Table of Contents

Monday Morning: October 1

Regional Geological Studies and Depositional Facies Analysis – Session 1 – 6 Talks
Gulf of Mexico – Deepwater – 4 Talks
Seismic Attributes and Modern Geophysical Technology – 4 Talks
Poster Session 1

Monday Afternoon: October 1

Climate Change: Current Thinking and Assessment – 7 Talks
Regional Geological Studies and Depositional Facies Analysis – Session 2 – 6 Talks
Advanced Studies in Geology – 5 Talks
Poster Session 2

Tuesday Morning: October 2

Lower Cotton Valley – Bossier: Jurassic Gulf Coast Reservoirs – 5 Talks
Regional Geological Studies and Depositional Facies Analysis – Session 3 – 6 Talks
Ground Water and Environmental Studies – Session 1 – 4 Talks
Poster Session 3

Tuesday Afternoon: October 2

Geology and History – 5 Talks
Ground Water and Environmental Studies – Session 2 – 4 Talks
Special Session – Shale Resource Plays: 10 years later – 7 Talks
 Monday Morning: October 1
Opening Speaker

Regional Geological Studies and Depositional Facies Analysis –

Session 1 – 6 Talks
The Smackover facies distribution at Brooklyn Field, Conecuh County, Alabama Lawrence Baria

The Jackson Gas Rock, a unique Upper Cretaceous (Selma Chalk) lithofacies Steven Walkinshaw

"Sedimentology, petrography of the Tallahatta Formation near the city of Kiana McFadden
Meridian, Mississippi"

Structural styles of Eocene-Jackson and Oligocene-Vicksburg Formations within Osareni Ogiesoba

the Rio Grande and Houston Embayments near the San Marcos arch south
Texas Gulf Coast

Geochemical analysis of the carbonate-evaporite Miocene outcrops in Khlaed Amrouni

Barqah State: Cyrenaica Platform and Sirt Basin

Concepts of Stratigraphic Correlation – Applied Imagination: Randy Bissell

Comprehending and Expanding the
Vision of Infinite Geologic Detail with Limited Data

Gulf of Mexico – Deepwater – 4 Talks

Success and failure in the deepwater Norphlet play, United States Gulf of Dominic Smith
Mexico

Evaluating Petrophysical Variations of Turbidite Depositional Systems with James Willis

Implications for Enhanced Reservoir Modeling in Lobster Field, Ewing Bank 873,
Gulf of Mexico

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 Hydrocarbon prospectivity of rifted, conjugate margins of the Gulf of Mexico, Muhammad Nawaz Bugti
Central Atlantic, and South Atlantic

Depositional and diagenetic controls on reservoir quality in deepwater William Ambrose

sandstones in the Lower Wilcox Group,
Lavaca Canyon, southeastern Texas Gulf Coast

Seismic Attributes and

Modern Geophysical Technology – 4 Talks
Recent Advances in Pore Pressure Prediction in Complex Geologic Alan Huffman
Environments

Using electrical resistivity surveys to determine subsurface connectivity in a karst Colby Reece
terrain, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas

Observation of anomalous seismic p-wave velocities in Catahoula-age ash, Robert Schneider

south Texas

Will A.I. make interpreters obsolete? Enhancing Seismic Interpretation using Eric Getz
Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning using Multiple Seismic Attributes Deborah Sacrey

Poster Session 1
Correlation of sand reservoirs in the Lower Tuscaloosa Formation in the Alexandra Warren
Smithdale and East Fork fields in Amite County, Mississippi

Global dynamic processes including generation of mantle plumes Allen Lowrie

assist in facilitating locating of hydrocarbons in sedimentary basins

Carbon dioxide sealing capacity of the Tuscaloosa marine shale: Celeste Lohr
Insights from mercury injection capillary pressure analyses

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 “Sedimentary facies and strontium-isotope stratigraphy, David King
Hillbank and Yalbac formations, Corozal basin, Belize”

A Geochemical Analysis of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (Upper Cretaceous) Grace Stone
Core Recovered from Eads Poitevent #1

Investigation of Reservoir Quality of the Lower Tuscaloosa Formation Core Joseph Chapman
Recovered from Larry Ott #1-20

Zircon geochronology of the glendon formation bentonite at Rankin Trails Park, Kaitlyn La Fleur
Brandon, Mississippi

Petrographic Analysis of Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (Upper Cretaceous) Core Mary Fearn
recovered from Eads Poitevent #1

Correlation of the Eagle Ford Shale, Woodbine Formation, and equivalent Nicholas Gianoutsos
Cenomanian-Turonian mudstones using regional wireline-log cross sections
across the Texas Gulf Coast, U.S.A.

Thermal Maturation of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale: Nicholas Jarrett

Associations for Pore Pressure, Oil Generation and Secondary Porosity

Linear shoals of the Jeter Limestone Member of the Rodessa Formation in the Russell Jackson
Ark-La-Tex

Reservoir Characterization of the Hartselle Sandstone in the Vicinity of Thu Nguyen

Gorgas Power Plant, Walker County, Alabama, using Amplitude Variation with
Offset (AVO)

Correlation of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale in Mississippi, Louisiana, and William Rouse
East Texas, USA

Late Pleistocene to Holocene meandering and lateral migration within the Big Zachary Musselman
Black River, Mississippi

Finding sweet spots: an outcrop based investigation Victoria Chevrot

(Eagle Ford Formation, Val Verde County, Texas)

Investigating the natural fracture system of the Eagle Ford and Ross Ledoux
Austin Chalk Formations

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 Monday Afternoon: October 1

Climate Change: Current Thinking and Assessment – 7 Talks

Climate Models: Forecasts of the Future? David Legates

Which will dominate future global temperature changes in next 200 years: Douglas Carlson
solar irradiance or greenhouse gases?

CO2 – Greening Earth And Saving Lives H. Leighton Steward

“What if Humans are causing Climate Change: H. Sterling Burnett

Rational vs. Irrational Responses”

An independent, objective assessment of the Harold Doiron

Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) issue

A warmer planet is beneficial to humans and the biosphere John Dunn

John Dale Dunn MD JD

Climate Change Ideas meet the Scientific Method John Christy

Regional Geological Studies and Depositional Facies Analysis –

Session 2 – 6 Talks
Complex Reef Mound Environment on a Cretaceous shelf: facies analyses and Jacob Meinerts
depositional environment of the
Owl Mountain Province, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas

Analyses and interpretations of a conventional core from central Louisiana, Gary Kinsland
which contains deposits resulting from the effects of the Chicxulub Impact

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 Subsurface and Geophysical Investigation of the Oligocene Frio Formation, James Willis
South Elton Field, Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana

Petrographic and SEM analyses of the Fort Terrett Formation of the Richard Urwin
Lower Edwards, near Junction, Texas

Considering key geologic risk factors in basin margin turbidite plays utilizing John Dribus
analogs from the African margin

Structural styles and geotectonic elements in northwestern Mississippi: Gary Kinsland

Interpreted from gravity, magnetic and proprietary 2D seismic data

Advanced Studies in Geology – 5 Talks

Field observations of soil-water tension throughout a capillary fringe in Timothy Duex
New Iberia, Louisiana.

The Effects of Complex Geology in Planning Long Horizontal Wells Scott Comegys

Influence of Shale Distribution Types on the Effective Porosity of James Willis

Sandstone Reservoirs

Disposal/Injection crisis – a step by step evaluation method to determine if a well Patricia DuBois
is at the end of life when it stops taking fluid

Quick-Look Deterministic Approach for Evaluating Shale Distribution in James Willis

Sandstone and Carbonate Reservoirs: Implications toward Reservoir Quality

Poster Session 2
Estimating the effect of rock mineral composition on reservoir quality: Adewale Amosu
application in the Spraberry Field, Permian Basin

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 Depositional models onshore Corpus Christi Basin Bob Cox

A comparison of Holocene with other interglacial periods similarities and Douglas Carlson
differences

Role of Eocene-Oligocene mass transport deposits for controlling along-strike Jack Kenning
variations in thickness, structural geology, and hydrocarbon sealing, Mexican
Ridges fold-Thrust belt, western GOM

Paleoenvironment prediction and interpretation of the Norphlet Formation in Kyle Olsen

onshore Alabama

Extracting fault and regional salt flow information from a high-resolution, Muhammad Nawaz Bugti
bathymetric map of the shelf, slope and abyssal plain of the US Gulf of Mexico

Distribution of elements and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a commercial Stan Galicki

retention pond: Colony Crossing, Madison, Mississippi

Frequency and distribution of carbonate gravity flow deposits in the Wolfcampian Wesley Turner
of the Southwestern Midland Basin

Lateral Hydraulic Connectivity Assessment of the Outbound Structural Province William Morrison
of the Deepwater Wilcox Formation: Northern Gulf of Mexico

Geochemical analyses of karst springs within the Lampasas Cut Plain, Fort Kaleb Henry
Hood Military Installation, Texas

Preliminary report on radiolarians from Gulf of Mexico Mohsen Kariminia

deepwater seafloor samples

Mineralogical, geothermal, and porosity analysis of the Eagle Mills Formation Timothy Palmer

Re-visiting of Stone City Member of Claiborne Group, Stone City Bluff, Texas Mohsen Kariminia

Characterization of clastic pseudokarst and associated phenomena in Bernie Smith

East Texas

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 Tuesday Morning: October 2

Lower Cotton Valley – Bossier: Jurassic Gulf Coast Reservoirs –

5 Talks
A Microseismic case study: Cotton Valley “Taylor” sandstones, Overton Field Nick Pollard

Benton Field: Revitalization of an Old Field in the Lower Cotton Valley Johnny Dean

A tight gas sand reservoir characterization approach in delineating different Bhaskar Sarmah
benches across Lower Cotton Valley Rocks.

Geomechanical heterogeneity in the Lower Cotton Valley shelf system – Craig Hall
applications to completion design

TITLE: Using Legacy Data from cores, open hole logs and production logs to Marvin Markley
optimize the placement of horizontal well targets in the Cotton Valley Formation
of North Louisiana and East Texas.

Regional Geological Studies and Depositional Facies Analysis –

Session 3 – 6 Talks
Weld Classification James Willis

Tectonics of the Texas portion of the Sabine Island Dale Short

“In Time” Estimation of GOR using FLAIR advanced mud gas analysis Oscar Torres Jaimes

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 Using fluorescence data in petroleum exploration Gary Rice

Slabbing borehole images: A true 2-D visualization of wellbore geology Anish Kumar

The Peripheral Graben System in Texas -- an overview Thomas Ewing

Ground Water and Environmental Studies – Session 1 – 4 Talks

Using relict vegetation communities as a proxy for transmissivity in the Melinda Faulkner
Comanche Peak Formation;
Owl and Bear Creek watersheds, Bell County, Texas

Influence of fracture proximity and vertical extent on source water quality from Daniel Acquaviva
Lower Arcadia Formation (Miocene) brackish groundwater public water supply
wellfields in Southwest Florida

The Rain in Spain Alan Brittain

Impact of Agriculture on distribution of Chloride, Nitrate and other ion Douglas Carlson
concentrations in Mississippi Alluvial Aquifer in Northeast Louisiana

Poster Session 3
Dynamic global processes including mantle plume generation assist in Allen Lowrie
hydrocarbon emplacement in sedimentary basins

Petrology and geochemistry of a Mitchell Dam Amphibolite core, David Bieler

Chilton County, Alabama

"Sedimentary facies and environments of the Cenozoic Red Bank group, David King
northern Belize"

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 Resistivity Anisotropy for Constraining Shale Volumetrics in Garrett Goettel
Reservoir Sandstones

U.S. Geological Survey assessment of undiscovered conventional oil and gas Marc Buursink
resources in downdip Paleogene formations, U.S. Gulf Coast, 2017

Mega-regional scale, decision-tree analysis for hydrocarbon prospecting on Marcus Zinecker

passive, conjugate margins of the circum-Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Two successive phases of Triassic-Jurassic Gulf of Mexico rifting recorded in the Marcus Zinecker
subsidence history of the southeastern Gulf of Mexico

Reservoir Quality Assessment of the Lower Acacus and Tannezuft Formations Mohamed Imsalem
in the NC4 Block, Ghadames Basin, Libya

Structural modeling and kinematic restoration of Corsair normal fault trend, Muhammad Nawaz Bugti
northwest Gulf of Mexico

Comparison of multi-stage cooling histories on conjugate rift margins of the Omar Zavala
South Atlantic Ocean

Paleoclimate and paleoecology of the Neogene Siwalik, Muksar Khola area, Ryan Jones
Nepalese Himalaya

Petrology of the Beaver Dam Amphibolite, Eastern Blue Ridge, Alabama Zachary Harrison

Exploring the oxbow lake facies model at LeFleur's Bluff State Park, Jackson, Zachary Musselman
Mississippi.

Fault-related Reservoir Compartmentalization in the Oligocene Vicksburg Rykley Crowe

Formation, Brooks County, Texas

Geophysical Delineation of a Normal Fault within the Gulf Coastal Plain, Danielle Minteer
Montgomery County, Texas

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 Tuesday Afternoon: October 2

Geology and History – 5 Talks

A history of Louisiana casinghead gas venting and flaring: patching together Mary Barrett
incomplete regulatory records, 1930s-1970s

John T. Scopes: A Summer in Hell and a Career in Petroleum Geology Matthew Silverman

Precipitation and discharge histories, Red and Arkansas River Basins. David Bieler
1921-1950: water and the Dust Bowl

An Overview of American Association of Petroleum Geologists at its Centennial Douglas Carlson

with a focus on the Gulf Coast Section

The Myles companies - from salt to the short-lived Pine Prairie, Jeff Spencer
Louisiana oil boom

Ground Water and Environmental Studies – Session 2 – 4 Talks

The Milano fault system, central Texas: Structure and implications for the Thomas Ewing
Simsboro Aquifer

Depositional Controls on High-Resolution Aquifer Characterization and Raymond Sturdivant

Remediation

Brackish groundwater resources of the Northern Trinity Aquifer, Texas Mark Robinson

Lithological influences on the synthetic leaching procedure test and implications Timothy Duex
to remediation and assessment at the southwest foods site in Lafayette,
Louisiana

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 Special Session – Shale Resource Plays: 10 years later – 7 Talks
An overview of trends within hydraulic fracturing in Louisiana with a focus on Douglas Carlson
Haynesville Gas Play

The 2018 USGS Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the Katherine Whidden
eagleford Shale and Associated Cenomanian-Turonion Strata, Texas

Haynesville - A resurgence to bank on? Sean Kimiagar

Eagle Ford – In the age of Permian & STACK-SCOOP dominance, can Eagle Sean Kimiagar
Ford reign supreme again?

Preservation of reservoir quality by chlorite coats in deep Tuscaloosa Shirley Dutton

sandstones, central Louisiana, USA

Modern stimulation and restimulation techniques in the Haynesville Shale Roland Cadotte

Lessons learned from a shale gas hallmark well in the Eagle Ford formation. Sergio Perez
The case of the well Emergente-1, the first shale gas well in Mexico.

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