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CSPG/CSEG/CWLS GeoConvention 2009
Frontiers + Innovation
May 4-8, 2009 Roundup Centre, Stampede Park &
ERCB Core Research Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Appreciation is expressed to Emma MacPherson,
CSPG Publications Coordinator, for providing the abstracts.

Search and Discovery Article #90171 (2013)

Posted December 31, 2013

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The Dynamic Interplay of Oil Charge, Basin Dynamics, Caprock Leakage and Gas Generating Biodegradation Produces Heavy and Super-heavy Oil Fields: Examples from Western Canada,
J. J. Adams, H. Huang, B. Bennett, and S. R. Larter

Heavy Oil and Super Heavy Oil Viscosity Measurement and Estimation: Getting Representative Samples,
J. Adams, C. Jiang, B. Bennett, L. Snowdon, I. Gates, and S. Larter

Importance of Seismic Petrophysics for Seismic Data Inversion – Comparision with Reservoir/Conventional Petrophysics,
Jawwad Ahmad and Tony Sun

Deliniation of a Thin Sand Reservoir using Geostatistical AVO Inversion,
Jawwad Ahmad, Cheran Mangat, and John Pendrel

An Update of Hydrocarbon Potential in Yukon's Peel Region,
Tammy L. Allen and Tiffani A. Fraser

Methodology and Workflows for Calculating a Statistically Enhanced OGIP Value for Coals,
Mitchell Allison

Comparing Post-stack AVO Inversion to Prestack Inversion for Estimating Rock Properties,
Paul F. Anderson

Depositional Setting of the Upper Devonian – Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation of Subsurface Saskatchewan: Integrating Sedimentologic and Ichnologic Data,
Solange Angulo and Luis Buatois

Digital Rock Properties on Oil Sands,
M. Armbruster, B. Nur, T. Cavanaugh, B. Guzman, A. Sulayman, E. Henderson, and A.Grader

Compensation for Shear-wave Anisotropy Effects Above a Heavy Oil Reservoir,
Richard Bale, Kostya Poplavskii, and Colin Wright

On Choosing Differential Operators,
John C. Bancroft

Integrated High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of Cardium Formation, Bilbo Field – Key to Finding Hidden Shoreface Reservoirs,
Valentina Baranova, Azer Mustaqeem, and Mohammad Irfan

Stratiform Carbonate Breccias of the Grosmont Formation, Alberta,
Kent R. Barrett and John Hopkins

Middle to Late Permian Sedimentation in the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic: A 40-Year Old Stratigraphic Problem Resolved,
Benoit Beauchamp, Charles M. Henderson, and Steve E. Grasby

Characterization of the Horn River Basin Thermogenic Shale Gas Play in Northeastern BC,
Bill Beaudoin and Jerry Shaw

Recent Advances in Mapping Deep Permafrost and Gas Hydrate Occurrences using Industry Seismic Data, Richards Island Area, Northwest Territories, Canada,
Gilles Bellefleur, Michael Riedel, Kumar Ramachandran, Tom Brent, and Scott Dallimore

Oil Fingerprinting for Production Allocation: Exploiting the Natural Variations in Fluid Properties Encountered in Heavy Oil and Oil Sand Reservoirs,
Barry Bennett, Jennifer J. Adams, and Stephen R. Larter

What to Do… With CO2,
D. Brant Bennion

Integration of Multi Scale Data in Facies Modeling using Neural Network,
Khaled Benzaoui and Tom Cox

The Contribution of Integrated Structural/Tectonic Studies of HRAM Data for Exploration and Exploitation of Resource Plays in North America,
Zeev Berger, Michelle Boast, and Martin Mushayandebvu

Sub-Basalt Integrated Geophysical Study Islandmagee, Northern Ireland,
M. Best, R. Charters, K. Morrison, and C. Nahas

Monitoring for Potential Impacts from CBM Development,
Alec Blyth and John Horgan

Geostatistics with Locally Varying Anisotropy,
Jeff Boisvert and Clayton V. Deutsch

Determining Scale Properties from Seismic Transmission Responses: A Modeling Study,
Emmanuel L. Bongajum and Bernd Milkereit

Hondo Evaporites in the Grosmont Heavy Oil Carbonate Reservoir,
Mary Luz Borrero and Hans G. Machel

Determining Effective Hydraulic Fracture Volume Utilizing PSO and Seismic Deformation,
Sheri Bowman and Ted Urbancic

Seismic Mapping of the King Christian Formation, Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada: Spatial Visualization with Potential Field Data,
Thomas A. Brent

Stratigraphy and Characterization of the Lower Cretaceous Cummings Formation, Lloydminster, Alberta,
Meredith Browning and Andrew Leier

Geosteering Techniques in Thin Coal Reservoirs,
Christine Burinda, Jason Pitcher, and Dennis Lee

Prestack Rank-Reduction-Based Noise Suppression: Practise,
Lynn Burroughs and Stewart Trickett

Seismic Imaging Beneath the Volcanic Rocks of the Nechako Basin, British Columbia,
Andrew J. Calvert and Nathan Hayward

Challenges in AVO Compliant Processing of Multiple Surveys,
Greg Cameron, Josef Heim, Frederik Horn, and Andy Dyke

The Formation of a Miocene Deepwater Erosional Unconformity and the Effects on Subsequent Deposition Patterns on the Western Scotian Slope, Canada,
D. Calvin Campbell, David C. Mosher, Mark E. Deptuck, and Grant D. Wach

Stratigraphic Wars – Jurassic vs. Lower Cretaceous Legal Disputes,
Doug Cant

Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Breccias and Fills in the Upper Devonian Grosmont Bitumen Reservoir, Alberta, Canada,
Kevin L. Carriere and Hans G. Machel

Ground Roll Attenuation via SVD and Adaptive Subtraction,
Peter Cary and Changjun Zhang

Reservoir Characterization of Unconsolidated Coastal Plain and Littoral Sandstones Case Study of a New Heavy Oil Shallow Play, Neuquina Basin, Western Argentina,
Martín F. Cevallos and Manuela T. Rivero

Geochemical Characterization of Heavy Oil Accumulations on the Northeastern Margin of the Neuquén Basin, Argentina,
Martín F. Cevallos, Edmundo N. Marot, Hernán Paponi, and Héctor Villar

Risk, Performance and Uncertainty in the Geological Storage of CO2,
Rick J. Chalaturnyk

Gas Shale Potential of the Shaftesbury Formation, Northeastern British Columbia,
Gareth R. L. Chalmers and R. Marc Bustin

Kaizen Approach Leading to Success in North Sea Turbidites: Constant Revision of a Geological Model,
Jean-Yves Chatellier and Jackie Banner

Teamwork and Innovation in Geosciences – Who is on the team? Who is keeping score?,
Jean-Yves Chatellier, Bob Menard, and Mathieu Tremblay

A Revised Oil Resource Evaluation Incorporating Improved Recovery and Variable Dependencies, the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin,
Zhuoheng Chen, G. Osadetz, James Dixon, James Dietrich, and Giles Morrell

Joint PP and PS AVO Inversion Based on Zeopprtiz Equations,
Tiansheng Chen and Xiucheng Wei

The Application of The Nearly Optimal Sponge Boundary Conditions for Seismic Wave Propagation in Poroelastic Media,
Jingyi Chen and Ralph Phillip Bording

Color Correction for Gabor Deconvolution and Nonstationary Phase Rotation,
Peng Cheng and Gary F. Margrave

Seismic Attribute Applications for Interpreters,
Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt

Seismic Attribute as an Aid to Production from Fractures,
Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt

Multi-spectral Volumetric Curvature Adding Value to 3D Seismic Data Interpretation,
Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt

When Thin Is In – Relative Acoustic Impedance Helps,
Satinder Chopra, John P. Castagna, and Yong Xu

Seismic Expression of a Complex Tectonic Wedge in the South-central Alberta Foothills,
Kelley L. Classen and Don C. Lawton

Carbonate Ramp Controlled by Alternate Fault Activity, Geological versus Seismic Expressions,
Jeff Closson, Jean-Yves Chatellier, and Anne Hargreaves

Seismic Inversion in a Tight Gas Sand: An Illuminating Case Study,
David Close, David Cho, Frederik Horn, Charles Wagner, and Shantanu Singh

Evidence of Syn-Sedimentary Tectonism in the Burgess Shale and Other Middle Cambrian Units, British Columbia, Canada,
Christopher J. Collom

What is a Well?,
Trudy Curtis

Integrated Reservoir Characterisation: Case Study Results and Discussion on Interdiciplanary Teams,
Ali Dalir and Sarah Cutten

The Mallik Gas Hydrate Field: Lessons Learned from 37 Years of Gas Hydrate Investigation,
Scott R. Dallimore, J. Frederick Wright, Koji Yamamoto, and Kirk G. Osadetz

Microseismic Monitoring of a Carbon Sequestration Field Test,
Jill Daugherty and Ted Urbancic

Converted Wave Receiver Statics from First Break Mode Conversions,
Kristof De Meersman and Marcelo Roizman

Complex deepwater fold-belts in the SW Sable Subbasin, offshore Nova Scotia,
Mark E. Deptuck, Kris Kendell, and Brenton Smith

Analysis of Large Thermal Maturity Datasets from the Canadian Arctic Islands,
Keith Dewing and Hamed Sanei

A New Look at the Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Labrador Shelf,
K. Dickie, G. L. Williams, and C. E. Keen

Petroleum Resource Potential of the Carboniferous Maritimes Basin, Eastern Canada,
James Dietrich, Peter Hannigan, Kezhen Hu, and Peter Giles

Stratigraphic Correlations for Six Wells in the Adgo Oil and Gas Field, Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Arctic Canada,
James Dixon, Kezhen Hu, Jim Dietrich, and Dave McNeil

Real-Time Microseismic Monitoring of Simultaneous Hydraulic Fracturing Treatments in Adjacent Horizontal Wells in the Woodford Shale,
Robert C. Downie, Joël H. Le Calvez, and Ken Kerrihard

Using A 3D PSDM Simulator to Facilitate Overburden and Survey Consistent Modelling of the 4D Seismic Response of the Norne Field,
Å. Drottning and M. Branston

Characterization of Heavy Oil Reservoir using Vp/Vs Ratio and Neural Network Analysis,
Carmen C. Dumitrescu and Larry Lines

Requirements for Resolution,
Mark S. Egan, Antoun Salama, George El-Kaseeh, and Joe Seissiger

Reservoir Characterization for the Wabamun Area CO2 Sequestration Project: Geocellular and Boolean Modeling of a Regional-Scale Carbonate,
Chris Eisinger and Jerry Jensen

Carbonate and Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy - Examples from the Late Jurassic Abenaki Limestone and West Venture Deltaic Beds, Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada,
Leslie Eliuk and Grant Wach

Regional Setting of the Late Jurassic Deep Panuke Field, offshore Nova Scotia, Canada – Cuttings-Based Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Facies Associations Abenaki Formation Carbonate Margin – a Unique Hydrocarbon System and Play Type,
Leslie Eliuk

Lower Triassic Stratigraphy and Petroleum Potential, Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada,
Ashton Embry

Lowstand Systems Tract – A Problematic Stratigraphic Unit,
Ashton Embry

Lower Upper Triassic (Carnian) Stratigraphy and Depositional History, Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Islands,
Ashton F. Embry

Synergistic Interpretation of Labrador Sea Geophysical Data,
Michael Enachescu, Henry Lyatsky, and Allan Feir

Predictive Stratigraphic Mapping of Thick Triassic Doig Sandstones in BC and Alberta,
Alison Essery

GSC Hydrocarbon Studies in the Central Mackenzie Mountains, NWT: Structural Assessment and Implications for Trap Development,
K. M. Fallas

Hydrocarbon Systems and Basin Analysis of Central Alberta – Saskatchewan Border Plains Region – Fluid Flow and Petroleum Biodegradation Trends Based on Produced Fluid Sampling and Analysis,
Mathew Fay, Steve Larter, and Barry Bennett

3D, Anisotropic Phase Shift Operators,
Robert J. Ferguson and Gary F. Margrave

An Update on the use of Pulsed Neutron Elemental Spectroscopy Measurements in Heavy Oil and Shale Gas Reservoir Evaluation,
Grant D. Ferguson, David Jacobi, Matt Bratovich, and Brian LeCompte

New Regional Mapping within the Foothills of Halfway River Map Area (NTS 94B/2 and 7),
Filippo Ferri

Reservoir Architecture of the Middle Jurassic Upper Shaunavon Member in the Whitemud Pool – SW Saskatchewan,
Julianne Fic and Per Kent Pedersen

Geologic Record of Arid Climate Cyclothems in the Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Tobermory and Kananaskis Formations of Fortress Mountain Ridge Section, Kananaskis Country, Southern Alberta,
Chris M. Ford, Charles M. Henderson, Stephen M. Hubbard, G. S. Soreghan, K. Hathaway, M. Soreghan, and V. Davydov

Sedimentology of Composite Sand-and-Gravel Beach-Shoreface Complexes,
Shannon E. Frey and Shahin E. Dashtgard

Early to Middle Jurassic Subsidence History of the Bowser Basin and Hazelton Trough in the Area of Tsatia Mountain, North-central British Columbia,
J.-F. Gagnon, C. A. Evenchick, J. W. F. Waldron, F. Cordey, and T. P. Poulton

Research Highlights: Petroleum Potential of Paleozoic Rocks, Peel Plateau and Plain, Northwest Territories and Yukon,
Len P. Gal

Applications of 1D Electro-Facies Modeling,
David L. Garner, Amanda Woo, and Paul Broughton

Quantities and Costs of Future Petroleum,
Donald L. Gautier

Methane Seeps in the Sverdrup Basin: Evidence for Historic Gas Generation and Migration,
Stephen E. Grasby, Benoit Beauchamp, and Chris Harrison

Evidence for Deep Anaerobic Biodegredation Associated with Rapid Sedimentation and Burial in the Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Canada,
Stephen E. Grasby, Zhuoheng Chen, and Dale Issler

Geothermal Energy Potential in Canada,
Stephen E. Grasby

An Azimuthal-AVO-Compliant 3D Land Seismic Processing Flow,
David Gray, Darren Schmidt, Nirupama Nagarajappa, Charles Ursenbach, and Jon Downton

Towards an Optimal Workflow for Azimuthal AVO,
David Gray and Shangxu Wang

Lower Cretaceous Mannville Oil Sands Prospect in the Buffalo Head Hills – Peerless Lake Region, Northern Alberta: Petroleum Generation, Migration, and Biodegradation,
Paolo Grossi, Joel Christiansen, Jennifer Adams, Norka Marcano, and Steve Larter

Modelling Near-field Effects in VSP-based Q-estimation Part 1: Theoretical Developments,
Arnim B. Haase and Robert R. Stewart

Modelling Near-field Effects in VSP-based Q-estimation Part 2: Modelling Results,
Arnim B. Haase and Robert R. Stewart

Evolution of a Northern Cordilleran Foreland Basin Inferred from Cretaceous Stratigraphy, Seismic Sections, and Detrital Zircons, Mackenzie Mountains, NWT,
T. Hadlari, D. Thomson, C. J. Schröder-Adams, Y. Lemieux, B. MacLean, and J. E. Gabites

Anatomy of a Transgressive Sandstone: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Martin House and Lower Arctic Red Formations (Albian), Peel Plateau and Plain, NWT,
T. Hadlari

Lithofacies Prediction from Seismic, One Step at a Time: An Example from the McMurray Formation Bitumen Reservoir at Surmont,
Matt Hall

Automatic Time Picking and Velocity Determination on Full-Waveform Sonic Logs,
Lejia Han, Joe Wong, John C. Bancroft, and Robert R. Stewart

Formation and Casing Shear During Injection / Production Activities,
Hongxue Han

Oil and Gas Resource Potential in the Mackenzie Corridor, Northern Mainland, Canada,
Peter K. Hannigan, Jim Dixon, and David W. Morrow

A New Geological Map of the Arctic: Geological Survey of Canada Open File 5816,
Christopher Harrison, Marc St-Onge, Oleg Petrov, Sergey Strelnikov, Boris Lopatin, Frederic Wilson, Subhas Tella, Diane Paul, Tracy Lynds, Sergey Shokalsky, Chad Hults, Stefan Bergman, Arne Solli, and Hans F. Jepsen

Development of the Geological Map of the Arctic: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities for Evaluation of Resource Potential,
Christopher Harrison, Marc St-Onge, Sergey Strelnikov, Boris Lopatin, Frederic Wilson, Stefan Bergman, Arne Solli, and Hans F. Jepsen

Fractures in the Cardium and Normal Faults in Western Alberta,
Tijmen H.D. Hartel

Near-Surface Volcanic Rocks in the SE Nechako Basin, BC: Results of Interpretation of Seismic Reflection Data using First-Arrival Tomographic Inversion,
Nathan Hayward and Andrew J. Calvert

Examples of the Seismic Imprint of Cold Heavy Oil Production,
Ken Hedlin and Arthur Chan

Canada's Beaufort-Mackenzie Submarine Foldbelt: Fresh Look at a Frontier Giant Petroleum System with the BeaufortSPAN^TM40-Km PSDM Survey,
James Helwig, Naresh Kumar, and Menno Dinkelman

Increasing Seismic Resolution by Decreasing Receiver Spacing,
David C. Henley, Kevin W. Hall, Malcolm Bertram, and Eric Gallant

Petroleum Resource Assessment of the Alberta Basin Using 4-D Petroleum System Models,
Debra K. Higley and Michael D. Lewan

Depth Conversion Methodology using a Stochastic Velocity Model for the McMurray Formation,
Darren Hinks, Tom Cox, Stephanie Schmidt, Dale Vanhooren, and Sergei Filin

The Effect of Resistivity Anisotropy on Transient Electromagnetic Earth Responses,
Bruce Hobbs, Dieter Werthmüller, and Folke Engelmark

Feasibility Testing of Time-lapse Seismic Monitoring with Full Waveform Tomography,
Chad Hogan, Ken Hedlin, Gary Margrave, and Michael Lamoureux

The Umiak Discovery, Northwest Territories, Canada,
John Hogg, Gary Prost, and John Cody

Integrating the Secondary Data for an Improved Reservoir Characterization,
Sahyun Hong and Clayton V. Deutsch

Geophone and MEMS Accelerometer Comparison at Spring Coulee, Alberta,
Michael S. Hons and Robert R. Stewart

Stratiform Carbonate Breccias of the Grosmont Formation, Alberta Part B: Petrography and Origin,
John Hopkins

Hydrocarbon Reservoir Potential in Carboniferous Sandstones in the Maritimes Basin, Eastern Canada,
Kezhen Hu and James Dietrich

Seismic Wave Attenuation due to Scattering and Leaky Mode Mechanisms in Heterogeneous Reservoirs,
Jun-Wei Huang, Gilles Bellefleur, and Bernd Milkereit

Empirical Mode Decomposition Based Instantaneous Spectral Analysis and its Applications to Heterogeneous Petrophysical Model Construction,
Jun-Wei Huang and Bernd Milkereit

Application of Multiresolution Analysis in Removing Ground-penetrating Radar Noise,
Yih Jeng, Chuan-Hung Lin, Yi-Wei Li, Chih-Sung Chen, and Hsin-Han Huang

Geological Characterization for the IEA GHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project: Past Successes and Future Challenges,
Gavin Jensen, Erik Nickel, Steve Whittaker, and Ben Rostron

Accurate and Automatic Computation of Refraction Statics in Large 3D Seismic Datasets,
Atul Jhajhria and Igor B. Morozov

Saskatchewan's Ultimate Potential for Conventional Natural Gas,
Mike Johnson, Jim Davidson, and Peter Budgell

Potential Targets in Gravity Collapse Structures,
Peter Jones

Microseismic Monitoring of a Hydraulic Fracture in a Horizontal Well Near Pouce Coupe BC,
Michael Jones and Richard Parker

Some Workstation Techniques for Defining Reservoirs in Difficult Data Areas,
Norm Kalmanovitch, Dennis Meisinger, and Randi Christiansen

Parallel Implementation of Pre-stack Least-squares Migration for Distributed Systems,
Sam T. Kaplan

Using Timelapse Seismic to Monitor the THAI^TM Heavy Oil Production Process,
Rob Kendall

Geomechanics of Shale Gas Reservoirs,
S.Khalid, X. Zhao,and K. Faurschou

Successful Identification of Complex Cleat Systems in Coals,
S. Khalid, A. Al-Jubori, T. Natras, and I. McIlreath

A Horn River Basin Case Study,
Harvey Klingensmith, Damon Olsen, Salman Khalid, and Ken Faurschou

Update on Northwest Saskatchewan's Lower Cretaceous Dina Formation Bitumen Play,
Dan Kohlruss, Per Kent Pedersen, and Guoxiang Chi

3D – 3C Full-Wave Modeling in Anisotropic 2.5D Medium,
A. Kostyukevych, N. Marmalevskyi, Y. Roganov, and V. Tulchinsky

Fracturing is Distinctly Revealed by Duplex Wave Migration,
Alexander Kostyukevych, I. U. Khromova, N. Marmalevskyi, and Y. Roganov

New Insights into a Potential Major Petroleum Province off Banks Island, Canadian Arctic Passive Margin, from BeaufortSPAN^TM 2-D Seismic Data,
Naresh Kumar, James Helwig, and Menno G. Dinkelman

Statistical Analysis of Depositional Cyclicity within Point Bar Deposits, McMurray Formation, Northeastern Alberta,
Phillip A. Labrecque, Jerry L. Jensen, and Stephen M. Hubbard

The Elements of a Cost-Effective Geochemical Soil Gas Survey-Applications for Oil and Gas Exploration and Sequestration,
Paul Lafleur

A Late Tertiary Shift in the Stress Regime in the Williston Basin of Southeast Saskatchewan,
J. H. Lake and D. M. Kent

Biogenic Methane Production from Crude Oil by Enrichment from a Low-Temperature Western Canadian Oil Reservoir,
Adewale J. Lambo, Marcy Yurkiw, and Gerrit Voordouw

Properties of Gabor Operators for Seismic Imaging,
Michael P. Lamoureux and Gary F. Margrave

Effect of Non-Hydrostatic Pore Pressure on the Depth to the Base of the Hydrate Stability Zone,
Robert W. Lankston

Low Emission Microbial Upgrading and Recovery (LEMUR) A Potential Route to Low or Zero Emission Energy Recovery from Oilfields,
Steve Larter, Ian Head, Ian Gates, Pete Santosham, David Rafter, Jennifer Adams, Xiaomeng Zhang, Mat Fay, Angela Cherry, Martin Jones, and Neil Gray

Tunnels and Barriers in Energy Technology Innovation. Or, Why is the oil industry so conservative when dramatic technological change is needed?,
Steve Larter, Jennifer Adams, Ian Gates, and Lloyd Snowdon

Improving the Efficiencies of In Situ Energy Production The Quick Win on Emission Reduction in Oil Sands,
Steve Larter, Jennifer Adams, and Ian Gates

The Cambrian – Devonian Frontier Basins in Eastern Canada: Assessment of Hydrocarbon Potential of the Most Promising Plays,
Denis Lavoie, Nicolas Pinet, Sébastien Castonguay, Peter Hannigan, Jim Dietrich, Tony Hamblin, and Peter Giles

A Thin Section Petrographic Study Examining Biogenic Porosity Alteration Within the Avalon and Ben Nevis Formations, Whiterose Field, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada,
Andrew M. W. Lawfield, Murray K. Gingras, S. George Pemberton, and Karl E. Butler

Borehole Microseismic Monitoring to Optimize Hydraulic Fracturing and Re-Fracturing Treatments,
Joël H. Le Calvez, John Daniels, Stewart Taylor, and Meredith Appelt

Paleogeomorpholoy and Petrography of the McMurray Formation (revisited), Northeast Alberta – Paleogeographic Implications,
Dale A. Leckie and Safaa A. Seif El-Dein

Geomorphology of the Basinwide Sub-Cretaceous Unconformity, Western Canada Foreland Basin,
Dale A. Leckie

Episodic Uplift in Fold-Thrust Belts with Implications for Understanding Anomalous Conglomerate Units in Foreland Basins,
Andrew L. Leier, Nadine McQuarrie, and Carmala Garzione

An Overview of Shale Gas Potential in Northeastern British Columbia,
Vic M. Levson, Warren Walsh, Christopher Adams, Fil Ferri, and Mark Hayes

Push the Limits of Seismic Resolution Using Surface Consistent Gabor Deconvolution,
Xinxiang Li and Darren P. Schmidt

3D Focusing Inversion of Multi-transient EM Data in the Frequency Domain,
Guangpin Li, Johnathan Linfoot, and Bruce Hobbs

Obtaining, Processing, and Managing Current and Widespread Coverage of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin with High Resolution Satellite Imagery,
Sam Lieff

Support Vector Machine (SVM)-based Geostatistical Inversion: An Integrated Solution to Honor Well-log Data and Seismic Attributes,
Yexin Liu

Reservoir Characteristics and Architecture of the Cypress/ Merryflat Pool, Southwestern Saskatchewan and Southeastern Alberta,
Della Loggie, Gord Howell, Janice Choi, Julianne Fic, Joe Sitch, Melissa Siqueira, Paolo Grossi, Sabina Zaidi, and Per Kent Pedersen

The Bonnet Plume Basin, Yukon, Canada: A Previously Unrecognized Oil Play,
Grant W. Lowey

Heavy Mineral Provenace of Prospective Reservoir Sandstones in the Flemish Pass and Orphan Basins,
David G. Lowe, Paul Sylvester, and Michael Enachescu

Correlation of P-P and P-S Data in Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea,
Jinfeng Ma, Le Gao, and Igor Morozov

Time-Lapse Repeatablity in 3C-3D Dataset from Weyburn CO2 Sequestration Project,
Jinfeng Ma, Le Gao, and Igor Morozov

Geometric Characterization of Anhydrite Piercement Structures on Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago,
J. Macauley, A. Cruden, T. Brent, and R. Stephenson

Introduction to Reservoir Uncertainty Modeling,
Alister MacDonald, Kevin Zhang, Jan Inge Tollefsrud, Sasan Ghanbari, and Robert Chelak

Regional Subsurface Mapping of the Northwest Northwest Territories,
B. C. MacLean

GSC Hydrocarbon Studies in the Central Mackenzie Mountains, NWT: Source Rocks, Reservoir Facies, and Thermal Maturity,
Robert B. MacNaughton, Karen M. Fallas, and Willem Zanvoort

Parameters for Selecting an Effective Technology for Gas Hydrate Development,
Yuri F. Makogon and Taras Y. Makogon

Finite-difference Elastic Modelling Below a Structured Free Surface,
P. M. Manning

The Geologist and The Engineer, More in Need of Each Other Than Ever,
William Marble

The Potential of Heavily And Severely Biodegraded Oils to be Partly Upgraded During High Temperature Thermal Recovery Conditions,
Norka Marcano, Barry Bennett, Thomas Oldenburg, Haiping Huang, and Steve Larter

Confidence and Accuracy of Microseismic Images,
S. C. Maxwell

Geostatistical Inversion of Seismic Data from Thinly Bedded Ardley Coals,
Jason McCrank, Don Lawton, and Cheran Mangat

Coltop3D: A New Software for Structural Analysis with High Resolution 3D Point Clouds and DEM,
R. Metzger, M. Jaboyedoff, T. Oppikofer, A Viero, and A. Galgaro

Correlation of Sequences and the Global Eustasy Paradigm: A Review of Current Data,
Andrew D Miall

A Stratigraphic Framework for the Jurassic – Cretaceous Nikanassin Group, Northwestern Alberta, Canada,
Brett D. Miles, Stephen M. Hubbard, Keegan M. Raines, Ross B. Kukulski, Robert M. Fisher, and John-Paul Zonneveld

Unraveling the Complexities of Deltaic Strata in the Lowermost Nikanassin Group, NW Alberta: Insights into Reservoir Architecture and Palaeogeography,
Brett D. Miles and Stephen M. Hubbard

Using Geomechanics to Predict Stimulation and Production Response in Shale Gas Reservoirs,
Daniel Moos and Colleen Barton

Integrated Analysis and Inversion of 3D Refraction Travel Times,
Igor B. Morozov and Atul Jhajhria

Fast and Accurate Impedance Inversion by Well-Log Calibration,
Igor B. Morozov and Jinfeng Ma

Multi-Vintage, Pre-Stack Calibration of 3-C 3-D Time-Lapse Seismic Data,
Igor B. Morozov and Le Gao

"Passive" Margin Sedimentation and Reservoir Distribution Along the Scotian Margin,
David Mosher, Grant D. Wach, Virginia Brake, Janet Cullen, D. Calvin Campbell, Les Eliuk, Michael Giles, Shawn Goss, Yawooz Kettanah, and Eric Negulic

Effect of Organic Facies and Maturation in Determining Free and Adsorbed Methane for Shale Gas Potential: Overview of the Mississippian Lacustrine Horton Group Sediments from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Eastern Canada,
Prasanta K. Mukhopadhyay

AVO Compliant Spectral Balancing,
Nirupama Nagarajappa and Jon Downton

Making FX Interpolation More Robust by Spectrum-guided Reconstruction,
Mostafa Naghizadeh and Mauricio Sacchi

Thermal Models Across the Central Nova Scotia Slope Basin Constrained by New Marine Heat Flow Measurements,
E. Negulic, K. E. Louden, and P. K. Mukhopadhyay

Efficency and Accuracy Enhancement for One-way Wave Equation Migration Through Improved Mapping Function in the Time-shift Imaging Condition,
Mark Ng

"Cracking" the Colorado Group Gas Shales,
Kirby Nicholson

Update on the Bakken in Southeast Saskatchewan: Stratigraphic Relationships, Sedimentology and Diagenesis Explored,
Erik H. Nickel and Dan Kohlruss

Saskaboom? - 2008 Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Development Update,
Erik H. Nickel, Melinda Yurkowski, Arden Marsh, Dan Kohlruss, and Chao Yang

Shallow Unconventional Cretaceous Shale Gas in Southwestern Manitoba,
Michelle P. B. Nicolas and James D. Bamburak

High Resolution Sedimentology of the Upper Jurassic Nikanassin Formation, in the Grande Cache Area of Alberta,
Jon Noad and Torrie Turner

Methods for Recovery of Microorganisms and Intact Microbial Polar Lipids (IPLs) from Oil-water Mixtures – Lab Experiments and Natural Well-head Fluids,
Thomas B.P. Oldenburg, Steve R. Larter, Jennifer J. Adams, Arlene K. Rowan, Angela Brown, Ian M. Head, Aleksandr A. Grigoriyan, Gerrit Voordouw, Milovan Fustic, and Casey Hubert

Curvelet Denoising: Application to Crustal Reflection Data,
Jounada Oueity, Vishal Kumar, Ron Clowes, and Felix Herrmann

Point Bar Modeling, Middle McMurray Formation, Alberta,
David J. Patruyo, Haiping Huang, Stephen Hubbard, and Ron Spencer

Duvernay/Muskwa and Montney Formations Shale Gas Resource Analysis,
John Pawlowicz, Shar Anderson, Dean Rokosh, Mike Berhane, and Andrew Beaton

Extension of New Tertiary Gravity Slide Plays from Montana into Southwestern Saskatchewan – Re-evaluation of a Potential Prolific Shallow Gas Play,
Per Kent Pedersen and Karsten S. Nielsen

AVO Crossplotting I: Processing and Calibration Considerations,
Heath Pelletier

AVO Crossplotting II: Examining Vp/Vs Behavior,
Heath Pelletier

Fracture Detection in the Migrated Domain: Practical Aspects of Prestack Time Migration of Azimuthally-limited 3D Land Data Volumes,
Mike Perz, Juefu Wang, and Ye Zheng

Combining Seismic Imaging with Geologic Process-Guided Modelling to Improve Channel Reservoir Characterization,
Peter Phillips and Jackie Zhang

Active Hydrocarbon Seepages in the Offshore Part of the St. Lawrence Paleozoic Platform Pictured by Geophysical, Geochemical and Submarine Observations,
N. Pinet, M. Duchesne, D. Lavoie, and A. Bolduc

The Nogha Gas Discovery – A Cambrian Clastic Gas Discovery within the Sahtu Settlement Region of the Central Mackenzie Valley, NWT,
Paul R. Price and Michael E. Enachescu

Regional Geoscience Studies and Petroleum Potential, Peel Plateau and Plain, Northwest Territories and Yukon: Highlights from the Final Project Volume,
Leanne J. Pyle, Adrienne L. Jones, Len P. Gal, Thomas Hadlari, Tammy L. Allen, Tiffani A. Fraser, Yvon Lemieux, and Willem Zantvoort

Peel Petroleum Project, Northwest Territories and Yukon: Final Results and Deliverables,
Leanne J. Pyle and Adrienne L. Jones

Integration of Well Logs and Seismic Data for Prediction of Elastic Properties in a Heavy Oil Sand Reservoir: Manitou Lake, Saskatchewan,
Maria F. Quijada and Robert R. Stewart

Structural Evolution of the Situche Complex, Marañon Basin, Peru,
Geoff Rait, David Dolberg, and Mark Hearn

Essential Elements of Petroleum Systems in the Nechako Basin,
Janet Riddell

Resolvability Analysis of Single Azimuth Seismic Moment Tensor Inversion,
Ismael Vera Rodriguez and Mauricio D. Sacchi

Shale Fabric, Mineralogy and Effective Porosity of the Upper Colorado Group,
Dean Rokosh, John Pawlowicz, Shar Anderson, Mike Berhane, and Andrew Beaton

Fracture Interpretation in the Barnett Shale, using Macro and Microseismic Data,
Murray Roth and Amanda Thompson

A Comparison of the Montney/Doig, Horn River and Barnett,
Dave Russum and Alexei Belonogov

The Grosmont C at Saleski, Northern Alberta: a Solution-Enhanced, Highly Fractured Dolomite Reservoir,
Jen Russel-Houston, Cornelius M. Rott, Peter Putnam, and Rob McGrory

Applying the Phase Congruency Algorithm to Seismic Data Slices – A Carbonate Case Study,
Brian Russell, Dan Hampson, and John Logel

FX Singular Spectrum Analysis,
Mauricio D. Sacchi

A Tour of High Resolution Transforms,
Mauricio D. Sacchi

Geometry and Kinematic Interpretation of a Triangle Zone in the Central Alberta Foothills,
Josgre Salazar, Deborah Spratt, and Don Lawton

Improving the Image: 5D Interpolation and COV Gathering of a MegaBin^TM Survey,
Darren P. Schmidt, David Gray, Xinxiang Li, Daniel Trad, and Jon Downton

Synkinematic Channel Depositional Architecture in Active Fold and Thrust Belt Revealed by 3D Seismic Visualization, Example from Deepwater South East Asia,
Erlangga Septama

Investigation of Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoir Quality Using Low Field NMR,
Mohammad Ebrahim Shafiee and Apostolos Kantzas

Modeling of Ice Formation in Gas Hydrate Reservoirs,
A. Shahbazi and M. Pooladi-Darvish

New Quantitative Method for Analysis of Drill Cuttings and Core for Geologic, Diagenetic and Reservoir Evaluation,
Jon Sliwinski, Michael Le Strat, and Murray Dublonko

Earthquakes as Probable Causes of Chaotic and Deformed Stratigraphy in an Ancient River Meander Deposit, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta,
Derald G. Smith, Stephen M. Hubbard, Peter E. Putnam, Milovan Fustic, Dale A. Leckie, David A. Eberth, Jason M. Lavigne, and Chris H. Hugenholtz

Mannville CBM of Southern Alberta Case Study: Full-Scale Corporate Play Strategy and Execution - Fenn Big Valley,
Geoff Speers

Imaging the Nechako Basin, British Columbia, using Magnetotelluric Methods,
J. E. Spratt and J. Craven

Perspectives on the Unconventional Revolution in North American Natural Gas,
Philip H. "Pete" Stark

Point Receiver Acquisition and Processing for Arctic Near Surface Challenges,
C. Strobbia, A. Glushchenko, A. Laake, P. L.Vermeer, S. Papworth, and Y. Ji

The Value of Dipmeters and Borehole Images in Oil Sands Deposits - A Canadian Study,
Rudy Strobl, Satyaki Ray, Richard Y. Shang, and Daren Shields

Lithology-Based, Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Mixed Siliciclastic- Carbonate Lower Cretaceous Sediments, Atlantic Coastal Plain, Eastern United States,
Richard F. Sunde and Brian P. Coffey

4D Seismic & Petroleum Geomechanics for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs,
Sunjay

Impedance Inversion of Blackfoot 3D Seismic Dataset,
A. Swisi and Igor B. Morozov

Partitioning and Transfer of Displacement Through a Shortened and Thickened Zone: Implications for the Development of Structures in the Central Alberta Foothills,
Rob Taerum and Deb Spratt

The Contribution of Integrated HRAM and Remote-Sensing Data Analysis to Exploration of the Zag Basin, Morocco,
Philip Thomson and David Smith

Five Dimensional Seismic Data Interpolation,
Daniel Trad

Prestack Rank-Reduction-Based Noise Suppression: Theory,
Stewart Trickett and Lynn Burroughs

Hydrocarbon Charge Risk Assessment using 3D CSEM Inversion Derived Resistivity in a Frontier Basin, Offshore West Greenland,
Kenneth E. Umbach, Arnie Ferster, Andrea Lovatini, and Don Watts

Understanding Hydraulic Fracture Growth by Mapping Source Failure Mechanisms,
Ted Urbancic, Tim Morrish, and Vladimir Shumila

Near-surface Issues in TTI Wave Equation Migration from Topography,
Chuck Ursenbach, Richard A. Bale, and Samuel H. Gray

Time-varying Wavelet Estimation and Deconvolution,
Mirko van der Baan

Delineating Sand Channels using 3D-3C Seismic Data: Manitou Lake Heavy Oilfield, Saskatchewan,
Roxana M. Varga and Robert R. Stewart

The Effects of Fluid Viscosity on Seismic Response: A Model Study,
Fereidoon Vasheghani, Larry Lines, and Joan Embleton

Reserve Growth in Oil Pools and Fields of Alberta, Canada,
Mahendra Verma and Troy Cook

Regime Rays: Visualizing the Fermat/Snell Loci in Homogeneous Anisotropic Media,
William J. Vetter

New Insights into Early Permian Paleogeography of the Fosheim-Hamilton Sub-Basin, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut,
Michael L. Wamsteeker, Benoit Beauchamp, and Charles M. Henderson

Greedy Least-Squares and its Application in Radon Transforms,
Juefu Wang and Mark Ng

The Phase Shift Time Stepping Equation and the Marmousi Data Set,
Ben D. Wards, Gary F. Margrave, and Michael P. Lamoureux

Tectonic Inversion and Petroleum System Implications in the Rifts of Central Africa,
Marian Jenner Warren

Development of SAGD Reservoir-quality Facies Contained Within a Large Ancient Point Bar, McMurray Formation, Athabasca Oil Sands, Canada,
Michael Webb and Ketema Amare

The Application of Extreme Attributes of PS Converted Wave,
Xiucheng Wei,Xiang-Yang Li, Tiansheng Chen, and Lihua Jia

The Control of Dolomitization on Porosity in the Upper Devonian Jean Marie Carbonate of Northeastern British Columbia,
Jack Wendte, Alan Byrnes, and David Sargent

Oil Sands Reservoir Characterization: An Integrated Approach,
Laurie Weston Bellman

Saglek Basin: At Least ONE Petroleum System in an Ultra-frontier Basin with Great Potential,
Hans J. B. W. Wielens and Chris D. Jauer

Identifying Horseshoe Canyon Coal Water Saturation Differences Using Cased Hole Data,
Jay Williams and Quinton Rafuse

Geological Microseismic Fracture Mapping – Methodologies for Improved Interpretations Based on Seismology and Geologic Context,
S. C. Williams-Stroud and Leo Eisner

The Modernized U of C Seismic Physical Modelling Facility,
Joe Wong, Kevin W. Hall, Eric V. Gallant, Rolf Maier, Malcolm B. Bertram, and Don C. Lawton

Shallow VSP Survey using a Small Vibrator Source,
Joe Wong, Soo K. Miong, Robert R. Stewart, Eric V. Gallant, and Kevin W. Hall