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CSPG/CSEG/CWLS Convention 2006
What's Next? Where is Our Industry Heading?
May 15-18, 2006 Roundup Centre, Stampede Park &
EUB Core Research Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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CSPG Publications Coordinator, for providing the abstracts.
Search and Discovery Article #90211 (2015)

Posted August 3, 2015

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Efficient Evaluation of Existing and Bypassed Pay in Older Generation Wells – A Cased History,
Stephen Ahloy, Andy Shaw, Glen Horel, and Ben Urlwin

*Reservoir Characteristics of a Quaternary Channel: Incorporating Rock Physics in Seismic and DC Resistivity Surveys,
Jawwad Ahmad and Douglas Schmitt

Enhancements in the Processing of GPR Data at Maax Na, Belize, Central America,
Julie Aitken, Robert Stewart, and John Bancroft

Stoneley: The Permeability Probability Log,
Nabil Al-Adani and Doug Hardman

Enhancing the FOCI Algorithm by Using a Weighted Least-Squares Approach,
Saleh Al-Saleh and Gary Margrave

Designing Wavefield Extrapolators using a Weighted Least-Squares with a Transition Band Approach,
Saleh Al-Saleh, John Bancroft, and Gary Margrave

Seismic While Drilling (SWD) Techniques: A Journey From 1986 to 2006,
Abhishek Anchliya

Pore Pressure Inversion using AVO Information. The Influence of Overburden Changes on Pore Pressure Quantification,
Petar Angelov, Rob Arts, and Kees Wapenaar

Dynamic Evaluation of Leaking Fault and Top Seals,
Andrew Aplin, Kuncho Kurtev, and Steve Larter

Migrating Reflections from the Moho Using a Refraction Velocity Model – An Example from the Slave Craton, NWT,
Joaquin Aristimuno and Claire Samson

Using Fuzzy Logic to Predict Petrophysical Parameters and Improve the Accuracy of Least Squares Regression Analysis,
Joaquin Aristimuno, Milagrosa Aldana, and Anna Atencio

*TTI Anisotropic Depth Migration: Which Tilt Estimate Should We Use?,
Francois Audebert and Volker Dirks

A Single-Shot Measurement of Capillary Pressure Curves Using a Single-Speed Centrifuge and Magnetic Resonance Imaging,
Bruce Balcom, Quan Chen, and Derrick Green

Least-Squares Measurement of Shear-Wave Splitting,
Richard Bale, Jianchao Li, Bruce Mattocks, and Shuki Ronen

Computing Gridded Traveltimes from the Random Locations of Three Known Points,
John Bancroft and Xiang Du

*Destruction of Reservoir Quality by Soil-Imprinting, Mannville Cutbank Sandstones, Lower Cretaceous, Claresholm Region, Southern Alberta,
Friederike Baumeister, Jim Barclay, and Al Stirling

Improving Your Image with Borehole Centred Processing,
Doug Bearinger and Kris Vickerman

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Permian-Triassic Boundary in the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic,
Benoit Beauchamp and Ashton Embry

Nonlinear AR Modeling Using Second Order Volterra Filters,
Soner Bekleric and Mauricio Sacchi

Multioffset Ground Penetrating Radar – Lessons Learned for Improved Geological and Archaeological Imaging and Interpretation,
Brooke Berard and Jean-Michel Maillol

Detection and Analysis of Basement Structures and their Influence on Hydrocarbon Plays on Northeast British Columbia,
Zeev Berger

New Technology, New Thinking in the BMB,
Christopher Bergquist, Peter Graham, and Ian Freeland

**Non-First-Break Solution for Shallow Velocity Anomaly Problem,
Emil Blias

*Automatic High-Density Constrained Velocity Picking,
Emil Blias

AVO Effects and Velocity Analysis,
Emil Blias

Simulteneously Acquring 3D-3C Well Data During 3D Surface Seismic Survey: A Useful Quality Control Tool,
E.L Bongajum

**High Resolution Characterization of Reservoir Heterogeneity with Cross-well Seismic Data – A Feasibility Study,
Brad Bonnell, Chuck Hurich, and Rudi Meyer

Progress Towards Understanding Petroleum Potential of the Lancaster Sound Region, Northern Nunavut,
T. Brent, G. Oakey, and J. Harrison

Clay Mineralogy and Chemistry of Cretaceous Shales from Athabasca Oil Sands,
Samantha Brough and Ron Spencer

The Quaternary Geology of Orphan Basin: Applications to Geohazard Evaluation for Hydrocarbon Exploration,
Calvin Campbell, David Piper, and Efthymios Tripsanas

Converted-Wave Processing in the Presence of Large Shear-Wave Splitting,
Peter Cary and Xinxiang Li

The Influence of an Anisotropic Overburden on Azimuthal AVO,
Peter Cary and Xinxiang Li

A Critical Assessment of Current Sequence Stratigraphic Models,
Octavian Catuneanu

Identifying Nisku Porosity with Geostatistical Inversion: A Field Example,
Case Caulfield and Marina Feroci

Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Attributes of the Late Devonian Duperow Formation, Southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada,
Xiaochun Cen and Osman Salad Hersi

*To TTI or not to TTI? Semi-Automated 3D Tomographic Velocity Analysis in the Canadian Foothills: A Case History,
Sylvestre Charles, David Mitchell, Rob Holt, Jiwu Lin, and John Mathewson

**Data Mining and Exploratory Statistics to Visualize Fractures and Migration Paths in the WCBS,
Jean-Yves Chatellier and Michael Chatellier

Interpretation of Baseline Multicomponent Seismic Data at the Violet Grove CO2 Injection Site, Alberta,
Fuju Chen and Don Lawton

**AVO Inversion in Marine Gas Hydrate Studies,
Marc-André Chen, Stan Dosso, George Spence, Michael Riedel, and Roy Hyndman

Integrated Fracture Characterization for a Foothill Tight Gas Reservoir,
Jiajie (Jeff) Chen, Mark Petersen, Pauline Chung, and William Jamison

Pore Pressure Patterns in Tertiary Aquifers and Hydrodynamic Implications, Beaufort Sea and Mackenzie Delta Basin, Canada,
Zhuoheng Chen, Kirk Osadetz, Dale Issler, and Stephen Grasby

Curvature Attribute Applications to Seismic Data,
Satinder Chopra, Kurt Marfurt, and Vladimir Alexeev

Seismic Resolution and Thin Bed Reflectivity Inversion,
Satinder Chopra and John Castagna

Spectral Decomposition Applications,
Satinder Chopra, John Castagna, and Vladimir Alexeev

Next-Generation Cross-Plotting Techniques for Assessing Reservoir Quality,
Murray Christie and Fred DuPont

*Integrated Open-Source Geophysical Processing and Visualization,
Glenn Chubak and Igor Morozov

Barnett Shale-Woodford Shale Play of the Delaware Basin – Is it Another Giant Shale Gas Field in Texas?,
Robert Cluff

*Dolomitization of the Presqu'ile Barrier: An Alternative Paleohydrological Model,
Mario Coniglio, Dave Morrow, and Nick Wilson

A Proactive Approach to Lifecycle Environmental Management in the Oil and Gas Industry,
Mick Cook

*Isotope Geochemistry of Fault Zone Samples from the Livingstone Range Anticlinorium and their Significance to the Thermal and Fluid History of the Southern Canadian Foreland Fold and Thrust Belt,
Michael Cooley, Raymond Price, John Dixon, and Kurtis Kyser

Exploration Offshore West Greenland: An Emerging Frontier Rift Basin with Significant Hydrocarbon Potential,
Mark Cooper, Robert Gardner, Neil Ethier, and J. Chameroy

Play Fairway Analysis using GIS based Common Risk Segment Mapping,
Mark Cooper, Arnie Ferster, and J.C. Chameroy

**Violet Grove CO2 Injection Project: Monitoring with Timelapse VSP Surveys,
Marcia Couëslan, Don Lawton, and Michael Jones

Sedimentology of the Lower Cretaceous Sparky Formation, Marsden South Sparky Pool, Lloydminister Area,
Erin Crerar, George Calow, Dale Leckie, and Bob Robson

Stratigraphic Discontinuities, Characterized by Palimpsest Softground Trace Fossil Suites in the Viking Formation, Alberta,
Lynn Dafoe, George Pemberton, and James MacEachern

*Seismic Imaging of Imbricate Structures in Mountainous Area: Case Studies,
Nanxun Dai, Oz Yilmaz, Weizhong Wang, and Jie Zhang

Conventional Natural Gas Resources of Northeastern British Columbia,
James Davidson, Bobbi Feduniak, Mark Hayes, Warren Walsh, and Christopher Adams

The Exploration Applications of Aeromagnetic Data to the WCSB North of 60ºN,
Jim Davies

Expanding Foothills Exploration in Muskwa – Kechika,
Mark Davies and Jeff Witter

Origin of Mottled Fabrics and Nodules in Silurian Dolostones of the Niagara Escarpment, Ontario,
Lona-Kate Dekeyser, Mario Coniglio, Anthony Endres, and Frank Brunton

Micrite-Cored Carbonate Bioherms of Eastern Anticosti Island, Québec, Canada,
John-Paul Derochie and Federico Krause

Distribution and Origin of "Anomalously Thick Sandstone Bodies" in the Middle Triassic Doig Formation, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin,
James Dixon

Sequence Analysis of Middle Triassic Strata in the Subsurface of Western Canada Sedimentary Basin,
James Dixon

Challenges in Seismic Reservoir Characterization and Monitoring – A Geo-modelling Perspective,
Philippe Doyen

Two Prestack Anisotropic Depth Migration Methods for Tilted TI Media,
Xiang Du, John Bancroft, Don Lawton, and Larry Lines

**Vp/Vs Ratio of a Heavy Oil Reservoir from Canada,
Carmen Dumitrescu and Larry Lines

**Case Study of a Cadomin Gas Reservoir (Leland) in the Deep Basin: From Deterministic Inversion to Neural Network Analysis,
Carmen Dumitrescu and Fred Mayer

Constraints Mapping in Support of Oil and Gas Exploration and Development,
Tim Van Egmond and Tom Graham

Oil – Source Correlation within Triassic Petroleum Systems of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin,
Nina Ejezie, Martin Fowler, and Cindy Riediger

The Middle Triassic Sequence of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Islands,
Ashton Embry

Four Systems Tracts: Useful Methodology or Model-Driven, Wishful Thinking?,
Ashton Embry

A Potpourri of Reservoir Rocks from the Mesozoic Strata of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Islands,
Ashton Embry

*Compression Modified Extensional Structures (CMES) of the Canadian Atlantic Passive Margin,
Michael Enachescu and John Hogg

Snapshots of New Geological Framework and Energy Resource Studies in the Frontier Bowser and Sustut Basins, North-Central British Columbia,
Carol Evenchick, Kirk Osadetz, Lavern Stasiuk, Margot McMechan, Peter Mustard, and David Snyder

Provenance Studies on the Bowser and Sustut Basins, and their Implications for the Depositional History of the Bowser Basin and Regional Tectonic Models,
Carol Evenchick, Vicki McNicoll, Terry Poulton, and Peter Mustard

New Insight Into Secondary Porosity Generation and Reservoir Rock Characterization of the Heavy Oil Bearing Bakken Formation in the Elbow Basin, West-Central Saskatchewan, Canada,
Hasan Ferdous

**Viking Lowstand Deposits in West Central Saskatchewan: Depositional Model for the Reservoir Units in Dodsland-Hoosier Area, Saskatchewan, Canada,
Hasan Ferdous, Katherine Bergman, and Hairuo Qing

Athabasca Oil Sands Deposit in the Fort McMurray Area, Alberta (Canada): Recognizing Geological Complexity and Reservoir Rock Heterogeneity,
Hasan Ferdous

Preliminary Seismic Interpretation and Maps for the Paleogene – Neogene (Tertiary) Succession, Orphan Basin,
Renee Burton-Ferguson, Michael Enachescu, and Richard Hiscott

Statics and Trace Regularization,
Robert Ferguson

Southern Nechako Basin: Preliminary Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology and its Bearing on Petroleum Prospectivity,
Filippo Ferri, Janet Riddell, and Paul O'Sullivan

Porosity, Permeability and Petrographic Analysis of Twenty-Two Bowser Lake and Skeena Group Hand Samples, Bowser Basin,
Filippo Ferri, Iftikhar Abid, Janet Riddell, and Phil Haig

Apatite Fission Track Results from the Northwestern Bowser Basin: Constraints on Latest Cretaceous Through Cenozoic Thermal History and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity,
Filippo Ferri, Paul O'Sullivan, Raymond Donelick, Carol Evenchick, and Kirk Osadetz

Mannville CBM Projects in Alberta: Are They Economically Viable?,
Mike Finn, Murray Rodgers, and Dana Codding

Commercial CBM Production at Corbett Creek – An Evolving Exploitation Strategy,
Mike Finn, Murray Rodgers, and Dana Codding

*Steam Injection Seismic Monitoring Experiment,
Eric Forgues, Julien Meunier, Christian Hubans, and Rick Edwards

**Steam Injection Seismic Monitoring Experiment in Northern Alberta,
Eric Forgues, Julien Meunier, and Christian Hubans

The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Belly River Group Coals of SW Saskatchewan, Canada,
Michael Frank and Doyin Akinbiyi

Dolomitization and Dedolomitization of the Middle Devonian Winnipegosis Carbonates in South-central Saskatchewan,
Qilong Fu, Hairuo Qing, and Katherine Bergman

Geological Controls on Bitumen Heterogeneity in Athabasca Oil Sands,
Milovan Fustic, Barry Bennett, and Steve Larter

**Reservoir and Bitumen Heterogeneity in Athabasca Oil Sands,
Milovan Fustic, Khalis Ahmed, Sammi Brough, Barry Bennett, Lorraine Bloom, Michèle Asgar-Deen, Olufemi Jokanola, Ron Spencer, and Steve Larter

Petrophysical Evaluation of Carbonates from the Weyburn Oil Field using Synchrotron X-ray Computed Microtomography (CMT),
Chad Glemser, Tom Kotzer, Steve Whittaker, and Chris Hawkes

**Mackenzie Delta: A Case of One Residual Gravity Anomaly and 16 Dry Exploration Wells,
Serguei Goussev, Robert Charters, and John Peirce

Back to the Future! – Rejuvenation of a Billion Barrel Oil Field, Weyburn CO2 EOR project, Saskatchewan,
Andrew Graham, David Cooper, and Geoff Burrowes

Mud-Mounds: The Key to Increasing Oil and Gas Production in the Carboniferous?,
Breanne Graham and Federico Krause

A Comparison of Two Plays: Mud-Mounds of the Seal Area and the Normandville Area, North Central Alberta,
Breanne Graham and Federico Krause

**Angle Gathers for Gaussian Beam Depth Migration,
Samuel Gray

*Seismic Anisotropy in Coal Beds,
David Gray

Spherical-Wave AVO Modelling in VTI Media,
Arnim Haase and Charles Ursenbach

Intrinsic and Apparent Seismic Attenuation in VSP Data,
Arnim Haase and Robert Stewart

Assessing the Success of Pre-Stack Inversion in a Heavy Oil Reservoir: Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation at Surmont,
Matt Hall, Baishali Roy, and Phil Anno

Fracture-Swarm Sweet Spots,
Bruce Hart

Blind Thrusts and Fault Propagation Folds in the Upper Cretaceous Alberta Group, Deep Basin: Implications for Tight-Gas Reservoirs,
Bruce Hart

Blind Thrusts and Fault-Propagation Folds in the Alberta Group, Deep Basin: Implications for Tight-Gas Reservoirs,
Bruce Hart, Bogdan Varban, Guy Plint, and Kurt Marfurt

**Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) of Turner Valley Airborne Gravity Data in the Foothills of Alberta, Canada,
Hassan Hassan

**Mapping Magnetic Lineaments in the Foothills of Northeastern British Columbia using 2-D Wavelet Transform,
Hassan Hassan

Utilization of Perforation Inflow Diagnostics (PID) to Help Characterize Tight Gas Formations – Pre Frac,
Robert Hawkes

Sediment Supply vs. Accelerating Tectonic Subsidence: An Uphill Struggle for the Last Dunvegan Deltas,
Michael Hay and Guy Plint

*P- and S-Wave Velocity Measurements and Pressure Sensitivity Analysis of AVA Response,
Tiewei He and Douglas Schmitt

What are the Benefits of Digital Geophones - and How Long is a Piece of String?,
Robert Heath and Norman Cooper

The Mega-Merge – 45 Contiguous Townships of Seismic Data in Alberta,
Chris Heaver, Alberto Galleguillos, Josef Heim, and William Lok

*Experimental Anisotropy Results in Alberta Shales,
Darrel Hemsing and Douglas Schmitt

*Statics or Statistics?–The Near-Surface Revisited,
David Henley

Subsurface Stratigraphic Mapping of the Middle Devonian Carbonates: Beaver River Gas Field, Liard Basin, Northeastern British Columbia,
Osman Salad Hersi, Akhtar Khan, and Warren Walsh

Exploration Success in Northern Oman: PDO Opens up an Unconventional Oil Play,
Stephen Hiebert, Mohamed Mazrui, Mohamed Al-Harthy, Kester Harris, Mohsin Al Hadhrami, Mark Shuster, and Bastian Blonk

Integrated Time Lapse Seismic Inversion for Heavy Oil Applications,
Keith Hirsche, Brian Russell, and Dan Hampson

Reducing Uncertainty in Time-Lapse Seismic Interpretation for Thermal Applications,
Keith Hirsche and Francis Ma

The Sedimentology and Ichnology of the Falher D Member, Deep Basin, West-Central Alberta: Effects of Bioturbation in Low Permeable Gas Prone Reservoirs,
Trevor Hoffman, M. Gingras, and S. Pemberton

Sedimentology, Ichnology, and Depositional History of the Falher D Member – Presence of a Wave-dominated Delta?,
Trevor Hoffman, M. Gingras, and S. Pemberton

Thin Bed Resolution by Estimating Resistivity Profiles from Porosity Log Responses,
Michael Holmes, Antony Holmes, and Dominic Holmes

*Constraining Anisotropy – Lessons from 2D Modeling,
Rob Holt

Leveling the Playing Field: Exploration Economics in Western Canada,
David Hood

**Siliciclastic Sedimentation in Paleocaves of the Pekisko Formation, Twining Field,
John Hopkins, Susan Reid, and Andrew Nimmo

Advances in Formation Gas Measurements using Pulsed Neutron Instrumentation with Examples from the WCSB,
Glen Horel, Steve Ahloy, Andy Shaw, and Darryl Trcka

**Seismic Imaging of Gas Hydrate Distribution – A Case Study,
Jun-Wei Huang

Recent Advances and Future Challenges in Geopressure Prediction,
Alan Huffman

Combining Geology and Prestack Seismic for Structural Model Building in the Gaspé Belt (Québec, Canada),
Anne Jardin, Martin Bêche, Karine Broto, Dave Saucier, and Donna Kirkwood

An Integrated Petroleum Systems Study of the Saglek Basin,
Christopher Jauer, Gordon Oakey, and J. Wielens

Cap Rock Failures in Petroleum Systems-Case studies from the Snorre Oilfield, Tampen Spur, North Sea and Taglu Gas field, Beaufort Mackenzie Delta,
Olufemi Jokanola, Steve Larter, Andrew Aplin, Katie Bond, Berni Bowler, Kuncho Kurtev, Dale Issler, Kezhen Hu, and Cynthia Riediger

The Flathead Valley, Southeastern British Columbia: Canada's Railroad Valley?,
Peter Jones

**A Southern North Sea Multi-Survey preSDM using Hybrid Gridded Tomography,
Ian Jones, Emma Evans, Darren Judd, Alan Campbell, and Steve Elam

Predicting Dolomite Geobodies: Exploitable Insights from Reactive Transport Models,
Gareth Jones and Yitian Xiao

2003-2005: Recent Discoveries in WCSB and Williston Basins,
Tracey Jungwirth and Ed Fogg

*How to Attenuate Diffracted Noise: (DSCAN) A New Methodology,
Ali Karagul, Todd Mojesky, XinXiang Li, and Necati Gulunay

A Potential Outcrop Analogue for a Secondary Reservoir in the Mccully Gas Field, Sussex, New Brunswick: Lithofacies and Spectral Gamma-Ray Analysis,
Dave Keighley and Devin Mohan

**Selected Core from the Albert Formation (Mississippian), Moncton Basin, Southern New Brunswick,
Dave Keighley and Clint St. Peter

Passive Seismic Montoring and Stress-Field Variations,
Michael Kendall, Abdullah Al-Anboori, and Kristof de Meersman

Unconventional Gas – Prediction and Production,
Salman Khalid, Ken Faurschou, and John Kovacs

Variation in Oil Biodegradation Level Along Long Horizontal Well Sections in Tar Sand Reservoirs,
Tamer Koksalan, Haiping Huang, Barry Bennett, Jennifer Adams, Steve Larter, and Yuhong Liao

Looking Back to the 1970's: Blue-H28 – A Historical and World Record Breaking Well Drilled in 1979 in the Orphan Basin, Newfoundland – Why It Was Drilled & Why It is Important Today,
Tako Koning

**State A Marker Oil Production within the Williston Basin of Southeast Saskatchewan (Mississippian, Frobisher Beds),
John Lake and Donald Kent

New Geological Compilation of the Liard – La Biche Region Provides New Insights into Cordilleran Structural Evolution,
Larry Lane, Karen Fallas, and Lisel Currie

Optimizing Channel Sand Delineation using Full-Wave Seismic Interpretation,
Ron Larson and Murray Roth

The Origin and Impact of Fluid Heterogeneity on Production Characteristics of Heavy Oilfields,
Steve Larter, Jennifer Adams, Ian Gates, Barry Bennett, Haiping Huang, Tamer Koksalan, Milovan Fustic, and Dennis Coombe

A Preliminary Ichnofacies Model for the Avalon and Ben Nevis Formations, White Rose Field, Offshore Newfoundland,
Andrew Lawfield, Ron Pickerill, Karl Butler, and Murray K. Gingras

Controlling Water Risks in Extra Heavy Oil Environment,
Gaël Le Parc, Elsy Pereira, Gilles Vincent, Jean-Marc Ichbia, and Atle Johannesen

Differentiation of Productive Zones in the Milk River Using Multi-Frequency Gradient Magnetic Field Side Looking NMR,
James Lee, Stephen Ahloy, Glen Horel, and Andy Shaw

Optimizing Cost and Time Benefits of Satellite Imaging and GIS Technologies in Oil and Gas Exploration,
Marc Lehmann and Kevin Seidel

Water Chemistry of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs,
Tony Lemay

*Monte Carlo Statics: The Last Frontier,
David LeMeur and Sophie Merrer

**CGG 3D Surface-Related Multiple Modelling: A Unique Approach,
David Le Meur, Antonio Pica, and Terje Weisser

Petroleum Resource Potential of Northern Mainland Sedimentary Basins of the Mackenzie Corridor,
Yvon Lemieux and Leanne Pyle

Lateral Variability Within the Cadotte Shoreline Complex (Elmworth Gas Field): Breaking Out Depositional Packages Within an Extensive Sandstone-Conglomerate Body,
Curtis Lettley

Permeability Analysis in Horseshoe Canyon Coals using Open-Hole and Cased-Hole Logs,
Gareth Lewis

*Building Better Models – Making Full Use of Petrophysical Data,
Elizabeth L'Heureux

Petroleum Systems of the Tertiary-Reservoired Oils in the Beaufort Mackenzie Basin: A New Perspective from the Quantitative Whole Oil GC/MS and Saturate GC/MS/MS Data,
Maowen Li, Sneh Achal, Rachel Robinson, Marina Milovic, Zhuoheng Chen, Lloyd Snowdon, and Dale Issler

**3D Aeromagnetic Mapping of the Williston Basin Basement,
Jiakang Li and Igor Morozov

Approach to a Precise Geologic Model of a Point Bar, McMurray Formation, Southern Athabasca Oil Sands Area,
Shaohua Li, Erik Lyngberg, Chris Bloomer, and Charles Henderson

Land Demultiple without Velocity Discrimination: Tau-P Deconvolution on High Fold Desert Data,
Qiang Li and Shelton Hubbell

**Reservoir Characterization of Plover Lake Heavy-Oil Field,
Larry Lines, Joan Embleton, Mathew Fay, Steve Larter, Tony Settari, Bruce Palmiere, Carl Reine, and Douglas Schmitt

Duplex Wave Migration – Imaging Vertical Boundaries,
Brian Link and Naum Marmalevsky

Well-Seismic Bandwidth and Time-Lapse Seismic Characterization: Physical Considerations,
Yinbin Liu, Don Lawton, and Gary Margrave

Identification of High Porosity Sands using the Bayesian Decision Theory of Pattern Recognition,
Luiz Geraldo Loures and Igor Lopes

Bayesian Reservoir Characterization of a Turbiditic Reservoir, Offshore, Brazil,
Luiz Loures and Fernando de Moraes

Hydrocarbon Source Rock Potential of the Whitehorse Trough, a Frontier Basin in Southern Yukon,
Grant Lowey, D. Long, Martin Fowler, Vern Stasiuk, and Art Sweet

Interpretation, Geomodeling and Simulation: Evaluation of Ben Nevis-Avalon 'N' Fault Block in Hibernia Field,
Michelle Lund, Ian Watson, Ivan Kosik, and Fred Haynes

Basement Structure in the Alberta Basin, Canada from Gravity and Magnetic Studies,
Henry Lyatsky, Dinu Pana, Matt Grobe, Glen Meerburg, and Lorraine Godwin

Color and Polarity of Seismic Terrain Displays,
Steven Lynch

*Prestack Depth Migration with the Gabor Transform,
Yongwang Ma and Gary Margrave

Attributes of Zoeppritz Elastic Impedance,
Jinfeng Ma and Igor Morozov

Approximation-Free AVO Attributes,
Jinfeng Ma and Igor Morozov

Can the "Dolomite Problem" be Solved?,
Hans Machel

Nunavut: The Untapped Petroleum Frontier,
Gordon MacKay and Peter Frampton

Modelling Assessment of Oil Sands Pit Lakes Turn-Over Potential,
Ian Mackenzie, Jerry Vandenberg, Nicolas Lauzon, and Andrews Takyi

Subsurface Mapping, Cambrian to Cretaceous, Great Bear and Mackenzie Plains Northwest Territories,
Bernard MacLean

Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Petroleum Reservoir Cores,
Florea Marica, Quan Chen, Bruce Balcom, Tom Al, Karl Butler, and Murray Gingras

Seismic Facies Classification Using a Visual-Based Method, Part 1: Theoretical Basis,
Ivan Marroquin, Jean Jules Brault, and Bruce Hart

Seismic Facies Classification Using a Visual-Based Method, Part 2: Application to 3D Seismic Data,
Iván Marroquin, Bruce Hart, and Jean Jules Brault

Dolomitization Models for the Frobisher and Midale Beds in the Steelman Field, Southeastern Saskatchewan,
Arden Marsh and Andrew Nimegeers

A Major Onshore Carboniferous Basin Development: McCully Field, New Brunswick,
Tom Martel and Paul Durling

The Wabiskaw B Reservoir of the Kirby-Primrose Area; Depositional and Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Properties,
Edward Mathison

Integrated Anisotropic Velocity Modeling Using Perforation Shots, Passive Seismic and VSP Data,
Shawn Maxwell, Julie Shemeta, and Nancy House

The Evolution of AVO use for Cadomin Exploration in Leland Area of Alberta,
Fred Mayer and Carmen Dumitrescu

Neural Network Analysis of Seismic Attributes and Facies at Deep Basin Tight Gas Exploration of WCSB,
Derrick McClure, Fenglin Xia, Peter Luxton, and Curtis Booth

Fluid Contact Prediction at Hibernia Field, Offshore Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada,
Glen McCrimmon, Robert Stokes, Bill Scott, Peter Vrolijk, Bill Richards, and John Eastwood

New Advances in Production Logging in Deviated Multiphase Wells,
Jim McDonald

Gas Field Characterization Through the Use of Multi-Resolution Seismic Attributes,
Robert McGrory, Robert Pinnegar, and Robert Stewart

A Refined Approach to Subsurface Structural Mapping for the Alberta Basin Using Well Log Data, Trend Surface Analysis and Geostatistics,
Shilong Mei

*Porosity of Meteorite Impact Rocks: Inferences from Geophysical and Petrophysical Studies from the Lake Bosumtwi Impact Crater, Ghana,
Damien Meillieux, Douglas Schmitt, Meghan Brown, Marek Welz, Tiewei He, Bernd Milkereit, Tobias Karp, Christopher Scholz, and Sylvester Danour

**How to Look at Frontier Basins: An example from the Canadian Arctic,
Robert Meneley

**Exploration in the Parry Islands and Cornwallis Fold Belts: Canadian Arctic,
Robert Meneley

*Velocity Updating for Converted-Wave Prestack Time Migration,
Xiaogui Miao

*Attenuation, Velocity Dispersion and the Fate of the Vibroseis Signal,
Bernd Milkereit, Flora Sun, Wei Qian, and Thomas Bohlen

*Wavelet Estimation by Non-Linear Optimization of All-Pass Operators,
Somanath Misra and Mauricio Sacchi

*Properties of Oil Sands and Bitumen in Athabasca,
Hisako Mochinaga, S. Onozuka, Fumio Kono, Toyokazu Ogawa, Akihisa Takahashi, and Takahiro Torigoe

*Near Surface Anomalies and Solutions,
Todd Mojesky, David LeMeur, and Ali Karagul

Advances in Seismic Data Acquisition,
David Monk

*Reflectivity Color Correction in Gabor Deconvolution,
Carlos Montana and Gary Margrave

A New Log Interpretation Technique for Evaluating Thin-Bedded, Sand-Shale Sequences,
Chris Morriss, Tom Barber, Richard Rosthal, and Hanming Wang

*Geological Atlas of the Northern Canadian Mainland Sedimentary Basin,
David Morrow

Shale Gas Prospects of the Carboniferous Sediments from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, Eastern Canada,
Prasanta Mukhopadhyay and Martel Tom

Efficient and Effective Full-Wave OBC: Tools and Techniques,
James Musser and Felix Bircher

FX and FK Interpolation Methods and Further Developments for Irregularly Spaced Traces,
Mostafa Naghizadeh and Mauricio Sacchi

What are you Interpreting? Is your Seismic Image Flawed?,
Rachel Newrick, Jim Pullishy, and Elvira Gomez

Saskatchewan's Natural Gas in Coal: Geology, Regulations, and Strategies,
Erik Nickel

*Hydrocarbon Potential in Coated-Grain Banks of the Mississippian Frobisher Beds, Southeastern Saskatchewan,
Andrew Nimegeers and Arden Marsh

Oil Sand 'Ore' Characterization Using Low-Field Magnetic Resonance,
Yanping Niu and Apostolos Kantzas

Deeply-Rooted Bathymmetric Control on the Deposition of the Falher F Conglomerate Trend, Wapiti Field, Deep Basin, Alberta,
Byron Nodwell and Bruce Hart

A New Exploration Strategy for Lower Paleozoic Petroleum Systems in Williston Basin,
K.G. Osadetz, F.M. Haidl, B.P. Kohn, S. Feinstein, L.K. Kreis, and P.B. O'Sullivan

A Re-examination of Beaufort Sea-Mackenzie Delta Basin Gas Hydrate Resource Potential Using a Petroleum Play Approach,
Kirk Osadetz and Zhuoheng Chen

Reservoirs, Petroleum Systems and Exploration Challenges in the Intermontane Basins of British Columbia,
Kirk Osadetz, Fil Ferri, Erik Thorsteinsson, Chungquing Jiang, Lavern Stasiuk, Carol Evenchick, and N.S.F. Wilson

Indications of the Roles that Gas Hydrates Could Play in Future Natural Gas Developments,
Kirk Osadetz, Steven Hancock, and Tadahiro Okazawa

Wave Equation Depth Migration with Image Gathers in Offset Domain,
Jianhua Pan

Using Bayesian Inference to Compute Facies-Fluid Probabilities,
John Pendrel, Cheran Mangat, and Marina Feroci

Merging Technologies – High Resolution Seismic Inversion,
John Pendrel, Cheran Mangat, Marina Feroci, and Miles Leggett

Identifying Hydrocarbon Potential in Shale Dominated Thinly Bedded Clastic Reservoirs,
Peter Phillips and Phillip Levine

Triassic and Wabamun Carbonates: Effects of Pore Geometry on Resistivity Logs,
Allan Pickel

*Time-Frequency Polarization Analysis and Filtering,
Robert Pinnegar

Evolving Depocentres and Depositional Systems in Cenomanian-Turonian (Dunvegan, Kaskapau and Blackstone) Strata, Alberta and British Columbia: Responses to Cordilleran Tectonic Activity,
Guy Plint, Aditya Tyagi, Bogdan Varban, and Michael Kreitner

**Downhole Geochemical Analysis of Gas Content and Critical Desorption Pressure for Carbonaceous Reservoirs,
John Pope, Daniel Buttry, Robert Lamarre, Bret Noecker, Steven MacDonald, Brian LaReau, Patrick Malone, Neil Van Lieu, Daniel Petroski, Matthew Accurso, David Harak, Richard Kutz, Stephen Luker, and Raymond Martin

Regional Geoscience Studies and Petroleum Potential, Peel Plateau and Plain, Northern Mackenzie Corridor,
Leanne Pyle, Adrienne Jones, Len Gal, and Grant Abbott

Modeling on Frequency Dependent Attenuation – Effects of Viscosity,
Xun Qi and Douglas Schmitt

Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy, and Petrology of Marine Firm/Hardgrounds: Middle Triassic Halfway Formation, West-Central, Alberta,
Mark Radomski, Charles Henderson, Tom Moslow, and John-Paul Zonneveld

Origin and Correlation of Erosional Surfaces within the Middle Triassic Halfway Formation, West-Central Alberta,
Mark Radomski, T. Moslow, and C. Henderson

Game Changing Sampling Technology,
Tribor Rakela

Emerging Model for the Interpretation of the McMurray Formation in the Athabasca Oil Sands,
Michael Ranger and Murray Gingras

Variability and Shale Gas Potential of Milk River Formation Shales in Southwestern Saskatchewan,
Cindy Robinson, Ron Spencer, and Steve Larter

Evolving Depocentres and Depositional Systems in the Late Albian (Joli Fou, Viking, Paddy, Westgate and Shaftesbury) Strata of Alberta and British Columbia: Responses to Cordilleran Tectonic Activity,
Xavier Roca, Jessica Rylaarsdam, Heng Zhang, Guy Plint, and Claudia Schröder-Adams

Shale Gas Development in Alberta: The Role of the Alberta Geological Survey,
Dean Rokosh and Andrew Beaton

Re-evaluation of Gas Shale Reservoir Characterization: Applicability of CBM Analogues,
Daniel Ross and Marc Bustin

The Challenge of a New Global Competitive Environment,
Sandy Rushworth, Alex Chakhmakhchev, and Philip H. Stark

Coal Characterization for Coal Bed Methane Production,
Fottiny Saites, Rong Guo, Guojin Wang, Karin Mannhardt, and Apostolos Kantzas

Advances in Low Mobility Formation Pressure Measurement,
Greg Schlachter

Geochemical Exploration in Deserts of North Africa and the Middle East: Strategies for Success,
Dietmar Schumacher, Luis Clavijo Clavareau, and Daniel Hitzman

Seepage-Induced Magnetic Anomalies Associated with Oil and Gas Fields: Onshore and Offshore Examples,
Dietmar Schumacher and Robert Foote

The Hydrocarbon Potential of the Queen Charlotte Basin,
Torge Schümann, K. Rohr, and M. Whiticar

Constraining the Timing of Maturation and Type of Hydrocarbon Generated in the Bowser Basin, BC Using 1D Petroleum Systems Modeling,
Torge Schümann and Filippo Ferri

Integration of Core and Ultra High Resolution Well Log Data to Identify Thin Beds and Bed Boundaries: Implications for Non-Conventional Reservoirs,
Michael Seifert, Kate Boutette, and Garth Sloan

Structural Analysis Using Borehole Images: Examples from the Foothills of Western Canada,
Richard Shang, James Kovats, and Malcolm Lamb

Modelling Alberta's Base of Groundwater Protection Surface,
Dustin Shauer and Tony Lemay

Garbage In, Garbage Out – Making Metadata Portable,
Terry Sinton

Application of Gravity Surveying to Recent Ontario Oil and Gas Exploration,
Allan Spector

Constraints on the Origin of Dolomite in the Middle Cambrian Eldon Formation at Mt. Wapta from Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Data,
Ron Spencer

**Integration of 4D Seismic Data and the Dynamic Reservoir Model – Revealing New Targets in Gannet C,
Rob Staples, Andrew Cook, John Braisby, and Alison Mabillard

**Time-Lapse (4D) Seismic Monitoring – Expanding Applications,
Rob Staples, Jan Stammeijer, Scott Jones, Jon Brain, Frans Smit, and Paul Hatchell

Thermal Maturity, Source Rocks and Hydrocarbons in Cretaceous and Devonian Strata Within Summit Creek B-44 Exploration well, Central Mackenzie Valley, NWT, Canada,
Lavern Stasiuk, Martin Fowler, Art Stirrett, and Lloyd Snowdon

Dynamical Numerical Models of Thin-Skinned Thrust-and-Fold Belts: Linkages Between Structural Style and Foreland Deposition,
Glen Stockmal, Chris Beaumont, Mai Nguyen, and Bonny Lee

Where is Sequence Stratigraphy Going? Stratigraphy – Quo Vadis?,
Taras Storey

Regional Tectonic and Petrophysical Study in and Around the Weyburn Oil Field, Southern Saskatchewan,
Sándor Süle, Zoltan Hajnal, Bhaskar Pandit, and Jeff Closson

*Velocity Dispersion in Field Seismic Data: Impact, Detection and Application,
Langqiu Sun

Improvement and Analysis of Current NMR Permeability Models with Core NMR Measurements,
Deming Sun and Apostolos Kantzas

Lower Cretaceous Sequence Stratigraphy of the North Carolina Coastal Plain – An analogue for North Atlantic Basins,
Richard Sunde and Brian P. Coffey

Converging on a Single Datum,
Kathy Taerum

Azimuthal Anisotropy as a Potential Fracture Diagnostic from 3D Surface Seismic Data: Example from Wildcat Hills, Alberta,
Draga Talinga and Don Lawton

**Evolution of NE Africa and the Greater Caucasus: Common Patterns and Petroleum Potential,
Ed Tawadros, Dmitry Ruban, and Malahat Efendiyeva

Superimposed Folding, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Canada,
James Taylor

Are the Foothills Slipping?,
George Thomson and Lisa Dell'Angelo

Picking the Sweet Spot using Rock Physics,
Ken Titchkosky and Richard Thompson