Abstracts*

(By Author)

2007 AAPG Mid-Continent Section Meeting

September 9-11, 2007, Wichita, Kansas

Search and Discovery Article #90067 (2007)

Posted June 30, 2007

*Special appreciation is expressed to Ernie Morrison, General Chair, 2007 Mid-Continent Section Meeting, and W. Lynn Watney, Technical Program Chair-Geology, for providing these abstracts for posting on Search and Discovery.

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AB

Low Accommodation Depositional Systems and Reservoir Bodies in the Lower Cretaceous Dakota Formation, Subsurface of Northwestern Nebraska

J. Antia, C. Fielding, and M. Joeckel

Geomodel Development and Simulation Studies for Possible Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Enhanced Coalbed Gas Recovery Beneath a Major Kansas City Landfill

S. Bhattacharya, K.D. Newell, T.R. Carr, and J.G. Blencoe

Seismic Sequence Stratigraphy of the Barnett Shale at Newark East Field, Texas, U.S.

G. Borges, P. Singh, J. Perez, et al.

Accommodation Space and Distribution of Gas-Bearing Sandstones in the Upper and Lower Skinner Intervals, Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma

K. Boucher

Sequence Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of Booch Sandstones (McAlester Formation) (Desmoinesian), Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma

D.T. Boyd and N.H. Suneson

Visualizing Production and Pressure Histories with Spacetime Maps

R.L. Brownrigg, M.K. Dubois, and W.L. Watney

High-Resolution Facies Changes, Lateral Continuity, and Fracturing of the Woodford Shale from Behind Outcrop Drilling, Logging, and Coring

N. Buckner, R.M. Slatt, W. Coffey, and R.J. Davis

Petrophysical Properties of Oomoldic Limestones in the Lansing–Kansas City Groups, Kansas: Tools for More Accurate Evaluation and Enhancing Recovery

A.P. Byrnes, J. Doveton, W.L. Watney, and S. Bhattacharya

C

Conventional Wisdom Applied to Oklahoma Gas Shales

B.J. Cardott

Some Keys to Exploration in the Forest City Basin

M.P. Carlson

The University of Kansas Reservoir Design Course: Teamwork Among Petroleum Engineering and Geology Students and Kansas Oil Operators

T.R. Carr, D.W. Green, and A.W. Walton

Kansas Oil and Gas Activity, 1860–2006

T.R. Carr and D.F. Merriam

Application of Curvature Attributes to Kansas Subsurface Data

T.R. Carr and S.E. Nissen

CHRONOS: Transforming Earth History Research by Seamlessly Integrating Stratigraphic Data and Tools

C. Cervato, D. Fils, G. Bohling, et al.

Case History and Early Development of the Fayetteville Shale

C.P. Conrad

Primary Porosity in Modern Coral Patch Reefs

M. Crane and C.D. Burke

High-Resolution Stratigraphy of the Sub-Mississippian Unconformity in Southwest Missouri

D.C. Cruz and K.R. Evans

D

Multicomponent 4-D Seismic Reservoir Characterization of Tight Gas Sands, Rulison Field, Colorado

T.L. Davis

Facies Analysis of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) in Kansas Based on Petrophysical Logs and Drill-Cuttings Records

J.H. Doveton

Geophysical Anomalies and New Constraints on Buried Structures, Southern San Luis Basin, Colorado

B. Drenth and V.J. S. Grauch

Old Field – New Paradigms – Stranded Gas: Major Findings of the Three-Year Hugoton Study

M.K. Dubois, A.P. Byrnes, S. Bhattacharya, et al.

FGH

Sequence Stratigraphic Reinterpretation of the Virgilian Indian Cave Sandstone as Incised Valley Fills, and Potential for Unexplored Updip Hydrocarbon Resources

S.A. Fischbein, C.R. Fielding, and R.M. Joeckel

Fundamental Advances in Structural Geology Based on Ongoing Studies in Reactivation Tectonics

S.P. Gay, Jr.

A Regional Geophysical Analysis of the North American Midcontinent

M. Hamilton

Seismic Technologies for Independents Exploring for Unconventional Resources

B.A. Hardage

Entrepreneurial Geology – A Model for a New College Course (Acquisition of Oil and Gas Properties)

R. Harmon, R.W. Von Rhee, T. Alexander, and B. Tapp

Reservoir Characterization in Mississippian Rocks via Seismic Methods – Comanche County, KS

D.E. Hedke, B.W. Wilhite, R. Sanguinetti, and K.J. Marfurt

A New Approach to Seismic Interpretation in Challenging Imaging Environments

C.E. Helsing and D.C. Berman

Spectral Gamma-Ray Character of the Chattanooga Shale, Tennessee and Oklahoma

D. Hurst

JK

Case Study of Integrated Approach to the Cleanup of Ogallala Ground Water Impacted by Oil-Field Brine, Haskell County, Kansas

M. Jacobs, K. Hopson, A. Potter, and N. Blandford

Unconventional Shale-Gas Resource Systems and Processes Affecting Gas Generation, Retention, Storage, and Flow Rates

D.M. Jarvie, T.E. Ruble, R. Drozd, et al.

Petroleum Geology of Rellim Field, Rice County, Kansas

M.H. Kalaei and W. Scriven

Basement Structures in the Midcontinent Region: Some Perspectives Based on Regional Geophysical Data

G.R. Keller

Geochemical Characterization of Solid Bitumen Deposited within the Mississippian Sandstone Reservoir of the Hitch Field, Southwest Kansas

D. Kim and R.P. Philp

Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of Bandera Sandstone (Marmaton Group, Desmoinesian), Labette County, Kansas

Z. Koch and C.D. Burke

Development of Microbial Reef Reservoirs at Little Cedar Creek Field, Conecuh County, Alabama

M.G. Koralegadara

Utility of Gravity and Magnetic Data for Mapping Phanerozoic Faults, Fractures, Folds, and Facies Transitions Caused by Reactivation of Precambrian Basement Structures

J.M. Kruger

LM

Video Microscopy of Methane Gas Production from a Series of Typical CBM Coals

B. LaReau, J. Pope, D. Buttry, et al.

Paleoenvironment, Cyclicity, and Reservoir Quality of Chaetetid “Reef” Mounds of the Amoret Limestone Member (Upper Desmoinesian) in Southeastern Kansas

M. Lichtenwalter and C.D. Burke

A New Approach to Understanding Neogene Stratigraphic Architecture of the High Plains Succession in Western Kansas Using Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy

G.A. Ludvigson, A. Haj, D.L. Fox, et al.

Measuring CO₂ in Coalbed Reservoirs

S. MacDonald

The Distribution of Permeable Zones within the Ogallala in the Southwest Kansas Groundwater Management District 3

P.A. Macfarlane and N. Schneider

Mississippian Chert Reservoirs in Kansas: Oxygen and Silicon Isotope Geochemistry and Timing of Silicification and Porosity Formation

S.J. Mazzullo, H. Cao, and B.W. Wilhite

Statistical Analysis of Physiographic and Structural Directional Data in the U.S. Midcontinent (Kansas)

D.F. Merriam and J.C. Davis

The Application of 2D and 3D Seismic Data in the Exploration for Cherokee Channels – Tombstone Gap Field, Ness County, Kansas

W.A. Miller

Depositional Facies and Diagenesis of the Lansing–Kansas City Section, O’Connor Field, Stafford County, Kansas

L. Mpanje and S.J. Mazzullo

NP

Sorbed Gas Content of Coals and Gas Shales Utilizing Well Cuttings

K.D. Newell

Improving Reservoir Characterization of Karst-Modified Reservoirs with 3-D Geometric Seismic Attributes

S.E. Nissen, E.C. Sullivan, K.J. Marfurt, and T.R. Carr

Using Geographic Information Systems to Evaluate Gas Fields in Western Kansas

J. Nittler

Seismic Geomorphology: Concepts, Workflows and Applications to Petroleum Exploration and Development

H.W. Posamentier

An Overview of Coalbed Natural Gas Production in the Arkoma Basin of Arkansas

W.L. Prior

Influence of Drainage Basin Attributes on Depositional Style of the Upper “Morrow” and “Cherokee” Intervals, Oklahoma

J. Puckette

Micro-Imaging and Reservoir Characterization: Estimating Rock Properties from Rock-calibrated Microresistivity Logs

J. Puckette and A. DeVries

RS

Exploration and Development Overview for the Fayetteville Shale Gas Play—North-Central Arkansas

M. Ratchford

Application of Numerical Simulation and Artificial Neural Network for Oil Field Development, SI-A Field

F. Salehi, R. Azizi, A. Salehi, et al.

Stratigraphy and Petrophysics of the Barnett Shale, Newark East Field, Texas

P. Singh, R. Slatt, C. Rai, et al.

The Ouachita Core: An Inverted Rift?
Raymond P. Sorenson

Some Stupid Shallow Seismic Experiments I Have Done

D.W. Steeples

T

How to Distinguish Water- and Gas-Saturated Cracks?

D.K. Tiwary, I. Bayuk, M. Ammerman, et al. E.M. Chesnokov

Field Testing a New Spectral Neutron Tool for Identifying Bypassed or Moved Hydrocarbons Behind Casing in both Vertical and Horizontal Wells in Mature Producing Fields in Northeast Oklahoma

S.N. Tripathi and R.V. Westermark

300-Million-Year Old Soils and Their Implications on Predicting Ancient Climate Conditions

M.M. Turner-Williams, and W. Yang

VWZ

Downhole Raman Spectroscopy: Real Time, In Situ Chemical Analysis of Coalbed Reservoirs

N.R. Van Lieu

Analysis on Producing Petroleum Wells in the Lehigh Field in Marion County, Kansas

J. Venhaus

Characterization and Geologic Significance of Evaporite Karst in Kansas

W.L. Watney and R.D. Miller

Horizontal Wells Improve Oil Recovery in 100-Year-Old Pennsylvanian Sandstone Reservoirs in Northeast Oklahoma and Southeast Kansas

B. Westermark and J. Schmeling

Paleo-Oceanography and Depositional Framework of the Cowley Facies in South-Central Kansas: Solution to the “Cowley Problem”

B.W. Wilhite, S.J. Mazzullo, I.W. Woolsey, et al.

Promises and Problems in Nonmarine Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis – Examples from Fluvial-Lacustrine Permian, Triassic, and Jurassic Deposits, Bogda Mountains, NW China

W. Yang, Q. Feng, Y. Liu, et al.