Schedule
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| Start time | Presenting Author | Title | Theme |
Monday | |||
| Monday Morning/Afternoon: “Petrophysics, Diagenesis, and Chemostratigraphy of Mid-Continent Plays” | |||
| Chairs: Karin Goldberg, Kansas State University and Franek Hasiuk, Kansas Geological Survey | |||
| 8:50 | Introduction/Opening Remarks | ||
| 9:00 | John H. Doveton | Think Deep: The Science of Petrophysics | Petrophysics |
| 9:30 | Karin Goldberg | Automatic Interpretation of the Depositional Conditions in Black Shales: Application to the Chattanooga Formation in Kansas | Petrophysics |
| 9:50 | Benmadi Milad | Applications of Machine Learning Techniques in Geology: Facies Classification and Clustering Methods. The Sycamore/Meramec, Woodford Shale, and Hunton Group examples | Petrophysics |
| 10:10 | Break | ||
| 10:30 | Greg A. Ludvigson | Record of the Middle Cenomanian Event from the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway (WIS) in Kansas | Petrophysics |
| 10:50 | Franciszek Hasiuk | Insights into Meteoric Diagenesis in Microporous Limestones from Stable Carbon Isotopes | Petrophysics |
| 11:10 | Misagh Esmaeilpour | Effect of Scale on Porosity and Permeability in Homogeneous Porous Media: A Pore-Network Modeling Study | Petrophysics |
| 11:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 | Cory Terrell | Regional Stratigraphy and Diagenetic Characterization of the Mississippian Meramec, Osage, and Sycamore Formations, Anadarko Basin, Central Oklahoma | Petrophysics |
| 1:50 | Sal J. Mazzulo | Porosity Evolution in Lower to Middle Mississippian Petroleum Reservoirs, Kansas and Northern Oklahoma | Petrophysics |
| 2:10 | Ibukun Bode-Omoleye | NMR Characterization of Pore Syetems within Diagenetically Complex Reservoirs: Mississippian-Aged Carbonates (Reno County, Kansas) | Petrophysics |
| 2:30 | Yulun Wang | Testing the Value of Rebound Hardness in Estimating Petrophysical and Rock Mechanical Properties From Core and Well Logs: Examples From the “Miss Lime”/STACK Play and Vaca Muerta Formation | Petrophysics |
| 2:50 | End | ||
| Monday Morning/Afternoon: “New Stratigraphic and Structural Concepts for Mid-Continent Plays” | |||
| Chairs: Anthony Walton, University of Kansas and Tandis Bidgoli, University of Missouri | |||
| 9:00 | Introduction/Opening Remarks | ||
| 9:10 | Anthony W. Walton | Some Thoughts on the Classification of Shales and Other Mudstones | Strat/Struc |
| 9:30 | Curtis J. Faulkner | The Distribution of Marine Phosphate Nodules from Oklahoma’s Pennsylvanian Cyclothems with Implications on the Black Shale Problem and the Phosphate Corridor | Strat/Struc |
| 9:50 | H.M.D. Agbogun | Organic Geochemical Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Generation-Potentials and Paleo-Depositional Environments: Example from the Chad Basin | Strat/Struc |
| 10:10 | Break | ||
| 10:30 | Marvin P. Carlson | Midcontinent Rift and the Nemaha Uplift – Prospecting “Tectonic” Reservoirs | Strat/Struc |
| 10:50 | Steven A. Tedesco | Comparison of the Wrench Fault Trap Systems of the Livengood and Kizler North Fields, Kansas and the Runamuck Field, Missouri, Forest City Basin | Strat/Struc |
| 11:10 | Steven A. Tedesco | The Arikaree Creek Field, Southern Denver Basin, Colorado – Anomaly or Typical Target in the Area? | Strat/Struc |
| 11:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 | Nicholas Counts | Biostratigraphic Characterization of a Mississippian Core: Canton SWD#1, Bitikofer field McPherson, Kansas | Strat/Struc |
| 1:50 | Cody Totten | Regional Correlation of Caney-Meramec-Sycamore Formations: Implications for Sediment Delivery and Source-Rock Development | Strat/Struc |
| 2:10 | Tandis S. Bidgoli | Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Upper Mississippian Sandstones in the Midcontinent and Implications for Provenance and Sediment Transport | Strat/Struc |
| 2:30 | Break | ||
| 2:50 | Zachary Tunin | U-Pb Detrital Zircon Geochronology and Provenance Analysis of Middle Pennsylvanian Cherokee Sandstones, Anadarko Basin and Cherokee Platform, Oklahoma | Strat/Struc |
| 3:00 | Wei Wang | Provenance and Thermal History of the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian Arkoma Shelf and Basin, Northwestern Arkansas, through Detrital Zircon U-Pb and (U-Th)/He Double Dating | Strat/Struc |
| 3:20 | End | ||
| Monday Afternoon: “CO2 Utilization and Storage in Mid-Continent Reservoirs” | |||
| Chair: Tiraz Birdie, TBirdie Consulting | |||
| 1:20 | Introduction/Opening Remarks | ||
| 1:30 | Tiraz Birdie | Carbon Management – Opportunities for Petroleum Geologists | CCUS |
| 1:50 | Nathan D. Webb | Screening and Characterizing Residual Oil Zones for CO2-EOR and Storage in a Variety of Geologic Settings; Illinois Basin Examples | CCUS |
| 2:10 | George Tsoflias | Mississippian CO2 EOR Validates Seismic Prediction of Reservoir Properties | CCUS |
| 2:30 | Break | ||
| 2:50 | Valerie Smith | Carbon Storage and the Characterization of the Lansing-Kansas City Group through Cores and Logs | CCUS |
| 3:10 | Esmail Ansari | Estimates of Permeability and Storage Capacity for the CO2 Storage Hub Complex at Patterson Field, Western Kansas, USA | CCUS |
| 3:30 | Jenny Meng | Evaluating Seal Integrity for CO2 Storage Complex at Patterson Field, Southwest Kansas | CCUS |
| 3:50 | End | ||
| Monday Afternoon: Special Session: “The Future Now: Energy and Minerals in the 2020’s” | |||
| Chairs: Shane Matson and/or Douglas Davis | |||
| 3:00 | Edith Wilson | Exploring New Energy Frontiers | Special Session |
| 3:20 | Chris Carson | ? | Special Session |
| 3:40 | Mike Kuykendall | ? | Special Session |
| 4:00 | Bill Coffee | ? | Special Session |
| 4:20 | Clayton Davis | ? | Special Session |
| 4:40 | Panel Discussion | Special Session | |
| 5:00 | End | Special Session | |
| Tuesday Morning: “Advancing Mature Plays Through New Technologies” | |||
| Chair: Sal Mazzullo, Wichita State University | |||
| 9:00 | Introduction/Opening Remarks | ||
| 9:10 | Charlie Smith | Horizontal Reservoir Value Increased by Enhanced Geological Knowledge | Mature Plays |
| 9:30 | Steven A. Tedesco | Application of Surface Geochemical Survey with Aeromagnetic, Subsurface Geology and Seismic Data in Exploration for Conventional Reservoirs | Mature Plays |
| 9:50 | Geoffrey Thyne | Does the Salinity of Injection Water Matter? | Mature Plays |
| 10:10 | End | ||
| Tuesday Afternoon: “Mid-Continent Shale Plays: Woodford, SCOOP/STACK and Beyond” | |||
| Chair: James Puckette, Oklahoma State University | |||
| 1:20 | Introduction/Opening Remarks | ||
| 1:30 | Ray Soreson | Shales that Burn | Shale Plays |
| 1:50 | Oyeleye O. Adeboye | On Organic Matter Enrichment in the Mississippian Limestone of the Anadarko Shelf of Oklahoma | Shale Plays |
| 2:10 | Carl Symcox | Geochemistry of STACK/SCOOP Production in the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma | Shale Plays |
| 2:30 | Break | ||
| 2:50 | Bill Fairhurst | Geologic – Reservoir 3D Characterization Modeling used to develop Analytic and Economic Outlook Models of Unconventional Resources, onshore continental United States | Shale Plays |
| 3:10 | Bill Fairhurst | The Perfect Unconventional Resource Portfolio | Shale Plays |
| 3:00 | End | ||
| Tuesday Morning/Afternoon: “Wastewater, Seismicity, and Other Challenges for Mid-Continent Production” | |||
| Chairs: George Tsoflias, University of Kansas and Scott M. Ausbrook, Arkansas Geological Survey | |||
| 8:50 | Introduction/Opening Remarks | ||
| 9:10 | Jake Walter | Elevated Potential for Damaging Earthquakes Across the Mid-Continent | Wastewater, Seismicity, Etc. |
| 9:30 | Scott M. Ausbrooks | Developing Criteria to Characterize and Classify Discrete Clusters of Earthquakes from 2012-2016 in North-Central Arkansas as Natural or Induced | Wastewater, Seismicity, Etc. |
| 9:50 | Shelby Peterie | Regional Trends in Seismicity, Formation Pressure, and Fluid Levels in Kansas | Wastewater, Seismicity, Etc. |
| 10:10 | Break | ||
| 10:30 | Keith A. Nolte | Monitoring Seismicity near a CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Sequestration Site | Wastewater, Seismicity, Etc. |
| 10:50 | Brice LaCroix | Assessing Fault Reactivation Potential Related to Increased Fluid Pressures within Wellington and Anson-Bates Fields, Sumner County, Kansas | Wastewater, Seismicity, Etc. |
| 11:10 | Michael Olaniran | A Systematic Analysis of Possible Causes of Earthquakes in Central and Eastern United States: Evidence from Seismicity Rate, Strain Rate, Elastic Strain Budget and Frequency-Magnitude Relationship | Wastewater, Seismicity, Etc. |
| 11:30 | Lunch | ||
| 1:30 | Brett M. Carpenter | Critically Oriented Faults and Fluid Pathways: Ingredients for Induced Seismicity in North-Central Oklahoma | Wastewater, Seismicity, Etc. |
| 1:50 | Sean Hussey | Initial Piezometric Conditions of the Arbuckle Group | Wastewater, Seismicity, Etc. |
| 2:10 | Gary J. Rowell | Injection Wells and Earthquakes: Volume and Pressure or Rate and Geochemistry? | Wastewater, Seismicity, Etc. |
| 2:30 | End | ||
| Tuesday Afternoon: Special Session: “Black Oil, Red Victory: The Impact of Petroleum on the Eastern Front in World War Two” | |||
| Presenter: Dr. Tom Schafer, Fort Hays State University | |||
| 3:00 | Introduction and Presentation | ||
| 3:40 | Q&A, discussion | ||
| 4:00 | End | ||
| Tuesday Afternoon: Special Session: “The Use of Drones for Gas/Leak Detection” | |||
| Presenter: Dr. Susan Nash, AAPG | |||
| 3:00 | Introduction and Presentation | ||
| 3:40 | Q&A, discussion | ||
| 4:00 | End | ||
Monday Posters
| Stratigraphy & Structure | ||
| P1 | Toth and Puckette | Influence of Structure on Mississippian Paleotopography and Distribution of the Pennsylvanian Red Fork and Lower Skinner Sandstones in Parts of Noble, Pawnee and Osage Counties, Oklahoma |
| P2 | Farr and Kerr | Permeability Anisotropy and Meandering Fluvial Facies Architecture of the Bartlesville Sandstone, Nowata County, Oklahoma |
| P3 | Faulkner | A New Approach to Geological Surface Mapping for the Missourian and Desmoinesian Sediments in the Tulsa Basin-Cherokee Platform of Eastern Oklahoma: The MADEOS Project |
| P4 | Hagood et al. | DETAILED CORE AND LOG ANALYSIS OF A PRODUCING VIOLA DOLOMITE WELL IN COMANCHE COUNTY, KANSAS |
| P5 | Li and Mills | Source Rock characteristics of the Arbuckle-Knox and Elvins Groups in northeastern Arkansas |
| P6 | Clymer et al. | Gamma Ray and TOC, Cleveland Member, Ohio Shale Group, Kentucky |
| P7 | Doyle | Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zones” as Analogs for Ancient Marine Source Rock Depositional Environments |
| P8 | Hasiuk | 3D Printing Kansas Geology: Methods and Models for Increasing Understanding and Engagement with Kansas Geology |
Tuesday Posters | ||
| CCUS | ||
| P9 | Smith et al. | Lansing-Kansas City Correlations from Outcrop Belt to Red Willow County, Nebraska |
| P10 | Rijfkogel | Incorporating seismic attributes, well-logs, and computer tomography scan for porosity prediction of a 3D seismic survey, Wellington Field, Kansas |
| P11 | Tucci et al. | Seismic Processing Workflow for Maximizing Quality Control of 2D and 3D Seismic Data in Ellis County, Kansas |
| P12 | Polun et al. | Monitoring injection-induced surface deformation in the US midcontinent with interferometric SAR (InSAR): New methods for assessing induced seismicity |
| P13 | Okunromade et al. | PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE-ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY (CO2-EOR) IN KANSAS OILFIELDS |
| Petrophysics | ||
| P14 | Rinderknecht and Hasiuk | Deciphering the paragenesis of the calcite microcrystals that host microporosity in limestone oil reservoirs from highly spatially resolved imaging and geochemistry |
| P15 | Seyedolali et al. | Provenance and diagenesis of the Mississippian Meramec STACK rocks in north-central Oklahoma, USA |
| P16 | Orso and Hasiuk | New Approaches for Well Cutting Analysis: Rig-Site Water Intrusion Porosimetry (R-SWIP) and Dynamic Particle Size Analysis |
| P17 | Mills | Petrographic analysis of diagenetic trends and porosity types in the upper Smackover Formation, southwestern Arkansas |