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Serendipity, Sandstone, and Shale in a Revitalized San Juan Basin

Sophie N. Berglund, Douglas B. Ostby, Robert W. Brooks, Laura L. Wray and Bruce S. Kelso

Differentiating Green River Formation Oils Sourced from Freshwater and Saline Lacustrine Facies in the Uinta Basin, Utah

Justin Birdwell, Ronald C. Johnson, Paul G. Lillis and Michael Brownfield

Geochemical Characterization of the Cow Ridge Member, a Freshwater Lacustrine Stage of the Eocene Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado

Justin Birdwell, Michael M. McGlue, Ronald C. Johnson and Geoffrey S. Ellis

In-Place Oil Shale Resources in the Saline Mineral and Saline-Leached Intervals, Piceance Basin, Colorado

Justin Birdwell, Tracey J. Mercier, Ronald C. Johnson and Michael Brownfield

Mineralogy of the Green River Formation, Wyoming: Mining Old Data in the Light of New Models

Jeremy Boak, Glenn M. Mason and Kati Tanavsuu-Milkeviciene

Sussex Sandstone, Hornbuckle Trend, Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Lithofacies and Reservoir Properties in a Tight Oil Play

Richard J. Bottjer, Michael L. Hendricks, Daniel H. Stright and John A. Bettridge

Sussex Sandstone Tight Oil Play, Powder River Basin, Wyoming, Extension of the Hornbuckle-Spearhead Trend with Horizontal Drilling

Richard J. Bottjer, Michael L. Hendricks, Daniel H. Stright and John A. Bettridge

Characterization and 3-D Modeling of Devonian Pinnacle Reefs for CO₂ Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery

Jason R. Braunberger, Nicholas W. Bosshart, Robert Klenner, Guoxiang Liu, Wesley D. Peck and Charles D. Gorecki

Regional sequence stratigraphic analysis of the Upper Cretaceous Telegraph Creek and Eagle formations in south-central Montana

Alexander B. Brekke and James R. Staub

Advanced Seismic Imaging Tools for Unconventional Targets in Complex Geology?

Morgan P. Brown, R. Randy Ray, Edward J. Sterne and Barry Newman

Playa and Lunette Sedimentation Response to Artificial Water Levels: Case Study of the San Luis Lake Area

Maria E. Brunhart-Lupo

Multiphase deformation of Paleozoic and Mesozoic units, Nebraska Panhandle, USA

Caroline Burberry, R. Matt Joeckel and Jesse Korus

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Diagenesis of Organic-Rich Shale: Views from Foraminifera Penetralia, Eagle Ford Formation, Maverick Basin, Texas

Wayne Camp

A core calibrated log model workflow for shale gas and tight oil reservoirs

Robert Cluff, Elizabeth Roberts and Robert C. Hartman

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Enhanced Formation Evaluation of Shales Using NMR Secular Relaxation

Hugh Daigle, Andrew Johnson, J. P. Gips and Mukul Sharma

Basin Evolution of the North Park – Middle Park basin, Colorado

Marieke Dechesne, Jim Cole and Chris Martin

Using Microseismicity to Understand Subsurface Fracture Systems and Increase the Effectiveness of Completions: Eagle Ford Shale, TX

John Detring and Sherilyn Williams-Stroud

Claude Shannon versus Gus Archie: Information Theory as a Guide to Log Evaluation without Petrophysics

Paul E. Devine

Predicting Fluid Quality from Regional Thermal Maturity Studies

Michael P. Dolan, Patrick Travers and Steve Cumella

Workflow Optimization Using Python Programming, a Tool Kit for Every Geoscientist

Neil W. Dotzenrod, Jason R. Braunberger, Robert Klenner, Guoxiang Liu and Charles D. Gorecki

The Knoll Limestone “bench” of the Three Forks Formation, West-Central Montana: An Exposed Unconventional Reservoir

Ted Doughty, George W. Grader and Mike C. Pope

Natural and Artificial Cracking of Oil Source Rocks and Unconventional Reservoirs

Wallace Dow

Assessing the Carbon Sequestration Potential within the Bear River Formation of the Wyoming-Idaho-Utah Thrust Belt

Ronald M. Drake and Matthew D. Merrill

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Sedimentary Processes and Trace Fossil Communities in the Upper Shale Member of the Upper Devonian-Lower Mississippian Bakken Formation, North Dakota, USA

Sven Egenhoff and Neil Fishman

Wide-Azimuthal 3D Seismic Data Integrated with Geologic Information from Open-Hole Logs Unlocks the Secrets of a Naturally Fractured Trap in the Western Uinta Basin, Utah

Jeffrey Ehrenzeller, Walter Korenkiewicz and Julie Pyle

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Sweet Spot Identification and SRV Estimation by Correlation of Microseismic Data and the Shale Capacity^SM Concept: Application to the Haynesville

M. Fackler, B. Wilson, A. Ouenes, J. Reagan and E. Wójcik

Permian Salt Dissolution in Silo Field, Laramie County, Wyoming

Elena Finley and Steve Sonnenberg

Tectonic Erratics - remarkable exotic blocks emplaced by the Henderson thrust, Eureka County, Nevada: a new petroleum exploration target in north-central Nevada

Stanley Finney

Past, Present and Future Advancements in Methods for Detecting Hydrocarbon Seepage after 75 Years

John V. Fontana and David Seneshen

The Nitchie Shear Zone, Wyoming

John R. Forster

A Geometric Approach to the Analysis of Global Eolian Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: With Analogues From the Wahiba Sands of Oman

Steve Fryberger and Caroline Y. Hern

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Fourier Analysis of the Laminated Facies of the Middle Bakken Member, Sanish-Parshall Field, Mountrail County, North Dakota

Virginia Gent and Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Computation and 3D Visualization of Potentiometric Surfaces in Hydrocarbon-Bearing Formations Across the Mid-Continent

Nicholas Gianoutsos and Philip H. Nelson

Comparison of potentiometric surfaces of the Cretaceous Dakota Group with surfaces of Paleozoic formations in the Midcontinent of the United States

Nicholas J. Gianoutsos and Philip H. Nelson

Multi-reservoir characterization with multicomponent 3D seismic in North-West Denver-Julesburg Basin

Antara Goswami, Stefano Volterrani and Brian W. Horn

Core Facies and Geochemical Analysis of the Late Cretaceous Turner Sandstone, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Edmund Gustason, Tofer Lewis, Donal Maloney and Andrew Heger

Core Facies, Log Facies and Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of the Late Cretaceous Turner Sandstone, Porcupine Field Area, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Edmund Gustason, Jill Haynie and Colby Hazard

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Application of Rapid, Integrated, Cuttings XRF, Source Rock and Trapped Fluid Analyses to Unconventional Plays

Donald L. Hall, Steven M. Sterner, Rohit Shukla and Russell Moore

Vitrinite reflectance of Cretaceous coals and thermal maturity of the Niobrara Formation, DJ basin, Colorado, USA

Daniel G. Hallau, Ryan J. Sharma and Robert M. Cluff

Geothermal Assessment and Modeling of the Uinta Basin, Utah

Christian Hardwick, Hobie Willis and Mark Gwynn

Gas geochemistry of three tight-gas-sand fields, Rocky Mountains

Nicholas B. Harris

Fracture Creation and Observed Pitfalls in Bakken Reservoirs, Williston Basin, North Dakota

Duane Heckelsberg, Ziheng (Michael) Yao, Apiwat (Ohm) Lorwongngam, Carlos Cardenas and Daniel Guier

Petroleum System Model of the Mississippian Bakken Formation in the Northern Williston Basin, Saskatchewan, Southwestern Manitoba, and Southeastern Alberta

Debra K. Higley, Stephanie Gaswirth and Nicholas Gianoutsos

Undiscovered Petroleum Resources for the Woodford Shale and Thirteen Finger Limestone-Atoka Shale, Anadarko Basin

Debra K. Higley

Facies Model and Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Devonian-Mississippian Sappington and Bakken Formations in Montana

Michael H. Hofmann, Tetsuro Nagase and Marc S. Hendrix

Calibration of petrophysical log response in the north and eastern Uinta Basin to allow extension of outcrop belts into the subsurface using well data.

James D. Hogan, J Frederick Sarg and Kati Tanavsuu-Milkeviciene

A Comprehensive Deterministic Petrophysical Analysis Procedure, For Reservoir Characterization: Conventional and Unconventional ReservoirsCopyright 2014, held by the submitting authors. This paper was prepared for presentation at the AAPG RMS Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, July 20-22, 2014.

Michael Holmes, Antony Holmes and Dominic Holmes

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Newfield's Williston Buried Array Microseismic; Pushing the Envelope and Integrating Data

Laura M. Johnson, Jared Rountree and Julie Shemeta

Visual and analytical comparisons of upper Pronghorn “shale” cores from a west-to-east transect, McKenzie and McLean Counties, North Dakota

Laura M. Johnson, Grant Sha, Katie Kocman, Simon Cole, Laura L. Wray and Mark Longman

Mass Movement deposits in the lacustrine Eocene Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Western Colorado

Ronald C. Johnson, Justin Birdwell, Michael Brownfield and Tracey J. Mercier

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Training Image Characterization and Multipoint Statistical Modeling of Clastic and Carbonate Formations

Robert Klenner, Jason R. Braunberger, Neil W. Dotzenrod, Nicholas W. Bosshart, Wesley D. Peck and Charles D. Gorecki

Visual and analytical comparisons of lower Bakken “shale” cores from a west-to-east transect, McKenzie and McLean Counties, North Dakota

Katie B. Kocman, Mark Longman, Laura M. Johnson, Grant Sha, Laura L. Wray and Simon Cole

Diagenesis of the Upper Three Forks Formation – The North Dakota Perspective

Ketki Kolte and Sven Egenhoff

Abrupt Basinward Changes in the Stratigraphic Expression of a Sequence Boundary in the Ferron Sandstone (Turonian), Southeast Utah, USA

Jesse T. Korus and Christopher R. Fielding

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Characterization of Wettability using NMR and Dielectric Logging, and Pore-scale Imaging Techniques

Margaret Lessenger, Richard Merkel, Pradeep Bhattad, Anna Carnerup and Mark Knackstedt

Critical Relationships between Vitrinite Reflectance and Petroleum Formation

Michael D. Lewan

Correlation of Oils and Tar Sands in the Green River Petroleum System, Uinta Basin, Utah

Paul G. Lillis and Vivien M. Cumming

Petrography of the Bakken Black “Shales” in the Eastern Williston Basin of North Dakota

Mark Longman, Katie Kocman and Laura L. Wray

Play-Scale 3D Modeling and Novel Risk-Ranking Concepts for Developing Unconventional Assets

Barbara Luneau, Matthew Belobraydic, Jason Sitchler and Gerard Gaynor

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Correlation of Rebound-hammer Rock Strength with Core and Sonic-log Derived Mechanical Rock Properties in Cretaceous Niobrara and Frontier Formation Cores, Piceance Basin, Colorado

Graham A. McClave

Where Did the Proppant Go?

Jonathan P. McKenna

Noble Gas Geochemistry at the La Barge Platform, Wyoming, USA: CO₂ Source and Potential Total Petroleum System Investigation Tool

Matthew D. Merrill, Celeste D. Lohr and Andrew G. Hunt

Utilizing Hydrocarbon Yield Determinations to Evaluate Source/Reservoir Relationships in the Bakken/Three Forks of the Williston Basin, ND

Mark Millard and Tim Ruble

Mosser Dome Field, Yellowstone County, Montana: A Giant Stratigraphic Oil Accumulation

John R. Mitchell

Petroleum Occurrences in Cretaceous Age Reservoirs, Northern Bighorn Basin, Montana & Wyoming

John R. Mitchell

Play Analysis of the Cane Creek Shale, Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation, Paradox Basin, Southeast Utah

Craig D. Morgan, Stephanie M. Carney, Peter J. Nielsen, Michael D. Vanden Berg and Rebekah E. Wood

Mechanical Stratigraphy and Well Correlation Using the Proceq Bambino in the Niobrara Shale

C. Devin Murray and Stephen A. Sonnenberg

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Fluid migration and regional pressure development in the Midcontinent of the United States

Philip H. Nelson and Nicholas J. Gianoutsos

An Overpressured Deep Basin and an Underpressured Hinterland: the Greater Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas

Philip H. Nelson and Nicholas Gianoutsos

Examination of the Tyler Formation's Exploration and Development History using Current Source Rock and Reservoir Maps

Timothy O. Nesheim and Stephan H. Nordeng

Produced Water Modeling of Upper Cretaceous Mesaverde Group Tight-Sandstone Reservoirs in the Uinta Basin, Utah

Peter J. Nielsen, Rebekah E. Wood and Thomas C. Chidsey

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Detailed Chemostratigraphic Characterization of the Niobrara Formation, Cemex Quarry, Lyons CO

Denton O'Neal

Applications of Pore-Scale Image Data to Exploration and Reservoir Characterization

Terri Olson and Lyn Canter

Using a Fluvial Sequence Stratigraphic Framework in the Coal Bearing Formations of the Raton Basin, CO to Build a Deterministic 3D Model.

Shannon Osterhout and Hadi Soetrisno

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Bakken Formation Water and the Role of Shale Filtration, Williston Basin

Zell E. Peterman, Joanna Thamke, Leonid Neymark, Thomas A. Oliver and Kiyoto Futa

Using Surface and Point Based Statistics to Evaluate Channel-Belt Clustering in the Fluvial lower Wasatch Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah.

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

Controls on Porosity and Pore Type within the Eagle Ford Formation, South Texas

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

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Seismic diffraction imaging on pre-existing seismic data to predict fracturing in unconventional reservoirs

Marianne Rauch-Davies and Alex Berkovitch

Sweet Spot Identification and SRV Estimation by Correlation of Microseismic Data and the Shale Capacity Concept: Application to the Haynesville

Jeff Reagan, Ela Wojcikl, Matthew Fackler and Ahmed Quenes

Correlation of Niobrara-Equivalent Strata in the Eastern Uinta Basin, Utah

Robert Ressetar, Andrew McCauley, Lauren Birgenheier and Jeffrey Quick

Stratigraphic Architecture of the Frontier Formation, Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Rebekah Rhodes, Brandon McElroy, Erin Campbell-Stone and Jenna Groenhof

Structural Modeling to Reduce Uncertainty, Eastern Cordillera Fold and Thrust Belt, Colombia

David Richards and Claudia Patricia Ceballos

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Source to Sink Systems for Hydrocarbon Exploration in Lacustrine Basin Fill: Analog Examples from the Tertiary Duchesne River Formation, Northern Uinta Basin, Northeastern Utah

Takashi Sato and Marjorie A. Chan

Distinguishing Noise from LWD Gamma Ray Data in Horizontal Wells

Joseph Schindler

Using New Well Logging Technology with Ultra-Sensitive Detection of Hydrocarbons to Assess Hydrocarbon Composition, Compartmentalization, and By-passed Pays

Rick Schrynemeeckers

Focusing Petroleum Exploration With Regional Geochemical Surveys

David Seneshen and John V. Fontana

New Concept of Oil and Gas Origin

Vladimir A. Serebryakov

Solutions for Difficult Reservoirs—Direct NMR Fluid Type and Permeability

Charles H. Smith, Sandeep Ramakrishna and Layne Hamilton

Reservoir Characteristics of the Codell Sandstone Tight Oil Play, Northern DJ Basin, Wyoming and Colorado: Extension of Wattenberg into the Oil Window

Kevin H. Smith, Richard J. Bottjer, Robert A. Sterling, Henry C. Nowak and Daniel R. Wheat

The Upper Bakken Shale Play, Elm Coulee Field, Williston Basin

Stephen A. Sonnenberg

3D seismic proves its value in Bakken geosteering

Angie C. Southcott and Hal Harper

Paleostructural Control of Cretaceous Niobrara Productivity in a Portion of the DJ Basin of Colorado

Jay T. Sperr

Unconventional Exploration: Will Your Next “Sweet Spot” Have Once Been a “Hot Spot”?

Eve Sprunt, Jane Newman, Michal Ruder and Janell Edman

The importance of high-resolution geochemistry in downspacing evaluations of unconventional plays

Josiah Strauss, Nicholas Rosenau, Patrick Travers and Michael Dolan

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Basin-Scale Analysis and Options for Produced Water from Tight-Gas Sand Reservoirs, Uinta Basin, Utah

David E. Tabet, Thomas C. Chidsey, Craig D. Morgan, Robert Ressetar, Peter J. Nielsen, Rebekah E. Wood, Taylor Boden, Stephanie M. Carney, Michael D. Vanden Berg, Stefan Kirby, Hobie Willis, Christian Hardwick and Richard Emerson

Completions Optimization in the Eagle Ford Shale Play

Cherie Telker and Carl W. Neuhaus

Post-Laramide Thrust Backsliding and Arch Collapse: a Mechanism for Creating Intensely Fractured Trends and High Off-Structure Production; Wind River Basin, Wyoming

Ryan Thompson

Effects of Upper and Lower Bakken Source Rock Differences on the Charge of Middle Bakken and Three Forks Reservoirs in the Williston Basin

David J. Thul, Ryan Thompson and Terry L. Ganey

Multivariate Analysis of Geologic and Engineering Parameters on Petroleum Production in the Niobrara Formation

David J. Thul, Carrie Welker, Tom Anderson and Milind Deo

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Geological Characterization of the Uteland Butte Member of the Eocene Green River Formation: An Emerging Unconventional Carbonate Tight Oil Play in the Uinta Basin, Utah

Michael D. Vanden Berg, Rebekah E. Wood, Stephanie M. Carney and Craig D. Morgan

Hypersaline Facies and the Termination of Eocene Lake Uinta, Upper Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Michael D. Vanden Berg and Lauren P. Birgenheier

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Calibration of FIS Factor 1 Response to Map API Gravity “Sweet Spots” in Unconventional Resource Assessments

David A. Wavrek and Donald L. Hall

Microbial Mat Textures in Lithofacies of the Paradox Formation, Paradox Basin, Utah

Katherine J. Whidden, Russell F. Dubiel, Jennifer D. Eoff, Sarah J. Hawkins, Kristen R. Marra, Ofori N. Pearson and Janet K. Pitman

Maximize Mass Spectrometer Mud Gas Data-Experienced Analysis Matters

Tracy P. Wicker and Bruce Warren

Complexities of well log interpretation observed through cored samples, Mesaverde Group, Uinta Basin

Ellen Wilcox and Edmund Gustason

Visual and analytical comparisons of upper Bakken “shale” cores from a west-to-east transect, McKenzie and McLean Counties, North Dakota

Laura L. Wray, Mark Longman, Katie Kocman, Laura Johnson, Grant Sha and Simon Cole