Friday PM Grand Ballroom
1:10 PM – 2:50 PM CAREER MANAGEMENT AND SKILLS ASSESSMENT PANEL DISCUSSION
Mike Erpenbeck, Session Chair.
Panelists: Hal Miller, Subsurface Consultants; John Sneider, Technical Director of Geoscience, Petroskills; Robert Pledger, President, Ashford Oil & Gas LLC; Tom Bowman, President, TBD Oil Corporation; Geoff Davis, Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley Investor Banking; Susan Morrice, Co-Founder and Chairperson Belize Natural Energy Ltd; Ted Kernan, Founder, Well Log Data.
2:50 PM Break
SPECIAL TOPICS-DEPOSITION AND MODELING, Session Chair
3:20 PM Jerry Kendall (Consultant): Fluvial Tapestries: The Depositional Record of Hurricane Harvey in Buffalo Bayou
3:45 PM Kate Kendall (Geo-Artist): Fluvial Tapestries: GeoArt of Hurricane Harvey in Buffalo Bayou
4:10 PM B. Frederick (JCCC/KU): Lower Mississippi River Delta Deep-Seated Subsidence Rate Dynamics, Bias, and Spatial-Temporal Depocenter Complexities – Late Pliocene to Pleistocene
Friday PM Briarpark Room
ROCK MECHANICS AND LOG ANALYSIS, Session Chair: Sharma Dronamraju
1:10 PM Chris Zahm (BEG) : High-Resolution Rock Strength and the Implications for Reservoir Geomechanics in the Cenomanian-age Buda Formation, Dimmit County, Texas
1:35 PM Robert Reed (BEG): Heterogeneity of Microscale Lithology and Pore Development in an Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group Horizontal Core
2:00 PM David Tonner, Aaron Salin (DWL): Inorganic Elemental Rock Compositions Provide Detailed Subsurface Characterization to Reduce Geological and Stratigraphic Uncertainty.
2:25 PM Ramil Ahmadov (New England Research): Non-Destructive Automated Scanning of Fine-Scale Geological, Petrophysical And Geomechanical Rock Properties and Its Value In Reservoir Characterization
2:50 PM Break
3:20 PM Nawaz Bugti (U of H) Role of Minibasin Obstruction in the Downflow Movement of the Salt Canopy in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
3:45 PM Khaled Hashmy (RSTS Enterprises): The Apparent Producibility: A Novel Approach for Reliable Geological and Completion Decisions and Improved Net-Pay Determination
4:10 PM James Willis (Willis School Applied Geology): Quick-Look Deterministic Approach for Evaluating Shale Distribution in Sandstone Reservoirs
Friday PM Ballroom FGH
CARBONATE AND CLASTIC MEGA REGIONAL INSIGHTS , Session Chair- Jeff Duxbury
1:10 PM Jeffrey Duxbury (LSU): Temporal Scales of Mass Transport on The Mississippi River Delta Front from Results of a New Regional Survey
1:35 PM Robert Loucks (BEG ): Depositional Systems, Lithofacies, Nanopore to Micropore Matrix Network, and Reservoir Quality of the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Buda Formation in Dimmit County, Southwestern Texas
2:00 PM Josh Rosenfeld (Independent): Erosion of the Florida and Yucatan Carbonate Margins of the Gulf of Mexico: Subaqueous or Subaerial?
2:25 PM Alex Owen* , E. Mancini (U Alabama): Depositional Model for Lithofacies Of the Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation in The Conecuh Embayment, Onshore Northeastern Gulf of Mexico: Implications For Petroleum Exploration
2:50 PM Break
3:20 PM Tobi Kosanke (ALS): Using Hyperspectral Imaging to facilitate upscaling of petrophysical and geological data for unconventional reservoirs: Application and results from the Third Bones Spring Shale and the Austin Chalk
3:45 PM Robert Scott (Precision Stratigraphy): Valanginian Knowles Limestone, East Texas, A Potential Reservoir
4:10 PM David King*, Jason Fisher (Auburn): Carbonate Facies Within Siliciclastic Submarine Fan Deposits, Lower Cenozoic Toledo Formation, Southern Belize: Petrography and Provenance
Friday PM Richmond Room
GLOBAL DEEPWATER RESERVOIRS II,
Session Chairs Session Chairs: Dave Cantrell, Anshuman Pradhan, Mason Dykstra, Jon Rotzien
No afternoon break is scheduled in this session.
1:10 Peter Clift (LSU): Signal Loss and Sediment Recycling in The Quaternary Indus Fan and Delta System
1:35 PM Vlad Rotar (U. Stavanger): Reservoir Modeling and Uncertainty Estimation: A Comparison Between Stochastic and Deterministic Inversion
2:00 PM Philomena Y. Gan (U Texas): Downslope Facies and Architectural Variations of Deepwater Slope Channels in Outcrop, Case Study From Jurassic Neuquen Basin, Argentina
2:25 P Jon Rotzein (Basin Dynamics): Reservoir-scale architecture of deep-water slope, base-of-slope, and basin-floor fan depositional environments: The upper Miocene Urenui and Mount Messenger formations, New Zealand
2:50 PM Brent McInnes (Curtin University)The Exotica Carbonate Megabreccia Debris Flow Deposit and Associated Hydrocarbon Seeps in the New Ireland Basin, Papua New Guinea
3:20 PM Benjamin Kirkland (CNOOC Energy USA): Properties of Thermogenic and Microbial Hydrocarbon Mixtures at Gunflint Oil Field and Implications for Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico
3:45 PM Sebastian Cardona*, Lorena Moscardelli (Equinor): Subaqueous Landslides, Mass Transport Deposits and Other Catastrophic Units: 16 Years of Observations, Readings, Reviewing and Inconclusive Statements Regarding O&G Relevance
4:10 PM Anshuman Pradhan (Stanford): Integrating Basin Modeling and Seismic Imaging for Joint Uncertainty Reduction
4:35 PM I. Gjeldvek (Faroe): Assessment and Well Planning of A Shallow Marine Reservoir Based On High Resolution Angle Stack Seismic
