AAPG 2016 Annual Conference and Exhibition

Khaled S. Amrouni, Michael C. Pope, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Khalid A. Mustafa, Ahmed A. Al-Alwani, Mohamed S. El-Jahmi, Aimen H. Amer, Essa A. Elbileikia, Salah El-Ekhfifi, Hassan S. El-Bargathi, Adel A. Obeidi and Matthew Wehner

Palaeo-Fault Analysis: Defining the Evolution and Impact of Faults Through Time

Hugh Anderson, Cathal Reilly, Luke Smallwood and Steve Mücklisch

3-D Geology and Petroleum Chemistry of the Alberta Peace River Oil Sands — Investigating Odours and Emissions

Shar Anderson, Chris Filewich, Steven Lyster and Kelsey MacCormack

Characterizing Fracture Networks in a Normal Fault Splay Zone

Ross Andrea, Yiduo Liu and Michael Murphy

The Impact of Dual Porosity on Pore-Scale Fluid Distributions During Steady State Flow

Matthew Andrew

Fault Parameters Controlling Hydrocarbon Accumulation in the Northern North Sea: Insights From 3-D Basin Modelling

Spariharijaona Andriamihaja, Joel Ben-Awuah and Abdullah Musa Ali

Enigmatic Beds of the Deep-Marine: A Depositional Continuum to Explain the Origin and Spatial Variability of Matrix-Rich Sandstones, Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup, Western Canada

Katrina M. Angus and Bill Arnott

3-D Seismic Attribute Expressions of Deep Offshore Niger Delta Basin, Nigeria

Uzonna O. Anyiam, Priyank Jaiswal, Jack C. Pashin, Ebuka Uzuegbu and Alexander Opara

Integrated Basin and Play Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the Miskito Platform, Verolania Basin and Los Cayos Basin — Western Caribbean Sea

Luis Carlos Carvajal Arenas, Lucia Torrado and Paul Mann

Multi-Scale Morphodynamic Reconstruction of Cretaceous Linear Dunes in the Neuquén Basin, Argentina: Implications for Reservoir Characterization and Modeling

Agustín Argüello-Scotti, Gonzalo Veiga, Elena Morettini and Georgina Godino

Seismic Architecture and Anatomy of a Basin-Scale Lowstand Wedge (Mulichinco Fm, Argentina): Implications for Tight Reservoirs Exploration

Sebastián M. Arismendi, María E. Pascariello, Maria F. Rincón, Ernesto Schwarz and Mariana Olivo

The Nature and Origin of Organic-Rich (Source) Strata in Deepwater Rocks of the Neoproterozoic Windermere Supergroup

Bill Arnott, Gerry Ross and Kirk Ozadetz

Evaluating the Effects of Grain Statistics, Porosity and Saturation on Thermal Conductivity of Oil Sands

James K. Arthur and Kantzas Apostolos

Multi-Scale Stratigraphic Heterogeneity Induced by Allocyclic and Autocyclic Factors in a Low Net-to-Gross Fluvial Succession

Oscar J. Arévalo, Luca Colombera and Nigel P. Mountney

Process and Products of Long-Transit Forced Regression Driven by Dynamic Subsidence Migration in the Cordilleran Foreland Basin: Insight From Regional Analysis of the Fox Hills Sandstone From Denver, Colorado to Ft. Peck, Montana

Jennifer L. Aschoff and Charles Rust

Light Hydrocarbons Geochemistry: Insights Into Analyzing the Mississippian Petroleum Systems in Northern Oklahoma

Ibrahim Al Atwah, John Pantano and Stephen Sweet

Timing of Slope System Evolution and Intra-Basinal Sediment Recycling in the Magallanes Retroarc Foreland Basin (Chile) From Detrital Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy

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

Application of Sonic Logs to Estimate the Magnitude of Exhumation in the Foredeep Section of the Western Canada Foreland Basin

Mailyng A. Aviles and Burns Cheadle

Fracture Patterns and Petrophysical Properties of Carbonates Undergoing Regional Folding: A Case Study From Kurdistan, North Iraq

Abdullah Awdal, David Healy and G. Ian Alsop

Distribution of Depositional Environment, Diagenetic Features, and Reservoir Quality of the Middle Bakken Member in the Williston Basin, North Dakota

Oguzhan Ayhan, Ursula Hammes and William L. Fisher

Generating Value Through New Logging Technology and Analytical Methods — Case Study From Offshore West Africa

Irewole J. Ayodele, Chiara Cavalleri, Sarah Kabon, Namso Akpan, Tolulope Olayemi, Adeleke Orimolade and Glen Penfield

Detailed Lithofacies Analysis and High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of the Horn River Group, British Columbia, Canada

Korhan Ayranci, Tian Dong and Nicholas B. Harris

New Model of Turbidity Current Suggested After Direct Observation of Turbidity Currents in the Congo Canyon

Maria Azpiroz, Matthieu Cartigny, Peter J. Talling, Michael A. Clare, Cortis Cooper, Daniel R. Parsons, Esther J. Sumner, Steve Simmons and Edward Pope

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Uncertainty Analysis in Geological Surface Modeling

Mahshid Babakhani

The Distribution of Sediments on the Caicos Platform, B.W.I.: A Modern, High-Energy Isolated Carbonate Platform as a Guide to Understanding the Distribution of Enhanced Reservoir and Barrier Facies in Ancient Carbonate Reservoirs

Steve Bachtel, Charles Kerans and Christopher Zahm

Giant Cretaceous Mixed Contouritic-Turbiditic Systems, Offshore Uruguay: The Interaction Between Rift-Related Basin Morphology, Contour Currents and Downslope Sedimentation

Gianluca Badalini, Phil Thompson, Simon Wrigley, Richard Walker, John Argent, Javier Hernandez-Molina, Matias Soto and Hector de Santa Ana

Acoustic Characterization of Sub-Seismic Scaled Heterogeneities in Carbonate Reservoirs: Example of Barremian Microporous Limestone From SE France: An Analog of Middle East Hydrocarbon Reservoirs

Dawin Baden, Yves Guglielmi and Lionel Marié

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Inyan Kara Formation, Northwestern North Dakota: Extracting the Maximum from Minimal Core and Outcrop Data

Jeffrey W. Bader

The Missing Link: The Role of Basement Anisotropies in the Laramide Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the Wyoming Craton

Jeffrey W. Bader

Inferring Bulk Reservoir Properties From Microseismcity

Adam M. Baig, Ted Urbancic and Eric von Lunen

Characterizing Spatiotemporal Deformation in the Reservoir as Related to Hydraulic Fracture Stimulations

Adam M. Baig, Ted Urbancic, Lindsay Smith-Boughner and Eric von Lunen

Incorporating Microseismic Ruptures to Build a Discrete Fracture Network

Adam M. Baig and Ted Urbancic

New High-Resolution Geodynamic and Landscape Evolution Models From the Permian to the Present Day for North America

Rob Bailiff, Lauren Raynham, Chris Dean, Laura Davies, Michael Sturla, Max Casson, Zoe Cumberpatch, Gareth Joseph, Emma Edgecombe, Jade Roland-Warden, Laura Wilson, Abigail Redmile and Richard Howe

Mineral Chemical Analysis of Glauconites Within the Upper Cretaceous Karai Shale Formation for Evaluation of Stratigraphic Condensation

Santanu Banerjee, Udita Bansal and Kanchan Pande

Diagenetic Evolution of the Cangulo Formation Pre-Salt Carbonates (Onshore Namibe Basin, Angola)

Vinyet Baqués, Mar Moragas, Lapponi Fabio, Michael Zeller, David Hunt, Emilio Casciello, Jaume Vergés, Israel Cruz, Grégoire Messager, Ian Sharp, S. Higgins, Ulrike Freitag, Herrcinda Ferreira and Vladamir Machado

Application of Quantitative 2-D Image Analysis to Geologic Core Description: Example From Steamflooded First Eocene Reservoir, Wafra Field, Kuwait-Saudi Arabia Partitioned Zone

Roger J. Barnaby

Capturing Uncertainty in Prospect Economics

Cornelius W. Barnes

Regional Reservoir Characterization and CO₂ Storage Resource Assessment in a Geologically Complex, Deep Saline Reservoir, Middle Ordovician St. Peter Sandstone, Michigan Basin, USA

David A. Barnes and Stephen Zdan

Geology of a Carbonate Breccia Reservoir Rock: Grosmont Formation, NE Alberta, Canada

Kent R. Barrett

New Insights Into the Cretaceous Rayoso Formation: A Regional Overview of a Large Fluvial Fan and Implications for Reservoir Prediction

Pablo Barros, Héctor J. Campos, Guillermo Pedersen, Piret Plink-Bjorklund, Andrea Moscariello and Elena Morettini

In Search of a Cordilleran Point Source to the McMurray Sub-Basin

Morufu A. Basiru and Shahin E. Dashtgard

Distributions and Environmental Controls of Microbialites in Great Salt Lake, Utah

Robert L. Baskin, Paul Wright, Neal Driscoll, Graham Kent and George Hepner

Microseismic Event Detection and Characterization Using Sparse Surface Networks

Dario Baturan, Andrew Law and Sepideh Karimi

Experimental Modeling of Orthogonal and Oblique Basin Inversion: Identifying Structures That Reflect the Paleostrain State

Mark S. Baum, Roy W. Schlische and Martha O. Withjack

Using Hierarchical Cluster Analysis to Improve Facies Definitions in Permian Mudrocks (Wolfcamp and Lower Leonard), Midland Basin, Texas

Robert W. Baumgardner and Harry Rowe

Fracture Size and Intensity Scaling From Core to DFN Model

Doug Bearinger and Chelsey Hillier

The Efficient Path for Subsurface Project Delivery; Platforms for Lean Subsurface Methods

Richard T. Beaubouef and Kandy Lukats

An Overview of the Sappington Project With Implications for Future Generations of Bakken Reservoir Evaluations

Richard T. Beaubouef, Margaret Kloska, John C. Hohman, John M. Guthrie and Douglas A. Palkowsky

Can Diagenesis Restart After Hydrocarbon Emplacement? An Example From the Mauddud Formation, Kuwait

Sayed M. Behbehani and Cathy Hollis

Hyperspectral Core Imaging: Spanning the Gap From Plug to Log to Reservoir Scale

Jerome A. Bellian, Brigette Martini, Lyn Canter, Ronnell Carey, David Katz, Patricia Rodrigues, Jennifer Curnow, Marshall Jung and Mary Guisinger

Optimizing Effort in the Oil Sands: An Experiment to Determine the Relative Benefit of Additional Wells in a Seismic Quantitative Interpretation Case Study

Laurie Bellman, Emily Duncan and Karen Primrose

Natural Fractures Within the Souris Valley Marker Bed ‘B’, Lodgepole Formation, Southern Saskatchewan, Canada

Stephen L. Bend and Sienna Johnson

Talking Responsibly About Your Contingent Resource Oil Sands Project (Presented by B. Spackman)

Caralyn Bennett

Lateral and Vertical Changes in Deep Marine Levee Deposits — Where Intuition and Geological Reality Diverge: Neoproterozoic Isaac Formation, Windermere Supergroup, B.C., Canada

Anika Bergen and Bill Arnott

Variation of Rivers and Their Paleo-Drainages in Mesozoic Foreland Basins of North America

Janok P. Bhattacharya and Janok P. Bhattacharya

3-D Facies Architectural Study of Channel Belt Deposits in the Ferron Sandstone, Hanksville, Utah

Proma Bhattacharyya, Janok P. Bhattacharya and Shuhab Khan

A Multiscale Method for Characterizing Shales by Downscaling and Upscaling Statistically Sampled Datasets From Multiple Imaging Modalities

Sreenivas Bhattiprolu, Andy Steinbach and Benjamin Tordoff

Conodont Thermochronology: Expanding the Utility of the (U-Th)/He Method to Marine Carbonates and Shales

Tandis S. Bidgoli, James P. Tyrrell, Andreas Moeller, Bradley D. Cramer, J. D. Walker and Daniel F. Stockli

Micro to Nano-Scale Characterization of the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Eider Hernandez Bilbao and John D. Humphrey

A Different Perspective on Critically Stressed Fractures and Their Impact on Fluid Flow

Kevin Bisdom, Giovanni Bertotti and Hamid Nick

Constraints on the Burial History of Tengiz Field From Clumped Isotope Paleothermometry

James W. Bishop, Ted Playton, David Katz, Wayne Narr, Evan Earnest-Heckler, J.A.D. (Tony) Dickson, Kathryn Snell, Kristin Bergmann and John Eiler

Mechanical and Fracture Stratigraphy Modeling for Development Optimization in the Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquen Basin, Argentina

Kyla Bishop, Jorge Fernandez-Concheso, Tom Davis and Heather Davey

The Provenance of Sands in Transcontinental Rivers: What Can Detrital K-Feldspar Tell Us?

Aoife Blowick, Peter Haughton, Shane Tyrrell, John Holbrook, Stephen Daly and Patrick Shannon

The McMurray Conundrum: Conflicting Interpretations of Environment of Deposition and Paleogeography

Mike Blum and Deserae Jennings

Paleodrainage for the Mannville Group, Eastern Margins of the Alberta Foreland Basin System

Mike Blum and Deserae Jennings

Environmental, Health and Social Issues Raised by Those Opposing the Hydraulic Fracturing Process of Oil and Gas Production

Richard Bost

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Walloon Subgroup, Surat Basin, Australia

Ron Boyd, Steven Dewar, Andrew Aouad, Brett Pidgeon and Luke Sammons

Complex Depositional History of a Sinuous, Conglomeratic Submarine Slope Channel

Guilherme Bozetti, Ian Kane and Benjamin Kneller

Effect of Ionic Strength (Salinity) and pH (Acidity) on Geochemical Water-Rock Interactions During Hydraulic Fracturing in the Frontier Formation of the Powder River Basin, Wyoming

Jordan C. Bratcher, Ryan Herz-Thyhsen and John Kaszuba

Basin-Scale Mineral and Fluid Processes at a Mississippian Platform Margin

Catherine J. Breislin, Cathy Hollis, Jim Marshall, Alanna Juerges, Vanessa Banks and Jim Riding

Pitfalls in Geological Mapping Within Unconventional Plays

Riley Brinkerhoff

Effect of Carbonate Diagenesis on Reservoir Quality of the Middle Bakken Formation, USA

Mark Brodie, Andrew Aplin, Jon Gluyas and Bruce Hart

Investigating Geomechanical Principles of Hydraulic Fracturing Microseismicity Using Stress Inversion and Elastic Dislocation Techniques

Heike Broichhausen, Euan Macaulay, Colin Dunlop and Roddy Muir

Distribution of Bitumen Sand Complexes in the Northern Athabasca Deposit: Spatio-Temporal Impact of Hypogene Salt Karst Collapse on the Overlying Tectono-Stratigraphic Architecture

Paul L. Broughton

Geological Controls on Evaporite — Carbonate Facies Transition in Permian Seven Rivers Formation, SE New Mexico

Alton A. Brown, R. G. Loucks

Improving Correlation Algorithms to Better Characterize and Interpret Induced Seismicity

Michael Brudzinski, Robert Skoumal and Brian Currie

New Approaches on Source Rock Analysis to Improve Hydrocarbon System Analysis — Optical Kerogen Analysis of Organic Rich Mesozoic Shales (Germany, Chile)

Sven A. Brysch and Hartmut Jaeger

Carbonate Buildups in the Post-Rift Sequence of the Pernambuco Basin, NE Brazil: Oil Play Implications

Bruno V. Buarque, José Antonio Barbosa, Jefferson Oliveira, Osvaldo J. Correia and José Ricardo R. Magalhães

Spatial and Stratigraphic Distribution of Microbialite Facies in the Eocene Green River Formation: Developing an Exploration Analog to the South Atlantic “pre-Salt”

Paul Buchheim and Stanley M. Awramik

Factors Limiting Reservoir Quality of Pericratonic Silurian Shales in Poland — New Evidence From Cores in Lublin Basin

Arkadiusz Buniak, Artur Kedzior, Mariusz Paszkowski, Szczepan J. Porebski and Jaroslaw Zacharski

Penetrative Strain on the Field Scale: Detrimental to Reservoir Quality?

Caroline M. Burberry

Evolution of Vitrinite Reflectance Models

Alan Burnham and Kenneth E. Peters

A Hierarchical Classification Scheme for the Sedimentary Architecture of Fluvial Crevasse-Splay Deposits

Catherine Burns, Nigel P. Mountney, David Hodgson and Luca Colombera

Facies and Stratigraphic Architecture of the Fox Hills Sandstone, Eastern Wyoming: Insight Into Depositional Processes During Long-Transit Shoreline Regression

Kristina L. Butler and Jennifer L. Aschoff

New Petroleum Systems Related to the Structuring of Meso-Cenozoic Basins in North African Plate Tunisian Margin

Mourad Bédir

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Seismic Stratigraphic and Quantitative Interpretation of Leonardian Reefal Carbonates, Eastern Shelf of the Midland Basin: Insight Into Sea Level Effects, Geomorphology and Associated Reservoir Quality

Abidin B. Caf and John D. Pigott

Morphodynamic Stratigraphy of River-Dominated Deltaic Bars

Rebecca L. Caldwell, Douglas Edmonds, James L. Best, Daniel R. Parsons and Rudy L. Slingerland

Mesozoic Sedimentology, Provenance, and Subcrop Mapping of the Eastern Cordillera and Western Subandean Zone: Insights for the Extensional Record of Southern Bolivia

Amanda Z. Calle and Brian K. Horton

Hydrodynamics of Fluvial Strata in the Cretaceous Williams Fork Formation, Colorado

Ben Campanaro, Diane Kamola and Mike Blum

Carbonate Stratigraphy and Organic Matter Preservation Within the Scotian Margin, Offshore Nova Scotia

Taylor J. Campbell, Ricardo Silva and Grant Wach

Chemofacies Characteristics of Six Bakken Cores From the Northeastern Williston Basin: Insights to Paleodepositional Conditions From Trace Element Variability in Mudrocks

Taylor Canada, John Grillo and Maritha Huber

Fluid Flow and Related Diagenetic Processes in a Rift Basin: Evidence From the Eocene Es4 Interval, Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Yingchang Cao, Benben Ma, Eriksson Kenneth, Yancong Jia and Yanzhong Wang

Feldspar Dissolution, Authigenic Clays and Quartz Cements in Buried Sandstones With Open or Closed Geochemical Systems

Yingchang Cao, Guanghui Yuan and Yanzhong Wang

Source Rock and Geochemistry of the Central Atlantic Margins: Geochemical Characterization of Lower Jurassic Organic-Rich Facies Offshore Ireland

Charles A. Carlisle, Ricardo Silva and Grant Wach

The Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory (MSEEL)

Timothy Carr

Estimating the Required Resource Volumes and Sources to Meet Strategic Targets

Peter D. Carragher

The Statistical Eigenvector Analysis Technique (SEAT) for Image Log-Based Directional Measurements

Matthew Carter and Bernd Ruehlicke

3-D Geomechanics Workflow Applied to a Tight Gas Turbiditic Field, Colombia

Olga Carvajal, Claudio Rabe, Thiago Pessoa, Mario Di Luca and Diana Ruiz

Onshore Structural and Stratigraphic Study of the Namibe Basin (Angola)

Emilio Casciello, Jaume Vergés, Israel Cruz, Vinyet Baqués, Mar Moragas, Ian Sharp, Grégoire Messager, David Hunt, Ulrike Freitag, Herrcinda Ferreira and Vladamir Machado

Eustatic Control on DeepWater Deposition Revealed by Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy: Example of the Ainsa Basin, Lower-Middle Eocene Pyrenean Foreland Basin, Spain

Sebastien Castelltort, Louis Honegger, Thierry Adatte, Cai Puigdefabregas, Jorge Spangenberg, Julian Clark, Andrea Fildani and Mason Dykstra

Multi-Scale Investigation of Shale Using an Integrated SEM and Machine Learning Approach

Timothy Cavanaugh

Souring of Kaybob Duvernay Wells: Investigation of Frac Barrier Effectiveness, Completions Design and Pre-Duvernay Structural Features

Gareth R. Chalmers

The Heterolithic Point-Bar of the l'Eyre Estuary (Arcachon Bay, France) — A Partial Analog for McMurray Formation Estuarine Reservoirs, Alberta, Canada

Chloe C. Chateau, Hugues Fenies, Herve Gillet and Dale Leckie

Importance of Recognizing Open Fracture Networks When Estimating Shale Gas Reserves — A Geochemical and Microseismic Perspective

Jean-Yves D. Chatellier

Pore Throat Controlling Liquid Yield in Shale — Mismatch Between Dry Produced Gas at Surface and Wet Gas or Condensate in the Reservoir

Jean-Yves D. Chatellier and Renee Perez

Defining Proper Boundary Conditions in 3-D Structural Restoration: A Case Study Restoring a 3-D Forward Model of Suprasalt Extensional Structures

Benjamin P. Chauvin, Joe Stockmeyer, John H. Shaw, Andreas Plesch, Justin Herbert, Peter Lovely, Chris Guzofski and Guillaume Caymon

Laboratory Experiments of Incised Valley Systems: Influence of Sediment Concentration and Sea Level Rise

Chen Chen, Sebastien Castelltort, Chris Paola, Laure Guerit and Brady Foreman

Paleo-Orinoco Shelf-Margin Growth — Process Regimes and Delta Evolution

Si Chen, Ronald Steel and Cornel Olariu

A Quantitative Study of the Creation of Secondary Porosity in Carbonate Reservoirs by Dolomitization and Mesogenetic Dissolution

Yueting Chen and Barry J. Katz

Rock-Eval Pyrolysis Data Analysis and Kerogen Kinetics Comparison of Selected Producing and Potential Shale Gas Plays in Canadian Sedimentary Basins

Zhuoheng Chen and Chunqing (Dennis) Jiang

Controls on Regional Distribution Patterns in Prolific Western Interior Shelf Sand Reservoirs: Tocito, El Vado and Gallup Sands of the San Juan Basin

Alexander Cheney, Matthew Huels, Lesli Wood and Khushboo Arora

Cenozoic Tectonic Evolution of Liaodong Dome, Northeast Liaodong Bay, Bohai, Offshore China, Constraints From Seismic Stratigraphy, Vitrinite Reflectance and Apatite Fission Track Data

Yanjun Cheng and Zhiping Wu

Unraveling Fluvial Complexity Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry: An Example From the Salt Wash Member of the Morrison Formation, East-Central Utah

John T. Chesley, Cody Heinze and Andrew Leier

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Point Bar Architecture in the Tidal-Fluvial Transtion of Sittaung River, Myanmar

Kyungsik Choi, Jihye Jeon, Joohee Jo, Jeongung Suk and Dohyeong Kim

Spectral Balancing of Seismic Data Using Spectral Decomposition

Satinder Chopra and Kurt J. Marfurt

Thin Sweet Spots Identification in the Duvernay Formation of North Central Alberta

Satinder Chopra

Predicting Clearwater Formation Natural Fracture Intensity, Athabasca Oil Sands Area

Queena Chou, Andres Altosaar and Kevin Gillen

Use of Sequence Boundaries to Map Siliciclastic Depositional Patterns Across North America

Timothy L. Clarey and Aedan C. Parkes

Sea Level Controls on Deepwater Sedimentation: Lessons From the Quaternary of the Indus Canyon

Peter Clift, Yuting Li, Jerzy Blusztajn and Philipp Böning

Facies Variability in a Large-Scale Mississippi River Point Bar, False River, Louisiana, USA

Peter Clift, Juan Lorenzo, Alexandra Lechnowskyj, Martial Morrison and Elizabeth Olson

Unconventional Gas Potential in the Northern Territory, Australia: Exploring the Beetaloo Sub-Basin

David Close

Clastic Injectites: Fracture Mechanics, Subsurface Architecture, and Implications for Basinal Fluid Flow

Sarah L. Cobain, David Hodgson and Jeff Peakall

Reservoir Geometry of a Confined Fluvial Meander Belt Deposit, Early Cretaceous Grand Rapids Formation, Alberta

Adam B. Coderre, Per K. Pedersen and Stephen M. Hubbard

The Along-Atrike Pattern of Magmatism During Breakup in the Southern South Atlantic: Evidence From Numerical Modelling and Deep Seismic Reflection Data Sets

Jenny Collier, John Armitage, Lidia Lonergan, Chandra Taposeea, Carl McDermott and Paul Bellingham

Compositional Density Porosity: Leveraging Geochemical Data as an Exploration and Petrophysical Tool

Ben Collins, Raphael Wust and Albert Cui

Mixed Wave, Tide and Fluvial-Influenced, Tropical Coastal-Shelf Deposition: Miocene-Recent Baram Delta Province, NW Borneo

Daniel S. Collins, Howard D. Johnson, Peter A. Allison and Alexandros Avdis

Origin of the Raised Rim in the Kashagan Buildup, Kazakhstan: A Hypothesis for Diagenesis Associated With Fractures and Burial Compaction

Joel F. Collins, Gareth D. Jones, Jackson Haffener, Sony R. Mohammad, Marat Nauryzgaliyev and Roza Nursaidova

Quantitative Characterization of the Sedimentary Architecture of Shallow-Marine and Paralic Reservoir Analogs: A Database Approach

Luca Colombera, Nigel P. Mountney, David Hodgson and William D. McCaffrey

Reservoir Modelling Insights From Experimental Stratigraphic Analogs

Sean Connell, Victor Pusca, Richard Sech and Andrew Madof

Ellesmerian Orogenic Structures Beneath Syn-Rift and Post-Rift Strata, Beaufort Shelf and Barrow Arch of Alaska

Christopher D. Connors and David W. Houseknecht

Identifying Causes of Disturbances in the Re-Os Geochronometer in Black Shales: A Case from the Jurassic Agardhfjellet Formation, Svalbard.

Marisa B. Connors, Richard Markey, Judith Hannah and Holly Stein

Stratigraphy and Facies Characterization of the Cenomanian to Turonian Eagle Ford Group in Southwest Texas: Implications for Identifying Potentially Productive Hydrocarbon Pay Zone

Roy A. Conte, Samir Jreij and Michael C. Pope

Insar Monitoring in Heavy Oil Operations

Sara Del Conte, Andrea Tamburini, Andy Higgs, Jessica Morgan, Giacomo Falorni and Marie-Josée Banwell

A Bold Proposal for a Manned Deep Space Mission to Rendezvous With and Sample an Asteroid and a Comet

Douglas J. Cook

The Tectonic Evolution of the Pachitea Sub Basin, Peru and Implications for the Petroleum System

Mark Cooper, Marian Warren, Maggie Stratton, Cinthia Alegría, Jorge Sarmiento and Esteban Gobbo

Miocene-Pliocene Heterozoan-Dominated Systems in the Dominican Republic: Analogs for Neogene Reservoirs in the Caribbean

Elson E. Core, Wilson R. Ramírez, Hernán Santos, Diana Ortega-Ariza and Evan K. Franseen

Correlation, Mapping and Interpretation of Geochemically Distinct Intervals Within the Duvernay Formation

Hilary J. Corlett, Tiffany Playter, Kelsey MacCormack, Dean Rokosh and John Pawlowicz

3-D Thermokinematic Restoration of the Eastern Cordillera and Foothill of Colombia, and Paleogeographies Prediction

Diego Costantino, Douglas Paton and Andrés Mora

Fault Mechanics and Fluid Flow

Gary D. Couples and Helen Lewis

Application of Large-N Detailed Max Depositional Age (MDA) Calculation to Determine Sedimentary Rates of a Deepwater Conduit

Daniel Coutts, Stephen M. Hubbard, William Matthews, Heather Bain and Bernard Guest

Late Cretaceous and Early Cenozoic Exhumation in the Foothills of the Brooks Range-Chukotkan Syntaxis Revealed by Apatite Fission Track Analysis

William Craddock, David W. Houseknecht and Thomas E. Moore

Changes in Eocene Sediment Supply to the Northern Gulf Coast and Implications for Petroleum Systems

William Craddock, James L. Coleman, Marc L. Buursink, Catherine B. Enomoto, Colin A. Doolan and Andrew R. Kylander-Clark

Determining the Time-Averaged Position of the Turbidity Maximum Zone in Major Paleo-Valleys of the McMurray Formation, NE Alberta

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

Basin-Scale Distribution of Organic Matter in Unconventional Plays: Results From 3-D Stratigraphic Modeling of the Montney and Doig Formations (Triassic, Alberta-British Columbia, Canada)

Vincent Crombez, Sebastien Rohais, François Baudin, Tristan Euzen, Benoit Chauveau, Laurent Riquier, Didier Granjeon, Matthew Power, Noga Vaisblat, Nicholas B. Harris and Elisabeth Bemer

Water Retention Characteristics of Sedimentary Rocks and its Application for Characterization of Unconventional Reservoirs and Well Stimulation Optimization

Albert Cui, Cory Twemlow, Brent Nassichuk and Robert Hawkes

From Elemental X-Ray Fluorescence Analyses to Reservoir and Mechanical Properties of Unconventional Reservoirs: A Montney Story

Albert Cui, Raphael Wust, Ken Glover and Brent Nassichuk

Cross-Strike Structures and Hydrocarbon Migration and Accumulation: Examples on the Relationship Between Strike Slip Faults and Lateral Ramps in Three Alpine Thrust Belts

Raffaele di Cuia, Raffaele Bitonte and Paolo Pace

Integration of Geochemical and PVT Data to Evaluate Regional and Well-Level Performance of Shale Liquid Plays: Examples From the Montney, Doig, Charlie Lake and Halfway Formations of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

John B. Curtis, Andrew Mort, Kevin Ferworn and John Zumberge

Identification of Western Canada Sedimentary Basin Petroleum Systems Using Produced Oil Geochemistry

John B. Curtis, John Zumberge and Stephen Brown

Reservoir Facies Impact on Drilling, Completion and Production in the Cardium Tight Oil Play

Rainer D. Czypionka, Dale Gulewicz, Don Keith and Marlon Rey

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A Stratigraphic Model for the Labrador Margin, Offshore Eastern Canada: Integrating Paleoenvironmental Interpretations, Biostratigraphy and Seismic Data

Lynn Dafoe, Graham L. Williams, Kate Dickie and Charlotte Keen

Are Tides Controlled by Latitude?

Robert W. Dalrymple and Laurie Padman

Formation and Evolution of Strandplain Grainstones and Facies Variability Along the Leeward Margin of West Caicos, BWI

Nick Danger, Charles Kerans, Steve Bachtel and Christopher Zahm

The Evolution of Deepwater Slope Systems on Retroarc Foreland Basin Margins: Insights From Detrital Zircon Geochronology, Tres Pasos Formation, Magallanes Basin, Chile

Benjamin G. Daniels, Neal C. Auchter, William Matthews, Stephen M. Hubbard, Brian Romans and Lisa Stright

Unbioturbated Carbonaceous Shales in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway Record Oxic Bottom–Water Conditions

Shahin E. Dashtgard and James MacEachern

Benthic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Morphogroup Response to Spatial and Temporal Variations in Paleo-Redox Conditions Within the Upper Cretaceous Kanguk Formation, Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Marissa A. Davies, Claudia J. Schroder-Adams, Jens O. Herrle, Peter Hülse and Alex Quesnel

Digital Outcrop Model of the Eagle Ford Group, Lozier Canyon, West Texas

Drew Davis, Juan C. Laya, Michael C. Pope, Bruce Hart and Arthur D. Donovan

Southern Gulf of Mexico Paleocene Through Miocene Paleogeography: Investigating Siliciclastic Sedimentation in Mexico Deepwater

Luciana de la Rocha, John W. Snedden and Scott Tinker

Linking Vertical Grain Size Sorting in Turbidity Currents to Grain Size Distribution of Submarine Channel Deposits

Jan de Leeuw, Joris Eggenhuisen, Florian Pohl and Matthieu Cartigny

Quantitative Evaluation and Population Statistics of Point Bar Dimensions, McMurray Formation, Northeastern Alberta

Elinda Dehari and Michael Webb

Characterization, Geo-Modeling, and Reservoir Simulation of the Wabiskaw Member, Athabasca Oil Sands Deposit, Alberta, Canada

Eugene A. Dembicki

Integrating μm-scale δ18O and δ13C SIMS Data Into Sediment Burial Histories: Diagenetic Records of Temperature and Fluid Composition in Illinois Basin Sandstones

Adam C. Denny, Kouki Kitajima, Reinhard Kozdon, Maciej Sliwinski, Michael Spicuzza and John W. Valley

Reflection Seismic Mapping Efforts Along the Scotian Margin: New Results, Challenges, and Enduring Questions

Mark E. Deptuck and Kris L. Kendell

Correlations Between a Mudstone Heterogeneity Index and Micromechanical Properties in the Lower Mancos Shale

Aubry A. DeReuil, Lauren Birgenheier and John McLennan

Rapidly Assessing Materiality and Commerciality in Organic-Rich Mudstones by Linking Geochemical Responses Back to Corresponding Acoustic and Geomechanical Rock Properties

Patricio Desjardins, Christon M. Achong and Oswaldo Davogustto Cataldo

The Truth Behind Microbes and Ooids

Mara R. Diaz, Peter Swart, Gregor P. Eberli, Brian L. Phillips and Pat L. Blackwelder

Connecting the Dots: Correlating Oil Geochemistries (Points) Along and Across the South Atlantic Margins

William Dickson and Craig Schiefelbein

Effect of Precipitation of Asphaltenes on Re-Os Isotopic Ratios

Jenna M. DiMarzio, Svetoslav V. Georgiev, Holly Stein and Judith Hannah

New Insights Into the Volcanic Margin Evolution of Northern Labrador and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of Offshore Labrador

Gulce Dinc, Kyle Reuber and Brian W. Horn

Characteristics and Origin of Source Rocks in the Small Faulted Lacustrine Basin

Xiujian Ding, Ming Zha, Guangdi Liu and Zhilong Huang

Bay du Nord: A Bold Chase for Oil in a Harsh Frontier Basin

Tim Dodson

Can FIB-SEM-EDS Provide Accurate Assessment of Shale Microporosity?

Rona J. Donahoe, Joel A. Legg and Richard L. Martens

Characterizing the Geomechanical Properties in Middle and Upper Devonian Horn River Shale, Northeast British Columbia, Canada

Tian Dong, Nicholas B. Harris and Korhan Ayranci

Deepwater Lobe Complex Characterisation and Evolution Within a Salt-Controlled Mini-Basin

Gemma L. Doughty-Jones, Mike Mayall and Lidia Lonergan

Gravity and Magnetic Investigation of the South-Central Atlantic Margin of the USA (Offshore Florida to South Carolina) and its West African Conjugate Margins (The Gambia to Mauritania)

Naila Dowla, Paul Mann and Dale Bird

Comparison of Crude Oils Found in Mississippian Reservoir Rock and Potential Source Rocks in the Black Warrior Basin, Southeastern United States

Leonard W. Drago, Delores M. Robinson and Yuehan Lu

Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the Cherokee Platform Province Area of Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri

Ronald M. Drake

Transgressive Lag of Flat Rip-up Clasts — Substratum for Initial Growth of Upper Cambrian Large Microbial Bioherms

Andre W. Droxler, Heath H. Hopson, Pankaj Khanna, Jacob M. Proctor, Daniel J. Lehrmann and Paul (Mitch) Harris

Characteristics and Influence Factors of Geotemperature Field in Dongying Sag Jiyang Depression, North China

Zhongfeng Duan

Seismic Modeling of Petrophysical and Stratal Complexity of Isolated Carbonate Platforms

Adrienne M. Duarte, Steven R. Herbst, Hassan A. Eltom and Eugene C. Rankey

Toward a Higher Resolution Understanding of Coarse Grain Fluvial Point Bars as Resolved by GPR

Patrick D. Duff

Constraining the Dynamic Properties of Faults in Compartmentalized Oligocene Mid-Slope Turbidite Channels

Amelie Dufournet and Nick Lagrilliere

What Do More Productive Tight Oil and Gas Wells Mean for the Global Business Environment?

R.T. Dukes

Paleogeography, Burial History, Porosity Development and 35 Years of Production History From the Middle Devonian Slave Point Formation at Slave Field, Near the Peace River Arch, Alberta

John B. Dunham and Nigel Watts

Three-Dimensional Computer Modeling of Realistic Marine CSEM Earth Models in the Flemish Pass Basin

Michael W. Dunham, SeyedMasoud Ansari and Colin G. Farquharson

Grey: De-Risking the Duvernay Formation Oil Window Through an Integrated Core Analytics, Petrographic and Geochemical Approach

Lindsay Dunn, Curtis Fairhurst, Norka Marcano, Chris DeBuhr and Federico F. Krause

Evolution of Fluvial Meander Belt Deposits With Implications for the Completeness of the Stratigraphic Record

Paul Durkin, John Holbrook, Stephen M. Hubbard and Ron Boyd

Stratigraphic Evidence for Major Shifts in Meander Bend Planform Morphology: Examples From Late Cretaceous Meander Belt Deposits of Southern Alberta

Paul Durkin, Dale Leckie, Stephen M. Hubbard, Ron Boyd and John Holbrook

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Carbonate Drifts and Contourites and the Underestimated Role of Current Erosion and Winnowing

Gregor P. Eberli, Christian Betzler, Thomas Lüdmann, Thiago Correa, Anna H. Ling and Dierk Hebbeln

Event Deposition in Shales — Woodford Shale, Oklahoma, USA, and Bjørkåsholmen Formation, Sweden

Sven Egenhoff, Neil Fishman, Per Ahlberg, Joerg Maletz and Stanley T. Paxton

An Overlooked Devonian Sequence — Sea-Level Changes During Middle Bakken Member Deposition, and the Importance of Clastic Dykes in the Lower Bakken Shale, North Dakota, USA

Sven Egenhoff

A Tight Carbonate Reservoir in the Mississippian Pekisko Formation: The Role of Pervasive Microvuggy Porosity

Lauren Eggie, Nancy Chow and John Miller

Chemical-Mechanical Interactions in Natural Fracture Growth

Peter Eichhubl, Stephen E. Laubach, Jon E. Olson, Andras Fall, Zhiqiang Fan, Jon Major, Owen Callahan, Xiaofeng Chen, Yaser A. Alzayer and Natchanan Doungkaew

Chemostratigraphy of the Woodford Shale, McAlister Cemetery Quarry, Ardmore Basin, Oklahoma

Ifunanya C. Ekwunife, Bryan W. Turner and Roger Slatt

Time-Lapse Gravity and Gravity Gradient Reservoir Monitoring

E Judith Elliott and Alexander Braun

Development and Calibration of New Natural Gas δ13C and δ2H Reference Standards

Geoffrey S. Ellis, Robert F. Dias and Dennis D. Coleman

Tight Oil Unconventionals: Better Reservoir and Performance Understanding Resulting in a Novel Development Ranking Methodology Achieving Higher Recovery Through Dynamic Sweet-Spots Modeling

Emad A. Elrafie

Predicting Gas Production in the Marcellus Shale From Sedimentological and Tectono-Stratigraphical Variations in East Lycoming, NE Pennsylvania, USA

Olusanmi O. Emmanuel and Kevin Rath

Regional Correlation of Facies Within the Haynesville Formation From Onshore Alabama: Analysis and Implications for Provenance and Paleo-Structure

Caleb W. Essex, Delores M. Robinson, Amy Weislogel and David Barbeau

Liquid Dropout In Gas Condensate Reservoirs: A Pore Scale Approach

Sahand Etemad, Kantzas Apostolos and Hejazi Hossein

Sedimentology and Geochemistry of the Heavy Oil Bearing Leduc Formation of East-Central Alberta: New Insights Into a Historic Formation

Nick Ettinger, Walter Loogman and Noel P. James

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Geomechanical Analysis of Fluid Injection and Seismic Fault Slip for the M4.8 Timpson, Texas, Earthquake

Zhiqiang Fan, Peter Eichhubl and Julia F. Gale

A Process-Based Approach That Integrates Sequence Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Facies and Landform Analysis for the Early Pleistocene Surry Paleoshoreline Complex: An Analog for Potential Reservoirs — Atlantic Continental Margin, North Carolina, USA

Kathleen M. Farrell, W. B. Harris and Katie L. Cummings

Structural Inheritance During Normal Fault Growth in Multi-Phase Rifts: A Case Study From the Northern North Sea

Hamed Fazlikhani, Haakon Fossen, Robert Gawthorpe, Rebecca Bell, Christopher Jackson and Atle Rotevatn

Data Mining Methodologies to Reduce the Uncertainty of Reservoir Selection

Jin Fei, Jeffrey Yarus and Richard Chambers

Genetic Classification of Natural Fractures: A Key to Understand Flow in Kashagan Field

Fermin Fernandez-Ibanez, James M. DeGraff and Farkhat Ibrayev

Depositional Model for Shale Gas Deposits of the Besa River Formation in Liard Basin, British Columbia

Filippo Ferri, Margot McMechan, Robert Creaser and Richard Friedman

Influence of Tectonic Setting on Borehole-Scale Deformation Around the Margins of the Permian Basin (Texas, USA)

David A. Ferrill, Sarah Wigginton, Kevin J. Smart, Ronald N. McGinnis and Alan P. Morris

Tectonic Controls on Cenomanian and Turonian Deltas in the Western Cordilleran Foreland Basin of Wyoming and Utah, USA

Christopher Fielding, Andrew Hutsky and Jesse Korus

Facies and Stratigraphic Analysis of the Permian Succession in the Denison Trough, SW Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia

Christopher Fielding, Kerrie Bann and Michael Martin

The Influence of the Relative Orientation of Multi-Phase Rifting on Fault Growth and Interaction

Emma Finch and Robert Gawthorpe

Integrating Sedimentology and Ichnology in the Beacon Supergroup, Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica to Clarify Paleoenvironmental Interpretations and Refine Basin Analysis

Peter P. Flaig, Stephen T. Hasiotis, Adam Jackson and Dolores A. van der Kolk

Improved Satellite Gravity Data: Enhanced Tool for Structural Interpretation

Kirsten Fletcher, Chris Green, Stan Mazur and Josmat Rodriguez

NMR Cryoporometry: An Alternate Non-Destructive Technique for the Measurement of Pore Size Distribution in Shales (Presented by W. Sassi)

Marc Fleury and Eric Kohler

Western Canada Resource Plays: The Phoenix Awaits

Meridee Fockler and Ben McKenzie

Cenozoic Evolution of the Magallanes-Austral Basin and Patagonian Fold-Thrust Belt: A Tale of Inheritance and Sediment Recycling

Julie Fosdick, Theresa M. Schwartz, Brian Romans, Rsme Ali, Joel S. Leonard, J E. Bostelmann, Raúl Ugalde Peralta, Anne Bernhardt and Stephan A. Graham

Petroleum Systems of the Scotian Basin

Martin Fowler, Jamie Webb, Mark Obermajer, Frederic Monnier, Andy Mort, Matt Luheshi and Adam MacDonald

Petro-Tourism: Canada's First Commercial Use of Natural Gas

Andrew Fox

Diagenetic Pathways in Heterozoan Carbonates

Tracy D. Frank

Critical Factors for Optimum SAGD Well Placement and Liner Design in Lithic Sandstones

Kelli Fraser, Daniel Nugent, Jennifer C. Russel-Houston, Shawna Christensen and Ken Gray

The Falkland Plateau Basin Linked Shelf to Deepwater Depositional Systems — Controlling Mechanisms, Stratigraphic Packaging and Petroleum Potential

Carmen M. Fraticelli, Yusri Yusri, Scott Miller, Scotty Salamoff, Donald J. Yezerski, Jessica A. Mercer, Jerry Reece, John Bova and Juan Gomez

Rift Basin Characteristics Originating From Antecedent Tectonic Events — Intricacies of the Falkland Plateau

Carmen M. Fraticelli, Donald J. Yezerski, Jessica A. Mercer, Yusri Yusri, Scotty Salamoff, Jerry Reece, Emma R. Hyde and John Bova

The North Falkland Basin: An Extension of the Petrolific South Atlantic Lacustrine Rift Plays

Carmen M. Fraticelli, Tim Russell, Jerry Reece, Dalton Hawkins, Jessica A. Mercer, David Curry, Emma R. Hyde, Yusri Yusri and Katherine Watter

Resource Play Potential of the Phosphoria Formation in Western Wyoming

Rick Fritz

Planning for Success in Colombia

B.R. Frost

Bioturbation Influence on Permeability Distribution within the Lower Triassic Montney Formation of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Carolyn M. Furlong, Felicia Alexander, Aimee Gegolick, Murray Gingras, Donald Prenoslo, Shelby C. Sanders and John-Paul Zonneveld

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Bedding-Parallel Fractures in Shales

Julia F. Gale, Estibalitz Ukar, Qiqi Wang and Sara J. Elliott

Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Douglas Creek Member in the Green River Formation, Main Canyon, Uinta Basin, Utah

Ryan D. Gall and Lauren Birgenheier

Let's Make Outcrops Recover Their Value, Understanding the Rock on the Surface for Predicting Into the Subsurface: Woodford Shale Case Study, Ardmore Basin, Oklahoma

Henry A. Galvis-Portilla, Daniela Becerra-Rondon and Roger Slatt

The Trapping Temperature and Pressure of High Density Methane Inclusions in the Jiaoshiba Shale Gas Field, Sichuan Basin, Central China

Jian Gao and Sheng He

Fluid Inclusion and Isotope Studies of Calcite Veins in Shizhu Synclinorium, Central China: Record of Origin of Fluids and Diagenetic Conditions

Jian Gao and Sheng He

Paleocene-Early Eocene Sedimentation and Depositional Environment in the Washakie Basin, Southwestern Wyoming, USA: Implications for Tectonic Evolution During the Overlapped Sevier and Laramide Orogenies

Min Gao and Majie Fan

Attribute-Assisted Automatic Fault Extraction — A Case Study in a Tectonically Complex Area Offshore East Coast of Canada

Hugo M. Garcia, Jon Dexter and Richard Martin

The Playa Lake Depositional Model for the Three Forks Fm

Beatriz Garcia-Fresca and Daniel Pinkston

Remote Well Site Biostratigraphy and Advances in Automated Fossil Analysis

Gunilla Gard, Iain Prince, Jason A. Crux and Bernard Lee

High Resolution Basin Modeling Insight Into Syndepositional Permian Reef Architecture Through Integrated Lidar-XRF Analysis, Slaughter Canyon, New Mexico

Kathryn N. Garrett, John D. Pigott and Kulwadee L. Pigott

Deepwater Syn-Rift Sedimentation: Tectonic Geomorphology and Sedimentology From the Modern and Plio-Pleistocene of the Corinth Rift, Greece

Robert Gawthorpe, Mike Leeder, Martin Muravchik, Haralambos Kranis, Emmanuel Skourtsos and Julian Andrews

Stratigraphic Architecture and Sedimentology in Relation to the Mid-Montney Sequence Boundary in Northeast British Columbia

Aimee Gegolick, Carolyn M. Furlong, Murray Gingras, Donald Prenoslo, Shelby C. Sanders and John-Paul Zonneveld

Pore Throat Size of Canadian Tight Oil and Liquid-Rich Gas Reservoirs: Implications for Hydrocarbon Transport

Amin Ghanizadeh, Christopher R. Clarkson, Samuel Aquino, Hanford Deglint, Christopher Debuhr, Atena Vahedian and Federico F. Krause

A New Concept of RMF as Create the Relation Between Facies and Rock Mechanic: A Case Study From Asmari Reservoir

Sajjad Gharechelou, Abdolhossein Amini and Ziba Hosseini

De-Risking Jurassic and Cretaceous Leads With the Integrated Interpretation of 3-D EM, 2-D Seismic and Well Data in North Flemish Pass Basin, East Canada

Anne Marit Oestvedt Ghazi, Xianghong Wu, Svein Ellingsrud and William M. Spindler

Comparing High Resistivity Zones in Well Logs in Hydrocarbon Producing Intervals in Continuous Resource Plays of the Eagle Ford Shale, Woodbine Formation and Tuscaloosa Marine Shale in the Gulf Coast Region

Nicholas J. Gianoutsos and Russell F. Dubiel

Bioturbated Inclined Heterolithic Stratification in the McMurray Formation: Origins and Distributions

Murray Gingras and Mike Ranger

3-D Palinspastic Reconstruction of Prograding Units Oblique to the Tectonic Transport: An Analysis of the Early-Middle Jurassic Cuyo Gr. in the Aguada Toledo Anticline, Neuquén Basin (Argentina)

David Giunta, Josep Poblet and Jose L. Massaferro

Improved Geology-Based Geomechanical Models Using Drill Cuttings Data for Selective Fracture Stage Placement in the Montney, Duvernay and Beyond

Ken Glover, Albert Cui, Jason Tucker and Brent Nassichuk

The Behavior of Fractures and Weak Planes in Response to Thermal and Mechanical Stress Changes During Drilling, Fracturing and Production

Ken Glover, Albert Cui, Ali Ziarani and Arshad Islam

Temporal Variation in U-Pb Geochronology of the Norphlet Formation in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico, Mobile Bay: Connection Between Sediment Provenance and Reservoir Quality

Sonnet W. Gomes, Amy Weislogel, Delores M. Robinson and David Barbeau

Deep Crustal Structure and Tectonostratigraphy at the Leading Edge of the Caribbean in Basins Offshore Barbados and Tobago: New Insights From 2-D Gravity Modeling and 2-D Seismic Data

Shenelle Gomez, Paul Mann and Dale Bird

High Resolution Sedimentological and Trace Metal Analysis of Late Paleozoic and Cretaceous Mudstones: Preliminary Results From the Baxter Formation, Rock Spring Uplift, WY

Joao C. Luna Gonzalez and Lauren Birgenheier

Elemental Geochemistry of Some Canadian Oil Shale

Fariborz Goodarzi, Per K. Pedersen and Hamed Sanei

A Note on Migration of Hydrocarbon Into Oil Shale Related to Tectonics, New Brunswick, Canada

Fariborz Goodarzi, Hamed Sanei and Per K. Pedersen

Discrete Fracture Network Construction Using Microseismic Observations

Sebastian D. Goodfellow, Shawn Maxwell, Melanie Grob and Drew Chorney

Unlocking Whole Core CT Data for Advanced Description and Analysis

Andrew Govert, Brendon Hall and Eric Jones

Controls on and Consequences of Upper Permian Carbonate Platform Margin Palaeomorphology in the Southern North Sea

Ross J. Grant, John R. Underhill, Rachel Jamieson and Steve M. Barker

Thin Section Analysis of a Mississippian Cored Interval for Incorporation to Reservoir and Depositional Models (McPherson County, Kansas, USA)

John H. Green and Hendratta N. Ali

Predicting Clay Mineralogy Distribution in Deeply Buried Sandstone Reservoirs Using a Modern Estuarine Analogue Approach

Joshua Griffiths, Richard Worden, Luke J. Wooldridge, James Utley and Robert Duller

Using Radiogenic Noble Gas Isotopes to Characterize Subsurface Hydrocarbon Migration

Benjamin S. Grove, Talor B. Walsh and Thomas Darrah

Exploration Risk Assessment Using Forward Stratigraphic Modelling: Flemish Pass Basin, NL, Canada

Erwan Le Guerroué, Jonathan Pitz, Paul Jermannaud, Pierre-Yves Chenet, Erin Gillis, James Carter, Ian Atkinson, David McCallum and Richard Wright

Baja-BC Resolved: Detrital Zircons Indicate That Vancouver Island was Adjacent to Southern California in the Late Cretaceous

Bernard Guest, William Matthews, Daniel Coutts, Heather Bain and Stephen M. Hubbard

Differential Hydrocarbon Charge and Accumulation in the Thrust and Slope Belts in the Kuqa Foreland Basin, Western China

Li L. Gui, Keyu Liu, Mengjun Zhao and Qin G. Zhuo

3D-Basin Modelling of the Lishui Sag: Research of Hydrocarbon Potential, Petroleum Generation and Migration

Jiaqi Guo and Jinliang Zhang

An Integrated Study of Core and Well Log Data to Characterize Oil Sands in a Research Wellbore at Kearl Mine

Pingjun Guo, Sam Zheng and Michael Nicholis

Miocene Ash Beds in The Central Gulf of Mexico: Case Study and Analysis

Mario A. Gutierrez, Jose I. Guzman and Derek Sawyer

Interrelationship Between Coalbed Methane (CBM) and Produced Ground Water in Lephalale Basin, South Africa

Zamazangwa I. Gxaba, Thokozani Kanyerere and Kevin Pietersen

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Fluid Substitution Modeling to Determine Sensitivity of Time-Lapse 3-D Vertical Seismic Profile Data to Injected CO₂

Kimberley Haar and Robert Balch

Vitrinite Reflectance Suppression: Fact or Fiction in Low Maturity Paleozoic Shales

Paul Hackley and Gregory Baugher

Porosity Distribution in the Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy Framework: A Case Study from Platform Margin in Lianglitag Formation of Upper Ordovician, Tazhong Area, Tarim Basin, NW China

Qu Haizhou, Wang Zhenyu, Pan Wenqing, Zhang Yunfeng, Zhang Zhenghong and Wang Xi

Treatment of Grey Water Using Jordanian Natural Zeolites

Nida'a A. Hammad

Sedimentologic and Paleoceanographic Controls of Anoxia in the Holocene Cariaco Basin (Venezuela): Implications for Control of Deposition of Cretaceous (Eagle Ford) and Jurassic (Haynesville) Source Rocks in Texas

Ursula Hammes, Kelly Gibson and Larry Peterson

Re-Os Systematics in Petroleum Systems: What Are We Measuring

Judith Hannah and Holly Stein

Characterization of the Cretaceous in the Sable Sub-Basin, Offshore Nova Scotia, by Detailed Stratigraphic and Sedimentological Analysis to Determine Source Rock and Correlation to Worldwide Oceanic Anoxic Events

Anne C. Hargreaves, Neil Watson, Grant Wach and Ricardo Silva

What Difference Does a Eustatic Curve Make?

Ashley D. Harris, Jake Covault, Martin Perlmutter, Zoltan Sylvester, Tao Sun and Didier Granjeon

Anoxia and Euxinia (or not) in an Upper Devonian Black Shale: Woodford Shale, Permian Basin, West Texas

Nicholas B. Harris, Miroslaw Slowakiewicz, Richard Pancost and Sheven Poole

The Role of Islands in Influencing Carbonate Platform-Top Deposition

Paul (Mitch) Harris and Sam Purkis

Using Outcrop, Subsurface and Modern Day Analogues to Predict Basin-Scale Alluvial Architecture for a Range of Tectonic and Climatic Settings

Adrian Hartley, Amanda Owen and Gary Weissmann

Ichnofossils of a Wet Desert Depositional System, Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, Southeastern Utah

Stephen T. Hasiotis, Juith Parrish and Marjorie A. Chan

Review of Limestone Microporosity Occurrence Through the Phanerozoic Eon

Franciszek J. Hasiuk and Stephen E. Kaczmarek

Regional Subsurface Mapping of the Clearwater Formation, Lower Cretaceous, Northeast Alberta

Ben Hathway

Regional-Scale Modelling of the Paleozoic Succession Beneath the Athabasca and Cold Lake Oil Sands Areas: Devonian Paleogeography, Evaporite Dissolution, and Controls on Cretaceous Depositional Patterns on the Sub-Cretaceous Unconformity

Tyler E. Hauck, Jesse Peterson, Ben Hathway, Matthias Grobe and Kelsey MacCormack

Intrastratal Dedolomite and Secondary Gypsum in the Prairie Evaporite Formation of Northeastern Alberta: Diagenesis in a Carbonate-Sulphate System

Tyler E. Hauck, Hilary J. Corlett and Matthias Grobe

Application of Hyperspectral Imaging for the Detection of Coal in Oil Sand Drill Core

Paulina Hauf, Benoit Rivard, Russell P. Stancliffe and Michelle Speta

Lobe Sub-Structure in Deep-Sea Fan Systems — The Distinction Between Accommodation-Limited and Compensational-Stacking Patterns

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

Comparing Basin-Centred Gas Prospectivity in the Bowen-Surat Basin (Queensland, Australia) With the Deep Basin of Western Canada and the Piceance Basin of Utah

Brad J. Hayes, Peter Nicholls, Kathleen Dorey, Rodney Bresnahan, William McDougall and Chris Wickens

Application of Geophysical Technologies Assemblage in Evaluation of Deepwater Fields in the Northern South China Sea

Min He, Jun Shen, Ming Zhu and Jun Liu

All Models Are Wrong — Some Are Useful

Zhiyong He

An Integrated Chemostratigraphic and Magnetic Study of the Wolfcamp Formation, Midland Basin, Texas: What Can These Tools Tell Us About Sequence Stratigraphy and Fabric Anisotropy?

Gerhard Heij, Bryan W. Turner and Richard D. Elmore

Oil Sands Pioneers: How Scientists and Entrepreneurs Made the Unconventional More “Conventional”

Frances J. Hein

Assessing and Calibrating the ATR-FTIR and CL-EDX Approaches as Carbonate Reservoir Characterization Tools and for Diagenetic Applications

Delano Henry, Cedric M. John, Jonathan Watson and Carl Jacquemyn

Reservoir Architecture of Deep Marine Deposits in a Rift Basin: An Outcrop Study From East Greenland

Gijs A. Henstra, Atle Rotevatn, Sten-Andreas Grundvåg, Ivar Midtkandal and Thomas Berg Kristensen

Fault Interactions in an Experimental Model with Two Phases of Non-Coaxial Extension: Insights From Displacement Profiles

Alissa A. Henza, Martha O. Withjack and Roy W. Schlische

Siliciclastic and Tectonic Controls on Carbonate Distribution Within the Early Cambrian Mount Clark Formation, Mackenzie Mountains, Northwest Territories, Canada

David Herbers, Murray Gingras, Brad A. Bobey, Maya LaGrange Rao and Brette Harris

Simulating Geochemical Fluid-Rock Interactions at the Fracture-Fluid Interface for a Shut-In Well

Ryan Herz-Thyhsen and John Kaszuba

Southeast Offshore Storage Resource Assessment: Opportunities in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico for CO₂ Storage

Denise J. Hills, Jack C. Pashin and Marcella R. McIntyre-Redden

Multi-Pulsed Turbidity Currents — Flow Dynamics and Geological Implications

Viet Luan Ho, Robert Dorrell, Gareth Keevil, Alan Burns and William D. McCaffrey

Complex Fluvial-Lacustrine Interactions as Revealed by Outcrop to Subsurface Analysis of the Renegade Tongue, Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Marta Hodan, Jianqiao Wang and Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Shale Exploration at the Arctic Circle, the Devonian Canol Formation Canada: Exploration Concept to a Drilled Reality

J. Hogg

Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Sappington Formation: Validating Sappington Outcrops as an Exposed Analog for the Bakken Subsurface

John C. Hohman, George W. Grader, Paul T. Doughty, John M. Guthrie, Aaron Rodriguez and Richard T. Beaubouef

Diagenetically Controlled Porosity Modification Within a Sour Gas Reservoir, UAE

Cathy Hollis, Matthieu Deville de Periere, David Lawrence and Mohamed Al Mansouri

Continental-Marine Correlations and Climate Signals in the Palaeogene Foreland of the South Pyrenees, Spain

Louis Honegger, Sebastien Castelltort, Julian Clark, Thierry Adatte, Cai Puigdefabregas, Mason Dykstra, Andrea Fildani and Jorge Spangenberg

The Hartselle Sandstone, Alabama's Oil Sands Resource

Christopher H. Hooks, Denise J. Hills and Marcella R. McIntyre-Redden

Cryptic Migrating Depocentres in a Mudstone-Dominated Succession: Coniacian Muskiki and Marshybank Members, Central Alberta Plains and Foothills, Western Canada Foreland Basin

Elizabeth Hooper and Guy Plint

Distinct Growth Phases of an Upper Cambrian Microbial Reef Complex; Depositional Environment Indicators (James River, Mason County, Texas)

Heath H. Hopson, Pankaj Khanna, Jacob M. Proctor, Andre W. Droxler, Daniel J. Lehrmann and Paul (Mitch) Harris

Wet Avulsion Sequences in the Cretaceous-Paleogene Raton Formation, Colorado

Robert J. Horner and John Holbrook

Foreland Basin Record of Advancing and Retreating Subduction in the Andes

Brian K. Horton and Facundo Fuentes

Dinkum Graben System Beneath the Alaska Beaufort Shelf — Evidence for Mississippian to Early Cretaceous Extension, and Petroleum Systems Implications

David W. Houseknecht and Christopher D. Connors

Evolution of Prograding Channels and Relation to Splay Deltas: Geomorphology and Reservoir Characteristics From the Red River Delta in Lake Texoma

Tyler Howe and John Holbrook

Global Classification of Shallow Marine Systems

John Howell and Bjorn Nyberg

A Novel Model of Brittleness Evaluation for Unconventional Reservoirs Based on Energy Consumption

Yuan Hu and Zhangxin Chen

A Novel Model of Brittleness Index for Unconventional Reservoirs: Confining Pressure and Pore Pressure Effect

Yuan Hu and Zhangxin Chen

Effect of Temperature on Brittleness Evaluation of Unconventional Reservoirs

Yuan Hu, Zhangxin Chen and Kaiyuan Chen

Shale Mechanics of Growth Faults in Deltaic Parasequences of the Cretaceous Ferron Notom Delta of Utah, USA

Chuqiao Huang and Janok P. Bhattacharya

Mass Fraction Maturity — Next Generation Geochemical Constraint of Basin Models

Haiping Huang, Jingping Ma, Ranya Algeer and Steve Larter

Accommodation, Sediment Provenance and Paleo-Drainage on the Basal Cretaceous Unconformity Across the Canadian Western Interior Basin

Stephen M. Hubbard, Dale Leckie, Garrett M. Quinn, Benjamin G. Daniels, William Matthews and Bernard Guest

Source Within the Seal: Organic-Rich Shales Within the Onion Creek Diapir, Moab, UT

Samuel M. Hudson, Trevor Tuttle and Matthew Wood

Progressive Burial Diagenesis of the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation, Denver Basin, Colorado

John D. Humphrey, Lindsay Hefton and Steve Sonnenberg

High-Resolution Geochemistry and Petrography of a Miocene Succession From the Central Argentinian Foreland (Mendoza Province, Argentina): A Compositional Approach to Deciphering Forcing Factors

Gabriel Hunger, Dario Ventra and Andrea Moscariello

Characterization of Carbonates Through High Definition Borehole Images: Examples from Texas & Oklahoma (presented by D. Andjelkovic and T. Hunt)

Tim Hunt, John Speight, Huabo Liu, Valentina Vallega and Don Christensen

Patterns of Sediment Dispersal and Accumulation Basinward of a Large-Scale Inflection in Slope Angle; Cutoff Fm. and Avalon Trend, Delaware Basin

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

Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Record and Facies Stacking Pattern of the Subsurface Red River Formation in Eastern North Dakota

Antun Husinec

The Application of δ13Corg Stable Isotope Chronostratigraphy to Correlate Upper Palaeozoic Black Shales of the Northwestern Frontier, Yukon Territory, Canada

Matt Hutchison, Nicholas Sullivan, Tiffani Fraser and Gemma V. Hildred

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Stratigraphic Effects of Precambrian Basement Influence on Marine to Non-Marine Facies Distribution in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin, Upper Cretaceous, Southern Alberta

Mahadia I. Ibrahim and Guy Plint

Stochastic Multiscale Electrofacies Classification of Well Logs: A Case Study From North Slope, Alaska

Mustafa A. Al Ibrahim and Tapan Mukerji

Geomechanical Analysis of the Three Forks Formation and Implications for Oil Recovery

Ryan Idzior, Ursula Hammes, Beatriz Garcia-Fresca and Scott Tinker

Multi-Component Characterization of Carbonate Reservoirs

Killian C. Ikwuakor and Agoro Abdulraheem

Lithology Estimation From Seismic Inversion and Attributes, Application to the Netherlands Offshore F3 Block

Erick J. Illidge, Jorge Camargo and Carlos Pimentel

Seismic Analysis of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Distribution in the Woodford Shale, Oklahoma, USA

Lennon Infante, Felipe Cardona, Roger Slatt and Brenton McCullogh

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Impact of Heterogeneous Storm Event Deposits on Fluid Flow Behaviour of Late Jurassic Arab-D Reservoir, Saudi Arabia

Carl Jacquemyn, Matthew D. Jackson, Gary J. Hampson, Cedric M. John, Dave Cantrell, Rainer Zühlke, AbdulJaleel A. AbuBshait and Robert F. Lindsay

Evolution From Confined to Relatively Unconfined Strata in a Distal Slope Setting, Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia

Sarah Jancuska, Brian Romans, Neal C. Auchter, Stephen M. Hubbard and Lisa Stright

Distribution of Arenites (Fernie Sand) in the Jurassic Fernie Formation in Northeastern British Columbia, Canada

Ed Janicki

Madison Group Source Rocks, Williston Basin, USA

Daniel M. Jarvie, Julie Lefever and Stephan H. Nordeng

Foram Farming: Calibration of the Foraminiferal Paleo-Thermometer to Estimate Deep-Time Glacioeustasy

Deserae Jennings and Franciszek J. Hasiuk

Weyburn Oilfield Core Assessment Investigating Cores From Pre and Post CO₂ Injection; Determining the Impact of CO₂ on the Reservoir

Gavin Jensen

Petroleum Hydrogeology of Saskatchewan

Gavin Jensen and Ben Rostron

MinC(%) Parameter From Rock-Eval 6 Analysis as a Reliable and Cost-Effective Measurement of Carbonate Contents in Shale

Chunqing (Dennis) Jiang, Zhuoheng Chen, Pavel Kabanov and Denis Lavoie

Bakken Oil-Generation Kinetics by Hydrous Pyrolysis and its Testing in 1-D Model

Hui Jin, Michael Lewan and Steve Sonnenberg

Impact of Poro-Elastic Coupling and Stress Shadowing on Injection-Induced Microseismicity in Reservoirs Embedded With Discrete Fracture Networks

Lei Jin and Mark D. Zoback

Time-Depth Modeling in High Pore-Pressure Environment, Offshore East Coast of India

Nidhi Jindal

Quantitative Evaluation of Microporosity in Arab D Carbonates of Saudi Arabia: Impact on Reservoir Quality

Tiffany D. Jobe, Sebastian Geiger and Zeyun Jiang

Temporal Evolution of Submarine Channel Trajectory and Mobility: Quantitative Analysis and Comparison to Rivers

Zane R. Jobe, Neal C. Auchter and Nick Howes

Recognizing Decoupled Controls on Accommodation and Sediment Supply, and the Importance of Axial Drainages in Foreland Basins: Adventures in Stratigraphic Correlation From the Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation of the Kaiparowits Plateau, Southern Utah

Cari L. Johnson

Impacts of Depositional Processes on Reservoir Quality in Tidally-Influenced Lithofacies of the Upper Cretaceous John Henry Member, Straight Cliffs Formation, Southern Utah

Cory Johnson, Lisa Stright, Cari L. Johnson, John Comer and Tiziana Vanorio

Controlling Factors and Mechanisms in the Formation of a Muddy-Normal Point Bar: A 3-D Architectural-Element Analysis of a Heterolithic Point Bar in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada

Shelby Johnston, John Holbrook and Blake Warwick

Flow-Based Model Assisted Characterization of Sub-Seismic Karst

Gareth D. Jones

Preservation of Thick, Transgressive Shallow-Marine Successions in a Forearc Basin; Nanaimo Basin, British Columbia

Macy Jones and Shahin E. Dashtgard

Calibration of Fracture Models Using Multi-Scale Outcrop Analogues — The Importance of Mechanical Stratigraphy

Richard R. Jones, Jonathan J. Long, Sotirios Kokkalas and Susie E. Daniels

Physical Modeling of a Prograding Delta on a Mobile Substrate

Eunsil Jung and Wonsuck Kim

Base Level Control on the Sequence Patterns of Ancient Low-Stand Meandering Valley of Middle Jurassic Shaximiao Formation in the Western Sichuan Depression

Liu Junlong, Ji Youliang, Wang Tianyun and Li Zhicheng

Soyatal Formation and Related Strata: Onset of Sedimentation in the Cretaceous Foreland-Basin System, Central Mexico

Edgar Juárez-Arriaga, Timothy F. Lawton and Daniel F. Stockli

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A Case for Caution When Using Geochemical Models to Make Predictions About Dolomite

Stephen E. Kaczmarek, Fiona F. Whitaker, Mike Avila, David Lewis and Peter J. Saccocia

Diagenetic History and Reservoir Quality of the Phacoides Sandstone, Temblor Formation, McKittrick Oil Field, California

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Time-Lapse Imaging of Heavy Oil Reservoirs at Shallow and Deep Using Ultra-Stable Seismic Sources

Junzo Kasahara

Allochthonous Paleogene Carbonates of Paxos Island (Ionian Islands, Greece) Reflect a Complex History of Nearby Platform Evolution and Destruction

Marianna Kati, Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel, Peter Scholle and Dana S. Ulmer-Scholle

4-D Evolution of the Hat Creek Fault, Northern California: An Outcrop Analog for Seismic-Scale, Polyphase, Segmented Normal Faults

Simon A. Kattenhorn, Erin L. Walker, Bob Krantz and Matthew W. Blakeslee

Expulsion and Migration Associated with Unconventional Petroleum Systems

Barry J. Katz, Irene Arango and Frederic Frasse

Microbial Matter and Diagenesis in Organic-Rich Mudrock: An SEM and LA-ICP-MS Study

Dave Keighley and Chris McFarlane

Porosity Calculation From Core in the Montney Formation: A New Approach

David Kelly, John Nieto, Albert Cui, Cory Twemlow and Brent Nassichuk

Spatial and Temporal Variability of Methane Emissions Near Coal Seam Gas Fields Associated With Base Level and Anthropogenic Sources

Martin J. Kennedy, Murray Hamilton, Michael Hatch and Vincent Robert

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Martin J. Kennedy, Stefan Loehr and Natalie Debenham

Stratigraphic Evolution of an Icehouse Strandplain System — West Caicos, BWI

Charles Kerans, Christopher Zahm, Steve Bachtel, Josh Lambert, Nick Danger and Andrea Nolting

Understanding the Implications of Changes in Shale Geomechanical Properties With Fracturing Fluid

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A Paleobiological Approach to Modeling Giant Dolomite Reservoirs in Mississippian Outer Ramp Carbonates, Upper Midale Beds, Weyburn Oilfield, Saskatchewan

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Back Analysis of Joslyn Failure Using DEM Geomechanical Model

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Uppermost Pleistocene Coralgal Reefs and Upper Cambrian Microbial Bioherms: Morphologies and Sea Level-Induced Evolution

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Predicting Fracture Network Characteristics in Unconventional Plays in Frontier Basins Using 3-D Seismic Data and Structural Modeling

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Geology of the Mount Stephen Trilobite Beds and Adjacent Strata Field B.C., Yoho National Park — Exploration Ramifications From New Insights on a 129 Year Old Discovery

V A. Kimmel

A Long-Lived Compound Incised Mega-Valley in the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah

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Quantitative Clinoform Characterization — Triassic Barents Sea Offshore Northern Norway

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Progradational and Backstepping Shoreface Deposits in the Ladinian to Early Norian Snadd Formation of the Barents Sea

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The Online Mapping Revolution: Using Free and Open-Source Geospatial Workflows to Keep Multidisciplinary Teams Working Together and In-Sync

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Depositional Controls on the Distribution and Character of Organic-Rich Mudstones: A Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of the Duvernay Formation of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

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Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Muddy Coastline and Estuarine Bay Deposition in West Central Alberta

Stefan T. Knopp, Federico F. Krause, Terry P. Poulton and Edward H. Davies

Origin, Description and Characterization of Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Pore Networks, Karnes County, Texas

Lucy Tingwei Ko, Robert G. Loucks and Stephen C. Ruppel

Sedimentological Controls on Natural Fracture Networks in the Turonian Second White Specks Formation, Highwood River, Southwestern Alberta

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Feasibility Study of CO₂ Enhanced Shale Gas Recovery

Bing Kong

Coal Seam Gas Content Controlling Factors and its Trends in Eastern Surat Basin

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Using SARA Data to Reduce Uncertainty About the Type of Petroleum Fluid in the Woodford Formation and the Meramec Formation in the Anadarko Basin and the Arkoma Basin

Alan S. Kornacki and Doran B. Eddins

Evidence Some Oil Accumulations in the Woodford Formation and the Meramec Formation Received an Additional Charge of Dry Thermal Gas

Alan S. Kornacki and Jeremy E. Dahl

Multi-Scale Interpretation of Electrical Resistivity Measurements in the Presence of Complex Pore Structure and Anisotropy

Abdelrahman Kotb, Artur Posenato Garcia and Zoya Heidari

Desiccation Cracks: Microbially Induced Compared to Sterilized Sediment

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Study on the Efficiency of Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Field for Heat Treatment of Heavy Oil and Bitumen

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Learning From the 2013 3-D Interpretation AAPG Hedberg Conference: How Geoscientists See 3-D

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The Unconventional Resource Potential of the Pennsylvanian Leo/Minnelusa Formations of the Powder River and Denver Basins

Anthony Kratochvil, Michael Cheng, Andy Brickell and Roy Fitzsimmons

Fold-Thrust Interactions in the Canadian Rocky Mountains Revisited — A New Kinematic Model and its Implications for Other Shallow Fold-Thrust Belts

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Western Interior Seaway (WIS) — Upper Turonian-Lower Coniacian Chronostratigraphy and Sequence Stratigraphy: Significance of E/T Disconformities, Relative Sea-Level Oscillations and Eustasy in the Cardium and Niobrara Formations

Federico F. Krause and Wayne F. Braunberger

Fresh Water Hydration and Wetting/Flooding Experiments on Cardium Formation Arenites, Wackes and Mudstones Using an Environmental-Field Emission-Scanning Electron Microscope (E-FE-SEM)

Federico F. Krause, Chris DeBuhr, Andrew C. Wiseman, Camilo A. Rojas Aldana, Ron Watson and Rudi O. Meyer

A Structural Framework for Interpreting the Spatial Distriubtion and Geochemical Variation of Natural Gas and Salt-Rich Groundwater in Shallow Aquifers of South-Central New York

Rebecca L. Kreuzer, Thomas Darrah, Avner Vengosh, Gautam Mitra and Robert Poreda

Geostatistical Modelling of Hydrothermal Dolomite by PluriGaussian Simulation From Digital Outcrop Dataset (Latemar, N-Italy)

Nadya Kulyukina, Olivier Dubrule and Carl Jacquemyn

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Mapping Overpressure Features With Broadband Multimeasurement Seismic Data

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Geologic Characterization and Facies Analysis of the Wolfcampian/Leonardian Succession in the Midland Basin, West Texas, USA: Impact on Horizontal Well Performance

Dan Lancaster, Robert Bodziak, Hector Bello, Paul Clarke, Caitlyn Kelly, Alexander Torres and Sami Doupnik

The Application of Geology in the Founding of Alberta's Petroleum Industry

Willem Langenberg

Utilizing Geochemical Analysis in Unconventional Reservoirs to Allocate Produced Oils to Stratigraphic Zone

Heather LaReau, Jeremy E. Dahl, Adam Clark, Bob Parney and Scott Friedman

Down-Dip Termination of Sandy Fan Systems — New Insight From the Pennsylvanian Ross Sandstone Formation, Western Ireland

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

Petroleum Geochemistry and Mudstone Diagenesis of the Woodford Shale, Anadarko Basin, USA — An Integrated Approach

Christopher D. Laughrey and Peter Purrazzella

Geomechanical Properties of the Upper Ordovician Macasty Shale and its Caprock, Anticosti Islan: A Regional Evaluation for a Promising Tight Oil Play

Denis Lavoie and Stephan Séjourné

Geometries and Origin of Young Dolomite in an Isolated Carbonate Platform, Bonaire, Southern Caribbean

Juan C. Laya, Fiona F. Whitaker, Jonathan Sulaica, Tatyana Gabellone and Maurice Tucker

Modeling Controls on the Architecture of Phylloid Algal and Associated Reservoirs from Outcrop Analogs: Lower Ismay Zone (Pennsylvanian), Utah, USA

Karen S. Lechtenberg, Robert H. Goldstein and Evan K. Franseen

Geologic Risk Assessment of Sequestration Projects, the Illinois Example

Hannes E. Leetaru, Jared Freiburg, Robert Will and John McBride

Modelling and Characterization of a Fluvial Low Net-to-Gross Reservoir: The Case Study of a Mature Oil Field for EOR in the Bajo Barreal Formation, Golfo San Jorge Basin, Argentina

Remi E. Lehu, Guillermo Pedersen, Daniela Ancheta, Alejandro Saccomano, Griselda Vocaturo, Ana Cecilia Limeres, Fabian D'Andrea, Carolina Bernhardt, Daniel Astesiano, Diego Perez, Anthony Thompson and Andrea Moscariello

The Impact of Post-Orogenic Erosion and Sediment Transport on the Detrital Zircon Provenance of Incipient Foreland Basins

Andrew Leier and Dale Leckie

Non-Saline Water Use and Oilsands Development, Past, Present and Future

Anthony Lemay and Afshin Honarvar

Preliminary Sedimentology and Provenance Analysis From the Magallanes-Austral Retroarc Foreland Basin: Implications for Miocene Evolution of the Patagonian Fold-and-Thrust Belt

Joel S. Leonard and Julie Fosdick

Re-Evaluation of Thermal Maturity and Stages of Petroleum Formation of the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas

Michael Lewan and Mark Pawlewicz

Three-Dimensional Seismic Imaging of Probable Hydrate Deposits Linked to Chimneys Venting Gases Through Hydrate Stability Zone, From Offshore Mauritania

Ang Li, Richard J. Davies and Simon Mathias

The Progress of Reservoir Geochemistry and its Application in Hydrocarbon Exploration: An Example From the Halahatang Oilfield of the Tarim Basin, NW China

Meijun Li, Tieguan Wang, Ronghui Fang and Lu Yang

Characteristics of Tight Gas Reservoir in the Upper Triassic Sichuan Basin, Western China

Qi Li

Advancement of Hydraulic Fracturing Optimization Shows Promising Economics in Tight Bakken Formation

Yinghui Li and Hui Pu

Facies Characteristics and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous Tununk Shale Member, Henry Mountains Region, Utah

Zhiyang Li, Juergen Schieber and Janok P. Bhattacharya

Estimation of Source-to-Sink Mass Balance and Depositional Systems Dominated Sediment Budgets by a Fulcrum Approach Assessment Using Channel Paleohydrologic Parameters: Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation

Wen Lin and Janok P. Bhattacharya

The Limitations of Lognormal Distributions: Using Subsurface Data to Make More Accurate Resource Estimations

David Liner

Erosion and Deposition on the West Florida Shelf Edge

Anna H. Ling, Gregor P. Eberli, Dierk Hebbeln, Claudia Wienberg, Lydia Beuck, André Freiwald, Nicholas Nowald, Götz Ruhland and Paul Wintersteller

Evaluating a 2-D Structural Restoration: Validating Section Balance

Steven Lingrey and Oskar Vidal-Royo

The New Method of the Sweet Spot Discrimination and Predictive Production in North American Shale Oil

Chuncheng Liu, Yuhua Zhang, Jie Yu and Ruibao Qin

Seismic Geomorphology of the Lobed-Channel System of Upper Miocene Huangliu Formation, Yinggehai Basin, Northwestern South China Sea

Haoran Liu

Controls on Hydrocarbon Accumulation Model for the Neogene Traps, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Hua Liu, Donggao Zhao and Youlu Jiang

Effects of Sedimentary Heterogeneity on Hydrocarbon Accumulations in the Permian Ordos Basin, China: Insight From Integrated 3-D Petroleum System and Forward Stratigraphic Modelling

Jianliang Liu, Keyu Liu and Xiu Huang

Lacustrine Lithofacies, Depositional Processes and Diagenesis of the Uteland Butte Member, Uinta Basin

Katie Logan and Rick Sarg

Structural Growth Rate and Impact on Deepwater Depositional Systems in Deepwater Fold Belts: Gulf of Mexico, West Africa and Niger Delta

Lidia Lonergan, Byami Jolly, Gemma L. Doughty-Jones, Mike Mayall and Alex Whittaker

Sedimentation in Structurally-Confined Narrow Basins: Toward the Identification of Uncommon Depositional Systems

Sergio G. Longhitano, Claudio I. Casciano, Domenico Chiarella, Luisa Sabato and Marcello Tropeano

Sequential Restorations From the Sverdrup Basin: New Insights for its Mesozoic Evolution

Berta Lopez-Mir, Peter Huelse and Simon Schneider

Ethics for Professionals in the Energy Stream: How Objective Are Science and Engineering?

George Losonsky

Origin and Characterization of the Dual Micropore/Macropore Network in Pennsylvanian (Desmoinesian) Caddo Algal Buildup Complexes; Stephens County, North Central Texas

Robert G. Loucks and Qilong Fu

Some Thoughts on Existence and Importance of Natural Microfractures in Unconventional Shale-Oil and Gas Systems

Robert G. Loucks and Robert M. Reed

How Well Do Asymmetrical Rift Models for the Conjugate Margins of Brazil and Angola Compare to Deep-Penetration Seismic Reflection Data?

Patrick Loureiro and Paul Mann

Paleotopographic Controls on Fluvial Architecture of Pre-Vegetated Braided Fluvial Strata in a Basal Cambrian-Ordovician Sandstone: Potsdam Group of the Ottawa Embayment and Quebec Basin

David G. Lowe and Bill Arnott

Distribution and Seismic Characteristics of the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary Layer in the Gulf of Mexico, USA, and Mexico Deepwater

Christopher Lowery and John W. Snedden

Mitigating Early Cretaceous Reservoir Risk Along the Offshore Morocco Passive Margin Through Analysis of the Coastal Delivery Systems Exposed in the Agadir-Essaouira Basin

Tim L. Luber, Jonathan Redfern, Luc Bulot, Angel Arantegui, Remi Charton and Giovanni Bertotti

Terrestrial Paleoclimatology of the Early Cretaceous Western Interior Foreland Basin of North America

Gregory A. Ludvigson, Luis A. Gonzalez, Marina Suarez, Robert M. Joeckel and Andreas Moeller

Modelling at a Provincial Scale: Challenges and Solutions

Steven Lyster, Kelsey MacCormack and Mahshid Babakhani

Expulsion and Primary Migration of Hydrocarbons — Observations in Outcrops

Helge Læseth, Peter Cobbold, Nuno Rodrigues, Lars Wensaas, Thomas Les Leith, Arne Sigurd Steen and Marita Gading

Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Characterization of Ancient Sandstone Shelf Ridges: An Example From the Campanian Almond Formation, Wyoming, USA

Julio Leva López, Valentina M. Rossi, Ronald Steel and Cornel Olariu

Fluvial Architecture and Sediment Partitioning in Response to Early Laramide Structures: The Canyon Creek Member, Southern Wyoming, USA

Julio Leva López and Ronald Steel

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Formation of Secondary Porosity With Implications for Reservoir Quality in Deeply Buried Sandstones: A Case Study From Sublacustrine Fan Deposits in the Eocene Es4 Interval, Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Northeastern China

Benben Ma, Yingchang Cao, Eriksson Kenneth, Yancong Jia and Yanzhong Wang

Multi-Scale Shale Imaging Challenges: Examples From U.S. and European Plays

Lin Ma, Patrick J. Dowey, Loic Courtois, Kevin G. Taylor and Peter D. Lee

Correlation Between In-Situ Stress Variations and Mineralogy Along Horizontal Wells in the Woodford Shale, Oklahoma, USA

Xiaodong Ma and Mark D. Zoback

Timing Mismatch Between Facies Change and Provenance Change in Large River Systems: Implications for Reservoir Development in Evolving Catchments

David Macdonald, Paula Robinson and Uisdean Nicholson

Imaging CO₂ Sequestration at an Enhanced Oil Recovery Site Using the Depth-to-Surface Resistivity Method

Kristopher MacLennan, Greg Nieuwenhuis, Vivek Ramadoss, Michael Wilt and Mark Wilkinson

The Importance of Detailed Flow Unit Assessment for Modeling Carbonate Reservoir Performance — Insight from the Bitumen-Saturated Grosmont Formation

Alex MacNeil, Ken Gray, Kelli Fraser and Kent Qin

Tectonically Controlled Nearshore Deposition: Cozzette Sandstone, Book Cliffs, Colorado, USA

Andrew Madof, Nicholas Christie-Blick and Mark Anders

Unreciprocated Sedimentation: How Differential Accumulation Decoupled the Shelf and Slope of Offshore Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, USA

Andrew Madof, Nicholas Christie-Blick, Mark Anders and Lawrence Febo

Seismic Stratigraphy of the Nahr Menasha (Lago Mare) in the Levantine Basin: Implications for Fluvial Drainage Development During the Latest Miocene (Messinian), Eastern Mediterranean

Andrew Madof, Sean Connell, Jesse Pisel and Michael Roberts

Tectonics of a Permo-Carboniferous Trough in the Northern Foreland of the European Alps Inferred From Reprocessed and Densified 2-D Seismic Reflection Data

Herfried Madritsch, Henry Naef, Beat Meier and Stefan Heuberger

Mapping of Clastic Reservoirs With RGB-Blending Techniques — A Review From the Maria Discovery in the UK North Sea

Anders O. Madsen, Andreas W. Laake and Nicholas Cooke

Quantitative Facies Analysis: A Tool Kit in the Characterization of Eagle Ford Sequence Stratigraphy and Facies Heterogeneity

Ariel E. Malicse, Erik Van Dusen, Bret Neff, Dan Hurst and Heather McGarity

Evaluation of Mercury Intrusion and Capillary Pressure Results: Development of a New Methodological Approach for Analyzing Carbonates

Cameron Manche and Stephen E. Kaczmarek

Geologic and Geophysical Evidence for a Pacific Origin for Seawater Filling the Callovian Gulf of Mexico Evaporite Basin

Paul Mann and Ricardo Padilla

Stratigraphic Modeling of a Mix Siliciclastic-Carbonate System in A Passive Margin Setting: The Hettangian–Cenomanian Interval of the Shelburne Subbasin Area — SW Nova Scotia 2011 PFA Expansion

Emerson Marfisi, Francky Saint-Ange, Adam MacDonald, Matt Luheshi and Laurent Cuilhe

Petrophysical Characterization of the Upper Cretaceous Second White Specks Alloformation, Willesden Green Area, Alberta: An Updated Workflow for Anisotropic Fine-Grained Reservoirs

Kienan Marion and Burns Cheadle

Updated Resource Assessment of Undiscovered, Technically Recoverable Shale Gas and Shale Oil Within the Mississippian Barnett Shale, North-Central Texas, 2015

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Shallow to Moderate Burial Diagenesis and Lithification Processes in a Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Slope Succession in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand

Kathleen Marsaglia, Greg Browne, Simon George, David Kemp, John Jaeger, David Carson, Mathieu Richaud and null null

Active Microplate Boundaries Associated With the Southward Offshore Extension of the East African Rift System and the Distribution of Offshore Hydrocarbon Discoveries in East Africa

Zachary S. Martindale

A Source-to-Sink Approach to Drainage and Sediment Flux in Thrust and Foreland Systems: Example From the Cretaceous Sevier and Laramide Provinces, Western Interior Basin, USA

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Eolian Reservoir Models: A Study of the Heterogeneity and Reservoir Characterization of the Red Head Sandstone, Five Islands, Nova Scotia.

Kenneth Martyns-Yellowe, Darragh O'Connor and Grant Wach

Detrital Zircon Geochronology Applied to Source-to-Sink Analyses and Exploration: Insights From the Modern Mississippi River and Pleistocene Deepwater Mississippi Fan System

Cody C. Mason, Julian Clark, Andrea Fildani, Thomas Gerber, Mason Dykstra, Matthew McKay, Mike Blum and Daniel F. Stockli

Geomechanical Evaluation of Hydraulic Fracturing Induced Seismicity

Shawn Maxwell and Melanie Grob

Statistically Improved Resistivity and Density Estimation From Multicomponent Seismic Data: Case Study From the Lower Cretaceous McMurray Formation, Athabasca Oil Sands

Fred Mayer, Carmen C. Dumitrescu and Graham Cain

Organic Rich Facies in the Lewis Shale as an Oil and Gas Source Rock, Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, United States

Ligia C. Mayorga-Gonzalez, Roger Slatt and David Pyles

Benguela and Namibe Basins: Syn-Rift Architecture and Sediment Thickness From Integrated Analysis of Aeromagnetic Data

Stan Mazur, Andrew Quallington, Sarah Parker, Matthew Stewart, Lumen Sebastião, Bartolomeu Cristinia, Jane Saweka, João Constantino and Gemma Scougal

Challenges in Using Programmed Pyrolysis Data From Mature to Late Mature Source Rocks to Evaluate Source Rock Capabilities and Free Hydrocarbons in Unconventional Resource Plays

Andrew D. McCauley and Michael Abrams

A Sedimentological Assessment of Dolomitized Bioclastic Accumulations Within the Lower Triassic Montney Fm., Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Cole McCormick, Aimee Gegolick and John-Paul Zonneveld

Facies and Cycle Architecture in the Gulf PDB-04 Core: Integration of Outcrop Derived Models Into the Subsurface

Kyle McKenzie, Charles Kerans and Robert G. Loucks

Cretaceous Strata at the West Edge of the Rockies — A Wedge-Top Remnant of the Western Canada Foreland Basin

Margot McMechan, Arthur Sweet, Lisel Currie, William Matthews and Julito Reyes

Evolution of the Western Canada Foreland in the Liard Basin, Northwest Canada

Margot McMechan, Filippo Ferri, Lisel Currie, William Matthews and Bernard Guest

Concretions in the Mixed System: Microbial-Driven Early Marine Calcite Cementation

Donald F. McNeill, Peter Swart, Leticia Rodriguez Blanco, Max Tenaglia, Ralf J. Weger, Laura E. Rueda Sánchez, Brandon G. Burke, James S. Klaus and Gregor P. Eberli

Reassessment of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Fluid Typing Methods in Shale

Mohamed Mehana and Ilham El-Monier

Sweet-Spotting Unconventional Plays Using Geo-Microbial Hydrocarbon Detection and 4G Exploration Model

Harry Mei

The Influence of Intra- and Inter-Channel Architecture in Selecting Optimal Gridding for Field-Scale Reservoir Simulation

Casey D. Meirovitz, Lisa Stright, Stephen M. Hubbard and Brian Romans

Geologic Architecture of the High Plains Aquifer, Northeastern Texas Panhandle: Implications for Implementation of Surface and Airborne Monitoring Techniques

Jingyao Meng and Jack C. Pashin

A New Depositional Model of Spherulitic Carbonate Settings: Insights From a Carboniferous Hyper-Alkaline, Volcanic-Influenced Lake

Ramon Mercedes-Martin, Alexander Brasier, Mike Rogerson, John Reijmer, Hubert Vonhof and Martyn Pedley

The Valuation of Unconformities

Andrew Miall

New Insights From Detrital Zircons Into the Northern Provenance of Triassic-Jurassic Strata, Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Islands

Derrick Midwinter, Thomas Hadlari, Bill Davis, Bill Arnott and Keith Dewing

Facies, Stratigraphy and Lateral Stratigraphic Continuity in Lower Jurassic Reservoir Analogue Outcrops at Wadi Naqab, United Arab Emirates

Cristian Mircescu, Martin Hönig, Carl Jacquemyn and Cedric M. John

Identifying and Evaluating Potential Well Integrity Risk Factors Based on Available Geological, Hydrogeological and Related Subsurface Data

Brent Miyazaki

The Influence of Crack Geometry on Production of Hydraulically Fractured Shale Gas Reservoirs

Saeed Nazary Moghadam, Alireza A. Moghadam and Rick Chalaturnyk

Integrated Karst Characterization From Seismic to Geologic Modeling in Kashagan Field, Kazakhstan

Sony R. Mohammad, PJ Moore, Kevin Putney, Gareth D. Jones, Gerrick N. Jensen and Nurbek Karatalov

Sources and Reservoir History of Mixed Oil and Heavy Oil Determined by Advanced Geochemical Technologies

John M. Moldowan

Sedimentology of the Upper Cretaceous Basal Foremost and Medicine Hat Formations in Newell County, Alberta: Implications for a Carbon Capture and Sequestration Monitoring Program

Benjamin Montgomery, Per K. Pedersen, Donald C. Lawton and Kirk G. Osadetz

The Importance of Ground Water Aquifer Identification on Well Planning — An Example From the São Sebastião Aquifer, Northeast Brazil

Felipe S. Moreira, Elvio Garcias and Gregory S. Soule

Producing Practical and Useful State Geothermal Maps

Paul Morgan

Integration of Seismic Inversion With Source Rock Evaluation Methods to the Study of the Middle to Late Jurassic Organic Rich Intervals in the Scotian Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada

Natasha Morrison, Ricardo Silva, F. W. Richards and Grant Wach

Hydrothermal Dolomitization Paradigms and the Manetoe Dolomite: Are All HTDs Fault-Related?

David Morrow

Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach to Real Time Pore Pressure Prediction: 3-D Earth Model in the Gulf of Mexico

Fausto Mosca, Obren Djordjevic, Thomas Hantschel, Ian Hunter, Tayo Akintokunbo, Thorsten Joppen, Ana Krueger, Dave Phelps, Stephanie Nyman, Klaas Koster, Michael Schupbach, Kenneth Hampshire and Andy MacGregor

Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Systems: Implications for the Development of Deepwater Turbidites in the Nova Scotian Margin

Lorena Moscardelli, Jesus Ochoa, Laura Zahm and Ian Lunt

Bioclastic Reservoirs of the Distal Montney “Shale” Play

Thomas Moslow, Matthew Adams and Alessandro Terzuoli

Jurassic Upper Toarcian-Early Aalenian Oncoid and Ooid-Rich Facies of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform, Southern Croatia

William Moynihan, Antun Husinec and Bozo Prtoljan

Time-Space Variability of Paralic Strata Deposited in a High Accommodation, High Sediment Supply Setting: Example From the Cretaceous of Utah

Julia Mulhern and Cari L. Johnson

Virtual Outcrop Models to Multiple Point Statistics: Improved Reservoir Modeling From Virtual Outcrops Supported by Digital Field Computing

James R. Mullins, John Howell, Christian Kehl and Buckley Simon

Novel Data From a Routine Analysis: Determining Pore Compressibility From Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure Analyses of Fine-Grained Reservoir Rocks

Erik Munson and R. Marc Bustin

The Impact of Thermal Maturity and Burial on the Pore Size Distribution and Matrix Permeability of Organic-Rich Mudrocks of the Duvernay Formation, Alberta

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Fracking: Minimizing the Risk

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Clumped Isotope Paleothermometry in Bahamian Dolomites

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Integrated Fracture Characterization of Devonian Carbonate Bank — A 3-D Case Study From Alberta

Azer Mustaqeem and Valentina Baranova

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Dolomitization and its Impact on Porosity Evolution in the Middle Bakken, Elm Coulee Field, Williston Basin

Dipanwita Nandy, Sanyog Kumar, John D. Humphrey, Mark Longman and Steve Sonnenberg

Pore Pressure Diffusion Model to Simulate Triggering of Microearthquakes in the Cardium Formation, West-Central Alberta

Negar Nazari, Burns Cheadle and Robert Shcherbakov

Hydrodynamic Controls on Sedimentology and Geomorphology: A Field and Modeling Analysis of Modern Marine Carbonate Ramp, Northern Yucatan Shelf, Mexico

Thomas C. Neal, Eugene C. Rankey and Christian M. Appendini

Improving Unconventional Resource Assessments

Richard Nehring

Stratigraphic and Geochemical Investigation of Kukersites (Source Beds) Within the Ordovician Red River Formation, Williston Basin, North Dakota

Timothy O. Nesheim, Stephan H. Nordeng and Jeffrey W. Bader

Discovery to Recovery: Alberta's Liquids Rich Montney Play — Continued Innovation and Optimization

G. Nevekshonoff

Geological Controls on Sweet Spots Within a Laterally Extensive Shoreface Sandstones, Albian Wilrich Member, Spirit River Formation, West-Central Alberta

Dillon Newitt and Per K. Pedersen

Insights Into Sedimentological and Diagenetic Processes Within a Major Shale Gas Exploration Play: The Mississippian Bowland Shale, UK

Sarah Newport, Kevin G. Taylor, Edward Hough and Richard Worden

Imaging the Overturned Limb of a Footwall Syncline in the Western Canadian Fold and Thrust Belt

Andrew C. Newson

Using Synthetic Seismic Models of Channelized Deepwater Slope Deposits to Inform Stratigraphic Interpretation and Reservoir Modeling

Adam Nielson, Lisa Stright, Stephen M. Hubbard and Brian Romans

Chemostratigraphic and Tephrochronologic Record of Cenomanian-Turonian Eagle Ford, South Texas, USA

Michael Nieto and Harry Rowe

Monitoring SAGD Conformance and Caprock Integrity With Depth to Surface Resistivity

Greg Nieuwenhuis, Kristopher MacLennan, Vivek Ramadoss, Michael Wilt and Paul Esposito

Geochemical Characterization of Source Rock in Lufeng Sag, Pearl Mouth River Basin

Zicheng Niu, Guangdi Liu, Xiangtao Zhang and Mengyuan Zhang

Petroleum System Analysis of the Poorly Devoloped Chagan Sag in Yingen-Ejinaqi, Northern China

Zicheng Niu, Guangdi Liu, Dianbin Guo, Peng Wang, Zhe Cao and Kaidi Zhang

New Insights Into the Contribution of Sub-Seismic Faults to Deformation in the Earth's Crust

Casey W. Nixon, David J. Sanderson, Martin W. Putz-Perrier and Jonathan M. Bull

The Use of Topology in Analysing Fault and Fracture Networks: Characterization and Connectivity

Casey W. Nixon, David J. Sanderson, Robert Gawthorpe, Emma Finch and Atle Rotevatn

The (Forgotten?) Art of Geological Field Sketches

Jon Noad

Alternating Currents: When Braided Channels Begin to Meander

Jon Noad

Spatial and Temporal Characterization of Mechnical Rock Properties From West Caicos, BWI

Andrea Nolting, Christopher Zahm and Charles Kerans

Multi-Attribute Seismic Wheeler Volume Workflows, Illuminating Stratigraphy, Geomorphology, and Prospectivity Within a Mezardere Slope Fan Exploration Model, Thrace Basin, Turkey

Sean Norgard, Gary Focht and null null

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Microstructural Analysis of Coupled Mechanical and Chemical Diagenetic Processes in Deformation Bands in Sandstone

Casey M. O'Brien and Peter Eichhubl

Forecasting Oil Sands Development Using a Granular Operator and Phase-Level Approach

Mark Oberstoetter

Application of Thin-Bed Indicator and Sweetness Attribute in the Evaluation of Sediment Composition and Depositional Geometry in Coast-Perpendicular Subbasin, South Texas Gulf

Osareni C. Ogiesoba

Genesis and Morphology of Intracrystalline Nanopores and Mineral Micro Inclusion Hosted in Burial Dolomite Crystals: Application of Broad ION Beam-Scanning Electron Microscope (BIB-SEM)

Babatunde J. Olanipekun

Inception of a Continental-Scale River From Segmented Paratethys Basins: Possible Timing and Size of the Danube River Flowing Into the Black Sea

Cornel Olariu and Dan C. Jipa

Process Regime Change From Wave-Modified and Tidally-Influenced to Wave-Dominated Deltas Across Growth Faults in the Paleogene Lower Wilcox Guadalupe Delta, South Texas Gulf Coast

Mariana Olariu, Hongliu Zeng and William Ambrose

Using Seismic Forward Modelling to Risk Sub-Thrust Plays

Simon J. Oldfield, Douglas Paton, Diego Constantino, Emma K. Bramham, Taija Torvela and Andrés Mora

Subsurface Mapping of Thin-Sand Reservoirs Using Seismic Texture and Narrow-Band Spectral Analysis Attributes Over “X” Oil Field, Offshore Niger Delta

Sunday J. Olotu, Adekunle A. Adepelumi, Ibukun Olorunniwo, Olatunbosun Alao, Bankole D. Ako, Samuel B. Ojo and Moses A. Olorunniwo

Bypass Dominated Slope Channel Complexes Exhibit Progradational Channel Fill Style, Eocene Forearc Basin, California

Kenya Ono and Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Revisiting Sampling Bias in Fracture Networks Representation

Orlando J. Ortega, Ryan Wilson and Pedram Zarian

Simultaneous Measurement of Elastic and Electrical Anisotropy of Shales Under Elevated Pressure: A Preliminary Study

Liwei Ou, Qifei Niu, Manika Prasad, John Quirein, Natasa Mekic, Junsheng Hou, Mehdi E. Far and Ming Gu

Understanding Channel Belt Connectivity on a System Scale in Fluvial Settings

Amanda Owen, Adrian Hartley, Gary Weissmann and Gary Nichols

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Outcrop-based Reservoir Modeling of the Sappington Formation (Montana); Developing Strategies for Reservoir Characterization and Modeling of Middle Bakken Reservoirs (North Dakota)

Douglas A. Palkowsky, Iwan Harmawan, Richard T. Beaubouef, John C. Hohman, John M. Guthrie, Aaron Rodriguez and Kathryn Sementelli

The Occurrence and Distribution of Polygonal Fault Systems in the Gulf of Mexico

Jessica A. Palmer

Direct Correlation of Orogenic Pulses in the Southern Canadian Rocky Mountains Fold-and-Thrust Belt and Depositional Changes in the Adjacent Foreland Basin

Dinu I. Pana and Ben A. van der Pluijm

Changes in Gas Storage and Transport Properties With Continued Bioconversion of Coal

Rohit Pandey, Satya Harpalani, Ji Zhang and Yanna Liang

Integrated Geologic Analysis From Two Marcellus Shale Science Wells in Northeastern West Virginia

Thomas J. Paronish, Shuvajit Bhattacharya and Timothy Carr

Utility of Micro-X-Ray Computed Tomography for Analysis of Shale Reservoirs

Jack C. Pashin and Michael Powers

Bed Thickness Statistics in Hybrid Event Bed Prone Ponded Minibasins, Castagnola System, Early Miocene, NW Italy

Marco Patacci, Mattia Marini, Fabrizio Felletti and William D. McCaffrey

A High-Resolution, Multi-Proxy Study of Organic-Rich Mudrocks From the Mid Cenomanian Event in North America

Sameer Patel, Ian Harding, John Marshall and James Eldrett

Organic-Rich Sediments From the Mid-Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: A High-Resolution, Multi-Proxy Investigation

Sameer Patel, Ian Harding, John Marshall and James Eldrett

Variability of Mudstone Microstructure in a Freshwater to Marine Transect: Upper Cretaceous Delta System, Alberta and British Columbia

Katharin Pavan, Guy Plint and Burns Cheadle

Finding New Oil Fields in a Mature Play: BV Nose Discovery, Upper Miocene Stevens Play, San Joaquin Basin, California: Case Study

Manuel G. Paz and Keith Meyerholtz

Understanding the Relationship Between Structural Inheritance and Rift Related Magmatism on the Labrador Margin

Alexander L. Peace, Ken McCaffrey, Jonathan Imber, Keith Gerdes, Jordan Phethean and Edward Dempsey

Controls on Sediment Distribution From Source-to-Sink in an Active Extensional Setting: The Sperchios Rift, Central Greece

Sofia Pechlivanidou, Patience Cowie, Robert Gawthorpe and Alex Whittaker

Depositional Setting of Paleozoic Organic Rich Lacustrine Oil Shale Deposits of the Maritimes Basin, New Brunswick, Canada

Per K. Pedersen, Fariborz Goodarzi and Hamed Sanei

Comparison of Geological Factors Affecting Production in the Cardium Tight Light Oil Play, Alberta, Canada

Per K. Pedersen, Raymond Van, Holly Nicholas, Adam Fraser and Julianne Fic

John Joyce Carter (1842-1917): Civil War Hero and Petroleum Entrepreneur

George Pemberton

The Canol Project: Antecedent for Leduc?

George Pemberton and Charles Stelck

Mixed Energy Process Interactions Read From a Tide-Dominated Shoreline: The Paleo-Orinoco Delta, Trinidad

Yang Peng, Ronald Steel, Valentina M. Rossi, Clarke Clayton and Cory Hughes

Petroleum System Analysis: What Have We Learned Since Magoon and Dow's Memoir 60?

Andrew S. Pepper

Reconstruction of Sediment Provenance and Pathway From Source-to-Sink: Example of the Tremp-Graus-Ainsa Basins, Southern Pyrenean Foreland Basin, Spain

Marc Perret, Branimir Segvic, Sebastien Castelltort, Cai Puigdefabregas, Andrea Moscariello, Julian Clark, Andrea Fildani and Mason Dykstra

Carpathian Foredeep Basin (Miocene, Poland and Ukraine): Significance of Evaporite Deposition

Tadeusz M. Peryt and Danuta Peryt

Reef Constructors of the Wuchiapingian Jablonna Buildup (Western Poland)

Tadeusz M. Peryt, Pawel Raczynski and Danuta Peryt

Regional-Scale Modelling of the Sub-Cretaceous Unconformity Surface in Northern and Central Alberta: Elevation, Subcrop Zero-Edge Delineation, and Paleotopographic Reconstruction

Jesse Peterson, Tyler E. Hauck, Ben Hathway and Kelsey MacCormack

Rock-Eval 6/TOC Pyrolysis Results From the Lower Karoo Group Mudstones and Coal Source Rocks, Maamba Basin, Southern Zambia

Cryton Phiri

Low Temperature Paleogene Thermal History of the British Mountains, Yukon, Canada, Quantified by Apatite and Zircon U-Th/He Dating

Julia E. Pickering, Larry Lane, Bernard Guest and David A. Schneider

Multiscale Geomodeling of Eolian Reservoir Analogues. A Virtual-Outcrop Study of the Jurassic Page Sandstone Formation

Colm Pierce, John Howell, Holger Reike, Laura-Jane Fyfe and David Healy

Integrated Reservoir Characterization of the Duvernay Play (Alberta, Canada): From Nanometer Scale to Regional Basin Scale

Aurelien Pierre, Tara Branter, Annie Cox, Kevin R. Mageau and Kenneth Robertson

An Efficient Multi-Objective Optimization Workflow for Hydraulic Fracture Placement in Unconventional Gas Reservoirs

Tatyana Plaksina and Eduardo Gildin

Integrated Fieldwide Optimization of Wellbore and Hydraulic Fracture Placement in Shale Gas Reservoirs

Tatyana Plaksina

Regional Chemostratigraphic Correlation and Interpretation of the Montney Formation: New Insights and Perspectives

Tiffany Playter, Hilary J. Corlett, Kurt Konhauser, Kelsey MacCormack, Dean Rokosh, John-Paul Zonneveld and John Pawlowicz

Recurring Themes in Foreland Basin Stratigraphy: Sheets, Wedges, Trampolines, and the Possible Role of Climate

Guy Plint

Variation in Depositional Pattern of Experimental Turbidity Currents Going Through a Break-of-Slope as a Function of Their Efficiency

Florian Pohl, Joris Eggenhuisen, Jan de Leeuw, Matthieu Cartigny, Ferenc Tóth and Navid Hermidas

The Trace Fossil Fauna of the Early to Middle Permian Tinat Member of the Nuayyim Formation in Subsurface Saudi Arabia: Towards a Mechanism for Colonization of Inland Arid to Semiarid Environments

Camilo Polo, John Melvin, Andrew Rees, Murray Gingras and George Pemberton

Chemical Diagenesis in Stratigraphic Context: The Ervay Cycle of the Phosphoria Rock Complex (Permian), Wyoming and Montana

Maxwell E. Pommer

Utica Petroleum System Mapping

Olga Popova, Tess Haegele, Gary Long, Vladimir Shapovalov and Elizabeth Panarelli

Characterising Heavy Oil Systems: Oil-Source and Oil-Oil Correlation in the McMurray Formation

Sarah J. Porter, Russell P. Stancliffe and Gemma V. Hildred

U.S. Geological Survey Assessment of Paleozoic Shale Gas Resources in the Sichuan Basin, China

Christopher J. Potter, Ronald R. Charpentier and Christopher J. Schenk

The Potential Temporal Significance of a High-Abundance, High-Diversity Ichnologic Assemblage in an Otherwise Apparently River-Dominated Deltaic Succession: The Cretaceous Loyd Delta, Rangely, Colorado

Timothy Prather, Peter P. Flaig and Stephen T. Hasiotis

Sedimentology, Ichnology and Reservoir Characterization of the Lower Montney D1 and D2 Horizons, Pouce-Coupe-Dawson Area

Donald Prenoslo, Carolyn M. Furlong, Aimee Gegolick, Murray Gingras and John-Paul Zonneveld

Progradation of an Ancient Distributive Fluvial System in a Foreland Basin: The Smoky Hollow Member of the Upper Cretaceous Straight Cliffs Formation

Jonathan W. Primm, Cari L. Johnson and Lisa Stright

Cretaceous Oblique-Slip Reactivation of Late Paleozoic Rift-Related Faults on the Chukchi Platform, Southern Chukchi Shelf, Alaska

Edward H. Pritchard, Blake T. Odom, Andrew G. Clements, Christopher D. Connors and David W. Houseknecht

Emerging CO₂ Sequestration Techniques in Bakken Unconventional Reservoirs: An Enormous Opportunity Yet Materialized

Hui Pu and Yinghui Li

Fundamental Controls on Modeling Reservoir Properties of Fining-Updip Heterozoan Carbonates

Tony M. Pugliano, Robert H. Goldstein and Evan K. Franseen

New Insights Into the Stratigraphic and Structural Evolution of the Middle to Late Jurassic Neuquén Basin as Constrained by Detrital Zircon (U-Th)/(He-Pb) and Apatite (U-Th)/He Ages

Edgardo J. Pujols, Valentina M. Rossi, Julio Leva López, Ronald Steel and Daniel F. Stockli

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The Pitfalls of Seismic Interpretation: How to Reduce Risk With Certainty

David Quinn

The Record of Changing Accommodation and Provenance in Early Cretaceous Fluvial Channel Deposits of the Western Interior Basin: Lower Kootenai Formation, Great Falls, Montana

Garrett M. Quinn, Stephen M. Hubbard and William Matthews

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Rock Physics of Bitumen Saturated Carbonates

Arif Rabbani, Douglas R. Schmitt, Zizhen Wang, Xiwei Chen, Oliver Ong, Jason Nycz and Ken Gray

Basin “Porosity Floor” — A Valid Rule of Thumb? The Case for Early Numerical Integration

David Rajmon

Data-Driven Quantitative Reservoir Characterization and New Insights in Pubei Field of Turpan-Hami Basin, Western China

Jianbin Ran, Haiyin Li, Zhengtao Hu, Zhe Zhu, Jia Chen and Xuejun Wang

Structural Styles and Related Accommodation Zones Associated With the Collapse of Salt Anticlines: Implications for Fluid Flow in Salt-Controlled Basins

Tom Randles

Reservoir Heterogeneity in Marginal Marine Settings of the Athabasca Oil Sands: Apparent Continuity of Mud Laminae Between Closely Spaced Cores

Mike Ranger, Trevor Dufresne and Melanie Klucker

Characterization of Deep Tight Carbonate Gas Plays With an Integrated Interpretation — Case Study From North Kuwait

Jonna D. Rao, Samar Al-Ashwak, Musaed Y. Al-Dousiri, Abdullah M. Al-Anzi, Narhari S. Rao, Qasem Dashti, Sandeep Chakravorty and Thomas L. De Keyser

Tying Core Descriptions and Optical Petrography With XRF Geochemical Data for a Detailed Characterization of the Mississippian Barnett Formation in the Southern Fort Worth Basin of North-Central Texas

Lauren P. Redmond, Robert G. Loucks and Harry Rowe

Fault and Fracture Detection in Unconventional Reservoirs: A Utica Shale Study

Hesham Refayee, Steve Adcock, Hardeep Jaglan, Nanne Hemstra and Kristoffer Rimaila

Improving Stratigraphic Models of Outcropping Slope Channel Fills Using Morphometrics From the Lucia Chica Channel System, Offshore Central California

Aaron P. Reimchen, Stephen M. Hubbard, Lisa Stright and Brian Romans

Geological Classification of Seismic-Inversion Data in the Doba Basin of Chad

Carl Reine, Chris Szelewski and Chaminda Sandanayake

Three-Dimensional Modeling of a Quarried Deltaic Reservoir System: Atoka Formation, Arkansas

Andrew R. Reisdorf, Pengfei Hou and Lesli Wood

Diagenesis in the Upper Miocene Cayman Formation of Grand Cayman in Response to Rapid Sea Level Rise Over the Last 16,000 Years

Min Ren and Brian Jones

Production and Prospectivity in a Structurally Complex, High-Taper Triangle Zone, Gibraltar Area, Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

David Richards, Mauricio Casanova and Claudia Ceballos

Evaluating Sources of Groundwater Quality Variability in Residential Water Wells for Pre-Drill Sampling

Stephen D. Richardson, Lisa J. Molofsky, John A. Connor, Anthony W. Gorody and Fred Baldassare

Understanding the Geological Basis of the Iowa Pore Index

Muhammad F. Ahmad Ridzuan, Franciszek J. Hasiuk and Robert Dawson

Development of a Static Reservoir Model for the Niagara-Lower Salina Reef Complex of the Guelph Formation, Michigan Basin

Matthew Rine, Stephen E. Kaczmarek, William Harrison and David A. Barnes

A New Sequence Stratigraphic Model for the Niagara-Lower Salina Reef Complex of the Guelph Formation, Michigan Basin, USA

Matthew Rine, Stephen E. Kaczmarek, William Harrison and David A. Barnes

Channel-Levee Systems in a Tropical Carbonate Slope Environment and the Influence of Syn-Sedimentary Fracturing, Browse Basin, Australian Northwest Shelf

Lucian Rinke-Hardekopf, Stefan Back, Lars Reuning and Julien Bourget

Methane Variations in Groundwater

Christine Rivard, Geneviève Bordeleau, Denis Lavoie, René Lefebvre, Xavier Malet and Jason Ahad

Sedimentologic and Oceanographic Characterization of the “Inland Sea” Lagoon and Channel System, Southeast Qatar

John M. Rivers, Christian J. Strohmenger and Christopher S. Warren

Depositional and Diagenetic Investigation of a Tertiary Isolated Carbonate Platform, Evidence for Significant Gas-Charge-Related Dolomitization

John M. Rivers, Lori Meyer, Dave Walley, Jennifer Anthony and Stephen Becker

Exshaw Formation Study, Liard Basin, Northwest Territories, Canada

Jonathan Rocheleau and Kathryn M. Fiess

Carbon Capture and Storage: the QUEST Project

Luc Rock and Simon O'Brien

Applications of Portable XRF Analysis to the Amaranth, Lodgepole and Bakken Formations of South Western Manitoba

Maxwell T. Rogowski

Stratigraphic Record of Foreland Basin Dynamics, Cretaceous Magallanes-Austral Basin, Chile and Argentina

Brian Romans, Neal C. Auchter, Anne Bernhardt, Jake Covault, Benjamin G. Daniels, Andrea Fildani, Julie Fosdick, Stephen M. Hubbard, Zane R. Jobe, Matthew Malkowski, Theresa M. Schwartz, Zachary T. Sickmann, Lisa Stright and Stephan A. Graham

Logical Rules for Sketch-Based Computer Modeling of Reservoir Stratigraphy: Application to Deepwater Siliciclastic Systems

Margaret P. Rood, Matthew D. Jackson, Gary J. Hampson, null null, Felipe de Carvalho, Clarissa Coda Marques, Mario Costa Sousa, Zhao Zhang and Sebastian Geiger

Inorganic Geochemistry as Technique to Preliminary Assessment of Shale Plays in Cretaceous Source Rocks in the Eastern Cordillera Basin, Colombia

Huber A. Rivera Rosado, Lizeth K. Sanchez Caballero, Nesyereb S. Suárez Nieto and Alexander Piragua Alarcón

Stratigraphic Architecture of Deltaic Mouthbar Deposits During the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum, Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah

Ellen Rosencrans and Lauren Birgenheier

Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Characterization of Mixed-Energy Deltas: Example From the Lajas Formation (Argentina)

Valentina M. Rossi and Ronald Steel

The Effect of Tides on Deltaic Morphology and Stratigraphy in River-Dominated Conditions

Valentina M. Rossi, Wonsuck Kim, Matthew R. Hiatt, Paola Passalacqua, Douglas Edmonds, Julio Leva López, Cornel Olariu, Ronald Steel and Nathanael Geleynse

A Sedimentologic-Petrographic Study of Parasequences in the Late Cretaceous Tununk Shale of the Henry Mountain Region of SW Utah – Implications for Shale Deposition in the Western Interior Seaway

Britt Rossman and Juergen Schieber

A Photon-Counting Approach to Drill Core Chemostratigraphy: Working Without an Empirical Calibration in Mudstones

Harry Rowe

New Insights Into the Early Development of a Volcanic Passive Margin – 3-D Imaging of Seaward Dipping Reflectors and a South Atlantic Transfer Zone

Holly J. Rowlands, Douglas Paton, Estelle Mortimer, Jonathan Turner, Phil Thompson, Matias Soto and Hector de Santa Ana

Assessment of Temporal Source Rock Variability: An Example From the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale

Wolfgang Ruebsam, Martin Stockhausen and Lorenz Schwark

Dolomitization in the Uteland Butte Member of the Eocene Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah: Implications for Petroleum Production Potential

Federico Rueda, Michael D. Vanden Berg and Hans G. Machel

Regional Variations in Woodford Fm Facies and Depositional Environments in the Permian Basin: New Insights From Chemostratigraphic Data

Stephen C. Ruppel, Harry Rowe and Robert G. Loucks

Prediction of Fluvial Point-Bar Internal Architecture and Heterogeneity From Outcrop and System-Independent Morphometric Analysis of Meander Bends

Catherine E. Russell, Nigel P. Mountney, David Hodgson and Luca Colombera

Strategies for Success in Unconventional Plays With Examples From the Montney Formation in Western Canada

Dave Russum, Larry Boyd and Jean-Francois Cantin

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A Revised Plate Model for the Myanmar and Andaman Sea Regions and its Effects on Petroleum Systems

David A. Sagi, Catherine J. Hill, Sheona M. Masterton, Nicola G. Henshaw, David S. Tierney and Inga Sevastjanova

Stratigraphic Architecture and Reservoir Characteristics of the Desmoinesian Granite Wash (Marmaton Group), Elk City Field, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

Burak Salantur and Matthew J. Pranter

Unconventional Resource Potential of Cretaceous Source Rocks in the Onshore Cesar-Rancheria Basin, Northern Colombia

Carlos J. Sanchez, Paul Mann and Rocio Bernal-Olaya

The Effect of Rapid Changes in Pressure, Temperature and Salinity Conditions on Methane Dissolution and Implication for the Volume of Accumulated Gas

Constantin Sandu and Marek Kacewicz

Geochemical Characteristic of Some Oil Shale Deposits of Israel

Hamed Sanei, Omid H. Ardakani, Fariborz Goodarzi and Itay Reznik

Applying Rock Physics Towards Seismic Characterization: Case Study From an Unconventional Resource, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

Teresa Santana, Ralf J. Weger, Silvana Gandi, Alejandro D'Odorico and Ariel P. Kautyian Ziyisyian

Structural Styles and Hydrocarbon Exploration Challenges in the Babar-Selaru Fold-Thrust-Belt, Banda Sea Region, Indonesia

Benyamin Sapiie, Ade Kurniawan, Harya Danio, Dicky Danil, Meli Hadiana, Michio Ohara, Masamichi Fujimoto, Lisnanda Alam Perdana and Afif Saputra

Evaporite Deposition in a Dynamic Lacustrine Setting, Green River Formation (Eocene), Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA — Implications for Climate Control

Rick Sarg and Kati Tanavsuu-Milkeviciene

East Shetland Platform Petroleum Geochemistry and Prospectivity

Arka Dyuti Sarkar and James Armstrong

The Delineation of Pre-Salt License Blocks in the Deep Offshore Campeche-Yucatan Basin

Michael Saunders, Phillip Hargreaves and Geoffroy Paixach

Structural Impact of the Yarmouth Arch in the Central Atlantic Opening and on the SW Nova Scotian Margin Architecture (SW Nova Scotia 2011 PFA Expansion)

Dimitri Savva, Tomasz Chrest, Francky Saint-Ange, Adam MacDonald, Matt Luheshi and Laurent Cuilhe

Sunnyside Oil Sands at Bruin Point, Southwest Uinta Basin, Utah

Steven Schamel

Depth to 0.6% Vitrinite Reflectance Defines Magnitude of Uplift in Middle Ground Area of the North Slope, Alaska

Allegra Hosford Scheirer and Leslie B. Magoon

Structural Architecture and Styles of the Zagros Fold-Thrust Belt, Kurdistan Region of Iraq

Daniel D. Schelling

On the Durability of Shale Lithics — Experimental Constraints, Modern Examples and Implications for Interpreting the Rock Record

Juergen Schieber

Not all Shales are Created Equal — Obscure Fine Grained Intraclasts and Lithics and Possible Consequences for Reservoir Quality in Dunvegan Mudstones

Juergen Schieber and Per K. Pedersen

Detachment Folding in the Kurdish Zagros: Hidden Structures and Missed Opportunities

Greg Schoenborn and Doug Goff

Porosity Preservation in the Lithic Carmópolis Reservoirs, Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, Brazil

Argos B. Schrank, Sabrina D. Altenhofen and Luiz F. De Ros

The Canadian Cretaceous Polar and Western Interior Seas: Paleoenvironmental History and Paleoceanographic Linkages

Claudia J. Schroder-Adams, Jens O. Herrle, Alex Quesnel, David Selby and Marissa A. Davies

Diagenesis of the Sappington Formation in SW Montana: Implications for Reservoir Quality in the Time-Equivalent Bakken Formation

Clayton Schultz, Michael Hofmann, Marc Hendrix and Bruce Hart

Evaluating the Thermal History of the Los Angeles Basin Through 3-D Basin and Petroleum System Modeling

Lauren E. Schultz, Allegra Hosford Scheirer and Stephan A. Graham

Magnetic Bright Spots Can Identify the Most Prospective Deepwater Areas and Prospects

Dietmar Schumacher

Oil to Source Rock Correlation and Implications for Petroleum System Analysis

Martin Schwangler and Nicholas B. Harris

Morphological and Stratigraphic Characterization of Sandy Large-Scale Foresets (Agrio Fm., Argentina): Insights Into Short-Term Construction of Wave-Dominated Coastal Systems

Ernesto Schwarz and Gonzalo Veiga

Drainage Systems in Rift Basins: Implications for Reservoir Quality

Stephen Schwarz, Lesli Wood and Dallas B. Dunlap

Stratigraphy, Seismic Characteristics, and Reservoir Properties of the Desmoinesian Granite Wash, Buffalo Wallow Field Area, Anadarko Basin, Texas

Doga E. Senoglu, Matthew J. Pranter and Kurt J. Marfurt

Geosynthesis — Modern Origin of Hydrocarbons and Practical Use of This Phenomenon Aspects in Oil and Gas Development

Vladimir A. Serebryakov

Experimental Investigation of Lithology Variations on Shale Gas Generation and Retention From Immature Shales Maturation Under Anhydrous Gold-Tube Pyrolysis

Deyong Shao and Tongwei Zhang

Using Seismic Data for Characterization of Vaca Muerta Shale With Reduced Uncertainty

Ritesh K. Sharma and Satinder Chopra

Sedimentological and Ichnological Characteristics of the Inner Estuary, Fluvio-Tidal Transition and Riverine Reach of the Ogeechee River Estuary, GA, USA

Alina Shchepetkina, Murray Gingras and George Pemberton

Re-Os Geochronometer Constraints on the Timing of Petroleum Generation and Migration in the Northern Longmen Shan Thrust Belt, Southwest China

Chuanbo Shen, David Selby, Xiang Ge, Xiaoyan Ruan and Shouzhi Hu

Damage Model for Reservoir With Multisets of Natural Fractures and its Application in Hydraulic Fracturing Simulation

Xinpu Shen

Mixed Autogenic and Allogenic Origin of Stratigraphic Complexity in Paralic Environments: Examples From the Neslen Formation, Mesaverde Group, Utah

Michelle Shiers, Nigel P. Mountney and David Hodgson

Stratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Magallanes-Austral Basin, Argentine Patagonia

Zachary T. Sickmann and Stephan A. Graham

Influence of Sedimentary Fabric on Fracture Characteristics of Two Thick Shoreface Deposits of the Lower Cretaceous Moosebar Formation, West Central Alberta

Jenna K. Sie and Per K. Pedersen

Thermochemical Sulfate Reduction in Upper Devonian Nisku Formation Reservoirs, Alberta: Insights From Molecular Characterization With FTICR-MS and GC×GC Approaches

Renzo Silva, Jagos Radovic, Chunqing (Dennis) Jiang, Andy Mort, Lloyd Snowdon, Thomas Oldenburg and Steve Larter

Examination of Petrophysical Characteristics of Carbonate Multimodal Porosity Systems

Mark T. Skalinski, Robert Mallan, Paul Theologou, Kejian Wu and Rafael Salazar-Tio

Reservoir Connectivity, Compartmentalization and Overpressure Conditions in the Sable Subbasin (Nova Scotia, Canada) and Porcupine Basin (Ireland)

Carla H. Skinner, Ricardo Silva, Neil Watson, F. W. Richards and Grant Wach

Hydrogeology of the Bakken Formation Across the Williston Basin

Daniel Skoreyko and Ben Rostron

In-Situ, Micron-Scale Analyses of Carbonate δ13C by SIMS: A Method for Identifying Carbonate Cements That Form in Response to CO₂ Injection at the Illinois Basin Decatur Project Site

Maciej Sliwinski, Kouki Kitajima, Reinhard Kozdon, Adam C. Denny, Michael Spicuzza and John W. Valley

Integrated Structural and Stratigraphic Analysis of the Guadalupian Seven Rivers Formation, McKittrick Canyon, New Mexico

Benjamin P. Smith and Charles Kerans

A Basin-Scale Perspective on the Oxfordian Norphlet Sandstone, Eastern USA

John W. Snedden, Ian O. Norton, Robert Cunningham, Jon Virdell, Timothy Whiteaker and Patricia Ganey-Curry

Core-Scale Modelling of Permeability on Highly Bioturbated Tight-Oil Samples, Burrow Pathways and Connectivity in the Cardium Formation, Pembina Field

Nisael A. Solano, Mohammad Soroush, Federico F. Krause and Christopher R. Clarkson

Nano-Scale Pore Structure Evolution of Middle Devonian Organic-Rich Black Shale Through Thermal Maturation

Liaosha Song and Timothy Carr

Mapping Duvernay Mineralogy: From Core to Log to Field

Lisa Song, Dale Rees, Ross Kukulski and Michael Donovan

A Perfect Play of Salt, Bamboo and Gas: The First Petroleum Well (Breakthrough) in the World

Suihong Song, Jiagen Hou, Yuming Liu and Cen Cao

Polygonal Fault Systems Upper Cretaceous Strata, Denver Basin

Steve Sonnenberg

Petrophysical, XRF Elemental, and Geomechanical Comparison of the Greenhorn and Niobrara Formations, Wattenberg Field, Denver Basin

Steve Sonnenberg, John D. Humphrey, Hannah Durkee and Kazumi Nakamura

How Mobile Is Your Total Oil Saturation? SARA Analysis Implications for Bitumen Viscosity and UV Fluorescence in Niobrara Marl and Bakken Shale, Supported by FIB-SEM Observations of Kerogen, Bitumen and Residual Oil Saturations Within Niobrara Marls and Chalks

Mark D. Sonnenfeld and Lyn Canter

Depositional Character, Distribution and Significance of Hybrid Event Beds: Springar Formation, NW Vøring Basin, Norwegian Sea

Sarah J. Southern, Ian Kane, Michal Warchol, Kristin Porten and William D. McCaffrey

The Lithostratigraphic — Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Woodbine and Eagle Ford Groups in Southwestern East Texas Basin

Dallas B. Spear

Longwave Infrared (8-12 μm) Spectral Imaging for the Automated Mapping of Lithofacies in Athabasca Oil Sands Core

Michelle Speta, Benoit Rivard and Jilu Feng

De-Risking the Duvernay

R.E. Stadlewieser

A Diagenetic Origin for δ18O Variability on the Margins of the Great Bahama Bank, Insights From Clumped Isotopes

Philip T. Staudigel, Peter Swart and Harry Elderfield

Geomorphic Characteristics of Lofted Turbidity Current Deposits

Elisabeth Steel, James Buttles, Alexander Simms and David Mohrig

The Distribution of Sector-Scale Permeability From Production Data Within Naturally-Fractured Folds of the Canadian Foothills

Ben Stephenson, Jeff Duer, Chad Glemser, Maria Khan and David Repol

*Seeing is Believing: A Quest to Visualize Hydraulic Frac Geometry for Optimal Resource Development

Ben Stephenson, Luis Acosta, Taixu Bai, Ali Azad, James Brewer, Earl Galan, Simon James and Thomas Schickel

Quebec's Horizontal New Play for Light Oil in the Gaspe Peninsula: Reprocessed 2-D Seismic Reveals Complex Structures That Could be Significant Fields

Linda R. Sternbach, Charles A. Sternbach, Stephan Séjourné and Jerry McCullough

Lithic Mannville: Significant New Oil Opportunities

Leonard M. Stevens, Richard Wierzbicki, Dan Potocki, Frank Palmai and Gregg Milne

Well Placement Matters: Improving Survey Accuracy by Using Continuous Directional Data and Drilling Parameter Settings

Edward J. Stockhausen, Richard Ball, Pete Clark, Richard Mongan and Philip Rice

Experimental Investigation of the Generation and Expulsion Characteristics of Different Source Rocks and the Impact Onto the Composition of Hydrocarbons

Martin Stockhausen, Roberto Galimberti, Lea Di Paolo and Lorenz Schwark

3-D Geomechanical Restoration as a Tool for Fractured Reservoir Characterization: Example From the Permian Basin

Joe Stockmeyer, John H. Shaw, Andreas Plesch, Michael Wales, Leore Lavin, Lee T. Billingsley, Ray Knox and Luke Finger

Ground-Based Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and Terrestrial Laser Scanning of the Eagle Ford Formation

Lei Sun, Shuhab Khan, Darren Hauser and Craig Glennie

Organic Geochemistry of Triassic Lacustrine Yanchang Formation Shale, The Ordos Basin, North-Central China

Xun Sun, Xiangzeng Wang, Tongwei Zhang and Daniel Enriquez

Characterize Millimeter-Scale Unconventional Rock Using Micron-Scale Sample Imaging and Machine Learning: Pore Properties in Eagle Ford, Marcellus and Wolfcamp

Radompon Sungkorn, Anyela Morcote, Gustavo Carpio, Timothy Cavanaugh and Jonas Toelke

Understand Petrophysical Properties of Real World-Scale Complex Conventional Rocks Economically With Emerging Technologies

Radompon Sungkorn, Sneha Bhakta, Avrami Grader, Anyela Morcote, Gustavo Carpio and Jonas Toelke

Investigation of Petrophysical-Properties Heterogeneity for Electrofacies Classification in Carbonate Reservoirs

Fnu Suriamin and Matthew J. Pranter

Variations on a Theme — Latitiduninal Impacts on Sequence Stratigraphy

John R. Suter and Carmen M. Fraticelli

Redefining the Stable Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Composition of the Mixing Zone

Peter Swart

Stable Isotope and Elemental Geochemistry From 1-D Profiles are a Useful Tool for Revealing 3-D Phasing Architecture of Upper Cambrian Microbial Reef Complexes, Wilberns Formation, Mason County, Texas

Hadley Swartz, Caroline Kelleher, Adrien Lhemann, Daniel J. Lehrmann, Marina Suarez, Heath H. Hopson, Pankaj Khanna and Andre W. Droxler

Laser Ablation-ICPMS U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Shale

Paul J. Sylvester

Latitudinal Controls on Siliciclastic Sediment Production and Transport

James (Jai) P. Syvitski

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Structural Control on Upper Jurassic Sedimentation South of the Middle Ground Arch, Eastern Gulf of Mexico

Catherine Taggart, Delores M. Robinson, Amy Weislogel and Caleb W. Essex

Stratigraphic Distribution of Source Rock Intervals in the Vaca Muerta Formation

Max Tenaglia, Leticia Rodriguez Blanco, Laura E. Rueda Sánchez, Gregor P. Eberli, Ralf J. Weger and Peter Swart

The Control of Terminal Splay Sedimentation on Depositional Patterns and Stratigraphic Evolution in Avulsion Dominated, Deep-Marine Basin-Floor Systems

Viktor Terlaky and Bill Arnott

Characteristics of Falling Stage Systems Tract Slope Channels: An Example from the Neoproterozoic Isaac Formation, Windermere Supergroup, Canada

Viktor Terlaky, Anika Bergen and Bill Arnott

Quantification and 3-D Modeling of Architectural Variability and Controls in an Eocene — Mid Miocene Carbonate Ramp, Browse Basin, Australia

Philipp Tesch, Michael C. Pope and Bobby Reece

3-D Quantification of Carbonate Ramp Architectural Variability and Controls, Last Chance Canyon, NM

Philipp Tesch, Michael C. Pope and Bobby Reece

Geophysics Meets Geology: Chrono-Stratigraphic Interpretation of the McMurray Formation

Damien Thenin and David Gray

26Al /10Be Cosmogenic Burial Dating and Magnetostratigraphy of Growth Strata in the Western Tarim Foreland Basin, NW China

Jessica A. Thompson, Bodo Bookhagen, Douglas Burbank, Jie Chen and Tao Li

Genesis and Evolution of the Punta del Este Basin, Offshore Uruguay: Complex Interplay Between Structural Inheritance and Multi-Phase South Atlantic Rifting

Phil Thompson, Neil Hurst, Jonathan Turner, Matias Soto, John Argent, Richard Walker, Gianluca Badalini and Simon Wrigley

Geochemical Characteristics and Application of Sterane and Terpane Biomarkers in Heavy Oils From Lacustrine Source Rocks of Liaodong Bay, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Derui Tian, Qinglong Xia, Yong'an Xue, Lixin Tian, Changgui Xu, Kui Wu, Rucai Zhang, Jun Wang and Wenjing Pan

Evolution of Pores in Organic-Rich Shales During Thermal Maturation

Hua Tian, Shuichang Zhang, Keyu Liu, Shaobo Liu and Li Gao

Geological Openness on the Chemical and Carbon Isotopic Signatures of Shale Gas: Implications From the Stepwise Pyrolysis of Bitumen

Hui Tian, Haifeng Gai, Xiao X. Ming and Bao J. Huang

Development of the Petroleum System on the South Labrador Slope

Erika Tibocha, Roberta Masotti, Katie Hernon, David Little, Robert Mansfield, Rachael Dale and Marcus Lemberger

The Importance of Density Structure on Vertical Momentum Exchange and its Implication for Turbidity Current Run-out Distances and Depositional Geometry

Mike Tilston, Bill Arnott and Colin Rennie

Streamlining Data Collection and Interpretation of Quantitative Process Ichnology Datasets

Eric R. Timmer, Eric Ditzler, Brette Harris, Murray Gingras and John-Paul Zonneveld

Analysis of Fracture Style and Development Associated With Differential Compaction Around Mississippian Carbonate Mounds, Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico

Nathan Tinker, Xavier Janson and Christopher Zahm

The Origin of Complicated Fault System in Beibuwan Basin and the Application for the Evolution of South China Sea

Hengmao Tong

Seismic Characterization of Early Cretaceous Fluvial-Deltaic Sandstones, Middle to Late Cretaceous Turbidites and Late Cretaceous Channelized Features in the Foz do Amazonas Basin, Northern Brazil

Lucia Torrado and Paul Mann

Origin and Scaling of Surfaces and Heterogeneity in a Fragmentary Point Bar From 3-D Architectural-Element Analysis, Late Cretaceous Dinosaur Park Formation Within Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada

Alexander Torres, Matthew Palmer, John Holbrook, Paul Durkin and Stephen M. Hubbard

Architecture and Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of the Oil Sands at the Hangingstone SAGD Project, Alberta, Canada

Takashi Tsuji and Satoko Watanabe

Depositional Environment Map of the Canadian Cordilleran Foreland Basin in the Middle Aptian

Brandon C. Tufano and Jeffrey T. Pietras

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Utilizing Microseismic Scanlines to Characterize the Fracture State in Unconventional Reservoirs

Ted Urbancic and Adam M. Baig

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Correlating Water Imbibition to Geology in Montney Formation Using Core and Log Data

Noga Vaisblat, Alireza A. Moghadam, Nicholas B. Harris and Rick Chalaturnyk

Preliminary Evaluation of Source Rock Potential and Burial History of the Upper Cretaceous Tuscaloosa Marine Shale in Mississippi and Louisiana, USA

Brett J. Valentine, Paul Hackley, Catherine B. Enomoto, Celeste Lohr and Owen D. Scholl

Reservoir Modeling and Provenance Analyses of the Campanian M1 Sandstone, Eastern Ecuador

Cristian Vallejo, Oscar Morales, Diego Tapia, Anne Valdez, Jose Leal, Mario Cardenas, Wilfried Winkler, Jose Esteban and Janeth Gaibor

Stratigraphic Architecture, Sedimentology and Ichnology of Late Cretaceous Storm-Flood, River-Dominated Deltas Versus Storm-Dominated Deltas

Dolores A. van der Kolk, Peter P. Flaig and Stephen T. Hasiotis

The Role of Floodplain Aggradation in Building Low-Gradient Dryland River Stratigraphy

Koen A. van Toorenenburg, Marinus E. Donselaar and Gert Jan Weltje

Spatial Distribution of Diagenetic Geobodies in Carboniferous Host Rock, Picos de Europa, Northern Spain

Veerle Vandeginste, Ahron Peskin and Gary J. Hampson

Characterization of a Carbonate Mudrock Reservoir by Integrating Sequence Stratigraphy, Sonic Velocity and Macro to Micropore Architecture

Beth Vanden Berg and Michael Grammer

Characterization of Microbialites from Antelope Island's Bridger Bay and Promontory Point, Great Salt Lake, Utah

Michael D. Vanden Berg, Thomas C. Chidsey and David E. Eby

The Late Albian (Joli Fou) Continental Flooding Event: Not a Simple Story

Kathleen Vannelli and Guy Plint

Integrated Stratigraphic Interpretation of the McMurray Formation SAGD Reservoir in Jackfish Area (Jackfish Phases 2 and 3), Alberta

Bogdan L. Varban, Jay Guilmette, Glenn Larson and Gerry Peters

Including Hydro-Shear in a Practical Reservoir Simulation Model to Improve Well Design in a Fractured Tight Oil Carbonate Resource

George D. Vassilellis and Emad A. Elrafie

Structural Models Constrained by Geophysical Data Provide Additional Insight to the Subsurface in Southern Colorado, U.S.

Maria S. Velasco

Vertical Facies Transitions in a Progradational Fluvial-Fan Succession (Mendoza Foreland, Argentina): Depositional Processes and Spurious Climate Signals

Dario Ventra, Andrea Moscariello, Gabriel Hunger and Gonzalo Veiga

Geomechanical Simulation of Stress Shadows for Improved Hydraulic Fracture Design

Maarten Voorn, Romain Guises, Wouter van der Zee, Tobias Hoeink, John Lynk, Maggie Malapad, John Yeo, Bruce Palmer and Theo van der Werken

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The History of the Petroleum Industry in Eastern Canada

Grant Wach

Correlation of Fluvio-Lacustrine Strata Using Volcanic Tuffs: New Insights From the Jurassic Walloon Coal Measures, Surat Basin, Australia

Carmine Wainman and Peter J. McCabe

Primary and Secondary Controls on Reservoir Quality; Relationships Between Lithofacies and the Development of Deformation Bands

Oliver Wakefield, Edward Hough and Karl D. Clark

Aptian/Albian Sediment Volume and Accumulation Rates, Alaska North Slope and Beaufort Shelf, From Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation and 3-D Backstripping

Virginia T. Wala, Christopher D. Connors, David W. Houseknecht and Lauren E. Schultz

A Cross Basin Source Rock Study Investigating the TOC and Biomarker Groups of Potential Source Rocks In Kansas

Meagan A. Wall, Austin McColloch, Matthew Totten and Drew Evans

Shale Porosity Analysis from SEM Imaging and Traditional Lab Methods

Joel Walls and Tiffany Hintzman

Duvernay Middle Carbonate Distribution and Potential Implications to Subsurface Development

Stefan Walter Krista Beavis, Courtney Whibbs, Sean Stricker, Adam Preston, Jim Jenkins and Fran Hein

TOC Prediction Analysis of Utica-Point Pleasant Formations in the Appalachian Basin

Guochang Wang, Alireza Shahkarami and Jonathan Bruno

Autogenic and Allogenic Fluvial-lacustrine Interactions: Revisiting Sunnyside Delta Interval, Green River Formation (Eocene), Uinta Basin, Utah

Jianqiao Wang and Piret Plink-Bjorklund

Petroleum System Modeling of Devonian Duvernay Formation, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin: Implication for Shale Oil and Gas Resources

Pengwei Wang, Zhuoheng Chen, Xiongqi Pang, Chunqing (Dennis) Jiang, Mingliang Sun and Xiao Chen

Characterizing Bedding-Parallel Fractures in Shale: Aperture-Size Distributions and Spatial Organization

Qiqi Wang and Julia F. Gale

*The Role of Organics on the Sorption Capacity of Paleozoic Shales From Upper Yangtze Region, China

Sibo Wang and Zhiguang Song

An Integrated Seismic Reservoir Characterization Workflow for Sweet Spot Identification in Unconventional Resource Plays in Triassic Yanchang Formation, Erdos Basin, China

Xiangzeng Wang, Lixia Zhang, Wei Wang, Quansheng Liang, Chengfu Jiang, Yagang Gao, Fujian Ma, Qing Wang and Rui Zeng

Reservoir Modeling to Investigate the Impacts of Geological Properties on Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) at the Orion Project, Lower Cretaceous Clearwater Formation, Alberta

Zexuan Wang

Causes of the Worldwide Association Between Salt, Oil and Gas

John K. Warren

Deformation History in the Southern Alberta Foreland Basin and Petroleum System Implications

Marian Warren and Mark Cooper

Medium-scale tidally influenced meandering fluvial deposits of the middle McMurray Formation, Hangingstone SAGD project, Alberta, Canada

Satoko Watanabe and Takashi Tsuji

Petroleum System Insights From the South Florida Basin With Implications to the Southern Gulf of Mexico

David A. Wavrek, Maria Slack, Jessica Williams, Ashley Hansen and Axita Gupta

Offshore Morocco Petroleum Systems: Major Revisions to the Prevailing Paradigm

David A. Wavrek, Maria Slack, Jessica Williams, Ashley Hansen and Craig Barkley

The Mississippian Thick Cypress Sandstone: A Nonconventional CO₂-EOR Target in the Illinois Basin

Nathan D. Webb

Testing Models of Caribbean Tectonics in Global and Regional Contexts

Peter J. Webb, Catherine J. Hill, Nicola G. Henshaw, Josmat Rodriguez, Joseph Barraud and Emma Sutcliffe

Determination of Reservoir Properties From XRF Elemental Data in the Duvernay Formation

Thomas Weedmark and Ron Spencer

Ultrasonic Vertical Transverse Isotropy in High TOC Mudstones From the Vaca Muerta Formation, Argentina

Ralf J. Weger, Max Tenaglia, Peter Swart and Gregor P. Eberli

Diagenetic and Porosity Evolution of Conglomerate Sandstones in Bayingebi Formation of the Lower Cretaceous, Chagan Sag, Chinae-Mongolia Frontier Area

Wei Wei, Xiaomin Zhu and Mingxuan Tan

Analysis of Amalgamated Tidal Deposits in Incised-Valley Estuary and Abandoned Delta Plains

Xiaojie Wei, Ronald Steel, Zaixing Jiang, Rodmar Ravnas and Cornel Olariu

Structural Architecture of the Southern Orange Basin, Block 5/6, Offshore South Africa

Slindile S. Wela

Physical and Mechanical Heterogeneity of Reservoir Rocks in the Opal-A to Opal-CT Transition Zone, Monterey Formation, Western San Joaquin Basin, California

Ryan M. Weller and Richard Behl

Identifying the Sources of Methane in Shallow Groundwaters in South-Central Texas Through Noble Gas Signatures

Tao Wen, M. Clara Castro, Jean-Philippe Nicot, Chris M. Hall, Patrick Mickler and Roxana Darvari

Data Mining Techniques Applied to Marcellus Shale Gas Development in Northeastern Pennsylvania

Anna Wendt, Zhenhui Li, Cheng You, Matthew Gonzales, Fei Wu and Susan Brantley

Combining Ground Penetrating Radar and Outcrop Analysis to Reveal 3-D Sedimentary Architectures and Flow Properties in Deepwater Deposits of the Jackfork Formation, Arkansas

Logan M. West

Stratigraphic Controls on Mississippian Limestone Reservoir Quality Through Integrated Electrofacies Classification and Seismic-Constrained Spatial Statistics, Hardtner Field, South-Central Kansas

Niles W. Wethington and Matthew J. Pranter

Clastic Pipe Diagenesis of the Jurassic Carmel Formation, Southern Utah

David F. Wheatley and Marjorie A. Chan

Lateral Lithofacies Variability in the Shublik Formation Across the Triassic Arctic Alaska Basin

Katherine J. Whidden

A Diagenetic Study of the Wolfcamp Shale, Permian Basin, West Texas

Alyssa K. Wickard, Richard D. Elmore and Gerhard Heij

Facies and Provenance of Basal Clastics in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico

Kory Wiley, Amy Weislogel, Samuel Bowman, Sonnet W. Gomes, Delores M. Robinson and David Barbeau

Diagenetic Controls on Normal Fault-Zone Architecture Determine the Episodicity of Fault-Zone Fluid Migration

Randolph T. Williams, Laurel B. Goodwin, Peter Mozley and Warren Sharp

Reasons for Falling Commerciality of New Discoveries and Possible Solutions

Julie Wilson

Insights to a complex Mesozoic sedimentary system: 2D and 3D seismic imaging coupled with petrophysical data from deep wells, the Scotian Basin, Nova Scotia (Canada)

Juan Wong, Ricardo Silva and Grant Wach

Evolution of Frasnian Mixed Carbonate-Siliclastics Systems: Outcrop-Based Characterization of Sequence Stratigraphy and Architecture, Cline Channel and Jasper Basin Areas, Alberta, Canada

Pak Wong, John Weissenberger and Murray Gilhooly

Understanding the Fundamental Processes Governing the Origin and Distribution of Clay-Coated Sand Grains in Petroleum Reservoirs Through a Modern Day Analogue

Luke J. Wooldridge, Richard Worden, Joshua Griffiths, James Utley and Robert Duller

Potentially Conductive Grain Boundary Channels in Fracture Cements of Low Permeability Rocks

Erick Wright, Christopher J. Landry and Peter Eichhubl

A Geochemical Model for the Formation of the Pre-Salt Reservoirs, Santos Basin, Brazil: Implications for Understanding Reservoir Distribution

Paul Wright and Nick Tosca

Gas Transport Through Nanopores of Shale Gas Reservoirs: Coupling Pore Diffusion and Surface Diffusion

Keliu Wu, Zhangxin Chen and Xiangfang Li

Flow Behavior of Water Through Nanopores of Unconventional Reservoirs: Confinement and Slip Effects

Keliu Wu, Zhangxin Chen and Xiangfang Li

Chemostratigraphy and Mineral Evolution of the Green River Formation

Tengfei Wu and Jerry Boak

The Middle Montney — A Dirty Old Carbonate Formation With a Secret Past?

Raphael Wust, David Kelly, Aaron Bonk-Richards, Heather Offord, Ben Collins, Brent Nassichuk and John Nieto

Petroleum Systems Modeling Since AAPG Memoir 60

Bjorn Wygrala and Thomas Hantschel

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Coupled Simulation With Integrated 2-D and 3-D Factor of Safety Analysis for SAGD Caprock Integrity

Jun Xiong, Nathan L. Deisman and Rick Chalaturnyk

In-Situ Stress Field in the Athebasca Oil Sands Deposit and its Overburden Formations, Northeastern Alberta, Canada

Bin Xu and Yanguang Yuan

Lower Miocene Sediment Dispersal Pathway From Onshore to Offshore, Gulf of Mexico: Insight From Detrital Zircon Geochronology

Jie Xu, John W. Snedden, Daniel F. Stockli and Craig Fulthorpe

A Viscoplastic Stress Relaxation Model for Predicting Variations of the Least Principal Stress With Depth in Unconventional Reservoirs

Shaochuan Xu and Mark D. Zoback

Quantitative Characterization of Brittle Minerals in Shale Gas Reservoir, Jiaoshiba Area, China

Zhuang Xu and Wanzhong Shi

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Early to Middle Eocene Planktonic Foraminifera Biostratigraphy of OPD Site 998 on the Cayman Rise, Caribbean Sea

Stacy Yager and Richard Fluegeman

A New Parallel Fold Construction Method From Borehole Dip for Structural Delineation

Tetsushi Yamada, Isabelle Le Nir, Eric Moscardi and Arnaud Etchecopar

Borehole Informatics: Data Integration Challenges of Scientific Drilling

Yasuhiro Yamada and Moe K. Thu

Numerical Model for Prediction of Internal Stratigraphic Architecture and Heterogeneity in Tidally Influenced Fluvial Point-Bar Deposits

Na Yan, Nigel P. Mountney, Robert Dorrell and Luca Colombera

Structure of Weathered Clastic Crust and its Petroleum Potential

Fan Yang and Lianhua Hou

The Discontinuity Layout Optimization Technique for SAGD Caprock Integrity Analysis

Song Yao, Jun Xiong and Rick Chalaturnyk

Pore Types and Their Distribution Within Different Facies Types in the Devonian Ohio Shale of Martin County, Kentucky — SEM Observations on Ion-Milled Samples

Zalmai Yawar and Juergen Schieber

Post-Rift Faulting Migration, Transition and Dynamics in Zhu 1 Depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin

Qing Ye, Lianfu Mei, Yu Shu, Hailun Liu, Wei Tian and Hao Yan

Rock Properties From Well Logs Using Implicit Predictive Modeling Technique to Reduce Massive Coring Operations in Oil-Sand Mining

Shin-Ju Ye and Christopher Dicaprio

Impact of Multiscale Characteristics of Heterogeneous Pore Structure and Mineralogy on Mechanical Properties of Shale

Hongkyu Yoon, Joseph Grigg, Thomas Dewers, Peter Mozley, Alex Rinehart, Jason Heath and Mathew Ingraham

Intra-Formation, “Sub-Seismic Resolution” Deformation in the Lewis Allochthon, Montana, and Arbuckle Anticline, Oklahoma: Preliminary Results and Implications

Aaron S. Yoshinobu, Jenna Hessert and Katrina Soundy

The Influence of Volcanic Ash Sediments on the Formation of Lacustrine Organic-Rich Shale in Ordos Basin, Central China

Wei Yuan, Guangdi Liu, Wenbin Luo and Chaozheng Li

Helium in Southwestern Saskatchewan

Melinda Yurkowski

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Inherited Structural Fabrics and the Impact on Oblique Slip Faults in the South Texas Laramide Foreland

Christopher Zahm, Gordon A. Smith and Andrea Nolting

Magma-Poor and Volcanic Passive Margins — Characterization of the End-Members of Rifted Margins

Pedro V. Zalán

Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Rifting in the Brazilian Southeastern Passive Margin

Pedro V. Zalán

New Insights on the Reservoir Geology, Mineralogy and Geochemistry of the Dentale and Gamba Formations (Early Cretaceous, Gabon) and Their Implications for Regional Geology and Pore-Scale Characterization

Giovanni Zanoni, Branimir Segvic, Andrea Moscariello and Luc Tranchet

Seismic Paleogeomorphology of a Platform Carbonate System and its Influence on Quality of Deeply-Buried Dolomitized Reservoir in Cambrian Longwangmiao Formation, Moxi-Gaoshiti Area, Sichuan Basin, China

Hongliu Zeng, Zhaohui Xu, Suyun Hu, Qilong Fu and Wenzhi Zhao

Fluvial Sandbody Connectivity: Observations From High Resolution 3-D Seismic of Dynamic Channel Fill Abandonment in the North Malay Basin

Rui Zhai, John D. Pigott and Kulwadee L. Pigott

Seismic Characteristics of Large-Scale Sand Injectites in Baiyun Sag, Pear River Mouth Basin, South China Sea

Changmin Zhang, Rui Zhu, Bo Yang, Shaohua Li, Shangfeng Zhang, Jiayuan Du and Hesheng Shi

Does Aragonite-Dolomite Sea Exist? Widespread Marine Dolomite Precipitation in Ediacaran Period in China

Jie Zhang and Brian Jones

Pre-Salt Lacustrine Coquinas Limestone Reservoir of Lower Cretaceous Itapema Formation in Santos Basin, Brazil

Jie Zhang and Hongping Wang

Microseismic Event Location Trend and Their Relationship With Sequence Stratigraphy

Jing Zhang and Roger Slatt

XRF Chemostratigraphy for Characterizing a Shale Reservoir Along a Horizontal Well Track

Jing Zhang, Bryan W. Turner and Roger Slatt

Feeder Channel-Belts and Coeval Shelf-Edge Evolution in the Lower Wilcox Clastic Wedge, South Texas: Implications for Sand Selivery Into the Deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico

Jinyu Zhang, Ronald Steel and William Ambrose

Dominant Role of Structural Inheritance in the Distribution of Faulted Sags, Erlian Basin, the Eastern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (NE China)

Shaohua Zhang and Minghui Yang

Hydrocarbon Episodic Migration in Fault Zones: Insights From Physical Simulation Experiments

Shaohua Zhang and Minghui Yang

Empirical Relationship Between Gas-Chemical Composition and Thermal Maturity in Eagle Ford Formation, South Texas

Tongwei Zhang, Xun Sun, Kitty L. Milliken, Stephen C. Ruppel and Daniel Enriquez

Effects of Oil and Water on Mudrock Pore Size Distribution and Pore-Scale Fluid Distribution

Tongwei Zhang, Xiangzeng Wang, Xun Sun, Kitty L. Milliken, Stephen C. Ruppel and Daniel Enriquez

The Oil Migration Pathway and Hydrocarbon Charging History of Petroleum Systems in Termit Basin, Eastern Niger

Jing Zhao and Meijun Li

Evaluation of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery in the Jacksonburg-Stringtown Oilfields, West Virginia

Zhi Zhong and Timothy Carr

3-D Geomorphology of Pleistocene Fluvial Systems in the Northern Shelf of the South China Sea: Implications for the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition

Haiteng Zhuo, Yingmin Wang, Hesheng Shi, Min He, Weitao Chen and Ying Wang

Early Mesozoic Silt-Dominated Coastal Successions on the Western Margin of the North American Craton

John-Paul Zonneveld, Thomas Moslow, Stephen M. Hubbard and Tyler W. Beatty

Stratigraphic Architecture and Facies Distribution Within the Wall Creek Member of the Frontier Formation, Western Powder River Basin, Wyoming

John Zupanic, Michael Hofmann and Andy Hennes

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