay Holloway and Elizabeth Steel

Impact of local accommodation on the architecture and stacking patterns of three Capistrano Formation slope-channel outcrops: Point Fermin, Dana Point, and San Clemente, California

Daniel E. Schwartz, David R. Pyles, Renaud Bourollec, David C. Jennette and Gregory Gordon

Chemostratigraphy of the Miocene Monterey Formation within the San Joaquin Basin, California

Alex Sedlak and Richard J. Behl

New Wellsite Analytical Protocols for Characterizing Original and Producible Tight Oil and Gas

Andrew C. Sneddon, Sheng Wu, Yongchun Tang, Li Gao, Tao Yang and Jian Hu

The Graneros-Greenhorn Petroleum System, a Possible New Resource Play, Rocky Mountain Region, USA

Steve Sonnenberg

Insights into Niobrara Stratigraphic Architecture and Diagenesis, Wattenberg Field, Denver Basin, Colorado

Steve Sonnenberg

OUR CURRENT WORKING MODEL FOR Previous HitUNCONVENTIONALNext Hit TIGHT PETROLEUM SYSTEMS: OIL AND GAS

Steve Sonnenberg and Larry Meckel

Adding value: A new perspective on aging leases, Tulare formation, Cymric oil field

Heather Stang

Calculation of groundwater salinity using the resistivity-porosity (RP) method on digitized geophysical logs from California oil and gas fields

Michael J. Stephens, David H. Shimabukuro and Janice Gillespie

Carlin-type gold deposit Previous HitdevelopmentNext Hit as an analogue for Previous HitunconventionalNext Hit hydrocarbon field Previous HitdevelopmentNext Hit

Daniel M. Sturmer

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What we know and wish we knew about oil exploration in Nevada

Jerome P. Walker

Play fairway analysis for structurally-controlled geothermal systems in the Eastern Great Basin extensional regime, Utah, USA

Philip Wannamaker, Kristine L. Pankow, Joseph Moore, Gregory Nash, Virginie Maris and Stuart Simmons

Exploration and Previous HitdevelopmentNext Hit of the Neal Hot Springs geothermal resource, Malheur County, Oregon

Ian Warren

Revisiting the Great Basin: Part 2 — Petroleum System Insights

David A. Wavrek, Maria N. Slack and Daniel Schelling

Compositional and diagenetic relationships and controls of mechanical behavior in siliceous mudstones of the upper Monterey Formation, Belridge Oilfield, San Joaquin Basin, California.

Ryan Weller and Richard J. Behl

Evaluating the potential for Enhanced Geothermal Systems Previous HitdevelopmentNext Hit in the United States

Colin F Williams

Apparent and actual strain variation in the Monterey and Sisquoc Formations, southern Santa Maria Basin, California: Implication for cross-section construction and reservoir characterization

Yannick Wirtz, Richard J. Behl, Thomas L. Davis and Jay Namson

Basalt sills in the 10,054-ft deep Ore-Ida well: western Snake River Plain Cenozoic basin of Idaho and Oregon

Spencer Wood

Geology of the western margin of the Cenozoic Western Snake River Plain basin near Ontario, Oregon

Spencer Wood

Light hydrocarbon analysis illustrates oil type and tight reservoir conditions --- examples from PERMIAN, EAGLE FORD, STACK and MISS LIME

Sheng Wu, Andrew C. Sneddon, Tao Yang, Li Gao, Yongchun Tang and Jian Hu