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Fault Play Wells In A 115 Year Old Heavy Oil Field, Kern River Field, Bakersfield, California, USA

John Abeid and Larry Knauer

Detailed Reservoir Architecture Of The Kern River Formation: Examples From Outcrop, Core, And Well Logs

Jonathan P. Allen, Gerald McNaboe and David K. Larue

Azimuthal Attenuation Attributes Applied To Integrated Fractured Reservoir Characterization By Using 3-D Prestack Seismic Data

Yong An and Fred Aminzadeh

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Estimation Of Siltstone Oil Saturation In Kern River Using Spectroscopy Logs

David Barnes, Larry Knauer, Dale Julander and Tony Lucas

Results Of The Core/Log Comparison In Kern River Well

David Barnes, Larry Knauer, Dale Julander and Andrew Sparks

Modelling Of The Steam Chamber Growth During SAGD

Eric Bathellier, Olivier Lerat, Axelle Baroni and Gerard Renard

Experimental Analysis Of Flow Channeling Through A Fracture

Matthew W. Becker and George Tsoflias

Oil And Dolomite In The Monterey Formation Of California

Richard J. Behl

Post Stimulation Acoustic Measurement Of Proppant Placement: California Sand Control Example In A Mature Field.

Erika Bowen, Erick Santillan and Michael Riddle

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Preliminary Study Of Petrology And Porosity Development Of The Oligocene Vedder Sandstones Of The Rio Bravo Oil Field, California

Stephanie E. Caffee and Robert A. Horton

Exploratory IRSL Thermochronology Of The Yucaipa Ridge Block, San Bernardino Mountains, Southern California

Tomas N. Capaldi, Natalia V. Solomatova, Edward J. Rhodes and Andreas Lang

Application Of Induced Seismicity Mapping (ISM) Software - In Wilmington Oil Field

Qiaosi Chen, Aditya Tiwari and Fred Aminzadeh

Tectonics And Sedimentation Of The Mio-Pliocene Ranger Zone Of The Puente And Repetto Formations, Los Angeles Basin, CA

MIchael S. Clark

Addressing Public Fear About the Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Management

Don Clarke

Gene Fritsche, The Man, The Inspiration, The Geologist

Don Clarke

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Development Of An Exploration And Production GIS Database For The Pacific Outer Continental Shelf

Robert Dame, Stephanie Rozek, Paula Chojnacki and Drew Mayerson

Introduction To The San Ardo Field

Nicholaus Driscoll and Winston Seiler

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A Geochemical Investigation Of The Suitability Of Oil Reservoirs In The Southern San Joaquin Valley Of California For Carbon Sequestration And Enhanced Oil Recovery

Sara A. Freeman, Tze Wee Tan, Patrick Mickler and Dirk Baron

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Evaluation Of Three Mid-Cenozoic Sandstone Reservoirs In The San Joaquin Valley For Potential Carbon Storage

Janice Gillespie and Preston Jordan

Flow Processes, Sedimentation, And Stratigraphic Evolution Of The Submarine Channel-Lobe Transition Zone

Greg Gordon and David Pyles

Stratigraphy and Distribution of Lithofacies Associations in a Structurally Confined Turbidite System: The Upper Modelo Formation in Eastern Ventura Basin, California

Greg Gordon and David Pyles

Diatomite Productivity Evaluation Using Dielectric Measurements At Four Depths Of Investigation

Steve Grayson and Jim Hemingway

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Carbon Capture Potential In The Temblor Formation, McKittrick Oil Field, Southern San Joaquin Basin, California

Kelly Harrington, Janice Gillespie and Preston Jordan

Rio Vista Gas Field: History Of Development

Scott T. Hector

Lindsey Slough Gas Field: History Of Development

Scott T. Hector

Long Term Operational Observation Of Ground Deformation In The San Joaquin Valley

Michael D. Henschel, Benjamin Deschamps, Shinya Sato and Gillian Robert

Diagenetic And Compositional Controls Of Wetability In Siliceous Sedimentary Rocks, Monterey Formation, California

Kristina Hill and Richard J. Behl

Improving Earth Models Using Passive Data Co-Acquired With Active Source Data: The Long Beach 3D Seismic Survey

Dan Hollis, Mitchell Barklage and Rob Clayton

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A Test Of Diagenetic Ordering In Siliceous Lithofacies, Monterey Formation, Southwestern Casmalia Hills: Santa Maria Basin, CA

Idu Opral C. Ijeoma and Richard J. Behl

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Holocene-Aged Lake Sediments From The Southeastern Margin Of Tulare Lake, CA

Brandon Jackson, Logan Prosser, Kelsey Padilla and Lindsey Medina

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Preliminary Study Of The Mineralogy And Diagenetic History Of The Temblor Formation Sandstones, McKittrick Oil Field, California

Alyssa B. Kaess and Robert A. Horton

Pore Structure Of Opal-CT And Quartz Phase Porcelanites, Monterey Formation, California

Tesfalidet Kassa and Richard J. Behl

Remediation Exit Strategy, Defining When To Turn Off An Engineered System

Leslie A. Klinchuch and Jim Kang

Ichnotaxonomy, Paleoecology, Paleoenvironmental Analysis Of Paleogene Yager Complex Turbidite Deposits, Humboldt County, California

Jason Kracke

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Chemostratigraphy Of Hemipelagic Facies Of The Monterey Formation And Equivalent Sedimentary Rocks, Los Angeles Basin, California

Becca Lanners and Richard J. Behl

Tectonic Evolution Of Borderland Transpressional Systems, Southern California

Mark R. Legg, Marc J. Kamerling and Karen E. Blake

Reservoir Evaluation: Logging Without Chemical Radioactive Sources

Jeffrey Little, Larry Knauer, David Barnes and Dale Julander

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New Pleistocene megafauna localities in Santa Barbara County, California: Paleontological reconnaissance of the marine terrace deposits at Vandenberg Air Force Base

Melissa K. Macias, Eiko B. Kitao and Robert S. Gray

Preliminary Results Of Geologic Mapping Of The Durwood, Alder Creek, And Rincon Roof Pendants, Sierra Nevada Batholith (Fairview Quadrangle), Tulare County, California

Zachary Martindale, Graham D. M. Andrews and Sarah R. Brown

Pollen, Geochemisty, And Paleoclimatic Implications Of Tulare Lake Sediments, San Joaquin Valley, CA Over The Past 19 Ka

Lindsey Medina, Peter Wigand, Behnaz Balmaki and Robert Negrini

Factors Controlling Shallow Co-Seismic Deformation: Quantifying Distributed Co-Seismic Deformation Of The 1992 Landers Earthquake

Christopher Milliner, James Hollingsworth, James Dolan and Sebastien Leprince

A Perspective On New Well Completion And Stimulation Regulations In California — Implications For Petroleum Geologist Resulting From Senate Bill 4 (SB-4) And Other Local Regulations

Brent Miyazaki

Learning To Walk Amongst The Giants – Practical Lessons Learned From My Relationship With Gene Fritsche

Brent Miyazaki

Detailed Lithostratigraphic Characterization Of The Monterey Formation At Chico Martinez Creek, CA

Annie Mosher and Richard J. Behl

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Vein Structures And Intrastratal Microfractured Zones Interpreted In Cores Of Late Miocene Diatomite, Midway Sunset Field, CA

Mary Nelis and Bonnie Bloeser

Depositional And Diagenetic Microfabrics Of Diatomite And Opal CT Porcelanite Reservoirs, North Midway Sunset Field, CA

Mary Nelis

Diagenesis Of The Oligocene Vedder Formation, Greeley Oil Field, Southern San Joaquin Basin, California

Diem Nguyen, Robert A. Horton and Alyssa B. Kaess

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Petrology And Geochronology Of Lower Crustal Xenoliths From Joshua Tree National Park

Margo Odlum, Rita Economos and Axel Schmitt

Stratigraphy and Paleogeography of the Tertiary Cuyama Depositional Basin, Southern California

Mike Oldershaw, George Freitag and Tony Reid

High Resistivity, High Porosity (Apparently) Monterey Formation: What Is Its Lithology And How Is It Recognized On Logs?

Deborah M. Olson and William R. Berry

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Latest Pleistocene Through Holocene Lake Levels From Tulare Lake, CA: Testing Results Using The Smear Slide Technique

Kelsey Padilla, Lindsey Medina, Ashleigh Blunt and Rob Negrini

Applicability Of California's Health And Safety Code To Oilfield Hazardous Waste Treatment And Disposal

Brian Pitts

An Initial Comparison Of The Youngest Paleolake History Of Tulare Lake, CA Between Eastside And Westside Localities

Logan Prosser, Brandon Jackson and Kelsey Padilla

BLM Update - Proposed Hydraulic Fracturing Rule And Additional Environmental Data Requirements

Jeff Prude

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Quantification Of Neogene Extension Across The Owyhee Plateau Of SW Idaho

Robin Richardson, Graham D. M. Andrews and Sarah R. Brown

Central Valley Water Board Oilfield Activities

Clay L. Rodgers

Paleomagnetic Secular Variation Of Late Holocene-Aged Sediments Of Tulare Lake, CA

Janine Roza, Eric Heaton, Ken Verosub and Rob Negrini

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Detrital zircon U/Pb ages of upper Miocene to Pleistocene strata of the SE San Joaquin Basin in comparison to zircon age patterns of the southern Sierra Nevada batholith-implications for late Cenozoic sediment provenance and dispersal patterns

Jason Saleeby and Zorka Saleeby

Neogene-Quaternary subsidence, uplift and exhumation history of the Kern Arch, SE San Joaquin Basin, California

Zorka Saleeby, Robinson Cecil and Jason Saleeby

The Investigation Of An Integrative Approach For Fracture Density Inversion Using AzAVO Analysis

Mahshad Samnejad, Fred Aminzadeh and Yong An

Using Borehole Images To Characterize A Major Fault In The Ventura Avenue Field

Jon Schwalbach, Thomas Hauge, Michael Glascock, Plamen Ganev and Jaron Lucero

Reservoir Permeability In Difficult Carbonate Reservoirs

Charles H. Smith and Layne Hamilton

Chronology of tectonic and landscape evolution of the southern Sierra Nevada Foothills-eastern San Joaquin Basin transition, CA

Frank Sousa, Jason Saleeby and K. Farley

Tectonic implications of new geological and geophysical results from the Susitna basin, south-central Alaska

R. G. Stanley, P. J. Haeussler, J. A. Benowitz, K. A. Lewis, D. P. Shellenbaum, R. W. Saltus, A. K. Shah, J. D. Phillips and C. J. Potter

Depositional Facies And Geometry Of Repetto Formation Turbidites In Ventura Avenue Field, Ventura Basin, California

Elisabeth Steel and Jon Schwalbach

Hydrocarbon Saturation From Total Organic Carbon Logs Derived From Inelastic And Capture Nuclear Spectroscopy

Lee Swager, Larry C. Knauer, David Barnes, Hal Ewald and Dale Julander

Availability Of High TDS Groundwater For Unconventional Oil And Gas Exploration

Lindsay A. Swain and Allen Waggoner

Preliminary Revised Nomenclature For Plio-Pleistocene Formations In The Ventura Basin Portion Of The Los Angeles 30′×60′ Quadrangle

Brian J. Swanson and Pamela J. Irvine

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A High-Resolution Study Of δ15Nsed And Biogenic Silica In Laminated Fine-Grained Sediments In The Gulf Of California And The California Borderland

Caitlin Tems, William Berelson and Robert Thunell

Sand Compositional Changes As A Key For Sequence-Stratigraphic Interpretation: The Pleistocene Tiber River Deltaic Succession (Italy)

Daniel Tentori and Kathleen Marsaglia

Multi-Proxy Paleolake Reconstruction Of Summer Lake, Oregon

Gregory Thompson, Karla Luna, Citlali Trigos and John Erickson

Using X-ray microtomographic imaging to conduct fluid flow simulations on porous media

Kasey A. Todd, Heather C. Watson, Tony Yu and Yanbin Wang

Using X-ray microtomographic imaging to conduct fluid flow simulations on porous media

Kasey A. Todd, Heather C. Watson, Tony Yu and Yanbin Wang

Sedimentology And Stratigraphy Of Diatomaceous Sediments In The Casmalia Hills And Orcutt Oil Fields In The Santa Maria Basin, California

Daniel Torn and Richard Behl

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Evaluation Of Calleguas Creek As A Source Of Sand At ODP Site 1015 On The Hueneme-Mugu Submarine Fan, Santa Monica Basin

Matthew Van Grinsven and Kathleen Marsaglia

Changes In Tulare Lake Levels For The Past 35,000 Years From The Upper Eight Meters Of The TL05-4 Cores.

Matthew Van Grinsven, Robert Negrini, James Wilson and Kelsey Padilla

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An Innovative Method For Detecting Subtle Events And Patterns In Seismic Data

Robert L. Walker, Fred Aminzadeh and Danielle Sumy

Compaction And Welding Of Ignimbrites: The Resting Springs Pass Tuff, Inyo County, California

Roger W. Ward and Graham D. M. Andrews

Heterogeneity Characteristics Of Carbonate Reservoirs: A Case Study Using Whole Core Data

Chenji Wei, Changbing Tian, Baozhu Li and Weimin Zhang

Is Hydraulic Fracturing Necessary?

Gregg Wilkerson

Updates To The Regional Geologic Map Of The Los Angeles 30′×60′ Quadrangle

C.J. Wills, R.H. Campbell, P.J. Irvine and B.J. Swanson

Geological Carbon Sequestration: Possible Impact On Shallow Freshwater Aquifers Near A Proposed Sequestration Site, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California

John M. Wilson, Azael Salinas, Brynn Galindo and Dirk Baron

The Risk Of Benzene Exposure On The Urban Setting From Historic Oil Field Activities

Mary Jane Wilson and Laura M. Bazeley

Integration Of Microstructural And Macrostructural Indicators With Large-Scale Models To More Accurately Measure Shortening Across The Santa Maria Basin, California: Implications For Reservoir Geology And Tectonic History

Yannick Wirtz

Borehole Image Based Fracture Characterization

Andy Wray

Onshore Mudlogging, Challenges & Opportunities For Improving Value

Daniel Wynne