Technical Papers and Posters

Technical Papers
No.	Time	Author(s)	From	Title
Oral Session, Monday, August 30, 1999
History
1	10:10 am	Marvin P. Carlson1, Raymond R. Burchett1, and William H. Sydow2	1Nebraska Geological Survey, Lincoln, and 2Nebraska Oil and Gas Commission, Sidney	Occurrence and Development of Petroleum in Nebraska
2	10:30 am	John C. Gries1 and James R. Underwood, Jr.2	1Wichita State University, Wichita and 2Kansas State University, Manhattan	The First Integrated Petroleum Production and Refining West of the Mississippi River
Exploration and Exploitation
3	10:50 am	Paul M. Gerlach	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	Kansas Oil and Gas Exploration, a Ten Year History and Future Strategies
4	11:10 am	Paul W. Smith, Walter J. Hendrickson, Ronald J. Woods, John V. Hogan, and Charles E. Willey	IHS Energy Group, Oklahoma City	Detailed Reservoir Modeling on a Basinwide Scale and Implications on the Decision Making Process
	11:30 am - 1:30pm	Lunch
5	1:30 pm	Ronald F. Broadhead	New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro	Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian of southeast New Mexico: Rejuvenation of underdeveloped fields yields major reserves
6	1:50 pm	Curtis L Ditzell1 and Douglas B. Ostby2	1Ocean Energy, Inc., and 2Barrett Resources Corp., Denver	Blind-Thrust Spiro Play - A Case History, Western Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma
7	2:10 pm	Roderick W. Tillman	Consulting Geologist/Stratigrapher, Tulsa	Morrow Incised Paleovalley Production, Stateline Trend, Northern Anadarko Basin
8	2:30 pm	Ernie Morrison	Kansas Geological Survey, Wichita	South Eubank Field: Successful Development of Deeper Reserves Using 3-D Seismic
9	2:50 pm	Steven A. Sonnenberg	North American Resources Company, Denver	History and Development of the Stewart Field, Finney County, Ks.
	3:10pm - 3:30pm	Break
Basin Analysis
10	3:30 pm	D.F. Merriam and Andrea Forster	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence & GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany	Subtle and Not So Subtle Anticlinal Structures in the Salina Basin, North-Central Kansas
11	3:50 pm	K. David Newell1 and Joseph R. Hatch2	1Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence & 2U.S. Geological Survey, Denver	Petroleum Geology and Geochemistry of a Production Trend Along the McPherson Anticline in Central Kansas, With Implications for Long- and Short-distance Oil Migration
12	4:10 pm	Raymond F. Coveney, Jr.	University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City	Genetic Connections between Ores, Hydrocarbon Deposits, Black Shales and Mirgrating Basinal Brines
13	4:30 pm	Edwin D. Goebel	University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City	Relationships of MTV Mineralizations, Color-Altered Conodonts, Fluid Inclusions, J-Type Lead, and Migrating Oil-field Type Basinal Brines with Unconformity-Bounded Stratigraphic Sequences
14	4:50 pm	Allan Bennison	Geological Consultant, Tulsa	Pennsylvania History of the Chautauqua Arch, Oklahoma and Kansas
15	5:10 pm	Paul W. Smith, Walter J. Hendrickson, and Ronald J. Woods	HIS Energy Group, Oklahoma City	Significance of Accurate Carbonate Reservoir Definition and Delineation
Oral Sessions Tuesday, August 31, 1999 (Sessions A and B)
Basin Analysis (Continued, Session A)
16	8:25 am	S. Parker Gay, Jr.	Applied Geophysics, Inc., Salt Lake City	The Strike-Slip, Compressional Thrust-Fold Nature of the Nemaha Ridge in Eastern Kansas and Oklahoma
17	8:50 am	Joseph M. Kruger1, W. Lynn Watney2, and Ricardo A. Olea2	1Idaho State University, Pocatello and 2Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	Use of Gravity and Magnetics for Low-Cost Exploration and Development in Mature Areas such as Kansas
18	9:10 am	W. Lynn Watney, Ricardo A. Olea, and John C. Davis	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	Regional Stratigraphic Analysis of a Pennsylvanian Carbonate Shelf and Shelf Margin
	9:30 am - 9:50 am	Break
19	9:50 am	Zuhair Al-Shaieb, Jim Puckette, and Phebe Deyhim	Oklahoma State University, Stillwater	Compartmentalization of the Overpressured Interval in the Andarko Basin
Reservoir Systems (Session A)
20	10:10 am	Jeffrey Heyer	Cross Timbers Oil Company, Ft. Worth	Reservoir Characterization of the Council Grove Group, Texas County, Oklahoma
21	10:30 am	John M. Holbrook	Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau	Intravalley Cut-and-fill Structures in Lower Cretaceous Fluvial Strata of Colorado and Kansas: A Cause for Compartmentalization in Fluvial Reservoirs
Latest Advances in Concepts and Technology (Session A) Co-Sponsored by Rocky Mountain and Midcontinent Regions PTTC
22	10:50 am	Sandra Mark (2 time slots)	Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC) and Colorado School of Mines, Golden	Computer Technology and the Petroleum Geologist, 1999
	11:30 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch
23	1:30 pm	Darwin Boardman	Oklahoma State University, Stillwater	Changes in Patterns of Cyclicity of Upper Carboniferous through Lower Permian (Virgilian-Sakmarian) Depositional Sequences in the North American Midcontinent
24	1:50 pm	Matthew W. Boyd and Darwin R. Boardman, II	Oklahoma State University, Stillwater	Evidence for Heirarchy of Stratigraphic Forcing in the Upper Carboniferous (Virgilian, Wabaunsee Group) in the Anadarko Basin
25	2:10 pm	Jens R Halverson1, Calvin H. Stevens2, David W. Anderson2, and John P. Brooke2	1Synergy Exploration, Amarillo and 2San Jose State University, San Jose	Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Morrow Formation; A Regional Study in the western Anadarko basin
26	2:30 pm	Sandra Mark1, Roger M. Slatt1, and David C. Rampton2	1Petroleum Technology Transfer Council (PTTC), Colorado School of Mines, Golden and 2Shell Oil Company, The Hague, Netherlands	Characterizing a Morrow Sandstone Reservoir Through Statigraphic Interpretation of 3-D Seismic Data, Sorrento Field, Colorado
27	2:50 pm	John F. Hopkins1 and Timothy R. Carr2*	1Exxon Exploration Company, Houston and 2Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	Subsurface Structure and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Western Margin of the Hugoton Embayment, Morton County, Kansas
	3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Break
28	3:30 pm	John H. Doveton	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	Forward-modeling of Log Responses from Rock Petrophysical Properties as an Aid in Reservoir Analysis
29	3:50 pm	Steven M. Goolsby and Jeff S. Arbogast	Goolsby Brothers Associates, Inc. and Petroleum Software Tech., Denver	Resistivity Modeling and Neural Network Synthetics...Powerful New Exploration and Development Tools
30	4:10 pm	Willard J. Guy, Alan P. Byrnes, John H. Doveton, Evan K. Franseen	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	The Prediction of Effective Porosity and Permeability in Mississippian Carbonates, Kansas
31	4:30 pm	Steven M. Goolsby1, Don Pierini2, and Phil Kriz3	1Goolsby Brothers Associates, Inc., 2Pepco, Inc., and 3Evertson Oil Co., Denver	An Innovative Horizontal Drilling Program Opens a New Exploration Play in Admire (Permian) Reservoirs of the Northern Denver Basin, Nebraska
32	4:50 pm	Edward J. Blott1, John F. Arestad1, and Thomas L. Davis2	1ExplorTech Llc, Littleton, and 2Colorado School of Mines, Golden	The state-of-the-art of 3-D seismic technology: Integrated multicomponent characterization of carbonate and clastic reservoirs
Coal Bed Methane (Session B) Sponsored by Energy Minerals Division of AAPG
34	9:50 am	David C. Smith and Edith A. Starbuck	Division of Geology and Land Survey, Geological Survey Program, Rolla	Small Closed Structural Lows: Unconventional Gas Exploration Targets in North Missouri
35	10:10 am	Brian J. Cardott	Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman	Oklahoma Coal-Bed Methane: from Mine Explosion to Gas Resource
36	10:30 am	Samuel A. Friedman	Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman	Coal Geology and Underground-Mine Degasification Applied to Horizontal Drilling for Coal-Bed Methane
37	10:50 am	Matthew A. Biddick	Fractal Oil Company, Norman	An Economic Evaluation of the Hartshorne Coalbed Methane Play in Oklahoma
38	11:10 am	Lawrence L. Brady and Willard J. Guy	Kansas Geological Survey	Coal Resources and Coalbed Methane Potential in the Kansas Portion of the Forest City Basins
	11:30 am - 1:30 pm	Lunch
Enviromental Geology (Session B)
39	1:30 pm	Kenneth S. Johnson	Oklahoma Geological Survey, Norman	Evaporite Karst in the Southern Midcontinent
40	1:50 pm	William R. Bryson	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	Compliance with Oil and Gas Environmental Regulations During Periods of Low Oil Prices
41	2:10 PM	1Bruce Langhus, 2M.L. Korphage, 3Frank Denoyelles	1CH2MHILL, Tulsa, 2Kansas Corporation Commission, Wichita, 3Kansas Biological Survey, Lawrence	Halophyte Remediation of Brine Impacted Oil and Gas Sites in Kansas
42	2:30 pm	Bruce Langhus1 and Alan Snider2*	1CH2MHILL, Tulsa and 2Kansas State Corporation Commission, Wichita	ZOEI, a Computer Model to Calculate the Zone of Endangering Influence of Class II Injection
	2:50 pm - 3:10 pm	Break
Interdisciplinary Studies (Session B)
43	3:10 pm	Pieter Berendsen	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	The Kansas Geological Survey's New Initiative in the Manhattan 1 x 2 Quadrangle, Northweast Kansas
44	3:30 pm	P. Jan Cannon	Planetary Data, Tecumseh, OK	The Big Basin Impact Craters of Western Kansas

Poster Sessions - Monday August 30
No.	Authors	From	Title
1	Abdulrahman M.I. Alissa and Timothy R. Carr	Kansas Geological Survey	Sequence Stratigraphy of the Lower Morrow and the Arroyo and Gentzler Fields of Southwestern Kansas
2	Cecile G. Stephens, Ryan E. Rutherford, Allyn S. Polson, Marie D. Commisso, Allen W. Archer*	Kansas State University, Manhattan	Conglomerates associated with Pennsylvanian incised valley fill sequences of eastern Kansas
3	Scott Beaty1, W. Lynn Watney2, and Alex Martinez3	1Chevron, USA, Midland, 2Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, and 3Exxon Exploration Company, Houston	Analysis of Structural Controls on the Develoment of the Upper Pennsylvanian Tonganoxie Incised Paleovalley System of Northeast Kansas
4	Patricia L. Daniel	University of Kansas, Lawrence	Ichnology and depositional history of Douglas Group (Upper Pennsylvanian, Virgilian) outcrops in southeastern Chautauqua County, Kansas
5	Paul M. Gerlach and D.F. Merriam	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	Is the Mississippian of Kansas a Viable Petroleum Target After a Century of Exploration?
6	D.F. Merriam and Elizabeth Crouse	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	Bedrock Geology of Woodson County, Kansas
7	J.A. Ross, D.R. Collins, and E.L. Crouse	Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence	Progress in Development of Digital Geologic Map Databases in Kansas
8	Bob Slamal	Consulting Geologist, Wichita	Mississippian Stratigraphy in Southwestern Kansas: Some Correlations Resolved, Many Mysteries
9	Raymond P. Sorenson, Sean P. Kelley, and Dane Cantwell	Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Houston	Tar Mat Formation Within the Hitch Oil Field, Seward County, Kansas
Poster Sessions - Tuesday August 31
10	Paul W. Smith, Walter J. Hendrickson, and Ronald J. Woods	HIS Energy Group, Oklahoma City	Significance of Accurate Carbonate Reservoir Definition and Delineation
11	Paul W. Smith, Walter J. Hendrickson, Ronald J. Woods, John V. Hogan, and Charles E. Willey	HIS Energy Group, Oklahoma City	Detailed Reservoir Modeling on a Basinwide Scale and Implications on the Decision Making Process Wells
12	A. Al-Tawil, L.B. Smith, A.B. Khetani, T. Wynn and J.F. Read	Virginia Tech	High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of the Mississippian of the Appalachian and Illinois Basins
13	Hisham Al-Qassab	Saudi Aramco, Dhahran	Constraining Permeability Field to Engineering Data: An Innovative Approach in Reservoir Characterization
14	Raymond R. Anderson	Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Geological Survey Bureau, Iowa City	Petroleum Potential of the Middle Proterozoic Midcontinent Rift System (MRS) in Iowa
15	Marie D. Commisso and Allen W. Archer	Kansas State University, Manhattan	Microfabric Analysis of Cyclic Rhythmites: A Comparison of Modern and Ancient Samples
16	James R. Chaplin	Oklahoma Geological Survey	Depositional Facies and Petrophysical Properties of the Pennsylvanian Cottage Grove Sandstone Member (Osage-Layton Sand), Chanute Formation: East Newkirk Field, Cherokee Platform, Oklahoma
17	Walter J. Hendrickson, John V. Hogan, Paul W. Smith, Charlie E. Willey, and Ronald J. Woods	HIS Energy Group, Oklahoma City	An Example of a Carbonate Platform and Slope System and its Stratigraphically Equilvalent Basinal Clastic System - Springeran/Chesterian Relationships with the Anadarko Basin of Northwestern Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle
18	John V. Hogan, Walter J. Hendrickson, Paul W. Smith, Charlie E. Willey, and Ronald J. Woods	HIS Energy Group, Oklahoma City	Lansing Reef and Stratigraphic Trapping on the Slope Front in the Douglas and Tonkawa at the Edge of Hugoton Platform
19	Han Li, Phebe Deyhim, Zuhair Al-Shaieb, and Jim Puckette	Oklahoma State University, Stillwater	Improved Petrophysical Analysis of Shaley Sandtones Using Integrated Wire-Line Log Interpretation
20	Chellie Teal	Wichita State University, Wichita	Syndepositional Dolomitization of Shallow Marine Deposits, Cangrejo Shoals, Northern Belize (requires Acrobat Reader)
21	Glenn S. Visher	Geological Services and Ventures, Inc., Tulsa	The Origin of Stratigraphic Sequences
22	Priyanka Johri and Juergen Schieber	University of Texas-Arlington	A Regional Study of Sequences in the New Albany Shale of the Southeastern Illinois Basin (Indiana) and Gamma Ray Logs and Well Cores
23	Howard White, Rodney Kirkland, Ed Glassman, and George Schnerk	Oryx Energy, Dallas, TX	Revisiting Pennsylvanian Reservoir Architecture: Chitwood, Norge and NE Verden Fields, Caddo and Grady Counties,Oklahoma
24	Brian W. Wilhite	Wichita State University, Wichita	Sedimentary Architecture and Diagenesis of Modern Carbonate Sands in a Low-Energy Shelf Lagoon, Northern Belize; Modern Analog to Some Ancient Hydrocarbon Reservoirs
25	T.S. White1, G.A. Ludvigson2, and L.D. Young1	1University of Iowa and 2Iowa Department of Natural Resources-Geological Survey Bureau, Iowa City	An Application of High Resolution Marine Chemostratigraphy as a Chronostratigraphic Control for "Mid" Cretaceous Oxygen-Isotope Records in Amalgamated Non-Marine Paleosols

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