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Fault Controlled Extension Regime — A Case of the Albertine Graben, East African Rift System, Uganda

Dozith Abeinomugisha and Nurudin Njabire

Gravity and Geodynamic Modeling of the Gulf of California

Rediet Abera

Petroleum Systems Modeling of the Kwanza Salt Basin, Offshore Angola

Clara Abu, Ching Tu, Olivia Osicki, Nora Herbst and Duplo Kornphil

Geological Controls on the Distribution and Preservation of Shallow and Deep Marine Sandstones in the Upper Jurassic of the Salt-Influenced Central North Sea Rift Basin, UK

Azli Abu-Bakar, Howard D. Johnson, Christopher A.-L. Jackson, Tom McKie and Caroline Gill

Using Time-Lapse Seismics to Reveal Heterogeneities That Matter for Understanding the Dynamic Behavior of a Giant Carbonate Gas Field, Offshore Sarawak, Malaysia

Erwin Adams, Georg Warrlich, Josef Harwijanto, Danielle Palm, Mas Nur Rabani, Artur Ryba and Daren Shields

The Lower Miocene ‘Malaysian Great Barrier Reef’ of Sarawak: The Influence of Tectonic Setting on Along Strike Variability in Platform Growth Styles and Reservoir Characteristics

Erwin Adams, Moyra Wilson and Ronald Besems

Organic Matter Variations within the Bakken Shales of Saskatchewan: With Implications Upon Origin and Timing of Hydrocarbon Generation

Titilade Aderoju and Stephen L. Bend

Tectono-Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation of Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Deposits of Shallow Offshore, Niger Delta

Norbert E. Ajaegwu, Berthrand M. Ozumba, Izuchukwu I. Obiadi, Emmanuel K. Anakwuba, David O. Anomneze, Gabriel C. Okeugo and Charles U. Ugwueze

The Curious Case of Hydrocarbon-Expulsion Fractures: Genesis and Impact on the Bakken Shales

Mohammed Al Duhailan and Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Automated Cyclostratigraphic Analysis in Carbonate Mudrocks Using Borehole Images

Mustafa A. Al Ibrahim, Neil F. Hurley and Rick Sarg

2-D Petroleum System Modeling of the Impact of the Messinian Salinity Crisis on the Petroleum System in the Eastern Mediterranean

Abdulaziz N. Al-Balushi, Martin Neumaier, Alastair J. Fraser and Christopher A.-L. Jackson

Approaches to Modeling Stratigraphic Heterogeneity in Mixed Fluvial and Eolian Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

Mohammed A. Al-Masrahy and Nigel P. Mountney

Cyclic Steps and Hydraulic-Jump Unit Bar Sedimentation in Deep-Marine Sandstones of the Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup, Cariboo Mountains, British Columbia, Canada

Omar Al-Mufti and Bill Arnott

Estimation of the Sealing Capacity of the Zubair Formation in Selected Oil Fields in Southern Iraq

Haitham G. Al-Ziayyir and David Hodgetts

Assessing Microporosity in Carbonate Reservior Using Digital Rock Physics (DRP) and Other Established Techniques, i.e. MICP, NMR, TS and BSEM

Ahmed A. AlRatrout, Mohammed Z. Kalam, Jorge S. Gomes and Mohamed S. Jouini

Geologically Constrained Electrofacies Classification of Fluvial Deposits: An Example From the Cretaceous Mesaverde Group, Uinta and Piceance Basins

Daniel Allen and Matthew Pranter

Six Degrees of Separation Across the Low-to-High-Accommodation Continuum in Fluvial Systems

Yaqoub Y. Alrefaei and John M. Holbrook

New Insights on the Deeper Crustal Structure of the Western Greenland Margin and Implication for Hydrocarbon Prospectivity

Sulaiman L. Alsulami, Douglas Paton, David G. Cornwell, Graham Stuart and Will Bradbury

Multi Component Seismic Technology in Exploration and Characterization of Unconventional Reservoirs

Innocent Aluka

Tectonics, Basin Evolution and Sediment Distribution Within the Collision to Subduction Transition of the Southeastern Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone in Offshore Trinidad

Tricia Alvarez, Paul Mann and Lesli Wood

Along-Strike Sediment Transport is an Underappreciated Control on the Pleistocene Sedimentary Record Offshore East Coast Trinidad

Tricia Alvarez, Lesli Wood and Paul Mann

Plate Reconstructions for the Arctic and Northeast Atlantic Constrained by Crustal Thickness and Lithosphere Thinning from OCTek Gravity Inversion

Andy Alvey, Nick J. Kusznir and Alan Roberts

OCTek Arctic: A New Ventures Exploration Tool for Mapping Ocean-Continent Transition Structure and Location

Andy Alvey, Nick J. Kusznir and Alan Roberts

Fracture Growth Processes in Sandstone Inferred by Textural and Fluid Inclusion Investigations of Crack-Seal Fracture Cements

Yaser A. Alzayer, Andras Fall, Stephen E. Laubach and Peter Eichhubl

Water and Hydrogen Resources on the Moon, Mercury, and Mars

William Ambrose

Fluvial Lateral Accretion Deposits, Scroll Bars and Stacking. How Much Do We Know?

Kathryn Amos and Rachel A. Nanson

Influence of Kerogen and Oil Cracking Processes on Gas in Place in Unconventional Shale Reservoirs

Irene Arango and Barry J. Katz

Stratigraphic Traps as Exploration Targets Examples From Petrotrin's Soldado Acreage, Gulf of Paria, Trinidad

Curtis Archie and Nancy Gallai

Turbidity Current Flows Over Rough Substrates

Armin Arfaie

Revisiting the Utility of Hummocky Cross-Stratification in Paleohydraulic Study of Ancient Shelves and Sand Distribution Processes

Khushboo Arora and Lesli Wood

Slope Evolution Revealed by Analysis of Sandstone Body Architecture, Tres Pasos Formation at Cerro Mirador, Chile

Neal C. Auchter, Brian Romans, Stephen M. Hubbard, Lisa Stright, Aaron P. Reimchen and Benjamin G. Daniels

Giant Microbialites from the Eocene Green River Formation (Laney Member, Sand Wash Basin), Colorado

Stanley Awramik and Paul Buchheim

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Seismic Facies and Geomorphology at Korolev Oil Field, Pricaspian Basin, Kazakhstan: Integration of Seismic, Image Log, and Core Leads to Improved Static Models

Steve Bachtel, Elrad Iskakov, Steve Jenkins, Eric Flodin, Paul Frydl and Henry Posamentier

Stratigraphic Architecture of a Large-Scale Deep-Water Slope Conduit Margin, Nanaimo Group, Hornby Island, Canada

Heather A. Bain and Steve Hubbard

Characteristics and Main Controlling Factors of Karst Caves in Tarim Basin

Li Baogang, Jia Chengzao, Weifeng Wang, Yu Cuiling, Fulai Li and Peng Liu

Source, Accumulation and Exploration Potential of Gases in the Central Submarine Canyon in the Qiongdongnan Basin, South China Sea

Huang Baojia

Seismic Stratigraphy of the Onshore Portion of Pernambuco Basin, Evidence of Break-up During Middle Albian for the South Atlantic Rift in Northeast Brazil

José A. Barbosa, Maria Fernanda B. Maia, Mário Lima Filho, José Ricardo Magalhaes and Osvaldo Correia

How an Integrated Reservoir Study has Totally Changed the Understanding and Development Plan of a Mature Alluvial Reservoir, the Case of the Papagayos Formation in the Vizcacheras Field, Cuyo Basin, Argentina

Pablo Barros and Jose Maria Jauregui

Paleogeographic Constraints on Middle to Late Jurassic Tectonic Reconstruction of the Maya Block of Southern Mexico and Equivalent Strata of Northwestern South America

Peter Bartok, Murad Hasan and Carolina Mejia

An Ultimate Unconventional Play: Diagenesis Controls on Porosity in the Proterozoic Barney Creek Formation, Northern Territory, Australia

Elizabeth Baruch, Martin J. Kennedy and Stefan Loehr

Process-Based Modeling of Sediments Deposition and Compaction in the Peïra Cava Sub Basin; Detailed Analysis and Sediments Distribution at Reservoir-Scale

Riccardo Basani, Tor E. Aas, Ernst Hansen and John Howell

Tectonic Interpretation of Changing Paleostress in the Circum-Caribbean Region

Kherlen Batbayar, Paul Mann and Jean-Claude Hippolyte

The Progradation of a Delta on a Mobile Substrate: Experiment

Carolina Baumanis and Wonsuck Kim

Seismic Attributes and Probability Property Modeling of Turbidites and Channel Sands

Ebere Benard, Elijah A. Ayolabi and Nnaemeka F. Ukaigwe

Point Pattern Analysis of Channel Organization from the Cretaceous John Henry Member of the Straight Cliffs Formation, Kaiparowits Plateau, Southern Utah

Wassim Benhallam, Lisa Stright and Cari Johnson

Translating Between the Surface and Subsurface: Inversion of Stratigraphy for Paleo-Topographic Statistics

William M. Benson, Qi Li and Kyle Straub

Appalachia to Athabasca: Reconstructing the Early Cretaceous Continental Paleodrainage System Associated with the Oil Sands of the McMurray Formation, Alberta, Canada

Christine Benyon, Andrew Leier, Dale Leckie, Andrew Webb and Steve Hubbard

Controls on Carbonate Deposition in Rift Basins: Great Salt Lake, Western USA

June S. Berge, Rob Gawthorpe and Simon H. Brocklehurst

Combining Sequence Stratigraphy and Growth Stratigraphy to Assess the Tectonic Evolution of the Los Angeles Basin

Kristian J. Bergen, John H. Shaw and James F. Dolan

Assessing the Primary Nature of the Neoproterozoic d13C Record Using Clumped Isotope Thermometry

Kristin D. Bergmann, John Grotzinger, Magdalena Osburn, John Eiler and Woodward Fischer

Alternating Carbonate and Siliciclastic Beds in a Fault-Controlled Continental Basins (Early Permian, Northern Italy): Sedimentological Control on Facies Organization and Diagenetic Overprint

Fabrizio Berra, Andrea Tessarollo and Fabrizio Felletti

Core and Log Based Stratigraphic Framework of Mississippian Limestone in Portions of North-Central Oklahoma: Implications for Reservoir Evolution and Seal Genesis

John Bertalott, Jim Puckette, Michael Grammer and Darwin Boardman

Re-Evaluation of Sedimentation Patterns at Bahamian Carbonate Slopes

Christian Betzler, Sebastian Lindhorst, Thomas Lüdmann, Gregor P. Eberli, Jürgen Möbius, John J. Reijmer and Christian Hübscher

Estimating the Size of Ancient River Systems and Linked Depositional Systems

Janok P. Bhattacharya

Petrofacies Characterization of Bakken Shale in the Williston Basin, North Dakota

Shuvajit Bhattacharya and Tim Carr

3-D Facies Architecture, Grain Size Variability and Paleohydrology Study of Point Bar Deposits by Integrating Field Data With Airborne LiDAR and GPR in Ferron Sandstone, Hanksville, Utah

Proma Bhattacharyya, Janok P. Bhattacharya and Shuhab Khan

A Terrestrial Laser Scanner, Digital Photogrammetry, Hyperspectral Mapping and GPR Assisted Reservoir Analog Study

Kivanc Biber, Shuhab Khan, Janok P. Bhattacharya, Craig Glennie and Mark Barton

Inherent Organisational Time Scales of Sedimentary Systems

Jochem F. Bijkerk, Joris T. Eggenhuisen, Louisa Tlili and William D. McCaffrey

Earth System Controls on the Temporal Occurrence of Petroleum Source Rocks

Andrew Bishop, Malcolm Ross and Steve Bergman

The Less Conventional Side of Carbonates

James W. Bishop, Ted Playton, Paul M. (Mitch) M. Harris, Christopher J. Lipinski and Frank W. Harris

An Unconventional Platform-Top Carbonate Reservoir: The Bend Formation in Bryant-G Field, Midland Basin, West Texas

James W. Bishop and Paul Landis

Structural Inheritance in the Barmer Basin, India: Its Influence on Early-Stage Rift Evolution and Structural Geometries

Andrew J. Bladon, Stuart M. Clarke, Stuart Burley, Nicholas Whiteley, V. Kothari and Pinakadhar Mohapatra

Mineralogical Constraints on Diagenesis of the Sheepbed Mudstone, Gale Crater, Mars, as Determined by the CheMin XRD Instrument and Examples of the Use of NASA Spinoff Technology in the Oil and Gas Industry

David Blake and null null

Stratigraphic Architecture and Reservoir Distribution in the Tensleep and Amsden Formation Influenced by Gondwanan Glaciations (Mississippian-Pennsylvanian, Northern Wyoming)

Sebastien Blanchard, Christopher Fielding and Tracy D. Frank

Continental-Scale Paleodrainage for the Mannville Group, Alberta Oil Sands, from Detrital Zircons

Mike Blum

The Reservoir Characteristics Under Control of Evaporative Fractionation and Biodegradation: A Case of QHD29-2 Oilfield, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Yang Bo, Zhou Xiehuai, Wang Feilong, Zhang You and Guoxiang Zhao

Changes In Mudstone Properties and ‘Shale’ Reservoir Potential through Geological Time — The Impact of Biological and Oceanic Evolution

Kevin Bohacs, Remus Lazar, Robert Klimentides, Jeff Ottmann, James Markello, Martine Hardy, Julie O'Leary and Julien Celerier

Inversion of Bedding and Parasequence Types Preserved in Shelfal Mudstone Strata to Significant Marine Processes and their Controls of Rock-Property Variations

Kevin Bohacs, Remus Lazar and Timothy M. Demko

Understanding Atypical Background Trends in AVO Analysis: A Case Study on a Shaly Sand Gas Reservoir in the Magdalena Valley, Colombia

Francisco A. Bolivar, Pedro Alvarez, William Marin, Mario Di Luca and Trino Salinas

Shaly Sand Gas Reservoir Characterization: A Successful Case Study in the Lower Magdalena Basin, Colombia

Francisco A. Bolivar, Pedro Alvarez, William Marin, Mario Di Luca and Trino Salinas

The Forelimb Problem: Testing Models for Fold-Thrust Structures and Their Implication for Trap Geometry and Reservoir Damage

Clare Bond, Rob Butler, Mark Cooper and Dave Healy

De-Constructing the Gravity Field Through Time: Implications for the Angola-Brazil Conjugate Margin

Rkia Bouatmani, Kaxia Gardner, Chris Green, Simon Campbell and Andy Quallington

Filling in Gaps in the Sedimentary Record: An Integrated Study of Discontinuity Surfaces in Devonian Epeiric Sea Carbonates, Iowa

Christopher Bowie and Mara Brady

Tidal-Fluvial Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the McMurray Formation in the Surmont Area of the Athabasca Oil Sands

Ron Boyd, Albert W. Shultz, Paul Durkin, John R. Suter, Paul Carmichael, Rick Schroeder, William Barbosa-Ortiz, Carla Sanchez and Luis Cardozo

Investigating Slope-Parallel Processes in Mud-Dominated Depositional Systems Through Seismic Stratigraphic Mapping of Contourite Drifts: Newfoundland Ridge, Offshore Canada

Patrick R. Boyle, Brian Romans and null null

Clastic Facies and Reservoir Characterization Through a Sequence Stratigraphic Production Decline Curve Analysis: Example Frio Formation, Jim Wells and Nueces Counties, South Texas

Bryant W. Bradley and John D. Pigott

Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Cretaceous Mowry Shale in the Northern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming: Implications for Unconventional Resource Exploration and Development

Jordan M. Bremer and Christopher Fielding

Benthic Habitat Characterization of the West Florida Shelf Using High Resolution Multibeam Sonar and Towed Underwater Video

Jennifer L. Brizzolara, David F. Naar and Steven A. Murawski

Upscaling Fault Flow Properties for Evaluation of Cross-Fault Flow

Alton A. Brown and Russell K. Davies

Compositional Changes to Gas Migrating through Water-Saturated Rock

Alton A. Brown

Effects of Porosity Models on Thermal History Estimated by Geohistory Models

Alton A. Brown

Late Miocene to Recent Evolution of Growth Faults in Greater Breton Sound, Louisiana, USA

David M. Brown and David Mohrig

PSDM for Unconventional Reservoirs? A Niobrara Shale Case Study

Morgan P. Brown

Linking Deepwater Fan Morphometrics to Slope Valley Feeder Geometry

Rufus L. Brunt, Stephen Flint, David M. Hodgson and Willem van der Merwe

Stratigraphic and Petrophysical Analysis of the Three Forks Formation-Charlson Field, North Dakota

Bailey Bubach and Mehdi Ostadhassan

3-D Outcrop Modelling Using UAV-Based Photogrammetry: Comparison to Terrestrial Lidar Methods

Simon J. Buckley, Aleksandra A. Sima and John Howell

Formation of Sharp Dolomite Reaction Fronts and Sucrosic Dolomite: Insights from Bed-Scale Reaction Transport Modeling

David A. Budd and Anthony J. Park

Characterization of Transgressive Marginal Marine Reservoir Architecture and Heterogeneity and its Application in Enhanced Oil Recovery Optimization: An Example From the Tyler Formation, Dickinson Field, North Dakota

Matthew Buoniconti, Caitlin Darfler and Alan Byrnes

Regional Modeling of Geopressure Gradient Surfaces and Seismic Interpretation Reveal the Mechanisms of Overpressure Development in Southern Louisiana and Adjacent Areas of the Gulf of Mexico Basin, USA

Lauri Burke, Scott Kinney, Ofori Pearson, Russell Dubiel and Janet Pitman

3-D Geologic and Reservoir Modelling of a Distributive Fluvial System Derived From Lidar: A Case Study of the Huesca Fluvial Fan

Brian S. Burnham and David Hodgetts

Linking Basin Tectonics, Evaporite Facies Variations and Their Impact on Subsequent Deformation: Insights from the Messinian

Rob Butler and Rosanna Maniscalco

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Mesozoic-Cenozoic Sedimentation, Provenance, and Basin Evolution Along the Eastern Margin of the Central Andes (19-22°S)

Amanda Z. Calle and Brian K. Horton

Global Distribution of Original Petroleum Reserves in Deep Reservoirs

Binfeng Cao and Guoping Bai

The Discovery of 25-Norhopanes in Non-Degraded Oils of Permian Reservoir in Junggar Basin, China

Zhe Cao, Guangdi Liu, Chengyun Wang, Gang Gao and Peng Wang

Origin of the Different Chlorite Occurrences and Their Effects on Clastic Reservoir Porosity

Zhe Cao, Guangdi Liu, Gang Gao, Chengyun Wang, Peng Wang and Zhilong Huang

Fluvial Deltaic Evolution Through Event Sedimentation: Understanding the Interplay of Sediment Supply and Remobilization in Shaping the Growth of a Muddy Subaqueous Delta

Joseph A. Carlin, Timothy Dellapenna, Kyle Strom and Christian Noll

Geological Evaluation of the Cane Creek Shale, Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation, Paradox Basin, Southeastern Utah

Stephanie M. Carney, Peter J. Nielsen and Michael Vanden Berg

Experimental Studies of Supercritical Bedforms Applied to Coarse-Grained Turbidite Deposits of the Tabernas intermontane Basin (SE Spain, Late Miocene)

Matthieu J. Cartigny, George Postma, Kick Kleverlaan, Dario Ventra and Jan H. Van den Berg

Stratigraphic Compartmentalization and Connectivity in Deepwater Slope Valley Reservoirs: Lessons from Block 14 Angola

Cristian Carvajal, Gerry Schmit, Arpita Bathija, Jacob Covault and Morgan Sullivan

Fracture Modeling From Virtual Outcrops

Giulio Casini, David W. Hunt and Erik Monsen

Trace Elements in Devonian Carbonates of the Canning Basin, Western Australia

Samuel Caulfield-Kerney, David Wray, Ken Ratcliffe and Ted Playton

An Integrated Approach to Characterizing Brecciated Carbonate Reservoir Facies Using Borehole Image and Core Data in the Grosmont Platform: A Giant Heavy-Oil Resource in Alberta, Canada

Edward Cavallerano, Jeff Lonnee, Maria Balzarini, Mohamed El-Toukhy, Orlando Ortega, Michael Gross and Steve Naruk

The Effects of Relative Base Level Fall on River Deltas: A Quantitative Assessment

James Cederberg, Rudy Slingerland, Doug Edmonds, Jim Best, Dan Parsons, Alex Burpee, Rebecca Caldwell, Ben Lynton and Andrew McGuffin

Structural Evolution of Triangle Zones and Duplex Structures Along the Frontal Ouachitas-Arkoma Basin Transition Zone in Oklahoma and Western Arkansas

Ibrahim Cemen, Surinder Sahai, Bill Coffey, Damian Friend, Donald Yezerski and William Parker

The Dual Role of Heavy Compounds in Conventional and Unconventional Petroleum Systems

Ahmed Chaouche

3-D and 4-D Visualization of Geochemistry and Production Data to Refine a Structural Model

Jean-Yves Chatellier and Bob Menard

Compaction State of Aggregate Grains in Carbonaceous Mudstones: Evidence from Microfabric Studies of the Upper Cretaceous Colorado Group, Western Canada Foreland Basin

Burns Cheadle

Multi-Attributes Applied in Mapping of Fracture Zones and Reservoir Evaluation of a Granite Buried Hill, Bohai Bay, China

Huajing Chen, Donghong Zhou and Xin Wang

Shelf Deltaic to Deepwater-Slope Architecture of the Miocene-Pliocene Orinoco Shelf-Margin, South Trinidad

Si Chen, Ron Steel, Cornel Olariu and Yang Peng

Petrologic and Geochemical Constrains on the Origin of Authigenic Euhedral Quartz Crystals in Edwards Formation, Central Texas

Xinyang Chen, Henry Chafetz, Thomas Lapen and Rasmus Andreasen

Valleys to Estuaries: Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the John Henry Member, Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation, Southern Utah

Brenton M. Chentnik, Cari Johnson and Lisa Stright

Integrated Marcellus Shale Characterization Using Multicomponent Seismic Data in Northern West Virginia

Shihong Chi, Jhon Rivas, Dennis Miller and Edward Jenner

Pressure and Geomechanical Response to CO₂ Injection at Snøhvit, Norway

Laura Chiaramonte, Joshua A. White and Yue Hao

Factors Controlling the Morphodynamics of Macrotidal Channels in Korea: Implications on the Facies and Stratigraphic Architecture of Inclined Heterolithic Stratification (IHS) formed in the Tidal-Fluvial Transition

Kyungsik Choi, Chung Rok Oh and Joo Hee Jo

Superior Definition of Geologic Features by Running Geometric Attributes on Preconditioned Seismic Data

Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt

Aiding Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation With Spectral Decomposition

Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt

Seismic Attribute Workflow for Mapping Middle Triassic Doig Sandstone Reservoirs in Northeast British Columbia, Canada

Satinder Chopra, Ritesh Sharma and James Keay

Reduction in Bin Size of Seismic Data for Sharper Definition of Geologic Features

Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt

Upper Cretaceous to Cenozoic Reactivation of Pre-existing Salt Bodies and its Impact on Slope Depositional Systems in the Southwest Sable Subbasin, Offshore Nova Scotia

Andrea Christians, Mark Deptuck and Andrew MacRae

Observations of Core UV Fluorescence of Middle Bakken and Three Forks Reservoirs, Williston Basin, North Dakota, Part 2. Integrating with Fluid Geochemistry to Identify Producible Oil Distribution and Estimate Reserves

Ellie D. Chuparova, John Hohman and Jonathan Lean

An Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Mud Gas Mass Spectrometry Technology Implementation in Bakken/Three Forks Unconventional Tight Light Oil Play, Williston Basin, North Dakota

Ellie D. Chuparova, Anthony Romanoski, Peter Schmitz, Kelsey McArthur, Elizabeth Randall, William Thompson, Iwan Harmawan, S. Murray, T. Kisner, Robin Pilcher, Tim Kirst, I. Murray and James Courtier

Faulting of an Alternating Sandstones and Shales Turbidite Sequence: Fault Mechanism and Architecture and Their Roles in Fault Seal

Antonino Cilona, Atilla Aydin and Garrett Hazelton

Economic Evaluation of Unconventional Plays – New Perspectives on Familiar Questions

Robert Clarke

Ceiba Field, Equatorial Guinea: Breathing New Life Into an Old Field

Cory Clechenko, Steven A. Mondziel and Christian Schiott

Sediment Loading and Lower Crustal Flow on the Rifted Margins of the South China Sea

Peter Clift

Clastic Injection at Deep-Water Stratigraphic Traps

Sarah Cobain, David M. Hodgson, Jeffrey Peakall and Michelle N. Shiers

Influence of Basin Physiography on Coastal-Shelf Sedimentary Processes: Integrating Ocean Modelling and Sedimentary Facies Analysis in the Mio-Pliocene, NW Borneo, South China Sea

Daniel S. Collins, Peter A. Allison, Howard D. Johnson, Alexandros Avdis, Jon Hill and Matthew Piggott

The Potential Role of the Evolving South China Sea Tidal System on the Size of Mangrove Biome and Associated Hydrocarbon Source Material During the Tertiary

Daniel S. Collins, Peter A. Allison, Howard D. Johnson, Alexandros Avdis, Jon Hill and Matthew Piggott

Digital Reproduction of Clastic Sedimentary Architecture by Means of Relational Databases: Characterization and Prediction of Fluvial and Deep-Marine Reservoirs

Luca Colombera, Marco Patacci, William D. McCaffrey and Nigel P. Mountney

The Relationship Between Detachment Folding and Duplexing: Constraints From the Niger Delta

Christopher Connors and Barbara Radovich

Reservoir Facies and their Distribution in Upper Leonardian Carbonate Rocks from Veterans Oil Field, Glasscock County (Eastern Midland Basin), Texas

Roy A. Conte and Michael Pope

Transitional Terraced Mound to Sloping Mound Facies Relationships of a Quaternary Travertine Quarry in Belen, New Mexico

Megan Cook and Henry Chafetz

Ascending Freshwater-Mesohaline Mixing Dolomitization: Insights from Geochemical and Reactive Transport Models

Katherine Cooper, Yitian Xiao, Fiona Whitaker, Robert Goldstein, Evan K. Franseen, Zhaoqi Li, Gareth Jones and Sherry Stafford

Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of a Late Neoproterozoic Shelf-Slope-Basin System, Flinders Ranges, South Australia: An Excellent Outcrop Analogue for Marginal Marine to Deepwater Transitions in the Subsurface

John Counts and Kathryn J. Amos

Submarine Channel Initiation, Filling, and Maintenance from Seafloor Geomorphology and Morphodynamic Modeling of Cyclic Steps

Jacob Covault, Svetlana Kostic, Charles Paull, Holly Ryan and Andrea Fildani

Reservoir Architecture and Stratigraphic Evolution of Channelized Deep-Water Depositional Systems, Offshore West Africa: Implications for Predictive Stratigraphic Modeling

Jacob Covault, Morgan Sullivan and Andrew Madof

Regional Diagenesis of the Mississippian Leadville Limestone: Southwestern Colorado

Phil Cowan, Gary Gianniny and Elizabeth A. Johnson

OCT Structure, COB Location and Magmatic Type of the SE Brazilian and S. Angolan Margins From Integrated Quantitative Analysis of Deep Seismic Reflection and Gravity Anomaly Data

Leanne Cowie, Nick J. Kusznir and Brian Horn

Integrated Quantitative Analysis of Deep Reflection Seismic and Gravity Anomaly Data: Application to Eastern Gulf of Mexico OCT Structure and Location

Leanne Cowie, Nick J. Kusznir, Rob Pascoe and Alan Roberts

A Practical Recommendation for Permeability Measurement in Tight-Sand and Shale Reservoirs

Albert X. Cui and Ken Glover

Economic Benefits of In Situ Resource Utilization in Near Term Space Exploration

Bruce L. Cutright and William Ambrose

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Locating Tight Shale Sweet Spots Using Diamondoid and Biomarker Analyses

Jeremy E. Dahl, John M. Moldowan and Shaun Moldowan

How Can We Use Tectonic Reactivation to Control Stress Distribution at Reservoir and Basin Scale? Learning from Paleopiezometry and Analogues

Jean-Marc Daniel

Longitudinal Channel Architecture and Facies Variability Along an Eight Kilometer Long Down-Slope Transect of a High-Relief Clinoform, Tres Pasos Formation, Chile

Benjamin G. Daniels, Stephen M. Hubbard, Lisa Stright, Brian Romans, Sean Fletcher, Aaron P. Reimchen and Neal C. Auchter

Does Tempestite Proximality Explain Mudstone-Limestone Cycles? A Case Study in the Upper Ordovician of the Cincinnati Arch

Benjamin F. Dattilo and Carlton E. Brett

Spatial Variations in Pore Water Salinity: Implications for Fluid Flow Pathways and Reservoir Compartmentalization in a Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Field

William Daugherty and Jeffrey Nunn

Fault Zone Complexity: Impact on Seal Analysis and Prediction

Russell Davies, Rob Knipe, Michael Welch, Henry Lickorish, Danny Povey and Alton A. Brown

Volcanic Continental Margins and the Formation of Super Volcanoes: Examples from Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil

Ian Davison and Ian Steel

Jurassic and Cretaceous Sedimentary Fill of Intrashelf Basins of the Eastern Margin the Arabian Plate

Thomas L. De Keyser and Christopher G. Kendall

Influence of Seawater Chemistry and Syndepositional Faulting on the Drowning of the Yangtze Platform, Nanpanjiang Basin, Guizhou Province, South China

Erich De Zoeten, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Marcello Minzoni, Dave Cantrell and Jonathan Payne

Geomechanic Characteristics of the Eagle Ford Shale – A Comparative Study for Outcrop and Subsurface Formation Properties

Anton Padin Deben and Azra N. Tutuncu

Chemical EOR Potential for Heavy Oil in the United States

Eric Delamaide and Tristan Euzen

Confirming the Presence of a Working Petroleum System in the Eastern Black Sea Basin, Offshore Georgia Using SAR Imaging, Sea Surface Slick Sampling, and Geophysical Seafloor Characterization

Harry Dembicki

Supercritical Morphodynamic Successions in the Deposits of Steep, Sandy Submarine Fans: Ainsa and Tabernas Basins, Spain

Timothy Demko, David C. Hoyal, Juan J. Fedele, Kaveh Ghayour, Vitor Abreu, Balki Selvam, Mark Rosin, George Postma and Ben Sheets

Permeability Characterization of Natural Compaction Bands Using Core Flooding Experiments and 3-D Image-Based Analysis: Comparing and Contrasting the Results From Two Different Methods

Shang Deng, Lin Zuo and Atilla Aydin

Combined Wave and Gravity-Driven Sediment Transport: Controls on Lateral Facies Heterogeneity on Subaqueous Muddy Shelf Clinothems

Kathryn Denommee, Dario Harazim and Samuel J. Bentley

Predicting Fracture Orientations with Volumetric Curvature Gradient Analysis: Case Study from Teapot Dome in Wyoming

Haibin Di and Dengliang Gao

Fluid Flow of Plio-Pleistocene Reefal Carbonates: Assessing Large-Scale Porosity and Permeability Distributions

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

Noise Into Signal Around the South Atlantic Margins: Reverse Geochemical Analysis Using Spatial Inputs

William Dickson, Craig F. Schiefelbein, Jim Brooks and John E. Zumberge

Challenge and Response: Identification of Petroleum Systems Across the South Atlantic Equatorial Margins

William Dickson, Craig F. Schiefelbein, Mark E. Odegard and John E. Zumberge

Towards Process-Based Understanding of Diagenesis in a Holocene Coastal Sabkha System, Qatar

S. M. Didi-Ooi, Fiona Whitaker, Jeremy Jameson and Christian J. Strohmenger

The Application of Microbial Geochemical Exploration Method in Lithologic Trap Exploration in Junggar Basin, China

Li Ding, Yong Song, Xianmin Li, Gangfeng Wen, Eric Hao, Daniel Hitzman and Harry Mei

Character and Regional Correlation of Reservoir Units in the Mississippian Madison Formation (Wyoming and Utah)

Karma Doescher, Tracy D. Frank, Tom Bulling and Jesse Koch

Giant Incised Valley Fill and Shore-Face Ravinement Traps, Urna, Ust-Teguss and Tyamskaya Field Areas, Southern West Siberian Basin, Russia

John C. Dolson, George Pemberton, Sergey Hafizov, Vera Bratkova, Ekaterina Volfovich and Irina Averyanova

Fluid Inclusion Study of Prominent Mineralized Fractures in the New Albany Shale, Kentucky, USA – Dissecting a Mississippian Seal Breach

Kellie Donoghue and Juergen Schieber

A Sequence Stratigraphic Framework for Establishing the Chronostratigraphic Relationships Between the Woodbine and Eagle Ford Groups Across Texas

Arthur D. Donovan

Squeezing a Large Canopy on a Slope: Suturing Patterns, Subsalt Thrusting and Suprasalt Extension and Salt Expulsion

Tim Dooley, Martin Jackson and Mike Hudec

Geometrical Constraints on Submarine Channel-Levee System Evolution

Robert M. Dorrell and William D. McCaffrey

Surge Propagation Within Turbidity Currents

Robert M. Dorrell, Gareth M. Keevil and William D. McCaffrey

Absolute Ages and Paleogeography of the Jurassic Entrada Sandstone, Utah: Implications for Heterolithic, Tidally-Influenced Systems

Toby S. Dossett, George Jennings, Thomas H. Morris and Eric Christiansen

Musings on the History of Petroleum Geochemistry – From My Perch

Wallace G. Dow

Considering Lithological Variability in Top Seal Analysis

Michael C. Drews, Femi Jokanola, Peter S. D'Onfro and Philip Heppard

Chemical Stratigraphy of the Yellowknife Bay Formation and use of LIBS and APXS in Characterizing Martian Strata

Gilles Dromart, Gilles Dromart, Sylvestre Maurice, Muriel Saccoccio, Roger Wiens, Ralf Gellert and null null

Growth Phases in the Upper Cambrian Wilberns Microbial Reef Evolution (Mason County, Texas)

Andre W. Droxler, Pankaj Khanna and Daniel J. Lehrmann

Comparative Analysis of Microbial Carbonate Fabrics at Various Scales Within the Architecture of a Large Microbial Reef Mound; Cambrian, Wilberns Formation, Mason County, TX

Dylan A. Droxler, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Pankaj Khanna and Andre W. Droxler

The Stratigraphic Architecture of Laterally-Accreting and Laterally-Offset Ancient Sinuous Channel Fills, Lower Isaac Formation (Windermere Supergroup), British Columbia, Canada

Iain G. Dumouchel and Bill Arnott

Architectural Modeling of an Outcropping Tidally Influenced Point Bar Deposit: Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Impacts on Connectivity

Paul Durkin, Stephen M. Hubbard, Ron L. Boyd, Dale Leckie and Albert W. Shultz

Characteristics of the Highest Permeability Wilcox Sandstones within Temperature Slices, Gulf of Mexico, USA

Shirley P. Dutton and Robert G. Loucks

Tying Rock Properties from Core to Seismic Reflectivity in the Kaiparowits Plateau, Utah

Karenth L. Dworsky, Lisa Stright, Cari Johnson, Pier Paolo Bruno and Tiziana Vanorio

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Tectonic Influence on Slope Deposition Along Great Bahama and Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas

Gregor P. Eberli, Thomas Lüdmann, Andrew Jo, Christian Betzler, Deniz Kula and Sebastian Lindhorst

Thick vs. Thin-Skinned Formation and Inversion of Salt Walls in SE Iberian Peninsula: Constraints From Paleomagnetic an Inner Diapiric Structural Data

Roca Eduard, Beamud Elisabet, Oriol Ferrer, Ruth Soto and Marc Rubinat

Distribution and Development of Encased Secondary Minibasins in the Central Deepwater Gulf of Mexico

Ursula Edwards, Vernon Moore and Ugo Odumah

Microbial Mats as Indicators of Condensation in Black Shales – Examples From the Pennsylvanian Cyclothems of the Mid-Continent U.S.

Sven Egenhoff, Thomas Algeo, Achim Herrmann, Neil Fishman and Ron Hill

An Analytical Model for the Structure of Turbidity Currents

Joris T. Eggenhuisen, Matthieu J. Cartigny and Jan de Leeuw

Preferential Calcite Cementation of Macropores in Microporous Limestones

Stephen N. Ehrenberg, Olav Walderhaug, Sabah Al Tooqi, Naima Al Habsi and Mohammed Al Shukaili

Deepwater Angolan Toe-Thrust Kinematics and Structural Styles

Nathan Eichelberger and Chris Guzofski

Facies Model for an Ancient Tide-Dominated Delta: The Early Jurassic Gule Horn Formation, Jameson Land, Eastern Greenland

Christian H. Eide, John Howell and Simon J. Buckley

An Integrated Stratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford Formation, Texas, USA – Part 1

James S. Eldrett, Steve Bergman, Daniel Minisini, Calum Macaulay, Aysen Ozkan, Brendan Lutz and Chao Ma

An Integrated Stratigraphy of the Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford Formation, Texas, USA – Part 2

James S. Eldrett, Steve Bergman, Aysen Ozkan, Daniel Minisini, Brendan Lutz, Calum Macaulay and Chao Ma

Conventional Core as a Rosetta Stone for Presalt RQ: Insights and Observations Within Upper Sag Presalt Microbialites From Conventional Core of the 3-ESSO-4A-SPS (Guarani-1ST) Well, BM-S-22, Santos Basin, Offshore Brazil

Jason W. Eleson, Kevin Bohacs, Brad Carter, James DeGraff, Timothy M. Demko, Matthew Fabijanic, Marsha French, Leonel Gomez, Sean Guidry, Gareth Jones, Kathryn Lamb-Wozniak, Audrey Varga, Dwight Trainor and Stephen Kaczmarek

Advances in Borehole Micro-Image Processing

Peter A. Elkington, Said Assous, James Whetton and David Hu

Experimental Study of Methane Adsorption on Organic Matter in Mudstones: Implications for Natural Gas Storage in Unconventional Reservoirs

Geoffrey S. Ellis, Tongwei Zhang, Michael Lewan, Sheng Peng and Haiyan Hu

Understanding the Effects of Base-Level Rise on the Stratigraphic Distribution of Shale Plays

Jennifer D. Eoff

Geological Controls on Formation Water Salinity Distribution, Southeastern Greater Natural Buttes Field, Uinta Basin, Utah

Tuba Evsan, Matthew Pranter and Marc Connolly

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The Character and Origin of Lacustrine Source Rocks in the Paleogene Synrift Section, Bohai Bay Basin, Northwest, China

Diao Fan and Zou Huayao

Supercritical Bedforms Created by Density Flows

Juan J. Fedele, David C. Hoyal, Shane Awalt and Zachary Barnaal

Dolomitization of the Middle Bakken Member at Elm Coulee Field, Williston Basin

Ellen Fehrs and John D. Humphrey

Distribution Characteristics and Origin of Oilfields in Shijiutuo Uplift, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Wang Feilong, Zhou Xiehuai, Li Jianping, Yang Bo and Guoxiang Zhao

Refined Lacustrine Petroleum Systems Modeling and New Play Assessment: A Case Study of Baxian Sag, Bohai Bay Basin

Weiping Feng, Feiyu Wang, Yulei Shi, Fengming Jin, Xianzheng Zhao and Jianxun Zhou

Controls and Distribution Features of Petroliferous Belts of Subtle Traps in Paleogene Strata of Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China

Yongliang Feng, Suyun Hu, Pilong Li and Herong Zheng

Outcrop to Subsurface Reservoir Characterization of the Lower Mesaverde Group, Red Wash Field, Uinta Basin and Douglas Creek Arch, Utah and Colorado

Chelsea Fenn and Matthew Pranter

Insights Into the Linked Dynamics of Channel Networks on Shelf-Edge Deltas and Submarine Slopes From Physical Experiments and High-Resolution Seismic Data

Anjali M. Fernandes and Kyle Straub

3-D Seismic Attributes Expression of Differential Compaction Related to Karst Collapses in the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas

Alfredo Fernandez and Kurt J. Marfurt

How to Know if That Circular Feature is a Karst Collapse or a Buried Static? An Example of Ray Tracing, High Density Velocity Analysis, and Offset Stacks in Fort Worth Basin, Texas

Alfredo Fernandez, William J. Bailey and Kurt J. Marfurt

Effect of Diapir Growth on Synkinematic Deepwater Sedimentation: The Bakio Diapir (Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Northern Spain)

Oriol Ferrer, Pau Arbués, Roca Eduard, Katherine A. Giles, Mark G. Rowan, Marco De Matteis and Josep Anton Muñoz

Mesozoic Carbonate Rafts in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Joseph C. Fiduk, Marianne Clippard, Omoyele Ajose, Sarah Power, Raymond C. Martin, Vivian Robertson, Mustafa Karer, Lynn Rodriguez, Ilyas Najmuddin and Dan Fernandez

Distribution of Salt Keels in the Deepwater Northern Gulf of Mexico

Joseph C. Fiduk, Marianne Clippard, George A. Jamieson, Omoyele Ajose, Sarah Power, Raymond C. Martin, Vivian Robertson, Osman M. Hassan, Lynn Rodriguez, Louis J. Jurca, Mustafa Karer, Andy Hannan, Norman E. Biles, Anna Klebleeva, Kevin Lyons, Denise Kakas, Dan Fernandez and Daniel Smith

Anatomy of Falling-Stage Deltas in the Turonian Ferron Sandstone of the Western Henry Mountains Syncline, Utah: Growth Faults, Slope Failures, and Mass Transport Complexes

Christopher Fielding

Three-Dimensional Evolution of Normal Faults in Two Phase Rifting

Emma Finch and Robert Gawthorpe

The Impact of Stratigraphic and Facies Architecture on Flow in Carbonate Reservoirs; An Integrated Approach Using Comparative Modeling Techniques

Peter Fitch, Matthew Jackson, Gary J. Hampson and Cedric John

Identifying the Nature and Extent of the Loyd Sandstone Member of the Buck Tongue of the Mancos Shale in Outcrop and Subsurface Data in the Rangley Area of Colorado

Peter P. Flaig, Darrin Burton and Lesli Wood

Capturing Geological Heterogeneity in Reservoir Architecture Through Quantitative Characterization and Modeling of an Analogous Outcrop, Fan 3 of the Skoorsteenberg Formation, Tanqua Karoo, Sub-Basin, South Africa

Sean Fletcher, Mark H. Scheihing, Dominic Armitage, Sam Hudson and William R. Morris

Interpretation of the Data Collected as Part of U.S. EPA's Investigation at Pavillion, WY

Samuel A. Flewelling and Manu Sharma

Quantitative Analysis of the Dimensions and Distribution of Channelized Fluvial Sandbodies within a Large-Scale Outcrop Dataset: Upper Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Wasatch Plateau, Central Utah, USA

Yvette S. Flood and Gary J. Hampson

Submarine Slope Stability: Advances in Modelling the Anatomy of Carbonate Slope Systems

Robert Flory, Fiona Whitaker, Peter L. Smart and John J. Reijmer

Influence of In-Situ Stresses on Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations in Coals of the Surat Basin, Southeast Queensland – Australia

Thomas Flottman, Sam Brooke-Barnett, Sai-Krishna Naidu, Rod Trubshaw, Pijush Paul, Seth Busetti and Peter Hennings

Lateral Facies Heterogenity in Hybrid Event Beds and its Applied Significance: Examples From the Miocene Cilento Flysh and the Cretaceous-Paleocene Gottero Sandstone (Italy)

Marco Fonnesu, Peter Haughton, Fabrizio Felletti, Marco Patacci and William D. McCaffrey

Diagenesis in Polar Shelf Sediments: Insights From the Cenozoic Succession of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Tracy D. Frank and Christopher Fielding

Understanding the Development of an Early, Diagenetically-Controlled Template for Reservoir Quality Distribution Using Forward Sediment/Diagenetic Models of the Tengiz Platform, Kazakhstan

Miles A. Frazer, Fiona Whitaker, David Katz, Paul M. (Mitch) M. Harris and Cathy Hollis

Sedimentary Processes and Depositional Dynamics of the Atokan (Lower Pennsylvanian) 13 Fingers Formation in Eastern Texas Panhandle, Anadarko Basin, Texas, USA

Gregory Frebourg, David L. Carr, William Ambrose, Stephen C. Ruppel, Andréa N. Smith and Eric S. Rhoden

Dark-Brown Laminated Deposits in Shallow-Water Carbonates During the OAE2: Shallow Water “Black-Shales”?

Gianluca Frijia, Alex Dickson, Rob Forkner, Daniel Minisini, Hugh Jenkyns, Muriel Pacton and Maria Mutti

Variations in Syndepositional Fault Properties as a Function of Stratigraphic Position in High-Relief Carbonate Platforms

Edmund L. Frost, David Hunt, Toni Simo and Gemma Labrana

New Carbonate Plays in the Mississippian Lime of the Bend Arch Area, Texas

Edmund L. Frost

Chemical Speciation and Carbon Isotope Systematics During Kerogen Maturation: An Experimental Study

Qi Fu, Mike Darnell, Ewa Szymczyk and Adry Bissada

A Multidisciplinary and Multi-Scale Approach to Identify Hydrogeochemical Processes Altering Porosity-Permeability Properties of Reservoir Rocks

Yunjiao Fu, Wolfgang van Berk, Hans-Martin Schulz, Richard Wirth, Niels Schovsbo and Johan B. Svendsen

Miocene Depositional Architecture in the Mixed Clastic-Carbonate Rankin Platform: Implications for Clinoform Development and Morphodynamic Diversity

Asu E. Fubara

Microporosity: Characterization, Distribution, and Influence on Oil Recovery

Shawn Fullmer, Sean Guidry, Jonas Gournay, Emily Bowlin, Gary Ottinger, Abdulla Al Neyadi, Bo Gao and Ewart Edwards

Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretations from Benthic Foraminifera: Analyses of an Onshore Borehole site on the New Jersey Continental Shelf, ODP Leg 174AX

Megan Fung, Miriam Katz, James Browning and Kenneth G. Miller

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Controls on the Distribution of Reflux Dolomitisation: Insights From Modelling the Marvellous Madison

Tatyana Gabellone, Graham Griffiths, Fiona Whitaker, David A. Katz and Mark Sonnenfeld

Relationships Between Induced Seismicity and Fluid Injection: Development of Strategies to Manage Injection

Julia Gale, Cliff Frohlich, Peter Eichhubl, Jon Olson, Zhiqiang Fan, Valerie Gono, David Smith, Susan Horvath, Cari Breton and Marcy Davis

Low Stand Shelf-Edge Deltas and Linked Slope Depositional Systems, on a Steep, High-Relief Rifted Margin (Northeast Sicilly, Southeastern Thrrhenian Sea)

Fabiano Gamberi, Marzia Rovere, Elisa Leidi, Alessandra Mercorella and Giacomo Dalla Valle

Comparison of Suprasalt and Subsalt Depositional and Halokinetic History of Patawarta Diapir, Flinders Ranges, South Australia

Cora E. Gannaway, Katherine A. Giles, Rachelle A. Kernen, Mark G. Rowan and Thomas E. Hearon

Management of Water for Hydraulic Fracturing Enhanced with the Expanded USGS Produced Water Geochemical Database

Kathleen D. Gans, Madalyn S. Blondes, Mark A. Engle, Randal B. Thomas, James J. Thordsen and Yousif K. Kharaka

Essential Elements for Hydrocarbon Accumulation in Lucaogou Formation of Jimusaer Sag, Junggar Basin

Gang Gao, Chengyun Wang, Zhe Cao, Guangdi Liu and Xiaojiao Song

Modeling Oil Composition in Reservoirs Submitted to Biodegradation in Offshore Oilfields in the Brazilian Southeastern Margin

Gustavo Garcia, Savio F. Garcia, Henrique Penteado, Luciene S. Jesuíno, Joelma P. Lopes, Erica T. Morais and Rosane A. Fontes

Diagenetic Flow and Transport Modeling to Predict Reservoir Quality in Carbonate Formations

Beatriz Garcia-Fresca and Tom Palmer

Limitations of Clay Speciation via Bulk Chemical Analysis

Matthew P. Gatewood and José Silva

Salt Tectonic Controls on the Location and Evolution of Submarine Lobe-Channel-Levee Complexes: Miocene, Offshore Angola

Robert Gawthorpe and Ayodeji Oluboyo

Multi-Length Scale Investigations of Carbonate Heterogeneity

Jeff Gelb, Bruce Johnson, Denise Doerr, Jack Kasahara, Ben Tordoff and Allister McBride

Relative Permeability Curve Calculation From Core-Plug Scale to Reservoir Scale Constrained by Facies Pattern

Lihui Geng, Jiagen Hou and Yupeng Li

A High-Resolution Investigation of the Relationship Between the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion and the End-Marjuman Trilobite Extinction Within an Intrashelf Basin in the Southern Appalachians

Angela M. Gerhardt, Benjamin C. Gill and Theodore R. Them

In-Situ Polyacrylamide Gels to Ex-Situ Microelectrodes and Centrifugation Colorimetric Measures: A Comparison of Porewater Analysis Methodologies

Jonathon Geroux, Karen S. McNeal, Curry Templeton and Darrel Schmitz

Cenozoic Subsidence and Lithospheric Stretching Deformation of the Ajdabiya Trough Area, NE Sirt Basin, Libya

Hussein B. Ghanoush, Jonathan Imber and Ken McCaffrey

Depth-Averaged Modeling of Supercritical Submarine Fans

Kaveh Ghayour, Yan Zaretskiy, Adam Singer, David C. Hoyal, Timothy Demko, Juan J. Fedele, Keriann Pederson, Paul Hamilton, Kyle Strom and Vitor Abreu

Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution and Hydrocarbon Presence Prediction of a Deep Water Prospect Based on the Integrated Interpretation of 3D Seismic and 3DCSEM

Anne Marit Oestvedt Ghazi, Gabriela Tellez Velazquez, Valente Ricoy-Paramo, Luis A. Sanchez Perez, Marco A. Arrequin, Marco Vazquez-Garcia and Humberto Salazar

Deepening the Frontier-Porosity Preservation in Deeply Buried (28,000 Feet) Mudstones of the Vienna Basin, Austria

Susanne Gier, Juergen Schieber and Andrea Schicker

Attributes of Carbonate Platforms Associated With Passive Salt Diapirism

Katherine A. Giles

Regional Frasnian Stratigraphic Framework, Alberta Outcrop and Subsurface

Murray Gilhooly, Pak Wong, John Weissenberger and Ken Potma

Tectonic Control on the Deposition of the Tihonian-Berriasian Sequences (Vaca Muerta-Quintuco Fm), Eastern Neuquen Basin, Argentina

David Giunta, Josep Poblet and José L. Massaferro

Characterizing Compartmentalization in Structurally Heterogeneous Reservoirs Using Fluid Mixing Time-Scales

Jason Go, Craig Smalley and Ann Muggeridge

Preliminary Results from the Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic, Lower Permian Halgaito Formation, Southeastern Utah: Application of Ichnopedofacies for Interpreting Environments of Deposition

James A. Golab, Stephen T. Hasiotis and Donald L. Rasmussen

Pre-Salt Microbial Aptian-Albian Carbonates of the Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil

Karin Goldberg, Claiton Scherer, Tatiana Bardola, Fabia Bobco and Diego Lyra

Resedimented Deposits in the Rift Section of the Campos Basin

Karin Goldberg, Juliano Kuchle, Luiz Fernando De Ros, Claiton Scherer, Renata Alvarenga, Patrycia Ene and Garibaldi Armelenti

Flow Processes, Sedimentation, and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Submarine Channel-Lobe Transition Zone: an Outcrop-Based Study

Gregory Gordon and David Pyles

Alluvial Fan Interaction with Adjacent and Contemporaneous Arid Continental Environments: Implications for Basin-Scale Fluid Migration and Charge

Amy Gough and Stuart M. Clarke

Stratigraphy and Geochemistry of the Organic-Rich Toolebuc Formation, Upper Albian, Eromanga and Carpenteria Basins, Australia

George J. Grabowski

Late Devonian Depositional Evolution of Western Montana and East-Central Idaho – Jefferson, Three Forks, and Sappington Formations

George Grader, Michael Pope and Ted Doughty

An Interpretation of the Basement Structure of the Black Sea Based on SPAN Seismic Data and Gravity Modelling

Rod Graham, Nuri Kaymakci and Nick J. Kusznir

The Importance of Recognising Hydrodynamics for Understanding Tilted Fluid Contacts

Sam Green, Richard E. Swarbrick and Stephen A. O'Connor

Tectonic Evolution of the South Florida Basin, Eastern Gulf of Mexico

Andrea C. Gregg, Delores M. Robinson and Amy Weislogel

Late Devonian Extinctions: A Novel Conceptional Model for the Paleoenvironment of the Canning Basin, Gogo Formation, WA and Associated Oils: Exceptional Preservational Conditons of Biomarkers and Organic Matter in Carbonate Concretions and Basinal Muds

Kliti Grice, Svenja Tulipani, Ines Melendez, Paul Greenwood, Lorenz Schwark, Ted Playton, Peter Haines, Roger Hocking, Clinton Foster, Roger E. Summons and Ercin Maslen

A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Gale Crater, Mars

John Grotzinger and null null

Diapiric Control on Jurassic Carbonate Systems, High-Atlas Basin, Morocco

Carine Grélaud, Philippe Razin, Rémi Joussiaume, Manon Malaval, Juan Diego Martin-Martin, Eduard Saura, Grégoire Messager, Mar Moragas, Jaume Vergés and David W. Hunt

Interaction of Tidal and Fluvial Processes From Delta Front to Coastal Plain: Subsurface Implications

Marcello Gugliotta, Stephen Flint, David M. Hodgson and Gonzalo Veiga

Constraining the Timing of Tectonic Compression of the Tianshan Mountain From Reservoir Pressure Evolution in the Kuqa Foreland Basin, NW China

Xiaowen Guo, Keyu Liu, Mengjun Zhao, Shaobo Liu, Shihu Fang, Qinggong Zhuo and Xuesong Lu

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Mapping Shale Composition: A Breakthrough in Quantitative Mineral Analysis Using Mixed Phase X-Ray Spectra

David Haberlah, Duncan Pirrie, Garth Howell, Michael Owen, Ashley Donaldson, Eric Goergen, Leonardo Salazar, Siavash Rastaghi and Alan Butcher

Accuracy of Automated SEM-EDS, FTIR, and XRD Mineral Identification and Quantification: A Discussion based on Measurements of Shale and Synthetic Mudrocks

David Haberlah, Eric Goergen, Garth Howell, Michael Owen, Hans Krusemann, Duncan Pirrie, Gavyn Rollinson, Paul Gottlieb and Alan Butcher

Standardization of Vitrinite Reflectance Measurements in Shale Petroleum Systems: How Accurate Are My Ro Data?

Paul Hackley

A WASP in Geology: Elizabeth A. Watson (1915-2000)

Amanda Haddad and Jessica Moore

Seismic and Core Based Reservoir Characterization, the Giant Priobskoye Field, West Siberia, Russia

Sergey Hafizov, John C. Dolson, George Pemberton, Irina Didenko, Lisa Burova, Irina Nizyaeva and Alexy Medvedev

Regional View of Onshore Plays for the Gulf of Mexico Margin

Ed Haire, Don Howard and Barbara Radovich

Submarine Fan Stratigraphy Described as a Function of Hydraulic Variables

Paul Hamilton, Kyle Strom and David C. Hoyal

Additional Methods for the Analysis of Seismic Data and Risk Reduction Through the Interpretation and Reservoir Modelling of Scaled Analogue Models

James Hammerstein, Leigh Truelove and Ken McClay

Northern German Unconventional Reservoirs in Upper Permian (Ca2) Microbial Slope and Basin Dolomitized Mudstones: Assessment of Oil to Source-Rock Correlations Within a Sequence Stratigraphic Framework

Ursula Hammes, Hans-Martin Schulz and Achim Bechtel

Application of Seismic Inversion in the Prediction of Coal Bed Methane Reservoir: A Case Study

Ruidong Han, Hong Wang, Zhongping Zhang and Ling Li

Source Rock Properties and Hydrocarbon Generating Kinetics of Lacustrine Shales in Ordos Basin, China

Shuangbiao Han, Brian Horsfield, Jinchuan Zhang, Nicolaj Mahlstedt, Rolando di Primio and Xuan Tang

Migration and Retention of Hydrocarbons in Barnett Shale

Yuanjia Han, Nicolaj Mahlstedt and Brian Horsfield

High Frequency Cyclicity, Facies and Deposition of Condensed Zones in the Fayetteville Shale (Mississippian) – An Outcrop to Subsurface Perspective

C. R. Handford, Tyson M. Smith, Ian R. Westlake and Christine M. Skirius

What Happens When Plate Motions Change? Re-Thinking Hydrocarbon Expulsion and Migration

Judith L. Hannah and Holly J. Stein

Distinguishing Channel Related Thin-Bedded Turbidite Facies – Outcrop Example From the Rosario Formation, Mexico

Larissa Hansen, Richard Callow, Benjamin Kneller and Ian A. Kane

Coupling Petrophysics and Petroleum Systems Modeling: A Shale Oil Application from Saudi Arabia

Thomas Hantschel and Abid Bhullar

Wave and Gravity-Controlled Dispersal of Mud in the Lower Ordovician Beach Formation, Newfoundland, Canada: Multi-Scale Facies Heterogeneity and Diagenetic Framework

Dario Harazim and Duncan McIlroy

Millimeter-Sized Bioturbating Animals Control the Mobility of Redox-Sensitive Trace Elements in Organic-Rich Mudstone

Dario Harazim, Duncan McIlroy, Nicholas Edwards, Roy Wogelius, Phillip Manning, Kristin Poduska and Uwe Bergmann

Salt Tectonics in the Upper Silurian Salina Group, Appalachian Basin, NE Pennsylvania: Results From 3-D Seismic Analysis and Analogue Modelling

Matthew R. Harding and Christopher J. Rowan

Quantifying the Effect of Microporosity on Fluid Flow in Carbonate Reservoirs

Sophie Harland, Rachel Wood, Rink van Dijke, Andrew Curtis, Zeyun Jiang, Ken Sorbie and Wissem Kallel

Drowning of the Great Barrier Reef During Marine Isotope Stage 5e and Subsequent Re-Establishment

Brandon Harper, Andre W. Droxler, Ángel Puga-Bernabéu and Jody Webster

The Geochemical and Mineralogical Expression of Sea Level Cycles, Upper Devonian Woodford Shale, Permian Basin

Nicholas B. Harris

Great Bahama Bank – Part I: Evaluating Water-Depth Variation on a “Flat-Topped” Isolated Carbonate Platform

Paul M. (Mitch) M. Harris, James Ellis and Sam J. Purkis

Great Bahama Bank – Part II: Mapping Depositional Facies on a “Flat-Topped” Isolated Carbonate Platform

Paul M. (Mitch) M. Harris, Sam J. Purkis, James Ellis, Peter Swart and John J. Reijmer

Constraints on Opening of the Gulf of Mexico from Seafloor Spreading Magnetic Anomalies

Dennis L. Harry and Philip K. Eskamani

3-D Seismic Attribute-Assisted Analysis of Microseismic Events Within the Marcellus Shale

Ariel K. Hart, Tom Wilson and Peter Sullivan

Prediction of Alluvial Sandstone Body Dimensions, Connectivity and Heterogeneity in the Subsurface

Adrian Hartley, Gary Weissmann, Louis Scuderi, Amanda Owen, Anna Kulikova and Gary Nichols

Stages of Jurassic Rifting, Magmatism, and Salt Deposition in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Inferred from a Grid of Deep-Penetration Seismic Reflection Data Tied to Wells

Murad Hasan and Paul Mann

Ichnofacies and Ichnoporosity-Ichnopermeability in Carbonate Strata: Comparison of Recent, Holocene, and Pleistocene Successions of Crooked-Acklins Platform, Bahamas

Stephen T. Hasiotis and Gene Rankey

Ichnocoenoses and Ichnofacies of Marine and Continental Deposits in Permian–Triassic Strata of the Beacon Supergroup, Beardmore Glacier Area, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica

Stephen T. Hasiotis, Adam Jackson, Peter P. Flaig and John Isbell

Geochemical Constraints on Microporosity Formation

Franciszek Hasiuk, Stephen E. Kaczmarek and Shawn Fullmer

Biotic vs. Abiotic Origin of Brazilian Presalt “Microbialites”: A Test for Geochemistry?

Franciszek Hasiuk, Jason W. Eleson and Stephen E. Kaczmarek

Description of Intragranular Micropores in Ooid Grainstones with Bimodal Porosity Network from Lower Cretaceous Lekhwair Formation in United Arab Emirates

Ahmed Hassan, Charles Kerans, Robert Loucks and Thomas Steuber

Integrated Assessment of Water Resources for Unconventional Oil and Gas Plays, West-Central Alberta, Canada

Brad J. Hayes, Ben Kerr and Derek Brown

Toward Predicting the Influence of Facies on Well Performance in the Marcellus Formation: Development and Integration of a Core-Derived Lithofacies Model

Dawn Hayes and Jason Mintz

Resolving Mudrock Evolution with Silt Microtextures

Nicholas W. Hayman, Joel Lunsford and Kitty L. Milliken

Shallow Subsurface Detection of Buried, Weathered Hydrocarbons Using Integrated Geophysical Techniques

Kirstie L. Haynie and Shuhab Khan

Digital Outcrop Modelling of a Fractured Crystalline Basement: A Potential Unconventional Reservoir Outcrop Analogue

William Head, David Hodgetts and Nicholas T. Smith

Allochthonous Salt Initiation and Advance in the Northern Flinders and Eastern Willouran Ranges, South Australia: Using Outcrops to Test Subsurface-Based Models from the Northern Gulf Of Mexico

Thomas E. Hearon, Mark G. Rowan, Katherine A. Giles, Rachelle A. Kernen, Cora E. Gannaway, Timothy F. Lawton and Joseph C. Fiduk

Analysing Geobody Geometries and Architectural Elements Within Fluvio-Deltaic Depositional Systems: A Case Study from the Mungaroo Formation, NW Australia

Georgina Heldreich, Jonathan Redfern, Keith Gerdes, Berit Legler, Stuart Taylor and David Hodgetts

Relationship Between Reservoir Quality and the Deformation Associated With Anticlinal Folding in the Tensleep Sandstone at Alcova Reservoir, Central Wyoming, USA

Peter Hennings and Anita E. Csoma

Fluid-Rock Interaction in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming: An Investigation of Reactions Between Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid and Unconventional Reservoirs

Ryan Herz-Thyhsen and John Kaszuba

Shelf Model for ‘Deep-Sea’ Flysch Turbidites and Implications for Outcrop Analogs

Roger Higgs

Stable Carbon Isotopes in Carbonates of the Devonian Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin: Use as a Chronostratigraphic Constraint, Oceanic Indicator, and Limitations

Kelly Hillbun, David Katz, Ted Playton, Evan Lewarch, Kate Trinajstic, Eric Tohver, Peter Haines, Jeroen Hansma, Roger Hocking, Joseph Kirschvink, Maodu Yan, Ken Ratcliffe, Sergei Pisarevsky, Mihai Ducea, Paul Montgomery, Paul M. (Mitch) M. Harris and Peter Ward

Integrated Hydrocarbon Exploration of the Owambo Basin, Onshore Northern Namibia: Implications for a Modern Frontier Basin

Thomas E. Hoak, Alan L. Klawitter, Charles F. Dommer and Pasquale V. Scaturro

The Devonian Reef Complexes of the Canning Basin in Context: Subsurface and Adjacent Basins

Roger Hocking, Peter Haines and Heidi-Jane Allen

Quantitative Geology From Digital Outcrop Data for the Characterization of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

David Hodgetts, Thomas Seers, Brian S. Burnham, William Head and Martin Turner

Observations of UV Fluorescence in Middle Bakken, Sanish and Three Forks Reservoirs, Williston Basin, North Dakota, Part 1. Leveraging Core Fluorescence to Visualize and Estimate Oil-In-Place

John Hohman and Ellie D. Chuparova

A Fulcrum Approach for Assessing Sediment Source-to-Sink Mass Balance Using Fluvial Paleohydrologic Data Extractable from Cores: An Assessment of Potential and Limitations Using the Cenomanian Bahariya Formation, Egypt

John M. Holbrook and Hamdalla Wanas

Applications of Whole Rock Bulk Geochemistry for Evaluating a CO₂ Injection Well in Late Triassic Sandstones

Brittany E. Hollon, Pukar Mainali, Michael Dix, Robert Fu, Nancy Houghton and Michael Waddell

High–Resolution Correlation and Palynofacies of Inner Platform Carbonate–Mudrock Cycles of the Lower Permian Lueders Limestone, TX: Implications for High–Frequency Climate Change on the Eastern Shelf, Midland Basin

Peter Holterhoff and David Pocknall

Lacustrine / Palustrine Carbonate – Mudrock Cycles of the Upper Pennsylvanian Monongahela Group of the Northern Appalachian Basin: Lithofacies, Architecture and Geochemistry

Peter Holterhoff, Rawan Al Asad and Isabel Montanez

A Reinterpretation of the Lower Ferron Sandstone in the Drunkards Wash CBM Field, Central Utah

John Howell and Tore Klausen

Steady Autogenic Model for Multiscale Growth Patterns, Avulsion, and Evolution of Submarine Fans up to the Basin-Scale

David C. Hoyal, Juan J. Fedele, Paul Hamilton, Kyle Strom, Kaveh Ghayour, Timothy Demko, Keriann Pederson and Vitor Abreu

Evolution, Architecture and Stratigraphy of Froude Supercritical Submarine Fans

David C. Hoyal, Timothy Demko, George Postma, Robert W. Wellner, Keriann Pederson, Vitor Abreu, Juan J. Fedele, Darren Box, Anthony Sprague, Kaveh Ghayour, Kyle Strom and Paul Hamilton

TSR-Related Calcite Cements in Triassic Dolomite, NE Sichuan Basin, China

Keke Huang and Yijiang Zhong

Resistivity Characterization of Permeability in Microbial Carbonates Onshore Alabama

Qifei Huang and Yuefeng Sun

Characteristics and Cutoff of Porosity and Permeability of the Effective Volcanic Gas Reservoirs of the Lower Cretaceous Yingcheng Formation in Songliao Basin, NE China

YuLong Huang, Yuhui Feng and Pujun Wang

Complex Cretaceous Shorelines Existed During Deposition of the McMurray Formation of Alberta, Canada as Evidenced by Bedrock-Controlled Estuaries and Associated Flood Tidal Deltas in the Upper McMurray

Jessica Hudock, Peter P. Flaig and Lesli Wood

Evidence for Clustering of Delta-Lobe Reservoirs within Fluvio-Lacustrine Systems, the Jurassic Kayenta Formation, Utah

Galen A. Huling and John M. Holbrook

Sedimentological and Geochemical Record of Oceanic Anoxic Events (OAE's) in the Aptian-Albian Pearsall Formation of South Texas

David C. Hull, Ryan M. Phelps, Robert G. Loucks and Kitty L. Milliken

Sedimentary Responses to Syndepositional Faulting in a Prograding Platform: Permian, Guadalupe Mountains, USA

David Hunt, Phillip G. Resor, Toni Simo, Jana Simo, Wolfgang Blendinger and Gemma Labrana

Origin and Development of the Apalachicola Basin

Ian S. Hunter, Delores M. Robinson and Amy Weislogel

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of a Carbonate Slope System Along a Drowned Margin; Cutoff Formation, Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas

Gregory S. Hurd, Charles Kerans, Xavier Janson, Shawn Fullmer and Toni Simo

Records of Early Cretaceous Late Hauterivian-Early Albian Oceanic Anoxic Episodes Within Shallow-Marine Carbonates, Adriatic Platform, Croatia

Antun Husinec and James F. Read

Lower Najmah Shale: An Emerging Shale Resource Exploration Target in Kuwait

Fida Hussain, Riyasat Husain, Awatif Al-Khamiss, Paramjit Singh, Ahmad Rabie, Rinaldi Mulyono and Ahmad Al-Kandary

Exploring the Origin of Carbonate Lenses Within Distal Delta Front Sediments of the Turonian Frontier Formation, Northern Uinta Basin, Utah

Andrew Hutsky, Christopher Fielding and Tracy D. Frank

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A New Approach to Applied Geochemistry in Reservoir Evaluation: An Integrated Multi-Mineral and Porosity Model

Wesley C. Ingram, Robert Hartman, Pukar Mainali and Nicolo Casarta

Tectonic Characterization of the THUMS-Huntington Beach Fault, Southern California

Sergey Ishutov, Robert D. Francis and Mark R. Legg

3-D Printing Artificial Reservoir Rocks to Test Their Petrophysical Properties

Sergey Ishutov and Franciszek Hasiuk

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Characterizing Static and Dynamic Reservoir Connectivity of Deep Water Slope Deposits Using Detailed Outcrop-Based Facies Models, Tres Pasos Formation, Magallanes Basin, Chile

Allison Jackson, Stephen M. Hubbard, Lisa Stright, Brian Romans and Benjamin G. Daniels

Stratigraphic and Geomorphologic Heterogeneity of a Windward Carbonate Platform Margin, Exumas, Great Bahama Bank

Kelly L. Jackson, Gregor P. Eberli, Paul M. (Mitch) M. Harris and Donald F. McNeill

Distribution and Geometry of Dolomite Bodies in Association With Igneous Activity (Latemar, Northern Italy)

Carl Jacquemyn, Marijke Huysmans, Giulio Casini, David W. Hunt and Rudy Swennen

Analogue Modelling of Inverted Domino-Style Basement Fault Systems

Lydia Jagger and Ken McClay

The Geodynamic Evolution of the Sinu Offshore Basin and its Importance in Determining the Prospectivity of the Magdalena Fan, Offshore Colombia

Richard James and Jonathan Castell

Dolomite Distribution in Modern and Ancient Microbial Stromatolites: Is the Present a Key to the Past?

Jeremy Jameson

Characterization of Deepwater Channel Systems in the Wilcox Formation, Offshore GoM

Nils E. Janbu, Eilert Hilde, Frode Hadler-Jacobsen, Anna S. Pontén, Sverre Henriksen, Lars-Magnus Fält, Pål Sandbakken, Ian A. Kane, Torhild Gillebo, Steinar Hustoft, Girish Saigal, Andrew Bowman, Jamie Vinnels, Andreas Helsem, Cristina S. Hach, Jan R. Eide, Rune Mjøs and Olav Solbakken

The Importance of Petrophysical Stratification on Fluid-Flow Behavior in Carbonate Reservoirs

James W. Jennings

Depositional Analysis of the Jurassic Norphlet Formation within the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin: Impact on Petroleum Potential Offshore

Marcus L. Jessee and Amy Weislogel

Tectonics-Palaeogeomorphology in Rift Basins: Controlling Effect on the Sequence Architecture

Haibo Jia, Hancheng Ji and Simin Sun

High Resolution, Millennial-Scale Patterns of Bed Compensation on a Sand-Rich Submarine Lobe, Western Niger Delta Slope

Zane R. Jobe, Zoltan Sylvester, Carlos Pirmez and Bradford Prather

Provenance and Architectural Analysis of Linked Fluvial and Marginal Marine Depositional Systems, Cretaceous Kaiparowits Basin, Southern Utah, USA: Insights From Detrital Zircon U/Pb Geochronology and Paleomorphodynamics

Cari Johnson, Lisa Stright and Tyler Szwarc

Impacts of Magmatic-Hydrothermal Alteration in the Leadville Limestone, Southwest Colorado

Elizabeth A. Johnson, Gary Gianniny, David Gonzales, Phil Cowan, Alex Klink and Kiefer Kuhn

The Morphology of Transgressive Ravinement Surfaces and Syn-Ravinement Deposition: Modern Analogues for Reservoirs: Examples from the Modern Texas Coast

Kyle W. Johnson, Timothy Dellapenna and Joseph A. Carlin

Evaluation of the Potential for Shale Gas Exploration in the Fika Shales of the Gongola Basin, Upper Benue Trough, Nigeria

Lukman M. Johnson, Munira Raji, Ayodeji P. Oluboyo, Omowunmi Owolabi and Suraj W. Adepoju

Flexural Modeling of Linxia Basin, NE Tibetan Plateau: Insights into Subsidence and Deformation Mechanisms

Jessica Jordan, Joel Saylor, Shiqi Wang, Junsheng Nie and Tao Deng

Solitary Waves in Low Permeability Sediments: A Possible Mechanism for Rapid Methane Transport in the Eugene Island Field, Gulf of Mexico Basin

Ajit Joshi, Martin S. Appold and Jeffrey Nunn

Factors Controlling the Preservation of Porphyrins and Formation of Metalloporphyrins with Perspectives From Ancient Source Rocks and Modern Analogs

Christopher K. Junium

The Biogeochemistry of Black Shales Following the Neoproterozoic, Mid-Cryogenian (Sturtian) Snowball Earth Event of Australia

Christopher K. Junium

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An SEM-Based Descriptive Classification Scheme for Limestone Microporosity

Stephen E. Kaczmarek, Shawn Fullmer and Franciszek Hasiuk

Diagenetic Features in Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars: Implications for Substrate Rheology and Potential Gas Release

Linda C. Kah, Katie Stack, Kirsten Siebach, John Grotzinger, Dawn Sumner, Alberto Fairen, Dorothy Oehler, Juergen Schieber, Richard Leveille, Lauren Edgar, Melissa Rice and null null

Modelling Wettability Alteration in Microporous Carbonate Rocks

Wissem Kallel, Rink van Dijke, Ken Sorbie, Rachel A. Wood, Zeyun Jiang, Andrew Curtis and Sophie Harland

Facies Distribution in Mud-Prone Sandy Deep-Water Lobes: Outcrop Validation of Physical Models

Ian A. Kane, Anna S. Pontén, Mauricio M. Perillo, David Mohrig and James Buttles

The Influence of Mass Transport Complexes on Sediment Dispersal Patterns in the Southern Magdalena Fan, Offshore Colombia

Andrea Ortiz Karpf, David M. Hodgson and William D. McCaffrey

Anatomy of a Source Rock

Barry J. Katz

Application of Stable Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy as a Chronostratigraphic Tool for Devonian Marine Carbonates

David A. Katz, Ted Playton, Kelly Hillbun and Paul M. (Mitch) M. Harris

Density Current Evolution Within an Experimental Submarine Channel

Gareth M. Keevil

Controls on the Temporal and Spatial Variability of Carbonate Platform Architectures: A Case Study from the Nanpanjiang Basin, South China

Brian Kelley, Daniel Lehrmann, Meiyi Yu, Xiaowei Li, Adam Jost, Kimberly Lau, Marcello Minzoni and Jonathan Payne

Analysis of Sequence Stratigraphic Models for the Jurassic Cretaceous Sedimentary Fill of the Intrashelf Basins of the Eastern Margin the Arabian Plate

Christopher G. Kendall, Phil Moore, Enrica Viiparelli, Thomas L. De Keyser, Abdulrahman Alsharhan and Cameron Kloot

Organic Matter Preservation as Clay-Organic Nanocomposites in the Woodford Shale and its First Order Control on an Unconventional Play

Martin J. Kennedy, Stefan Loehr, Elizabeth Baruch and Sammuel Fraser

Oceanic anoxic events (OAE's), Biotic Crises, and Demise of the Cretaceous Passive Margin Platforms, Western Gulf of Mexico (GOM)

Charles Kerans, Rob Forkner, Ryan M. Phelps and Robert G. Loucks

Devonian Carbonate Platforms – Challenges and Potential for Integrated Chronostratigraphic Analysis

Charles Kerans and Ted Playton

Diagenetic Polygonal Faults in the Niobrara: An Integrated Look from Outcrops to Subsurface

Nicholas Kernan, Mohammed Al Duhailan and Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Enhancing Oil Production from a Matured Reservoir by Drilling NCWs with Intelligent Well Completions in the Lower Burgan Reservoir of North Kuwait- A Case Study

Ali N. Khan, Safaa Deib, Nazar Abbas, Badoor Baroon, Sanhita Tiwari, Harry Alam, Sankar Chowdhuri and Suresh Chellappan

Uppermost Pleistocene Banks Along the South Texas Shelf Edge: A Clear Case of Drowning Based Upon Their Morphologies

Pankaj Khanna, Andre W. Droxler and Jeffery A. Nittrouer

Chemical and Stable Isotope Compositions for Micro-Crystal Carbonates Suggest Low-Mg/Ca-Pore Water Formation Conditions

Hubert E. King, M. Heines, W. Lamberti, Franciszek Hasiuk and Shawn Fullmer

Regional Sequence Stratigraphy and Thickness Patterns of the Mississippian Leadville Limestone, Southwestern San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Alex T. Klink, Gary Gianniny and Kiefer Kuhn

Characterization of Duvernay Formation Mudrocks Using Detailed Sedimentological Analysis

Levi J. Knapp and Nicholas B. Harris

When the Levee Breaks: Collapse of Submarine Channel Levees

Benjamin Kneller, Larissa Hansen, Richard Callow, Jennifer Cunningham, Fabiano Gamberi and Marzia Rovere

Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy as a Regional Correlation Tool in Subsurface Mississippian Strata of the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma-Kansas, USA

Jesse Koch, Tracy D. Frank and Tom Bulling

Monitoring the Active Migration and Biodegradation of Natural Gas in the Trinity Group Aquifer at the Silverado Development in Southern Parker County, Texas

Alan S. Kornacki and Mark McCaffrey

Sedimentology and Ichnology of a Lobe-Deflected Delta, Ferron Sandstone (Turonian), Utah, USA

Jesse T. Korus and Christopher Fielding

The Brazilian Equatorial Margin: A Snapshot in Time of an Oblique Rifted Margin

Ana Krueger, Mike Murphy, Kevin Burke and Ed Gilbert

Hydrocarbon Microseepage and Geobotanical Anomalies

Diana Krupnik and Shuhab Khan

New Model of the Caledonian Foreland Basin in North Poland Revealed by Recent Regional Seismic Data

Piotr Krzywiec, Pawel Lis, Michal Malinowski, Vinton Buffenmyer and Marek Lewandowski

Reservoir Scale Facies Variation of the Mississippian Leadville Limestone, Southwestern San Juan Mountains, Colorado

Kiefer Kuhn, Gary Gianniny and Alex T. Klink

New High-Resolution Oil-Base Mud Borehole Imaging for Enhanced Interpretation of Deepwater Sediments

Anish Kumar, Robert J. Laronga, Rick Kear and Wesley Cantwell

Understanding Pressure Compartmentalization in Ultra Deep-Water Drilling Off Mexican Gulf Coast: A Case Study

Devendra Kumar, Chandramani Shrivastava, Leonardo Enrique Aguilera Gomez, Francisco Espitia Hernandez, Javier E. Contreras Trejo, Enrique Guzman Vera, Eduardo Roman Garcia, Pierre Bonningue, Joseph Gremillion, Yacira G. Hamana, Enrique J. Montes Carrasco, Constancio I. Barajas Gea, Hector V. Alonso, Monserrat E. Vera and Claudia C. Romero

The Prediction of Basement Composition and Radiogenic Heat-Flow Contribution for Petroleum System Modelling in Deep-Water Frontier Exploration

Nick J. Kusznir, Alan Roberts and Leanne Cowie

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Hydrodynamic Controls on Channel Bar Sedimentation Across the Tidal-Fluvial Transition, Lower Fraser River, BC, Canada

Andrew D. La Croix, Shahin E. Dashtgard and James A. MacEachern

Geological Interpretation of Seismic Data in Color – A New Approach

Andreas W. Laake, Joseph C. Fiduk and Bradley C. Wallet

Constraining Thermal Histories in Marine Carbonates and Black Shales: A Pilot Conodont (U-Th)/He Thermochronometry Study in the Illinois Basin

Rachel L. Landman, Nicholas A. Rosenau and Rebecca M. Flowers

The Evolution of the Mitchell River Megafan and its Control on the Distribution of Delta Facies

Tess I. Lane, Rachel A. Nanson, Boyan Vakarelov, R. Bruce Ainsworth and Paul Augustinus

Tectonic and Geomorphic Controls on Cyclic Lacustrine and Fluvial Deposition

Richard P. Langford, Katherine A. Giles and Xiaowey Li

High Resolution Non-Destructive Chemostratigraphy of Vaca Muerta Fm: New Evidences of Black Shale Sedimentology Features

Claudio N. Larriestra and Roberto Merino

Early History of the Natural Gas Industry, Fredonia, New York

Gary Lash and Eileen Lash

Facies Trends and Large-Scale Architecture of the Pennsylvanian Ross Formation, Western Ireland – New Insight from Cores South of the Shannon

Arnau Obradors Latre, Colm Pierce, Peter Haughton, Patrick M. Shannon, Andrew Pulham, Anthea Lacchia, Simon Barker and Ole J. Martinsen

Geochemical Characterization of Post Mature Gases from Middle Devonian Marcellus Formation, Northern Appalachian Basin, USA – Insights into Deep Basin Hydrocarbon Generation, Alteration, and Productivity

Christopher D. Laughrey

Reservoir Modeling of Deepwater Lobes: Impact on Connectivity and Production

Fabien Laugier, Jacob Covault, Michael J. Pyrcz, Richard Sech, Tao Sun and Morgan Sullivan

Shelf-Edge Recognition Criteria and the Impact of Process Regime Variation on Deepwater Sediment Delivery

Fabien Laugier and Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Stratigraphic and Antecedent Geological Controls on Modern Analogues of Potential Hydrocarbon Reservoirs within a Back Barrier Island Lagoon System: West Galveston Bay

Paul H. Laverty, Timothy Dellapenna and Joseph Carlin

Integration of 3-D Surface Seismic and Jointly Inverted Downhole-Shallow Well Microseismic Datasets on a Multi-Lateral Stimulation Campaign: A Marcellus Formation Example

Joel Le Calvez, Paolo Primiero, Jason Couch and Gorka Garcia

High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of the Mississippian Lime in Northeastern Oklahoma

Stephanie L. LeBlanc and Michael Grammer

Using Measurement Uncertainty to Calculate Reservoir Volumes and Reduce Risk in Prospects

Garrett M. Leahy, Arne Skorstad, Emma Howley and Wenxiu Yang

Fractal Dimension and Borehole Images, a New Approach to Enhance the Characterization of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs and its Application in the Catatumbo Basin-Colombia

Jorge A. Leal, Luis Ochoa and Jerson Garcia

Reservoir Characterisation of the Paradise and Hickory Discoveries, Offshore Ghana: Integration of Depositional and Diagenetic Concepts

Michael Lee, Philip Cox, Oliver Cheshire, Scott Pluim and Lucy Nyamaah

Analysis of the Petroleum Generation Potential of the Neal (Floyd) Shale in the Black Warrior Basin Using Kinetic and Basin Modeling

Joel Legg, Rona J. Donahoe and Richard Martens

The New Oil World of the 21st Century

Ray Leonard

Utilizing Chemostratigraphic Techniques to Improve Lacustrine Carbonate Reservoir Characterization

Scott Lepley and Leonardo Piccoli

Determining Oil-Expulsion Efficiencies of Source Rocks by Hydrous Pyrolysis

Michael Lewan

Reservoir Forming Mechanism and Main Controlling Factors of Different Types of Large Tight Sandstone Gas Fields in China

Jian Li, Zengye Xie and Aisheng Hao

Effect of Thermal Maturation on the Composition of Polar Organic Compounds in the Eocene Lacustrine Shales of the Bohai Bay Basin in Eastern China as Revealed by FT-ICR-MS Analysis of Hydrous Pyrolysates

Maowen Li, Peng Liu, Qigui Jiang, Zhiming Li and Tingting Cao

Depositional Evolution and Microfacies Characteristic of the Carboniferous Donghe Sandstone in Hudson Oilfield

Weilu Li, Huaimin Xu, Rubing Han and Hanqing Zhu

Sedimentologic and Diagenetic Analysis of Microbialite-Bearing Lacustrine Rift Sequence in Lower Cretaceous Yucca Formation, Indio Mountains, West Texas – An Outcrop Analog to Pre-Salt Microbialite Reservoirs Along the South Atlantic Margins

Xiaowei Li and Katherine A. Giles

Geochemical Features of Organic Matter and Trace Elements in Shales and Indication to Depositional Environments of Wufeng—Longmaxi Formations, Sichuan Basin, China

Yanfang Li, Haigang Lv, Yu Zhang, Xiaolong Zhang, Deyong Shao and Tongwei Zhang

Facies Architecture of a Bayhead Delta in the Cretaceous Ferron Notom Delta, Southern Utah

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

Climate, Duration and Mineralogy Controls on Meteoric Diagenesis

Zhaoqi Li, Robert Goldstein and Evan K. Franseen

Evaluating Along-Strike Variation Using Thin-Bedded Facies Analysis, Upper Cretaceous Ferron Notom Delta, Utah

Zhiyang Li and Janok P. Bhattacharya

Rediscovering the Arab-D Reservoir: The Search for Stratigraphic Traps

Robert F. Lindsay

Modelling of Non-Hydrocarbon Gases at a Basin Scale

Michael D. Lines, Jonathan McQuilken, Charles Ian Warburton, Adrian Kleine, Armin Kauerauf, Taina Couto and Thomas Hantschel

Detrital Zircon Geochronology and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Eureka Quartzite Formation Around the Tooele Arch, Western Utah and Eastern Nevada

Mario A. Lira, Michael Pope and Brent V. Miller

Application of Gas Isotope Signatures to Estimate Source Rock Thermal Maturity in Unconventional Gas Plays

Jessica Little

Diversity of Sequence Stratigraphic Patterns and its Formation Mechanism in the Southern Slope Area: Eocene, Fushan Depression, South China Sea

Entao Liu, Hua Wang, Yuan Li and Chuanyan Huang

Molecular Simulation of Hydrocarbon Occurrence and Phase Behavior in Nano Pores

Keyu Liu, Junfang Zhang, Shuichang Zhang and Hua Tian

The Source and Fate of Oils in the Lawton Oilfield, Southwestern Oklahoma

Li Liu, Ting Wang and Richard Philp

Paleoporosity and Critical Property in the Accumulation Period and Their Impacts on Hydrocarbon Accumulation—A Case Study of the Middle Es3 Member of the Paleogene Formation in Niuzhuang Sag, Dongying Depression, Southeastern Bohai Bay Basin, East China

Mingjie Liu, Zhen Liu, Xiaoming Sun, Biao Wang, Wang Zhang and Xing Yao

Genetic Types of Natural Gases and Conditions for Formation of Giant Gas Reservoirs in the Daniudi Gas Field of Ordos Basin, China

Quanyou Liu, Zhijun Jin, Qingqiang Meng, Xiaoqi Wu and Dongya Zhu

Hydrocarbon Potential in Herodotus Basin, Eastern Mediterranean

Xiaobing Liu, Zhixin Wen, Guangya Zhang, Zhaoming Wang and Chengpeng Song

Immature to Low Mature Source Rocks and Tight Reservoirs of Shale Oil Play in Section Two of the Kongdian Formation, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Xiaoping Liu and Donggao Zhao

The Influence of Pre-Existing Structures on the Initiation of an Oblique Rift: the Cañones Fault Zone in North-Central New Mexico

Yiduo Liu and Mike Murphy

Maturity and Overpressure Evolution of the Lower Cambrian in the Central Paleo-Uplift, Sichuan Basin

Yifeng Liu, Nansheng Qiu, Yongshui Zhou and Zengye Xie

Basement Architecture in the Southern Caribbean Basin, Guajira Offshore, Colombia

John Londoño, Cara Schiek and Ed Biegert

Timing and Evolution of a Deep-Water Carbonate Sand Drift: Inner Sea of the Maldives Archipelago, Equatorial Indian Ocean

Karem Lopez, Andre W. Droxler, Christian Betzler, Jörn Fuerstenau and Thomas Lüdmann

High-Energy Facies off San Salvador Patch Reefs: Mineralogy, Microfacies, and Stable-Isotope Record

Peter E. Loree, John T. Murphy and Antun Husinec

Fractured Reservoirs of the Shaikan Anticline, Northern Iraq

John C. Lorenz, Scott P. Cooper and John Stafford

Preliminary Unconventional Reservoir Characterization of the Lower Cretaceous Skull Creek Shale, Wyoming

Robert G. Loucks and Harry D. Rowe

Origin and Analysis of the Nano/Micropore Network in the Upper Cretaceous Ozan and Annona Chalks in the Caddo/Pine Island Field in Northwest Louisiana

Robert G. Loucks, Harry D. Rowe and Gregory Frebourg

Evidence of Below Storm-Wave Base, Deeper Water Depositional Setting for the Upper Cretaceous, Boquillas (Eagle Ford) Carbonate Dominated A-Member

Robert G. Loucks, Gregory Frebourg and Stephen C. Ruppel

Coeval Tectonism and Epeiric Transgression on the Early Paleozoic Laurentian Platform Recorded by Strata of the Potsdam Group in the Northwestern Ottawa Embayment

David G. Lowe and Bill Arnott

Variations in Braided Fluvial Styles Related to Topography and Climate in the Cambrian-Ordovician Potsdam Group, Ottawa Embayment and Quebec Basin

David G. Lowe and Bill Arnott

Controls on Sedimentology and Organic Matter of a Coquina Beach Ridge: Fine-Grained Carbonate Lagoon System on a Holocene Carbonate Ramp: Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Jennifer G. Lowery, Gene Rankey and Alison Olcott-Marshall

Reactive Transport Modeling of Reflux Dolomitization on an Upper Jurassic Homoclinic Carbonate Ramp

Peng Lu and Dave Cantrell

Transformation of Depositional Lime Mud to Microrhombic Calcite

Floyd J. Lucia and Robert Loucks

Microtextural Properties of the Silt Fraction in Mudrocks

Joel D. Lunsford, Nicholas W. Hayman and Kitty L. Milliken

Shale and Siltstone Hosted Hydrocarbon Resources of Alberta: Methods and Assessments

Steven Lyster, Dean Rokosh, Andrew Beaton and Fran Hein

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Stratiform Breccias in the Mississippian Mission Canyon Formation (Montana) as an Analogue for Understanding Bitumen-Saturated Breccias in the Grosmont-Upper Ireton Formations, Canada

Alex J. MacNeil

Petroleum Geochemistry and Paleontology Establish Age Relation of Tyler Formation in Central Montana and North Dakota

Leslie B. Magoon

University of Houston Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Its Origin and Highlights of its First 80 Years of Education and Service to the Oil Industry

Paul Mann

Understanding the Impact of Depositional Processes and Environments on Reservoir Quality in Deepwater Reservoirs: A Case History from the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

Ann M. Marchand, Gillian Apps and Weiguo Li

Visualizing Fluid Flow in Structurally Deformed Carbonates Using 4-D GPR and Dynamic Modeling

Pierpaolo Marchesini, Mark Grasmueck, Gregor P. Eberli and Ralf Weger

Assessing Undiscovered, Technically Recoverable Oil and Gas Resources of the Mississippian Barnett Shale

Kristen R. Marra, Michael Lewan and Mark Pawlewicz

Latitudinal Controls on Stratigraphic Models and Sedimentary Concepts

Allard W. Martinius, Carmen M. Fraticelli, Paul Markwick and John R. Suter

Spatial Variability in the Character and Extent of Early Marine Cementation

Michelle Mary, Gene Rankey and Tion Uriam

Application of Geosteering and Log Property Modeling in Unconventional Shale Reservoirs

Morgan Masau, John M. Guthrie, Ting C. Huang, Randall A. Mitchell and Richard T. Beaubouef

Architecture, Lithofacies, and Depositional Model for the Ballarat Sequence: A Mid-Pleistocene Fan-Delta Complex, Panamint Valley, Inyo County, California

Cody C. Mason, Neal C. Auchter and Brian Romans

Geologic Variability Within the Marcellus Shale and its Relationship With Natural Fractures

John Mason and Teresa Jordan

Geometric and Lithic Variability within the Syndepositional Cave Graben Fault System, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico

Maren G. Mathisen, Christopher K. Zahm and Charles Kerans

Energized Fracturing Fluids for Liquids-Rich Organic Shale Reservoirs

James McAndrew, Rong Fan and Robert Barba

Integrating Outcrop and Subsurface Data for Reservoir Prediction in Fluvial Tight-Gas Sands, Upper Williams Fork Formation, Grand Hogback, CO

Bryan McDowell and Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Unconventional Reservoir Potential of Rift-Lake Mudrocks: Preliminary Results from the Newark, Deep River, and Central Lake Malawi Basins

Michael M. McGlue, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Jeffrey C. Reid, Sheng Peng and Tongwei Zhang

Rare Earth Elements (REEs) in Crude Oils in the Lansing-Kansas City Formations in Central Kansas: Potential Indication About Sources of the Oils, Locally Derived or Long-Distance Derived

Mike McIntire, Sambhu Chaudhuri, Matthew Totten, Norbert Clauer, Gary Sandlin, S. Kirkland, John Miesse, G. Riepl, J. Stegeman and Rene Boutin

The Nature of Cyclic Bedding in Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Clinothems, Neogene of the Dominican Republic

Donald F. McNeill and James S. Klaus

Mandarin East, Norwegian Southern North Sea: Is Source Effectiveness the Reason for Failure of 1/3-12 S?

Jonathan McQuilken, Sarah Brazier, Michael D. Lines, Lucy A. Ramsey and Ian M. Turner

Characterization of the Lias of the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal, as an Unconventional Resource Play

Sean P. McWhorter, William R. Torguson and Ron McWhorter

Influence of Effective Pressure on Shale Matrix Permeability: Implications for Shale Gas Production

Rosanne Mckernan, Julian Mecklenburgh, Ernest Rutter, Kevin Taylor and Steven J. Covey-Crump

Integrating Fluid Migration Interpretation with High-Resolution 3-D Seismic: Application for Miocene CO₂ Storage Prospects, Inner Texas Shelf

Timothy Meckel, Nathan Bangs, Ramon Trevino and Tyler Fritz

The Relationship Between Depth and Temperature of Tertiary Gas Fields in the Veracruz Basin, Mexico

Martin M. Medrano

Re-Evaluating A Mid-Cretaceous ‘Delta’ as Depositional Remnants Driven by Crustal Anisotrophy: Frontier Formation, Powder River Basin, Eastern Wyoming

Jesse Melick and Michael H. Gardner

CO₂ Storage Potential in Devonian Deep Saline Aquifers and Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in North-Central Alberta, Canada

Anatoly Melnik, Rares Bistran, Alireza Jafari and Stefan Bachu

The Value of Having Detailed Geologic Models in Unconventional Plays

Bradley Melton and Neil Fishman

Structural Slope Fans Resulting from Paleogene Compression in the Veracruz Basin, Mexico

Esmeralda G. Mercado and Martin M. Medrano

Constraints on the Depositional Environments of Cyclic, Microbialite Bearing Carbonate-Siliciclastic Strata; Cambrian, Wilberns Formation, Mason County, TX

Lauren Mercado, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Pankaj Khanna and Andre W. Droxler

A Hierarchy of Current-Produced Bedforms in a Source Rock from the Eastern Carpathians Points to Predominant Bedload Deposition of an Organic-Rich Mudstone

Crina Miclaus and Juergen Schieber

Lookup Tables for Estimation of the Probability of Geological Success (PoS) for Segments with Conventional Oil and Gas

Alexei V. Milkov

The Three Forks and Pronghorn in McKenzie Co., ND: More Than a Simple ‘Basin Centered Oil Accumulation’

Mark Millard and Murray Dighans

Spatial Distribution of Large-Scale Carbonate Buildups in a Closed Lake System, Lago Strobel, Santa Cruz, Argentina

Cody Miller, Paul M. (Mitch) M. Harris and James Ellis

Testing Sequence Stratigraphic Models by Drilling Miocene Foresets on the New Jersey Shallow Shelf

Kenneth G. Miller, Gregory Mountain, James Browning, Miriam Katz, Donald Monteverde, Peter Sugarman, Hisao Ando, Maria Bassetti, Christian Bjerru, David M. Hodgson, Stephen Hesselbo, Sarp Karakaya, Jean-Noel Proust and Marina Rabineau

Mediterranean Sapropels: Analogues for Petrographic Assessment of Organic Matter in Oil and Gas Shales

Kitty L. Milliken, Tingwei (Lucy) Ko, Maxwell Pommer and Kathleen Marsaglia

Linkages Between Fluvial Scaling, Sediment Flux, and Sediment Deposition to Predict Reservoir Potential Within a Basin

Kristy T. Milliken, Brian Willis, Jacob Covault, Cristian Carvajal, Tao Sun, Tobias Payenberg, Sean Connell and Bryan Bracken

Mineral Mapping of Gale Crater Using Orbital Data: Results From Visible-Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy

Ralph Milliken and null null

Identification of Volcanics and its Application for Reservoir Prediction of Bioclastic Dolostone: An Example From Bohai Bay Basin

Jun Ming, Tongxing Xia and Qingyun Bai

Lab Experiments Recreating Typical Laminations of Black Shales, Unconventional Thoughts About the Unconventional Eagle Ford Play

Daniel Minisini, Daniel Mizsei, Juergen Schieber and Zalmai Yawar

The Middle Devonian Marcellus Formation as a Depositional System, a Stratigraphic Unit and a Reservoir System: Perspectives From Northern Pennsylvania

Jason S. Mintz, Dawn Hayes, Jonathon Syrek, José Silva and Richard R. Batsell

Interaction Between Deepwater Current Drifts (Contourites) and Canyon Fill-Slope Valley Turbidites, Cretaceous and Tertiary Sediments of Offshore West Africa

Robert M. Mitchum

Advances in Analytical Technologies for Correlation of All Hydrocarbon Fluids, Oil Mixtures and Extracts

Mike Moldowan, Jeremy Dahl and Shaun Moldowan

Determining Multiple Sources, Facies and Oil-Mixtures of the South Atlantic Margins: Africa and Brazil

Mike Moldowan, Jeremy Dahl, Shaun Moldowan, Tikae Takaki, Marcio R. Mello and Silvana M. Barbanti

Ceiba Field, Equatorial Guinea: Leveraging 4-D Seismic for Brownfield Redevelopment

Steven A. Mondziel, Cory Clechenko, Christian Schiott, Guy Fitz and Wilson Rodriguez

Development of a Regional Stratigraphic Framework for Devonian Reef Complexes Using Integrated Chronostratigraphy: Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia

Paul Montgomery, Ted Playton, Ken Ratcliffe, Roger Hocking, Eric Tohver, Kelly Hillbun, David A. Katz, Peter Haines, Kate Trinajstic, Maodu Yan, Jeroen Hansma, Sergei Pisarevsky, Joseph Kirschvink, Peter Cawood, Kliti Grice, David Wray, Svenja Tulipani, Peter Ward, Samuel Caulfield-Kerney and Phillip Playford

Relating Changes in Stratigraphic Architecture of Fluvial Deposits to Changes in Accommodation and Sediment Supply, Sobrarbe and Escanilla Formations, Spain

Jeremiah D. Moody, David Pyles, Bryan Bracken, Jane Stammer and Kasi Sendziak

Subsidence Modeling of the Central High Atlas Jurassic Rift Basin (Morocco): Implications for Carbonate Platform Development

Mar Moragas, Jaume Vergés, Juan Diego Martín-Martin, Eduard Saura, Grégoire Messager, Óscar Merino-Tomé, Philippe Razin, Carine Grélaud, Rémi Joussiaume, Manon Malaval and David W. Hunt

Spilling Into Confinement: Processes in Internal Levees to Submarine Channels

Emma A. Morris, David M. Hodgson, Stephen Flint and Rufus L. Brunt

Lobe Types and Facies Associations from Fan 3 of the Permian Tanqua Karoo Turbidite System

William Morris, Sean Fletcher, Mark H. Scheihing, Dominic Armitage and Sam Hudson

Controls on Facies Distributions in Dryland Rivers; A Tale of Two Catchments, a Fault and Transitions from Single Channel to Anabranching Planforms

Sara Morón, Kathryn Amos, Sandra Mann and Carolyn Wadey

Relevance of Oil and Gas Exploration Activities for Planetary Science: The Martian Ocean Hypothesis Case Study

Lorena G. Moscardelli

Mechanisms for the Accumulation and Preservation of Eolian Dune Successions

Nigel P. Mountney

Reservoir Potential of Fluvial Successions Accumulated in Salt-Walled Mini-Basins

Nigel P. Mountney and Steven G. Banham

Integrated Facies-Based Stratigraphic Architecture, Chemostratigraphy and Diagenesis of the Middle-Late (Ladinian – Carnian) Triassic Al Aziziyah Formation, Jifarah Basin, NW Libya

Mohamed S. Moustafa, Michael Pope, Ethan Grossman and Ibrahim Y. Mriheel

Origin and Size Distribution of Porosity in the Mount Simon Sandstone: Implications for Multiphase Fluid Flow

Peter Mozley, Jason E. Heath, Thomas A. Dewers and Stephen J. Bauer

Depositional Environments and (Bio-)stratigraphy of the Upper Triassic Kapp Toscana Group on Svalbard and the Barents Sea Shelf

Steven Mueller and Wolfram M. Kuerschner

Heavy Mineral Stratigraphy of the Upper Clair Group in the Clair Field, West of Shetland

Steven Mueller and Andrew Morton

Heavy Oil Recovery From Sandstone Reservoirs in the Mid-Continent Region Using Preformed Particle Gel Enhanced Surfactant

Farag Muhammed and Baojun Bai

Core-Log Integrated Approach: A Solution to the Petrophysical Characterisation of the Eagle Ford Shale

Diya Mukherjee, Ajit Sahoo, Abhishek Mukherjee and Mukul Srivastava

The Implication of Maturation and Heat Flow Analysis for Conventional (Deepwater) and Unconventional (Shale Oil & Shale Gas) Petroleum Systems: Evolution Through the Last 50 Years

Prasanta K. Mukhopadhyay (Muki)

Planet Mars: Prospects of Biogenic or Thermogenic Oil and Gas from Deeper Sources

Prasanta K. Mukhopadhyay (Muki)

Implications of an expanded section and delta deposits in the Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation in the northern Kaiparowits Plateau, southern Utah, USA

Julia Mulhern, Cari Johnson and Lisa Stright

Carbonate and Siliciclastic Clinothem Cycles and Their Relation With Evaporite Deposition, El Qaa Fault Block, Suez Rift, Egypt

Martin Muravchik, Rob Gawthorpe and Ian Sharp

High-Resolution Elemental Chemostratigraphy of the Three Forks Formation Using Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence

Brian Murphy

Preservation of Primary Lake Signatures in Carbonates of the Eocene Green River Wilkins Peak-Laney Member Transitional Zone

John T. Murphy and Tim K. Lowenstein

Subsurface Fluid Injection in Oil and Gas Reservoirs and Wastewater Disposal Zones of the Midcontinent

Kyle E. Murray and Austin Holland

Dolomitization in the Bahamas as Constrained Using the Clumped Isotope Method

Sean Murray and Peter K. Swart

Contourites and Turbidites of the Brazilian Marginal Basins

Emiliano Mutti, Rogério S. Cunha, Elvio Bulhoes, Luci Arienti and Adriano Viana

Diapir Growth by Longitudinal Extension During the Development of a Thrust Salient in a Deepwater Fold and Thrust Belt: The Ainsa Oblique Zone in the Central Pyrenees

Josep Anton Muñoz, Oriol Ferrer, Pau Arbués, Beamud Elisabet, Roca Eduard and Oscar Fernandez Bellon

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High-Resolution Carbon Isotope and Elemental Chemostratigraphy of the Greenhorn, Carlile, and Niobrara Formations, Denver Basin, Colorado

Kazumi Nakamura, John D. Humphrey and Lyn Canter

Nested Cyclicity in Mudrock Successions: Bone Spring Formation, Delaware Basin, West Texas

H. S. Nance and Harry D. Rowe

The Geometry and Heterolithic Fill of Tide Influenced Channels in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia

Rachel A. Nanson, Tess I. Lane, Paul Augustinus, Rosemary Okafor, Norhifzan Ishak, Frank Rarity, R. Bruce Ainsworth and Boyan Vakarelov

Generation Potential of the Pamplona Formation – Central Western Peruvian Basin

Pablo C. Napan and Javier P. Jacay Huarache

Stratigraphic Development from Slope Channels to Slope Gullies During Deposition of Deepwater Mixed Siliciclastic-Carbonates and Carbonates, Isaac Formation, Windermere Turbidite System, Canada

Lilian Navarro and Bill Arnott

Grosmont Prolific Carbonate Reservoir: Unravel Subtle Facies Variability Through Integrated Evaluation of High Resolution Seismic and Well Data

Vasilisa V. Nekhorosheva, Fahad Al Hadhrami, Tulio Colmenares, Maria Balzarini, Jeff Lonnee, Orlando Ortega, Mohamed El-Toukhy and Nikita Krylov

Telluric and Earth Currents, Lightning Strike Locations, and Natural Resource Exploration

H. R. Nelson, Les R. Denham and D. James Siebert

Using Seismic, Core and Numerical Modelling for Natural Fracture Network Prediction Around the Bray Fault, Paris Basin, France

Filippo A. Nenna, Fred Dula, John Cook, Alexandre Fournel, Stephanie Hari and Jennifer Wolters

Water Sources and Disposal Related to Hydraulic Fracturing in Texas

Jean-Philippe Nicot, Bridget R. Scanlon, Robert C. Reedy and Ruth A. Costley

Impact of Lateral Placement on Well Performance in the Bakken Play

Patrick W. Niemeyer and John Hohman

Sandy Mixed Terrigeous/Calcareous Drift Deposits Off New Zealand as a Model for Petroleum Exploration

Jasmyn Nolasco, Kathleen Marsaglia, Claire Bailey, Carrie Bender-Whitaker, John Jaeger and Tania Villasenor-Joquera

Assessing Control of Pore Network Geometry on Electrical Resistivity Using Integrated Multiscale Digital Image Analysis and Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure

Jan H. Norbisrath, Ben Laurich, Janos Urai, Guillaume Desbois, Gregor P. Eberli, Klaas Verwer and Ralf Weger

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Are Co-Varying dC Records Really the Result of Changes in Global Carbon Cycling?

Amanda Oehlert and Peter K. Swart

Petroleum Systems of the Northern Williston Basin: A Quantitative Basin Modelling Assessment

Oluseyi Olajide and Stephen L. Bend

The Quantitative Modelling of the Williston Basin: The McKenzie Lithospheric Stretching Model Approach

Oluseyi Olajide and Stephen L. Bend

Micro- and Nanometer Porosity in Dolomites of Tremadocian Boat Harbour Formation Carbonates, Western Newfoundland, Canada

Babatunde J. Olanipekun and Karem Azmy

Lower Ordovician St. George Group Dolomite: Zoning Investigated by Using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer

Babatunde J. Olanipekun and Karem Azmy

Ubiquity of Wave-Dominated Deltas in Growth-Fault Compartments

Cornel Olariu and Mariana Olariu

Depositional Trends in the Paleogene Lower Wilcox Guadalupe Delta, South Texas Gulf Coast

Mariana Olariu and William Ambrose

Geometry and Origin of a Giant Asymmetrically Shaped Mound Complex, West of the Troll Field, Northern North Sea

Oluwatobi A. Olobayo, Mads Huuse and Christopher A.-L. Jackson

Modeling the Burial History and Maturity of the Haynesville Formation in East Texas and Northwest Louisiana

Robert Ondrak and Ursula Hammes

Island Arcs, Misplaced Continents, and a Large Igneous Province: Challenges for Petroleum Prospecting in the Western Caribbean

Bryan Ott, Paul Mann and Mike Saunders

Structural and Gravity Transects of the Colon Mountains-Nicaraguan Rise Orogenic Belt of Honduras and Offshore Nicaragua/Jamaica

Bryan Ott and Paul Mann

Sedimentation Patterns in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta System

Irina Overeem, K. Rogers, P. Passalacqua, A. Canestrelli, S. Cohen and K. Matin

A Quantified Distributive Fluvial System: The Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation, SW USA

Amanda Owen, Gary Nichols, Adrian Hartley and Gary Weissmann

Evolution of Pore Systems in Eagle Ford Mudstones: Influence of Texture, Diagenesis, and Thermal Maturity

Aysen Ozkan, Calum Macaulay, Kitty L. Milliken, Maxwell E. Pommer, Muge S. Ergene, Daniel Minisini, James Eldrett, Steve Bergman and Amy Kelly

How Tight Was The Williams Fork Tight Gas Reservoir at the Time of Gas Generation and Fracturing, Piceance Basin, Colorado?

Aysen Ozkan, Linda Bonnell, Kitty L. Milliken, Stephen E. Laubach and Steve Cumella

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Tectonics of Eastern Mexico – Gulf of Mexico and its Hydrocarbon Potential

Ricardo J. Padilla y Sánchez

Evaluating Links Between Sequence Stratigraphy and Reflux Dolomitisation of the Permian San Andres Formation

Thomas Palmer, Fiona Whitaker, Tatyana Gabellone, Miles A. Frazer and Beatriz Garcia-Fresca

Crustal Architecture and Passive-Margin Evolution of the Northern Gulf of Mexico Basin – Applications to Exploration Work-Flows

Robert Pascoe, Mark G. Rowan, Alan Roberts and Nick J. Kusznir

New Insights Into Southern Atlantic Margin Evolution and Petroleum Prospectivity; Integrating Reconstructions and Restorations

Douglas Paton, Muneef Mohammed, Andy Quallington, Richard Collier and Paul Markwick

Variations in Geochemistry and Crystallography of Fossil Bioapatite vs. Aragonite in Carbonate Paleoenvironments

Doreena Patrick

Channel Belt Rugosity in Reservoir Characterization

Tobias Payenberg, Brian Willis, Victor Pusca, Peter Sixsmith, Bryan Bracken, Henry Posamentier, Michael J. Pyrcz, Richard Sech, Sean Connell and Morgan Sullivan

Formation of the Volcanic Margins of West Greenland and North-Eastern Canada

Alex Peace, Ken McCaffrey, Jonathan Imber, Richard Hobbs, Jeroen van Hunen and Keith Gerdes

Integrating Burial and Thermal Models for Source Rocks With Regional Seismic Interpretations and Structural Models of East Texas

Ofori Pearson, Janet Pitman and Russell Dubiel

Reservoir Architecture and Characterization of the Cenomanian Barons Light Tight Oil Sandstone Play, SW Alberta, Canada

Per K. Pedersen and Robert Vessey

Modeling the Stratigraphic and Facies Architecture of a Flow-Expansion Zone Constrained with Outcrop Data

Erin A. Pemberton, Sean Fletcher, Stephen M. Hubbard, Albert W. Shultz and Brian Romans

Upscaling of Pore Network and Permeability from Micron to Millimeter Scale in Organic-Pore Dominated Mudstones

Sheng Peng, Tongwei Zhang and Stephen C. Ruppel

CH4 Adsorption on Moisturized Oil-Bearing and Oil-Free Shales and Its Implication to Oil and Gas Storage in Organic-rich Shales

Sheng Peng, Tongwei Zhang, Xun Sun and Stephen C. Ruppel

Seismic Brittleness Index Volume Estimation From Well Logs in Unconventional Reservoirs

Roderick Perez

Syndepositional and Early-Post-Depositional Changes in Hybrid Flow Deposits

Mauricio M. Perillo, James Buttles, David Mohrig, Ian A. Kane, Anna S. Pontén, David Brown and Brandon Minton

Structural Control on Deposition of Late Permian Reefs in Western Poland

Tadeusz M. Peryt

Petroleum Systems in the World's Richest Petroliferous Basin, Los Angeles, California

Kenneth E. Peters, L. Scott Ramos, John E. Zumberge and Thomas L. Wright

Constructing a Geologic Model to Simulate and Optimize the Commercial Scale Injection and Storage of CO₂ at Citronelle Field, Mobile County, Alabama

Robin L. Petrusak, JohnRyan MacGregor, George Koperna, Shawna Cyphers and Anne Oudinot

Mineralogy and Petrology Controls on Hydrocarbon Saturation in the Three Forks Reservoir, North Dakota

David M. Petty

Factors that Control Early Diagenetic Clay Formation: Implications for Pre-Compactional Porosity Preservation in Conventional and Unconventional Reservoirs

Charity M. Phillips-Lander, Linduo Zhao, David Fowle, Hailiang Dong and Jennifer Roberts

Ojito Amphitheater: Combining Terrestrial Lidar and Photogrammetric Techniques Into Physically Plausible Training Images for Multiple-Point Geostatistical Representations of Subsurface Reservoirs

Alexandra Pickel, Jedediah D. Frechette and Gary Weissmann

Back to Bed Types – New Constraints on the Distribution of Hybrid Event Beds in the Pennsylvanian Ross Formation, Western Ireland

Colm Pierce, Peter Haughton, Patrick M. Shannon, Andrew Pulham, Trevor Elliott, Ole J. Martinsen and Simon Barker

U-Pb Geochronology and Chemostratigraphy of Bentonite Beds Within the Eagle Ford Shale

John Pierce, Stephen C. Ruppel, Harry D. Rowe and Daniel F. Stockli

Investigating Layer Parallel Diagenetic Shortening Using Field Data, Thin Section Analysis, and Analog Models

Nicole Pierson and Caroline M. Burberry

Integration of Deep Image Seismic Reflection Surveys and A New Reflection Refraction Profile To Clarify Basin-Wide Gulf of Mexico Interpretation: Part 1, Crustal Framework

James Pindell, Brian Horn and Rod Graham

Aeromagnetic Map of the Gulf of Mexico Constrains Late Jurassic Anticlockwise Rotational Seafloor Spreading

James Pindell, Ernesto Miranda, Roberto Molina-Garza and Leopoldo Hernandez

Architecture and Channel-Belt Clustering in the Fluvial lower Wasatch Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Jesse Pisel, David Pyles, Bryan Bracken and Cole D. Rosenbaum

Unraveling Upper Devonian Reefal Carbonate Platform Heterogeneity and Architecture Using Integrated Chronostratigraphy: Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia

Ted Playton, Roger Hocking, David Katz, Peter Haines, Kelly Hillbun, Eric Tohver, Kate Trinajstic, Paul Montgomery, Maodu Yan, Jeroen Hansma, Sergei Pisarevsky, Joseph Kirschvink, Peter Cawood, Kliti Grice, Svenja Tulipani, Ken Ratcliffe, David Wray, Samuel Caulfield-Kerney, Peter Ward and Phillip Playford

Integrated Characterization of a Steep-Sided Isolated Carbonate Platform Reservoir, Tengiz Field, Kazakhstan

Ted Playton, David Katz, Imelda Johnson, Steve Bachtel, Steve Jenkins, Elrad Iskakov, Paul Theologou, Wayne Narr, Ken Ratcliffe, Michael Urbat and Henry Posamentier

Fluvial Megafans, Terminal Fans, Distributive Fluvial Systems – A Stratigrapher's Nightmare?

Piret Plink-Bjorklund, Jianqiao Wang, Matt Belobraydic, Bryan McDowell, Jessica Don, Chayawan Jaikla and Gaochao Shi

Depositional Environment and Permeability Distributions in a Heterogeneous Reservoir: A Case Study from the Upper Eocene to Oligocene C7 Member, Carbonera Formation, Dorotea Field, Llanos Basin, Colombia

Camilo Polo, Oscar Bermudez, Murray Gingras and George Pemberton

Reservoir Architecture, Ichnology and Sedimentology of the Upper Cretaceous Gacheta Formation, Las Maracas Field, Llanos Basin, Colombia

Camilo Polo and Juan P. Collazos

Pore Types Across Thermal Maturity within the Eagle Ford Formation, South Texas

Maxwell E. Pommer, Kitty L. Milliken and Aysen Ozkan

Spatial Distribution of Reservoir Quality in Deep-Water Wilcox Formation

Anna S. Pontén, Ian A. Kane, Cecilie Otterlei, Mauricio M. Perillo, David Mohrig and James Buttles

Depositional Continuum of Sand to Mud-Rich Basin-Floor Sandstones Associated with a Submerged Hydraulic Jump Downflow of an Avulsion Node, Upper Kaza Group, Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup, B.C. Canada

Nataša Popovic and Bill Arnott

Unveiling the Fluid History of Unconventional Reservoirs Via Diagenetic Fracture-Fill Studies: An Example From the Avalon and Wolfcamp Formations, Delaware Basin

Zsofia Poros, David Jacobi, William R. Morris, John Luczaj, Ray Mitchell, Alex Hartwig and Anita E. Csoma

Volcanic Deposits in the Black Sea – Seismic Recognition Criteria for Differentiating Volcanics from Carbonates

Henry Posamentier, Vedat Aydemir, Özgür Sipahioglu, Özlem Korucu, Stanley Roe, William Abriel, Philip Nantais and Rhonda Welch

Seismic Stratigraphic and Seismic Geomorphologic Analysis of Deep-Water Deposits of the Turkish Black Sea

Henry Posamentier, Vedat Aydemir, Özgür Sipahioglu, Özlem Korucu, Stanley Roe, William Abriel, Philip Nantais and Rhonda Welch

Fluvial systems in the Gulf of Thailand – Stratigraphic Implications for Exploration and Development

Henry Posamentier, Andrew Madof, Hernan Reijenstein, Simon Lang, James Logan and Kirk Purdy

Neocomian-Cenomanian Fluvial, Estuarine, and Shoreface Siliciclastic and Carbonate Facies of Western Kazakhstan – Insights from Integrated Seismic Stratigraphic and Geomorphologic Analyses

Henry Posamentier, Simon Lang, Elrad Iskakov, Steve Jenkins and Nurymbet Kalzhekov

Turbidite Stratigraphic Architecture – Hierarchy Development Associated with Allocyclic Factors

Henry Posamentier

High Resolution Reservoir Characterisation of Marginal-Marine Heavy Oil Deposits: Example of the Cretaceous Upper Mannville Formation of East-Central Alberta, Canada

Hugo Pouderoux, Adam B. Coderre, Dave J. Cronkwright and Per K. Pedersen

Bypass-Dominated Mud-Rich Channel-Fill Deposits of the Paleogene Scripps Formation at Tourmaline Beach, San Diego, CA: An Analog for Low Net-to-Gross Slope Canyon and Channel Systems

Bruce A. Power, Jacob Covault, Morgan Sullivan and Henry Posamentier

Facies Analysis and Stratigraphic Relationships of Avulsion Splay Successions in the Paleogene Wilcox Formation, Deep Water Gulf of Mexico

Bruce A. Power, Jacob Covault, Morgan Sullivan, Larry Zarra, Brooke Carson, Brian Romans, Julian Clark and Andrea Fildani

Methodology to Integrate Multiscale Fracture Analyses in Fractured Systems Modeling: Application to Reservoirs of Southeastern Mexico

Clotilde U. Prieto, Samuel Di-Dio-Balsamo, Faustino Monroy-Santiago and Norma A. Olaez

Impact of Non-Uniqueness for Sequence Stratigraphy

Guy Prince and Peter Burgess

Pennsylvanian and Wolfcampian Sequence Stratigraphy Using FMI and Log Analysis on the Western Edge of the Midland Basin: A Tool for Guiding Well Completions

Shane J. Prochnow

Characterization and Modeling of Tidal Influence in a Fluvial to Marine Transition Zone: Cretaceous John Henry Member (Straight Cliffs Formation), Southern Utah

Ryan M. Purcell, Cari Johnson and Lisa Stright

Can Morphometric Patterns in Modern Carbonate Platforms be Applied to the Ancient Rock Record? Insights from Modern Alacranes Reef and Upper Palaeozoic Carbonate Platforms

Sam J. Purkis, Guilio Casini and David W. Hunt

Structure-Stratigraphy Interactions and landscape evolution of a structurally confined basin, Ainsa Basin, Spain

David Pyles, Jeremiah D. Moody, Greg Gordon, Matthew Hoffman, Amy Moss-Russell, Henri Silalahi, Prianto Setiawan, Julian Clark, Bryan Bracken and Chris Guzofski

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Differential Hydrocarbon Differential Enrichment in Tan-Lu Fault Zone in Offshore Bohai Bay Basin

Kunsheng Qiang, Xiuxiang Lu, Xin huai Zhou and Chang gui Xu

Range of Secondary Hydrocarbon Generation of Paleogene Source Rock in Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China

Kunsheng Qiang, Xiuxiang Lu, Xinhuai Zhou and Changgui Xu

Reservoir Heterogeneities of Lower Triassic Feixianguan Formation Oolitic Reservoir, Sichuan Basin, China

Zhanfeng Qiao, Xavier Janson, Anjiang Shen, Jianfeng Zheng and Xiaofang Wang

The Establishment of Source Rock Models and Their Characteristics of Hydrocarbon Generation and Expulsion in Bozhong Subbasion, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Xia Qinglong, Zhou Xiehuai, Wang Jun, Li Jianping and Bo Yang

The Influence of Pre-Existing Rift Fabric on Subsequent Fault Array Evolution; An Example From the Horda Platform, Norwegian North Sea

David Quinn, Paul Whipp, Christopher A.-L. Jackson, Rob Gawthorpe and Tom Dreyer

A Geomechanical Approach to Predicting Fracture Orientation, Density and Conductivity: An Example From the Gorm Field, Danish North Sea

David Quinn, Brett Freeman, Michael Arnhild and Bastiaan Jaarsma

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Integration of Deep Image Seismic Reflection Surveys and A New Reflection Refraction Profile To Clarify Basin-Wide Gulf of Mexico Interpretation: Part 2, Mesozoic and Tertiary Framework

Barbara J. Radovich, Ed Haire, Don Howard and Christopher Connors

Thin Bedded Reservoirs in the Plio-Pleistocene of the Columbus Basin, Offshore Trinidad: Challenges of Reservoir Architecture, Quantification and Characteristics

Maria M. Ramnath, Mike Bowman, Kevin Taylor, Ernest Rutter, Tristan Lowe, Robert Bradley and Andrew Bowman

Textures of Carbonate Sediment and Cement Associated with Ubiquitous Microbial Mats: Nearshore and Lacustrine Systems, Holocene of Kiribati

Gene Rankey and Tion Uriam

Thermal Evolution Patterns of the Sinian-Lower Paleozoic Petroleum System in Sichuan Basin, Southwest China

Song Rao, Chuanqing Zhu, Shengbiao Hu and Jiyang Wang

A Hierarchical Marginal Marine Architectural Classification System Enables Nested Approach to Geocellular Modeling of Mixed-Process Reservoirs: An Example from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta, Canada

Frank Rarity, R. Bruce Ainsworth, Boyan Vakarelov and Changhwan Lee

Variability in Organic-Matter Pore Development Over Depth: A Case Study From the Devonian-Mississippian Woodford Formation, Delaware Basin, West Texas

Robert M. Reed and Stephen C. Ruppel

Porosity, Permeability, and Pore Characterization of the Triassic Cumnock Formation: A Continuous Gas Assessment Unit, Sanford Sub-Basin, Deep River Basin, Lee County, North Carolina, USA

Jeffrey C. Reid, Michael C. McGlue and Geoffrey S. Ellis

Exploiting the High Frontier: A Framework for Stateless Space

James F. Reilly

The Record of Sediment Transfer on Deep-Water Slopes: Characterization of an Aggradational Channel Complex 25 km from the Shelf Edge, Tres Pasos Formation, Chile

Aaron P. Reimchen, Stephen M. Hubbard, Neal C. Auchter, Benjamin G. Daniels, Allison Jackson, Lisa Stright and Brian Romans

Syndepositional Deformation of High-Relief Prograding Carbonate Platforms: Insights From the Yates/Tansill Capitan Platform, Guadalupe Mountains, NM, USA

Phillip G. Resor, David W. Hunt and Eric Flodin

Are Along-Strike Alternations of Symmetrical and Non-Symmetrical South Atlantic Conjugate Margins Controlled by Volcanic vs. Non-Volcanic Rifting Process?

Kyle Reuber and Paul Mann

Crustal and Depositional Architecture of the Demerara Rise, Suriname, as Related to the Opening of the Atlantic Ocean

Kyle Reuber, James Pindell, Brian Horn, Pete Emmet and Andrew Bliss

Suitability of Brackish Water for Use in Hydraulic Fracturing: Hydrogeochemistry of Dockum Group Groundwater, Midland Basin, Texas

Frankie R. Reyes, Mark Engle, Mike Jacobs, Lixin Jin and Jasper G. Konter

The Depositional and Diagenetic Effects on Microbial Carbonates Pore System Expressed on Well Logs

Marcelo F. Rezende and Michael Pope

Revisiting Dolomitization in the Isla de Mona Reef Complex: Marine, Mixing, Reflux, or Biogenic?

Paula D. Richter, Luis A. González and Robert Goldstein

Diagenetic and Burial History of a Portion of the Late Triassic South Georgia Rift Basin Based on Petrologic and Isotopic (d¹⁸O) Analyses of Sandstones from Test Borehole Rizer #1, Colleton County, SC

James M. Rine, Brittany E. Hollon, Robert Fu, Nancy Houghton and Michael Waddell

Using Deep-Seismic Data to Model Crustal Structure, Geodynamic Evolution and Thermal History in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico

Alan Roberts, Nick J. Kusznir and Rob Pascoe

Comparison of Carbonate Reservoirs Within the United States for CO₂ Sequestration

Tina Roberts-Ashby

Lateral Facies and Thickness Change of the Devonian-Mississippian Sappington Formation Along Inverted Margins of the Central Montana Trough, Three Forks, Montana

Aaron P. Rodriguez, George W. Grader and Peter E. Isaacson

Seismic Interpretation of the Laramide Submarine Fan, a Lower Tertiary Wilcox Trend in the Deepwater Mexican Gulf of Mexico, and Implications for Hydrocarbon Potential

Anthony B. Rodriguez

Using Microseismic Monitoring to Enhance Field Development Strategy and Production in a Colombian Mature Field

Eusebio A. Rodríguez, William A. Henao, Heliodoro Cabrera, Lorena A. Bello Rujana and Patricia Rodriguez

Utilisation of Microvertebrates in Biostratigraphy and Chemostratigraphy for the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous in the Canning Basin, Western Australia

Brett Roelofs, Kate Trinajstic, Ted Playton, Milo Barham, Peter Haines, Roger Hocking, Kliti Grice and Kelly Hillbun

Subsurface Characterization of the Bakken/Three Forks Unconventional Tight Oil Reservoirs, Williston Basin, North Dakota Through the Use of High Resolution Mud Gas Mass Spectrometry

Anthony Romanoski, Ellie Chuparova, Christy Jacobs, D. Adam Porath, John Hohman and Bruce Warren

Exploring Multiple-Point Realization Quality Through Connected Geobodies

Guillaume Rongier, Pauline Collon-Drouaillet, Philippe Renard, Julien Straubhaar and Judith Sausse

Structural Architecture and Evolution of Eastern Mississippi Canyon, Northern Gulf of Mexico

Mark G. Rowan

The Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic Conjugate-Margin Salt Basins: How Similar Are They?

Mark G. Rowan, Rob Pascoe, Sujata Venkatraman and Peter Nuttall

Physical Sedimentology in Gale Crater, Mars

David M. Rubin, Lauren Edgar, Kevin W. Lewis and null null

Object-Based Approach for Sedimentary Structure Interpretations

Jeremy Ruiu, Guillaume Caumon, Sophie Viseur and Christophe Antoine

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Utilizing Clinoform Architecture and Stratigraphic Forward Modeling to Understand the Drivers of Basin Margin Evolution

Migdalys Salazar, Lorena G. Moscardelli and Lesli Wood

Regional Transect Across the Western Caribbean: Structural Styles and Restoration of Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic Deformation

Carlos J. Sanchez, Paul Mann, Rocio Bernal and Luis Carlos Carvajal

Tectonic, Sea-Level and Oceanographic Controls on the Distribution and Growth of Isolated Carbonate Build-Ups at the Margin of a Very Wide Platform (NW Australia)

Muhammad M. Saqab, Julien Bourget and Mike Dentith

Continuous Deep-Seated Slope Failure Recycles Sediments and Limits Levee Height in Submarine Channels

Derek Sawyer, Peter B. Flemings and Maria Nikolinakou

A Seal Breach on Mars – How We Closed in on a Mudstone and Teased Information from Images and Comparison with Experimental and Earth Analogs

Juergen Schieber and null null

Synthesis of Current Data on Helium and Hydrogen Concentrations in Lunar Regolith

Harrison H. Schmitt

Using Tentaculitid Fossils for Environmental and Diagenetic Interpretations (Horn River Formation, Northeastern British Columbia, Canada): Many Questions and a Few Preliminary Answers

Chris L. Schneider and Nicholas B. Harris

Gas-Source Correlation in Petroleum Systems

Martin Schoell, Yongchun Tang and Kjell Oygard

The Impact of Dedolomitization on Reservoir Quality of the Upper Permian Zechstein 2 Carbonate, NW Germany

Johannes Schoenherr, Lars Reuning, Katharina Wimmers, Sven Fellmin, Jörg Smodej, Sascha Kuske, Franz J. Brauckmann, Franco V. Corona, Christian J. Strohmenger and Sean Guidry

Influence of Extension and Climate Variability on Facies Architecture: Case Studies of Lacustrine Carbonates in East Africa and the Basin and Range

Christopher A. Scholz

Combining Surface Geochemical Surveys and Downhole Geochemical Logging for Mapping Hydrocarbons in the Utica Shale

Rick Schrynemeeckers and Alan Silliman

Retracing Organic-Inorganic Interactions in the Alum Shale (Middle Cambrian-Lower Ordovician) in Southern Sweden: From Shale Oil to Biogenic Shale Gas?

Hans-Martin Schulz, Steffen Biermann, Wolfgang van Berk, Krüger Martin, Nontje Straaten, Achim Bechtel, Richard Wirth, Niels Schovsbo and Stephen Crabtree

High-Frequency Carbonate-Siliciclastic Interactions in Siliciclastic-Dominated Systems: Distinguishing Between Coeval and Reciprocal Sedimentation in a Lower Cretaceous Epeiric Sea

Ernesto Schwarz, Gonzalo Veiga and Luis A. Spalletti

Representing Fluvial Channel Belt Heterogeneity in Reservoir Models

Richard P. Sech, Brian Willis, Michael J. Pyrcz and Bryan Bracken

The Three Dimensional Structure of Deformation Bands Within High Porosity Sandstones From Pore to Outcrop Scale Observations

Thomas Seers and David Hodgetts

Analogue Modelling of Gravity-Driven Deformation in the Western Otway Basin, South Australia

Nicolas Sellier, Oriol Ferrer and Ken McClay

Integrated Analysis of Shallow Fluid Flow Phenomena and Hydrocarbon Migration in the Southern Kwanza Basin, Offshore Angola

Christophe Serié, Mads Huuse, James M. Brooks, Niels H. Schødt and Alan Williams

Reservoir vs. Seal Pressure Gradients: Calculations and Pitfalls

Selim S. Shaker

Sandbodies-Conduit Architecture and Oil Migration of JX1-1 Oilfield in Liaodong Bay Sub-Basin, Bohai Bay Basin

Xu Shang, Zou Huayao, Hao Fang, Teng Changyu, Tian Jinqiang and Wang Xiaoling

Unconventional Reservoir Characterization Using Conventional Tools

Ritesh K. Sharma and Satinder Chopra

An Industry Oversight: Economics Pull Unconventional Technology Back Into Conventional Oil Fields

Benjamin Shattuck

The Sedimentological and Ichnological Characteristics of the Mud-Dominated Fluvio-Tidal Deposits, The Petitcodiac River Estuary, NB, Canada

Alina Shchepetkina, Murray K. Gingras and George Pemberton

Geologic and Paleobiological Controls on the Devonian Reefs and Microbial Carbonates of South Chin

Jian-Wei Shen

Enrichment Regularity of Hydrocarbon in Plateau Saline Lacustrine Basin

Hui Shi, Hui Li and Zhen Liu

Controls on the Three-Dimensional Depositional Architecture of Tidally Influenced Fluvial Successions

Michelle N. Shiers, Nigel P. Mountney, David M. Hodgson and Sarah L. Cobain

The False Positive Problem and The Prevalence of Methane and Solutes in Shallow Ground Water Consumed in Pennsylvania West Virginia, and Ohio

Donald I. Siegel, Bert Smith, Mark Hollingsworth, Elizabeth Perry, Rikka Bothun, Charles Whisman, Richard Wardrop and Denise Good

Establishing Sand Dispersion and Conceptual Geology Using High-Resolution Borehole Imaging and Core Data: An Integrated, Multiwell Approach for Field Development

Koushik Sikdar, Chandramani Shrivastava, R. C. Baishya and P. P. Singh Majithia

Step-Wise Coastal Retreat of Bayhead Deltas Related to Flooded River Valley Tributary Junctions

Alexander Simms and Antonio B. Rodriguez

Photic Zone Euxinia, Organic Matter Preservation and Source Rock Type in the Late Permian Z2 Carbonate Sea (Southern and Northern Permian Basins of Europe)

Miroslaw Slowakiewicz, Richard D. Pancost, Maurice E. Tucker, Fiona Whitaker, Edoardo Perri and Mike Mawson

Integrated Physical Analog and Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Fracturing

Kevin J. Smart, Danielle Y. Wyrick and Marques Miller

Fault and Fracture Systems Related to Reactivation of Pre-Existing Structural Elements, Devil's River Uplift and Maverick Basin, Texas

Gordon A. Smith and Christopher K. Zahm

Developing a Paleosol Geochronometer: Examples From Cenozoic Strata of the High Plains of the Western United States

Jon Smith, Greg Ludvigson, Andreas Moeller, Josh Feldman, Hunter Harlow, John Doveton, Tammy Rittenour and Brian Platt

Shallow Seasonally-Anoxic Model for Organic-Rich Mudrocks and Interbedded Carbonates – An Alternative Hypothesis

Langhorne B. Smith

Fault Rock Prediction for Inverted Extensional Faults in Siliciclastic Sequences – Challenges, Methods and Risking for Hydrocarbon Exploration

Stewart J. Smith, Rob Knipe and Danny Povey

Cenomanian (Cretaceous) Deepwater Reservoirs of the Deep Gulf of Mexico Basin: Source to Sink Conundrums

John W. Snedden, Patricia E. Ganey-Curry, Tim L. Whiteaker and Hilary C. Olson

Remote Sensing of Thin-Bedded Reservoir Analogs in an Ancient Delta Using High-Resolution, Ground-Based, Hyperspectral and LiDAR Technologies, Cretaceous Notom Delta, Utah

Casey J. Snyder, Shuhab Khan, Janok P. Bhattacharya and Craig Glennie

The Early History of Formation Evaluation

Raymond Sorenson

The Role of Confining Bathymetry Upon Hybrid Flow Development and Emplacement – Insights From the Confined Deepwater Castagnola System, Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy

Sarah J. Southern, Marco Patacci, Fabrizio Felletti and William D. McCaffrey

Sediment Transport Pathways Across a Holocene Reef Sand Apron: Distribution Patterns of Foraminifera, Aranuka Atoll, Kiribati

Ashton Sparks, Gene Rankey, Hannah Wasserman and Tion Uriam

Mudstone Lithofacies Evaluation for Play Fairway Analysis: Characterization of the Paleozoic Shales of Poland

Joan M. Spaw and Kimberly S. Hlava

Computed Tomography (CT) Scans for Mudstone Characterization

Joan M. Spaw

Mesozoic Salt Diapirism in Southeastern Bahamas as Evidenced by Geophysics

Allan Spector, Samuel A. Epstein and David Schieck

Early Texas Oilfield Photographers

Jeff Spencer

Fractionation of Mineral Grains in Submarine Lobes: Evidence from Three Experimental Tank Studies

Jane Stammer, Kyle Straub and David Pyles

Re-Os and the Utility of Sulfides in Hydrocarbon Systems

Holly J. Stein and Judith L. Hannah

Niobrara Horizontal Drilling: Increasing Well Production through Intelligent Planning

Meagan Stephens, Jack Wiener and Kumar Ramurthy

From Monterey to Mowry, With Many Stops in Between

Robert Sterling and Anne Grau

Rare Earth Elements (REE) as a Proxy for Oil Migration: Tyler Formation, North Dakota

Vanja M. Stevanovic and Doreena Patrick

Interplay Between Extension, Salt and Pre-Existing Structure, Offshore Angola

Joseph M. Stockmeyer and Chris Guzofski

Flow Processes and Bed Type Distributions Documented from a Cored Submarine Slope Channel System – Implications for Reservoir Quality and Prediction

Dan J. Stokes, Peter Haughton, William D. McCaffrey and Francesca Ray

Are Static 2-D Measures of Connectivity a Good Proxy for 3-D Dynamic Connectivity in Deepwater Slope Channels?

Lisa Stright, Allison Jackson, Brian Romans and Steve Hubbard

Microbial-Mediated Dolomite from Coastal Sabkha Environments of Abu Dhabi and Qatar: Analogues to Subsurface Arid Climate Dolomitized Reservoir Rocks

Christian J. Strohmenger, Fadhil Sadooni, Judith A. McKenzie, Tomaso R. Bontognali and Crisogono Vasconcelos

Approaches to the recognition of Fluvial Sub-Environments in Subsurface Successions: Case Study From the Fluvio-Deltaic Triassic Mungaroo Formation, Exmouth Plateau, Australia

Jennifer Y. Stuart, Nigel P. Mountney and William D. McCaffrey

Bitumen Anomaly Mapping (BAM) With an Integrated Basin Analysis Sequence Stratigraphic Approach for Delineating Hydrocarbon Migration Sweet Spots in Shales: Eagle Ford, South Texas Example

Ellen Stuchly, John D. Pigott and Kulwadee L. Pigott

Overcoming Complex Geosteering Challenges in the Cardium Reservoir of the Foothills of Canada to Increase Production Using an Instrumented Motor with Near Bit Azimuthal Gamma Ray and Inclination

Asong Suh, James Bradley, Greg Feltham and Jeffery Ward

Relationship Between Reservoir Quality, Facies and Depositional Environment: Working Towards a Predictive Model for the Deepwater Wilcox

Morgan Sullivan, Julian Clark, Bruce Power, Thomas Dunn, Andrea Fildani, Jacob Covault, Larry Zarra and Brooke Carson

Hydrocarbons on Mars – Subtle Signals at Yellowknife Bay

Roger E. Summons, Daniel P. Glavin, Jennifer L. Eigenbrode, Caroline Freissinet, Kristen E. Miller, Rafael Navarro-González and null null

A Geochemical Approach to Defining the Active Petroleum Systems of Iraq

Roger E. Summons, John E. Zumberge, Don Rocher and Thamer Al-Ameri

Using Fan Facies Models to Predict the Location of a Mudstone in Gale Crater, Mars

Dawn Sumner and null null

Fractured Volcanic Reservoir Characterization: A Case Study in the Deep Songliao Basin

Desheng Sun and Yun Ling

Law of Carboniferous Hydrocarbon Accumulation of Tazhong Area in Tarim Basin

Panke Sun, Huaimin Xu and Ya Huang

Upstream and Downstream Controls on Sediment Routing and Deposition in a Complete “Source-to-Sink” System from a Simple Computer Model

Tao Sun, Jacob Covault, Ashley Harris, Michael J. Pyrcz and Martin Perlmutter

Linking Heterogeneities of Point Bar Deposits to Large Scale Channel Belt Geometry with Computational Stratigraphy

Tao Sun, Kristy T. Milliken, Andrew Madof, Brian Willis, Michael J. Pyrcz, Morgan Sullivan and Jacob Covault

Geochemical Characterization of Organic Matter from the Eagle Ford Formation and Indications of Thermal Maturity and Depositional Redox Conditions

Xun Sun, Tongwei Zhang and Kitty L. Milliken

A New Paradigm for the Formation of Carbonates: Fertilization by Atmospheric Dust

Peter K. Swart, Amanda Oehlert, John J. Reijmer and Gregor P. Eberli

Iterative Stochastic Calibration of Basin Scale Migration Models

Øyvind Sylta and Are Tømmerås

Modeling the Marcellus: An Integrative Approach to Creating a Facies Model

Jonathon Syrek, Jason Mintz, José Silva and Dawn Hayes

Modeling the Marcellus: An Integrative Approach to Creating a Facies Model

Jonathon Syrek, Jason S. Mintz, José Silva and Dawn Hayes

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Basin-Scale Analysis, Management Tools, and Options for Produced Water from Tight-Gas Sand Reservoirs, Uinta Basin, Utah

David E. Tabet and Thomas C. Chidsey

3-D Tomography of Marcellus Shale Using Microseismic Data

Yunhui Tan and Terry Engelder

Using Markov Chain Analysis to Determine Relative Avulsion Rate and its Impact on Reservoir Architecture in Basin-Floor Lobe Deposits in the Neoproterozoic Upper Kaza Group, Windermere Supergroup, Canada

Viktor Terlaky and Bill Arnott

Assessment of the Geographic Extent of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event: Implications for Early Jurassic Hydrocarbon Source Rock Deposition

Theodore R. Them, Benjamin C. Gill, Angela M. Gerhardt and Emma T. Tulsky

CT Imaging of Rock Salt: 3-D Multi-Scale Analyses of the Structural Inventory

Nicolas Thiemeyer, Maximilian Pusch, Jörg Hammer and Gernold Zulauf

Visualization and Quantification of Deeply Buried Paleokarst Reservoirs in Tahe Oilfield, Tarim Basin, China

Fei Tian, Qiang Jin, Xun Kang, Yang Li and Hongfang Zhang

Turbidites and Their Internal Make-Up – A Reflection of Flow Speed but Grain Size too

Mike Tilston, Bill Arnott, Colin Rennie and Bernard Long

Grain Size Controls on the Internal Structure of Sediment Gravity Currents and Their Implications for Depositional Properties; a Novel Application of CT imagery

Mike Tilston, Bill Arnott, Colin Rennie and Bernard Long

Microbial Origin of Bioherm-Associated Leopard Rock, Holder Formation (Pennsylvanian, Virgilian), Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

Keith L. Tischler and Brenda L. Kirkland

Magnetostratigraphy of Frasnian-Fammenian (Devonian) Carbonates of the Canning Basin, Western Australia: Evaluating the Potential for Regional and Global Correlations

Eric Tohver, Ted Playton, Sergei Pisarevsky, Maodu Yan, Jeroen Hansma, Joseph Kirschvink, Kate Trinajstic, Roger Hocking, Peter Haines and Paul Montgomery

Acquiring and Accounting for Stress and Fractures in Shale Oil and Gas Wells

Edward Tollefsen, Dustin Cavin, Carl Robbins, Ralph D'Angelo, Eric Molz and Amy Richardson

Pore Type Characterization and Classification in Carbonate Reservoirs

Sandra N. Tonietto, Margaret Z. Smoot and Michael Pope

Neogene Sandstone Composition and Provenance, Southern Gulf of Mexico

Ricardo Torres, Martín Martínez-Medrano and Ulises Hernandez-Romano

The Formation and Diagenesis of Mg-Clay Minerals in Lacustrine Carbonate Reservoirs

Nicholas J. Tosca and Victor P. Wright

Rare Earth Elements as an Indicator of Organic Maturation: A Case Study From the Woodford Shale, Oklahoma

Matthew Totten, Sambhu Chaudhuri, Daniel Ramirez, John Miesse, Greg Riepl, Norbert Clauer and Rene Boutin

New Insight Into the Seismic Architecture of the Pre-Salt Upper Sag Carbonate Depositional System, Brazil

Sacha Tremblay, Klaas Verwer and Jeffrey Lukasik

Exploration of Subtle Reservoir on the Wing of Central Structure Ridge in Huanghekou Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China

Danfeng Tu, Xinhuai Zhou, Chengmin Niu, Jiangbo Huang and Lian Jiang

Evaluating Methods to Differentiate Natural and Induced Seismicity

Matthew P. Tymchak and Samuel A. Flewelling

Indicators of Paleoseismicity in the Lacustrine Sediments of the Eocene Green River Formation, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah (USA)

Balázs Törö, Brian R. Pratt and Robin W. Renaut

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Integrated Reservoir Quality Study of Deep-Water Clastic Deposits, Offshore Niger Delta

Charles U. Ugwueze, Peter L. Osterloff, Levi C. Amajor and Norbert E. Ajaegwu

Structural-Diagenetic Evolution of Fractures in Folds: Nikanassin and Cardium Fms. Alberta Foothills, Canada

Estibalitz Ukar, Canalp Ozkul, Peter Eichhubl and Andras Fall

Rupture Characteristics and Energy Budget for Activated Fractures During Hydrauliuc Fracture Stimulations

Ted Urbancic, Gisela Viegas Fernandes and Adam M. Baig

Real Time Microseismic Feedback of Hydraulic Fracture Effectiveness and Barriers

Ted Urbancic and Adam M. Baig

Sub-Andean Thrust Systems: Section Restoration, Forward Modelling and Implications for Basement Involved Thrust Systems

Hodei Uzkeda and Ken McClay

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Diagenesis, Petrophysics and Reservoir Quality Modeling in the Montney Formation – A Major Siltstone Reservoir in Western Canada

Noga Vaisblat and Nicholas B. Harris

Management of Depositional Environment Uncertainty Based on Facies Observations in Marginal Marine Systems: Allowing for Multiple Plausible Interpretation Scenarios

Boyan Vakarelov, R. Bruce Ainsworth and James A. MacEachern

Unconventional Carbonate Reservoir Characterization Using Sonic Velocity and Characterization of Pore Architecture: An Example From the Mid-Continent Mississippian Limestone

Beth Vanden Berg, Michael Grammer, Gregor P. Eberli and Ralf Weger

Slope to Basin-Floor Evolution of Channels to Lobes, Jurassic Los Molles Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Nataleigh Vann, Cornel Olariu and Ronald Steel

Chicontepec Basin, Mexico: Main Basin Stages and Importance for Hydrocarbons

Ricardo O. Vasquez, Paul Mann, John Castagna, Joe Davis, Manuel Morales Leal and Ivan Ramos Lopez

Syn to Post Rift Diapirism and Minibasins of the Central High Atlas (Morocco): The Changing Face of a Mountain Belt

Jaume Vergés, Eduard Saura, Grégoire Messager, Juan Diego Martín-Martin, Mar Moragas, Philippe Razin, Carine Grélaud, Rémi Joussiaume, Manon Malaval and David W. Hunt

Pre-Salt Carbonates of the South Atlantic

Klaas Verwer and Jeffrey Lukasik

Integration of Geophysical Data to Define a Structural Model in the North-Central Coast of the Venezuelan Platform

Vanessa Villarroel and Nuris Orihuela

New Insights into the Stratigraphic Framework and Depositional History of the Paleocene and Eocene Chicontepec Formation, Onshore Eastern Mexico

Ricardo Vásquez, Stephen Cossey, Don van Nieuwenhuise, Joe Davis, John Castagna, Manuel Morales Leal and Ivan Ramos Lopez

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Morphometric Methodology for Characterizing Submarine Drainage Networks: East Scotian Canyon Systems, Offshore Nova Scotia

James Wagner

Comparison of Reservoir Quality from La Luna, Gacheta and Eagle Ford Shale Formations

Joel Walls and Elizabeth Diaz

Cyclostratigraphic Evaluation of Repetitive Sedimentary Microfacies From the Green River Formation, Utah: Evidence for Annual, El Niño, and Sunspot Cycles?

Andrew P. Walters, Stephen Meyers and Alan R. Carroll

Quick 3-D Formation Model for Unconventional Carbonate Reservoirs by Resistivity Imaging-While-Drilling in Horizontal Wells

Da Li Wang, Zong-Gang Lv, Hai-Run Peng and An-Fu Zhou

Prediction of Oil and Gas Distribution and Favorable Hydrocarbon Accumulation Zones in the Shallow Layer of Sag Zones in Offshore Bohai Bay Basin, Eastern China

Deying Wang, Chunqiang Xu, Haifeng Yang, Zhiqiang Zhang and Ya Yu

Porosity Evolution of Overmature Marine Shale and Free Gas Volumes in the South China

Feiyu Wang, Weiping Feng, Jing Guang and Lingyan Bao

The Control Effect of Bohai Sea Area (East China) Cenozoic Fault System to Its Internal Basin Structure

Guangzeng Wang, Wei Li, Zhiping Wu, Yang Hu and Xiaodan Zhang

The Genesis and Controlling Factors of Large Mesozoic Granite Weathering Crust Reservoir in Penglai 9-1 Oil Field, Bohai Bay Basin

Qingbin Wang, Xinhuai Zhou, Lixin Tian, Bo Yang, Guoxiang Zhao, Wensen Zhu and Chong Feng

Auto Recognition of Carbonate Sedimentary Facies Based on an Improved BP Neural Network

Yuxi Wang, Bo Liu, Changbing Tian and Xinmin Song

The Identification and Forming Mechanism of Paleogene Oblique Extension System in Middle Bohai Bay Basin

Zhenqi Wang and Lin Ye

New Methods and Applications of Source-Rock Kinetics

Douglas Waples

Subsurface Controls on Hydrocarbon Flow During Production and Their Impact on Recovery: Lessons Learned From the Central Luconia Gas Fields, Sarawak, Malaysia

Georg Warrlich, Erwin Adams, Raffik Lazar, Mas Nur Rabani, Tommy Tam, Anthony O'Connell, Edwin Chiew and David A. Stevens

Using Basement Exposures to Better Understand Influence of Deep Structure on the Structural Evolution of Intracontinental Basins with Unconventional Reservoir Potential

Cheryl Waters-Tormey, Joanna Whelan, Natalie Kositcin, Eloise Beyer, Stefan Kraus and Barry Reno

Quantitative Prediction Methods of the Thin Interbedded Beach-Bar Sandstone in Lacustrine Basin

Xiaojie Wei, Zaixing Jiang and Li Yifan

Stratigraphic Architecture of the Jasper Basin, North-Central Alberta Front Ranges

John Weissenberger, Murray Gilhooly and Pak Wong

Basin Geomechanics for Exploration – Examples and Modeling Approaches

Johannes Wendebourg, Claude Gout, Atef Onaisi, Nicolas Guy, Daniele Colombo and Jean-Marc Daniel

Geochemistry and Depositional History of the Union Springs Member, Marcellus Formation in Pennsylvania

Anna Wendt, Michael A. Arthur, Rudy Slingerland and Reed Bracht

Deformation Bands in Chalk From the Oseberg Field, Northern North Sea, Norway

Ole Petter Wennberg, Giulio Casini, Ali Jahanpanah, Fabio Lapponi, Jon Ineson, Brita Graham Wall and Paul A. Gillespie

Calibration of a Sequence Stratigraphic Model Using Astronomically Tuned Magnetic Susceptibility Data: Upper Devonian, Western Canada

Michael Whalen, David De Vleeschouwer, James E. Day and Philippe Claeys

Microbial Mats in the Shublik and Otuk Formations, Arctic Alaska: Implications for Improving Our Understanding of Continuous Resource Plays

Katherine J. Whidden and Julie A. Dumoulin

Subsurface Fracture Characteristics of the Marcellus Shale in the Appalachian Plateau, North-Central Pennsylvania

Scott Wilkins, Van Mount, Keith Mahon and Jon Koenig

Delaware Basin Evolution: Preliminary 3-D Basin Model for Petroleum System Analysis

Michael Williams, John D. Pigott and Kulwadee L. Pigott

Fluvial Architecture the Morrison Formation, Bullfrog Area, Utah, USA

Brian Willis, Tobias Payenberg and Bryan Bracken

The Influence of Oil-Based Drilling Muds on S2 and Tmax Pyrolysis

Nicole Willment, Raphael A. Wust and Brent Nassichuk

Geometry, Trap Configuration and Production Characteristics of Mississippian Porous Chert Reservoirs in Ice Cream Cone Structures of Foraker Field, Osage County, Oklahoma

Edith N. Wilson, Shane Matson, Tara Righetti and Charles Wickstrom

Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Evolution of the Middle Devonian Geneseo Formation of New York, USA: Implications for Mud Transport in a Shallow Epeiric Sea

Ryan D. Wilson and Juergen Schieber

3-D Seismic Workflows Developed to Evaluate Out-of-Zone and Stealth Zone Microseismic Behaviors: Marcellus Shale, Central Appalachians, USA

Tom Wilson, Ariel K. Hart and Peter Sullivan

Use of Minimum Effective Stress Mapping to De-Risk Waterflood Design and Field Development

David E. Wolf, John G. Solum, Charles L. Collins, John Meyer and Michael F. Medeiros

Stratigraphic Architecture of the Frasnian Cline Channel, Central Alberta Front Ranges

Pak Wong, John Weissenberger and Murray Gilhooly

Healing-Phase, Top-Fill Traps Associated With Mass Transport Complexes and Components: An Under Explored Opportunity in Deepwater Systems

Lesli Wood and Lorena G. Moscardelli

Dynamics of Calcite Cementation in Response to Oil Charge: Carbonate Reservoirs Retain Longest Cementation History

Rachel A. Wood, Dean T. Thorpe, Mark Wilkinson and Joao Barata

Modelling the Permeability Evolution of Carbonate Rocks: Diagenetic ‘Back-Stripping’

Rachel A. Wood, Cees van der Land, Rink van Dijke, Zeyun Jiang and Patrick Corbett

Geochemistry of the Haynesville Formation Using the Carthage Core in Panola County, Texas

Lauren A. Woolston, Harry D. Rowe and Nidal Jabri

Recognition and Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Biogenic Silica Contents in Shale Using Whole-Rock Elemental Data

Milly Wright, Nahysa Martinez-Kulikowski and Gabriel Rotberg

Cyclicity and Carbonate-Silicate Gel Interactions in Cretaceous Alkaline Lakes

Victor P. Wright and Andrew Barnett

Controls on Architecture and Stacking Patterns of Fluvial Channel Belts in a Rapidly Subsiding Basin: Ferris and Hanna Formations, Hanna Basin, Wyoming, USA

Anton Wroblewski

Heterolithic Macroforms in Amalgamated Fluvial Channel Belts: What Are They and How do We Predict Them?

Anton Wroblewski, Sean Fletcher, Steve Hubbard and Paul Durkin

Paleohydrology and 3-D Facies Architecture of Ancient Point Bars Formed by a Low Sinuosity River, Ferron Sandstone, South-Central Utah: Implications for Evolution of Channel Bend

Chenliang Wu, Janok P. Bhattacharya, Zhiyang Li and Mohammad F. Ullah

Investigation of the Bitumen Impact on the Petrophysical Properties in the Carbonates

Kejian Wu, Mark Skalinski, Boqin Sun, Rafael Salazar-Tio and David A. Katz

Salt Diapir Reactivation and Normal Faulting in an Oblique Extensional System: 3-D Seismic Insights From Vulcan Sub-Basin, Bonaparte Basin, NW Australia

Long Wu, Bruce D. Trudgill and Charles F. Kluth

Assessment of Controlling Factors in Mixed Biogenic and Thermogenic Petroleum Systems – A Case Study from the Levantine Basin

Bjorn Wygrala, Wolf Rottke, Duplo Kornpihl, Martin Neumaier, Abdulaziz Al-Balushi and Lisa Marlow

The Role of Petroleum Systems Modeling in Petroleum Resource Assessments

Bjorn Wygrala, Thomas Hantschel, Martin Neumaier, Oliver Schenk, Ian D. Bryant and Charles Stabell

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Predicting Hydrocarbon Composition in Unconventional Reservoirs with a Compositional Generation/Expulsion Model

Xinyu Xia, John M. Guthrie, Caroline Burke, Steven Crews and Yongchun Tang

Sedimentary Features and Depositional Setting of Organic-Rich Shale Facies in the Middle to Upper Ordovician of Northeast Indiana and Northwest Ohio

Jingqi Xu and Juergen Schieber

Use of Tank Experiment Data in Surface-Based Modeling

Siyao Xu, Andre Jung, Tapan Mukerji and Jef Caers

Geological Models in ODP Stage Horizontal Well Design—A Case Study of Huanghekou Sag (Neogene), Bohai Bay Basin, China

Zhongbo Xu, Yang Qinghong, Huang Kai, Zhang Jianmin and He Bin

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New Perspective of Hydrocarbon Accumulation Pattern in the Middle South of Lixian Slope, Central Hebei Depression

Fan Yang, Xinghe Yu and Shengli Li

The Largest Continuous Tight Gas Field in China: Characteristics and Evidences

Zhi Yang, Caineng Zou, Suyun Hu, Shizhen Tao, Lianhua Hou and Jinhua Fu

Modeling Unconventional Resources With Geostatistics and Basin Modeling Techniques; Characterizing Sweet-Spots Using Petrophysical, Mechanical, and Static Fluid Properties

Jeffrey M. Yarus and Dan Carruthers

Campanian Estuarine Reservoirs in the Oriente Basin, Ecuador

Yu Ye, Ronald Steel, Cornel Olariu and Douglas Good

Structure of the Choctaw-Ross Creek Accommodation Zone of the Frontal Ouachita-Arkoma Basin Transition Zone in Western Arkansas

Donald Yezerski and Ibrahim Cemen

Structural Trapping of Buoyant Fluids

Graham Yielding, Peter Bretan, Brett Freeman, Dave Quinn and Michiel van Noorden

Sequence Stratigraphic Controls on Carbonate Reservoir Heterogeneity, Mishrif Formation, West Qurna I Field, Iraq

Lyndon A. Yose, Hisham Al Qassab, David Viator, Shawn Fullmer, Stefaan van Simaeys and Alecia Wawrzynski

Naturally Fractured Liquid Rich Shales: The Importance of Fracture Connectivity at Borehole and Matrix Levels

Amgad Younes

Simulation Study of Geomechanics Effect for Hydraulically Fractured Reservoirs

Wei Yu and Kamy Sepehrnoori

Evaluation of Reservoir Modeling in Shale Gas Reservoirs

Wei Yu and Kamy Sepehrnoori

Determining Seismic Stratigraphic Features Using Dip-Guided Symmetry Attribute

Yingwei Yu and Clifford Kelley

Rift Structures in the Angola Margin: Block 0

Li-Fan Yue and Chris Guzofski

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Advancements in the Integrated Stratigraphic and Structural Model of the Guadalupian Mixed Clastic-Carbonate Model, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico

Christopher K. Zahm, Edmund L. Frost and Charles Kerans

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Digital Outcrop Models of Carbonate Reservoir Analogs

Christopher K. Zahm and Charles Kerans

Geomorphology and Controls on Carbonate Slope Sedimentation Along the Florida Escarpment

Laura C. Zahm, Christopher K. Zahm and David Hunt

Albian Sunniland Formation in Southwest Florida and Lower Glen Rose Formation in Central Texas: Spectrum of Depositional Facies

Laura C. Zahm, Robert G. Loucks and Charles Kerans

Characterization of Complex Facies and Stratal Architecture of Organic Rich Mudstones of the Upper Cretaceous Second White Specks Petroleum System, West-central Alberta, Canada

Nick A. Zajac and Per K. Pedersen

Orienting the Unoriented: Paleocurrent Determination from Unoriented Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Wilcox Conventional Cores Using Helical Computed Tomography (CT) Scans

Larry Zarra and Allison Jackson

Prediction of Sweet Spots in Complex Paleokarst Reservoirs in Ordovician, Lunnan Area, Tarim Basin, China

Hongliu Zeng, Jiaming Cai and Peiling Ma

Seismic Sedimentology of Incised Valley, Lowstand Delta, and Slope Fan Systems in the Eocene Wilcox Group, Central South Texas Coast

Hongliu Zeng, William Ambrose, Zhijun Yin, Yawen He, Wenlong Xu and Pao-Hsien Huang

Seismic Prediction of Dolomized Reef and Shoal Reservoirs in Permian-Triassic Changxing and Feixianguan Formations, Eastern Sichuan Basins, China

Hongliu Zeng, Robert G. Loucks, Anjiang Shen and Zhanfeng Qiao

Tectonic-Controlled Stratal Architecture and Decameter-Scale Cycle Variability of Shelf-Edge, Growth Faulted Deltaic Systems: A Case Study From the Frio Formation in Corpus Christi Bay, South Texas

Jinyu Zhang and William Ambrose

Sedimentary Facies, Depositional Environment and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Devonian-Lower Carboniferous Bakken Formation in the Southeastern Corner of Saskatchewan

Liya Zhang and Luis Buatois

Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Systems Analysis of Paleocene in Lishui Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin

Ming Zhang, Fa Xu, Jinliang Zhang, Jinshui Liu, Jingzhe Li, Guowei Hou and Penghui Zhang

Fracture Systems in the Mowry Shale, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming: Implications for Unconventional Energy Resources

Ning Zhang, Carl E. Jacobson and Franciszek Hasiuk

Pore Characterization of Eagle Ford Shales by N2 Adsorption and Desorption Isotherms and Pore Evolution in Organic Matter During Thermal Maturation

Tongwei Zhang, Xun Sun, Kitty L. Milliken and Stephen C. Ruppel

Application of Seismic Sedimentology in the Predication of Sand-Body Distribution in Deep Sag Zone of Rifted Lacustrine Basin: A Case Study of the Palaeogene Dainan Formation in Gaoyou Depression, Subei Basin, China

Dongna Zhao and Xiaomin Zhu

Origin and Prediction of Dolostone Reservoirs in Tarim, Sichuan, and Ordos Basins, China

Wenzhi Zhao, Anjiang Shen, Jianfeng Zheng, Zhanfeng Qiao, Xiaofang Wang and Junming Lu

Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Distribution of the Mid-Cretaceous Mishrif Formation, United Arab Emirates

Yuguang Zhao, Gillian (Qiue) Chi, Wanhui Liu and Jianlin Li

The Orgin of the Algal Dolomite in the Dengying Formation (Neoproterozoic, Southwestern Sichuan Basin, China)

Yijiang Zhong, Keke Huang and Mingshi Feng

Key Factors for Oil Accumulation of Mesozoic Granite Buried Hill in Penglai 9-1 Oil Field, Bohai Bay Basin

Xinhuai Zhou, Qingbin Wang, Bo Yang, Guoxiang Zhao, Chong Feng and Wensen Zhu

Petroleum Geochemistry of Ordovician-Sourced Oils From the Williston Basin, USA

John E. Zumberge, John B. Curtis and Richard F. Inden

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Reconstructing Turbidity Current Processes During Submarine Slope Channel Evolution; An Integrated Experimental and Field Approach

Jan de Leeuw, Joris T. Eggenhuisen, Matthieu J. Cartigny, Patrick M. Michielsen and Martijn ter Braack

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Exploration of New Horizons in Mature Area: A New Understanding of Oil/Gas Accumulation in Low Porosity and Permeability Area

Lin jun Huang, Jian guo Pan, Guo dong Wang, Kai jun Tan and Tuan yu Teng

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Oil Degradation in the Gullfaks Field (Norway): How Hydrogeochemical Modeling can Help to Decipher Organic-Inorganic Interactions Controlling CO₂ Fate and Behavior

Wolfgang van Berk, Yunjiao Fu and Hans-Martin Schulz

Tidal to Fluvial Transition of the Sego Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Utah, USA

Marijn van Cappelle, Howard D. Johnson and Gary J. Hampson

Enhance Reservoir Knowledge through “Big-Loop” Sensitivity Screening

Xavier van Lanen, Jon Sætrom, Cecilie Otterlei, Eli Zachariassen, Stephanie Agostini, Camille Dubreuil-Boisclair, Roger Nybø, Paul Johan Valle, Katherine Waite, Joakim Hove, Jan-Arild Skjervheim and Geir Evensen

Basin Modeling Study of the Uinta Basin, UT

Jolante van Wijk and Rob Raschilla