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Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies
and the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM

60th Annual Convention

Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
October 10-12, 2010
San Antonio, Texas

Hosted by the South Texas Geological Society


Technical Program


All technical presentations will be held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center.  Times and locations subject to change—please check periodically for up-to-date information or consult the program booklet to be distributed at the convention.

Monday AM

Integrated Sequence Stratigraphic, Diagenetic, and Reservoir Architectural Analysis of Cretaceous Carbonates, Gulf of Mexico Basin (Part 1)

Organic ‘Shales’ of the Gulf Coast—Controls on Reservoir Quality and Producibility (Part 1)

Water for a Growing Region—Geology, Water Quality, and Resource Management

Posters and Cores (presenters at booths from 9:00-10:30 a.m. Monday)

Monday PM

Integrated Sequence Stratigraphic, Diagenetic, and Reservoir Architectural Analysis of Cretaceous Carbonates, Gulf of Mexico Basin (Part 2)

Organic ‘Shales’ of the Gulf Coast—Controls on Reservoir Quality and Producibility (Part 2)

Eastern Gulf of Mexico—Depositional Systems and Exploration Potential

Preparing for the Crew Change in the Geoscience Workforce: Outreach, Training, and Education

Tuesday AM

Stricklin Symposium: Forming and Filling the Gulf of Mexico Basin:  Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Tectonics, Source Rocks, and Petroleum Systems (Part 1):

Integrated Answers in Subsurface Exploration for Shelf-to-Ultradeep Opportunities (Part 1)

Carbon Sequestration—Risks, Opportunities, and Implications for EOR

Posters and Cores (presenters at booths from 9:00-10:30 a.m. Tuesday)

Tuesday PM

Stricklin Symposium: Forming and Filling the Gulf of Mexico Basin:  Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Tectonics, Source Rocks, and Petroleum Systems (Part 2):

Integrated Answers in Subsurface Exploration for Shelf-to-Ultradeep Opportunities (Part 2)

Texas/Mexico Borderlands—Structures, Resources, and Lessons Learned

 


MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11
– Oral Presentations –

Integrated Sequence Stratigraphic, Diagenetic, and Reservoir Architectural Analysis of Cretaceous Carbonates, Gulf of Mexico Basin (Part 1)

Chairs:  Charles Kerans, Robert Loucks, and Lowell Waite

Room 202A/B, Concourse Level

8:30
Charles Kerans, Robert Loucks, Lowell Waite, Ryan Phelps, and Laura Zahm:  Berriasian-Cenomanian Carbonate Platform Successions of the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico
8:50
9:10
9:30
9:50
Break
10:30
10:50
11:10
11:30
 

Organic ‘Shales’ of the Gulf Coast—Controls on Reservoir Quality and Producibility (Part 1)

Chairs:  Randy Miller and James Rine

Ballroom B, Street Level

8:30
8:50
9:10
William Dawson and William Almon:  Eagle Ford Shale Variability:  Sedimentologic Influences on Source and Reservoir Character in an Unconventional Resource Unit
9:30
Brian Lock, Lauren Peschier, and Nick Whitcomb:  The Eagle Ford (Boquillas Formation) of Val Verde County, Texas—A Window on the South Texas Play
9:50
Break
10:30
Charles Cusack, Jana Beeson, Dick Stoneburner, and Gregg Robertson:  The Discovery, Reservoir Attributes, and Significance of the Hawkville Field and Eagle Ford Shale Trend, Texas
10:50
Andrea D. Cicero, Ingo Steinhoff, Tony McClain, Kimberly A. Koepke, and Jim D. Dezelle:  Sequence Stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Haynesville and Bossier Shale Depositional Systems in East Texas and Northern Louisiana
11:10
John Rhodes:  Stratigraphic and Tectonic Control on Sweet Spots in the Haynesville Shale
11:30
David Spain and Glen Anderson:  Controls on Reservoir Quality and Productivity in the Haynesville Shale, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico Basin

Water for a Growing Region—Geology, Water Quality, and Resource Management

Chairs:  Amy Clark and Allan Clark

Room 201, Concourse Level

8:30
Larry Land, Brian Hunt, and Brian Smith:  Hydrologic Connection of the Edwards Aquifer between San Marcos Springs and Barton Springs, Texas
8:50
Brian Smith and Brian Hunt:  A Comparison of the 1950s Drought of Record and the 2009 Drought, Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Central Texas
9:10
Paul Knox, Steven Young, Scott Hamlin, Ernest Baker, Jr., Robert A. Kalbouss, and Trevor Budge:  Heterogeneity of the Gulf Coast Aquifer, Brazos River to Rio Grande, Texas
9:30
Jeffrey Nunn:  Seasonal Groundwater Withdrawal in Southwestern Louisiana:  Implications for Land Subsidence and Resource Management
9:50
Break
10:30
Ian Floyd, Thomas Orsi, and David Patrick:  Wetland Function Versus Value:  Impact of Anthropogenic Activity at Camp Shelby Training Site, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
10:50
William Schramm:  Achievements in Site Cleanup through the Application of Multiple Remediation Technologies:  An Ongoing Success Story
11:10
Allan Standen and Paul Kirby:  3D Hydrostratigraphic Model of the Tertiary Aquifers, Fayette County, Texas

– Poster and Core Presentations –

(Note:  Poster and core presentations will be displayed from 8:30 am, Monday, October 11, to 3:30 pm, Tuesday, October 12.  In-person presentations will be from 9:00-10:30 am on both Monday and Tuesday.)

Chair:  Jim Stolle

Exhibit Hall B, Street Level

P1
Mexico
Jaime Patiño Ruiz, Miguel Olivella Ledezma, Fernando Sánchez Lú, Víctor M. Chávez Valois, Amado Marín Toledo, and Ramiro Ríos Rojas:  Tuxpan and Artesa-Mundo Nuevo, Two Middle Cretaceous Reef Platforms in Mexico:  Similarities and Differences
P2
Central Texas
Toyly Abdullayev and Emily L. Stroudt:  Correlation of Shallow Water Depositional Cycle Packages in the Ellenburger Group from 3 Cored Wells in Central Texas (No Abstract Available)
P4
Texas Gulf Coast
Janell Edman and Janet Pitman:  Geochemistry of Eagle Ford Group Source Rocks and Oils from the First Shot Field Area, Texas
P5
Texas Gulf Coast
Tucker Hentz and Stephen Ruppel:  Regional Lithostratigraphy of Eagle Ford Shale:  Potential Gas-Shale Play Areas from Maverick Basin to East Texas Basin
P6
Texas Gulf Coast
Nathanael Banda and Brian Smith:  Three-Dimensional Geologic Model of the Barton Springs Segment of the Edwards Aquifer, Central Texas (No Abstract Available)
P7
Texas Gulf Coast
Regina Dickey and Thomas Yancey:  Palynological age control on the Calvert Bluff-Carrizo section, Wilcox Group, Bastrop, Texas
P8
Texas Gulf Coast
Thomas Yancey, Thom Hull, and Regina Dickey:  Depositional Environments of Sediments Bracketing the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary, Bastrop, Texas
P9
East Texas
Ofori Pearson, Elisabeth Rowan, Russell Dubiel, and John Miller:  Mesozoic-Cenozoic Structural Evolution of East Texas—Constraints and Insights from Interpretation of Regional 2D Seismic Lines and Structural Modeling
P10
E. Texas / N. Louisiana
Marty Horn:  Problems and Progress in Defining Louark Group Lithostratigraphic Boundaries: Results from Examination of Well Samples and Recent Geophysical Logs
P11
N. Louisiana
Adam D'Aquin and Jeffrey Nunn:  Enhanced Geothermal Potential of South Bossier Parish, Louisiana
P12
S. Louisiana
Lauri Burke:  Temperature and Preservation Rates in the Deep Tuscaloosa Formation, Judge Digby Field, Louisiana
P13
S. Louisiana
Mark Etienne, Carl Richter, and William Schramm:  Geoelectrical Imaging of a Hydrocarbon Plume at the Lookout Release Site (St. Helena Parish, Louisiana)
P14
S. Louisiana
Clint Edrington, Harry Roberts, and Syed Khalil:  Establishing Geochronologic Order of the Early and/or Middle Holocene Mississippi River Delta:  Tiger and Trinity Shoals
P15
S. Louisiana
Taylor Gray and Jeffrey Nunn:  Geothermal Resource Assessment of the Gueydan Salt Dome and the adjacent Southeast Gueydan Field, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
P16
S. Louisiana
Matthew Smith and Jeffrey Nunn:  Delineation of a Produced Water Plume in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
P17
S. Louisiana
Thomas Van Biersel:  Natural History, Geology, and the Civil War Battlefield at Port Hudson, Louisiana
P18
Louisiana
Douglas Carlson:  Influence of Lithology on Scaling Factors for Permeability of Louisiana Geologic Units
P19
Louisiana
Douglas Carlson:  Influence of Lithology on Vertical Anisotropy of Permeability at a Field Scale for Select Louisiana Geologic Units
P20
Northern Gulf Coast
Lloyd Glawe, John Anderson, and Dennis Bell:  Morphologic Variation in the Bivalve Odontogryphaea thirsae (Gabb, 1861), and Upper Paleocene Wilcox Correlation in the Northern Gulf Coastal Province
P22
Gulf of Mexico
Dong Feng and Harry Roberts:  Massive Barite Deposits on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope:  Precipitation Processes
P23
Gulf of Mexico
Leonardo Macelloni, Simona Caruso, Laura Lapham, Carol Lutken,  Charlotte Brunner, and Allen Lowrie:  Spatial Distribution of Seafloor Biogeological and Geochemical Processes as Proxy to Evaluate Fluid-Flux Regime and Time Evolution of a Complex Carbonate/Hydrates Mound, Northern Gulf of Mexico
P24
Offshore Florida
Joe Erickson:  Evaluation of the Structure, Stratigraphy, and Hydrocarbon Play Types of Offshore Florida Using Seismic Reflection Data
 

MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 11
– Oral Presentations –

Integrated Sequence Stratigraphic, Diagenetic, and Reservoir Architectural Analysis of Cretaceous Carbonates, Gulf of Mexico Basin (Part 2)

Chairs:  Charles Kerans, Robert Loucks, and Lowell Waite

Room 202A/B, Concourse Level

1:30
Robert Loucks, Charles Kerans, and Xavier Janson:  Architecture, Lithofacies, and Depositional Processes in the Deepwater Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Tamabra Formation, Poza Rica Field Area, Mexico
1:50
Ryan Phelps, Charles Kerans, Lowell Waite, and Chris Zahm:  Stuart City Margin Architectural Variability and the Effect of Regional Structural Heterogeneity
2:10
Chris Zahm and Milton Enderlin:  Characterization of Rock Strength in Cretaceous Strata along the Stuart City Margin, Texas
2:30
Ryan Phelps, Charles Kerans, and Robert Loucks:  High-Resolution Regional Sequence Stratigraphic Framework of Aptian through Coniacian Strata in the Comanche Shelf, Central and South Texas
2:50
Break
3:30
Peter Holterhoff and Matthew Oyedeji:  Lithofacies, Depositional Systems, and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Fredericksburg Group (Cretaceous) in the Callahan Divide Region of West-Central Texas
3:50
Linda McCall, James Sprinkle, and Ann Molineux:  Comparison of Two Mollusc-Dominated Faunas from Cavity Layers in the Lower Cretaceous Edwards Formation of Central Texas
4:10
Krystal Pearson:  Geologic Controls on Austin Chalk Oil and Gas Production: Understanding a Dual Conventional-Continuous Accumulation
4:30
David King, Jr., and Lucille Petruny:  Wetumpka Impact Structure, Alabama, and its Impact Ejecta

Organic ‘Shales’ of the Gulf Coast—Controls on Reservoir Quality and Producibility   (Part 2)

Chairs:  Randy Miller and James Rine

Ballroom B, Street Level

1:50
James Rine, William Dorsey, Marvin Floyd, and Patrick Lasswell:  A Comparative SEM Study of Pore Type and Porosity Distribution in High to Low Porosity Samples from Selected Gas-Shale Formations
2:10
Richard Haut, Tom Williams, David Burnett, and Gene Theodori:  Balancing Environmental Tradeoffs, Societal Issues, and Energy Production
2:30
Robert Loucks, Robert Reed, Stephen Ruppel, and Ursula Hammes:  Preliminary Classification of Matrix Pores in Mudrocks

Eastern Gulf of Mexico—Depositional Systems and Exploration Potential

Chairs:  John Wagner and Kristin Wood

Room 201, Concourse Level

1:30
Ezat Heydari:  Dolomites of the Smackover and Buckner Formations in the Mississippi Salt Basin: A Key to Understanding the Dolomitization Process
1:50
Kurtus Woolf and Lesli Wood:  The Regional Character of the Lower Tuscaloosa Sandstone Depositional Systems (Late Cretaceous) and Implications for the Influence of Basement Structure on the Depositional Trends
2:10
S. W. Douglas, John Wagner, Steve Dworkin, and S. G. Driese:  The Jurassic Norphlet Formation of the Deep Water Eastern Gulf of Mexico: A Sedimentologic Investigation of Aeolian Systems and their Stratal Relationship with Extradunal Facies Types
2:30
Ezat Heydari:  Hydrocarbon Potential of the Lower Smackover Formation in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico (Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi)

Preparing for the Crew Change in the Geoscience Workforce:  Outreach, Training and Education

Chairs:  Mike Loudin and Susan Nash

Room 203A, Concourse Level

1:30
Cheryl Collarini:  How the Geoscience Experience and Technology Gaps can be Filled
1:50
Susan Nash:  Effective E-Learning for Geoscientists in the Global, Multi-Generational Workplace
2:10
Gretchen Gillis:  Geoscience Publication:  Learning to Write Well is Worth the Effort
2:30
Eleanour Snow and Doug Ratcliff:  GeoFORCE Texas at UT Austin; Six Years of Experience Turning Rural and Urban, Mostly-Minority High School Students into College Science Majors
2:50
Break
3:30
Leila Gonzales and Christopher Keane:  Examination of the Geoscience Workforce Supply Dynamics

– Poster and Core Presentations –

(Note:  Please click here for poster and core listing.  Poster and core presentations will be displayed from 8:30 am, Monday, October 11, to 3:30 pm, Tuesday, October 12.  In-person presentations will be from 9:00-10:30 am on both Monday and Tuesday.)

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12
– Oral Presentations –

Stricklin Symposium:  Forming and Filling the Gulf of Mexico Basin:  Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Tectonics, Source Rocks, and Petroleum Systems (Part 1)

Chairs:  Thomas Ewing and Ernest Mancini

Ballroom B, Street Level

8:20
Thomas Ewing:  Introduction to the Stricklin Symposium (No Abstract Available)
8:30
James Pindell:  History of Tectonic Modeling and Implications for Depositional Architecture in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM):  Where we Should Go from Here
9:00
Jim Harris, Rob Crossley, Nick Stronach, Paul Valdes, and Roger Proctor:  The Plate Tectonic, Paleogeographic, and Paleoclimatic Context for the Development of the Mesozoic Gulf of Mexico
9:30
Steve Creaney:  A View of the Genetic Development of Gulf of Mexico Petroleum Systems
10:00
Break
10:30
Ernest Mancini:  Jurassic Depositional Systems, Facies, and Reservoirs of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
11:00
Thomas Lovell and Amy Weislogel:  Detrital Zircon U-Pb Age Constraints on the Provenance of the Late Jurassic Norphlet Formation, Eastern Gulf of Mexico:  Implications for Paleogeography
11:30 – 1:00
GCSSEPM and Stricklin Symposium Luncheon (ticketed event):  Roger Sassen:  Preservation of Methane in Deep, Hot Reservoir Rocks
 

Integrated Answers in Subsurface Exploration for Shelf-to-Ultradeep Opportunities (Part 1)

Chairs:  Lesli Wood and Vishal Maharaj

Room 202A/B

8:30
Walter Wornardt:  Well-Log Sequence Stratigraphy of the Ultra Deepwater Shell #1, Alaminos Canyon Block 557 in the Gulf of Mexico
8:50
James Stolle and Leigh Page:  Avoiding the Pitfalls in Interpretation Efforts Caused by Legacy Well Databases—Basics for Every Interpreter and Manager
9:10
Walter Wornardt:  Seismic, Well Log, and Biostratigraphic Correlation of the South Marsh Island Blocks 222 and 234 and an Attempted Correlation to the “Davy Jones” Block 230 Shallow Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico
9:30
Chuck Segrest:  Reservoir Characterization by Rock/Log Modeling
9:50
Break
10:30
William Ambrose, Brandon Johnson, Ursula Hammes, and Dean Johnstone:  Sequence Stratigraphic Framework and Depositional History of Oligocene Frio Slope-Fan, Lowstand Prograding Wedge, and Shallow-Marine Transgressive-Regressive Deposits in the Lavaca Bay Area, Texas
10:50
Sean O'Brien, Royhan Gani, and Abu K. M. Sarwar:  Comprehensive Study of the Reservoir Sand and Depositional Setting of Garden Banks Field 236, North-Central Gulf of Mexico
11:10
Raquel Cepeda, Paul Weimer, and Geoff Dorn:  3D Seismic Stratigraphic Interpretation of the Upper Miocene to Lower Pleistocene Deepwater Sediments of the Thunder Horse–Mensa Area, Southern Mississippi Canyon, Northern Deep Gulf of Mexico
11:30
James Willis:  Positive Versus Negative Thickness:  Implications toward Reservoir Navigation
 

Carbon Sequestration—Risks, Opportunities, and Implications for EOR

Chairs:  Susan Hovorka and Joe Finneran

Room 201, Concourse Level

8:50
Timothy Meckel, David Carr, and Ramon Treviño:  An Offshore Carbon Repository in Miocene Strata under Texas State Waters, Gulf of Mexico Basin:  Initial Results
9:10
Silvia V. Solano and Jean-Philippe Nicot:  Gas Cap Impact on CO2 Plume Migration for Long-Term Storage in Saline Aquifers
9:30
Masoumeh Kordi, Susan Hovorka, Kitty Milliken, Ramon Treviño, and Jiemin Lu:  Diagenesis and Reservoir Heterogeneity in the Lower Tuscaloosa Formation at Cranfield Field, Mississippi
9:50
Break
10:30
Susan Hovorka:  Strategy for Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
10:50
Stuart Coleman, Carey King, and Yihua Cai:  Cost Comparisons for Mitigating Fluctuations in Power Plant CO2 Capture in Integrated Carbon Capture and Sequestration Network by Using a Stacked Storage Geologic System
 

– Poster and Core Presentations –

(Note:  Please click here for poster and core listing.  Poster and core presentations will be displayed from 8:30 am, Monday, October 11, to 3:30 pm, Tuesday, October 12.  In-person presentations will be from 9:00-10:30 am on both Monday and Tuesday.)

 

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 12
– Oral Presentations –

Stricklin Symposium:  Forming and Filling the Gulf of Mexico Basin:  Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous Tectonics, Source Rocks, and Petroleum Systems (Part 2)

Chairs:  Thomas Ewing and Ernest Mancini

Ballroom B, Street Level

1:10
Robert Scott:  Cretaceous Stratigraphy, Depositional Systems, and Reservoir Facies of the Northern Gulf of Mexico
1:40
Thomas Ewing:  Pre-Pearsall Geology and Exploration Plays in South Texas
2:10
Marco Flores Flores, Jorge Lavín, Noemí Aguilera, and Marco Peña:  The Kimmeridgian Oolitic Banks and their Exploration Potential in the Marina de Campeche Zone, Southeastern Mexico:  Biostratigraphical and Sedimentological Implications
2:40
Roger Sassen:  Laminated Lime Mudstone of the Upper Jurassic Smackover Formation:  Source of High-Sulfur Oil and Gas
3:10
Andrew Petty:  Stratigraphy and Petroleum Exploration History of the Smackover Formation (Oxfordian), Northeastern Gulf of Mexico
3:40
Russell Dubiel, Peter Warwick, Laura Biewick, Lauri Burke, James Coleman, Kristin Dennen, Colin Doolan, Catherine Enomoto, Paul Hackley, Alexander Karlsen, Matthew Merrill, Krystal Pearson, Ofori Pearson, Janet Pitman, Richard Pollastro, Elisabeth Rowan, Sharon Swanson, and Brett Valentine:  Geology and Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in Mesozoic (Jurassic and Cretaceous) Rocks of the Onshore and State Waters of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Region
 

Integrated Answers in Subsurface Exploration for Shelf-to-Ultradeep Opportunities (Part 2)

Chairs:  Lesli Wood and Vishal Maharaj

Room 202A/B, Concourse Level

1:30
Van Mount, Keith Mahon, and Samuel Mentemeier:  Structural Restoration and Basin Modeling in North-Central Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Subsalt Plays
1:50
Jorge Diaz, Paul Weimer, Geoff Dorn, and Renaud Bouroullec:  3D Stratigraphic Interpretation of Quaternary Sediments in the Mensa and Thunder Horse Intraslope Basins, Mississippi Canyon, Northern Deep Gulf of Mexico
2:10
Morgan P. Brown, Joseph H. Higginbotham, Cosmin Macesanu, and Oscar E. Ramirez:  Applications of Wave Imaging Technologies to Improve Deep Gulf Coast Prospecting
2:30
Richard Bain:  Hidden Structure Revealed by a Simple 3D Velocity Model, McAllen Ranch Field, Hidalgo County, Texas
2:50
Break
3:30
Shamik Bose and Shankar Mitra:  Salt Cored Convergent Transfer Zone in the South Timbalier Block 54, Offshore Gulf of Mexico:  New Insights from Balanced Cross Sections and Three Dimensional Structural Models
 

Texas/Mexico Borderlands—Structures, Resources, and Lessons Learned

Chairs:  Corine Prieto and Rebecca Lambert

Room 201, Concourse Level

1:50
Lee Billingsley:  Recognition of Vertical Versus Horizontal Water Drive Offers Infill Opportunities in Mature Reservoirs:  Portilla Field, San Patricio County, Texas
2:10
Mark Robinson:  Delineating Parasequence Boundaries with High-Density Digital Well-Log Displays in the Olmos Formation, Webb County, Texas
2:30
John Morony:  Hydrovolcanism and the Origin of the Catahoula Formation, Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain
2:50
Break
3:30
Alfredo Marhx Rojano and Eduardo Aguayo:  Impact of Morphology and Slope Type along the “Golden Lane” to Produce Oil Reservoirs in Slope Facies of the Tamabra Trend
3:50
Constantin Platon and Amy Weislogel:  Depofacies and stratal geometry of the Viento Formation: Implications for evolution of the La Popa Weld, Viento Formation, Northeastern Mexico
 

– Poster and Core Presentations –

(Note:  Please click here for poster and core listing.  Poster and core presentations will be displayed from 8:30 am, Monday, October 11, to 3:30 pm, Tuesday, October 12.  In-person presentations will be from 9:00-10:30 am on both Monday and Tuesday.


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