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ABSTRACTS
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AAPG Mid-Continent Section Meeting
New Technologies in the Mid-Continent
October 12-15, 2013, Wichita, Kansas
Hosted by Kansas Geological Society
Appreciation is expressed to
Douglas Davis, General Chair, W. Lynn Watney, Technical Program Chair and
Ernie Morrison, Poster Chair
for providing the abstracts and information for the MCS mobile application
Search and Discovery Article #90176 (2013)

Posted September 30, 2013

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An Integrated Approach to Reservoir Characterization and Geo-Cellular Modeling in an Unconventional Reservoir: The Woodford Play,
      Dicman Alfred, Benjamin Ramirez, Jesus Rodriguez, and Kimbery Hlava

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Chemical Flooding the Lansing-Kansas City Formation in Kansas,
      Mark Ballard

A New Environmentally- and Equipment-friendly Blend for Matrix Acidizing and Acid Fracturing of Limestone Formations,
      Reza Barati, Kyle Taylor, Daniel Ackwith, and Tyler Betz

Quantifying Spatial Depositional Patterns and Heterogeneity of Oolites within a Pleistocene Tidal-Bar Belt: An Analog for Carbonate Sand Reservoirs,
      Clint Barefoot, Jeffrey Byrnes, Michael Grammer, and James Puckette

Mapping Mississippian Tripolite Pods from 3D Seismic Data in Osage County, OK,
      Richard Benson and Christopher Liner

High Resolution Conodont Biostratigraphy of Osagean (upper Tournaisian and early Visean) Strata of North America,
      Darwin Boardman, Thomas Thompson, Cory Godwin, Sal Mazzullo, and Brian Willhite

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Geochemical Assessment of Secondary Oil Recovery, and Assessing Potential Quantification of CO2 Sequestration in the underlying Saline Arbuckle Aquifer,
      Brent Campbell, Robinson Barker, Saugata Datta, Martin Dubois, Guiherme Hoerle, Eugene Holubynak, Lynn Watney, Dana Wreath, and Tiraz Birdie

Mississippian Fractured Chert in Southeastern Kansas,
      Chris Carson and Shane Matson

Case Studies: Fault Identification Using Borehole Image Log for Mississippian Limestone Horizontal Well Completion Design,
      Yinghao Chen, Bruce Miller, Charles Wickstrom, and Shane Matson

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Upper Jurassic Smackover Stratal Relationships of the Little Cedar Creek and Brooklyn Fields and possible Embayment Wide Microbolite Buildups,
      Kyle L. Day

Pore Size and Textural Analysis of Carbonates from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging : an Arbuckle Case Study,
      John Doveton

Mapping Tripolitic Chert, Tight Limestone, and Tight Chert by Crossplotting 3D Seismic Inversion Attributes: An example from Osage County, OK,
      Benjamin Dowdell, Kurt Marfurt, and J. Kwiatkowski

CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Sequestration Potential of the Mississippian Chester Incised Valley Reservoir System, Haskell and Seward Counties, Kansas,
      Martin Dubois, John Youle, Dennis Hedke, Eugene Williams, P. J. Senior, and Ray Sorenson

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Sedimentology, Diagenesis, and Lithostratigraphy of the Desmoinesian Upper Fort Scott, Labette Shale, and Lower Pawnee Limestone Formations (Marmaton Group) in Eastern Colorado,
      Andrew Eck and Sal Mazzullo

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Distribution, Thickness, Reservoir Properties, and Production Characteristics of the Tonkawa Sandstone in Northwestern Roger Mills and Southwestern Ellis Counties, Oklahoma,
      Alex Fitzjarrald and James Puckette

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The Geologic History of Kansas, 2013 or Updating the Work of a Legend,
      Paul Gerlach

Online Development of New Kansas Type Logs,
      Paul Gerlach

Google Earth Workflow and Mississippian Outcrop Inventory in the West-Central Ozark Plateau, Arkansas,
      John Gist and Christopher Liner

Middle Mississippian Stratigraphic Architecture along the Western Edge of the Outcrop belt in Northeastern Oklahoma - Analogs for the Distribution of Reservoir Facies and Trapping Mechanisms in the Subsurface,
      Cory Godwin, Darwin Boardman, Sal Mazzullo, Brian Willhite, James Puckette, and Michael Grammer

Shallow Subsurface Occurrence of Oil-Bearing Zones in Middle Mississippian Strata of Northeastern Oklahoma: An Analog for the Distribution of Reservoir Facies and Hydrocarbon Traps,
      Cory Godwin, Darwin Boardman, Sal Mazzullo, Brian Willhite, James Puckette, and Michael Grammer

Integrated Reservoir Characterization of Mississippian-age Mid-Continent Carbonates,
      Michael Grammer, Darwin Boardman, James Puckette, Jay Gregg, Priyank Jaiswal, Miranda Childress, Buddy Price, Beth Vanden Berg, and Stephanie LeBlanc

Comparison of the Chesterian Age Channel Deposits in Haskell and Seward County Kansas to the Chesterian Age Surprise Canyon Formation in the Grand Canyon, Arizona,
      Paul Grover

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Employment of Non-Traditional Techniques to Improve Stratigraphic Correlation in the Ogallala Formation and their Applications for Future Groundwater Management,
      Russell Harlow, Luis Gonzales, Greg Ludvigson, and Michael Petronis

Geostatistical Modeling of Mississippian Limestone Garfield County, Oklahoma,
      Robert Holman and Priyank Jaiswal

Reservoir Engineering Aspects of Pilot Scale CO2 EOR Project in Upper Mississippian Formation at Wellington Field in Southern Kansas,
      Yevhen Holubnyak, Lynn Watney, Jason Rush, John Doveton, and Mina Fazel Alavi

Dynamic Modeling of CO2 Geological Storage in the Arbuckle Saline Aquifer,
      Yevhen Holubnyak, Tiraz Birdie, Lynn Watney, Jason Rush, John Doveton, and Mina Fazel Alavi

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Correlation of Mechanical Stratigraphy in the Mississippian,
      Calleb Jennings and Christopher Liner

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The Mid-Continent Rift System – It's a Whopper,
      Randy Keller, Jonathon Bueing, Miguel Merino, Seth Stein, and Carol Stein

A Soiled History: The Problem with Carbonates as Correlative Strata in Permian-Triassic Redbeds of the Midcontinent,
      Jonathon Knapp, Kathleen Benison, and James Zambito

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Hydrocarbon Potential of sub-Mississippian Formations within the Aldrich, Aldrich NE and Keilman North fields, Ness County, Kansas,
      Jared Leis, Matthew Totten, and Sambhu Chaudhuri

Petrographic Evaluation of Fractures and Geochemistry of Core from the Lower Smackover Formation: Case Study – Anadarko Petroleum Talley #B 1-22 Well, Columbia County, Arkansas,
      Peng Li and Michael Ratchford

Mechanical Properties of Mississippian Rocks,
      Pouyan Ebrahimi Lialekol, Priyank Jaiswai, Sandip Harimakar, and James Puckette

Mississippian Characterization Research in NW Arkansas,
      Christopher Liner, Doy Zachry, and Walter Manger

Indexing and Characterization of Mississippian Outcrops in Northwest Arkansas, Southwest Missouri, and Northeastern Oklahoma,
      Thomas Liner and Christopher Liner

3D Seismic Mapping of Deep Basement Features in Osage County, OK,
      Kevin Liner and Christopher Liner

Petrographic Characteristics of Maximum-Transgressive and Regressive Deltaic Sandstones of Upper-Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) Oread Cyclothem, NE Oklahoma,
      Zhu Lu and Wan Yang

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Improved Oil Recovery with Near-miscible Carbon Dioxide Application in Arbuckle Reservoir at Ogallah Field,
      Reza Maleki and Jyun Syung Tsau

Porosity Development within Lobes to Downslope Ramp Deposits on a Prograding Carbonate Shelf of the Kinderhookian to Osagean Series in Northwest Arkansas,
      Elizabeth Marchese

Depositional History and Stratigraphy of the Navarro Formation in the Minerva-Rockdale Oil Field, Milam County, TX,
      Adam Martin and Christopher Liner

The Lithostratigraphic Architecture and many “facies” (facies) of Lower Mississippian Petroleum Reservoirs in Central and Eastern Kansas and Northern Oklahoma,
      Sal Mazzullo and Brian Willhite

Early Contributions to Understanding the Geology of Kansas,
      Daniel Merriam

Diagenesis and Isotopic Evidence of Porosity Evolution in Reef Reservoir-Analog Facies in outcrops of the St. Joe Group (Kinderhookian to Basal Osagean) in SW Missouri and NW Arkansas,
      Beau Morris and Sal Mazzullo

Potential Reef Reservoir Objectives in the Lower Mississippian St. Joe Group (Kinderhookian to Basal Osagean) in Southern Kansas,
      Beau Morris and Sal Mazzullo

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Examples of the Use of Windowed Radiometrics (WR) and high Resolution Magnetotellurics (HRMT) in Exploration,
      Robert Olsen

The Use of Windowed Radiometrics (WR) and high Resolution Magnetotellurics (HRMT) to Reduce Exploration Risk,
      Robert Olsen

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Gas Well/Water Well Subsurface Contamination - Plan for Investigation,
      Richard Railsback, Mark Ballard, Kaixu, Ying Wang, and Paul Willhite

Inorganic Tracers in Crude Oils: A New Method in Correlating Hydrocarbons to Organic Source Rocks: Woodford Shale, North-Central Oklahoma,
      Daniel Ramirez-Caro, Matthew Totten, Sambhu Chaudhuri, Norbert Clauer, Greg Riepl, John Miesse, and Rene Boutin

Seismic Velocity Analysis in Shallow Evaporites from 3D Seismic Data: Northwestern Kansas,
      Steve Reed and Hendratta Ali

The Herd Viola Trend, Comanche County, Kansas,
      Larry Richardson

Performance Prediction of a Surfactant Flood using Interwell Tracers in a Burgess Formation,
      Chad Roller, Tom Burghart, Jeff Harwell, Tzu-Ping Hsu, Ahmad Jamili, Prapas Lohaeeraparp, Dan Phelps, and Ben Shiau

Models for Arbuckle Dolomitization and It's Ramifications to Local Structure Part A,
      Kurt Rottmann and Steve Hadaway

In Situ Validation of PSDM Seismic Volumetric Curvature as a Tool for Paleokarst Heterogeneity Studies: Results from an Extended-Reach Lateral at Bemis-Shutts,
      Jason Rush, Mina Fazel Alavi, Dennis Hedke, and Lynn Watney

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Reservoir Characterization and Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Potential of an Incised-valley-fill Sandstone Reservoir: Pleasant Prairie oil field, Southwestern Kansas,
      P. J. Senior, Tony Walton, and Martin Dubois

Seismic Attribute Analysis of the Mississippian Chert at the Wellington Field, South-Central Kansas,
      Ayrat Sirazhiev, George Tsofias, and Lynn Watney

Geologic Commonalities (and differences) among Resource Shale Plays,
      Roger Slatt

Permeability/Fluid Type/Rock Mechanics - Mississippian Application,
      Charles Smith and Lynda Ziane

Geologic Mapping and Subsurface Investigations of Equus Beds Aquifer Sediments in South-Central Kansas,
      John Smith, Brian Platt, Richard Sleezer, Greg Ludvigson, and Russell Harlow

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Evaluation of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks in Reservoir Characterization of Caddo Member in Boonsville Field, Texas,
      Zhao Tao and Kumar Ramachandran

Utilizing Subsurface Geology and Aeromagnetics in Finding Shallow Cherokee Age Reservoirs along the Bourbon Arch, Kansas,
      Steve Tedesco, Greg Bratton, and Chad Counts

Reinterpretation of the Structural Configuration of the Northern Nemaha Ridge Area in the Forest City Basin, Brown and Nemaha Counties, Kansas,
      Steven Tedesco and Chad Counts

Petrological Analysis of a Core Sample from the Granite Wash,
      Lukas Thompson

Using Earthquakes as Sources for Seismic Investigations of the Crustal Structure using Seismic Interferometry and Tomography Techniques: A Case Study from Oklahoma,
      Christopher Toth, Austin Holland, Randy Keller, and Stephen Holloway

The Value of Legacy 3D Seismic Data: An Evaluation of the Mississippi Lime Potential in Kay County, Oklahoma Using New Processing Technology and Attributes to Define Bypassed Pay in a Mature Field,
      Daniel B. Trumbo

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Combining Pore Architecture and Sonic Velocity Response to Predict Reservoir Quality: An Example from a mid-Continent Mississippian Carbonate,
      Beth Vanden Berg, Michael Grammer, Gregor Eberli, and Ralf Weger

Challenges in Prestack Inversion with Mega-Merge Seismic Surveys : An Oklahoma Redfork Example,
      Sumit Verma, Yoryenys Del Moro, and Kurt Marfurt

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Minnelusa Bracken Unit, Campbell County, Wyoming: Static and Quantitative Modeling with Analysis of Production Efficiency,
      Anthony Walton

Evaluating Trembley Oil Field as a Test of Chemical Flooding in a Lansing Kansas-City Reservoir,
      Anthony Walton and P. J. Senior

Evaluating CO2 Utilization and Storage in Kansas,
      Lynn Watney, Jason Rush, Tiraz Birdie, Saugata Datta, John Doveton, Martin Dubois, Thomas Hansen, Yevhen Holubnyak, Mina FazelAlavi, Jennifer Roberts, and Dana Wreath

Systematic and Episodic Structural Deformation in Southern Kansas and Implications for Petroleum Systems and CO2 Storage,
      Lynn Watney, John Youle, Dennis Hedke, Paul Gerlach, Ray Sorenson, Martin Dubois, Larry Nicholson, David Koger, Ralph Baker, and Debra Higley

Effect of Dolomitization and Diagenetic Overprint on Microbial Fabric Characterization, Southwest Alabama,
      Peter Wheiland

Mississippian Lithostratigraphic Architecture and Internal Depositional Systems Variation Along the Shelf-Break in Southern Kansas and Northern Oklahoma,
      Brian Willhite and Sal Mazzullo

Regional Aspects of Stratal Architecture of the Subsurface Mississippian in Kansas Based on Wireline log Cross-Sections and Seismic,
      Brian Willhite and Sal Mazzullo

Visualizing the Relationship Between Complex Geologic Features and Varying Gas Oil Ratios of the Mississippi Limestone/Woodford Shale System Across the Midcontinent Region,
      Ralph Williams and Danielle Leighton

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Depositional History and Distribution of Reservoir Rocks in Chesterian Incised Valley Fill Pools: Examples from Shuck and Eubank Fields in Southwestern Kansas,
      John Youle and Martin Dubois

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