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Middle Triassic Source Potential and Lateral Variation in Organic Facies, Southwestern Barents Sea and Svalbard

Tesfamariam Abay, D A. Karlsen, J H. Pedersen and S Olaussen

Understanding Reservoir Properties of the Organic-Rich Qusaiba Shale, a Potential Shale Gas Reservoir, NW Saudi Arabia: An Outcrop Approach

Mohamed O. Abouelresh, Lamidi Babalola, Daniel Boyde, Koithan Thomas and Mohammed Omer

The Influence of Regional Uplift and Exhumation Upon Paleo and Active Petroleum Systems, Libya

Reem Aboushoug, David Boote, Agust Gudmundsson and Abdussalam Dardour

Modern Facies Change: The Replacement of Corals by Crustose Coralline Algae and Rhodoids in Southwestern Puerto Rico Reefs

Karin Abrahamsson and Luis Gonzalez

Evaluation of Near-Surface Gases in Marine Sediments

Michael A. Abrams

Assessing Oil-In-Place and Oil Mobility in Liquid Rich Unconventional Resource Plays Using Multi-Step Thermal Extraction

Michael A. Abrams, Changrui Gong, Carole Garnier and Mark Sephton

A Simplified Guide For Sequence Stratigraphy: Nomenclature, Definitions and Method

Vitor Abreu, Keriann Pederson, Jack Neal and Kevin Bohacs

Variation in Particle Size on the Determination of Permeability in Crushed Shale Samples

Mercy Achang

Reservoir Heterogeneity and Quality of Khuff Carbonates (Central Saudi Arabia)

Ammar M. Adam, Rudy Swennen and Osman Abdullatif

Gassmann With Texture Dependent Effective Grain Moduli

Don Adams and David Markus

Structural Domain Mapping in the Mexican Perdido Fold Belt Trend, Deep Water Gulf of Mexico: Description and Characterization

Ahmed S. Afifi, Lauren Becker, Mario Moreno-Vega, Dale Dailey and Jacek Jaminski

Utilising Stratigraphic Driven Approaches and Simulations to Build Robust 3-D Geologic Models for Miocene Reservoirs, “Josh” Field, Niger Delta

Taiwo J. Afuye, Osezele Osaele and Olatokunbo Ojo

Analysis of Shallow Seismic Data for Improved Understanding of Sediment Geobodies

Luca Agostini, Eva H. Zimmer, John Howell, Adrian Hartley, Nicholas Schofield and Robert Gawthorpe

Decoding Molecular Geochemistry of Kerogen From Marcellus Shale

Vikas Agrawal, Ajay Warrier and Shikha Sharma

The Giant Perla Field: Discovery and Impact in the Western Caribbean

Mikel Erquiaga Aguirre

Depositional Setting and Reservoir Quality of the Lockhart Limestone (Lower Paleocene) in the Hazara-Kashmir Basin (NW Lesser Himalayas, Pakistan)

Naveed Ahsan and Mumtaz M. Shah

Conducting Integrated Reservoir Studies in the Quartzite Hamra Reservoir-Tight Oil, Southern Periphery of Hassi-Messaoud Field, Algeria

Zoulikha Ait-Ali, Maamar Djarir, Rafika Zenkhri, Abdallah Sokhal, Lounis El-hadi, Gholamreza Zandkarimi, and Philip E. Mosher

Permeability Prediction and Distribution in the Confined South Georgia Rift Red Beds With Implications for CO2 Storage

Olusoga M. Akintunde, Camelia Knapp and James H. Knapp

Isotopic Biogeochemistry of Lipids and Organic Matter in Deep Subsurface Sediments of the Marcellus Shale

Rawlings Akondi, Shikha Sharma, Ryan Trexler, Paula Mouser, Susan Pfiffner, Vikas Agrawal and Ajay Warrier

Sequence Stratigraphy and Chemostratigraphy of the Upper Khuff Carbonates, Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia

Raed Al-Dukhayyil, James F Read and Aus Al-Tawil

Regional Stratigraphic Architectures and Depositional Settings of the Giant Shu'aiba Reservoir in the Arabian Basin, and Their Implication in Reservoir Characterization and Exploration

Nasser M. Al-Ghamdi

Oman Challenging Geology: Success Never Ends

Salim A. Al-Mahrouqi, Mohammed Al-Shaibani and James Owens

Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the Southern Red Sea, Jizan Basin, Saudi Arabia

Rawan Alasad, Osama Soliman, Olusola Bakare, Patrice Brenac and Caroline Reid

Benchmarking and Calibration of 3-D Geomechanical Models

Rene Alcalde

Ten Steps to Successful Exploration and Development

Jeff Aldrich

Up-scaled Petrophysical Analyses Using Micro-Level Field-Of-View Petrographic Images for the Kapuni Group, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Aamer Alhakeem, Kelly Liu and Waleed H. Al-Bazzaz

Modeling Elastic Properties Changes and Overpressure Generation Due to Smectite to Illite Transformation in the Thunder Horse Mini-Basin, Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico

Wisam H. AlKawai, Tapan Mukerji, Stephen A. Graham and Allegra H. Scheirer

Facies Characterization and Sequence Stratigraphy of Early Cretaceous Yamama and Sulaiy Formations, Northeastern Saudi Arabia

Fawwaz M. Alkhaldi

Fault Seal Analysis Effects in Delineating the Movement Of Water Injection and Identifying New Infill Locations and Possible Upside Locations – Near Field Exploration, Ras Budran Field - Gulf of Suez

Khaled M. Abd Alla, Ahamed Abd El-Hardy and Aly Gadallah

Stratigraphic, Sedimentological, and Geochemical Variability in the Eagle Ford Group Across the Stuart City Paleo-Shelf Margin, South Texas

Ahmed Alnahwi, Robert G. Loucks, Stephen C. Ruppel, Harry Rowe and Robert W. Scott

Strain Partitioning and Variation in Style of Deformation During Continental Extension, Eastern Baffin Bay, West Greenland

Saleh Alqahtani, Douglas Paton and Richard Collier

Geochemical Evidence of a Large Shift in Redox Conditions and Long Term-Deep Burial Oxidation by Radiolysis Associated with Elevated Organic-Matter Content and Gamma-Ray Intensity in the Paleozoic New Albany Shale, USA

Mohammad A. Alrowaie, Michael A. Haluska and Lisa M. Pratt

Re-Examination of the Wellbore Mechanics Basis for Interpreting Leak-off Tests – Impacts on Stress State and Pore Pressure Determinations

Khalid M. Alruwaili, Gary D. Couples and Jingsheng Ma

Recent Carbonates-Evaporites of Southern Arabian Gulf: An Analogue to the Jurassic Reservoirs Peri-Tidal and Evaporite Cycles of Arabian Basin

Abdulrahman S. Alsharhan, Tom De Keyser and Christopher G. Kendall

A Geochemical Probe of Formation Waters and Associated Crude Oils in a Source Shale Bed Toward an Understanding of the Role of Water-Mineral Interactions During Hydrocarbon Generation

H Alvarez, Sambhudas Chaudhuri, M Totten, G Riepl, J Miesse, S Kirkwood and L Nicastro

Regional Crustal Structure and Heat-Flow Prediction of the Mediterranean Using Gravity Inversion

Andy Alvey, Nick J. Kusznir and Alan M. Roberts

Geomechanical Modeling of Pennsylvanian Carbonate Mound Complexes: Early Fracturing Related to Differential Compaction and Evolving Rock Properties

Yaser A. Alzayer and Christopher Zahm

Living on the Moon: Lessons for Mars

William Ambrose and Bruce Cutright

Natural Fractures and Their Impact on the Tight Sand Plays of the Ordovician Sarah Formation, Northern Arabia

Mohammed S. Ameen

WheelerLab: An Interactive Program for Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of Seismic Sections and the Generation of Dynamic Chronostratigraphic Sections

Adewale Amosu and Yuefeng Sun

FischerLab: An Interactive Program for Generating Dynamic Fischer Plots From Wireline Logs and Stratigraphic Data

Adewale Amosu and Yuefeng Sun

Upslope Turbidite Stratigraphic Traps: Understanding Pinchout Development

Lawrence Amy, Robert Dorrell, Hans Nelson and William D. McCaffrey

Episodic Deformation Rates Recovered From Growth Strata, Pyrenees

David Anastasio, Kenneth Kodama and Josep Parés

Depositional Controls and Sequence Stratigraphy of Lacustrine to Marine Transgressive Deposits in an Active Rift Basin, Lower Cretaceous Bluff Mesa, Indio Mountains, West Texas

Andrew T. Anderson, Katherine A. Giles and Richard Langford

Multiscale Characterization of Organic Hosted Porosity in Gas Bearing Shales

Matthew Andrew, Sreenivas Bhattiprolu, Chuong Huynh and Bernhard Goetze

The Libra Block Project: Pre-Salt SE Brazil

Sylvia M. Anjos, Keith Lewis and Fernando Borges

Multi-Resolution Stacking of Seismic Attribute Calculations Based on Post-Stack Seismic Characteristics to Enhance Image Quality

Ahmed A. Aqrawi and Mats S. Ramfjord

Artificially-Induced Changes to Organic Matter Properties as a Consequence of the Act of Observation

Irene Arango and Barry J. Katz

Characterizing Tri-linear Deformation for Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations Utilizing Microseismicity

Ellie P. Ardakani, Katherine Bosman, Lindsay Smith-Boughner, Ted Urbancic and Adam M. Baig

Ripples and Levees – A Match Made in Sedimentological Heaven

Bill Arnott and Mike Tilston

Mineralogy, Porosity and Water Saturation From Simultaneous Impedance Inversion in a Turbiditic Oil Reservoir

Humberto S. Arévalo-López and Jack P. Dvorkin

Acritarchs in the Silurian Qusaiba Shale and Related Biomarkers: Implication for Identifying Paleozoic Hydrocarbon Charge

Ibrahim Al Atwah and David Jacobi

Stratigraphic Architecture of Bypass-Dominated Slope Channel Deposits, Tres Pasos Formation, Chilean Patagonia

Neal C. Auchter, Brian Romans, Sarah J. Southern, Benjamin Daniels, Lisa Stright and Stephen Hubbard

High Impact Exploration Inventory in an Emerging Hydrocarbon Province, Morandava Basin, Offshore Madagascar

Irewole J. Ayodele, Adeleke Orimolade, Glen Penfield and Babafemi Falaye

Application of Forward Stratigraphic Modelling in Deep-Water Shale Basins; Insights from the Devonian Horn River Basin, BC, Canada

Korhan Ayranci, Tian Dong and Nicholas Harris

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Fluid Injection and Earthquake Size in Faulted Reservoirs

Mohsen Babazadeh, Jon E. Olson and Richard A. Schultz

Confocal and Transmitted Light Petrography of Cementation and Grain Types in a High-Energy Upper Shoreface to Foreshore Carbonate Strandline, Pleistocene (MIS 5e) West Caicos Island, Turks and Caicos, BWI

Steve Bachtel, Charles Kerans, Neil F. Hurley and Nathaniel Miller

Advances in Seismic Stratigraphy of Carbonate Platforms and the Importance of Integrated Interpretation Using Time- / Depth-slice and Well Calibration Data

Steve Bachtel

Oil Recovery Potential From Organic Nanopores in Source Rocks

Seunghwan Baek, Khoa Bui and I. Yucel Akkutlu

Source Rock Characteristics and Hydrocarbon Potential of Middle Permian P2p Source Rocks in the Kelameili Area, Eastern Junggar Basin, NW China: Implications for Tight Oil Exploration

Hua Bai, Xiongqi Pang, Lichun Kuang, Hong Pang and Xu Song

Characterization of Microseismic-Derived Discrete Fracture Networks Through Topological Approaches

Adam M. Baig, Ted Urbancic, Ellie P. Ardakani and Lindsay Smith-Boughner

Extensional Fault Kinematics and Basin Segmentation in Highly-Extending Terrains: A Case Study From Western Turkey

Zeynep O. Baran and Yildirim Dilek

Surface Geochemical Prospecting of Hydrocarbon in Brejeira and Mira Formations, South Portuguese Zone (SPZ), Portugal

Gabriel A. Barberes, André Spigolon, Albert Permanyer, Rui Pena dos Reis, Paulo Fonseca, Teresa Barata and Rafal Skupio

Constraining the Importance of Authigenic Carbonate in the Global Carbon Cycle: A Case Study From the Bakken Formation

B. Davis Barnes, Jon M. Husson, Maciej G. Sliwinski, Adam C. Denny, John W. Valley and Shanan Peters

Integrating and Adopting Economic Uncertainty in Upstream Investment Decision Making

Cornelius W. Barnes

New Method of Defining Net Thickness in the Bone Spring Sandstones to Identify Prospective Reservoirs Using Petrophysical Attributes and Stochastic Simulation Techniques in the Delaware Basin, NM

Marielis V. Baron and Joanna Fritz

3-D Sequence Stratigraphic Modelling of Shallow Marine Systems in Syn- to Post-rift Settings

Bonita Barrett, David Hodgson, Richard Collier and Robert Dorrell

Mapping of Basement Through Magnetic Depth Estimation Along Regional Lines, Southeastern Mexico

Ernesto E. Barrios, Antonio Tamez and Miguel A. Imaz

Water Depths of the Mississippi River Delta Clinoform Break: Implications for Generating a Global Inventory of Post-LGM Relative Sea Level Rise Estimates

Philip J. Bart and Swati Ghoshal

Great Salt Lake, Utah: A Natural Laboratory for Assessing Potential Geobody Dimensions, Reservoir Architectures, and Controls in Lacustrine Carbonate Systems

Robert L. Baskin, Paul Wright, Neal Driscoll and Graham Kent

Chemoprovenance of the Chattanooga and Woodford Shales of Oklahoma

Andrew Basnett and Dennis Kerr

Taking Advantage of RTM Surface Offset Gathers for Iterative Salt Modeling and Subsalt Reservoir Image Enhancement

Hugues Baudon, Eric Maocec and Constantin Gerea

Production Trend Analytics: Utilizing Big Data to Minimize Geoscientist Capital Input

Matthew W. Bauer

Optimizing Subsurface Predictions With Limited Capital Investment

Peter Bauman, Chris Barton and Torr Haglund

Are We There Yet? Geometric Modeling of the Controls on the Transit Time of River Deltas to the Shelf Edge

Sarah Baumgardner, Ashley D. Harris and Tao Sun

The Florida-Bahamas Lineament and Gulf of Mexico Opening: To Move or Not to Move?

Melissa Beaman, Jesse Koch, Shira Paulson and Scot Krueger

Assessing Controls of the Woodford Shale Rock Strength at the Bed Scale, Ardmore Basin, Oklahoma

Daniela M. Becerra-Rondon, Henry A. Galvis-Portilla and Roger Slatt

Offshore CO2 Storage in Continental Shelf Stratigraphy – Global Research Needs, Storage Potential, and Technical Challenges

Emily Beckham, Ramon H. Trevino, Timothy A. Meckel and Susan Hovorka

Review of Mesozoic Exploration Plays in the Montenegro - NW Albania Segment of South Adriatic Basin

Zamir Bega and Z Schleder

Depositional Reservoir Quality of Deep-Water Channels and Lobes: Aínsa and Jaca Basins, Spain

Daniel Bell, Ian Kane, David Hodgson, Stephen Flint and Anna S. Pontén

Fundamentally Different Proximal and Distal Lobe Stacking Styles Within the Same Stratigraphic Interval: Upper Broto System, Jaca Basin, Spain

Daniel Bell, David Hodgson, Ian Kane, Christopher Stevenson and Miquel Poyatos-Moré

Integrating Sedimentology and Quantitative Rock Physics for Reservoir Characterization and Modeling in Field Development: A Case Study of an Onshore Field in Niger Delta, Nigeria

Ebere Benard, Taju Gbadamosi, Sotonye Okujagu, Kingsley Akpara and Collins Onyeukwu

The Effect of Large-Scale Tectonic Activity on Rifted Marginal Basin Petroleum Systems

Anouk Beniest, William Sassi, Xavier Guichet, Sylvie Leroy and Alexander Koptev

Establishing Foraminifera Based Biofacies Within Shallow Marine Deposits, Carpinteria Slough, CA: Implications for Southern California Sea-Level Studies

John M. Bentz, Alexander R. Simms, Martin Buzas and Pamela Buzas-Stephens

An Unconventional Exploration Tool for Unconventional Exploration

Louis J. Berent and H. R. Nelson

Harnessing Lightning in the Hunt for Hydrocarbons

Louis J. Berent and H. R. Nelson

Modeling the Effect of Borehole Orientation on Stereonets

Charles R. Berg

Seismic Geomorphology and Overpressure Variation in the Shallow Water Flow (SWF) Prone Sand Units in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico

William Berger, James Keenan, Zachary Metz, Shams UlHadi, Shishay Bisrat, Di Mo, Zhiwei Qian, Rahul Sudhakar and Daniel Wedding

Precambrian Carbonate Platforms: A Database Approach to Querying Carbonate Deposition Through Time

Kristin Bergmann, Marjorie Cantine and Andrew Knoll

Source Rocks in the Caribbean Plate

Luis M. Bernardo and Claudio Bartolini

Cenozoic Neritic Carbonates in the Maldives Controlled by Sea Level and Ocean Currents

Christian Betzler, Gregor Eberli, Dick Kroon, Thomas Lüdmann, John Reijmer, Peter Swart, Jim Wright, Carlos Alvarez-Zarikian and null null

Paleogene Carbonate Dissolution Events and Their Link With Wilcox Formation Deep Water Sands

Joyeeta Bhattacharya and Gerald R. Dickens

3-D Multi-Scale Lithofacies Models of the Upper and Lower Bakken Shale Members of the Williston Basin in North Dakota, USA

Shuvajit Bhattacharya and Tim Carr

Operational Practices and Their Influence on Injection-Induced Earthquakes: Lessons Learned From a Statewide Survey of Brine Disposal in Kansas

Tandis S. Bidgoli and Christa Jackson

An Investigation of Static and Dynamic Data Using Multistage Triaxial Test

Abdullah Bilal, Michael Myers and Lori Hathon

Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics: What Can They Tell Us About Petroleum Systems?

Justin E. Birdwell and Robert F. Dias

Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Eocene Green River Formation Petroleum System, Uinta Basin, Utah

Justin E. Birdwell, Michael D. Vanden Berg and Ronald C. Johnson

Geochemical Screening Using Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Calibration: Mudrock Mineralogy, Major Element Chemistry, and Organic Content

Justin E. Birdwell

Diagenesis, Facies, and Reservoir Quality in a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework: The Visean-A Platform in Tengiz Field, Republic of Kazakhstan

James W. Bishop, Margaret Miller, Nurymbet Kalzhekov, Li-Yuan Hsiao and Ted Playton

Mechanical Compaction of Sand and Clay: Constraints From Experimental Compaction, Chemical Reactions and Fluid Flow During Burial – An Overview

Knut Bjørlykke, Jens Jahren, Nazmul Mondol, Helge Hellevang and Per Aagaard

Hunting “Elephants” in the Rio Grande Rift - A New Frontier

Bruce A. Black

Reconstructing Surface and Subsurface Paleohydrology Using Evidence From Caves, Paleosprings, and Travertine in the Arbuckle Mountains, Southern Oklahoma, USA

Kevin W. Blackwood and John Richins

Application of Advanced Technologies for Improving the Petroleum Systems Modeling in Foreland Fold-and-Thrust (FFT) Belts: The Llanos Basin Case Study

Vladimir Blanco, Mario A. Guzman, Andres Mora, Nelson Sanchez, John M. Moldowan and Nora Marcano

Redox Conditions During Deposition of the Upper Ordovician Point Pleasant Limestone, Appalachian Basin, USA: Insights Into Organic Matter Production, Preservation, and Reservoir Development

David Blood

Patterns of Induced Seismicity in Central and Northwest Oklahoma

Jeremy Boak

Implications of Facies and Pore Architecture on NMR-Response in Carbonate Mudrock Reservoirs: Mississippian-Lime Play Case Study

Ibukunoluwa Bode-Omoleye, G. Michael Grammer and Chi Zhang

Complementary Results on Experiment-Derived Classification of Submarine Sediment Gravity Flows

Carolina H. Boffo, Rafael Manica, Ana Luiza de Oliveira Borges, Marco Moraes and Paulo Paraizo

Advances in Sequence Stratigraphy—Insights From 35 Years of Studying the Other 80% of the Stratal Record: Mudstones

Kevin Bohacs and Joe MacQuaker

Implications of Uplift and Erosion on Pore Pressure, Stress and Seal Integrity

Hege M. Bolaas, Jan Robert Eide, Christian Hermanrud, Oddbjørn Sivert Kløvjan and Gunn Mari G. Teige

50 Years of Conventional Oil and Gas Exploration and Production in the Western Desert (Egypt) and Still Going Strong

William Bosworth, Joe Versfelt, Edgar Cross, Luis Vergara, Hani Nasr, Ashraf Ghali, Mostafa Hussein, Osama Fouad, Grant Spencer, Todd Henry, Dave Jennette, Rick Johnson, Brad Steer, Peter Sackmann, Waleed Abdelaziz, Stewart Guinn, Gregg Barker, Colin Clerk, George Kokkoros, Jeffrey Towart and Dan Helgeson

Combining Full-Volume 3-D Seismic Interpretation With Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology and Modern Process-Based Analogue Databases: The Next Generation Tools for Stratigraphic Analysis and Reservoir Characterization

Julien Bourget, Boyan Vakarelov, Bruce Ainsworth, Victorien Paumard and Sebastien Lacaze

Advancement in Source Rock Porosity and Fluid Characterization Using Core NMR

Matt L. Boyce and Kiran H. Gawankar

Multiphase Deep-Water Slope Channel-Lobe Evolution: Cerro Toro Formation, Silla Syncline Area, Magallanes Basin, Chile

Guilherme Bozetti, Bryan T. Cronin and Ben Kneller

Late Carboniferous Fluvio-Deltaic Deposits (SE Kentucky, USA): Sedimentary Patterns and 3-D Digital Outcrop Reconstructions

Eric Braccini and Francois Lafont

What Role Has the Presence of the Deweyville Terraces Played in the Formation of Galveston Island and West Galveston Bay?

Lindsay Breedlove and Timothy M. Dellapenna

Developing a Rock Physics Template for Improved Seismic Mapping of New Zealand Coaly Source Rocks

Stephen W. Brennan, Ludmila Adam, Lorna J. Strachan, Richard Sykes and Daniel Mohnhoff

Importance of Outcrop Characterization in the Development of Unconventional Shales

Richard Brito and Roger Slatt

A Monte Carlo Approach to Calculate Stress Orientations and Differential Stress Ratios From Microseismicity Using Elastic Dislocation Modelling

Heike Broichhausen, Christian Seiler and Euan Macaulay

The Long-Term Evolution of an Exhumed Deepwater Stepped-Slope Profile

Hannah L. Brooks, David Hodgson, Stephen Flint, Rufus L. Brunt and Jeff Peakall

Possible Origins for Low Thermal Maturity, High-Nitrogen Natural Gases

Alton A. Brown

The Influence of Wastewater Injection Wells on Induced Seismicity in the Denver Basin Combined Disposal Zone, Weld County, Northeast Colorado

Megan R. Brown, Shemin Ge and Anne F. Sheehan

Spatial Risk Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Near Abandoned and Converted Oil and Gas Wells

Joshua W. Brownlow, Joe C. Yelderman and Scott C. James

Beyond the Channel-to-Lobe Transition Zone: Off-Axis Facies Distribution and Implications for Stratigraphic Pinch-Outs

Rufus L. Brunt, Hannah L. Brooks, David Hodgson and Stephen Flint

Understanding Controls on EUR in the Haynesville Shale Gas Play: It's All About the In-situ Density and Pressure of Methane Gas

L T. Bryndzia, Calum Macaulay and Alexander Litvinchuk

Down-Hole Raman Reservoir Spectrometer (DRRS): A Novel New Raman Spectroscopy Logging Technology for the Rapid Appraisal of Shale Gas Resource Potential

L T. Bryndzia and Quentin Morgan

Effects of Convergent, Radial-Gliding “Corner” Geometry on Petroleum Charge, Port Isabel Passive-Margin Foldbelt, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Muhammad Nawaz Bugti and Paul Mann

Rift Shoulder Erosion and Basin Deformation Associated With the Wichita Uplift (Mountain Front): Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma and Texas, USA

Thomas P. Bulling, Robert Marksteiner, Kristian Meisling, Jesse Koch and Kim Koepke

Triassic Palynology of the Central North Sea: Correlation and Environmental Reconstruction of a Fluvial System

Roger D. Burgess

Calibrating Deposition of a Tropical Mixed System: Cibao Basin, Dominican Republic

Brandon Burke, Donald F. McNeill, James S. Klaus, Peter Swart and Gemma Sahwell

U.S. Geological Survey Assessment of Undiscovered Hydrocarbons in the Deep Tertiary of the U.S. Gulf Coast Region

Marc L. Buursink, Catherine Enomoto, Colin Doolan, William Craddock and James L. Coleman

Seismic Tectono-Stratigraphy Modeling of Deep Marine Oligo-Miocene Siliciclastic Reservoirs in Levant-Cyprus Basin Frontier Zone

Mourad Bédir

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Secondary Migration of Petroleum Along Axis of Syncline: A Case Study on Southern Kuqa Foreland Basin

Jun Cai and Xiuxiang Lü

Fault Zone Development, Architecture and Fluid Migration Properties in Heterogeneous Clastic & Carbonate Strata

Tomas Cain, Stuart M. Clarke and Graham Leslie

The Research of Hydrocarbon Accumulation Regularity of the Sandy Conglomerate in Haiwaihe Nearshore Submerged Fan

Laisheng Cao, Lin Yu, Hong Chen, Rui Fan, Yang Meng, Yingjie Du, Hua Liu and Xiyan Dong

Gas of Biodegradation Origin and Their Pooling Characteristics in Shallow Reservoirs of Langgu Sag

Yijun Cao

Macroscopic to Microscopic Criteria for Assessing Spatial Changes in Material and Bounding Surface Character of Mass-Transport Deposits and Implications for Seal Quality

Sebastian Cardona, Lesli J. Wood and Mimi Do

Has the Initial Development of the Haynesville Gas Play Impacted the Overlying Carrizo-Wilcox's Water Quality?

Douglas Carlson

Digging Old Data to Drill New Wells

Mario Carminatti and Otaviano da Cruz Pessoa Neto

Post-Appraisal – the Key to Confidence in Forecasting

Peter Carragher

Lateral Variability in Upper Slope, Shelf Edge and Shallow Marine Stratigraphy Along a 70-km Strike Transect: Karoo Basin, South Africa

Luz Elena Gomis Cartesio, Miquel Poyatos-Moré, David Hodgson and Stephen Flint

Organic Carbon Isotopes From Halites: A New Approach to Studying Evaporite Sequences

Andrew H. Caruthers, Stephen E. Kaczmarek, Matthew Rine and Darren Grocke

Imaging the Channel-to-Lobe-Transition Zone With High-Resolution AUV Bathymetry: Navy Fan Offshore Baja California

Cristian Carvajal, Charles K. Paull, David W. Caress, Andrea Fildani, Eve Lundsten, Krystle Anderson, Katherine Maier, Mary McGann, Roberto Gwiazda, Mason L. Dykstra and Juan Carlos Herguera

Using MBES Backscatter and Bathymetry to Assess the Distribution of Benthic Communities for Piston Coring Operations

Ronald W. Cash and Noelle J. Purcell

Complex Response of Fluvial Systems to Extreme Global Warming at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary

Sebastien Castelltort, Chen Chen, Laure Guerit, Brady Foreman and Thierry Adatte

Modeling Deltaic Stratigraphy Through Superposition of Discrete Networks

Dan Cazanacli, Alessandro Cantelli, Nick C. Howes, Matthew Wolinsky and Chris Paola

Pre-Salt Spherulites: Bacterially Induced Initiation of Precipitation

Henry S. Chafetz

Efficiently Integrating Seismic Data Into the Geosteering Process to Accurately Position Wells for Increased Production

Hank P. Chambers and Kayla Ball

Source of STACK & SCOOP Fluids: Evidence From Fluid Inclusions

Jiun-Chi Chao, Paul Philp, Barry Bennett, Donald L. Hall, Wipawon Phiukhao, Sarah Feiner and Rachel Lishansky

Predrill Prediction of Proximal Charge From a Dry Hole: An Example From the Barents Sea

Jiun-Chi Chao, Rachel Lishansky, Sarah Feiner, Wipawon Phiukhao, Donald L. Hall, Barry Bennett and David Wavrek

Integrating Mineralogy, Process Sedimentology and Geomechanics for Development of a Mechanical Stratigraphy Model of the Bakken Formation

Alyssa Charsky, David Pyles and Stephen Sonnenberg

Flow-Back Frac Water Composition – Rock-Fluid Interaction in the Montney Shale Controlled by Faults and Maturity Domain

Jean-Yves D. Chatellier

Lead Isotope Analyses of Crude Oils and Their Source Shale Beds Could Prove Useful in Determining the Time of Formation of Oil

Sambhudas Chaudhuri, Daniel Ramirez-Caro, M Totten, H Alvarez, G Riepl, J Miesse, S Kirkwood, G Sandlin, M Granet, B Reitz and M Spaid-Reitz

Autogenic Response of Shoreline Migration to Sea Level Rise in the Incised Valley Depositional System

Chen Chen, Sebastien Castelltort and Chris Paola

Integrated Reservoir Characterization of Thin Bed Reservoir in Desert Area

Jie Chen, Jixiang Lin, Jie Li, Yu Lin, Yaonan Li, Jing Bie and Yuzhen Wang

Architecture Analysis of Underwater Distributary Channels—A Case Study of S2L4 in Wen 79 Southern Block

Le Chen

A Combination of N2 and CO2 Adsorption to Characterize Nanopore Structure of Organic-rich Lower Silurian Shale in the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for Shale Gas Sorption Capacity

Lei Chen, Zhenxue Jiang and Keyu Liu

An Enigmatic Transverse Structural Domain of the Northwest Passive Margin of Australia

Peng Chen and Chris Elders

Deciphering Interplay of Tectonism and Redox Conditions on Temporal Variation in Total Organic Carbon Content in the Marcellus Shale: Evidence From Multiple Geochemical Proxies

Ruiqian Chen and Shikha Sharma

Genesis and Hierarchy Analysis of Mud-Rich Units Within Braided Fluvial Reservoir: A Case Study From the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt, Venezuela

Shizhen Chen, Chengyan Lin, Chunmei Dong, Lihua Ren and Jia Li

Unusually Well Preserved Tidal Signals and Tidal Constituents on Pliocene Paleo-Orinoco Delta, Trinidad

Si Chen, Ronald Steel, Erik P. Kvale, Cornel Olariu and Jinyu Zhang

The Geochemical Characteristics of the Eocene Oils From the Rolling Anticline Belt of Chaheji in Baxian Sag, Bohai Bay Basin and Their Origins Analysis

Xiaoyan Chen and Huayao Zou

Characteristics of Lower Palaeozoic Marine Carbonate Rocks in Dongying Sag, East Bohai Bay Basin

Xin Cheng, Yingchang Cao, Guanghui Yuan and Wei Jiang

Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flow in Fracture-Cave System Dominated Carbonate Reservoirs: Taking Akekule Nosing Structure (North Tarim Basin, China) for Example

Huang Chenjun, Ma Yongsheng and Liu Geyun

A Quantitative Model of the Internal Structure of Fault Zones

Conrad Childs, Tom Manzocchi, John J. Walsh, Giovanni Camanni and Vincent Roche

A Proposed Microfossil Reliability Index and a Test Using Mid-Cretaceous Calcareous Nannofossil Data

Shamar Chin and David K. Watkins

Improving Horizontal Well Placement and Completion Effectiveness in Deltaic Tight Sands - A Case Study in Anadarko Basin

Yashwanth Chitrala, Brad Moon, Jonathan Williams and Aaron Reyna

Integrated Analysis of Borehole Microseismic, Completion and Production Data to Characterize Reservoir Depletion and Determine Infill Well Spacing in Tight Sands

Yashwanth Chitrala, Hemali Patel, Samuel Scheibal and Jonathan Williams

Morphologic and Hydrodynamic Controls on the Occurrence of Tidal Bundles in an Open-Coast Macrotidal Environment, Northern Gyeonggi Bay, West Coast of Korea

Kyungsik Choi

Determining Paleoenvironmental Conditions of Late-Cambrian to Pennsylvanian Sediments From the Central Kansas Uplift Using Trace Element Analysis

Andrew Christiano and Hendratta Ali

Exploration Assurance Team Best Practices

Gary Citron, Marc Bond and Peter Carragher

Influence of Tectonic Stress Regime on Fracture Porosity of Tight Carbonate Reservoirs

Constantin L. Ciuperca, Gregory Jackson, Bogdan Mihai Niculescu and Abid Bhatti

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Julian Clark, Sebastien Castelltort, Cai Puigdefàbregas, Daniel F. Stockli, Mason L. Dykstra, Louis Honegger, Kelly Thomson, Margaret Odlum and Andrea Fildani

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Robert G. Clarke

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Dylan Cochrane, Lilian Navarro and Bill Arnott

Career Path Choices: Technical, Managerial, or Something Else?

Cheryl Collarini

Numerical Modeling of Ancient Tides: The Impact of Paleogeographic Uncertainty on Shoreline Depositional Processes

Daniel S. Collins, Alexandros Avdis, Peter Allison, Howard Johnson, Christopher Dean, Marijn van Cappelle, Valentina M. Rossi, Jon Hill, Matthew Piggott and Gary Hampson

Shelf-Margin Evolution in an Active Tectonic Setting: The Middle Miocene Western Baram-Balabac Basin, NW Borneo

Daniel S. Collins, Idrus Puasa, Howard Johnson and Christopher A. Jackson

Exploration and Delineation of the Vaca Muerta Formation: Seven Years Sorting Out the Play

Carlos Colo, Jose L. Massaferro and Ivan Lanusse

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Luca Colombera, Nigel P. Mountney, Catherine E. Russell, Michelle N. Shiers, Na Yan and Jose M. Montero

Supply Dominated Fluvial Sequences: Implications for Sequence Stratigraphy in Continental Settings

Sean Connell, Andrew S. Madof and Ashley D. Harris

Through the Seismic Looking Glass: Challenges of Using Reflections as Geomorphic Surfaces

Sean Connell and Andrew S. Madof

Incorporating Layer Thickening and Thinning Into Kinematic Modeling of Fault-Related Folding

Christopher Connors

Stratigraphic and Geochemical Variability of The Cenomanian to Turonian Eagle Ford Group in Southwest Texas: Implications for Identifying Potentially Productive Hydrocarbon Pay Zones

Roy A. Conte, Michael C. Pope and Mike Tice

Asteroid Mining: The State of the Industry and Our Future in Space

Douglas J. Cook

Advances in the Understanding of Key Parameters Determining Carbonate Fault Rock Permeability

Andrew Cooke, Quentin Fisher, Emma Michie and Graham Yielding

Geophysical Characterization of Carbonates Reservoir Using Advanced Interpretation Techniques: Applications to Abenaki Formation, Penobscot Block, Nova Scotia

Daniel Coronel, Erik Villamizar, Erick J. Illidge and Sait Khurama

The Continental Shelf as a Conveyor or Filter: Sediment Character Analysis From Coeval Topset, Foreset, and Bottomset Deposits

Grace I. Cosgrove, David Hodgson, Nigel P. Mountney and William D. McCaffrey

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Aymeric Le Cotonnec, Dario Ventra, Andrea Moscariello, Francois Lafont and Eric Braccini

Bio-Stratigraphy Disproves Eustacy as a Primary Factor in the Accumulation of Middle Paleozoic Rocks Around the Transcontinental Arch of North America

Gary D. Couples and Mark W. Frye

Tectonic Controls on Deep-Water Sediment Routing – Nanaimo Basin, Canada

Daniel Coutts, Stephen Hubbard, Rebecca G. Englert, Heather Bain, William Matthews and Bernard Guest

Small Rivers and Big Fans: New Geochonologic Constraints From the Miocene-Pliocene Deep-Water Mexican Continental Margin

Jacob A. Covault, Daniel F. Stockli, Andrea Fildani, Glenn R. Sharman and John W. Snedden

The Channel-Lobe Transition Zone: A Template for Submarine-Fan and -Channel Evolution

Jacob A. Covault, Svetlana Kostic and Andrea Fildani

Does Organic Matter Have an Unacknowledged Influence on the Dynamics and Deposits of Fine-Grained Submarine Sediment Gravity Flows?

Melissa Craig, Jaco Baas, Andrew Manning, Kathryn Amos and Lorna J. Strachan

Space, Things, Time, and Events: Horacio Harrington, Derek Ager, and the Dichotomous Future of Sequence Stratigraphy

Bradley D. Cramer

Turbidite-Contourite Interactions on Continental Margins: New Insights From the Cretaceous Uruguayan Margin

Adam Creaser, F Javier Hernández-Molina, Gianluca Badalini, Matias Soto, Phil Thompson, Richard Walker and Juan Tomasini

Modified Athy-Law Compaction to Account for Porosity Generation and Preservation From Kerogen Conversion in Terzaghi-Like Models of Petroleum Source Rocks

Matthias Cremon, Alan K. Burnham, Yimin Liu and Alexandre Lapene

Bone Spring Formation High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy, Northern Delaware Basin, Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico

Charles B. Crosby, John D. Pigott and Kulwadee L. Pigott

Evaluation of High Quality Source Rocks in Saline Environment of Continental Rift Basin: A Case Study in Laizhouwan Depression, Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, China

Haizhong Cui, Changgui Xu, Qingbin Wang, Feilong Wang and Huan Lu

Valencia Trough (Offshore Spain): Petroleum Systems and Play Types

Raffaele Di Cuia, Alberto Riva, Angelo Ricciato and Mara Marian

Characterizing Deep-Marine Sedimentary Architecture: A Database-Driven Meta-Analysis Approach

Sophie Cullis, Luca Colombera, Marco Patacci and William D. McCaffrey

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John B. Curtis, John E. Zumberge and Stephen W. Brown

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Performance Prediction and Benchmarking Using FIRM (Forecasting Through Inferred Reservoir Modelling) for Bakken, Wolfcamp and Bone Spring Plays

Ashish Dabral and Phani Gadde

Latest Quaternary Regional Sedimentation Processes in the US Gulf of Mexico Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

John E. Damuth and Hilary C. Olson

Deducing Reservoir Connectivity via Analysis of Slope Channel Fills Along a 35-km-long Longitudinal Transect of a Shelf Margin System, Tres Pasos Formation, Chile

Benjamin Daniels, Stephen Hubbard, Brian Romans and Lisa Stright

Analog Modelling of the Hides Anticline, PNG: Structure of a Giant Gasfield

Romain Darnault and Kevin Hill

Application of 3-D Structural Analogue Modeling to Hydrocarbon Exploration: Examples From Subandean Bolivia, the Gulf of Mexico and Papua New Guinea

Romain Darnault, Jean-Claude Ringenbach, Kevin Hill, Jean-Paul Callot and Jean-Marie Mengus

Source to Seep - A Novel Calibration Domain Concept for Petroleum Systems Models

Matthias C. Daszinnies, Jochen Knies, Andreia Plaza Faverola and Øyvind Sylta

Submarine-Cemented Pennsylvanian to Early Permian ‘Waulsortian’ and Palaeoaplysinid Reefs in the Canadian Arctic

Graham R. Davies

Digital Outcrop Model of the Eagle Ford Group, Lozier Canyon, Terrell County, West Texas

Drew Davis, Juan Carlos Laya, Michael C. Pope, Walter Ayers, Bruce Hart and Arthur D. Donovan

Acquiring Geometries and Heterogeneities of Blowout Dunes Using GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar)

Katia de Julio, Francisco P. Lima Filho and Tomasz Boski

Process Control on Grain Size Trends in Turbidite Levee Sequences

Jan de Leeuw, Joris Eggenhuisen and Matthieu Cartigny

Characterisation and Modelling of Fine-Grained Limestones: Lessons From Four Decades of Progress in Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

Matthieu Deville de Periere, Alexander Foote and Philip Hayward

Diagenetic History of Lower Leonardian Strata in the Eastern Midland Basin: Implications for Fluid Flow and Predicting Reservoir Quality

Erich de Zoeten, Robert H. Goldstein and Peter M. Dillett

High-Resolution Multibeam Backscatter Reveals Dramatic Basin-Floor Fans of Varying Character in the Deep Water Mexican Gulf of Mexico

John Decker, Dan Orange, Philip Teas and Daniel Pryne

Recent High Resolution Seismic, Magnetic and Gravity Data Throws New Light on the Early Development of the Gulf of Mexico

Ian C. Deighton, Felicia Winter and Dario Chisari

Shoreface Ravinement of Backbarrier Bay Deposits of Follets Island, a Transgressive Island Barrier Island Along the Northern Gulf of Mexico, Cannot Source Sand Needed for Island Growth

Timothy M. Dellapenna, Joseph Carlin, Joshua Williams, Lindsay Breedlove and Michelle Harb

From Satellite Images to Reservoired Hydrocarbons: The In-Depth Investigations of the Marco Polo Seeps, Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico

Harry Dembicki

Influence of Pre-existing Weakness on Normal Fault Growth: Implications From Discrete Element Modeling

Chao Deng, Robert Gawthorpe, Haakon Fossen and Emma Finch

The Influence of Topography on Subaqueous Sediment Gravity Flows and the Resultant Deposits: Examples From Deep-water Systems in Offshore Morocco and Offshore Trinidad

Hang Deng, Lesli J. Wood, Irina Overeem and Eric Hutton

Quantitative Characterization of Submarine Mass Transport Deposit (MTD) Top Surface Topography and Its Influence on “Healing Phase” Post-emplacement Sedimentation

Hang Deng, Lesli J. Wood and Wendy Zhou

Lithofacies and Depositional Environment of the Eocene Kongdian Shale, Cangdong Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Yuan Deng, Shiyue Chen and Jihua Yan

River-Gulf System: The Most Important Place for Global Marine Petroleum Accumulations

Yunhua Deng and Yongcai Yang

South Kwanza Basin (Offshore Angola) as a Major Cornerstone of West African Margin

Michael Denis and Jean-Michel Kluska

Permeability of Mudrocks Effects: Lithology, Texture, and Pore Fluid Salinity

Mohab Dessouki, Michael Myers and Lori Hathon

Extraction and Analysis of Complex Geobodies in Faulted Deposits Using Relative Geological Time Model Attributes and Spectral Decomposition: Exmouth Sub-Basin, Australia

Amandine Devilliers, Nicolas Daynac and Benjamin Durot

Efficiency Gains in Inversion-Based Interpretation Through Computer-Driven Classification

Dustin T. Dewett

Oil Seep Hunting From Space: The Case of the Lower Congo Basin

Damien Dhont, Romain Jatiault, Lies Loncke and Dominique Dubucq

Volumetric Fault Imaging Based on Seismic Geometry Analysis

Haibin Di and Ghassan AlRegib

Assessing Flow Potential in a Fringing Reef Matrix-Vug Dual Pore System

Viviana D. Diaz, James S. Klaus, Donald F. McNeill and Robert C. Goodin

Late Cretaceous Magmatism and Source-to-Sink Configuration in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Jordan Dickinson, Michael A. Murphy, Naila Dowla and Liu Yidou

Geochemical Characterization, Depositional Environment, and Controlling Factors of β-Carotene—A Case Study of Jimsar Depression, Junggar Basin of China

Xiujian Ding, Ming Zha, Yang Su, Changhai Gao, Jiangxiu Qu and Ren Lai

Controls on the Evolution of Ancient, Deep Lacustrine, Sand-Rich, Fan Systems: Early Cretaceous Hydrocarbon Reservoirs of the North Falkland Basin, Falkland Islands

Thomas J. Dodd, Dave J. McCarthy and Phil C. Richards

Deep Lacustrine, Sand-Rich, Turbidite Fans: Elevated Heterogeneity and Evidence for Partial Confinement in Examples From the North Falkland Basin, Falkland Islands

Thomas J. Dodd, Dave J. McCarthy and Phil C. Richards

Investigating the Effect of Thermal Maturity on Geomechanical Properties in Shale Reservoirs: An Example in Upper Devonian Duvernay Formation, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Tian Dong and Nicholas Harris

Evaluation Method for Hydrocarbon Cleaning Effect in Kerogen-Rich Gas Shale

Xu Dong, Jianmeng Sun, Chunlu Xu and Peng Y. Zhang

Bucket Welding: Where Does All That Salt Go?

Tim P. Dooley and Michael Hudec

Grain Size Fractionation Within Self-Channelized Turbidity Current Deposits

Robert Dorrell

The R/V Lone Star in Belize: A Strong Showcase of Siliciclastic-Carbonate Co-habitation

André W. Droxler

Element Geochemical Characteristics and Its Paleo-environmental Significance of Permian Carbonate in Khorat Basin, Thailand

Guichao Du, Hui Cang, Shuangquan Hu, Pengpeng Gao, Ruoyu Yu, Chenhong Wu, Qingrong Cao, Zhibin Qi and Minbo Tong

3-D-Basin Modelling of the J Block of Da'an Oilfield Under the Control of Terminal Fan

Yajun Duan, Jun Xie, Jinliang Zhang, Xuan Zhao and Baichuan Li

Stratigraphic Reanalysis of Seismic Data of Northern Brooks Range Alaska: Comparison of Unit Volumes and Slopes

Carolina Ramon Duenas, Peter A. Emmet and Julia S. Wellner

Toward a Higher Resolution Understanding of Fluvial to Shallow Marine Clastic Reservoir Analogues as Resolved by GPR

Patrick D. Duff

Lateral Mobility of Minibasins During Shortening: Insights From the SE Precaspian Basin, Kazakhstan

Oliver B. Duffy, Naiara Fernandez, Michael Hudec, Martin Jackson, George Burg, Tim P. Dooley and Christopher A. Jackson

Using Ultrahigh-Resolution 3-D Seismic Data to Better Delineate Mass-Flow Deposits Within Complex Salt Structures

Dallas Dunlap, Timothy A. Meckel, Nathan L. Bangs and Brian N. Brookshire

Giant Foresets and Giant Sediment Waves in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand.

Eoin Dunlevy, Mads Huuse and Stephen Flint

Exhumation on the Passive Margin of Eastern North America: Results From Sonic Transit-Time and Vitrinite-Reflectance Analyses in the Newark Rift Basin

Michael A. Durcanin, MaryAnn L. Malinconico and Martha O. Withjack

Preservation of Reservoir Quality by Chlorite Grain Coats in High-Temperature Wilcox Sandstones, Rio Grande Delta System, Western Gulf of Mexico

Shirley P. Dutton, William Ambrose and Robert G. Loucks

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Silica Diagenesis in Mudstones and the Impact on Consolidation and Brittle Deformation

Autumn Eakin and Julia Reece

Geologic Characterization of Johnson County, Texas

Harvey Eastman and Timothy Murin

Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy – First Principles Accommodate the Unruly Carbonate System

Gregor Eberli

Pore-Structure and Petrophysical Characteristics of Hamelin Pool Stromatolites and Associated Cemented Coquina Beds

Gregor Eberli, Ergin Karaca, Ralf Weger, Erica P. Suosaari and R. Pamela Reid

Integrating a Turbidity Current Process Model in Source to Sink Analyses: The EuroSEDS Sediment Budget Estimator App

Joris Eggenhuisen, Giel van der Grind, Mike Tilston, Yvonne Spychala, Jan de Leeuw, Florian Pohl and Matthieu Cartigny

The Largest Frontier of the Atlantic: Offshore USA

Vsevolod Egorov

Defining Aquifer Architecture Using Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy in the Los Angeles Basin, California: A Foundation for Future Assessment and Management of Groundwater Resources

Kenneth D. Ehman and Brian D. Edwards

Quantitative Structural Analysis of Newly Acquired Data From Mexican Ridges Fold Belt, Western Gulf of Mexico

Nathan Eichelberger, Alan Nunns, Cian O'Reilly, Roel Dirkx, Ismael Yarbuh and Duncan Bate

Combining Sequence Stratigraphy with Artificial Neural Networks to Enhance Regional Correlation and Determination of Reservoir Quality in the “Mississippian Limestone” of the Mid-Continent, USA

Elizabeth Elium, G. Michael Grammer and Matthew J. Pranter

Understanding Estuarine Ravinement Processes at Monthly to Decadal Time Scales Through High-Resolution Geochronologies

Emily A. Elliott, Antonio Rodriguez, Brent McKee and Harvey Seim

Structural and Diagenetic Evolution of Deformation Bands in Contractional and Extensional Tectonic Regimes & Implications for Sandstone Diagenesis

Sara J. Elliott, Casey O'Brien and Peter Eichhubl

A Comparative Study of the Primary Geological and Geochemical Controls on Coal-Sourced Natural Gas Accumulations in the US and China

Geoffrey S. Ellis, Daniel Xia, Jinxing Dai, Yunyan Ni, Jingkui Mi, Guoyi Hu, Stephen Greb, Cortland Eble, James Hower and Michael McGlue

Migrating Twin Left-Lateral Faults System Along the North Caribbean Boundary – Implications on Geodynamics Around the Haiti-Cuba Boundary

Nadine Ellouz, Youri Hamon, Rémy Deschamps, Anne Battani, Roberte Momplaisir, Dominique Boisson and Claude Prepetit

Dead Oil Viscosity Model Based on SARA Analysis for South Ratqa Oil Field

Adel Elsharkawy and Mohamed Almershed

Heterozoan, Biosiliceous and Organic-Rich Deposits of Jurassic (Oxfordian) Hanifa Formation, Saudi Arabia

Hassan Eltom, Eugene C. Rankey, Stephen Hasiotis, Luis Gonzalez and Dave Cantrell

Softening of Organic Matter in Shales During Heating Measured With Atomic Force Microscopy

Simon Emmanuel, Moshe Eliyahu, Ruarri Day-Stirrat, Ronny Hofmann and Calum Macaulay

Geochemistry and Origin of Formation Waters From the Lower Eagle Ford Shale, South Central Texas

Mark Engle, Colin Doolan, Matthew S. Varonka, William H. Orem, Peter B. McMahon and Stephanie L. Ray

Sedimentological Characterization and High Resolution Chronostratigraphic Framework of Channel-Levee Systems Across a 135 km-Long Strike-Oriented Outcrop Transect, Cretaceous Nanaimo Group, Canada

Rebecca G. Englert, Daniel Coutts, William Matthews and Stephen Hubbard

Methane Re-Saturation in Barnett Shale Core Plugs and Determination of Post-Coring Gas Loss

Daniel A. Enriquez and Tongwei Zhang

Hydrothermal Venting-Induced Structural Compartmentalization in Vøring Basin, Norwegian North Sea

Ovie E. Eruteya, Kamaldeen O. Omosanya, Ståle E. Johansen, Nicolas Waldmann and Tiago Alves

Pemex and the Energy Reform: Experiences So Far and Perspectives in Exploration

J. Antonio Escalera-Alcocer and Ulises Hernandez-Romano

Hydraulic Refracturing Feasibility and Timing for Hydrocarbon Shale Reservoirs

Amin Ettehadtavakkol

Large-Scale Tectonic and Structural Controls on Ordovician Black-Shale Distribution (Utica and Martinsburg) During the Taconian Orogeny, Northern Appalachian Basin, USA

Frank R. Ettensohn

The Impacts of Trap-to-Kitchen Axial Orientation and Natural Gas Sweeping on Migration Efficiency: A Multi-Field Case Study From the West of Shetlands (United Kingdom)

Melanie Everett and Alexandra M. Fordham

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Strike-Slip Tectonic Controlled Deepwater Channel Sedimentation in Western Border of Kendeng Basin, Java

Fandy Fahreza, Yan Bachtiar Muslih, Daffa Arrofi, Djati Wicaksono and Messach Togu Ebenz

Comparative Interpretation of Regional Seismic Profiles Offshore Portugal, West Iberian Margin

Roberto Fainstein, Rui Pena dos Reis, Nuno Pimentel and Bjorn Rasmussen

Timing of Opening and Cementation of Bedding-Parallel and Vertical Fractures, Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

András Fall, Estibalitz Ukar, Ramiro G. Lopez, Julia Gale, René Manceda and Stephen E. Laubach

An Effective Thin Reservoir Prediction Method Which Combines Spectral Inversion and Wide-Band Ricker Wavelet Filtering

Jianhua Fan, Naichuan Guo, Zhongqiao Zhang and Xiang Xie

Tight Sandstone Gas Reservoir Characterization of Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin, China

Junjia Fan, Mengjun Zhao and Keyu Liu

Induced Earthquakes on Basement Faults Caused by Injection Into Sedimentary Reservoirs

Zhiqiang Fan, Peter Eichhubl, Pania Newell and Cheng Zhu

An Improved Method to Discriminate the Carbonate Reservoir Types Combing the Empirical Model Decomposition and Energy Entropy Classification

Zhuoying Fan and Jiagen Hou

Diagenesis and Its Impact on Reservoir Quality of Volcanic Rocks – Carboniferous of the Western Junggar Basin, China

Chao Fang, Hancheng Ji, Haibo Jia and Chen Li

A Comprehensive Geochemical Studies by Using Pyrolysis Analysis and Migration Pathway Map on Evaluating Source Rock Potential in Talang Akar Formation, Jambi Sub-Basin, South Sumatra

Ismail H. Faruqi, Raynouval Amir, Muhammad Nashir and Waris B. Raharjo

From Stranded Marginal Fields to (Integrated) Medium Sized Assets: Contributions of Indigenous Independents to the Changing E&P Landscape of Nigeria's Petroleum Industry

Layi F. Fatona

Subsalt 3-D Modelling and HC Reservoir Prediction With Scarce 2-D Seismic Datasets: Can We Obtain Reliable Results?

Tetyana Fedchenko, Oleksandr Petrovskyy, Andrii Y. Trachuk and Oksana Onyschuk

Evolution of the Danube Delta and Deepsea Fan in the Black Sea

Howard R. Feldman, Michael L. Sweet, Jeanette C. Hagan, Tim Garfield, Bernard Dennielou, Gilles Lericolais, Kurt Johnston and Ruth Aronoff

Connecting the Backwater Dynamics of Large Rivers to the Composition and Shapes of Channel Belts in the Coastal Zone

Anjali M. Fernandes and John M. Martin

The Kinematic Evolution of Stacked Strata on Experimental Shelf Margins

Anjali M. Fernandes and Kyle M. Straub

Quantifying Natural Delta Variability Using a Multiple-Point Geostatistics Prior Uncertainty Model: Bridging the Gap Between Quantitative Surface Dynamics and Machine Learning

Anjali M. Fernandes, Celine Scheidt, Chris Paola and Jef Caers

The Origin of Salt-Encased Sediment Packages: Observations From the SE Precaspian Basin (Kazakhstan)

Naiara Fernandez, Oliver B. Duffy, Michael Hudec, Martin Jackson, George Burg, Christopher A. Jackson and Tim P. Dooley

Enhancing Seismic Data Resolution With Multi-Attribute Analysis Using Both Well Log Data and Seismic Data – A Case Study

K. John R. Fernando

3-D Experimental Modeling of Megaflaps Developed During Differential Loading: Application to the Gulf of Mexico

Oriol Ferrer, Eduard Roca, Josep Anton Muñoz, Mark G. Rowan, Nuria Carrera and Katherine A. Giles

Stratal Stacking Patterns of Continental Margin Successions in Low-Accommodation and Low-Sediment-Supply Settings

Christopher R. Fielding

The Upside Potential of the Early Miocene Kujung-1 Carbonate, Offshore East Java, Indonesia

Reynaldy Fifariz, Mukhlis Setiawan, Xavier Janson, Charles Kerans and Shofiyuddin Thoha

Stratigraphic Changes in Ichnopedofacies of the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation, Northeast Chinle Basin, Southeastern Utah: Implications for Depositional Controls, Valley Formation, and Paleoclimate

Sean Fischer and Stephen Hasiotis

Coupled Geomechanics-Transient Fluid Flow Model to Predict Intact Zone Failure Mechanism and Sand Production: Case Study in Field X

Nur Fitriani, Sri Konsep Harum Wicaksono and Fadhil Rizaldy

Controls on the Evolution of Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Coastal to Deltaic Systems of the Prince Creek and Schrader Bluff Formations, North Slope of Alaska

Peter P. Flaig, Dolores van der Kolk, Stephen Hasiotis and Paul McCarthy

New Time Constraints on the Karoo Deepwater Physical Sequence Hierarchy

Stephen Flint, David Hodgson, Miquel Poyatos-Moré and Eric Tohver

Integrated Characterization and Multi-Well Flow Simulation of Tight Oil Shale Resources

Juan-Mauricio Florez, Jim Gilman, David Bryant, Mohammad Shahvali, Reinaldo Michelena and Christopher Zahm

Predicting the Distribution of Shallow Marine Facies Within Halokinetically Controlled Basins: Insights From the Upper Jurassic Fulmar Formation, UKCS

James Foey, Stuart M. Clarke, Tom Randles, Steven Banham and Ian Stimpson

Infill Evolution of a Ponded Basin and Implications for Reservoir Development, Gulf of Mexico

Carlos Fonseca-Rivera

Identification of OAE1B on the Comanche Shelf, Central Texas, and Implications for the Impacts of OAE on Shallow Water Carbonate Depositional Systems

Rob Forkner, Charles Kerans, Harry Rowe, Mason L. Dykstra, Andrew Bowman and Osman Varol

Redtail Field, A Thermal Anomaly on the Eastern Extension of the Colorado Mineral Belt, Denver Basin, Colorado

John R. Forster, Mark Odegard, Mark Sonnenfeld and Mark Williams

Regional Sequence-Stratigraphic Correlation and Basin Analysis of the Lower to Middle Triassic Moenkopi and Equivalent Formations, AZ, CA, UT, NV: Insight Into Backarc Basin Formation

Patrick Foster and Jennifer L. Aschoff

Evolution of Halokinetic Sequences Adjacent to the Pine Ridge Salt Diapir, Paradox Basin, SE Utah: Implications for Salt Controlled Development

Cheryl Fountain and Bruce Trudgill

Build-and-Fill Stratigraphic Sequences in Carbonates

Evan K. Franseen and Robert H. Goldstein

The Impact of Paleotopography on Transport of Reef Carbonates to Basinal Settings: Lessons From the Upper Miocene of SE Spain

Evan K. Franseen and Robert H. Goldstein

The History of Oil and Gas Exploration and Development in the Wessex and Weald Basins, Southern England

Alastair J. Fraser

Evidence of Cretaceous Plate Collisions Along the Falkland Plateau Basin – Ramifications to Petroleum Systems and Reservoir Quality Risk

Carmen M. Fraticelli, Yusri Yusri, Jessica A. Mercer and Donald J. Yezerski

Reconstructing Pre-Salt Paleodrainage Pathways and Source Terrains for the Late Triassic Eagle Mills Formation, Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin

Bruce C. Frederick, Michael D. Blum, Christopher Lowery and John W. Snedden

3-D Seismic Interpretation and Geologic Evolution of an Intraslope Basin, Talara Basin, Deepwater Peru

Jason J. Fredricks, Paul Weimer, Stephen P. Cossey, Guzman Fernandez, Eduardo Rossello, Renaud Bouroullec, Geoffrey Dorn and Gwen Pech

4-D Fault Seal Analysis by Fault Displacement Backstripping

Brett Freeman and Graham Yielding

Porosity Preservation in Deep, Hot Sandstone Reservoirs

Marsha W. French and Richard H. Worden

Fluvio-aeolian Interactions at a Sand-Sea Margin

Steve Fryberger, Caroline Hern and Ken Glennie

Quantifying the Bed-scale Architecture of Submarine Lobe Deposits, Point Loma Formation, California

Rosemarie C. Fryer, Zane R. Jobe, Lauren E. Shumaker, Jane Stammer and Alexandra Fleming

Africa Exploration - Why Does It Continue to Deliver?

Bob Fryklund

The Future of Exploration - The Next Decade

Bob Fryklund

Influence of Depositional Dynamics on the Internal Architecture and Facies Continuity of the Eagle Ford Formation, TX, USA

Gregory Frébourg, Stephen C. Ruppel and Harry Rowe

The Effect of Redox Conditions on Carbon Isotopes of Hydrocarbons During Hydrous Pyrolysis

Qi Fu, Xueze Chen, Chao Chang, Wenxuan Hu, Quanyou Liu and Qingqiang Meng

Carbonate Pore System Influence on Displacement Behavior

Shawn M. Fullmer, Antonio Buono, Hubert King, Bo Gao, PJ Moore and Brian Kelley

Process Ichnology of the Anisian Wedge, Montney Formation: Size-Diversity Trends and Feeding-Strategy Distributions of Ichnofossils Within a Post-Extinction Environment

Carolyn M. Furlong, Murray Gingras and John Paul Zonneveld

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Modelling Stratigraphic Controls on Dolomitisation at the Inter-well Scale: The Assoul Formation Case Study (Central High Atlas, Morocco)

Tatyana Gabellone and Fiona F. Whitaker

Stratigraphic Development of the Upper Fan From the Brazos-Trinity Slope System (Basin IV), Western Gulf of Mexico

Gwladys T. Gaillot, Paul A. Dunn, Nathan Lentsch and David C. Hoyal

Detailed Characterization of a Complete, New Woodford Shale Section in the Ardmore Basin of Oklahoma: The Case for a New Type Section?

Henry A. Galvis-Portilla, Daniela M. Becerra-Rondon and Roger Slatt

From Lithostratigraphy to Sequence Stratigraphy: Still Chasing the Elusive Time Surface

M. Royhan Gani

Mesoscale Extensional and Contractional Structures in the Rough Creek Graben, Midcontinent Rift, Central United States: An Integrated DEM Analysis, 3-D Structural Modeling and Field-Based Approach

Nahid D. Gani and Evan Crowe

The Origin of Heavy Oil in Sanhecun Oilfield, Jiyang Depression, East China

Changhai Gao, Yuyuan Li, Ming Zha, Jiangxiu Qu and Xiujian Ding

Counter-Regional Detachment Structures in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Central Appalachian Basin: Implications for Marcellus Shale Gas Exploration and Production

Dengliang Gao

Overpressure Generation and Evolution in Wufeng-Longmaxi Shales of Jiaoshiba Shale Gas Field, Sichuan Basin, China

Jian Gao and Sheng He

Re-Evaluation of Organic Matter Deposition of Central Atlantic Black Shales

Ling Gao, Norelis D. Rodriguez and Barry J. Katz

Uniting Petrophysics and Stratigraphy to Decipher Classified Facies From a Pre-Stack 3-D Inversion: Wolfcamp and Spraberry, Howard County, Midland Basin

Stephen P. Gardner, Katie-Joe McDonough, Robert Lieber, Ray Vogler, Scott Cook and Michael Pollachek

Assessment of Undiscovered Continuous Oil Resources in the Wolfcamp Shale of the Midland Basin, West Texas

Stephanie Gaswirth

Sequence Variability in Shallow Marine/Deltaic Syn-Rift Systems: Impact of Fault Network Evolution and Sediment Supply Variations, Plio-Pleistocene of the Corinth Rift

Robert Gawthorpe, Martin Muravchik, Gijs A. Henstra, Mike R. Leeder, Julian Andrews, Haralambos Kranis, Emmanuel Skourtsos, Richard Collier and Mary Ford

Formation Pressure Correction to Enhance the Prediction of the OWC in a Normal Pressure Reservoir

Qian Geng, Su Yanchun, Jianmin Zhang, Zhanhua Zhang, Jia Zhen and Xue Liu

Sand Bodies Connectivity Analysis Utilizing Measured Pore Pressure in Normal Pressure, Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, China

Qian Geng, Changgui Xu, Chengmin Niu, Bo Yang, Haifeng Yang and Jia Zhen

Paleokarst System Controlled by Unconformities, Paleogeomorphology and Faults: A Case Study From the Tazhong Area, Tarim Basin, China

Xiaojie Geng, Bin Wu and Changsong Lin

Investigating the Effect of Deformation on Hydrocarbon Retention in Shale Plays

Amanda Getsinger and Steve Naruk

The Effect of Polygonal Faults on Petroleum Systems and Reservoir Quality – The Case Study of the Eastern Mediterranean Levant Basin

Ramadan Ghalayini, Celine Eid and Catherina Khairallah

Petroleum Systems Modelling of the Perth Basin, Western Australia

Khwaja A. Ghori

Borehole Image Based Aperture Characterization to Identify Primary Versus Secondary Fracture Opening

Kajari Ghosh, Nicholas Harvey and Robert Gales

A New Kinematic Tool for Petroleum System Modeling in Complex Structural Settings

Romain Giboreau, Marie Callies, Flavie Chapuis, Romain Darnault and Françoise Willien

Seismic Texture Analysis Applied to Unconventional Reservoir Characterization and Calibration: A Case Study in Central Pennsylvania, North Central Appalachian Basin

Connor J. Gieger and Dengliang Gao

Adding Value to Seismic With Non-Seismic Techniques

Fabien Gilbert and Antony D. Price

The Paradox Salt Basin, Utah and Colorado: Recognition of New Types of Salt Features and Their Impact on Salt-Related Traps

Katherine A. Giles, Thomas E. Hearon, Mark G. Rowan and Richard Langford

Fracture Characteristics of the Wolfcamp Formation, Delaware Basin, TX

Christopher L. Ginn, Scott J. Wilkins and Xiaoli Liu

Using LIDAR Images for Quantitative Analysis of Natural Fractures in Woodford Shale Outcrops Along I-35 in Southern Oklahoma

Benjamin Ginter and Ibrahim Cemen

Evidence of High Temperature Hydrothermal Regimes in the Pre-Salt Series, Kwanza Basin, Offshore Angola

Jean-Pierre Girard and Galo San Miguel

Seismic Characterization of the Upper Unayzah Fairway in Eastern Saudi Arabia

Luis Giroldi, Mukarram Ahmed and Ayman Suleiman

Connectivity of the Oriskany Sandstone with the Marcellus Shale; Effects on Shale Gas Operations in North Central Pennsylvania

Emily V. Glick, Ashley Douds and Dan Bain

U-Pb Dating of Diagenetic Carbonates in Petroleum Reservoirs: Recent Advances and Perspectives

Nicolas Godeau, Pierre Deschamps, Abel Guihou, Jean-Pierre Girard, Philippe Léonide, Anthony Tendil, Axel Gerdes, Bruno Hamelin and Etienne Deloule

3-D Volumetric Interpretation – Advancing the Way We Interpret Seismic Stratigraphy and Geomorphology

Lisa R. Goggin, Tao Sun, Anne Dutranois and Ashley D. Harris

Geochemistry and Organic Petrography of Aptian-Albian Source Rocks in the Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil

Karin Goldberg, Jorge O. Menezes and Marleny B. Gonzalez

Paleozoic Evolution of the Eastern European Platform in Poland and Shale Gas Potential

Jan Golonka, Piotr Krzywiec, Kaja PIetsch, Jan Barmuta, Slawomir Bebenek, Dariusz Botor, Szczepan Porebski, Bartosz Papiernik, Maria Barmuta, Michal Michna, Arkadiusz Buniak and Zbigniew Mikolajewski

Geological Setting of the Shale Gas in Polish Carpathians

Jan Golonka, Andrzej Slaczka, Anna Waskowska, Krzysztof Starzec, Grzegorz Machowski, Michal Stefaniuk, Piotr Krzywiec, Piotr Marzec and Kaja PIetsch

Fluid Geochemistry Data Providing Key Calibration for Eaglebine Play Maturity and Sweetspot Mapping

Changrui Gong and Ann Hudson

Analysis of Brittleness in Mudstone Caprock Using Conventional Well Logs: A Case Study from Northern Margin of Qaidam Basin

Yin Gong, Wang Hua, Yan Detian and Zhao Shiyu

Pre-salt in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico: Evolution and Play Potential in the Syn-rift and Sag Fill in Offshore Mexico

Antara Goswami, Ed Haire, James Pindell and Brian W. Horn

Geomechanical Forward Modeling as a Trap-Seal Risking Tool in Rifted Margin Salt Tectonics: Applications in a Layered Evaporite Sequence (LES), Red Sea

Rajesh Goteti, Susan Agar, John P. Brown, Hendrik J. Sibon and Basil M. Tulbah

Post-Rift Tectonics in Rifted Margins and Surrounding Domains

Mohamed Gouiza, Giovanni Bertotti, Rémi Charton and Paul A. Andriessen

Tobago: Implications of 4-D Seismic in an Ultra-Deep Water Setting

Camilo Goyeneche and Jeff Mestayer

Fluid Inclusion Isotope Analysis of Vein Cements as a Tool to Reconstruct Basin-Scale Fluid Circulation

Stefan De Graaf, John Reijmer, Giovanni Bertotti, Francisco Hilario Bezerra, Volker Lüders and Hubert Vonhof

Late Cretaceous-Tertiary Shortening and Uplift History in Southern Mexico, and Implications for Sedimentation in Southern Gulf of Mexico: Part 2, Restored Sections

Rod Graham, James Pindell, Maria Sierra, James Granath and Uwe Martens

Integrated Reservoir Characterization of Silurian (Niagaran) “Pinnacle” Reefs in the Michigan Basin – New Insights Into a Mature Reef Play

G. Michael Grammer, Jessica Wold, Audrey (Ritter) Varga and Heather Qualman

Why Not Both Conventional and Unconventional Exploration in Sub-Saharan Africa?

James Granath and William Dickson

The Emergence of Myanmar as the New Focus for Exploration in the Region – Fact or Fiction?

Peter Grant, Suhaila Suleiman, Emilio Intrieri, Norishah Hashim, Suraya Tulot, Antonio Dimabuyu and Dylan Mair

Role of Supra-Salt Decoupling on Mesozoic Graben Formation in the UK Southern North Sea

Ross J. Grant, John R. Underhill, Rachel Jamieson and Ryan M. Williams

Predicting Facies Distribution Within a Fluvial System in the Subsurface: Triassic of the Central North Sea

Ewan Gray, Adrian Hartley and John Howell

Apatite Geochemistry and Detrital Zircon Application in Provenance Studies of the Modern Mississippi

Brittney Gregory, Achim Herrmann and Peter D. Clift

Correlation of Faunally Poor Clastic Successions Using Heavy Minerals: An Example From the Triassic Skagerrak Formation of the Central North Sea

Iain P. Greig, Adrian Hartley, Ewan Gray and Roger D. Burgess

Analysis of the Paleoclimate and Depositional Environment of the Kootenai 2 Formation, Southwestern Montana

Sarah Gresh, Landon Neumann, Julia Yates and Michael C. Pope

Three Women Provide the Profound Exploration Technology Breakthrough of the 1920s

Robbie Gries

Evidence for a Jurassic Source Rock in the Guiana-Suriname Basin

Clyde P. Griffith

Predicting Clay Mineral Distribution in Sandstone Reservoirs Using an Analogue Holocene Estuarine Succession

Joshua Griffiths, Richard H. Worden, Robert A. Duller, Luke J. Wooldridge and James E. Utley

The Sub-Andean Fold and Thrust Belt in Southern Bolivia: Integrated Methodology and Regional Structural Implications

Paul Griffiths, Peter Ellis, Tom Jarratt, Fernando Alegria and Alexis Arias

Oil-Field Structural Analysis Methods Applied to a Geomechanical Model: What Works

Richard H. Groshong

Fabrics and Interpretations of “Microbialites” Can Both Be Full of Holes

John P. Grotzinger

Characteristics of Two Types of Longmaxi Gas-Shale Reservoirs in the Southern Sichuan Basin

Quanzhong Guan, Xiuxiang Lü, Dazhong Dong, Yuman Wang, Chenchen Zhang, Shanshan Hu and Shan Jiang

H2S Risk Assessment at the Basin Scales

Xavier Guichet, Isabelle Kowalewski, Marta Gasparrini, Tristan Euzen, Pierre Bachaud and Nicolas Maurand

Digging Beneath the Soil: Examining the Generation of Vuggy Porosity in Eogenetic Limestones by Organic Carbon Oxidation in Vadose Zones and Water Tables

Jason Gulley, PJ Moore, Jonathan B. Martin, Amy Brown, Patricia Spellman and John Ezell

Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the Centaur 3-D Survey, Exmouth Plateau, North West Shelf, Australia

Sasha Gumprecht, Ken McClay and Nicola Scarselli

A Seismic Method for Estimating Subsurface Vp/Vs Ratio Based on Converted Waves: A Case Study From Arabian Gulf

Haoran Guo, Yuefeng Sun and Zhifeng Wan

Evolution of Tight Gas Sandstone Reservoir Properties and Driving Force in Eastern Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin

Song Guo, Xiuxiang Lü and Yafang Wang

3-D Geological Modeling for Tight Sand Gas Reservoir in Braided River Facies

Zhi Guo

Identification of Potential Sweet-Spots by Integrated Analysis of Core Samples and Conventional Wireline Logs in the Barnett Shale Play

Nabanita Gupta, Sudana Kiv, Sumit Verma and Deepak Devegowda

Tectonic Evolution of a Mixed Salt-Shale-Detached Deepwater Fold and Thrust Belt in the Eastern Salina del Bravo Province, Western Gulf of Mexico

Heraclio Gutierrez-Moreno and Jurgen Adam

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Is the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Self-Sourced? Preliminary Oil-Oil and Oil-Source Rock Correlation Studies in the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Group, Southern Mississippi, USA

Paul Hackley, Daniel Garza, Brett Valentine, Catherine Enomoto, Celeste Lohr, Javin Hatcherian, Frank Dulong and Kristin Dennen

Calibrating Apparent Resistivity Traces, Lines, and Volumes Derived From Lightning Strike Data in South Texas

Kathleen Haggar, Louis J. Berent, Les R. Denham, H. R. Nelson, Dustin Northrup and R. C. Lewis

Brittleness in Siliceous Mudrocks: Part 1 - Origins

Craig D. Hall

Advanced Mud Gas and Fluid Inclusion Analysis—Vaca Muerta Horizontal, Argentina

Donald L. Hall, Martin Fasola and Dariusz Strapoc

Palaeogeomorphology and Its Controlling Effect on Karst Reservoirs in Tahe Oilfield, Tarim Basin

Changcheng Han

The Temporal and Lateral Facies Variability and Internal Geometries of Syn-Rift Salt: Insights From the Early Mesozoic Orpheus Rift Basin, Offshore Eastern Canada

Bari R. Hanafi, Martha O. Withjack and Roy Schlische

Global River Discharge Analyses: Impact of Variable Precipitation in the Context of Different Climate Zones

Mark Hansford, Piret Plink-Bjorklund and Evan Jones

Hydraulically Induced Fracturing Response of the Vaca Muerta Formation From Borehole-Based Microseismic Monitoring and Subsequent Single-Well Moment Tensor Analysis

Sara Hanson-Hedgecock, James Rutledge, Joel Le Calvez and Raul Sarmiento

Seismic, Borehole Image Log, Core and Chemostratigraphic Interpretations of the Permo-Carboniferous Unayzah Formation, Central Saudi Arabia: An Integrated Technique for Siliciclastic Reservoir Correlation

Shahzad Ul Haq, Neil W Craigie, Khalid A. Mahmoud, Yi Jun Hu and Mohammad Soua

A Multidisciplinary Workflow to Detect Fractures at Multiple Scales by Integrating Borehole Images, Core and Seismic Data, Case Studies From Saudi Arabia

Shahzad Ul Haq, David P. Taylor, Khalid A. Mahmoud, Omar W. Kharouf, Pascal D. Cortes and Luke F LaFreniere

Controls on the Distribution of Intra and Post-Volcanic Sediments, West of Shetland

Jonathon Hardman, Adrian Hartley, Nicholas Schofield, David Jolley, Simon Holford and Douglas Watson

Stratigraphic Architecture and Evolution of Submarine Canyons and Other Sediment Conduits in the SE Loppa High, Barents Sea

Dicky Harishidayat, Ståle E. Johansen, Kamaldeen O. Omosanya and Solveig P. Løseth

The Enigma of Missing Jurassic and Cretaceous Rocks - Episodic Deposition and Unroofing of the UK and Adjacent Continental Shelves During the Mesozoic and Tertiary

Stuart D. Harker, David Boote, Les Riley, Paul Green and John R. Underhill

Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Eustatic Control on Continental-Margin Sand Distribution

Ashley D. Harris, Jacob A. Covault, Andrew S. Madof, Tao Sun, Zoltan Sylvester, Didier Granjeon and Sarah Baumgardner

High Resolution, Regional, Earth Systems Modelling in the Predictive Mapping of Reservoir and Source Rock Environments in the Caribbean

James P. Harris, Alexandra Ashley, Simon Otto, Enrico Santoro, Rob Townsend, John Watson, Simone Agostini, Mike Goodrich, Paul Valdes, Peter Allison and Alexandros Avdis

High Resolution Stratigraphic Variability in Black Shale Geochemistry: Horn River Group, British Columbia

Nicholas Harris, Tian Dong and Korhan Ayranci

The Role of Capitan Research in the Evolution of Carbonate Conceptual Models and Paradigms

Paul (Mitch) Harris and Charles Kerans

Exploration Ramifications of Bowl Weld Variances in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

William H. Hart and Thomas E. Hearon

Fluvial Architecture and the (Mis)use of Lithostatigraphy in Actively Deforming Salt Basins: Chinle Formation, Paradox Basin, Utah

Adrian Hartley and Laura Evenstar

Fluvial Systems: Scaling Relationships, Predictive Facies Models and Subsurface Application

Adrian Hartley, Amanda Owen, Gary Weissmann and Louis Scuderi

Induced Seismicity in the Denver Basin Prompts Updated Basement Stress and Fault Configuration Model

Michael J. Harty and Matthew W. Bauer

The Influence of Structure on Pore Pressure in Confined Sediments

Matt Hauser

Source to Sink Investigation of the Central Scotian Basin Using Integrated Forward Stratigraphic Modeling Approaches

Nicolas Hawie, Christopher Sangster, Emerson A. Marfisi, Francky Saint-Ange, Georgia Pe-Piper, David J.W Piper and Adam W.A MacDonald

Recent Advances in Forward Stratigraphic Modeling of Giant Carbonate Reservoirs and Evaporite Systems

Nicolas Hawie, Aurelien Barrois, Emerson A. Marfisi and Matthieu Gravito

Opportunities for Geoscientists Beyond the Conventional

David Hawk

Applications of Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry for Interpreting Inclined Heterolithic Strata of the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Steepbank River, NE Alberta, Canada

Derek Hayes, Murray Gingras and Michael Ranger

Quantitative Microporosity Evaluation Using Mercury Injection and Digital Image Analysis in Tight Carbonate Rocks: A Case Study From the Ordovician in the Tazhong Palaeouplift, Tarim Basin, NW China

Jianhua He

Comprehensive Analysis the Casing Deformation in Shale Gas Reservoir Modification by Seismic and Microseismic Technology

Sijin He, Bo Zeng, Xiao Yang, Guodong Wei, Wei Liu and Tengjiao Liu

Seismic Characterization of Stratigraphic Architecture: Outcrop- and Well-Based Three-Dimensional Forward Seismic Modeling of Permian San Andres-Grayburg Strata

Yawen He, Charles Kerans, Hongliu Zeng, Xavier Janson and Sam Z. Scott

Major Control Factors of Hydrocarbon Accumulation and Potential Exploration Targets of the Ultra-Deep Carbonate Sequences in China

Zhiliang He, Lixin Qi, Hengzhi Wu, Yujin Wo, Huili Li and Zhenrui Bai

HC Migration and Trapping in Unconventional Plays

Zhiyong He and Daniel Xia

Forward Hydro-Mechanical Modeling of a Rising Salt Diapir Considering the Effect of Basin Sand Layers

Mahdi Heidari, Maria Aikaterini Nikolinakou, Michael Hudec and Peter B. Flemings

Seismic Pore Pressure Prediction Enhanced with Geomechanical Modeling

Mahdi Heidari, Maria Aikaterini Nikolinakou and Peter B. Flemings

H2S Generation and Release in Salt Cavern Gas Storage

Christina Hemme and Wolfgang van Berk

Integrated Reservoir Characterization for Enhanced Oil Recovery, Tar Springs Formation, Illinois Basin, USA

Timothy C. Henderson, Justin Orr, Cliff Johnston, Kenneth Ridgway and Bryan Clayton

Characterization of Faults on the Flanks of the Llano Uplift for Application to Understanding Seismogenic Faults in the Subsurface of the Fort Worth Basin

Peter Hennings, Johnathon L. Osmond and Heather DeShon

Geochemical (Rock Eval, δ13C and Pyrolysis GC) and Textural Characterization of Amorphous Organic Matter (AOM) in Carboniferous Mudstones From the Pennine Basin (UK)

Jan A. Hennissen, Ed Hough, Christopher H. Vane, Philip R. Wilby and Michael H. Stephenson

Giant Gas Fields Offshore Tanzania, Braided Deep Water System Within Extremely Sandy Turbidite Systems Presented by: A. Ponten

Sverre Henriksen, Fawad Chuhan, Hilde Marie Goldstein Seiertun and Sabina Solymar

Visualizing a Sub-Salt Field With Image Logs: Image Facies, Mass Transport Complexes, and Reservoir Implications From Thunder Horse, Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico

Lindsey C. Henry, Jennifer A. Wadsworth and Birger Hansen

Interaction of Crustal Structures and Geodynamics on Passive Margin Evolution: Insights From Manet Ridge, Norway

Thomas Henry, Douglas Paton, Oscar Fernandez and Birgit Klink

Source-to-Sink Analysis of Marine Rift Basins Surrounding a Long-Lived Structural High: The Frøya High, Norwegian Continental Shelf

Gijs A. Henstra, Robert Gawthorpe, Jhon Munoz, Martin Muravchik and Atle Rotevatn

Some Controls on the Distribution of Slurry-Flow Deposits

Moises Hernandez, Cody Trigg and Donald R. Lowe

Contourite Terraces: Sedimentary and Conceptual Implications

F Javier Hernández-Molina, Scott Campbell, Gianluca Badalini, Phil Thompson, Richard Walker, Matias Soto, Juan Tomasini, Adam Creaser, Antoine Thiéblemont and Lauren Hyslop

The Role of Source-Area Climate and Weathering on Sedimentation Along the Paleogene Gulf Coast: Onshore Wilcox Group, Texas, USA

Angela Hessler, Jinyu Zhang, Jacob A. Covault and William Ambrose

Compositional and Sedimentary Fabric Control on Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation, Tight Light Oil Sandstone Reservoirs of the Cardium Formation, Western Alberta, Canada

Daniel W. Hill and Per K. Pedersen

Fracture Characterization and Data Analysis of the Poland Unconventional Shale Play and Relation to Other Unconventional Plays

Kimberly Hlava and Ronald Nelson

Turbidite Grading as a Proxy for Flow Generation and Proximality: Applications and Limitations

Viet Luan Ho, Robert Dorrell, Gareth M. Keevil, Alan D. Burns and William D. McCaffrey

The Transfer of Channel-Lobe Transition Zones Into the Stratigraphic Record: A Synthesis of Exhumed Examples From the Karoo Basin, South Africa

David Hodgson, Menno Hofstra, Hannah L. Brooks, Jeff Peakall and Stephen Flint

A Petrophysical Model to Distinguish Water-Wet and Oil-Wet Fractions of Unconventional Reservoir Systems Using Triple-Combo Log Suites

Michael Holmes, Antony M. Holmes and Dominic I. Holmes

Sequence Stratigraphy of Continental Successions, Multi-Approach Insight From Source-to-Sink Studies in the South Pyrenean Foreland Basin, Spain

Louis Honegger, Sebastien Castelltort, Julian Clark, Thierry Adatte, Cai Puigdefàbregas, Mason L. Dykstra, Andrea Fildani and Jorge Spangenberg

Internal Structures and Fabrics of Upper Cambrian Microbial Buildups (Mason County, Central Texas)

Heath H. Hopson, Pankaj Khanna, Pulkit Singh, Jacob M. Proctor, André W. Droxler, Daniel Lehrmann and Paul (Mitch) Harris

New Hydrocarbon Plays in the Gulf of Mexico – Potential of Jurassic Clastic Plays on Both the Yucatan and Florida Margins

Brian W. Horn, Jim Pindell, Carl Steffensen and Rod Graham

Kinematics and Growth of Supra-Salt Faulting in the Paradox Basin: A Field and Subsurface Analysis

Elizabeth Horne and Bruce Trudgill

Facies Associations of Humid Terminal Splays in the Distal DFS Model and Implications for Reservoir Connectivity: A Case Study of the Raton Formation

Robert J. Horner, Graham McGregor and John Holbrook

New Insights Into Falling-Stage Delta Complexes Using Virtual Outcrop Analysis: Three-Dimensional Data From the Turonian Ferron Sandstone of Southern Utah

Conor J. Horton and Christopher R. Fielding

Induced Seismicity – Implications for Addressing Regulatory Requirements for Design, Analysis, and Monitoring of Underground Injections and Hydraulic Fracturing

Mehrdad Hosseini, Mehran Hosseini, Brent Miyazaki and Paul Somerville

New Oil in an Old Place – Geologic Framework of a Giant Oil Discovery in Arctic Alaska

David W. Houseknecht

The Architecture and Connective Potential of Blowout Wings in Fluvio-Deltaic Environments

Tyler Howe and John Holbrook

Depositional Process Controls on Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Deep-Water Reservoirs: Middle Pennsylvanian Cherokee Group, Anadarko Basin, Texas Panhandle

Ningjie Hu, Robert G. Loucks, Gregory Frébourg and Jacob A. Covault

Source Rock Characteristics and Hydrocarbon Expulsion Potential of Lower Permian Fengcheng Formation in Fengcheng Area, Junggar Basin, Northwest China: Implications for Tight Oil Potential

Tao Hu, Xiongqi Pang and Fujie Jiang

Re-equilibration of Mg isotopes between calcite and dolomite during burial metamorphism: Outlook of Mg isotopes as geothermometer and seawater proxy

Zhong-Ya Hu, Wenxuan Hu, Weiqiang Li, Xiaomin Wang and Yizhou Lu

A New Type of Flower Structures in a Divergent-Wrench Fault Zone, Tan-Lu Fault Zone, East China

Lei Huang and Chiyang Liu

An Integrated Approach to Evaluate Carbonate Pore Structures of Early Triassic Reservoir, Puguang Gas Field

Qifei Huang, Qifeng Dou and Yuefeng Sun

Basement Structure and Jurassic Evolution of the Southern Gulf of Mexico Salt Province

Michael Hudec

Investigations Into the Mechanics and Kinematics of Extensional Fault Systems

Amanda Hughes

Spatial Scaling of Normal Faults, A-Bomb Canyon, Buckskin Mountains, Arizona

Thomas H. Hundley and Randall Marrett

Compositional Changes Related to Fluvial-Fan Sedimentation, the Miocene Sedimentary Infill of the Central Argentinian Foreland (Mariño and La Pilona Formations, Mendoza Province)

Gabriel Hunger, Andrea Moscariello and Dario Ventra

Mixed Carbonate and Siliciclastic Deepwater Systems Modified by Large-Scale Inflections in Slope Angle Below the Shelf Break

Gregory S. Hurd, Charles Kerans, Ned Frost, Toni Simo and Xavier Janson

Microporosity Quantification Using Confocal Microscopy

Neil F. Hurley

Rock Texture Index (RTI): Quantifying the Impact of Rock Texture and Its Mineral Composition

Maaruf Hussain, Bilal Saad, Naeem Minhas, Zahra Aleid and Asok J. Nair

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Looking for Seismic Facies Expression of Fault and Related Deformation Zones in 3-D Seismic Volumes

David Iacopini and Robert W. Butler

Seismic Characterization of the Pre-Salt Rifted Section of the Lagoa Feia Group, Campos Basin, Offshore Brazil

David Iacopini, Renata Alvarenga, Juliano Kuchle, Karin Goldberg and Ben Kneller

The Use of Non Toxic Oil Based Cement for Coal Gas Capture

Dannity O. Isiwele

3-D Petrogeological Modeling of the Bakken Tight Oil Play, Southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada: Adoption of Conventional Workflows to Unconventional Reservoirs

Sochi C. Iwuoha and Per K. Pedersen

The Kuqa Fold-and-Thrust System: Geometry of a Deformed Multilayered System Involving Coal and Salt Décollements

Esther Izquierdo, Oriol Pla, Eduard Roca, Yuan Neng, Josep Anton Muñoz, Shaoying Huang, Mark G. Rowan and Oriol Ferrer

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Seismic geomorphology observations of deep-water channels guiding reservoir prediction in the distal Paleogene Wilcox Formation, GoM

Nils E. Janbu, Eilert Hilde, Girish C. Saigal, Frode Hadler-Jacobsen, Anna S. Pontén, Pål Sandbakken, Jamie Vinnels, Andreas Helsem and Olav Solbakken

Tectonostratigraphy of Cretaceous Carbonate Platform and Slope in the Santaren Channel, Bahamas

Xavier Janson, Charles Kerans, Christopher Zahm and Dallas Dunlap

Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Slope Sedimentation in a Foreland Basin (Lower to Middle Permian, Southern Delaware Basin, Texas)

Xavier Janson, Alex Hairabian and Gregory S. Hurd

Conventional and Unconventional Petroleum Systems of the Delaware Basin, USA

Daniel M. Jarvie, David A. Prose, Brian M. Jarvie, Richard J. Drozd and Albert Maende

Identifying Areas at Risk for Injection-Induced Seismicity Through Subsurface Analysis: An Example From Southern Kansas

Jeffrey C. Jennings and Tandis S. Bidgoli

Characteristics and Origin of Crude Oils in Dawanqi Oilfield, Kuqa Depression of NW China

Hong Ji, Guanghui Huang, Sumei Li and Xiangfei Chen

Nearshore Along-Strike Variability: Characteristics, Controlling Factors and Importance for Stratigraphy and Sediment Delivery – A Case Study From the Luanping Basin, Northern China

Haibo Jia, Hancheng Ji and Ronald Steel

Properties of High-Pressure Gas Flows Near a Wellbore in a Fractured Well During Well Test

Hailong Jiang

Diagenesis and Pore Evolution of an Evaporate-Related Carbonate reservoir -- the Middle Triassic Leikoupo Formation, Sichuan Basin, China

Lei Jiang, Qilong Fu, Zhaohui Xu, Shuyuan Shi and Ziyuan Wang

The Genesis and Mechanism of Polygonal Fault Systems in Jinghai Sag of The Pearl River Mouth Basin

Ning Jiang

Nano- to Micron-Sized Pore Types and Pore Size Distribution in Fluvial, Lacustrine, Transitional and Marine Tight to Shale Oil and Gas Plays in China and US

Shu Jiang, Dianshi Xiao, Xianglu Tang, Qin Zhang, Fengcun Xing, Caifu Xiang, Peter Pahnke and Tomas Anderson

The Effects of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Shale Gas Accumulation and Production – Case Study From Ordovician Wufeng-Silurian Longmaxi Marine Shale in the Sichuan Basin, China

Shu Jiang, Xianglu Tang, Zhenxue Jiang, Lei Chen, Shengxiang Long and Zhiliang He

Synthetic Digital Rock Methods for Exploring the Properties Associated With Complex Rock Textures

Zeyun Jiang, Jim Buckman, Helen Lewis, Gary D. Couples, Rink van Dijke and Sebastian Geiger

The Co-Evolution Process and Mechanism of Shale Hydrocarbon Generation-Reservoir-Preservation: A Case Study of Upper Ordovician Wufeng Formation (O3w) - Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation (S1l) in the Sichuan Basin and Its Periphery

Zhijun Jin, Haikuan Nie and Quanyou Liu

Flow Experiments on 3-D Printed Rock Proxies: Investigating Porosity-Permeability Relationships

Tiffany D. Jobe, Shuo Zhang, Susan Agar, Sergey Ishutov, Franek Hasiuk, Sebastian Geiger, Eric Mackay, Francesca Watson and Rick Chalaturnyk

Micro-FTIR Imaging and Confocal Microscopy for Quantitative Characterization of Organic Rich Mudstones

Tiffany D. Jobe, Sebastian Csutak, Jordan Kone, David Jacobi and Weichang Li

Multi-Scale Pore Network Evaluation of Bimodal Carbonates: Implications for Hydrocarbon Production

Tiffany D. Jobe, Shuo Zhang, Sebastian Geiger and Zeyun Jiang

Submarine Sediment Routing Systems on the Western Niger Delta Slope: Autogenic and Allogenic Signal Propagation and Preservation

Zane R. Jobe

A Simplified Competency Framework for Career Development of Earth Science Subject Matter Experts

Elizabeth Johnson, Vickey Sare and Gary Greaser

Constraining Basin Models Using Fit-for-Purpose Crustal Architecture Workflows

Elizabeth Johnson and Daniel Minguez

Documenting an Ancient Large Fluvial Fan System: A Comparison to Modern Examples and Current Facies Models

Evan Jones and Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Stampede Field, USGOM: An Integrated Approach

Scott Jordan and Gopal Mohapatra

A New Method of Making the Thickness Map of the Shallow Sand Body Constrained by Seismic Attribute

Ming Jun, Zhou Xuefeng, Liu Xuetong, Pan Yong and Li Wenbin

Measuring the Ratio of Storm Deposited Gutter Casts in a Shallow Marine Environment of the Cretaceous Gallup Sandstone, Shiprock, New Mexico

Logan Jung-Ritchie and Janok P. Bhattacharya

Wallace E. Pratt: An Amazing Figure of 20th Century American Life and a True Petroleum Geologist

Dana M. Jurick and G. R. Keller

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Controls on the Development of Cation Ordering in Dolomite

Stephen E. Kaczmarek

Faults in High Porosity Carbonates

Ieva Kaminskaite, Quentin Fisher and Emma Michie

A New Approach to Effectively Identifying Deep Fan-Delta Sandbodies

Bo Kang, Keqiang Wu and Jianyong Xu

Primary Depositional Controls on Reservoir Architecture, Facies, and Quality in Deepwater Wilcox Sands, Gulf of Mexico

Jeff Kao and John Wagner

Geochemical and Foraminiferal Responses to Anthropogenic Activities Along the Coastal Regions of Matagorda and Brazoria Counties, Texas

S. Mohsen Kariminia, Crystal Pletka, Khalifa Elderbak, Xiuju Liu, Chan Xiong, Themi Vodo, Paul Hojnacki, Benjamin Porter, James Greene and Maria A. Lorente

Repeatability Evaluation of the Time-Lapse Technology Using Ultra-Stable Seismic Source

Junzo Kasahara, Khaled Al Damegh, Ghunaim Al-Anezi, Yoko Hasada, Kei Murase, Aya Kamimura, Osamu Fujimoto and Hiroshi Ohnuma

Environmental and Sequence Stratigraphic Control on Microbialite Morphology and Microfacies in a Marine Mixed Carbonate Siliciclastic System, Upper Cambrian Point Peak Formation, Llano River and Mill Creek, Mason County, Central Texas

Caroline Kelleher, Jingxuan Liu, Lindsey Yazbek, Adrien Lhemann, Lauren Mercado, Heath H. Hopson, Pankaj Khanna, Daniel Lehrmann, André W. Droxler and Paul (Mitch) Harris

Integrated Regional Geophysical Analysis of the Deep Structural Framework of the Permian Basin

G. R. Keller and Don Adams

Holistic Evaluation of Basal Stress Evolution in Sinuous Submarine Channel Levee Systems: Towards Process-Based Forward Stratigraphic Modelling

Robert W. Kelly, Robert Dorrell, Alan D. Burns and William D. McCaffrey

Complexity of the Intra-MIS 5e Stratigraphic Record: Challenge to the One SL Pulse-One Cycle Model, West Caicos, Caicos Platform, BWI

Charles Kerans, Christopher Zahm and Steve Bachtel

Evaluating Exploration Potential of Suture Zones or Encased Minibasins Using an Outcrop Example From the Neoproterozoic Patawarta Salt Canopy, Central Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Rachelle A. Kernen, Katherine A. Giles, Mark P. Fischer, Sarah Giles, Asmara Lehrmann and Mark G. Rowan

Upper Cambrian Microbial Reefs and Inboard/Outboard Facies Associations, Central Texas

Pankaj Khanna, Heath H. Hopson, Jacob M. Proctor, André W. Droxler, Daniel Lehrmann and Paul (Mitch) Harris

Identification of Diagenetic Footprint and Associated Development Challenges in the Deep Conventional Naturally Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs of North Kuwait

Vijaya Kumar Kidambi, Chinmaya Pattnaik, Narahari Rao, Neama Hussain Abdullah Al-Ajmi, Bashar Al-Qadeeri, Asmaa Al-Hammadi and Qasem Dashti

The Tectonic Evolution of the Pegasus Basin and Implications for the Transition From a Subductive to Transform Plate Boundary, Offshore New Zealand

Sarah King and Bruce Trudgill

Health Safety and Environmental Aspect in Petroleum Industry in Africa

Edward Kipkoech

Statistical Comparison of Hydrocarbon Gas Composition and Isotopic Ratios From Multiple Sampling Methods

Benjamin T. Kirkland

Constraining Burial History and Fluid Pressures Through Combined Structural, Clumped-Isotope, and Fluid-Inclusion Analyses

David L. Kirschner, Patrick Luetkemeyer, Katherine Huntington and Mark Evans

Evolution and Origin of a Large Mud Diapir in the Wilkins Peak Member of the Green River Formation

Jason Klimek and Samuel M. Hudson

Onshore/Offshore Carbon Sequestration in the Southeastern United States

Camelia Knapp, James H. Knapp, Olusoga M. Akintunde, Daniel Brantley, Venkataraman Lakshmi, Khaled Almutairi, Dawod Almayahi and Adil Alshammari

Depositional, Mineralogical, and Maturity Controls on Pore Types, Size, and Distribution in Mudstones

Lucy T. Ko, Stephen C. Ruppel, Robert G. Loucks, Tongwei Zhang, Paul Hackley and Deyong Shao

Morphological and Geological Characterization of Mass-Transport Deposits in the Deepwater Fold and Thrust Belt (DWFTB) of Offshore Malaysia

Hirofumi Kobayashi, Lesli J. Wood and A Aziz

Along-Strike Architectural and Sedimentologic Variation of a Distributive Fluvial System, Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation, Utah

Alexander R. Koch, Cari Johnson and Lisa Stright

Understanding the Pennsylvanian Age Granite Wash Play Fairway Through Log and Core Data: Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma and Texas, USA

Jesse Koch, Thomas P. Bulling, Kristy Whitaker, Sara Maloney and Kim Koepke

Distribution of Natural Deformation in Organic-Rich Petroleum Systems: Reservoir Implications From Outcrop Analysis, Turonian Second White Specks Formation, Highwood River, Southwest Alberta

Bram Komaromi, Per K. Pedersen and Paul MacKay

Eagle Ford Petroleum System as an Exploration Analog

Rajasekhar Kommaraju

Sinu Basin Tectonostratigraphy Between Two Fold Belts and Timing of the Panama Arc-South America Collision

Fanchen Kong

Geomorphology Classification and Architecture Characterization of Braided River Reservoir: A Case Study From Guantao Upper Formation of Gudong Oilfield, Bohai Bay Basin, China.

Lingyun Kong, Zhangyou Xu, Mehdi Ostadhassan and Chunxiao Li

Production of Coupled Sand-Mud Deposits by Remobilization in Subaqueous Transitional Flows

Woong Mo Koo, David Mohrig, James Buttles, Daniel M. Sturmer, Anna S. Pontén and Carlo Messina

Lateral Variability of Turbidite-Debrite Couplets in Submarine-Lobe Fringes: Example From the Maastrichtian Lewis Shale, Washakie Basin

Woong Mo Koo, Cornel Olariu and Ronald Steel

Origin of Chlorite Coating and Its Effect on Reservoir Quality of the Lower Tuscaloosa Sandstones at Cranfield Field, Mississippi, USA

Masoumeh Kordi, William Fisher, Susan Hovorka, Earle McBride and Jiemin Lu

Nature and Origin of Dry Natural Gas in the Middle Indus Basin, Pakistan

Alan S. Kornacki, Nazir Ahmad and Sajid Sharif

Stratigraphic Architectures of Deltas Formed During Forced and Normal Regressions, Ferron Sandstone (Turonian), Southeast Utah, USA

Jesse T. Korus and Christopher R. Fielding

Hyperspectral Imaging Technology Development and Application; Implications for Thin-Bedded Reservoir Characterization

Tobi Kosanke, Stephanie E. Perry and Ruben Lopez

Permeability of the Eagle Ford Shale: Organic Matter “Cement,” Matrix Storage, Limestone Fractures and the Importance of Choke Management

Tobi Kosanke

Climate Risk and the Fossil Fuel Industry

Jim Krane

Investigation of Time-Lapse 4-D Seismic Attributes Across Discrete Frequencies to Monitor CO2-EOR in a Thin Carbonate Reservoir

Austin W. Krehel, Abdelmoneam Raef, Rick Miller and M Totten

1-D NMR Data Inversion

Naveen Krishnaraj, Lori Hathon and Michael Myers

Mechanisms for Formation of “Isolated Shelf Sand Reservoirs”: Synthesis of Insights Gained From 3-D Seismic, Outcrops & Core

Lee F. Krystinik and Randi S. Martinsen

Looking Beyond the Bust: Energy Trends Into the Next 50 Years – Geoscientists Will Continue to Meet the World's Energy Needs

Lee F. Krystinik

Late Cretaceous Inversion of the Polish Basin and How It Influenced Its Petroleum System

Piotr Krzywiec

Gunflint Field: Effective Field Development in a Challenging Subsalt Environment

Kimberley Kuijper, Elisheva Patterson and Krista Aleman

Micromorphological, Stable Isotope, NMR, Geomicrobial and Crystallographic Analysis of Quaternary Calcrete Formation, Puerto Rico

Katherine Kuklewicz, Luis Gonzalez, Jennifer Roberts and Chi Zhang

Architecture of Deep Water Lacustrine Fans Fed by Multidirectional Clinoforms in Dacian Basin, Romania

Takonporn Kunpitaktakun, Cornel Olariu, Ronald Steel, Rattanaporn Fong-Ngern and Csaba Krezsek

Geochemical Factors Controlling the Phase Behaviour of In-Situ Petroleum Fluids in the Eagle Ford Shale

Sascha Kuske and Brian Horsfield

Equatorial Atlantic Deep-Water OCT Structure and Crustal Type From Satellite Gravity Inversion

Nick J. Kusznir, Alan M. Roberts and Andy Alvey

Carbonate-Dominated Hybrid Sediment Gravity Flows Within the Upper Wolfcamp, Delaware Basin, USA: Vectors for Transmitting Terrestrial Organics Into a Deep Marine Basin

Erik P. Kvale, Chris Flenthrope and Chris Mace

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Quantifying Reservoir Complexity in a Tight Oil Play by Integrating Detailed Facies Analysis With Stratigraphic Architecture Analysis From a Digital Outcrop Model

Nathan M. La Fontaine and Michael H. Hofmann

An Alternate Model for the Deposition of the Upper Ordovician Red River Formation (Bighorn Group; Canadocian/Ashgillian) in the Williston Basin of Southeast Saskatchewan, Canada.

John H. Lake

The Upper Cretaceous Post Rift Petroleum Systems of the West African Transform Margin and MSGBC Basin (Benin to Mauritania), Learnings From the Past, the Present and the Identification of Future Plays

Stuart Lake

The Effects of Downspacing on Recovery Factor Using Type Curve Analysis and Accounting for Adsorbed Hydrocarbon in a Multi-Phase Unconventional Reservoir: Eagle Ford Case Study

Farshad Lalehrokh, Paolo Grossi and Aaron Salin

Clastic Reservoir Quality Prediction Models: Past, Present, and Future

Robert Lander and Linda Bonnell

Are You Leaving Liquids Behind? Diamondoid Analysis to the Rescue!

Heather LaReau and Jeremy Dahl

Molecular and Isotopic Compositions and Origins of Sweet and Sour Gases From the Montney and Doig Phosphate Formations, Northeast British Columbia, Canada

Christopher D. Laughrey and Matt G. Adams

Upper Triassic-Middle Jurassic Strata of Plomosas Uplift and Sierra Samalayuca, Chihuahua, Mexico: Onshore Record of Syn-rift Gulf of Mexico Fault History

Timothy F. Lawton and James Pindell

Facies Control on Dolomitisation Within the Neogene Succession of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles

Juan Carlos Laya, Fiona F. Whitaker, Maurice Tucker and Tatyana Gabellone

Evaluation of Clay Conductivity From CEC Measurement Using Destructive and Non-Destructive Techniques

Jong Moon Lee, Lori Hathon and Michael Myers

The Margin of the Mishrif Platform, Rumaila Field, Southern Iraq

Christoph Lehmann, James A. Gardner, Katherine Totton, Olabode J. Olatoke and Kenneth Tough

The Importance of Understanding Diagenesis for the Development of Pre-Salt Lacustrine Carbonates

Scott Lepley, Leonardo Piccoli, Vivek Chitale, Isabelle Kelley and Martin Quest

Paleoecological Variations Recorded in a Shallow Lacustrine Formation: The Upper Eocene of the Issirac Basin (SE France)

Alexandre Lettéron, François Fournier, Youri Hamon, Philippe Joseph and Loïc Villier

Influence of Fault Separation on the Structural and Geomechanical Characteristics of Paired Crestal Grabens Developed Over an Uplifted Fault Block

Helen Lewis, Nzubeolisa Ibeanu, Mike Cuthbertson and Gary D. Couples

Quantitative Evaluation of Diagenesis and Porosity Evolution of Tight Sandstone Reservoirs: A Case Study of Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin, China

Boyuan Li, Xiongqi Pang and Fujie Jiang

Characterization of Overall Pore Size Distribution Using N2AD, MICP, NMR: A Case From Chang 7 Tight Sandstone in Ordos Basin, China

Chaozheng Li, Guangdi Liu and Zhe Cao

Sequence Stratigraphic Boundary Delineation Based on Adaptive Seismic Decomposition

Fangyu Li, Rui Zhai, Jie Qi, Sumit Verma, Bo Zhang and Kurt J. Marfurt

The Geochemical Characteristics and Origin of Deep Geothermal Water in Baxian Sag, China

Fei Li

Reading the Sedimentary Record: A Multiple-Hypotheses Working Methodology

Haipeng Li

Scale-Dependent Nature of Porosity and Pore Size Distribution in Lacustrine Shales: An Investigation by BIB-SEM and X-ray CT Methods

Junqian Li and Shuangfang Lu

Integrated Geological and Geochemical Constraints for Petroleum Fluid Charge Models in the Circum-Manjiaer Region, Tarim Basin, NW China

Maowen Li, Guoliang Tao, Tingting Cao, Peng Liu, Qigui Jiang and Zhirong Zhang

Numerical Modeling of the Deformation and Displacement of Salt Bodies With Embedded Carbonate or Anhydrite Stringers

Shiyuan Li, Guangqing Zhang and Janos L. Urai

The Effect of Roughness of Pore Surfaces on Elastic Wave Velocity in Pore-Scale Modeling

Tianyang Li, Ruihe Wang and Zizhen Wang

Control of Strike-Slip Derivative Structures on the Hydrocarbon Accumulation in the Bohai Sea, Eastern China

Wei Li, Jing Zhang, Zhiping Wu, Xingpeng Chen and Chunrui Li

A New Exploration Direction of North in Tarim Basin, China: An Enlightenment From Geochemical Characteristics of Deep Natural Gases

Wei Li, Jianfa Chen, Huayong Chen, Xinjian Zhu and Ling Wu

Paleo-Heat Flow Evolution of the Baiyun Sag, the Pearl River Mouth Basin

Yajun Li, Zhenglong Jiang, Shu Jiang and Kangning Xu

Using Global Reservoir Analogs and Stochastic Modeling to Estimate Prospect Resources

Yangyang Li, Tarek Ghazi, Shengyu Wu and Wenkuang Wu

Re-Evaluating the Asymmetry of Subsurface Wave-Influenced Deltaic Systems

Yangyang Li, Janok P. Bhattacharya, Sumiyyah Ahmed and Daniel Garza

Pore Characterization and Shale Facies Analysis of the Ordovician-Silurian Succession of Northern Guizhou, South China: The Relationship Between Pore Distribution and Shale Facies

Yifan Li, Juergen Schieber and Tailiang Fan

The Origin of Shallow Gas in Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, East China: Implication for Shallow Petroleum Exploration

Yuyuan Li, Ming Zha, Changhai Gao, Jiangxiu Qu and Xiujian Ding

Sedimentological and Petrographic Characteristics of a Mudstone-Dominated Succession Within a Sequence Stratigraphic Context: The Upper Cretaceous (Lower-Middle Turonian) Tununk Shale, South-Central Utah

Zhiyang Li and Juergen Schieber

Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of the Turonian Tununk Shale Member, Henry Mountains Region, Utah: Implications for a Depositional Model of Shelfal Mudstones in Epicontinental Seas

Zhiyang Li and Juergen Schieber

Determining Lithologic Variations, Provenance, and Depositional Environments of the Del Rio Formation in West Texas

Walker Ligon

Application of Oil Gravity and Sulfur Content Relationships to Oil Typing and Source Rock Kinetics

Paul G. Lillis

Decision Quality Applications for Prospect Ranking and Sequential Exploration: A Case Study in Offshore Brazil

Rafael A. Lima

High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy, Shoreline Trajectory, Accommodation Successions, and Facies Association in the Cretaceous Gallup System, Shiprock, New Mexico, USA

Wen Lin and Janok P. Bhattacharya

COMSOL Modeling of Non-linear Transport Properties in Low Permeability Samples

Yuan-Yun Lin and Michael Myers

A Predictive Model of Dolomitization and Its Control on Reservoir Quality and Seismic Attributes in the Viola Formation, Morrison NE Field, Clark County, Kansas

Aria Linares, M Totten, Abdelmoneam Raef and Andrew Vohs

Grayburg Formation Reservoir-Scale Architecture and Sequence Stratigraphy, Permian Basin

Robert Lindsay

Current-Related Platform Drowning in the Maldives and the Indo-Pacific Realm

Anna Ling, Gregor Eberli, Christian Betzler, Thomas Lüdmann and Carlos Alvarez-Zarikian

Upper Ordovician Incised Valley (Karst) Fill Deposits of Central Missouri: A Reinterpretation of “Pennsylvanian Filled Sinks”

William W. Little, Alan D. Chapman and Daniel N. Meehan

Authigenic Minerals Formation and Detrital Minerals Accumulation Associated with Tasmanites Cysts, and Initial Depositional Porosity in the New Albany Shale, Illinois Basin

Bei Liu and Juergen Schieber

Effects of Salt Chlorides on the Hydrocarbon Generation of Source Rocks

Chenglin Liu, Xuan Zhang, Zeqing Guo and Jinzhong Liu

The Controlling Effect of Transfer Zones on Stratal Architectural Variability and Depositional Facies Distribution

Entao Liu

Petroleum Resource Assessment Through Classifying Hydrocarbon Migration Stages and Their Associated Accumulation Types

Jiancahng Liu, Yushi Zhao and Barry J. Katz

The Discussion of Mechanism of Tight Sandstone's Formation by ShanXi Formation of the Eastern Part of the Ordos Basin

Jieqi Liu and Yanxia Li

Sequence Architecture and Its Controlling Factors of Middle Jurassic Fluvial Successions in Western Sichuan Foreland Basin

Junlong Liu and Youliang Ji

Multiscale Characterization of Shale Oil Reservoirs Using XRF, SEM-EDS, Synchrotron-Based CT Imaging and DCM Modeling

Keyu Liu, Xiaoqi Wang, Yingchang Cao and Sam Yang

Hydrocarbon Migration and Accumulation of the Suqiao Buried-Hill Zone in Wen'an Slope, Jizhong Subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin

Nian Liu, Nansheng Qiu, Jian Chang, Fangyu Shen, Xuefeng Ma, Tao Jin and Qianqian Feng

Lower Triassic Tight Sand Reservoirs Prediction Technology Combined of Post- and Pre-stack Seismic Inversion in MX Area, Junggar Basin

Wanhui Liu

Energy Storage Fracturing Based on a Slick-Water System in Tight Oil Reservoirs

Wei Liu, Yuan Hu, Zhangxing Chen, and Kaiyuan Chen

The Relationship Between Tempo-pressure Evolution and Accumulation Process of Deep Carbonate Reservoir in the Central Paleo-uplift, Sichuan Basin, Southwest China

Wen Liu, Nansheng Qiu, Yifeng Liu and Qiuchen Xu

Post-Breakup Magmatism in the Northern and Western Gulf of Mexico

Yiduo A. Liu, Michael A. Murphy, Jonathan E. Snow, Jolante van Wijk and John M. Cannon

The Fault Zone Architecture of Buried Reverse Faults in Sedimentary Basin: A Case From the Hong-Che Fault of Junggar Basin, China

Yin Liu

Raman Spectroscopy of Organic Material in Shales: Identifying Suitable Laser Wavelength for Raman Spectra Excitation, Relationship to Thermal Maturity, Mechanical Properties, and Organic Matter Type Interpreted From SEM Images

Zhengfan Liu, Michael Myers and Lori Hathon

Continental Slope Evolution in Tertiary: Northwest Australia

Zhuangxiaoxue Liu and Lesli J. Wood

Environmental Conditions of Deposition, Origin, and Relative Maturity of Organic Matter in Uppermost Barremian - Lowest Aptian Limestones of the Eastern Prada Quarry Section, Organyà Basin, South-Central Pyrenees, Spain

Jose Llaguno and Florentin J. Maurrasse

Abiogenic Carbonate Radial Fans and Spherulites – Important Components of Microbialite Pre-Salt Reservoirs: Insights From the Lower Cretaceous Aptian Yucca Formation, Eastern Margin of the Chihuahua Trough, West Texas, USA

Andre Llanos, Xiaowei F. Li, Benjamin Brunner, Katherine A. Giles and Richard Langford

Pressure Prediction in a Complex Setting Based on Field Data and Geomechanical Modeling: Mad Dog Field, Gulf of Mexico

Landon P. Lockhart, Peter B. Flemings, Maria Aikaterini Nikolinakou and Mahdi Heidari

Flow Simulations in a Detailed Facies Model of the Outcropping Pont de Montanyana Point Bar Deposits (Ypresian, Southern Pyrenees)

Maria H. Murillo Lopez, David Dominguez, Patricia Cabello and Pau Arbués

The Punta del Este Half Grabens, Offshore Uruguay: The Next Exploration Frontier in the South Atlantic

Oscar R. Lopez-Gamundi, Hector De Santa Ana and Bruno Conti

Shallow Seismic Reflection Images of Modern Point Bar Deposits, False River, Louisiana

Juan M. Lorenzo, Peter D. Clift, Martial Morrison, Elizabeth D. Olson, Nathan Benton, Adam Gostic and Blake Odom

Characterization and Integration of the Ellenburger, Viola, and Barnett Sections in the Northern Fort Worth Basin: Thoughts on Flow of Water From the Ellenburger Into Barnett

Robert G. Loucks, David Hull, Harry Rowe and Robert M. Reed

Domal Thrombolitic Microbial Biostromes in the Upper Albian Devils River Limestone Along the Northern High-Energy Margin of the Maverick Basin

Robert G. Loucks

Spectrum of Carbonate Nano- and Micropores and their Origin

Robert G. Loucks

Thunder Horse: A Winning Bet in GoM

Richard Loveland

Massive Dolomite on the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Carbonate Shelf, Northeastern Saudi Arabia: Insights From Reactive Transport Modeling

Peng Lu, Wenbin Tan and David Tang

Using Structural Restoration Techniques and Strain Tracking to Predict Fracture Distributions

Catalina Luneburg

Effects of Carrier Bed and Reservoir Heterogeneity on Hydrocarbon Migration, Charging, and Accumulation, Hadexun Oilfield, Tarim Basin, China

Xiaorong Luo, Zhongyao Xiao, Haijun Yang, Jian Zhao, Baoshou Zhang, Wan Yang, Hong Zhao, Yuhong Lei and Likuan Zhang

Experimental Investigation Into Fracture Closure in Caprocks in CO2 Storage Reservoirs

Tom O. Lynch, Hamood Al-Hajri and Quentin Fisher

Long-Wavelength Compressive Related Deformation Causes Large Relative Sea Levels Shift Along the Inner Mid Norwegian Passive Margin

Helge Løseth, Richard J. Wild, Rune Kyrkjebø, Eilert Hilde and Halvor Bunkholt

Discovery of Coarse-Grained Carbonate Drifts in the Maldives – Implications for Ancient Deposits

Thomas Lüdmann, Gregor Eberli, Christian Betzler, Bejugam Nagender Nath, Or Bialik, Juan Carlos Laya, Anna Hui Mee, John Reijmer, Jesus Reolid, Angela Slagle, Craig R. Sloss, Zhengquan Yao and null null

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A Model for Predicting Organic Compounds Concentration Change in Water Associated with Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing

Lanting Ma

High Resolution Stratigraphic Framework Establishment of Lacustrine Shahejie Shale in Jiyang Depression, Eastern China

Xiaoxiao Ma, Maowen Li, Xiongqi Pang, Zhenkai Huang, Tingting Cao, Menhui Qian, Qigui Jiang, Zhiming Li and Zheng Li

Formation and Preservation Mechanism of Deep Carbonate Reservoir Under Tectonic-Fluid Coupling Alterations

Yongsheng Ma

Calcite Vein Formation in the Utica-Point Pleasant Formations of the Appalachian Basin: Estimating Methane Density and Pressure Using Micro Laser Raman Spectroscopy, and Timing of Vein Formation Using Fluid Inclusion (FI) Microthermometry

Calum Macaulay, L T. Bryndzia and Alexander Litvinchuk

The Development and Applications of Elliptical Fault Flow: A New Kinematic Algorithm to Model and Restore Isolated Normal Faults

Euan Macaulay and Hugh Anderson

Exploration Trends in Latin America

Carlos E. Macellari

Multidisciplinary Characterization of Geomechanical Properties and Flow Behavior of the Coupled Arbuckle-Basement System, Payne County, Northern Oklahoma

Gabriel Machado, Garrett Hickman, Maulin Gogri, Matthew J. Pranter, Kurt J. Marfurt and Zulfiquar A. Reza

Is Hydrocarbon Exploration Running Out of Resources to Find or Ideas to Find It?

Nicholas Maden

Extrapolation of Reservoir Properties From Wells Using Depositional Environment Information From 3-D Seismic Data

Anders Ø. Madsen, Andreas W. Laake and Nicholas Cooke

Advanced Pyrolysis Data and Interpretation Methods to Identify Unconventional Reservoir Sweet Spots in Fluid Phase Saturation and Fluid Properties (API Gravity) From Drill Cuttings and Cores

Albert Maende, Andy Pepper, Daniel M. Jarvie and W. David Weldon

Studying Seismic Signatures of Fluid Substitution in Reservoir Characterization

Souvic Maity and Pankaj Mishra

Discovery of a Bolivian Foothills Giant Gas Field: Incahuasi

Philippe Mallard

Future of Energy Exploration

William V. Maloney

The Exploration Challenges and Opportunities Left in the Mature of the West Java Basin Area, Indonesia

Nanang A. Manaf

High-Resolution Reservoir Characterization of the Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Wolfcamp and 3rd Bone Spring Sand of the Delaware Basin, West Texas, Using Combined Chemostratigraphic and Mechanical Hardness Data

Subhadip Mandal, Jie Zhou, Patrick F. Rush, Martin Quest, Stacy McWhorther and Todd Duplantis

Early Paleozoic to Recent Plate Animation of Gulf of Mexico Evolution as a Framework for Understanding Its Diverse Hydrocarbon Resources

Paul Mann, Luan C. Nguyen, Marie Kouassi and Mohammad Almatrood

Reservoir Quality Prediction in Frontier Basins

Ann M. Marchand, Jesse Koch, Shira Paulson and Linda Bonnell

The Potential Impacts of Substrate Erosion and Facies Heterogeneity of Blocky MTDs on Reservoir Volumes and Seal Quality: Insights From the Ventimiglia Flysch Formation (Eocene, NW Italy)

Mattia Marini, Marco Patacci, Fabrizio Felletti, Alessandro Decarlis and William D. McCaffrey

Updated USGS Resource Assessment of the Spraberry Formation, Midland Basin, Texas

Kristen R. Marra

Controls on Fluid Quality Variations Across Four Producing Fields in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Brittney Marshall, Elizabeth Collins and Erich Heydweiller

Characterization and Correlation of the Kreyenhagen Formation in the Northern San Joaquin Basin, California: A Chemostratigraphic Perspective

Nahysa Martinez-Kulikowski, Amelia Wright and Gregg Pyke

Predictive Stratigraphic Methods and Their Development: New Global Geological Concepts Driven by Technology Advances

Ole J. Martinsen and Audun Groth

Residency of Rhenium and Osmium Within Heavy Crude Oil

Jenna M. Di Marzio, Svetoslav Georgiev, Holly Stein and Judith Hannah

Sediment Dispersal Pattern of the Paleogene Wilcox Formation in the Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico Basin Based on Detrital Zircon Analysis and Forward Modeling

Larisa Masalimova, Oriol Falivene, Theresa Lawler, Aitor Ichaso, Marzena Jaminski, Aysen Ozkan, Sarah-Jane Jackett, Mantez McDonald, Alessandro Frascati, Steven Bergman, Andrew Morton and Frei Dirk

Geodynamic Control on the Deposition of Siliciclastics and Carbonates in West-Directed Subduction Settings: An Example From Eastern Offshore of Tobago Island, Southeastern Caribbean

Massimiliano Masini, Alvaro Jimenez Berrocoso, Josgre Salazar, Corey Moss, Marc Rajotte, Lorenzo Cascone, Antonio Olaiz Campos and Francisco Pangaro

The Terrestrial-Marine Transition in the Phosphoria Rock Complex of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Edward J. Matheson and Tracy D. Frank

Integrated Multidisciplinary Workflow for Shale Play Characterization: Towards Selecting Best Landing Points in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquen Basin, Argentina

Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Jean-Pierre Leduc, Jonathan Pelletier, Sandrine Vidal-Gilbert, Kun Su and Mariano Felipe Raverta

The Falkland Islands, an Emerging Petroleum Province

Dave J. McCarthy and Thomas J. Dodd

Opening New Oil Basins: A Pattern of Discoveries

Angus McCoss

Practical Tools, the Beginnings of Professional Practice, and the Founding of AAPG: 1900-1917

James McDonald

Chronostratigraphy Across a Conjugate Margin Source-to-Sink: UruguaySPAN and NamibiaSPAN—Why Stop at Basement?

Katie-Joe McDonough, Kenneth McDermott, Elisabeth C. Gillbard, Kyle R. Reuber, James Pindell and Brian W. Horn

The Helium System: A Modification of the Petroleum System for Inert Gases

Bryan McDowell, Alexei V. Milkov and Donna S. Anderson

Mechanical Stratigraphic Controls on Natural Fracture Spacing and Penetration

Ronald N. McGinnis, David A. Ferrill, Alan Morris, Kevin Smart and Daniel Lehrmann

Humid Terminal Splays as Sand-Sheet Reservoirs: A First Look at the Modern, Andean Foreland, and a New Look at the Ancient, Raton Basin

Graham McGregor, Robert J. Horner and John Holbrook

The Petroleum System of the Mauritania-Senegal Basin

Dorie McGuinness

Seeing the Big Picture – How to Use Stress Shadowing to Drive Stage Spacing

Jonathan P. McKenna, Michael H. Grealy and Michael S. Blaz

The Future of Total Exploration: One Ambition

Kevin McLachlan and Jean-Christophe Navarre

Quantifying Organic Porosity and Predicting Estimated Ultimate Recovery (EUR) in the Eagle Ford Formation

Richard Mclean, Carly Miller, Bryan Guzman and Joel Walls

The Greater Gorgon Area, Northwest Australia: Exploration to Production

Mike McLerie and David Sibley

Saturations of Migrating Buoyant Fluids From Invasion Percolation Flow Simulation Using Small-Scale, High-Resolution Geologic Models With Realistic Heterogeneity

Timothy A. Meckel, Luca Trevisan and Prasanna Krishnamurthy

Reservoir Forecast Quality – Impact of Reservoir Modeling, Uncertainty Assessment of Sparse Data, and Decision Bias

William S. Meddaugh

Practical and Efficient Three Dimensional Structural Restoration Using “Geological Knowledge-Oriented” Earth Models

Donald A. Medwedeff, Stan N. Jayr and Peter J. Lovely

Unravelling Provenance of Condensates and Associated Natural Gases in the Almond Formation Carbonaceous Shales and Sandstone Reservoirs, Southwestern Wyoming

Mei Mei, Adry Bissada, Thomas Malloy, L. Mike Darnell and Ewa Szymcyk

Three-Phase Darcy Migration in Basin Modeling

Clémentine Meiller, Julien Coatléven, Xavier Guichet and Nicolas Maurand

Quantitative Outcrop Characterization of Incised Valley Fill Combining UAV-Based Photogrammetry and Traditional Geologic Field Methods

Casey Meirovitz, Lisa Stright and Cari Johnson

Optimal Gridding Selection for Field-Scale Reservoir Simulation of a Channelized Deepwater System

Casey Meirovitz, Lisa Stright, Brian Romans and Stephen Hubbard

High-Resolution Architecture of Proximal Basin-Floor Deepwater Clastics: Examples From Outcrop, Permian Upper Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas

Jesse J. Melick

Probabilistic Hydrocarbon Migration Modeling in the Utsira High Area, Norwegian North Sea

Davide Mencaroni, Are Tømmerås and Øyvind Sylta

Hydrocarbon Migration Phenomena and Their Relation to Charge Efficiency: A Review

Tess Menotti, Gary Muscio, Yushi Zhao and Barry J. Katz

The AAPG Century – Giant Fields Through the Decades

Robert K. Merrill and Charles A. Sternbach

Channel Complex Fills in the Distal Palaeogene Wilcox Play (GoM): Spatial Organization and Conceptual Model

Carlo Messina, Anna S. Pontén and Girish C. Saigal

Exploration Research to Evaluation – A New Way of Working

Stephanie Meynard and Kandy Lukats

A Review of Carbonate Continental Systems in Active Rift Settings (Offshore Angola) – A Combined Subsurface and Outcrop Study for Derisking Reservoir Presence

Galo San Miguel, Pierre Alexandre Teboul, Aurelien Virgone, Lisa Barbat, Jean-Pierre Girard and Jeroen Kenter

Integrated 3-D Seismic and Core Data for Characterization of Natural Fractures of the Hunton Limestone and the Woodford Shale in Central Oklahoma

Benmadi Milad and Roger Slatt

Base Rate Neglect: A Common Logical Fallacy of Oil and Gas Explorers?

Alexei V. Milkov

Evaluation of Coal Bed Methane Play in the Eastern Part of the Central Kalahari Karoo Basin (Botswana)

Alexei V. Milkov, Junior Potgieter, Mohinudeen Faiz, Andrew Mayers and Irfaan Parker

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Simplified Workflow for Target Optimization Utilizing Correlation Matrices: An Example From the Bakken Formation

Mark Millard, Murray Dighans and Sam Fluckiger

The Light and Dark Side of Eagle Ford Shale Oil: Extrapolating Data Rich Wells to a Field Scale Model

Camron Miller, Erik Rylander, Manas Koley and David Paddock

Rapid Compactional Progression in Sand and Mud: Data From the Nicobar Fan, Indian Ocean

Kitty Milliken, Sylvain Bourlange, Farid Chemale, Tobias Colson, Marina Frederik, Timothy Henstock, Tamara Jeppson, Mebae Kuranaga, Steffen Kutterolf, Hideki Mukoyoshi, Nisha Nair, Kevin Pickering, Hugo Pouderoux, Insun Song and null null

Sediment Flux Variations Correlated With Climate Zones of the Gulf of Mexico for the Past 10kyr – Testing the BQART Equation

Kristy T. Milliken, John B. Anderson, Alexander R. Simms and Michael D. Blum

Integrating Crustal Architecture and Syn-Rift Plate Kinematics

Daniel Minguez, Elizabeth Johnson and Peter J. Lovely

Applicability of Bentonites to Early Development Areas, TOC Prediction and Quantification of Lateral Facies Variation: A Case in Vaca Muerta Formation (Argentina)

Daniel Minisini

The Protagonists of Sequence Stratigraphy Caught on Video

Daniel Minisini

Ecological Evidence of Holocene Flooding and Eutrophication in Texas Bays

Rebecca T. Minzoni, John B. Anderson, Davin J. Wallace, Sophie Warny and Alexander R. Simms

Evolution and Effects of Sequence Stratigraphy

Robert M. Mitchum

Atlantic Margin, Stratigraphic Play: An Integrated CSEM-Seismic Approach to De-Risk Fluids?

Dmitry I. Modin, Gautier Baudot, Andre-Ramiro Peirin and Eric Zagotto

High-Resolution Geochemical Assessment of Two Wolfcamp Formation Cores in the Southern Delaware Basin

Ian Moede, Austin Morrell and Gregg Stephens

High Stress Anisotropy Associated With the Highly Deformed Kohat Basin, NW Himalayas, Pakistan: Its Importance and Implication in the Hydrocarbon Exploration and Developmental Strategies

Khan I. Mohammad, Hamood Inam Rai, Ahmad Sajjad, Khokhar Mahmood ul Zaffar, Usman Muhammad and Chuhan Rashid Jamil

Advanced Geochemical Technologies Extend Petroleum Systems to Include Previously Missed Sources Revealing New Exploration Plays

John M. Moldowan and Jeremy Dahl

The Effects of Lamination/Bedding on the Brittleness for the Woodford Shale Silica-Rich Intervals, From the Wyche-1 Core-Well Analysis, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

Carlos E. Molinares

Onshore San Joaquin Basin and Temblor Range, California: New Insights Into the Structural Framework of a Complex and Mature Fold and Thrust Belt.

Matteo Molinaro, Thomas Hauge, Sean O'Connor, Anthony Salem, Olga V. Kostenko and Steve Naruk

Recommended Practices for Baseline Sampling of Water Sources in Areas of Shale Oil and Gas Development

Lisa J Molofsky, Stephen D. Richardson, Anthony W Gorody, Fred Baldassare, Jenna S Kromann, Ann P Smith, John A Connor and David P Cercone

Scale Dependency of Pore Space and Its Impact on Flow Dynamics Within Carbonate Reservoirs

PJ Moore, Jason Gulley, Shawn M. Fullmer, Christine I. Bachtel, Antonio Buono, Brian Kelley, Benjamin Rendall and Stefaan VanSimaeys

Raft-Related Structures of the Albian Madiela Formation, Offshore South Gabon

Vernon M. Moore and Robert H. Blanchard

Geological Challenges in the Development of a Colombian Waterflood Using Horizontal Wells

Angela R. Mora, Carlos Rodriguez, Jenny Pinilla, Elizabeth Quiroga and Manuel Cardozo

The InSight Mission HP3 Experiment: The First Heat-Flow Determination on Mars and an Opportunity for Collecting Parameters for Use of Heat-Pumps on Mars

Paul Morgan

Microbially Influenced Waulsortian Mound Reservoirs in the Lower Mississippian (Tournasian) Lodgepole Formation, Dickinson Field Complex, Williston Basin, North Dakota, USA

William A. Morgan, Raymond W. Mitchel, Mark A. Sheedlo, Susan W. Young and Wayne M. Ahr

Exceptional Mechanisms for Preservation of Eolian Successions

Nigel P. Mountney

Fluvial-Eolian System Interaction on a Water Table-Controlled Lower Delta Plain, Skeidarársandur, Iceland

Nigel P. Mountney and Andrew Russell

NMR Applications for Bazhenov Shale Core Samples Analysis and Filtration Experiments Under Reservoir Conditions

Aliia Mukhametdinova, Alexei Cheremisin, Vladimir Stukachev, Evgeny Popov and Dmitry Tyagusov

Evaluating the Application of Process-Based Models as Training Images for Multiple Point Statistics

James R. Mullins, John Howell, Helena van der Vegt, Simon Buckley and Joep Storms

The Link Between Carbonates, Evaporites and Siliciclastics in Arid Rift Basins; El Qaa Fault Block, Suez Rift, Egypt

Martin Muravchik, Robert Gawthorpe and Ian Sharp

Grain-Size Distribution and Sedimentary Transport Patterns in Deep Water Rift Basins: Plio-Pleistocene Syn-Rift of the Corinth Rift, Greece

Martin Muravchik, Gijs A. Henstra, Robert Gawthorpe, Gauti T. Eliassen, Mike R. Leeder, Haralambos Kranis, Emmanuel Skourtsos and Julian Andrews

Petroleum Correlation in the Tampen Spur Area, North Sea: A New Approach from Molecular and Stable Carbon Isotopic Data of Light Hydrocarbons

Wendy A. Murillo, Andrea Vieth-Hillebrand, Brian Horsfield and Heinz Wilkes

Source Indicators to Unravel Mixtures of Oils in the South Viking Graben, North Sea: A Study Based on δ13C of Individual Hydrocarbons, PAHs and Sulfur Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Wendy A. Murillo, Brian Horsfield, Andrea Vieth-Hillebrand and Heinz Wilkes

Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction and Geocellular Model of a Heterogeneous Reservoir Analogue: The Sego-Neslen Formation Transition Near Harley Dome, Book Cliffs, Utah

Ashlyn V. Murphy, Peter P. Flaig and Stephen Hasiotis

Comparing Shale Gouge Ratio and Juxtaposition Analysis Using Stochastic Trap Analysis: Examples From Gippsland, Taranaki, Malay and Southern North Sea Basins

Titus A. Murray, David Richards, Tony Johnson and Greg Christie

Sequence Stratigraphy and Modelling Carbonate Heterogenity

Maria Mutti and Frederic Amour

Salt Tectonics in Fold and Thrusts Belts: Examples From the Zagros, Pyrenees and Kuqa Basin

Josep Anton Muñoz, Eduard Roca, Oriol Ferrer, Mark G. Rowan, Esther Izquierdo, Oriol Pla, Nuria Carrera, Mireia Butillé and Joana Mencos

Correlative Study With Raman Microscopy and Optical Petrography for Investigation of Organic Matter Within Mudstones

Grant Myers, Kelsey Kehoe and Paul Hackley

Fault History Diagrams: Rapid Analysis of Temporal Variations in Fault Throw and Lithological Juxtaposition

Steve Mücklisch, Hugh Anderson and Cathal Reilly

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3-D Forward Stratigraphic Modeling of Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Systems in Frontier Deepwater Basins: The East-Mediterranean Levant Basin Case-Study

Fadi H. Nader, Christine Souque, Jean-Claude Lecomte, Rémy Deschamps, Mathieu Ducros, Benoit Chauveau, Didier Granjeon, Rob Staples, Paul Tricker and Alessandro Frascati

Revisiting the Petroleum Potentials of Lebanon: What Did We Learn From Recent Studies and the New Major Discoveries in the Levant Region?

Fadi H. Nader

Carbonate Pore System Characterization and Porosity Prediction Using Multi-Scale Data

Kazumi Nakamura, Tao Sun and Neil F. Hurley

OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission

Keiko Nakamura-Messenger, Harold C. Connolly, Scott Messenger and Dante Lauretta

Petrographic and Geochemical Characterization of the Upper Bakken Shale, Williston Basin

Dipanwita Nandy and Stephen Sonnenberg

Breakthrough Business Opportunities in the Oil Industry for YPs and “Small Team” Geoscientists

Susan Nash

Stratal Architecture and Stratigraphic Evolution of Ancient Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonate Slope Deposits of the First Isaac Carbonate, Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup, Southern Canadian Cordillera

Lilian Navarro, Dylan Cochrane and Bill Arnott

Stratigraphic Evolution of an Ancient Channel-Lobe Transition Zone (CLTZ) in the Windermere Turbidite System and Implications for Reservoir Development

Lilian Navarro and Bill Arnott

Preliminary Evaluation of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) Resources in Sindh, Pakistan

Adeel Nazeer, Shabeer Ahmed and Syed H. Shah

Detailed Reservoir Characterization by Integrating Core, 3-D CT Scan and Borehole Imaging Datasets

Adrian Neal, Mateusz Cyprych and Beatriz Serrano-Suarez

Structural Evolution of Encapsulated Oligocene Minibasins and Allochthonous Salt in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

James Neely, Anastasia Mironova and Thomas E. Hearon

Two-Phase, Full-Fit, Triassic-Mesozoic Reconstruction of the Gulf of Mexico Basin, Its Continental Margins and Twin Salt Basins

Luan C. Nguyen and Paul Mann

The Main Controlling Factors and Characteristics of Cambrian Pre-salt Dolomite Reservoirs in Tazhong Area, Tarim Basin, North-West China

Xinfeng Ni, Lili Huang, Yongquan Chen, Jianfeng Zheng, Yixue Xiong, Yongjin Zhu, Pengfei Yang and Chang Li

Exploration Revival From Multi-Vintage Diverse Source Dataset - Bay of Biscay

Howard Nicholls, Lauren Penn, Roger Oldfield, Neil Hodgson, Michael Saunders and Milos Cvetkovic

Using RMS Amplitudes Derived From Synthetic Forward Seismic Models of Channelized Deep-Water Slope Deposits to Inform Stratigraphic Interpretation, Tres Pasos Formation, Magallanes Basin, Chile

Adam Nielson, Lisa Stright, Stephen Hubbard and Brian Romans

Influence of Forearc Development on Sediment Routing: Detrital Zircon Provenance of Paleogene to Neogene Strata, East Coast of New Zealand

Nora M. Nieminski, Jared T. Gooley and Stephen A. Graham

How Have Well Economics and EURs Reacted to Low Commodity Prices and Falling Service Costs Within the United States Oil Plays?

Manuj Nikhanj, Gillian Johnston, Ian Nieboer, Trevor Sloan and Aaron Reimchen

Stress, Deformation and Failure Associated With Salt-Sheet Emplacement

Maria Aikaterini Nikolinakou, Mahdi Heidari, Michael Hudec and Peter B. Flemings

Control of Stratigraphic Sequence on Karst Reservoirs: A Case Study on the Ordovician Carbonate Reservoirs in the North Tarim Basin, China

Chaozhong Ning

Morphodynamic Modeling of Fluvial Channel Fill and Avulsion Timescales During Early Holocene Transgression, as Substantiated by the Incised Valley Stratigraphy of the Trinity River, Texas

Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, Kaitlin Moran, John B. Anderson, Mauricio M. Perillo and Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba

Sensitivity of Steep-Rimmed Carbonate Platforms to Early Deformation With Respect to Changes in Mechanical Rock Properties, Slope Angle, and Sea Level

Andrea Nolting, Christopher Zahm and Charles Kerans

Gravitationally Induced Fracture Systems in Rimmed Flat-Topped Carbonate Platforms

Casimir W. Nooitgedacht, Lucas M. Kleipool, Bernd Andeweg and John Reijmer

The Roles of Magmatism and Loading in the Formation of Seaward Dipping Reflectors: Insights From Abandoned Volcanic Segments

James R. Norcliffe, Douglas Paton, Andrew McCaig, Estelle Mortimer, Karyna Rodriguez and David van der Spuy

Global Geomorphological Relationships of Source to Sink Segments and Implications for Predicting Subsurface Reservoir Characteristics

Bjorn Nyberg, William Helland-Hansen and Christian H. Eide

GTMORA: A GIS Toolset for Geometric and Topological Analysis of Sandbody and Fracture Networks From Modern and Outcrop Reservoir Analogs

Bjorn Nyberg, Casey Nixon and Christian H. Eide

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Understanding Uncertainty in Pore Pressure Prediction

Stephen O'Connor, Alex Edwards, Sam Green, Ed Hoskin, Jakob Heller, Guy Markham, Amy Ellis and Tim Sheehy

Multi-Scale Analysis of Fluvial Architecture and Facies of the Burro Canyon-Dakota Formations Using UAV-Based Outcrop Photogrammetry and Modeling – Implications for Reservoir Performance, Escalante Canyon, Piceance Basin, Colorado

Sarah A. Obermeier, Matthew J. Pranter, Zulfiquar A. Reza and Rex Cole

Development of Middle Cretaceous Canyons in the Nova Scotian Margin: Significance/Nature of Gravity-Driven Deposits and Their Relationship With Slope Background Sedimentation

Jesus Ochoa and Lorena G. Moscardelli

Microfacies Analysis of the Microbial Thrombolite Buildup in the Oxfordian Smackover Formation, Little Cedar Creek Field, Alabama

Natalie Odegaarden, Brenda Kirkland, Ezat Heydari, Lawrence Baria, Joseph Mitchell and Jonney Mitchell

Petrophysical and Paleo-environmental Assessment of a Mississippian Rock Interval from Central Kansas, (Mid Continent-US) Using Thin Sections

Olasunmade A. Ogunsegha and Hendratta Ali

Complex Carbonate Pore Systems of the Carboniferous Hodder Mudstone Formation, Bowland Basin, UK

Timothy Ohiara, Kevin Taylor and Patrick Dowey

Rock Quality Prediction Using Crossplots and Seismic Lithology Inversion: An Example of XIN Field, Eastern Niger Delta Basin

Chukwudike G. Okeugo, Kalu M. Onuoha, Amobi C. Ekwe and Chidozie Izuchukwu P. Dim

Geochemical and Isotope Data Aided Remote Sensing Interpretations of Surficial Mineralogical Heterogeneities as Possible Late Diagenetic Indicators of Microseepage in Garza, Texas

Unal Okyay and Shuhab D. Khan

Inception of the Continental Scale Danube River: On the Time of Its Arrival Into the Black Sea Basin as It Formed From Segmented Paratethyan Basins

Cornel Olariu, Csaba Krezsek and Dan C. Jipa

Fault Length, Connectivity and Reservoir Compartmentalisation – Testing Workflows With Seismic Forward Modelling

Simon J. Oldfield, Douglas Paton and Emma K. Bramham

Examination of Factors Contributing to the Growth and Loss of Wetlands in Louisiana

Ricardo A. Olea and James L. Coleman

Facies Variability and Stratal Architecture of a Large-Scale Mississippi River Point Bar, False River, Louisiana

Elizabeth D. Olson, Peter D. Clift, Juan M. Lorenzo, Alexandra Lechnowskyj, Erinn Buhyoff, Daniel Babin and Allison Barbato

Integrated Basinal-Scale Study on Potential Shale Plays in Abakaliki Fold Belt and Calabar Flank, Nigeria

Oladotun A. Oluwajana and Olugbenga A. Ehinola

Seismic Facies Classification of the Internal Architecture of Mass Transport Deposits: Implication for Reservoir Seal Competence

Tuviere Omeru and Joseph A. Cartwright

Cenozoic Evolution of Siliciclastic Sediments and Implications for Hydrocarbon Prospectivity in Southwestern Barents Sea

Kamaldeen O. Omosanya, Ståle E. Johansen, Dicky Harishidayat, Luca Samperi, Giorgio Minelli and Peter Abrahamson

Froude Supercritical Flow Bedforms in Deepwater Slope Channels, Eocene Forearc Basin, California: Recognition Criteria and Field Examples in Conglomerates, Sandstones and Fine-Grained Deposits, Their Morphological Changes of Bedforms From Shelf-Edge Channels to Middle Slope Channels

Kenya Ono and Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Geometry, Distribution, and Infill Character of Erosional Scours in a Thin-bedded, Distal Lower Shoreface Sandstone Reservoir Analog: Grassy Member, Blackhawk Formation, Book Cliffs, East-Central Utah, USA

Godspower I. Onyenanu, Carl Jacquemyn, Gavin Graham, Gary Hampson, Peter Fitch and Matthew D. Jackson

The Mexican Gulf of Mexico “Gigante” Seep Hunting Program: Unprecedented Data Quality Underpins Unprecedented Success

Dan Orange, Philip Teas and John Decker

The Outstanding Exploration Successes of Rovuma Basin After 60 Years of Disappointing Results in East African Coastal Basins

Marco Orsi

Influence of Substrate and Bathymetry on the Emplacement of Mass-Transport Complexes: Insights From the Magdalena Fan, Offshore Colombia

Andrea Ortiz-Karpf, David Hodgson, Christopher A. Jackson and William D. McCaffrey

Onshore Mature Field Rejuvenation on Golden Lane, Mexico: Reducing Cycle Time Through an Integrated Approach

Adan Oviedo-Perez

Subsalt Imaging: An Integrated Approach to Image Improvement of Vintage Data

Evans Owah, Christian Rivera, Marjolaine Lahmi and Michel Courbe

Predictive Models for Basin Scale Alluvial Architecture: Paleocene-Eocene Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Amanda Owen, Adrian Hartley, Alena Ebinghaus, Mauricio Santos and Gary Weissmann

Does Vertical Effective Stress Influence Quartz Cementation?

Olakunle J. Oye, Andrew C. Aplin, Stuart J. Jones and Jon Gluyas

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Electrical and Acoustic Properties Evaluation of Reconsolidated Mudrocks as a Function of Organic Matter Content

Clara P. Palencia, Lori Hathon and Michael Myers

Assessment of Lithium-Rich Brine From the Smackover Formation by Analyzing Core, Geochemical, Petrophysical, and Productivity Data: Insights From Deep Evaporite-Carbonate Transitions.

Timothy Palmer and Rinat Gabitov

A New Look at Inverting Subsidence to Heat Flow in Rift-Related Basins – Deconvolution of Processes and Phases

Daniel B. Palmowski, Thomas Fuchs and Thomas Hantschel

Geodynamics and Synchronous Filling of Flexural Basins: The Northern Margin of the Levant Basin

Nikolaos Papadimitriou, Rémy Deschamps, Fadi H. Nader, Christian Gorini and Vasilis Symeou

The New Opportunity of Gas Exploration From Tight Mudstone and Shale Dominated Sequences in Miocene, Carpathian Foredeep, Poland

Bartosz Papiernik, Magdalena Krzysztofik, Mariusz Slys, Wojciech Górecki, Michal Michna, Grzegorz Machowski, Malgorzata Pietrusiak, Pawel Poprawa, Anna Sowizdzazl and Grzegorz Staryszak

Comparative Analysis of Shale Gas/Oil Resources in the Baltic and the Lublin Basins (Poland) Based on 3-D Static Modelling

Bartosz Papiernik

Expanding the Use of Seismic Amplitude and AVO From Fluid Prediction to Stratigraphic Architecture Definition

Diana C. Parada, Yusri Yusri, Carmen M. Fraticelli, Scotty Salamoff and Henry S. Pettingill

Late Oligocene Reorganization of the Drainage Divide In Western Gulf of Mexico

Chase A. Parsons and Michael A. Murphy

Pore Fabric Characterization in Sandstones Using Magnetic Anisotropy Methods

Josep Parés, David Anastasio, Leticia Miguens and Carlos Saiz

Jurassic Gravitational Shelf Spreading in the Western DeSoto Canyon Salt Basin, Mobile, Viosca Knoll and Destin Dome Areas, East-Central Gulf of Mexico

Jack Pashin, Guohai Jin, Denise Hills and Jingyao Meng

Acquisition of Mud by Gravity Flows and the Development of Turbidites vs. Hybrid Event Beds: Insights From the Ponded Castagnola System (NW Italy)

Marco Patacci, Mattia Marini, Fabrizio Felletti, Andrea Di Giulio and William D. McCaffrey

The Whys and Wherefores of Geochemistry and Basin Modeling From Exploration to Production

Richard Patience and Friedemann Baur

De-Risking One of the Final Passive Margin Hydrocarbon Basins: Insights Into the Evolution and Play Potential of Offshore Somalia

Douglas Paton, Roxana Stanca, Hannah Kearns, Neil Hodgson and Abdulkadir Abiikar Hussein

Successful Horizontal Well Placement With Limited Data Control in the Deep Toarcian Age Carbonate Reservoir of North Kuwait: A Case Study

Chinmaya Pattnaik, Vijaya Kumar Kidambi, Narahari Rao, Neama Hussain Abdullah Al-Ajmi, Bashar Al-Qadeeri, Sara Hamad Al-Haidar and Qasem Dashti

Evolution of Syn-Rift Crustal Architecture in Foz do Amazonas Basin, North Brazil

Debapriya Paul, Scott Lepley and Bruno David

Stratigraphic Evolution of the Barrow Group (Northern Carnarvon Basin, North West Shelf, Australia): Controls on the Architecture of a Shelf-Margin During a Syn-Rift to Post-Rift Transition

Victorien Paumard, Julien Bourget, Tobi Payenberg, Bruce Ainsworth, Simon Lang, Henry W. Posamentier and Annette George

Linking Shallow-Marine Process Regime and Slope/Basin Architecture Within the Barrow Group (Northern Carnarvon Basin, Australia): Insights From Quantitative 3-D Seismic Geomorphology

Victorien Paumard, Julien Bourget, Tobi Payenberg, Bruce Ainsworth, Simon Lang, Henry W. Posamentier and Annette George

Integrating a Deterministic Lithology Model for Subsurface Correlation, Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Julia E. Peacock and Rick Sarg

Chronocorrelation of Eagle Ford-Equivalent Stratigraphy in West Texas Through Integration of Biostratigraphic, Chemostratigraphic and Astrochronologic Data With High Resolution U/Pb Zircon Geochronology of Ash Beds From the Ernst Member (Boquillas Formation: Big Bend National Park) and Eagle Ford Group (Lozier Canyon)

Eric J. Peavey, Michael J. DeLuca, Bronwyn Moore, Matthew P. Wehner, Brent V. Miller, Michael C. Pope, Arthur D. Donovan and T. Scott Staerker

Unravelling the Influence of Throw and Stratigraphy in Controlling Sub-Seismic Fault Architecture of Fold-Thrust Belts: An Example From the Qaidam Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau

Yangwen Pei, Douglas Paton and Rob Knipe

Estimating Rates of Subsidence Using Sedimentation Over the Trinity River Incised Valley, Galveston Bay, Texas, and the Potential Implications for Geohazards

Andrew Pekowski, Timothy M. Dellapenna and Christopher Abdouch

How to Make a 350-m Thick Lowstand Systems Tract in 17,000 Years: The Late Pleistocene Po River Lowstand Wedge

Claudio Pellegrini, Alessandra Asioli, Kevin Bohacs, Tina Drexler, Fabiano Gamberi, Vittorio Maselli, Marzia Rovere and Fabio Trincardi

Defining Chronostratigraphic Framework and Clinothem Evolution Through Seismic Analyses of the Po River Lowstand Wedge (Adriatic Sea): Changes in Sediment Supply and Compartmentalized Basin-Floor Deposits

Claudio Pellegrini, Kevin Bohacs, Michael L. Sweet, Tina Drexler, Alessandra Asioli, Vittorio Maselli, Marzia Rovere, Fabiano Gamberi, Giacomo Dalla Valle and Fabio Trincardi

Storm Bed Sequences and Depositional Environments: Sedimentary Model and Well Correlation for the Utica/Point Pleasant Formations of Eastern Ohio, Appalachian Basin, Ordovician

Jonathan Pelletier, Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Jean-Pierre Leduc, Antoine Bertoncello and Timothy J. Lloyd

Three-Dimensional Variation in High-Relief Shelf Margin Clinoform Architecture With Implications for Sediment Delivery to the Deep-Sea, Cretaceous Alaskan North Slope

Erin Pemberton and Stephen Hubbard

Geochemistry, Origin, and Accumulation of Petroleum in the Eocene Wenchang Formation Reservoirs in Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea: A Case Study of HZ25-7 Oil Field

Junwen Peng, Xiongqi Pang, Xiaoxiao Ma and Hesheng Shi

Hydrocarbon Generation Potential of Late Eocene Enping Formation Mudstones in the Huilu Area, Northern Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea

Junwen Peng, Xiongqi Pang, Xiaoxiao Ma and Hesheng Shi

Permeability Estimation Based on Pore Characterization and Flow Modeling From Thin-Sections Image Analysis of Grain-Dominated Carbonates

Sheng Peng, Ahmed Hassan and Robert G. Loucks

Laboratory Measurement of Mudrock on Porosity, Pore and Pore Throat Size, and Permeability: Learnings From Comparison of Techniques

Sheng Peng, Tongwei Zhang, Lucy T. Ko, Robert G. Loucks and Stephen C. Ruppel

Mixed Processes in an Asymmetic, Wave-Dominated Shelf-Edge Delta Lobe: The Pliocene Paleo-Orinoco Delta (Moruga Formation), Trinidad

Yang Peng, Ronald Steel, Cornel Olariu, Shunli Li and Clarke A. Clayton

Advanced Modeling of Gas (Methane Through Pentane) Compositions and Carbon Isotopes in Petroleums and Petroleum Mixtures

Andy Pepper

Implications of Early Gulf of Mexico Tectonic History for Distribution of Upper Jurassic to Mid Cretaceous Source Rocks in Deep Water Exploration Areas of US and Mexico

Andy Pepper and Jim Pindell

Definition, Modes of Occurrence and Pitfalls in Understanding the Term ‘Bitumen’ in Conventional and Unconventional Petroleum Systems

Andy Pepper

Mudstone Depositional Processes of the Cretaceous Colorado Group Shale, West-Central Alberta, Canada

Emma Percy and Per K. Pedersen

Mechanisms for the Redistribution of Mud Across a Low-Gradient Basin: Colorado Group Shale, west-central Alberta, Canada

Emma Percy and Per K. Pedersen

Quantitative Approach to Extension and Fault Characterization Within the Central and Northern Llanos Basin, Colombia

Martha T. Perdomo-Figueroa and David Young

Activation Energies of Kerogen in the Eagle Ford Shale Estimated From Rock-Eval Pyrolysis Data: Comparison of Methods Using Single and Multiple Heating Rates

Luke Perreault

Bridging the ‘Gap’ to Unconventional Permeabilitys: Insights to Unconventional Tight Oil Techniques, Advancements and Understandings

Stephanie E. Perry and Ruben Lopez

Comparing and Contrasting Analytically Quantified Porosity and Pore Size Distributions in the Wolfcamp Formation From SEM Imaging, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), and Crushed Rock Core Analysis

Stephanie E. Perry, Joel Walls and Tiffany Hintzman

Pisolite Facies in the Wuchiapingian Isolated Reefs of Western Poland

Tadeusz M. Peryt

Guidelines for Kinetic Input to Basin and Petroleum System Models

Kenneth E. Peters, Alan K. Burnham, Clifford C. Walters and Oliver Schenk

Kerogen Kinetics of the Red River Formation, Williston Basin, North Dakota

Kyle J. Peterson, Spencer Wheeling and Stephan Nordeng

Geologically Driven Joint Inversion of Gravity, Seismic and Well Data: A Step Forward in Understanding of Geological Structure and Reducing E&P Risks

Oleksandr Petrovskyy and Tetyana Fedchenko

Fluvial-Aeolian-Evaporitic Interactions in Arid Continental Basins: Implications for Basin-Scale Migration and Reservoir Characterisation

Ross P. Pettigrew, Charlotte Priddy, Amy Elson, Kirsten Johnson, Amy Gough, Stuart M. Clarke and Phillip Richards

Scaling Relationships in Linked Submarine Channel-Lobe Systems: Enabling Prediction of Reservoir Scales and Geometries in Deep-Water Sediment Routing Systems

Luke A. Pettinga, Lauren E. Shumaker, Nick C. Howes and Zane R. Jobe

Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology of the Blackhawk-Castlegate Succession, Book Cliffs and Wasatch Plateau, Utah

Bridget S. Pettit and Michael D. Blum

Ground-Penetrating Radar Study of Gulf of Mexico Holocene Beach Ridges as Sea-Level Indicators

Andrew Philbin, Michael D. Blum, Georgios Tsoflias and William Johnson

Sand Sheet and Protodune Development and Preservation in Aeolian Systems

John Phillips, Roy Bowling and Ryan C. Ewing

Geochemical Characterization of Potential Source Rocks in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

Paul Philp

Tectono-Stratigraphic Development of Ramp Syncline Basins

Leonardo M. Pichel, Frank J. Peel, Christopher A. Jackson and Mads Huuse

Controls on the Distribution of Channel Sands in a Fluvial Fan System: The Effects of Tectonic Deformation and Discharge Variation on the Stratigraphic Architecture of the Brahmaputra Fan Delta

Jennifer L. Pickering, Steven Goodbred, Haresh M. Rajapara and Ashok K. Singhvi

Sedimentology and XRF-Based Elemental Geochemistry of Cores From the Trenton Group and Utica Shale Along the Ordovician Outcrop Belt in Central New York

Jeffrey T. Pietras, Daniel R. Miserendino and Ethan Spiegel

Finding the Sequence Missing Link: Recognition of the RST in Clastics and Carbonates in Outcrop, Borehole and Seismic Stratigraphy

John D. Pigott, Rui Zhai, Kulwadee L. Pigott, Yuqi Zhou, Abiden Caf and Kathryn N. Garrett

Novel Lidar XRF Integration for Routine Outcrop Elemental and Mineralogic Analysis: Examples From the Florida Pleistocene and New Mexico Permian

John D. Pigott, Kulwadee L. Pigott, Emma L. Giddens and Kathryn N. Garrett

Cyclicity, Dune Migration and Wind Velocity in Lower Permian Eolian Strata, Manitou Springs, Colorado

James D. Pike and Dustin E. Sweet

Integrated Reservoir Modeling for Water Flooding in Deep-Water, GOM

Michelle Pittenger, Sunil Shalia, Jose Delgado, Mario Coral and Sean Fletcher

Seismic Stratigraphy of the Toe-Thrust Region of the Niger Delta Slope: Linking Structural Evolution to Basin Fill History

Marco Pizzi, Mike Mayall, Lidia Lonergan and Alex Whittaker

Guyana-Suriname Basin, South America: Hot Ultra-Deepwater Exploration Opportunities and Liza Field: Worldwide Largest 2015-2016 Hydrocarbon Discovery

Constantin Platon

Improving the Compartmentalization Definition of Prospective Areas in the Paleo-Flattened Space – An Eagle Ford Case Study

Irina Platunova, Bruno deRibet and Duane Dopkin

Effect of Froude Supercritical Flow on Fluvial Facies, Geometries and Architecture

Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Downstream Grain-Size Coarsening in Proximal Lobe Deposits of the Karoo Basin Compared With Comparable Flume Experiments

Florian Pohl, Jan de Leeuw, Joris Eggenhuisen, Matthieu Cartigny, Yvonne Spychala, Mike Tilston and Nienke Berends

Automatic Well Log Correlation

Ahinoam Pollack, Yang Peng, Kainan Wang, Ming-Kang(Kim) Shih, Krisha Tracy and Jesse Lomask

Chemical Diagenesis and Biota in Stratigraphic Context: The Phosphoria Rock Complex (Permian), Rocky Mountain Region USA

Maxwell Pommer and Rick Sarg

Impact of Geological Heterogeneity on Recovery Efficiency in Deep-Water Reservoirs: Insights From an Integrated Subsurface (Wilcox Fm.) and Outcrop (T. Karoo) Study

Anna S. Pontén, Carlo Messina, Girish C. Saigal, Krishnakumar Narayanan, Saifullah Talukdar, Sergei Gorodkov, Ingunn R. Fjeldaas and Nils E. Janbu

Hiatuses in the Eagle Ford Unconventional Resource Play, Recognizing Them and Determining How They Form

Michael C. Pope, Arthur D. Donovan, Mike Tice, Roy A. Conte, Matthew P. Wehner, Eric J. Peavey and T. Scott Staerker

High Resolution Azimuthal Diffraction Imaging of Natural Fracture Zones in Unconventional Shales

Alexander M. Popovici, Ioan Sturzu and Tijmen J. Moser

New Unconventional Potential of the Mature Petroleum Provinces in Poland

Pawel Poprawa, Bartosz Papiernik, Andrzej Maksym, Grzegorz Machowski and Justyna Zajac

Origin of Silica in Pre-Salt Carbonates, Kwanza Basin, Angola

Zsofia Poros, Elliot Jagniecki, John Luczaj, Jeroen Kenter, Benedek Gal, Thiago S. Correa, Elton Ferreira, Matt Heumann, Andy Elifritz, Michelle Johnston, Kathleen A. McFadden and Veit Matt

Deep-Water Turbidites in Not-so-Deep Basins

Henry W. Posamentier, Kenneth D. Ehman, Allison Teletzke, Victorien Paumard, Julien Bourget, Simon Lang and Anne Powell

Seismic Stratigraphic and Seismic Geomorphologic Case Study of Deep-Water Slope Deposits: Processes and Products

Henry W. Posamentier, Tom Clark and Jim Farrington

Elephants? In the US Atlantic?

Paul J. Post

Spatial-Temporal Evolution of Sedimentary Systems, Transition Zones and Stratigraphic Sequences in a High-Latitude Basin Margin Succession

Miquel Poyatos-Moré, Rufus L. Brunt, Luz E. Gomis-Cartesio, Hannah L. Brooks, Rachel Harding, David Hodgson and Stephen Flint

Unsupervised Seismic Facies Classifications of the Lower Strawn Fm. Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin, TX

David Prado-Barros, Roger Slatt and Kurt J. Marfurt

Diagenetic Systematics of Carbonate Associated Sulfate in Carbonate Facies of the Yates, Capitan, and Bell Canyon Formations, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, TX

Theodore M. Present, Jess F. Adkins and John P. Grotzinger

Depositional Interpretation and Sequence Stratigraphic Control on Reservoir Quality and Distribution in the Meramec STACK Play: Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

Buddy Price, Andrew Pollack and Alexander Lamb

Adopting improved well data standardization methods and workflows to reduce cycle time and risk in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Basin

William G. Price

Fracture Systems Prediction for Exploratory Prospects Using Multiscale Data Integration - Application in a Mesozoic Carbonate Reservoir in the Southeastern of Mexico

Clotilde Prieto-Ubaldo, Miguel Hernandez-Padilla, Lauro Velazquez-Contreras, Ricardo Sanchez-Arriaga and Carlos Olivares-Paniagua

Linking Sequence Stratigraphy and Rock Mechanics for the Unconventional Permian Tight Oil Play in the Delaware Basin: A Hierarchical Tool for Predicting Fracture Barriers and Stimulation Zones

Shane J. Prochnow

Characterization of Organic Compounds in Produced Water From Unconventional Reservoirs Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Carbon Isotope Analysis

Aaron K. Prock, Tracy M. Quan, Jack Pashin, Eliot Atekwana, David Vinson and Marcella McIntyre-Redden

Computed Tomographic Core Scanning to Generate a Carbonate Diagenesis Log in Upper Cambrian Microbial Buildups (Mason County, TX)

Jacob M. Proctor, Heath H. Hopson, Pankaj Khanna, André W. Droxler, Naum Derzhi, Daniel Lehrmann and Paul (Mitch) Harris

Improved Permeability Assessment Using Directional Rock Fabric Quantification

Sonia A. Purba, Artur P. Garcia and Zoya Heidari

Complex Interplay Between Depositional and Petrophysical Environments on a Holocene Tidal Flat (Al Ruwais, Qatar)

Sam J. Purkis, John M. Rivers, Ruqaiya Yousif, Christopher Warren and Christian J. Strohmenger

Morphometric Comparison of the Pleistocene Miami Oolite and Modern High-Energy Sand Bodies of Great Bahama Bank

Sam J. Purkis and Paul (Mitch) Harris

Geostatistical Methods for Unconventional Reservoir Uncertainty Assessments

Michael Pyrcz, Peter Janele, Doug Weaver and Sebastien Strebelle

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Multi-Scale Fault Interpretation in the Mississippian Lime

Jie Qi, Fangyu Li, Xuan Qi, Gabriel Machado and Kurt J. Marfurt

Attribute-Assisted Interpretation of Fractured Vuggy Carbonate in the Tarim Basin

Jie Qi, Hanming Gu and Kurt J. Marfurt

Lithofacies and Deposition Environment of the Fine-grained Depositional Rocks in Saline Lake: A Case Study From the Permian Lucaogou Formation in Jimsar Sag, Junggar, China

Longwei Qiu

Charging of Oil Fields in Qionghai Uplift: Oil Generated From Multiple Kitchens and Source Rock Intervals

Yongbin Quan and Yue Hu

Using Quantitative Fault Seal Analysis to Reduce Risk in Assessing Prospect Fill Scenarios: A Case Study From the Sole Pit Basin (Southern North Sea)

David Quinn, Brian O Sullivan, Peter Bretan and Graham Yielding

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Organic Facies and Reservoir Characterization of Eagle Ford Shale as Determined by Stratigraphy, Source Rocks, and Oil Geochemistry

Mohammad W. Rahman, David Hull, Philip Chapman and Gayle Riggs

Rock-Eval Basic/Bulk-Rock vs. Shale Play Methods for Characterization of Unconventional Shale Resource Systems: Application to the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas

Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez and Maria-Fernanda Romero-Sarmiento

Nano-Scale Pore Characterization of the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas

Sebastian Ramiro-Ramirez and Anton Padin

Equatorial Atolls of Republic of Kiribati (Equatorial Pacific): Impact of Physical and Chemical Oceanographic Processes on Sedimentology and Geomorphology

Eugene C. Rankey and Tion Uriam

Characterization of Deep Tight Carbonate Gas Plays With an Integrated Interpretation - Case Study From North Kuwait

Jonna D. Rao, Samar Al Ashwak, Musaed Al-Dousiri, Narahari Rao, Qasem Dashti, Tom De Keyser and Katrina Cox

Integrated Kerogen Characterization in Terms of Source Rock Evaluation and SCAL - Case Study From North Kuwait

Jonna D. Rao, Samar Al Ashwak, Musaed Al-Dousiri, Narahari Rao, Qasem Dashti and Katrina Cox

Amplitude of Pair Correlation Function to Understand Heterogeneity From Well-Log and Seismic Data

Ramya Ravindranathan and Evgeny Chesnokov

Basin Analysis and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Papuan Basin, a Frontier Basin in Papua New Guinea

Brandon Recker, Richard Fluegeman, Jeffry Grigsby and Kirsten Nicholson

Altered Mafic Tuff Mounds From the Upper Cretaceous of Central Texas: The First Economical Unconventional Reservoir?

Robert M. Reed and Robert G. Loucks

Pores Observed in Organic Matter in Mudrocks: A Ten-Year Retrospective

Robert M. Reed, Robert G. Loucks and Lucy T. Ko

Pore Systems in a Volcanogenic-Grain-Bearing Mudrock: The Jurassic-Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Shale of Argentina

Robert M. Reed, Kitty Milliken, Christopher J. Lipinski and James W. Bishop

New Insight Into the Shark Bay Microbial System, Part 2: Carbonate Factory

R. Pamela Reid, Erica P. Suosaari, Phillip Playford, Christophe Mercadier, Paige Giusfredi, Brooke Vitek and Gregor Eberli

Modelling Laramide Deformation to Predict Fracture Orientations in the Big Sand Draw, Wyoming: Part 2 - Fracture Modelling

Cathal Reilly, Euan Macaulay, Freya R. Marks, Christian Seiler, Robert Horine, Marcel Robinson, Kent Swartz, Jarret Borell and Lauren Cassel

Spatial Variations in the Stoichiometry and Geochemistry of Miocene Dolomite From Grand Cayman: Implications for the Origin of Island Dolostone

Min Ren and Brian Jones

Facies Independent Porosity, Permeability, and Production Trends in the Micropore-Dominated Word Field (Edwards Formation), Lavaca County, TX

Benjamin Rendall, Stefaan VanSimaeys, Shawn M. Fullmer, F. Jerry Lucia and Charles Kerans

Asymmetrical Conjugate Margins of the South Atlantic: Effects of Variable Basement Architecture and Magmatic Additions on the Continental Rifting Process and Petroleum Systems

Kyle R. Reuber, Paul Mann and Jim Pindell

Partitioning of Longshore Versus River-derived Mud on the Inner Shelf of the Modern Asymmetric Wave-Influenced Brazos Delta, Texas Gulf Coast, USA

Derek Rice, Julia S. Wellner and Janok P. Bhattacharya

Structural Modeling and Its Impact on Development of the Piedemonte Area, Eastern Cordillera Fold and Thrust Belt, Colombia

David Richards and Claudia Patricia Ceballos

Depositional Facies and Potential Bounding Surfaces Along an Erg Axis to Erg Margin Transect, Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone, Utah

John Riedman, John Wagner and Nate Ball

Lithofacies, Sequence Architecture, and Petrophysical Characterization of the Lower Desert Creek Zone (Middle Pennsylvanian, Paradox Formation) in the Greater Aneth Field, Southern Paradox Basin, Utah

Chanse J. Rinderknecht, Scott Ritter, Evan Gunnell and Peter Nielsen

A Comparison of Options for the US Petroleum Industry in Dealing With Climate Change – Regulations, Carbon Fees, or “Business as Usual”

James M. Rine

Modified Methods of Petrophysical Pore Pressure Prediction and Static Geomodel Integration in the Delaware Basin: Modeling Overpressure Generated by Fluid Expansion

Sarah C. Rittenhouse, Joanna Fritz, Spencer Riley and Jon Roberts

An Integrated Sedimentological and Geochemical Analysis of a Lacustrine Sedimentary Cycle in the Triassic Cow Branch Formation of the Dan River Basin

Samantha Ritzer and Benjamin Gill

Insight on the Complexity of a Paleokarst Reservoir: Examples From a World-Class Outcrop Analogue (Southern Italy)

Alberto Riva, Raffaele Di Cuia, Raffaele Bitonte, Paola Ferretto, Alister MacDonald and Søren Hegndal-Andersen

Stable Isotopic and Trace Elemental Composition of Mollusks From the “Inland Sea” Lagoon and Channel System, Southeastern Qatar

John M. Rivers, Ruqaiya Yousif and Linso Varghese

A Diagenetic and Paleomagnetic Study of the Woodford Shale, Oklahoma

Jennifer Roberts, R. Douglas Elmore, Gerhard Heij, Richard Brito, Shannon Dulin, Grant Heard and Shanmugam J. Pannalal

Controls on Convection Along Fault Systems and Implications for Hydrothermal Dolomitization in a Cenozoic Rift System

Hamish Robertson, Fiona F. Whitaker, Thomas Palmer, Cathy Hollis, Hillary Corlett and Atle Rotevatn

Salt Tectonics and Salt-Sediment Interaction Around the Bakio Diapir, Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Pyrenees

Eduard Roca, Mireia Butillé, Oriol Ferrer, Pau Arbués, Mark G. Rowan, Katherine A. Giles, Marco de Matteis and Josep Anton Muñoz

Seismic Characterisation of “Prospect B”: A Possible Carbonate Build-Up From the Late Syn-Rift (Barremian) of the Lüderitz Basin, Namibia

Nathan Rochelle-Bates, Mads Huuse, Stefan Schröder and Graham Pritchard

Stratigraphic Record of Washover Deposition Shows Rapid Response of Barrier Islands to Sea-Level Rise

Antonio Rodriguez, Ethan Theuerkauf, Justin Ridge and Winnie Yu

San Andres Play in the Northwest Shelf: A New Insight on Its Petroleum Systems From Oil Geochemistry

Lucia M. Rodriguez and Changrui Gong

The Effect of Oil Based Drilling Mud (OBM) on the Assessment of Hydrocarbon Charge Potential: Are We Underestimating Source Rock Potential?

Norelis D. Rodriguez and Barry J. Katz

Estimating the Ultimate Expellable Potential of Source Rocks: Defining “World Class” for Aquatic Organofacies With Examples From the Arabian, West Siberian, Bohai and Williston Basins

Elizabeth Roller and Andy Pepper

Diagenetic Evolution of the Cherry Valley Member of the Oatka Creek Formation, Marcellus Subgroup, New York

Jonathan C. Root and Teresa E. Jordan

Evolution of E&P Risk Analysis

Peter R. Rose

Ocean Bottom Seismic Inspires Major Structural Update at South Arne Field, Danish North Sea

Marianne Rosengreen, Christian Schiøtt, Ole Vejbæk, Gitte Aage and Christina Andersen

Improving Tight Reservoir Definition Using Seismic Object Detection Within the Woodford Formation

Christopher P. Ross

A Comparison of Popular Neural Network Facies Classification Schemes

Christopher P. Ross and David M. Cole

A View on the Past, Present, and Future Use of Paleoclimate Modeling in Hydrocarbon Exploration

Malcolm I. Ross

Identifying Remaining Bakken/Three Forks Prospects Using Geologic, Engineering and Dynamic Well Spacing Data

Michael Roth and Murray Roth

Permian Stacked-Pay Potential Assessment Using Multi-Disciplinary Analytics

Murray Roth and Murray Roth

An Overview of Allochthonous Salt Tectonics

Mark G. Rowan

Salt Tectonics of the Norwegian Barents Sea and the NE Greenland Shelf

Mark G. Rowan and Sidsel Lindsø

Spatial, Temporal, and Detachment-Level Variations in Thin-Skinned Deformation, Gulf Basin, USA and Mexico

Mark G. Rowan

Defining Lateral Lithostratigraphic and Chemostratigraphic Variability Within a Closely-Spaced Array of Drill Cores, Upper Cretaceous Strata, Austin, Texas

Harry Rowe, Gregory Frébourg and Stephen C. Ruppel

Preliminary Chemostratigraphic Record for the Devonian Three Forks Formation and Associated Units, North Dakota

Harry Rowe and Evan Sivil

Seismic Attributes for Reservoir Characterization in Deepwater Settings - Offshore Colombia (Guajira Basin)

Claudia A. Rubio, Andrew M. Goodliffe, Juan C. Llinas and Victor O. Ramirez

Can Sequence Stratigraphic Concepts Be Applied in Mudrock Systems?

Stephen C. Ruppel

Prediction of Fluvial Point-Bar Form, Internal Architecture and Heterogeneity From Outcrop and Morphometric Analysis of Meander Bends

Catherine E. Russell, Nigel P. Mountney, David Hodgson, Luca Colombera, Robert Thomas and Gary Nichols

Transregional Sequence-Stratigraphic Correlation of the Maastrichtian Fox Hills Sandstone: Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana

Charles B. Rust and Jennifer L. Aschoff

Pitfalls and Unicorns: Secrets to a Successful Career While Chasing Hydrocarbons

Tim Rynott

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Unravelling Complex Petroleum Filling History of Great White Field by 4-D Integrated Petroleum Systems Approach

Swapan K. Sahoo, Leon Dzou, Antonio Hospedales, Ahmed S. Afifi, Dale Dailey, Hui Jin, Lauren Becker, Todd Lapinski, Doerte Steinhoff, Gabriel Ritter, Tianxia Jia and Gerchard Pfau

Salt-Sediment Interaction in Sable Sub-Basin, Nova Scotia (Canada)

Francky Saint-Ange, Dimitri Savva, Bernard Colletta, Laurent Cuilhe, Adam W.A MacDonald and Matt Luheshi

Is Hinterland Basin of the Hill Ranges in North Pakistan Overlooked Geological Province for the Hydrocarbon Exploration?

Ahmad Sajjad, Khan I. Mohammad, Hamood Inam Rai, Muhammed Irfan and Khokhar Mahmood ul Zaffar

Mixed Carbonates and Siliciclastics North of the Mahakam Delta, Offshore East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Arthur Saller

An Integration of Genetic Inversion and Seismic Frequency Attributes to Delineate Reservoir Targets in Offshore Northern Orange Basin, South Africa

Chris A. Samakinde

The Impact of Inheritance on the Architecture of Natural Fracture Networks – A Multi-Scale Study From Southeastern Australia

Anindita Samsu, Alexander Cruden, Mike Hall and Steven Micklethwaite

South Caribbean Petroleum Systems: An Updated Overview

David S. Sanabria and Victor O. Ramirez

Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Systems: Dynamics and Controls, Eocene-Oligocene Browse Basin

Carla Sanchez, Jacob A. Covault, Xavier Janson and Dallas Dunlap

New Insight of Fold-Thrust Belt Evolution as Implication of Hydrocarbon Prospect in the West Timor Island, Indonesia

Benyamin Sapiie, Herwin Tiranda and Agus H. Harsolumakso

Geomechanics and Geological Characteristic of Unconventional Plays in the South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia

Benyamin Sapiie, Indra Gunawan, Maisi A. Riswanty, Alfredo Sugiarto and Reni Fauziah

New Approach in Conducting Fault Seal Analysis: Case Study of Northwest Java Basin, Indonesia

Benyamin Sapiie and Indra Gunawan

Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy – An Historical Perspective

Rick Sarg

Impact of Pore Pressure Estimation Uncertainty on Well Design and Execution: An Example From Deepwater West Africa

Ritu Sarker, Mrityunjay Kumar, Brent A. Couzens-Schultz, Rob Staples, Pratap Nair, Anjanava Purkayastha and Floris Strijbos

Experimental Workflow Applied to Marine Source Rocks Sampled in the Montney-Doig Formations of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

William Sassi, Elisabeth Bemer, Marc Fleury, Guillaume Berthe, Maria-Fernanda Romero-Sarmiento and Tristan Euzen

Mapping the Jurassic Norphlet Sandstone along the Northern Margin of the Yucatan Peninsula

Michael Saunders, Laurie Geiger and Andrew Steier

From Outcrop to Reservoir: Improving Exploration in Diapiric Provinces

Eduard Saura, Jaume Verges, Mar Moragas, Emilio Casciello, Giulio Casini, Ylenia Almar, Yohann Poprawski, Juan Diego Martín-Martín, Gregoire Méssager and David Hunt

Structural Heritage and Salt Deposits Impact on the Sable Sub-basin Architecture

Dimitri Savva, Francky Saint-Ange, Loïc Ducarme, Bernard Colletta, Adam W.A MacDonald, Matt Luheshi and Laurent Cuilhe

Submarine Landsliding into the Orca Basin Brine Pool, Walker Ridge, Gulf of Mexico

Derek Sawyer, Ann Cook and Robert A. Mason

Products of Slope Failure Processes as Potential Petroleum System Elements – Seismic Examples From Offshore Northwest Shelf of Australia

Nicola Scarselli and Ken McClay

Seismic Geomorphology of Cretaceous Megaslides Offshore Namibia (Orange Basin): Insights Into Segmentation and Degradation of Gravity-Driven Linked Systems

Nicola Scarselli, Ken McClay and Chris Elders

Water in the Asteroid Belt: Dawn Mapping of Vesta and Ceres

Paul Schenk

The Influence of Clay Type and Grain Size on the Bedload Deposition of Muds - An Experimental Perspective

Juergen Schieber

A Conceptual Perspective on Processes That Deposit Mud and Their Impact on Shale Fabrics and Future Pore Systems

Juergen Schieber

A Royal Flush in the Great Campos (Brazil's Santos-Campos) Basin

Craig F. Schiefelbein and William Dickson

Drilling a Downdip Location: Effect on Updip and Downdip Resource Estimates and Commercial Chance

Mark Schneider and David M. Cook

Elastic Properties of Great Bahama Bank From Platform Top to the Toe-of-Slope

Jara Schnyder, Gregor Eberli, Donald F. McNeill and Ralf Weger

Petroleum Systems Modeling Applied to Unconventional Resource Plays

Noelle B. Schoellkopf, Andy MacGregor, Richard Salter and Richard E. Lewis

Geology of Northern Alto Relex Area, Roy's Peak Quadrangle, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas

Robert L. Schoen

Method and Data-Acquisition Workflow for Rock-Type Definitions in the Lower Carboniferous Resource Play, NW England

Niels H. Schovsbo, Thomas Goode, Jack Beuthin, Emmanuel Derbez and Kate Parkin

Surface Geochemical Exploration After 100 Years: Lessons Learned and What More Must Be Done

Dietmar Schumacher

Minimize Exploration Risk: The Impact of Hydrocarbon Microseepage Surveys for Distinguishing Hydrocarbon-Charged Traps From Traps Without Hydrocarbons

Dietmar Schumacher

Predicting the Potential for Fluid-Induced Fault Reactivation: An Example From Wellington Field, Sumner County, KS

Drew R. Schwab, Tandis S. Bidgoli, Michael H. Taylor and Leigh Stearns

Giants in the Rift: Petroleum System Elements of Rift-Basin Hosted Giant Fields

Stephen Schwarz, Leiaka Welcome and Lesli J. Wood

Impact of Petrophysical Properties on Hydraulic Fracture Analysis

Kelsey L. Seals

Direct Computation of the Oda Fractured Rock Mass Permeability Tensor From Digital Outcrop Datasets

Thomas D. Seers

Evidence of Exposure of the Upper Cretaceous Congost Carbonate Platform and Implications for Emergent Surfaces Identification From Subsurface Data

Ahmed M. Selem, Richard Dixon, Cathy Hollis and Jonathan Lavi

Peru, A High Potential Hydrocarbon Exploration Opportunity

Federico Seminario and Pedro Alarcon

The Jurassic Organic Rich Carbonate Mudstones of the Tauride Belt (Turkey): Their Unconventional Oil and Gas Systems

Samil Sen

Allochthonous Blocks and Thrust Tectonics Effects to Petroleum Exploration in the Ulus Basin, Western Black Sea of Turkey

Samil Sen

The Montney Turbidite Complex of Northwest Alberta and Northeast British Columbia: Evolution of an Oil and Gas Play From Conventional to Unconventional

Richard Sereda

Reconstructing the Evolution of the Pamir Lower Crust: Zircon U-Pb and Trace-Element Petrochronology of UHP/UHT Xenoliths

Madeline E. Shaffer and Bradley Hacker

Interpreter-Assisted Interactive Delineation of Salt Domes Using Phase Congruency and Gradient of Texture Attributes

Muhammad Amir Shafiq, Haibin Di, Yazeed Alaudah and Ghassan AlRegib

Quantitative Description of Different Facies Belts of Paleogene Volcanic Rocks in BZ349 Oilfield, Bohai Bay Basin

Wang Shaopeng, Han Zijun, Liu Wenchao, Guo Wei and Cai Yueqian

Sediment Dispersal Patterns in the Denver Basin Foreland: Insights From Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology

Glenn R. Sharman, Daniel F. Stockli, Viridis Miranda and Jacob A. Covault

Early Cenozoic Drainage Reorganization of the U.S. Western Interior-Gulf of Mexico Sediment Routing System

Glenn R. Sharman, Jacob A. Covault, Daniel F. Stockli, Anton F. Wroblewski and Meredith A. Bush

Seismic Efficiency vs. Fracability; Effects of Mechanical Properties on Radiated Elastic Waves With Application to Hydraulic-Fracturing-Induced Microseismicity

Farrokh Sheibani and Bradford H. Hager

Pressure Evolution in Buried-Hill Reservoirs of Wen'an Slope, Jizhong Subbasin, Bohai Bay Basin

Fangyu Shen, Nansheng Qiu, Jian Chang, Nian Liu, Xuefeng Ma and Donghong Xiong

Pore Characteristics of the Organic-Rich Marine Shales With High Thermal Maturity: A Case study of the Lower Silurian Longmaxi Gas Shale Reservoirs in Southern China

Miao Shi, Bingsong Yu and Jinchuan Zhang

Investigation of Rift Evolution Through Examining Scaling Properties of Fault Populations Within the Central Kenya Rift

Ahmad K. Shmela, Douglas Paton and Richard Collier

The Source is in the Sink: Deep-Water Deposition From a Submarine Volcanic Arc, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

Lauren E. Shumaker, Glenn R. Sharman, Peter R. King and Stephen A. Graham

Investigating Controls on Submarine Channel Evolution Through Morphometric Scaling Relationships

Lauren E. Shumaker, Nick C. Howes, Luke A. Pettinga and Zane R. Jobe

Does It Pay to Innovate? An Economic Lookback at the Lifecycle of the Amplitude Play in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Niven Shumaker, Tim Chapman and Kevin Anderegg

Structural Analysis of Strike-slip Faulting in Ernst Tinaja Canyon, Big Bend National Park, TX

Ryan R. Silberstorf

Mineralogical and Petrophysical Characterization of the Reservoir Facies of Doig Formation in British Columbia, Triassic of Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Pablo Lacerda Silva and Marc Bustin

Bayhead Deltas and Shorelines: Insights From Modern and Ancient Examples

Alexander R. Simms, Antonio Rodriguez and John B. Anderson

Understanding the Scale of Calcite Mass Transfer in a Nanoporous Reservoir, Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Denver Basin, Colorado

Rebekah Simon and David Budd

Characterization of Properties in Deformation Bands

Alessandra Simone, Lori Hathon and Michael Myers

Petrophysical Analysis of the 3rd Bone Spring Formation

Paul L. Sims, Ibrahim H. Yeter, Lewis Matthews, Matthew Pippin, and Hepeng Tian

Ultimate Demise of Upper Cambrian Microbial Reefs Through Increasing Water Column Turbidity (Mason County, Central Texas)

Pulkit Singh, Yuanquan (Nancy) Zhou, Roberto P. Trotta, André W. Droxler, Heath H. Hopson, Pankaj Khanna, Daniel Lehrmann, Dylan A. Droxler, Daniel Rodelli, Luigi Jovane, Paul (Mitch) Harris and Jeffrey Dravis

Application of Gamma Spectrometry to Hydrocarbon Anomalies in Shale Cores at Pomerania Region, Poland

Rafal Skupio and Gabriel A. Barberes

Geochemical Drivers in Carbonate Shoreline Settings: Examples From Permian of West Texas and New Mexico

Benjamin P. Smith and Charles Kerans

Investigating the Deep Structure of Igneous Basement Beneath a CCS Site, Illinois Basin

Katelynn Smith, R. William Keach, John McBride and Hannes E. Leetaru

Diversity of Large-Scale, Deepwater Bed Forms in Mexico Offshore Areas: Neogene to Modern

John W. Snedden, John Decker, Enrique Arce and Duncan Bate

Toward the Creation of Models to Predict Static and Dynamic Fault Seal Potential in Carbonates

John Solum and B. A. H. Huisman

Characterization of the Pore System and its Storage Capacity in Devonian Black Shale of Appalachian Basin

Liaosha Song and Tim Carr

Hydrocarbon Sources and Charge History in the Ultra-Deep-Buried Cretaceous Sandstone Reservoir, Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin

Xu Song, Xiuxiang Lü, Yunqi Shen, Song Guo and Hua Bai

Professionalism and Ethics in Geology: Use It or Lose It!

Stephen Sonnenberg

Our Current Working Model for Unconventional Tight Petroleum Systems: Oil and Gas

Stephen Sonnenberg and Lawrence Meckel

Petroleum Exploration Potential in North America c. 1859

Raymond P. Sorenson

Lewis G. Weeks and the “Oil Habitat” Paradigm in Petroleum Geology

Rasoul Sorkhabi

Stratigraphic Model for Lower and Upper Cretaceous Strata of the East Texas Basin – Constraints From Core, Wireline-Log, and 2-D Seismic Data

Peter Soto-Kerans

The Stratigraphic Expression of Slope Channel Evolution: Insights From Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Channel Fills From the Cretaceous Tres Pasos Formation, Southern Chile

Sarah J. Southern, Lisa Stright, Zane R. Jobe, Brian Romans and Stephen Hubbard

Frequency Distribution of Bed Thickness in Slope-Channel Fills: New Insights From the Cretaceous Tres Pasos Formation, Chile

Sarah J. Southern, Zoltan Sylvester and Stephen Hubbard

New Insights on the Variability of Submarine Lobe Deposits

Yvonne Spychala, David Hodgson, Stephen Flint, Christopher Stevenson, Nigel P. Mountney, Ian Kane and Amandine Prelat

The Exploration Dilemma – Threshold for a New Paradigm?

Philip H. Stark and Leta Smith

The Role of Buoyancy Reversal in Turbidite Deposition and Submarine Fan Morphology: Examples From Flume Experiments, Quaternary Deposits, and the Ancient Rock Record

Elisabeth Steel, Alexander R. Simms, James Buttles, Jonathan Warrick, David Mohrig, Yusuke Yokoyama and Ronald Steel

Mid-Jurassic Shelf-Margin Growth in Neuquen Basin: Coarse-Grained, River-Tide Interaction at the Shelf Edge

Ronald Steel, Cornel Olariu, Valentina M. Rossi, Flavio Almeida and Elisabeth Steel

Incised Valleys in the Parkman Sandstone, Wyoming: New Sequence Analysis Opens Up New Exploration and Development Opportunities in the Powder River Basin.

Matthew Steidtmann, Andy Finley and Lesli J. Wood

Assessing Novel Chemostratigraphic Correlation Tools in Carbonate Reservoir Rocks: A Mississippian Limestone Case Study

Justin Steinmann, Natascha Riedinger, Benjamin Brunner and G. Michael Grammer

Lessons from a Decade of Discovery Thinking Forums

Charles A. Sternbach

Influence of Deep Salt on the Style of Major Structures in Northeast Saudi Arabia

Simon Stewart

Facies-Specific Reservoir Rock Properties of a Back-Barrier Lagoon Deposit Interpreted From a Core-to-Outcrop Study in the Kaiparowits Plateau

Lisa Stright, Cory Johnson, William Gallin, Karenth Dworsky, Cari Johnson and Tiziana Vanorio

Predicting 3-D Connectivity From Core and Seismic: An Example From Outcropping Deep-Water Slope Channels

Lisa Stright, Allie Jackson, Sarah J. Southern, Casey Meirovitz, Brian Romans and Stephen Hubbard

Gypsum Stromatolites From Sawda Nathil: A Geological Relict From Salinas Along the Fourth Coastline of Qatar

Christian J. Strohmenger and Jeremy Jameson

Physical Models of Subaqueous Transitional Sediment-Gravity Flows: Stacked Flow Interaction and Remobilization

Daniel M. Sturmer, Woong Mo Koo, David Mohrig, James Buttles, Anna S. Pontén and Carlo Messina

Development of an Early Miocene Carbonate Formation From Integrated Well Data, Modern Analogs and Geophysical Information: Case Study From Baturaja Formation, South Sumatera Basin, Indonesia

Made Suardana and Mark E. Everett

Chronostratigraphy, Correlation, and Depositional History of the Marcellus Shale in the Central Appalachian Basin: A Study of Inorganic Geochemistry, Stable Isotopes, and Magnetic Susceptibility Data From Pennsylvania and West Virginia

Nicholas B. Sullivan, Paul Montgomery, Eliza Mathia, Kenneth Ratcliffe, William C. Dawson, Autumn Eakin, Brooke Carson and Richin Chhajlani

Organic Carbon Isotopes and Silurian Chronostratigraphy in Eastern Europe

Nicholas B. Sullivan, David Loydell, Paul Montgomery, Stewart Molyneux, Jan A. Zalasiewicz, Kenneth Ratcliffe and James D. Griffiths

Carotenoid-Derived Biomarkers as Geochemical Tools for Petroleum Exploration and Paleoreconstruction

Roger E. Summons, Donald Rocher, Craig Barrie, Katherine French and John E. Zumberge

Fracture Characterization on Virtual Outcrop Model of Mississippian Boone Formation

Lei Sun, Shuhab D. Khan, Sergio Sarmiento and Mookanahallipanta Lakshmikantha

Thermal Maturity Assessment for Source Rock and Producible Fluid in the Eagle Ford Shale

Xun Sun, Tongwei Zhang and Daniel A. Enriquez

The Study on Characteristics of Low Permeability TZ/ROZ via CO2 Displacement

Ying-Ying Sun, Shan-Yan Zhang, Guo-Qiang Sang, and Yang-Cheng Li

New Insight Into the Shark Bay Microbial System, Part 1: Stromatolite Provinces

Erica P. Suosaari, R. Pamela Reid, Phillip Playford, Carl Steffensen and Gregor Eberli

Petrophysical Properties From Quantitative Multiscale Pore-Structure Characterization in an Unconventional Carbonate Reservoir: An Example From the Mid-Continent Mississippian Limestones

Fnu Suriamin and Matthew J. Pranter

Stable Isotope and Elemental Geochemistry Reveal Environmental Controls and Diagenetic Modification of Microbialite Facies Within a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework, Upper Cambrian Point Peak Formation, Llano River and Mill Creek, Mason County, Central Texas

Hadley Swartz, Daniel Lehrmann, Caroline Kelleher, Adrien Lhemann, Marina Suarez, Heath H. Hopson, Pankaj Khanna, André W. Droxler and Paul (Mitch) Harris

Reservoir Delineation in Fluvial Architecture via Post-Stack Seismic Attributes

Ryan Swindeman, Somanath Misra, Retti Orumwense, Chicheng Xu, Nordine Sabaou and Juan-Mauricio Florez

Development of Cutoff-Related Knickpoints in Submarine Channels: Insights From Kinematic Modeling and Implications for Reservoir Architecture

Zoltan Sylvester and Jacob A. Covault

High-Resolution Geochemical Analysis of Cycles of the Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquén Basin

Laura E. Rueda Sánchez, Donald F. McNeill, Gregor Eberli, Max Tenaglia, Larry Peterson, Peter Swart and Ralf Weger

Paleogeography of the Arctic – Implications for Mesozoic Sediment Routing and Basin Fill

Tor O. Sømme, Anthony G. Doré, Bjørn Ove Tørudbakken, Erik R. Lundin, Scott A. Bullimore and Alf E. Ryseth

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US Energy Trends and Projection

T. Parveen Tabassum

Exceptional Hydrocarbon Source Rock of the Conventional (Albian) Kharita Formation Reservoir in Matruh Basin, Northern Western Desert of Egypt

Sameh S. Tahoun, Amr Deaf, Thomas Gentzis and Humberto Carvajal

Advanced Analytical and Isotopic Technologies to Enhance Development Efficiency in Unconventional Resources

Yongchun Tang, Li Gao, Sheng Wu, Andrew Sneddon, Le Lu and Andrei Deev

High-Resolution Multibeam Reveals Surficial Character of the Perdido, Mexican Ridges, and Campeche Fold Belts; Deep Water Mexican Gulf of Mexico

Philip Teas, Dan Orange, John Decker and Kelley Brumley

Macroseeps and Microseeps: A History of Unconventional Approach to Exploration Since the Start of the Petroleum Age

Steven A. Tedesco

The Use of Iodine Surface Geochemistry Integrated With Seismic and Subsurface Geology to Find Conventional Reservoirs in the Mid-Continent USA

Steven A. Tedesco

Lucius Field, 5 Years From Discovery to First Oil in the US GOM

William A. Tedesco, Shandell M. Szabo, Joseph R. Jacobs, Frank D. Meyer, Sarah Mueller, Daniel D. Hart, John B. Leedy, Jay D. Skinner, David K. Wright, Larianna Dunn and Huan Gamblin

Seismic Facies Classification and Characterization of Deep Water Architectural Elements. A Case of Study, North Carnarvon Basin Australia

Jerson J. Tellez, Roger Slatt and Kurt J. Marfurt

Seismic geomorphology and characterization of deep water architectural elements and its applications in 3D modeling. A case of study, North Carnarvon Basin Australia.

Jerson J. Tellez and Roger Slatt

TOC Distribution and Prediction in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Max Tenaglia, Ralf Weger, Gregor Eberli, Laura E. Rueda Sánchez, Leticia Rodriguez Blanco and Peter Swart

Comparing and Contrasting Controls on Sediment Patterns in Contemporary Isolated Carbonate Platforms as Analogs for Ancient Examples – Case Studies From South East Asia

Chia Pei Teoh and Georg Warrlich

Mapping Reservoir Stress Conditions Using Hydraulic Fracturing Microseismicity

Orlando J. Teran

Quantification and 3-D Modeling of Architectural Variability and Controls in a Permian Carbonate Ramp, Last Chance Canyon, NM

Philipp Tesch, Michael C. Pope and Bobby Reece

Risk Analysis in Unexplored Areas: Application of a Response Surface Model Based Tool on the Canadian Offshore

Alcide Thebault, Marie Callies and Veronique Gervais

Tectonic Development, Sedimentation and Palaeoceanography of the Mozambique Channel During the Tertiary

Antoine Thiéblemont, F Javier Hernández-Molina, François Raisson and Carlo Cazzola

Geochemical Evaluation Mitigates Potential Productivity Loss in Gorgon Field, Offshore Western Australia

Andrew R. Thomas, Thomas Dunn, Wade Williams, Alan Morrison, Hal Riordan, Rosario Scheerhorn, Julie Rivera and Bill Lawrence

An Emerging Vaca Muerta Formation Unconventional Development, Sierras Blancas and Cruz de Lorena Blocks, Neuquen Basin, Argentina

Mark A. Thomas, Britt Williams, Ed Kruijs, Vivek Jain, Tianhong Chen, Oswaldo Davogustto and Joseph Kato

The Role of Evaporites, Foreland Basin Fill, and Inherited Crustal Weaknesses on Structural Styles in the Pamir and Tian Shan Forelands, Western Tarim Basin, NW China

Jessica A. Thompson, Tao Li and Jie Chen

Geochemically Distinct Oil Families in the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia Based on Chemometric Analysis of Source-Related Biomarker and Isotopic Ratios

William Thompson-Butler, Kenneth E. Peters, Leslie B. Magoon, Allegra H. Scheirer and Stephen A. Graham

Upper Permian Reef and Shelf Facies of the Southern Margin of the Yangtze Platform, South China Provide Insight Into Reef Ecology and Environments Prior to the End-Permian Mass Extinction

Sarah Thorne, Dongyang Liu, Elizabeth Hartson, Caroline Kelleher, Xiaowei F. Li, William Foster, Jonathan L. Payne and Daniel Lehrmann

Charging of Heavy Oil Fields Surrounding the Southern End of Liaoxi Uplift From Multiple Lacustrine Source Rock Intervals and Generative Kitchens, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Derui Tian, Changgui Xu, Kui Wu, Rucai Zhang and Wenjing Pan

Mechanisms of Petroleum Accumulation in the Liaodong Bay, Bohai Bay Basin, China: Origin and Occurrence of Crude Oils Presented by Rucai Zhang

Derui Tian, Changgui Xu, Kui Wu and Wenjing Pan

Reservoir Pore Structure Classification of Carbonate Rocks Based on Lithology Analysis and NMR Experiments

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Spatial Variability in the Velocity and Density Structure of Unconfined Turbidity Currents, and the Implications for Reservoir Quality of Submarine Lobe Deposits

Mike Tilston, Joris Eggenhuisen, Matthieu Cartigny, Florian Pohl and Yvonne Spychala

Global Implications of the U.S. Shale Scene: Millennials, It's in Your Hands Now

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Key Technologies for Processing of Seismic Data in Gas Cloud Area

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Morphological and Topological Characterization of Coquinas' Porous System Through X-ray Computed Tomography and Its Correlation With Depositional Cycles

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Similarities and Differences Between the Late Cretaceous Fan Complex and the Overlying Neogene Amazon Cone in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, Northern Brazil – Implications for Future Hydrocarbon Exploration

Lucia Torrado and Paul Mann

Can Fecal Pellets in Unconventional Resource Shales Generate Hydrocarbons?

Emilio J. Torres, Roger Slatt, Paul Philp, Ting Wang and Heidy L. Rodriguez

Comparison of the La Luna Formation Unconventional Resource Shale in Middle Magdalena Basin, Colombia and Lago de Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela

Emilio J. Torres, Andreina Liborius, Roger Slatt and Paul Philp

Colombia Caribbean Basin: From a Frontier Area to a New Hydrocarbon Province

Max Torres

Assessment of Structurally Compatible Interpretation in Fold-Thrust Belts: An Example From Offshore Northwest Borneo

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Integrated Core Studies of the Mishrif Formation, Rumaila Field, Southern Iraq

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Offshore CO2 Storage Resource Assessment of the Northwest Gulf of Mexico Inner Continental Shelf, Upper Texas – Western Louisiana Coast

Ramon H. Trevino, Timothy A. Meckel, Mariana Olariu, Dallas Dunlap, Michael V. Deangelo, Jiemin Lu, Reinaldo Sabbagh, Alexander Klokov, Seyyed Hosseini and Ali Goudarzi

Sediment Transport Controls Ooid Growth

Elizabeth Trower, Michael P. Lamb, John P. Grotzinger, Marjorie Cantine, Shane O'Reilly and Woodward W. Fischer

Influence of Lithology and Diagenesis on Mechanical and Sealing Properties of the Thirteen Finger Limestone and Upper Morrow Shale, Farnsworth Unit, Texas

Natasha Trujillo, Dylan Rose Coss, Peter Mozley, Jason Heath and Martha Cather

Utilizing HHXRF to Assess Variable Bottom Water Anoxia Within the Late Devonian Woodford Shale in the Arkoma Basin, Southern Oklahoma

Bryan W. Turner and Roger Slatt

Fine-Scale Spatial Distribution of Organofacies in the Mowry Shale, Wind River Basin, Lander, WY

Trevor Tuttle, Samuel M. Hudson, Skylor Steed, Torri Duncan, Natalie Shepard and Jason Klimek

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New Type of Kinematic Indicator in Bedding-Parallel Veins and Vertical Fracture Abundance and Timing in Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

Estibalitz Ukar, Ramiro G. Lopez, András Fall, René Manceda, Julia Gale and Stephen E. Laubach

Evaluation of Earthquake Potential Associated With the Injection of Wastewater Disposal Wells in Shale-Gas Resvoirs, Oklahoma, USA

Keelan F. Umbarger

Parallel Salt and Methane Generation, Possible Paradigm Shifts for Salt Generation in Deep Sea Processes

Zoltan Unger and David LeClair

Textural and Compositional Trends in Transitional Flow Deposits of the Proximal Brushy Canyon Formation, Texas

Kelsi Ustipak, David Mohrig and Anna S. Pontén

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Is Siltstone Geomechanics on the Mixing Line Between Sandstone and Shale? Example From the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin Montney Formation

Noga Vaisblat, Korhan Ayranci and Nicholas Harris

Variability of Wave-Dominated and Wave-Influenced Coastlines in the Holocene - Lessons for the Subsurface

Boyan Vakarelov, Bruce Ainsworth and Julien Bourget

Proposed Stratigraphic Correlation Framework, Wolfcamp, Delaware Basin, West Texas

Mary L. Van Der Loop

The Potential of Fluvial Crevasse Splays as (Secondary) Reservoirs

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Tectonic-Geomorphologic Modeling of Paleo-Landscapes in Rifts

Jolante van Wijk, Michael Berry and Erica Emry

Derivation of Hydrocarbon Head Potential, a New Workflow for Petroleum System Analysis: Application to the Eagle Ford Formation, SE Texas

Carlos E. Varady, John Pantano and Ursula Hammes

Reservoir Implications of Clumped Isotope Investigation and Micro-CT Imaging of Early Dolomite

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Non-seismic Constraints in Structurally Complex Regions

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Joint Estimation of the Column Height and Reservoir Distribution by Integrating AVO-Inversion and Overpressure-Driven Seismic Velocities

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Structural Analysis of Upper Cretaceous Carbonate Reservoirs Using Curvature Attributes, Campeche Sound, Gulf of Mexico

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2-D Seismic Reflection Imaging of the Bennett Thrust Fault in the Indio Mountains of West Texas

Alan Vennemann, Marianne Karplus, Galen Kaip and Steve Harder

Perdido: A Frontier Paleogene Development - 15 Years Post-Discovery

Edwin Verdonk, Chris Riley, Jasper Van Berkel and Amy Sullivan

Revisiting Beachrock Cementation Processes

Isabel F. Villaneda-van Vloten and Luis Gonzalez

Impact of Geologic Description on Pore Pressure and Well Design: Shah Deniz, Offshore Caspian Sea

Jennifer Villinski

Salina Group Lithofacies in the Michigan Basin: Development of an Improved Depositional Model From Core Analysis

Peter J. Voice, William B. Harrison and Andrew H. Caruthers

Petrophysical Signatures of Fluid Injection in Mudstones and Shales

Harsha Vora and Brandon Dugan

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Porosity in Vuggy Platform Carbonates Measured Over Six Orders of Magnitude

Abdul Wahab, Paul Enos and Robert H. Goldstein

Impacts of Regional Allogenic Forcing on a Single Depositional System: Example From the Sherwood Sandstone Group, UK

Oliver Wakefield, Ed Hough, Joanna Thompson and Catherine Cripps

Origin of Mound-Like Structures on the Outer Continental Shelf Off-Central Israel

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New Insights Into the Structure and Tectonic Provenance of the Chukchi Borderland Terrane: Implications for Arctic Reconstructions

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Playing It Forward – Modelling the Evolution of Deepwater Subsalt Fields on Passive Margins Using 2-D Finite Element Models

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From Paleohurricanes Through Source to Sink Research: Highlighting Recent Coastal Geology Contributions From John B. Anderson

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The Effect on Permeability of Step-Wise Removal of Organic Material Using Digital Rock Methods

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Detecting and Quantifying Kerogen, Bitumen, and Organic Porosity From SEM Images

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Issues Concerning Application of Horizontal Well Data in 3-D Modeling of Shale Reservoirs

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Reservoir Characteristics, Formation and Gas Accumulation of Ordovician Ultra-Tight Paleokarst Carbonates in Eastern Ordos Basin, China

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Characterization of Pore-Throat Structure and Prediction of Sweet Spots of the Eocene Low Permeability-Tight Beach-Bar Sandstone Reservoirs in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Jian Wang, Yingchang Cao and Keyu Liu

Confined Pyrolysis Study on Hydrocarbon Generation Kinetics, Residual Solid and Hydrocarbon Yield of Lacustrine Shale Source Rocks in Bozhong Depression, Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, China

Jun Wang, Lixin Tian, Changgui Xu, Xiaofeng Du and Qingbin Wang

Pores Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Different Types of Shale in China

Maozhen Wang, Shaobo Liu, Hua Tian, Junjia Fan and Yiwei Hao

Tight Oil Reservoir Characterization of the Lower-Middle Permian Lucaogou Formation, Jimusar Sag, Junggar Basin, Northwest China

Qifeng Wang, Hancheng Ji, Dali Yue, Wurong Wang, Mengmeng Wei and Nansu Wang

Source Rock of Woodford Tight Oil Play on the Cherokee Platform (Oklahoma)

Ting Wang, Li Liu, Mu Liu and Paul Philp

Integration of Surface Seismic, Microseismic, and Production Logs to Characterize Lacustrine Shale Plays in Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China

Xiangzeng Wang, Wei Wang, Hongliu Zeng, Lixia Zhang, Quansheng Liang, Chengfu Jiang and Qianping Zhao

Overpressures and Their Significance in Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, China

Xiao Wang, Stuart J. Jones, Sheng He, Qiang Liu and Chunyang Cheng

The Seismic Geomorphology, Distribution and Origin of the Quaternary Mass Transport Complexes in the Pearl River Canyon, South China Sea

Xingxing Wang, Yingmin Wang, Min He and Chenglin Gong

Morphology, classification and controlling factors of the Late Quaternary submarine canyon system on the northern margin of the South China Sea

Xingxing Wang, Yingmin Wang, Haiteng Zhuo and Weitao Chen

Baiyun Deep-Water Fans in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea: Architectures, Genesis Mechanism and Exploration Direction

Yongfeng Wang, Dong Li, Qiang Xu and Yingmin Wang

Natural Fracture Characterization and Prediction of the “Mississippian Limestone” Play, North-Central Oklahoma, U.S.A

Yulun Wang, Taylor Thompson and G. Michael Grammer

Lithofacies, Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality Evolution of Wolfbone Sandstone-Siltstone Successions in the Delaware Basin, West Texas

Ziyuan Wang, Mao Pan, Yongmin Shi and Yue Dong

Prediction of Lithologies and Reservoir Quality Using Well Logs in Wolfbone Play in the Delaware Basin, West Texas

Ziyuan Wang, Hualing Zhang, Mao Pan, Yongmin Shi and Yue Dong

Coupled Barrier Island-Bay Collapse During the 8.2 ka Sea-Level Event and Future Implications

Sophie Warny, Shannon Ferguson, John B. Anderson and Alexander R. Simms

The Influence of Pre-Existing Thrust Faults on Normal-Fault Development in Two-Phase Experimental Models

Kathleen Warrell, Roy Schlische and Martha O. Withjack

Jack and St. Malo, USGOM: Similarities and Differences in Two Co-Developed Deepwater Wilcox Fields

Edward L. Washburn, John Bretches, Kristen Briggs, Jim Randle, Brigitte Wexler and Alexei Vyssotski

Yeso Formation Along the Northwest Shelf, Southeast New Mexico, USA: Conventional or Unconventional Reservoir Development?

Matthew S. Wasson, Ron Luongo, Reed Stiles and Mark A. Trees

Vertical Intercalation of Matrix-Rich and Matrix-Poor Sandstones - A Reflection of a Compensationally-Stacked Lateral Facies Change in a Deep-Marine Channel-Margin Succession, Isaac Formation, Windermere Supergroup, British Columbia.

Curran Wearmouth and Bill Arnott

Crustal Architecture of the Argentinian Atlantic Margin

Peter Webb, Simon Campbell and Stan Mazur

Quantitative Stratigraphic Applications in Mudstones Using a Combined Wavelet and Compositional Data Analysis Approach (CDA-WA): Case Study in Eagle Ford Group Mudstones of South and West Texas With Implications for Sequence Stratigraphy and Cyclostratigraphy

Matthew P. Wehner

Integrating Geophysics With Geology to Predict Sand Body Distribution in Fault Basin

Zedian Wei and Xiaoli Hua

Arid Continental Rift Systems: Exploration of the Rio Grande Rift Basin Complex

Leiaka Welcome and Lesli J. Wood

Heterogeneous Physical and Mechanical Properties Relative to Composition, Porosity, and Diagenesis in Siliceous Mudstones of the Upper Monterey Formation, Belridge Oilfied, San Joaquin Basin, California

Ryan M. Weller and Richard J. Behl

Use of Pore Pressure Modeling to Constrain Seismic Velocities

Johannes Wendebourg, Francois Lorant and Fabien Poeymarie

Changes in Acoustic Properties and Velocity Anisotropy in a Very Organic-Rich Marine Shale With Increasing Temperature

Lars Wensaas, Mriganko Sarkar, Marita Gading, Carl Sondergeld, Chandra S. Rai and Helge Løseth

Three-Dimensional Characterization of Complex Depositional Architectures of Seismic Scale High Energy, Unconfined Aggradational Slope Turbidites Deposited Along Narrow Margins of the Fish Creek-Vallecito Basin, South-Central California – Outcrop Example of a Supercritical Fan?

Logan M. West, Ronald Steel and Cornel Olariu

Seismic Stratigraphic Analysis of the Yoakum/Lavaca Canyon System, South Texas, USA

Colin White and John W. Snedden

Optimization of Horizontal Wells Utilizing Multivariate Analytics of Seismic Inversion in the Wolfcamp Formation of the Midland Basin

Joe Wicker, James Courtier, Patrick Curth and Travis Jeffers

Inorganic Elemental Analysis of Woodford and Mississippian Mudrocks: Implication for Petroleum Systems Analysis

Ryan Wilcoxson, Ibrahim Al Atwah, John Pantano and Franco Marcantonio

The Impact of Slope Topography on Sediment Partitioning and Depositional Architecture in a Deepwater Lower Slope Setting

Richard J. Wild, Rachel Healy, David Hodgson and Stephen Flint

The Future of Energy and Geoscience Careers

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Oil-Cracking Kinetic Parameters Play a Crucial Role in the Assessment of Shale Gas Plays

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Earth Stress and Seismic Hazard From the Size-Frequency Distribution of Seismic Events

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Fluvial Channel Belt Reservoir Heterogeneity and Connectivity

Brian J. Willis and Richard Sech

Ambiguity of GoogleEarth Images as Shallow Marine Reservoir Analogs

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The Structural Evolution of Hamilton Creek/Dry Creek Anticline and Its Relationship to the Southeast Termination of Paradox Valley, SW Colorado

Elizabeth P. Wilson and Bruce Trudgill

The Upstream Sector Adjusts to the New Economics of Exploration

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Developing a New Understanding of the Evolution of the Newfoundland-Iberia Conjugate Margins and Its Impact on Petroleum Prospectivity

Kerri L. Wilson, David Sagi, Josmat Rodriguez, Wouter Hageman, David Tierney and Peter Webb

Facies Characterization of the Wolfcamp B and Lower Spraberry Intervals in the Midland Basin: Implications for Reservoir Quality and Distribution

Ryan D. Wilson, Jayashree D. Chitale and Paul Montgomery

Chemostratigraphic Characterization of the Vaca Muerta Formation in the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Implications for Depositional Environment and Stratigraphic Distribution of Hydrocarbon Play Elements

Ryan D. Wilson, Robert Locklair, Ezequiel G. Pelegri, Hernan M. Reijenstein, Christopher J. Lipinski, Iván N. Noguera, Manuel Fantin and Claudio N. Larriestra

Regional Scale Reservoir Characterization and Thermal History of Upper Devonian Organic-Rich Shales in the Horn River and Liard Basins, and Adjacent Western Alberta

Tessa Wilson and R. Marc Bustin

Tectonic Controls on the Lower Eocene Upper Wilcox Deepwater Fan System Offshore Northern Mexico: Implications for Reservoir Presence and Quality Prediction

Rene Winter, Ahmed S. Afifi, Lauren Becker, Mario Moreno-Vega, Jacek Jaminski, John O'Leary and Teunis Heyn

Complex Sediment Dispersal in the Campeche Deepwater Province, Offshore Southern Mexico – An Example of a Hybrid Tectonically Active Margin

Rene Winter, Dale Dailey, Stephen Wigger, Teunis Heyn, Jacek Jaminski, Melissa Beaman and John O'Leary

Anomalous Arching During Rifting, Breakup, and Drifting: Evidence on the Passive Margin of Eastern North America for Distal Magmatic Underplating

Martha O. Withjack, MaryAnn L. Malinconico, Michael A. Durcanin and Roy Schlische

Ancient Processes in Modern Data: Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology for Evaluating the Sedimentary Processes That Characterize the Ancient Earth

Lesli J. Wood

Geophysical Delineation of Megaporosity and Fluid Migration Pathways for Geohazard Characterization Within the Delaware Basin, Culberson County, Texas

Jonathan D. Woodard

Clay-Coated Sand Grains in Petroleum Reservoirs: Understanding Their Distribution Using an Analogue Holocene Estuarine Fill Succession

Luke J. Wooldridge, Richard H. Worden, Joshua Griffiths, Anu Thompson, James E. Utley and Robert A. Duller

Prospect Investigation and De-Risking Using Cognitive Interpretation Workflows, Offshore Equatorial Guinea

Tom Wooltorton, Merritt Smith, Stephen Leslie and Rachael A. Moore

Structural, Stratigraphic, and Geomorphologic Reconstruction of an Early Stage Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Raft System in Viosca Knoll-Mississippi Canyon, GOM, Using 3-D Seismic Data

Matthew Worrell

Classifying Reservoir Carbonates When the Status Quo Simply Does Not Work: A Case Study From the Cretaceous of the South Atlantic

Paul Wright and Andrew Barnett

Salinity Gradients and Catastrophic Freshwater Stress on Incipient Estuarine Ichnofossil Assemblages—Trinity Bay Head Delta: A Key to Defining Modern and Ancient Brackish Water Ichnofacies

Anton F. Wroblewski and Stephen Hasiotis

Whither the PETM? Testing Predictive Models for Climatically-Triggered Fluvial Sheet Sand Progradation in a Rapidly Subsiding Basin

Anton F. Wroblewski and Bonnie Gulas-Wroblewski

Characteristics and Origin of Tight Oil Reservoir within the Middle Permian Lucaogou Formation of the Junggar Basin, NW China

Haiguang Wu and Wenxuan Hu

Chemostratigraphy, Mineral Association and Water Chemistry Modeling of the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado: An Integrated Method to Unveil the Evolution of the Uinta Lake

Tengfei Wu and Jeremy Boak

Sedimentary Dynamics and High-Frequency Sequence Stratigraphy on the Slope of Great Bahama Bank

Marco Wunsch, Christian Betzler, Gregor Eberli, Sebastian Lindhorst and Thomas Lüdmann

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Evidences of Localized CO2-induced Diagenesis in the Cretaceous Quantou Formation, Southern Songliao Basin, China

Kelai Xi, Yingchang Cao and Helge Hellevang

How Does the Pore-Throat Size Control the Reservoir Quality and Oiliness of Tight Sandstones?

Kelai Xi, Yingchang Cao and Jens Jahren

Hydrogen Sulfide in the Permian Basin

Daniel Xia and Zhiyong He

High-Resolution Sequence Architecture and Seismic Sedimentology Interpretation of Fan Delta

Da kun Xiao

Thermal Cracking of Oil Under Water Pressure Up to 900 Bar at High Thermal Maturities: Implication for Oil Stability in Deep Basin

Liujuan Xie, Yongge Sun, Clement N. Uguna, Colin E. Snape and Shuangfang Lu

Palaeogeographic Reconstruction and Hydrocarbon Reservoir Prediction Using Sedimentary Architectures of Different Carbonate Platform Margins: A Case Study of Carbonate Platform Margins in Feixianguan Period of the Early Triassic, NE Sichuan Basin, China

Fengcun Xing, Yongchao Lu, Tonglou Guo, Sitian Li, Shu Jiang and Huarui Hu

A New Method for Predicting Pore Pressure in Shale Gas Reservoir

Chunlu Xu, Jianmeng Sun, Xu Dong and Junyuan Chen

Channel-Belt Scaling Relationship and Application to Lower Miocene Source-to-Sink Systems in the Gulf of Mexico Basin

Jie Xu, John W. Snedden, William Galloway, Kristy T. Milliken and Michael D. Blum

Sediment Source of Lower Miocene Strata in the Gulf of Mexico Basin: Insight From Detrital Zircon U–Pb Geochronology and (U–Th)/He Thermochronology

Jie Xu, Daniel F. Stockli and John W. Snedden

High Resolution Analysis of Organic Matter Deposition in the Qingshankou Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Songliao Basin (NE China): Implication From Geochemistry and Astronomical Cycles

Jinjun Xu, Achim Bechtel, Reinhard Sachsenhofer, Zhaojun Liu and Qingtao Meng

Thermal Evolution and Maturation of Sinian and Cambrian Source Rocks in the Central Area of Sichuan Basin, Southwest China

Qiuchen Xu, Nansheng Qiu and Wen Liu

Attempt Using Carbonate Clumped Isotopes to Reconstruct the Thermal History of Sichuan Basin

Qiuchen Xu, Nansheng Qiu and Wen Liu

The Application of Geo-Microbial Hydrocarbon Detection and “4G” Comprehensive Research of Progressive Exploration in the Gudong Area, Shengli Oilfield

Rongde Xu, Changtian Guan, Yuelou Zhang, Harry Mei and Daniel Hitzman

Least Principal Stress Prediction Using a Viscoplastic Stress Relaxation Model Applied to Stacked Pay in the Permian Basin

Shaochuan Xu, Fatemeh Rassouli and Mark Zoback

Influence of High-Variable Geothermal Background on Hydrocarbon Generation and Expulsion: A Case Study in Baiyun Sag of Pearl River Mouth Basin, Deepwater Northern South China Sea

Xiaofeng Xu, Sihuang Xu, Wanzhong Shi and Liang Chen

Analysis of secondary migration of hydrocarbons in the Ordovician Yingshan Formation in the Tazhong uplift, Tarim Basin, China

Yuan Xu, Xiongqi Pang and Yangyang Wang

Applying PCA in Seismic Attribute Analysis for Interpretation of Evaporite Facies: Lower Triassic Jialingjiang Formation, Sichuan Basin, China

Zhaohui Xu, Suyun Hu, Hongliu Zeng, Qilong Fu, Lei Jiang and Shuyuan Shi

The Study of the Influence of Stratigraphic Structure on Seismic Attribute Analysis

Zhou Xuefeng, Ming Jun, Liu Jianhui, Zhou Jianke and He Jing

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The Late Triassic-Late Cretaceous Flooding of the Gulf of Mexico From the Pacific Through Mexico

Ricardo J. Padilla y Sánchez

Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity Through the Integration of Airborne Gravity Gradiometer, Magnetic and 2-D Seismic Data in the Canning Basin, Western Australia

Rao Yalamanchili, Jurriaan Feijth, Carlos Cevallos and Tony Rudge

A Forward Stratigraphic Model of Fluvial Meander Evolution, Point-Bar Facies Architecture and Heterogeneity: Subsurface Applications

Na Yan, Nigel P. Mountney, Luca Colombera, Robert Dorrell and Jose M. Montero

The Keys to New Sub-Igneous Oilfield Discovery in Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, China

Haifeng Yang, Lei Chen, Changgui Xu, Chengmin Niu and Bo Yang

Evaluation of Reservoir Potential of Glaciomarine Sandstones in the Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica: Insights from Diagenesis in Cape Roberts Project Drillcores

Mingyu Yang, Tracy D. Frank and Christopher R. Fielding

A Successful Test of the “Standard” Depositional Sequence Model at a Lacustrine-Fluvial Setting and Application to Paleogeographic Reconstruction of Upper-Triassic Zhangjiatan Shale, Ordos Foreland Basin, China

Wan Yang, Qiuwan Yu, Xiaorong Luo and Yuhong Lei

Application of Unconformity Identification and Evaluation in the Optimizing of Offshore Oilfield Development Plan: A Case Study of CFD Oilfield in Bohai Bay Basin

Wei Yang

An Optimum Sample Preparation Method for Multi-element Analysis in Crude or Fuel Oils with ICP-OES and QQQ-ICP-MS by Mineralization Utilizing a Single-Reaction-Chamber Microwave System

Weihang Yang, John Casey and Yongjun Gao

Characteristics of Overpressure Units in a Fault-Block Oilfield with Lacustrine Dolomite Reservoirs in Tanggu Area, Bohaiwan Basin

Guangqing Yao, Le Li and Yue Yao

Lithofacies Distribution of the Middle to Upper Devonian Ohio Shale in the Southern Appalachian Basin, Kentucky

Zalmai Yawar

The Latest Scoop: Investigating the SCOOP/STACK Trend Using Geological, Geochemical, Economic and Financial Analysis

Denise Yee, Gillian Johnston, Shak Ahmed and David Howard

Improving Prediction of Porosity Preservation in Thermally-Stressed Deep Marine Sandstones: A Synthesis of Grain-Coating Chlorite Observations

Donald J. Yezerski and Niven Shumaker

The Bright Prospect of Quantitative Grain Fluorescence Technique in Applications in Hydrocarbon Accumulation and a New Case Study of Tight Oil and Gas

Qianqian Yin

An Improved Seismic Coherence Technology for Characterizing Faults

Jingbo Yu and Zhong Li

Cambrian Hydrocarbon Migration System and Reservoir-Controlling Pattern of Anyue Gas Field, Sichuan Basin

Rui Yu, Dongxia Chen and Xiongqi Pang

Tan-Lu Fault Zone and Hydrocarbon Accumulations in Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China

Yixin Yu, Xinhuai Zhou and Changgui Xu

Petrography, Fluid Inclusion, Isotope and Trace Element Constraints on the Origin of Quartz Cementation and Feldspar Dissolution and the Associated Fluid Evolution in Arkosic Sandstones

Guanghui Yuan and Yingchang Cao

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Utica Shale Update, SW Pennsylvania

Bill Zagorski

Where Should We Drill in the Deep Waters of the Pelotas Basin, Southern Brazil and Uruguay?

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The Northern Vøring Segment of the Mid-Norway Passive Margin: Crustal Structure and Pre-Breakup Tectonic Evolution

Dmitry Zastrozhnov, Laurent Gernigon, Mohamed Mansour Abdelmalak and Sverre Planke

A New Approach Solving Lateral Wells Complexity, Integrating Borehole Acoustics Reflection Survey and Facies Derived Borehole Images for a Better Completion Strategy, Wolfcamp, West Texas

Olfa Zened, Elia Haddad, Carmen Contreras Fuentes, Vallega Valentina, Edgar V. Arteaga and Gabriela Martinez

A Method to Interpret Cycle Stratigraphic Framework at Wireline Log-Resolution Using Seismic Data

Hongliu Zeng

Spectrum of Fluvial Systems and Depositional History From High-Resolution Study of Seismic Sedimentology (Lithology and Geomorphology), Neogene, SLT Area, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Hongliu Zeng, Xiaomin Zhu, Huiyong Li, Xinhuai Zhou, Donghong Zhou, Changgui Xu, Shunli Li and Qianghu Liu

Numerical Modeling of Adsorption and Roughness Effects on Gas Transport in Shale Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method

Yan Zeng

4-Methyl-24-Ethylcholestane in Upper Permian Fossil Conifer Wood from Paleo-Midlatitude of NE Pangea, Wutonggou Low-Order Cycle, Southern Bogda Mountains, NW

Xin Zhan, Wan Yang, Qiao Feng, Yujiao Zhang and Yankuan Tian

Lithofacies, Diagenesis, and Reservoir Quality Evaluation of Wolfcamp Unconventional Succession in the Midland Basin, West Texas

Hualing Zhang, Qilong Fu, Xavier Janson, Li Liu, Ziyuan Wang and Mingyu Yang

Application of 4-D Integrated Technologies to a Submarine-fan Channel System in the Niger Delta Basin: Insights Into the Reservoir Heterogeneity and Its Controls on the Fluid Flow During Development

Jiajia Zhang, Shenghe Wu, Peng Lin and Shining Jiang

Comprehensive Unconventional Reservoir Characterization of the Woodford Shale in Parts of Garfield and Kingfisher Counties, Oklahoma

Jing Zhang and Roger Slatt

Quantifying Sediment Supply to Continental Margins: Application to Paleogene Wilcox Group Deposition, Gulf of Mexico

Jinyu Zhang, Jacob A. Covault, Michael Pyrcz, Cristian Carvajal, Kristy T. Milliken and Glenn R. Sharman

Study on Intercalation of Shallow Water Delta by Integration of Logging and Seismic Data

Lan Zhang, Qiongyuan Wu, Yuanpeng Jiang and Shaopeng Wang

Modeling Carbonate Diagenesis for Reservoir Quality Prediction: Predicting Cementation and Compaction as Functions of Mud Content Using Petrographic Data From a Carbonate Reservoir in a Giant Oil Field

Shuo Zhang, Peng Lu, Dave Cantrell, Tiffany D. Jobe and Susan Agar

Gas Geochemistry of the Spraberry and Wolfcamp Formations in the Midland Basin

Tongwei Zhang, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Patrick Travers, Xun Sun and Daniel A. Enriquez

Fluvial Reservoir Architecture Characterization of Mature Oilfields With Seismic Sedimentology Method

Xianguo Zhang, Tao Zhang and Chengyan Lin

Fuzhou “Yu Quan”: Warning From Chinese Ancient to the Exploitation of Geothermal Resources in Contemporary China

Xiangyu Zhang, Jiagen Hou and Yuming Liu

Re-defining Depositional Model of the Buda Formation Utilizing Outcrops From West Texas and Cores From South and Central Texas

Xiaodong Zhang and Michael C. Pope

Re-Defining Depositional Model of the Buda Formation Utilizing Outcrops From West Texas and Cores From South and Central Texas

Xiaodong Zhang and Michael C. Pope

Multiple Approaches to Pore Structure Characterization of Self-Sourced Shales

Yuxiang Zhang, Troy Barber and Qinhong Hu

Geological and Microstructural Characterization of the Wufeng-Longmaxi Shale in the Basin-Orogen Transitional Belt of Sichuan Basin, China

Ankun Zhao, Qian Yu and Jingqiang Tan

Multi-Staged Golden Zones of Hydrocarbon Exploration in Superimposed Petroliferous Basin China

Wenzhi Zhao, Suyun Hu, Zhaohui Xu, Tongshan Wang and Hua Jiang

A Submarine Depositional System With Straight Channels and Slope Aprons: Niger Delta Continental Slope

Xiaoming Zhao, Li Liu, Na Yan, Shenghe Wu, Guangyi Hu and William D. McCaffrey

An Integrated Source Rock Prediction Model

Yushi Zhao, Jiancahng Liu and Barry J. Katz

The Impact of Salt Precipitates on the XRF Measurement and the Mitigation Strategy – Case Study of the Wolfcamp Formation, Delaware Basin

Jie Zhou, Subhadip Mandal and Patrick F. Rush

Sonic Properties as a Signature of Overpressure in the Marcellus Gas Shale of the Appalachian Basin

Yaneng Zhou, Saeid Nikoosokhan and Terry Engelder

Determination of Three Tectonic Styles in the Western Margin of Ordos Basin Using HD Seismic

Yijun Zhou, Chunli Jing, Deming Wu and Wei Li

Discovery of Giant, Ultra-deep Paleo-Reservoirs in the Tarim Basin and Geochemical Origin of Crude Oil

Guangyou Zhu, Feiran Chen, Na Weng, Haijun Yang and Huitong Wang

Spatial-Temporal Variability in Stratigraphic Architectures of the Pearl River Mouth Continental Shelf, Northern South China Sea: An Interactive Response to Regional and Local Controls

Haiteng Zhuo, Yingmin Wang, Xuechao Peng, Xin Nie, Weiyao Yan, Xingxing Wang and Ying Wang

A Fresh Look to Exploration and Discoveries in Mississippi Canyon, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Eric Zimmerman

Petroleum Geochemistry of Woodford-Sourced Oils From the Mid-Continent Region, USA

John E. Zumberge and John B. Curtis

Characterizing the Stratigraphy of Wave-Dominated Deltas at the Oxnard Plain, California and the Elwha Delta, Washington Using Insights From Ground-Penetrating Radar

Julie Zurbuchen and Alexander R. Simms

Geometries, Structures and Petrography of Tumey Injection Complex, California (USA)

Gustavo Zvirtes, Andrew Hurst, Ruy Philipp, Giuseppe Palladino and Antonio Grippa