ABSTRACTS
(By Author)

CSPG/CSEG/CWLS GeoConvention 2013
Integration: Geoscience Engineering Partnership
May 6-12, 2013 Calgary TELUS Convention Centre &
ERCB Core Research Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Appreciation is expressed to Emma MacPherson,
CSPG Publications Coordinator, for providing the abstracts.
Search and Discovery Article #90187 (2014)

Posted May 26, 2014

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**Separation of Geometric Spreading, Scattering and Intrinsic Attenuation in VSP data,
Amin Baharvand Ahmadi and Igor Morozov

*Overview of Capture and 3D Virtual Modeling of Outcrops at high Accuracy and Resolution with Case Histories in North America and Europe,
Carlos L.V. Aiken, Miao Wang, Lionel S. White, Jr., Jarvis R. Cline, and Mohammed S. Alfarhan

*Physical and Chemical Characterization of Oil Sands Observed at Imeri in Ogun State of South Western, Nigeria,
L. P. Akinyemi, R. K. Odunaike, and O. O. Fasunwon

*Velocity Model Calibration Effects on Microseismic Locations,
J. Akram and D. W. Eaton

*A Look into Gassmann's Equation,
Nawras Al-Khateb

**Quantitative Estimation of Directional Permeability Barriers as a Reservoir Heterogeneity – A New Approach Using Synthetic Core,
Mahbub Alam and Larry Lines

*A New Technology for Enhanced Oil Recovery and Treatment of a Near Wellbore Area in Carbonates,
V. A. Alfonsov, B. Ya. Margulis, G. V. Romanov, O. V. Lukyanov, V. P. Morozov, and M. P. Kruglov

*Violet Grove Time-Lapse Data Revisited: A Surface-Consistent Matching Filters Application,
Mahdi H. Almutlaq and Gary F. Margrave

*The Impact of Pore Structure and Geometry on Petrophysical and Electrical Properties Estimation for Conventional and Tight Porous Media,
Faisal Alreshedan and Apostolos Kantzas

*The Geologic Wonders of Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta,
Andres K. Altosaar

*Inexact Full Newton Method for Full Waveform Inversion Using Simultaneous Encoded Sources,
Amsalu Y. Anagaw and Mauricio D. Sacchi

**Re-using Old Formation MicroScanner Logs to Help Understand Reservoir and Fracture Development at the Dover East Field, SW Ontario, Canada,
Dragan Andjelkovic, Simon Brame, and Timo Von Rudloff

*Paleogeographic and Tectonic Evolution of an Albian-Cenomanian Foredeep Succession, Northeastern British Columbia,
Piotr J. Angiel and A. Guy Plint

*Mud Transport Processes across a Cretaceous Ramp in a Rapidly-Subsiding Foredeep: Albian-Cenomanian of NE British Columbia,
Piotr J. Angiel and A. Guy Plint

**Facilitating Interpretation of Depositional Features in the McMurray Formation through the use of Seismic Multi-attribute Analysis (MAA) Volumes,
Joanne Archer, Tess Sebastian, and David Gray

**Regional Geophysical Study for Geothermal Exploration in on Public Data in a Context of a Moratorium on NE Alberta Exploration,
Elahe P. Ardakani and Douglas R. Schmitt

*Tracking Out-of-zone Hydraulic Fracturing in the Bakken with Naturally Occuring Tracers,
Serguey Arkadakskiy and Ben Rostron

**Physical Seismic Modeling of a Near-vertical Fault Zone,
Jessie M. Arthur, Donald C. Lawton, and Joe Wong

*Application of Real Time Wellsite Tool for Enhanced Geosteering and Reservoir Characterization,
Tom Ashton, Chi Vinh Ly, and Graham Spence

*Estimation of Dispersive Parameters of Surface Wave Using the Generalized S Transform,
Roohollah Askari and Robert J. Ferguson

*Optimum Aperture Length for Improving Dispersion Curve Analysis in CMP Cross-Correlation of Surface Waves,
Roohollah Askari, Robert J. Ferguson, and Helen Isaac

*The Effects of Tidal Currents on Asymmetric Distributions of Sediment, Infauna and Burrows along the Fraser River Delta Front, B.C.,
K. Ayranci and S. E. Dashtgard

*A Novel Deterministic Alternative for Facies Modeling,
Olena Babak

*Norman Wells Field – a Long History of Oil Production in the Central Mackenzie Valley,
Ron Babiy

*Recent Advances in the Characterization of Unconventional Reservoirs with Wide-azimuth Seismic Data,
Ran Bachrach, Sagnik Dasgupta, Colin Sayers, Josimar Silva, and Stefano Volterrani

**Bitumen Evaluation in the Grosmont Carbonate Reservoir: A Case Study of Wireline Technology Applications,
Rob Badry and Jason Smith

*Felt Seismicity Related to Hydraulic Fracturing,
Adam M. Baig, Ted Urbancic, Gisela Viegas, Jason Hendrick, Eric von Lunen, and Sean Lovric

*The Design and Application of Converted-wave COVs,
Richard Bale, Tobin Marchand, Keith Wilkinson, and Jeff Deere

**Application of Seismic Geomorphology for Frontier Hydrocarbon Exploration, South Anza Basin, East African Rift,
Valentina Baranova, Azer Mustaqeem, Francis Karanja, and Danson Mburu

*Imaging Scattered Seismic Energy in Alberta Oil Sands,
Andrew V. Barrett

*Kirchhoff Imaging with Adaptive Green's Functions for Compensation for Dispersion, Attenuation, and Velocity Imprecision,
Andrew V. Barrett

**Predicting Seismic Data Quality from Multispectral Satellite Imagery in Alberta Oil Sands,
Andrew V. Barrett, Art Siewert, and Ron Weedmark

*Geomechanically Coupled Simulation of Flow in Fractured Reservoirs,
C. A. Barton, D. Moos, and L. Hartley

*Sedimentology and Reservoir Potential of the Upper Devonian Duperow Formation, Southwestern Manitoba,
Kerry B. Bates and Nancy Chow

*Shell Groundbirch – Water Management Strategy,
Shawn Baxter

*SUNBEAM Sheds Light on the Carboniferous-Permian Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Tectonism and Volcanism of the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada (Ellesmere Island, Nunavut),
Benoit Beauchamp, Daria Baranova, Yee Ping Chau, Jennifer Cuthbertson, Greg Godek, Steve E. Grasby, Bernard Guest, Charles M., Henderson, Maureen F. Hill, Pavel Kabanov, Aline Labrie, Andrew Leier, Natasha J. Morris, Candice V. Shultz, Pierre Thériault, and Michael L. Wamsteeker

**Seismic and Well-log Inference of Gas Hydrate Accumulations above the Umiak and Ya Ya Gas Fields, Northwest Territories,
Gilles Bellefleur, Michael Riedel, and Tom Brent

*The Application of Single Drop Vapor Phase Extraction for the Analysis of Light Ends in Unconventional Resources,
B. Bennett, L. R. Snowdon, and F. Q. Song

**Geological Controls on Petroleum Fluid Property Heterogeneities in Carbonate Bitumen and Heavy Oil Reservoirs from Northern Alberta,
B. Bennett

*Detrital Zircon Provenance of the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada,
Christine Benyon, Andrew Leier, Dale A. Leckie, Andrew Webb, Steve Hubbard, and George Gehrels

**Detection and Analysis of Structurally Controlled Sweet Spots in the Bakken/Three Fork Oil Shale Play of the Williston Basin and the Exshaw/Big Valley Oil Shale Play of the Foreland Basin of Southern Alberta and Northern Montana,
Zeev Berger and Martin Mushayandevu

*Comparison Between Reflectance Equivalent from Estimated Vitrinite and Tmax, Macasty Shale Oil, Anticosti Island, Quebec, Canada ,
Rudolf Bertrand, Stephanie Roy, and Bernard Granger

**Interpretation of Quaternary Geology Using Airborne EM and Seismic Data: Horn River Basin, British Columbia, Canada,
Melvyn E. Best, Alex Prikhodko, and Brad Torry

*Two-stage Blind Deconvolution,
Mafijul Islam Bhuiyan and Mauricio D. Sacchi

*Pressure Coring, A New Tool for Unconventional Oil & Gas Characterization,
Matt Bjorum and Jeff Sinclair

*Oil Saturation Determination-Lab & Logging difficulties & a Hybrid Approach,
Matt Blanch

*A Generic Procedure for Noise Suppression in Microseismic Data,
Yessika Blunda and Kit Chambers

*CO2 Flooding in Ultra-low Permeability Reservoir – Fang 48 Block of Daqing Oilfield,
Chi Bo, Li Min, Zhou XiSheng, Shi GuangZhi, Wang Xin, Jiang Yu, and Li Qi

*Blind Surface Consistent Wavelet Estimation,
E. Bongajum, N. Kazemi, and M. D. Sacchi

*Application of 2D Crosscorrelation and Radon Transform for Analysis of Double Couple Microseismic Source,
Neda Boroumand and Hassan Khaniani

*Hydraulic Fracture Energy Considerations: a 3D Numerical Simulation Compared to Microseismic Imaging,
Neda Boroumand and Dave Eaton

*Opportunities Lost – The Value and Application of Image Logs is Missed Due to Inadequate Quality Control,
Lawrence Bourke, Jeremy Prosser, and Peter Barrett

**Revisiting the Subsurface Geology of Sabine Peninsula (Melville British Columbia, Canada Island, Western Arctic) through Geostatistically-steered Data Processing and Interpretation,
Virginia Brake, Mathieu J. Duchesne, Keith Dewing, M. Claprood, E. Gloaguen, and Tom Brent

**Lower McMurray Formation Sinkholes and their Fill Fabrics: Effects of Salt Dissolution Collapse-subsidence Across the Northern Athabasca Oil Sands Deposit,
Paul L. Broughton

*Orthogonal Geometrics of Lower McMurray Formation Sand Complexes: Effects of Salt Dissolution Collapse-subsidence across the Northern Athabasca Oil Sands Deposit,
Paul L. Broughton

**PSDM for Unconventional Reservoirs? A Niobrara Shale Case Study,
Morgan P. Brown, Joseph H. Higginbotham, Cosmin Macesanu, Oscar E. Ramirez, Dave List, and Chris Lang

*Stress Re-Distribution During Long-Term Steam Injections and Its Potential Influence on Reservoir Development,
Katherine Buckingham, Adam Baig, Ted Urbancic, and Anisa Kassam

*Geochemistry Characterization and Mineralogical Composition of Source Rock of Oligocene Age of Podu Morii Formation –Romania,
Eugenia Nicoleta Bulat, Maria Doina Ghiran, and Izabela Maris

**Sedimentological and Petrographical Analyses of Siliciclastic Oligocene Deposits in the Teleajen Valley, Gura Vitioarei – Copaceni Structure, Romania,
Eugenia Nicoleta Bulat and Octavian Catuneanu

*2D Depth Velocity Analysis without Tomography,
J. Patrick Butler and Randy Kolesar

*Advances in the Environmental Performance of Drilling Fluids Using Changes in Chemistry of Drilling Fluid Products,
John Candler and Michael Freeman

*Impedance Joint Inversion of Surface and Borehole Seismic Data,
Danping Cao, Xingyao Yin, and Guochen Wu

*Full Waveform Inversion of Crosswell Seismic Data Using Automatic Differentiation,
Danping Cao and Wenyuan Liao

*Post-processing Technique to Relocate Microseismic Events Using the Double-Difference Method,
Fernando Castellanos and Mirko van der Baan

*Anatomy and Preliminary Findings of the First Commercial Bakken Oil Pool in Alberta,
M. Chambers and T. Klatt

**Integration of Seismic and Log Data of a Deep Borehole in the Basement Rocks of Northeastern Alberta,
Judith Chan and Douglas R. Schmitt

*Monte-Carlo Statics on PSv Data,
Alice Chapman, Steve Zamfes, and Guillaume Poulain

**Squeezing Every Last Drop out of a Coarse 3D Oil Sands Dataset for Refining 3D Survey Design–a Case History,
Sylvestre Charles, Jim Hostetler, Jiwu Lin, and Xiaoming Luo

**Multidisciplinary Integration and Tools to Better Address the Utica Shale Stratigraphy, Rock Properties and Fraccability,
Jean-Yves Chatellier, Ken Simpson, Marianne Molgat, and Craig Goodall

*Born This Way – Inherited Heterogeneity and Microporosity Modalities in "Hybrid" Reservoirs of the Upper Cretaceous Colorado Group, Western Canada Foreland Basin,
Burns A. Cheadle and Peng Jiang

*Estimation of Q: a Comparison of Different Computational Methods,
Peng Cheng and Gary F. Margrave

**The Importance of the Integrated Approach to Evaluate Tight Gas and Liquid-rich Plays,
S. P. Cheung and R. K. Strom

*High-resolution Automatic Microseismic Source Detections,
Stephen K. Chiu, Ulrich Zimmer, and Michael Davidson

**Antialiasing 5D Interpolation,
Stephen K. Chiu

*Hydraulic Fracturing as a Global Cascade in Networked Systems,
David Cho and Gary F. Margrave

*Morphodynamics of Tidal Channels in the Macrotidal Yeochari Tidal Flat, Gyeonggi Bay, Korea: Climate and tidal Controls on the Architecture of Inclined Heterolithic Stratification,
Kyungsik Choi, Chung Rok Oh, and Joo Hee Jo

*Interesting Directions Being Pursued in Seismic Curvature Attribute Analysis,
Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt

**Shale Gas Reservoir Characterization Workflows Atlantic Margins,
Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Kumar Sharma, and Kurt J. Marfurt

**Seismic Attribute Expression of Differential Compaction,
Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt

*Modeling of Microseismicity Associated with Rock Deformation and Fracturing,
Drew Chorney, Piyush Jain, Melanie Grob, and Mirko van der Baan

*Seismic Behaviour of CO2 Saturated Fontainebleau Sandstone under in Situ Conditions,
Mizanul Huq Chowdhury and Douglas R. Schmitt

*Integrated Approach to Identify Internal Stratigraphic Packages of the McMurray oil Sand Reservoirs in Foster Creek and Christina Lake, Alberta, Canada,
Pauline Chung, Corina E. Irvine, Maria F. Quijada, and John R. Suter

*Leveraging Seismic Attributes to Understand the "Frac-able" Limits and Reservoir Performance in the Eagle Ford Shale, South Texas, USA,
Kit Clemons, Robert Bodziak, Andy Stephens, and Robert Meek

*Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Cretaceous Upper Mannville Incised Valley Fills, Grand Rapids Formation, East Central Alberta,
Adam B. Coderre, Hugo Pouderoux, Per Kent Pedersen, and Andrew Leier

**Depositional and Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Canada Development, Big Valley Formation ("Alberta Bakken"), Tight Oil Play, Southern Alberta,
Jacqueline Colborne, R.Marc Bustin, Gerry Reinson, and Nathan Bruder

*Belly River Channel Architecture Reservoir Analog – Ghost Dam, Cochrane, Alberta,
D. S. Coutts and P. K. Pedersen

*Athabasca Regional Hydrochemistry in the McMurray Formation,
Benjamin R. Cowie and Bruce James

*3D Design for Interpolation: A Decimation Case Study,
A. J. Crook, Balazs Nemeth, Christian Escalante, Laurie Ross, Ye Zheng, and Keith Millis

*Innovative Solutions to Manage Business Risk and Improve Project Performance: Effective Engagement of Aboriginal Communities,
Carol Crowe

*Wormhole Forward Modeling and Seismic Responses,
Xiaoqin Cui, Laurence R. Lines, Edward S. Krebes, and Joan Embleton

*Numerical Modeling for Different Types of Fractures,
Xiaoqin Cui, Laurence R. Lines, and Edward S. Krebes

*Microbiological Dynamics in Rock and Fluid Characterization, An Overview,
D. Roy Cullimore

*A Comparison of the Sedimentological, Ichnological, Palynological and Geochemical Characteristics of Channel-Margin Sediments Across The Tidal-Fluvial Transition of the Lower Fraser River, British Columbia,
Joanna M. Czarnecki, Andrew D. La Croix, and Shahin E. Dashtgard

*Palynology and Geochemistry of Channel-Margin Sediments In the Tidally Influenced Lower Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada: Implications for Recognizing Brackish Water and Tidal Influence Across the Tidal-Fluvial Transition,
Joanna M. Czarnecki, Shahin E. Dashtgard, Vera Pospelova, Rolf Mathewes, and James A. MacEachern

**A Tectonostratigraphic History of Orphan Basin, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada,
Lynn T. Dafoe, Charlotte E. Keen, Graham L. Williams, and Sonya A. Dehler

*The Benefits of S-waves and Multicomponent Data for Surface Monitoring,
Ben Dando, Kit Chambers, Raquel Velasco, and Stephen Wilson

**A Regional Assessment of the Duvernay Formation; a World-Class Liquids-Rich Shale Play,
Matthew Davis and Glenn Karlen

*Multi-component or Vector Dip Filtering Using the S-transform,
Kristof De Meersman and Majda Mihoub

*New Approach to Finite-Difference Memory Variables by Using Lagrangian Mechanics,
Wubing Deng and Igor Morozov

**Characteristics of the Triassic Upper Montney Formation (Unit C), West-Central Area, Alberta,
Omar Derder

*The Basal Cambrian Sandstone in the Subsurface of Alberta: Quest Carbon Capture and Storage Injection Target,
Patricio Desjardins and Mauri Smith

**Impact of Broadband Seismic on Quantitative Interpretation Workflows,
Eivind Dhelie, Cyrille Reiser, Tim Bird, and Euan Anderson

**A Step Change in Seismic Imaging – Using a Unique Ghost Free Source and Receiver System,
Eivind Dhelie, Robert Sorley, Torben Hoy, and David Lippett

*Overpressure Conditions and Reservoir Compartmentalization on the Scotian Margin,
Carla Dickson and Grant Wach

**Defining Frontier Petroleum Systems with Higher Granularity: Examples from Plate Reconstructions of the Atlantic Margins,
William Dickson, Craig F. Schiefelbein, Mark E. Odegard, and John E. Zumberge

*Preliminary Geochemical Interpretation of Preserved Shallow Cores, Labrador Basin Complex, Labrador Sea, Canada,
Graham Dillabough

**Microseismic Case Study: A Deeper Look into the Microseismic Events. What Events are Really Related to Stimulated Reservoir,
Michael Doerksen, Don Poruchny, and Michael d'Entremont

*Characterizing Dipping Fractures from P-wave Amplitude Versus Azimuth Studies,
Jon Downton and Hampson Russell

*Vp/Vs – A Novel Approach for Interpreting McMurray Formation Stratigraphic Architecture with Cores, Logs and Seismic Data,
Carmen C. Dumitrescu and Larry Lines

*Drilling Horizontal Wells for the Mine Assisted In-Situ Project,
G. J. Duncan

*A Seismic Geometry Experiment: Testing Orthogonal vs. Megabin vs. Slimbin and 5D Minimum Weighted Norm Interpolation,
Emily Duncan, Ann O'Byrne, and Jillian Dalsin

**Fifty Shades of Grey: Utilizing "Conventional" Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy to unlock Rock Quality to Reservoir Quality Relationships in the Liquids Rich Duvernay Shale Play, Kaybob Alberta Canada,
Lindsay Dunn, Keith Gordon, and Marc Houle

*The Bakken – An Integration Necessity,
Taras T. Dziuba

*Low-Frequency Tremor Signals from a Hydraulic Fracture Treatment in Northeast British Columbia, Canada,
David W. Eaton, Mirko van der Baan, Jean-Baptiste Tary, and Kim Pike

*Estimating Energy Balance for Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations: Lessons Learned from Basel,
David W. Eaton and Neda Boroumand

*Episodic Tectonics in the Phanerozoic Succession of the North American Arctic and the "10 Million Year Flood",
Ashton Embry, Benoit Beauchamp, Keith Dewing, and James Dixon

*A History of Crockerland – The Little Arctic Terrane that Could,
Ashton Embry and Owen Anfinson

*Cavalier Grand Rapids A SAGD Project at Hoole: Core Case Study,
Mona Enachescu

**Geophysical Characterization of the Canol and Bluefish Oil Shales, Central Mackenzie Valley, NWT, Canada,
Michael E. Enachescu, Fred Kierulf, Paul Price, Murray Cooper, and Allan Châtenay

**Cambrian Features Constrain Cordilleran Structures in the Central Mackenzie Valley Region,
Karen M. Fallas

*Reducibility and Commerciality of Shale Resource Systems: Contrasting Geochemical Attributes of Shale Gas and Shale Oil Systems,
Basim S. M. Faraj and Daniel M. Jarvie

*Petrophysical Applications of LWD Measurements in Duvernay Shale, Western Canada,
Abdul Fareed, Raymond Nanan, Dinara Khalmanova, and David Llewellyn

*Optimization of SAGD Process Accounting for Geological Uncertainties Using proxy Models,
Eugene Fedutenko, Chaodong Yang, Colin Card, and Long Nghiem

*Map 601 the First Surficial Geology Map of Alberta: Creation and Content,
M. M. Fenton, E. J, Waters, S. M. Pawley, N. Atkinson, D. J. Utting, and K. Mckay

*Depth Migration of Monostatic and Bistatic Georadar Data,
Robert J. Ferguson, Matthew J. Yedlin, Christian Pichot, Jean-Yves Dauvignac, Nicholas Fortino, and Stephane Gaffet

*Which Inversion (Pre- or Post-Stack (Model-based, Colored, Bandlimited or ...)) is the "Best" type for "MY" prospect?,
John Fernando

*Microseismic Event Locations for Deviated Boreholes,
Amna Feroz and Mirko van der Baan

*Summary of Activities in Western Liard Basin, British Columbia: Regional Mapping and Characterization of the Besa River Formation,
Filippo Ferri, Margot McMechan, Tiffani Fraser, Kathryn Fiess, Leanne Pyle, and Fabrice Cordey

**Liard Basin Hydrocarbon Project: Shale Gas Potential of Devonian-Carboniferous Strata in the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Northeastern British Columbia,
Kathryn M. Fiess, Filippo Ferri, Tiffani L. Fraser, Leanne J. Pyle, and Ramiz Gardezi

**Deep Water Hydrocarbon Potential Beneath the Labrador Sea, offshore Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada,
Kai Floistad, Ron Borsato, Jerry Witney, James Carter, Richard Wright, and Thomas Neugebauer

**Going the Distance: A Basinwide, High-frequency Allostratigraphic Framework for the Upper Cretaceous Colorado Group, Western Canada Foreland Basin,
Jessica A. Flynn and Burns A. Cheadle

*Seismic Data Decomposition into Spectral Components Using Regularized Nonstationary Autoregression,
Sergey Fomel

*Shale Gas Potential of Besa River Formation in Liard Basin, Southeast Yukon: Report on 2012 Field Activities,
T. A. Fraser, F. Ferri, K. Fiess, and L. J. Pyle, VI

*Origin, Prediction, and 3D Object Based Modeling of Rock and Fluid Properties in Compartmentalized McMurray Formation Reservoirs,
Milovan Fustic and Dany Cadiou

**Sedimentological Criteria for Distinguishing Stacked Dune-trough Muds from Muds in Inclined Heterolithic Strata in the Subsurface – Insights from McMurray Formation Outcrops and Modern Analogues,
Milovan Fustic, Robert Dalrymple, Rudy Strobl, Bryce Jablonski, Eirik Vik, and Allard Martinius

*SS-wave Reflections from P-wave Sources in Azimuthally Anisotropic Media,
James Gaiser and Richard Verm

*Identification of Enhanced Oil Recovery Potential in Alberta,
C. M. F. Galas

*Systematic Geomechanical Application for Unconventional Resource Development,
Jordan Gao, Blair Neil, Queena Chou, and Uno Mutlu

**Monitoring CO2 Injection at Weyburn Reservoir Using 3-D/3-C Seismic Datasets,
Le Gao and Igor Morozov

*On The Suitability of Static Models for SAGD-Based Processes,
David L. Garner

*Post-stack Inversion of the Hussar Low Frequency Seismic Data,
Patricia E. Gavotti, Don C. Lawton, Gary F. Margrave, and J. Helen Isaac

*Shale Resources: An Emerging Exploration Concept in Kuwait,
George Gega, Abdulaziz Al-Fares, Fida Hussain, Awatif Al-Khamis, and Patrick Clews

*Water-Policy and Government Regulation for Heavy Oil and Oilsands Development,
Robert George

*Casing Integrity During Fracturing Operations,
Don Getzlaf

*Modeling Physical Properties of Porous Media,
Shahin Ghomeshi, Sergey Kryuchkov, and Apostolos Kantzas

*Understanding Relationships Between NMR and Pore Size Distributions in Porous Media,
S. Ghomeshi, S. Kryuchkov, J. Bryan, and A. Kantzas

*Gas-Over-Bitumen: Where Have We Been?,
Brad Gilmour and Bennett Jones

*Gas-Over-Bitumen: Where Are We Going?,
Brad Gilmour and Bennett Jones

**From Core to Pore: Multi-scale, Multi-dimensional Characterization of Fine-grained Reservoir Rocks,
Eric T. Goergen, Kimball Skinner, Herman Lemmens, and Aukje, Benidictus

*Dating the Doig:Conodonts Constrain the Age of the Doig Phosphate Zone in Northeastern British Columbia,
Martyn Golding, Mike Orchard, J.-P. Zonneveld, and Nick Wilson

*Cost Efficient Acquisition to Reduce Coarse Land 3D Line Spacings Through Beyond Nyquist Interpolation and Wavefield Reconstruction for Signal and Noise,
Bill Goodway

*Estimation of the Kerogen Porosity (PhiK) within the Macasty Fm (Utica) of Anticosti Island, Qc, Canada,
Bernard Granger, Mabrouk Ouederni, Stephany Roy, and Daniel Brisebois

*Steps to Make Natural Gas a Lower Emission Energy Source ,
Allison R. Grant and Grant Wach

*Chemostratigraphic Tools for Regional Correlations – Application to Early Triassic of the Sverdrup Basin,
Stephen E. Grasby, Benoit Beauchamp, and Ashton Embry

*Pickled Shale Gas Play – How Conitinetal Glaciation Drives Biogenic Gas Formation,
Stephen E. Grasby

*Evidence for High Overpressure in the Saglek Basin, Labrador Shelf; The Implication for Future Exploration,
S. Green, S. A. O'Connor, N. Heinemann, R. Wright, J. Carter, and D. Cameron

**The Shelf to Deep-Water Transition – Using Analogues to Understand the Pressure Regime in Un-drilled Labrador Basins, Labrador Sea, Canada,
S. Green, S. A. O'Connor, N. Heinemann, R. Wright, J. Carter, and D. Cameron

*Statistical Biases in Microseismicity Parameters,
Melanie Grob and Mirko van der Baan

*Mizzen – the First Oil Discovery in the Flemish Pass Basin, Offshore Newfoundland,
Kai Gruschwitz, Simon Haynes, Michael McDonough, Trevor Johnson, and Ed Stacey

*Near-surface S-wave Velocity from an up Hole Survey using Explosive Sources,
Saul E. Guevara, Gary F. Margrave, and William M. Agudelo

**Rock Fabric and Microseismic: An Integrated Approach,
Martin Haege, Shawn Maxwell, Lars Sonneland, and Mark Norton

**Hydrothermal Dolomitization and a Fluid Flow Model: An Example from the Middle Ordovician Trenton Group, southwestern Ontario, Canada,
Omid Haeri-Ardakani, Ihsan Al-Aasm, and Mario Coniglio

**Seismic Time-Frequency analysis by Empirical Mode Decomposition,
Jiajun Han and Mirko van der Baan

*Geophysical Applications – Using Geophysics for Reserves and Resources Classification and Assessment,
Marian Hanna and Tooney Fink

**The Theory Behind the Carman-Kozeny Equation in the Quest for Permeability of the Rocks,
Carlos Haro

**Analysis and Implications of the Archie-Haro Equation in Modeling Resistivity of the Rocks,
Carlos Haro

*Towards Using Harmonic "Noise" to Image Shallow Thin Reflectors,
Christopher B. Harrison, Gary Margrave, Michael Lamoureux, Art Siewert, Andrew Barrett, and Helen Isaac

*LiDAR Assisted Mapping and Deformation History of Crowsnest Pass, Alberta,
Sharlene E. Hartman and John W. F. Waldron

**Mapping Basement Structures in the Peace River Arch of Alberta Using Monogenic Signal Decomposition of Magnetic Data,
Hassan H. Hassan

*The Changing Role of Water in the Petroleum Geologist's "Unconventional" World,
Brad J. Hayes

**Depositional Interpretation and Reservoir Characterization of the Tithonian in Mizzen F-09, Flemish Pass Basin, Canada,
Simon R. Haynes, Jonathan Marshall, Erik Imsland Wathne, Geoff Minielly, Elisabeth Mortlock, Olav Walderhaug, and Trevor Johnson

**Orthorhombic Imaging for Orthogonal Wide Azimuth Surveys in Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico,
Yang He, Adam Gersztenkorn, Sherry Yang, and Bin Wang

*Time-Frequency Representation of Microseismic Signals using the Synchrosqueezing Transform,
Roberto H. Herrera, Jean-Baptiste Tary, and Mirko van der Baan

*Low-Frequency Electrical Conduction in Simple Porous Media,
David C. Herrick

*Pore-Geometric Controls on Single-Phase Darcy Permeability of Porous Media,
David C. Herrick

**Cretaceous Lithostratigraphy of Eastern Jeza – Qamar Basin and its Hydrocarbon Potential, Dhofar, Oman,
O. Salad Hersi, I. A. Abbasi, and A. Al-Harthy

*Applications of Inorganic Whole Rock Geochemistry to Shale Resource Plays: A Haynesville Shale Case Study,
Gemma V. Hildred, Jennifer L. Kharrazi, Nahysa Martinez-Kulikowski, and David R. Spain

**Forensic Chemostratigraphy: A Tool to Determine Lateral Well Bore Placement,
Gemma V. Hildred, Nahysa Martinez-Kulikowski, and Brian A. Zaitlin

*Reviving Exploration in the Arctic Islands: Opportunities and Challenges from an Operator's Perspective,
John R. Hogg and Michael E Enachescu

*A Decade of Wind Power: Renewable Energy Development at Suncor Energy,
Jody Hood

*Allostratigraphic Analysis of the Muskiki and Marshybank Formations (Coniacian) in the Central Alberta Foothills and Plains: Possible evidence for an Eustatic Control on Deposition,
Elizabeth Hooper and A. Guy Plint

*Application of XRF to Cratecaous Organic-rich, Siliciclastic/carbonate Mudrocks, SW Manitoba,
Somayeh Hosseininejad, Per K. Pedersen, Ronald J. Spencer, and Michelle P. B. Nicolas

*Impact of Oil Sands Core Disturbance on Lab Testing Results,
Greg Hu and Nabil Al-Adani

*Simultaneous Source Separation Via Robust Time Variant Radon Operators,
Amr Ibrahim and Mauricio D. Sacchi

*An Experiment to Detect Nonlinear Seismic Responses on Exploration/Monitoring Scale,
Kris Innanen, Gary Margrave, and Malcolm Bertram

*AVO Theory for Large Contrast Elastic and Anelastic Targets in Pre-Critical Regimes,
Kris Innanen

*Analysis of the Low Frequency Content of Seismic Data Acquired During an Experiment at Hussar, Alberta, Canada,
J. Helen Isaac, Gary F. Margrave, Monika Deviat, and Pam Nagarajappa

*A Framework for Time-Lapse AVO when Contrasts are Large,
Shahin Jabbari and Kris Innanen

**Fluvial Seasonality: A Predictive Tool for Deciphering the Sedimentological Complexity of Inclined Heterolithic Stratification Deposited on Large – Scale Tidal – Fluvial Point Bars?,
Bryce V. J. Jablonski and Robert Dalrymple

**Petro Physical Analysis of Habib Rahi Limestone of Mari Gas Field using Open Hole Wire Line logs of Well Mari Deep -06 Central Indus Basin Pakistan (A Case Study),
Quaid Khan Jadoon, Muhammad Zahid, and Ramiz Gardezi

**Petrophysical Study of Shale Gas Potential from the Permian Roseneath and Murteree Formations in the Cooper Basin, Australia,
Quaid Khan Jadoon

**Bed-parallel Expansion Seams and Shear Surfaces in Shales,
W. Jamison

*Additional Revenue Stream Potential for the Oil and Gas Industry,
Gavin Jensen and Melinda Yurkowski

*High Quality Acoustic and Elastic Modeling,
Y. Jewoo, C. S. Shin, and R. P. Bording

*Combined Drilling and Sieve Tube BoreholeProtection in Soft and Outburst-prone Coal Seams,
Qianhui Ji, Li Wang, Xinsheng Yin, and Hongliang Tian

**Stress Damage in Borehole and Rock Cores; Developing New Tools to Update the Stress Map of Alberta,
Qing Jia, Randy Kofman, Doug Schmitt, and Inga Moeck

**The Lower-Middle Devonian of Mackenzie River Corridor: Sequence-Stratigraphic Updates from Core Studies,
P. Kabanov

**Self-Consistency in Scaling Relations for Seismicity Induced during Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations,
Sepideh Karimi, Adam Baig, Ted Urbancic, and Gisela Viegas

*Refilling of Oil Fields: Is Geochemistry the Key to Solve the Mystery?,
G. P. Kayukova, G. V. Romanov, A. E. Arbuzov, and I. N. Plotnikova

*Modified Euclid's Blind Deconvolution Via Sparsity Optimization on a Sphere,
Nasser Kazemi and Mauricio D. Sacchi

*Robust Singular Spectrum Analysis for Erratic Noise Attenuation,
Ke Chen and Mauricio D. Sacchi

*Non-destructive Geochemical Analyses of Shale from outcrop and Core Using State-of-the-art LA-ICP-MS,
Dave Keighley, Chris McFarlane, and Yan Luo

*Innovation in the Cardium Halo Play at West Pembina,
Don A. W. Keith and Brad Lamson

*A Sequence Stratigraphic Framework for the Horn River Shale, Horn River Basin, British Columbia,
Michael S. Kennedy, Tian Dong, and Nicholas B. Harris

**Simultaneous Inversion of Clastic Zubair Reservoir: Case Study from Sabiriyah Field, North Kuwait Alberta Exploration,
Osman Khaled, Yousef Al-Zuabi, and Hameed Shereef

*Simultaneous P-P and P-S Waveform Inversion Algorithm Using Pre-Stack Time Imaging Method,
Hassan Khaniani, John C. Bancroft, and Eric von Lunen

*Interferometric Approach to Complete Refraction Statics Solution,
Valentina Khatchatrian and Mike Galbraith

*An Overview of the A&D Process,
Jamshed Khory

*Exact, Linear and Nonlinear AVO in Terms of Poroelastic Parameters,
Steven Kim and Kris Innanen

*Influence of Cooling and Heating Rate on CO2 Condensation and Evaporation Observed in a Saturated Synthetic Rock Sample,
R. Kofman, A. Rabbani, G. Njiekak, and D. R. Schmitt

*Controls on Bitumen Distribution in Northwestern Saskatchewan's Lower Cretaceous Dina Member (Mannville Group),
Dan Kohlruss, Guoxiang Chi, and Per Kent Pedersen

*A Nuclear Norm Minimization Algorithm with Application to Five Dimensional (5D) Seismic Data Recovery,
N. Kreimer, A. Stanton, and M. D. Sacchi

*A Radial Core Analysis Design for Multi-Phase Flow in Tight Porous Media,
S. Kryuchkov, A. Kantzas, and Lilly Yu

*Linking Channel Margin Sedimentation to Hydrodynamics Across the Tidal-Fluvial Transition, Lower Fraser River, BC, Canada,
Andrew D. La Croix and Shahin E. Dashtgard

*Sedimentary Facies and Depositional Evolution of the Middle/Late Cambrian Inner and Mid-shelf Setting of Southeastern Arizona,
Marcelina Labaj and Brian R. Pratt

*Basin Modeling: The Key for Unconventional Shale Gas Assessment,
J. M. Laigle, F. Schneider, L. Kuhfuss Monval, and P. Lemouzy

*Recognition of a Sequence Boundary at the top of the Mississippian Midale Beds, Williston Basin of southeast Saskatchewan,
J. H. Lake and D. M. Kent

*Examining Earthquakes Recorded in Eastern Canadian Areas with Shale Gas Exploration Potential,
M. Lamontagne and V. Peci

*Prestack Signal Enhancement by Non-hyperbolic MultiFocusing,
Evgeny Landa, Alex Berkovitch, and Kostya Deev

*The Roles of Water in Subsurface Petroleum Biodegradation-Part 1 The Role of Water Radiolysis,
S. R. Larter, I. M. Head, B.Bennett, H. Huang, J. J. Adams, T. B. P. Oldenburg, and N. Marcano

**Steady-State Permeability Analysis in Unconventional Plays,
Pat Lasswell

*Using Recent Point Bar Deposits in the Meander Belt of the Liard River, NWT to Aid in the Understanding of Reservoir Geometry in McMurray Formation Valley Fills in the Athabasca Basin,
Jason M. Lavigne and Derald G. Smith

*Anticosti Basin: Fairway Identification in an Emerging Shale Play Using Basin Analogues and Recent Geophysical Data,
Jérémie Lavoie, Jean-Sebastien Marcil, Peter K. Dorrins, Nabila Mechti, and Jean-Yves Lavoie

**Synthesis of Hydrocarbon Systems and Conceptual Plays for the Intracratonic Hudson Bay Basin, Arctic Canada,
Denis Lavoie, Nicolas Pinet, Mathieu Duchesne, Virginia Brake, Esther Asselin, Shunxin Zhang, Jim Dietrich, Kezhen Hu, Jennifer Galloway, Julito Reyes, Derek Armstrong, Michelle Nicolas, Pierre Keating, Vincent Decker, and Barry Kohn

*Mineralogical Variations in Mudstone Dominated Clinoforms, Central Alberta, Canada,
Dallin P. Laycock, Per K. Pedersen, and Ron J. Spencer

*A Ray+Waveform Inversion for the Potency Tensor,
Scott Leaney and Chris Chapman

**Recent AEM Case Study Examples Using a Full Waveform Time-Domain system for Near-surface Applications,
Jean M. Legault, Alexander Prikhodko, Timothy Eadie, Greg Oldenborger, Vincenzo Sapia, Andrea Viezzoli, Erwan Gloaguen, Bruce D. Smith, and Melvyn E. Best

*Quantitative Predication for Reservior Porosity via AVO,
Li Ang, Chen Shumin, Zhang Erhua, and Ju Linbo

*Inference of 2D and 3D Locally Varying Anisotropy Fields,
Maksuda Lillah and Jeff Boisvert

*Spectral-element Simulations of Elastic Wave Propagation in Exploration and Geotechnical Applications,
Lin Zheng, Qi Zhao, Qinya Liu, Bernd Milkereit, and Giovanni Grasselli

*Seismic to Reservoir Simulation: A Cooperative Inversion,
Larry Lines and Amir Shamsa

**The Illumination of Natural Fractures and Faults of the Muskwa Shale Play in Northeastern British Columbia: A Case Study,
Jane Ling and William Barker

*Workflows for Sweet Spots Identification in Shale Plays Using Seismic Inversion and Well Logs,
Yexin Liu

*Quantifying Total Organic Carbon (TOC) from Well Logs Using Support Vector Regression,
Yexin Liu, Zhuoheng Chen, Kezhen Hu, and Chris Liu

**Analysis of Sequence Architecture for Prediction of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in Early Cretaceous Deposits in the Wuerxun Sag in Northeastern China,
He Liu, Qian Meng, Yanfang Lu, Haibo Wu, and Junhui Li

**Suffield Polymer Core Flood Study – A Key Component of the Pilot Project,
Jenny Liu and Warren Smart

*Investigating the Low Frequency Content of Seismic Data with Impedance Inversion,
Heather J. E. Lloyd and Gary F. Margrave

**Recognizing Potential in the Bitumen Saturated Dolostones of the Upper Devonian Nisku Formation Through Comparison with the Grosmont Formation,
A. J. MacNeil, J. Russel-Houston, and K. A. Gray

*AVAZ Inversion for Fracture Orientation and Intensity: a Physical Modeling Study,
Faranak Mahmoudian and Gary F. Margrave

*Interpretation of Fluid Saturation and Mobile Water in Oil Sands Using Conventional and NMR Logs,
A. Mai, J. Bryan, and G. Lee

*Elastic Finite-difference Modeling for Testing Acquisition and Processing Methods,
Peter Manning, Joe Wong, and David Henley

*An Overview of the Origin, Pathways and Controls of H2S Production During Thermal Recovery Operations of Heavy and Extra-Heavy Oil,
N. Marcano, S. Larter, L. Snowdon, and B. Bennett

*The Geochemical Toolboxto MonitoringThermal Recovery Operations in Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Reservoirs,
N. Marcano, B. Bennett, and S. Larter

**Holocene Sediments of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt Estuaries as Aids to Interpret Tidal and Fluvial-tidal Deposits in Outcrop and Core,
Allard W. Martinius and J. H. (Janrik) van den Berg

* It's Not Just About the Rocks,
Audrey Mascarenhas

*Microseismic Signal Loss from Reservoir to Surface,
S. C. Maxwell, D. Raymer, M. Williams, and P. Primiero

**Simulation of Microseismic Deformation During Hydraulic Fracturing,
S. C. Maxwell and X. Weng

**Spatial and Temporal Deformation of a Lake Malawi Accommodation Zone: Integration of Dated Scientific Drill Cores and Seismic Data,
Tannis McCartney and Christopher A. Scholz

*Geophysical Contributions to the Development Strategy for the Notikewin Formation in the Alberta Deep Basin,
Jason McCrank, Kevin Bianchini, Saleem Akhtar, Phil Benham, Jose Chavarria, Bao-Ning Chen, Sarah Duguid, Martin Kraemer, and Taryn van Hengstum

*Reserves Interpretation for Reporting in Multiple Jurisdictions,
Ian McDonald

*Reserves and Regulatory – Exploiting Heavy Oil/Oilsands,
Ian McDonald

*Internal Controls for Estimation and Reporting of Reserves: Methods to Ensure that Reserves Estimates Used for Public Reporting Meet Regulatory Compliance,
Ian McDonald

*Timing and Mode of Origin of Calcareous Concretions in the Lower Cretaceous Ben Nevis Formation, White Rose Field, Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland,
Lynsey McKinnon and Rudi Meyer

*Steam Chamber Development, Residual Oil Saturation, and Drainage Patterns Associated with Mudstone Beds at Christina Lake,
John McKinley and Samuel Quiroga

*Acceleration on Sparse Promoting Seismic Applications,
Lina Miao and Felix Herrmann

**The Origin and Extent of Coarse Grained Sandstones in the Viking Formation near Dodsland, Saskatchewan,
Kain J. Michaud

**4D Seismic Inversion on Continuous Land Seismic Reservoir Monitoring of Thermal EOR,
Laurene Michou, Thierry Coleou, Yves Lafet, and Benjamin Roure

**Assessment of the Marcellus Shale, Utica Shale, and East Coast Mesozoic Basins in the Eastern United States – a Review,
Robert C. Milici, James L. Coleman, and Mark A. Kirschbaum

*Using Gas Carbon Isotopes to Design and Drill Better Shale Gas Wells,
Marianne Molgat, Jean-Yves Chatellier, and Milt McCoy

**The Barque Structure Offshore New Zealand: Improving the Seismic Image Using Prestack Depth Migration,
Jim Montalbetti, Jeff Beckett, and Graham Hodgkiss

*Paleo-Environmental Interpretation and Depositional Process Classification of Allomembers D and E, Lower Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta,
Adam E. Montgomery, Shahin E. Dashtgard, James A. MacEachern, R. Bruce Ainsworth, and Liam P. Ricci

*Time-lapse Seismic Modeling of CO2 Sequestration at Quest CCS Project,
Shahin Moradi and Don C. Lawton

**Rock Physics and Reservoir Characterization of a Calcitic-Dolomitic Sandstone Reservoir,
H. Morris, E. Efthymiou, B. Hardy, and T. Kearney

**A High Resolution VSP In The Oil Sands For Improved Reservoir Characterization,
Mark Morrish and Laurie Bellman

*Investigating Laboratory-Generated Pyrobitumen Precursors for Unconventional Reservoir Characterization: a Geochemical & Petrographic Approach,
A. J. Mort and H. Sanei

*Relaxing the Near-Surface assumption in Estimating 3C Receiver Orientations: Azimuth-Stack Power Optimization of Reflected PS Data,
Nirupama (Pam) Nagarajappa, Peter Cary, and Chuck Ursenbach

*Reservoir Characterization of the Swan Hills Eastern Platform Trend; a Multi-disciplinary Approach in Building an Applied Model,
Thanos A. Natras, Ian A. McIlreath, Dusty Baldree, Kevin Gunning, and Doug Uffen

*Data Interpolation by Angular Weighted MWNI,
Mark Ng and Dan Negut

*Mississippian Carbonate-Hosted Heavy Oil and Associated Gas in Southwest Saskatchewan,
Erik Nickel and D. M. Kent

*Investigations of Seismic Signatures of CO2 Saturation as Part of a Geological Storage Project,
Gautier Njiekak, Douglas R. Schmitt, and Randolf S. Kofman

*The Use and Abuse of Geological Fieldwork,
Jon Noad

*Lower Triassic Montney Formation Petrophysics and Paragenesis,
Vaisblat Noga, Nicholas Harris, and John-Paul Zonneveld

*Assessing the Need for Repeatability in Acquisition of Time-lapse Data,
Felix Oghenekohwo and Felix Herrmann

*Maximizing Knowledge from a Single Drop using Ultra-high Resolution Mass Spectrometry,
Thomas B. P. Oldenburg, Melisa Brown, Ken Chanthmontri, Ning Sanguantrakun, Andrew Stopford, Norka Marcano, Ryan Snowdon, Steve Larter, D. Martin Jones, and Ian Head

*A New Approach to Measuring Rock Properties Data from Cores & Cuttings for Reservoir & Completions Characterization: an Example from the Bakken Formation,
Guy M. Oliver, Chi V. Ly, Graham Spence, and H. Rael

*Cloud Collaboration: The Business Upside for Oil and Gas,
Shawn Ovenden and Sean Halliday

*Environmental Integrated Sustainable Development During and After Mining of Sedimentary Rocks,
Carla I. Palencia

*5D Interpolation of Seismic Data with Combination of MWNI and POCs Algorithm,
Jianhua Pan, Gerry Schlosser, Elvis Floreani, and Robert Tilson

*Alberta Rocky Mountains and Foothills; Geological Compilation Map, scale 1: 500 000,
Dinu I. Pana and Rastislav Elgr

*Data Serendipity While Mapping Quaternary Channels in the MacKay River Area,
Darryl Parry and Laura Martin

*Modified Approach for Probabilistic Petrophysical Software Used for Evaluation of Shale Reservoirs,
Paul Pavlakos, Ashok Bhatnagar, and Khaled H. Hashmy

**The Impact of Volcanism on Reservoir Quality, Scotian Basin,
Georgia Pe-Piper and David J. W. Piper

**4D Passive and Aggressive Monitoring of Air Injection at Telephone Lake, Alberta,
Richard Pearcy and Larry Mayo

*Integrating Geologic and Geophysical Data in Geostatistical Inversion,
John V. Pendrel

*5D Interpolation and Regular Upsampling: Ill-suited or Fit-for-purpose?,
Mike J. Perz and Peter W. Cary

*Fracture Detection Via Azimuthal Analysis of Seismic Data: Snake Oil or silver Bullet?,
Mike Perz, Peter Cary, Xinxiang Li, and Satinder Chopra

*Testing the Viability of the Sharpe Hollow Cavity Model in Modelling Explosive Pressure Sources,
Christopher C. Petten and Gary F. Margrave

**Unconventional Shale Gas Reservoir Characterization Using the HitCube Approach – Mapping of Marl Rich Mudflows in the Horn River Basin,
Claire Pierard, Hardeep Jaglan, Kristoffer Rimaila, Arnaud Huck, Friso Brouwer, Steve Jensen, and Eric von Lunen

*An Integrated Approach to Developing the Cardium in West Pembina,
D. Robert Pinckston

**Rift Tectonics of the Eastern Canadian Continental Margin: Insights from Detrital Petrology and Provenance,
David J.W. Piper, Georgia Pe-Piper, and Yuanyuan Zhang

*Petrographic Analysis of the Lower Triassic Montney Formation, Northwestern British Columbia, Canada,
T. L. Playter, J-P. Zonneveld, and M. K. Gingras

*The Comparison of QEMSCAN and XRD Analysis in the Mineralogical Characterisation of Unconventional Reservoirs: The Benefits of an Integrated Approach,
Matthew Power and Suzi Burns

*Map 600: A New 1:1 000 000 Bedrock Geology Map of Alberta,
G. J. Prior, B. Hathway, P. Glombick, D. I. Pana, C. J. Banks, D. C. Hay, C. L. Schneider, M. Grobe, R. Elgr, and J. A. Weiss

*Caprock Integrity Determination at the Christina Lake Thermal Recovery Project, Alberta,
G. L. Prost and J. Newsome

*Correlation of Devonian Horn River Group in Mackenzie Plain, Central Mackenzie Corridor, NWT,
Leanne J. Pyle, Len P. Gal, and Kathryn M. Fiess

*Gamma Ray Normalization and Fluvial Characterization: The Paleocene Paskapoo Formation, Alberta,
Erik M. Quartero, David Bechtel, Andrew Leier, and Laurence R. Bentley

*Investigation of Seismic Imaging Capabilities for Small, Shallow Carbonate-Hosted Massive Sulphide Deposits,
Laura Quigley and Bernd Milkereit

**4D Seismic Analysis and Reservoir Management at Christina Lake,
Samuel Quiroga, Lori Barth, and Maliha Zaman

*Lotsberg Salt Formation – Solution-mined Cavern for SAGD Solid Waste disposal, Cold Lake, Alberta,
Mark Rabin and Piotr Kukialka

*Contact Angle Hysteresis at Smooth and Rough Surfaces,
Behrooz Raeesi, Norman R. Morrow, and Geoffrey Mason

*Reserves Growth in Mature Fields: A Bigger Prize Compared to Exploration,
Surya Rajan and Paul Markwell

*Using-MultiFocusing 3D Diffraction Imaging to Predict Fracture Corridors/swarms in the Bazhenov Formation,
Marianne Rauch-Davies, Alex Berkovitch, Danil Pelman, and Kostya Deev

*Residual Oil Saturation – Can Correctly Controlled Laboratory Experiments Provide the Answer?,
Jules Reed

**Mesozoic Rift Basins – Onshore North Carolina and South-Central Virginia, U.S.A.: Deep River and Dan River – Danville Total Petroleum Systems (TPS) and Assessment Units (AU) for Continuous Gas Accumulation Atlantic Margins,
Jeffrey C. Reid and Kenneth B. Taylor

**Incorporating Fault Intensity and AVO Inversion to Characterize a Shale Gas Reservoir,
Carl Reine and Sean Lovric

*Integration of Time-lapse Seismic Analysis with Reservoir Simulation,
Naimeh Riazi, Laurence Lines, and Brian Russell

**Heavy Oil Reservoir Characterization by Time-lapse Seismic and Basins, Rock Physics in a Cold Production Reservoir,
Naimeh Riazi, Laurence Lines, and Brian Russell

*Architecture and Facies Analysis of Allomember F, Upper Cretaceous Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada,
Liam P. Ricci, James A. MacEachern, R. Bruce Ainsworth, Shahin E. Dashtgard, and Adam E. Montgomery

*How Produced Water and Source Water Qualities Influence the Operation and Environmental Footprint of SAGD Surface Facilities,
John Robertson

*Role of Lithological layering on Spatial Variation of Natural and Induced Fractures in Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation,
Vincent Roche and Mirko van der Baan

*The Uniqueness of Data Gathering During Drilling at a CCS Project Site – Example QUEST,
Luc Rock

*An Integrated Approach to Resource Assessment of the Macasty Shale Formation on Anticosti Island,
A. Romanov, S. Karri, D. Carsted, J. Chipperfield, and B. Granger

*Investigation of Solvent and Surfactant Additives on the Efficiency of Steam Assisted Bitumen Recovery Processes,
N. A. Romaniuk, B. Feland, L. Little, F. A. Vivas, T. Babadagli, and B. Ozum

*Integrated Geochemical Sudies to Monitor Processes in a Mature Oil Field after Peak Oil Production,
G. V. Romanov, T. N. Yusupova, Yu. M. Ganeeva, and E. E. Barskaya

*Low Temperature Oxidation of Highly Viscous Oil Under Reservoir Conditions,
G. V. Romanov, D. N. Borisov, M. R. Yakubov, S. M. Petrov, G. P. Kayukova, R. R. Ibatullin, M. I. Amerkhanov, and S. G. Uvarov

*An Investigation of the Plugging Mechanisms in a Slotted Liner from SAGD Operations,
U. G. Romanova and T. Ma

**An Analytic Approach to Sweetspot Mapping in the Eagle Ford Unconventional Play,
Murray Roth, Michael Roth, and Ted Royer

*The Impact of Horizontal Drilling in the Canadian Oil and Gas Industry, 2013 Update,
Dave Russum

*Hydrogeologists without Borders: Connecting Geologists to International Development,
M. Cathryn Ryan and David N. Bethune

*Effects of Unconventional Gas Development on Groundwater: A Call for Total Dissolved Gas Pressure Field Measurements,
M. Cathryn Ryan and James W. Roy

*Maximum Entropy Acquisition Design and Optimal Interpolation,
Mauricio D. Sacchi, Mafijul Islam Bhuiyan, and Nasser Kazemi

*Time-lapse AVO Inversion,
A. Nassir Saeed, Laurence R. Lines, and Gary F. Margrave

*Innovative QCs for More Effective 4D Processing,
Cyril Saint Andre, Benoit Blanco, Christian Hubans, and Benoit Paternoster

*Application of Surface-wave Modeling and Inversion in Cordova Embayment of Northeastern British Columbia,
Antoun Salama, Niranjan Banik, Mona Cowman, Kevin Roberts, Anna Glushchenko, Mark Egan, Alfonso Gonzalez, Eric von Lunen, and Jennifer Leslie-Panek

**Advanced Processing and Inversion of Two AEM Datasets for 3D Geological Modelling: The Case Study of Spiritwood Valley Aquifer,
Vincenzo Sapia, Andrea Viezzoli, Greg Oldenborger, and Flemming Jørgensen

**The Challenges of 3D Seismic Application for Athabasca Oil Sands Development,
Takehiko Sato and Leigh Skinner

*Advances and Future Trends in Geomodeling Techniques to Populate Facies and Petrophysical Properties,
Claude Scheepens, Lin Hu, and Jason McLennan

*Understanding Geomechanical and Stress Effects of SAGD Production Using 4D-3C Seismic Data,
Kelsey Schiltz, Loren Zeigler, and David Gray

*Structurally-consistent Interval Velocity Variation with Azimuth,
Darren Schmidt, Alicia Veronesi, Chris Davison, and Jeff Durand

**Seismic Data Preconditioning for Improved Reservoir Characterization (Inversion and Fracture Analysis),
Darren Schmidt, Alicia Veronesi, Franck Delbecq, and Jeff Durand

*From Subsurface to Outcrop: The Devonian Moberly Member (Waterways Formation) of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region,
Chris L. Schneider, Matthias Grobe, Lindsey R. Leighton, and Tyler Hauck

*The Moberly Member (Waterways Formation) Outcrops in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region: A New Look at a Classic Correlation,
Chris L. Schneider, Matthias Grobe, Lindsey R. Leighton, and Tyler Hauck

**Channel-Fills: Not Your Average Point-Bar Deposit,
Jesse Schoengut and Murray Gingras

*Geoscience Integration – Geology, Geophysics, and Petrophysics of SAGD Well Pair Planning – a Case Study from Long Lake, Northeastern Alberta,
Chris Seibel

*What a Geologist Needs to Know about Resource Plays: A Holistic Approach to Resource Play Analysis from Concept to Completion,
Mike Seifert and Second A. Uthoretc

**Geological and Hydrogeological Synthesis of the Utica Shale and the Overlying Strata in Southern Quebec Based on Public Data in a Context of a Moratorium on Exploration,
Stephan Séjourné, René Lefebvre, Denis Lavoie, and Xavier Malet

*Poisson Impedance : A Promising Tool for Determination of Sand Quality,
Ritesh Kumar Sharma and Satinder Chopra

**New Attribute for Determination of Lithology and Brittleness,
Ritesh Kumar Sharma and Satinder Chopra

*Reducing Environmental Risk in a Results-Based Regulatory System,
Mark Sherrington

*An Exciting Devonian Shale Play in the Central Mackenzie Valley, Northwest Territories – Moving our Exploration Strategies North,
Colleen Sherry and Roy Benteau

*Canadian Highly Qualified Personnel in Business R&D: a Quantitative Analysis,
Kiranpal Sidhu

*LWD Azimuthal Resistivity Logging in Unconventional Formations,
Paul Sinclair, Li Anzong, Aaron Otteman, and Alisha Wennekamp

*Fracturing and Carbonate Mineralization in Tertiary Carbonate Rocks from United Arab Emirates: Origin and Evolution of Basinal Fluids,
M. Sirat, I. S. Al-Aasm, S. Morad, A. Aldahan, and O. Al-Jallad

*Discovery of "Pronghorn" and "Lewis and Clark" Fields: Sweet-spots within the Bakken Petroleum System producing from the Sanish/Pronghorn Member NOT the Middle Bakken or Three Forks!,
Orion Skinner, Lyn Canter, Mark Sonnenfeld, and Mark Williams

*Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic Dynamic Uplift and Plate Kinematics in the NE Atlantic Realm,
Jakob Skogseid and Ian Lunt

*Conversational Petrophysics: Increasing Petrophysical Competencies for GeoScientists,
Kelly Skuce

*The Good, The Potential And The Ugly: Three Different Point Bar Lithofacies in Modern Meandering Tidal-Influenced Rivers: Ideas Applied To SAGD McMurray Oil Sands,
Derald G. Smith, Stephen M. Hubbard, Dustin Bauer, Peter Putnam, Dale A. Leckie, Tess Sabastian, and Milovan Fustic

*Personal Growth and the Geoscientist,
Tom Sneddon

*Focal Mechanism Analysis of a Multi-lateral Completion in the Horn River Basin,
Paige Snelling, Cameron Wilson, Neil Taylor, Michael de Groot, and Kyu Bum Hwang

*Microlithofacies Analysis within Cardium Tight-oil Intervals,
N. A. Solano, C. R. Clarkson, F. F. Krause, and A. Kantzas

**Grid-less Simulation of a Fluvio-Deltaic Environment,
R. Mohan Srivastava, Marko Maucec, and Jeffrey Yarus

*Borehole Vibration Response to Hydraulic Fracture Pressure,
Andy St-Onge, David W. Eaton, and Adam Pidlisecky

*Scanning Electron Microscopy of Bitumen Saturated Sandstone,
R. P. W. Stancliffe , C. DeBuhr, and F. Krause

*Shear Wave Splitting Parameter Estimation Using a Regular Distribution of Azimuths,
A. Stanton and M. D. Sacchi

*A Comparison of 5D Reconstruction Methods,
A. Stanton, N. Kreimer, D. Bonar, M. Naghizadeh, and M. D. Sacchi

*Experimental Measurement of BTEX and Alkylated Phenol Multi-phase Partitioning Behaviour under Petroleum Reservoir and Submarine Oil Spill Conditions,
A. P. Stopford, L. Snowdon, T. B. P. Oldenburg, and S. R. Larter

**Elongate Tidal Bar, Amalgamated Sub-Tidal Channel and Estuarine Point-Bar Successions of a Sand-Dominated Open Estuarine System; Integration of Outcrop and Subsurface Data, Mcmurray Formation, Ft. Mckay, Alberta,
Rudy Strobl, Milovan Fustic, and Bryce Jablonski

**Enhancing SAGD Bitumen Production Through Conductive, Convective and Radiant Heating,
Rudy Strobl, Bryce Jablonski, and Milovan Fustic

**Opportunities and Challenges in Accessing Stranded Pay and Atlantic Margins Heterogenous Reservoirs in SAGD Bitumen Projects,
Rudy Strobl, Bryce Jablonski, and Milovan Fustic

*A Framework of Sparse Kernel Principal Component Analysis and Its Applications,
X. Sun, S. Z. Sun, X. Zhou, J. Tian, J. Han, H. Yang, and C. Sun

**Methods of Calculating Total Organic Carbon from Well Logs and its Application on Rock's Properties Analysis,
S. Z. Sun, Y. Sun, C. Sun, Z. Liu, and N. Dong

*VSP P-Wave Attenuation Model Study in Elastic Earth: Spectral Ratio Method Vs Centroid Frequency Shift Method,
Waheduzzaman Talukder and Ralph Phillip Bording

*On the Interpretation of Resonance Frequencies Recorded During Microseismic Experiments,
Jean Baptiste Tary, Mirko van der Baan, and David Eaton

*The Use of XRF as a Petrophysical Tool in Exploration and Development,
Jeff Taylor and Yeny Cortes

*Waterflooding Optimization with Coupled Static-Dynamic Simulations,
Damien Thenin and Rob Lavoie

**Quantitative Seismic Interpretation – An Earth Modeling Perspective,
Damien Thenin and Ron Larson

*Uncertainty in Surface Microseismic Monitoring,
Michael Thornton, Mike Mueller, and Leo Eisner

*Honoring the Depositional, Diagenetic, and Tectonic History in a 3-D Computational Model of a Carbonate Reservoir: Charles Fm., S.E. Saskatchewan,
Garrett K. Timmerman

*Remote Reservoir Monitoring in Oil Sands: From Feasibility Study to Baseline Datasets,
Richard Tøndel, Stefan Dümmong, Hartmut Schütt, Alexandre Ducrocq, Andrew Williams, Jon Ingham, Robert Godfrey, and Douglas LaBrecque

**Seismically Induced Soft-sediment Deformation Structures in the Eocene lacustrine Green River Formation (Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, USA) – A Preliminary Study,
Balázs Törő, Brian R. Pratt, and Robin W. Renaut

**Inherited and Syndepositional Structural Control on Slope Progradation in the Neogene Lake Pannon, Southwestern Pannonian Basin, Hungary,
Balázs Törő, Orsolya Sztanó, and László Fodor

*Demanding Change,
Jihad Traya and Matthew Piatek

*Interpolation Using Hankel Tensor Completion,
Stewart Trickett and Lynn Burroughs

*Presenting and Evaluating an A&D Upside Opportunity,
Brian Tuffs

*Darwin, Dinosaurs and Dollars: Evolutionary Lessons for a Stressed Marketplace,
Brian Tuffs

*A Study on the Mechanisms of Oil Formation in Carbonates,
A. Z. Tukhvatullina, T. N. Yusupova, Yu. M. Ganeeva, E. E. Barskaya, G. V. Romanov, R. K. Hairetdinov, and R. H. Muslimov

*Black Box Recording of Passive Seismicity: Pitfalls of not Understanding your Acquisition Instrumentation and its Limitations,
Ted Urbancic and Andreas Wuestefeld

**Using Microseismicity to Identify and Verify Increased Fracture Complexity During Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations,
Ted Urbancic, Adam Baig, Ken Kocon, and Krystal Tremblay

*A New Method for Microseismic Event Detection and Automatic Time Picking,
Yoones Vaezi and Mirko van der Baan

*An Integrated Workflow for Borehole Image Interpretation – Structural Geology, Sedimentology and Stress Field,
Carsten Vahle and Bernd Ruehlicke

*Application of Acoustic Waveform Tomography to Marine Seismic Reflection Data Contaminated with Strong Guided Waves,
Rajesh Vayavur and Andrew. J. Calvert

*Advantages and Disadvantages of Array Depth Placement and Longer Toolstring Apertures,
N. Verkhovtseva and J. Shaffner

*How to Improve Location Accuracy When Dealing with Artifacts in Microseismic Event Locations,
N. Verkhovtseva

**Rock Physics of Organic Shale and Its Implication,
Lev Vernik, Yulia Khadeeva, and Cris Tuttle

*Reservoir Characterization and Depositional Environment of the Cenonmanian Barons Sandstone – Penny Pool, SW Alberta,
R. W. Vessey and P. K. Pedersen

*Towards Modelling Three-Dimensional Oil Sands Permeability Distribution using Borehole Image Logs,
Kris Vickerman, Paul Heffernan, Sue-Rose Read, and Richard Surtees

*Estimating Q from Hydraulic Fracture Related Seismicity,
Gisela Viegas, Adam Baig, Ted Urbancic, Eric von Lunen, Jason Hendrick, and Sean Lovric

**Pennsylvanian–Early Permian Cyclic Shelf Sedimentation in the Sverdrup Basin at the Time of Contemporaneous Tectonism, SW Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada (Nunavut),
Victoria M. Walker, Daria Baranova, and Benoit Beauchamp

*Maximize the Potential of Seismic Data in Shale Exploration and Production – Examples from the Barnett Shale and the Eagle Ford Shale,
Joanne Wang and Duane Dopkin

*Interacting with Existing 3D Photorealistic Outcrop Models on Site and in the Lab or Classroom, Facilitated with an iPad and a PC,
Miao Wang and Carlos L.V. Aiken

*Time Domain Localized Interpolation of Pre-Stack 3D Seismic Data with Dip Scan in 5D Space,
Xishuo Wang, Jim Laing, and Robert Pinnegar

*Practical Implementation of SRME for Land Multiple Attenuation,
Juefu Wang and Shaowu Wang

*Converted-wave Time Imaging – Nuts and Bolts,
Shaowu Wang, Thomas Hollis, and Wayne Nowry

**The Analysis and Annotation of 3D Photorealistic Geological Outcrop Models,
Miao Wang, Michele Iris Rodriguez-Gomez, Lionel S. White, Jr., Jarvis R. Cline, Mohammed S. Alfarhan, and Carlos L.V. Aiken

*Enhanced Laboratory Methods for Shale Analysis using Low Field NMR Relaxometry,
Kathryn E. Washburn and Justin E. Birdwell

**The Acquisition and Assembly of Large Scale, High Resolution Photorealistic Models of Geological Outcrops,
Lionel S. White, Jr., Jarvis R. Cline, Mohammed S. Alfarhan, Miao Wang, and Carlos L.V. Aiken

*Practical Applications of Seismic Anisotropy,
Philip Wild

*The Eocene Gir Formation of the Ghani and Ed Dib Fields, Eastern Libya – An Example of "Virtual Core Study",
Henry Williams

**A High Resolution sedimentological Assessment : Niton Member of the Fernie Formation, West-central Alberta Subsurface,
Samuel K. Williams, Federico F. Krause, Stefan T. Knopp, Terry P. Poulton, and Christopher L. DeBuhr

*Mapping Concretions in the Clearwater Formation,
Tammy Willmer and Garrett Quinn

*3C Deghosting for Refraction Time-lapse Monitoring,
P. B. Wills and K. De Meersman

*Hydrogeology 101 for the Petroleum Geologist,
J. Wills

*Extending the Montney Fairway – North Montney Resource Play,
Olwen Wirth and Peter Bastian

*Comparing Geology and Well Completions to Production in the Unconventional Cardium Formation, Northern Pembina Field, Alberta, Canada,
Andrew Wiseman and Federico Krause

*Simultaneous Multiple Source Acquisition using m-Sequences,
J. Wong

*Principles for Selection of Coal Bed Methane Well Sites in the Xiashijie Coal Mine Field,
Xiuping Wu, Zaibing Jiang, and Qun Zhang