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Adopting Nanotechnology For Carbon Sequestration: Application of Magnesium Silicates for Carbon Capture and Storage

Dennis Obwocha Achoki

Geological Controls On Stratigraphy and Sedimentation of the Mississippian Marshall Formation, Michigan Basin, USA

Joseph Adducci and David A. Barnes

Determination of Vp, Vs, glacial drift thickness and Poisson's ratio at a site in Jay County, Indiana, using seismic refraction and multichannel analysis of surface wave (MASW) analysis on a common data set

Shamin Ahammod and Ernest Hauser

Thermal history of the Maastrichtian – Eocene Magallanes (Austral) foreland basin, Patagonia (50.5 – 51.5° S): Preliminary findings from vitrinite reflectance analysis and detrital zircon thermochronology

Rsme Ali and Julie Fosdick

Science and Policy in the U.S. Congress

Edith Allison

Clay Mineralogy of the Pennsylvanian Tyler Formation in Western North Dakota for EOR and comparison with similar Illinois Basin deposits

Nicholas Anderson, Shane K. Butler and Karl Leonard

Implications for the hydrocarbon presence: An example from Lower Indus Basin

Syed Ali Asghar

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Structural and Geomechanical Analysis of Fractured Cambrian-Ordovician Reservoirs in the Northern Appalachian Basin

Ola Babarinde, John Miller, Neeraj Gupta, Joel Sminchak and Samin Raziperchikolaee

Facies patterns and stratigraphy of the Cambrian Trempealeau Formation, Huron County, Ohio

Matthew Bergene and David Jeffery

Application of Elemental Data to Wellbore Placement, Completion, and Production: Examples from the Appalachian Basin, USA

David Blood

Exploitation Methods to Rejuvenate Old Oil Fields in Northern Wayne County, Illinois

James Blumthal and Joan Crockett

Lithostratigraphic analysis of the Chesterian Big Clifty Sandstone Asphaltic Complex at the Stampede Mine, Logan County, Kentucky

Tyler Bodine and Michael May

Utilizing Cement Bond Logs to Evaluate Wellbore Integrity on Local and Regional Scales

Andrew Burchwell, Autumn Haagsma, Mark Moody and Joel Sminchak

A Demonstration of the Use of Social Media to Network, Increase Communication and Visibility, and Provide a Public Voice in the Scientific Community

Shane K. Butler

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Repurposing Trenton-Black River Gas Fields as Low-Temperature Geothermal Reservoirs in New York State

Erin Camp, Teresa Jordan and Matthew Hornbach

Monitoring Microseismicity Around Wastewater Injection Wells and at the Onset of Unconventional Oil and Gas Production in the Rome Trough, Eastern Kentucky

Seth Carpenter, Zhenming Wang and Edward W. Woolery

Characterizing Reservoir Quality of Niagaran Pinnacle Reefs using Salt Plugging Signatures Defined by Pulsed Neutron Capture Logs

Amber Conner, Jacqueline Gerst, Mark Kelley, Andrew Burchwell, Neeraj Gupta and Rick Pardini

Anomalous Thermal Indicators from the Aughigenic Minerals in Upper Paleozoic Strata of the Michigan Basin

Kyle Cox and David A. Barnes

Southeastern Ohio Pt Pleasant: A Shale Play?

Chadwick Cunningham and Keith Rhoton

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Using Cementation Exponent to Improve Permeability Estimation from Porosity in a Deep Saline Reservoir

James Damico and Scott M. Frailey

Assessing CO2 EOR Potential of Three Strategically Located Oil Fields in the Illinois Basin

James Damico, Charles Monson, Scott M. Frailey, Yaghoob Lasemi, Nathan D. Webb, Nathan P. Grigsby, Fang Yang, Roland Okwen, Ruisong Zhou, Jared Freiburg and Peter Berger

Origin and Importance of Shell Beds in the Logana Member of the Lexington Limestone, (Katian, Ordovician) on the South Flank of the Seebree Through, Cincinnati, Ohio

Benjamin F. Dattilo, Collin Lambert, Allison L. Young and Carlton E. Brett

Utica-Pt. Pleasant Sub Basin: Integrating Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Basin Modeling to Help Predict Condensate Yield

Michael Dolan, Grant Zimbrick and Michael Tischer

Interpretation of the Paleogene Strata in Southeastern Louisiana: Investigating the Potential for Deep Reservoirs

Colin Doolan, Catherine Enomoto, Marc Buursink and James Coleman

Assessment of geologic carbon dioxide storage resources in the middle to upper Silurian strata of the Appalachian basin

Colin Doolan

Recent Site Characterization Studies Being Investigated By The Department of Energy (DOE)/National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) For Potential Geologic Storage of CO2

Brian Dressel, Kanwal Mahajan and Traci Rodosta

New Albany Shale maps in the Illinois Basin

Agnieszka Drobniak, Maria Mastalerz, Joan Crockett and Brandon C. Nuttall

Mystery in the Mushwad: The Origin of Gas in the Big Canoe Creek Field Saint Clair County, Alabama, USA

Richard Drozd

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The Sebree Trough: Probable Origin and Control by Intraplate Paleotectonic Structures and the Taconian Orogeny

Frank Ettensohn

Tectonic and Structural Control of Ordovician Black-Shale Distribution during the Taconian Orogeny, Northern Appalachian Basin, U.S.A.: Utica and Related Black Shales

Frank Ettensohn

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Magnetic Processing 101–What Nobody Ever Told you, and Why It Can Cost You So Much

Joseph Fagan

Deposition and Diagenesis of the Mt. Simon Sandstone: Unconformities, Basin Analysis, and Anomalous Porosity

Jared Freiburg and Hannes Leetaru

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Subsurface Facies Analysis of the Devonian Berea Sandstone in Southeastern Ohio

William Garnes and James E. Evans

Petrophysical Characterization of a Niagaran-Salina Reef Complex Reservoir; Kalkaska 21 Field, Kalkaska Co., Northern Lower MI, USA

Jon Garrett and David A. Barnes

Micro-FTIR Mapping of Organic Matter Connectivity in Devonian and Mississippian New Albany Shale (Indiana)

Carley Gasaway and Maria Mastalerz

Thin Bed and Sandstone Dike Architecture of Cretaceous Ferron Prodelta Shales, Utah

Cristina Genovese

Shear Velocity Structure Beneath the Central United States: Implications for the Origin of the Illinois Basin and Intraplate Seismicity

Hersh Gilbert, Chris Andronicos, Gary Pavlis, Michael Hamburger, Xiaotao Yang, Stephen Marshak and Timothy Larson

Importance of Field Projects and Regional Mapping to Demonstrate Geologic Storage Potential in the Midwestern United States

Neeraj Gupta, Lydia Cumming and Rodney Osborne

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Structural Impacts on the Deposition and Reservoir Development in the Conasauga Group in Ohio

Autumn Haagsma, Glenn Larsen, Erica Howat and Charlotte Sullivan

Cluster Analysis Based Subdivision of the Clinton Sanstone in East Canton Ohio

Autumn Haagsma, Srikanta Mishra and Ola Babarinde

Antrim Shale Natural Gas Play in Michigan: 30 years later, A Retrospective

William B. Harrison, Cameron Manche and Nicholas Panyard

Cambrian Rogersville Shale: A Potential New Unconventional Reservoir in the Southern Appalachian Basin

John Hickman, David Harris and Cortland Eble

Identification of Vuggy Zones in Carbonate Reservoirs From Wireline Logs Using Machine Learning Techniques

Erica Howat, Srikanta MIshra, Jared Schuetter and Benjamin Grove

Implementing Discriminative Water Saturation Criteria to Determine Prime Production Remnants in Morrow County

Erica Howat, Amber Conner and Srikanta Mishra

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High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Provenance of the Ordovician Ancell Group in Iowa: Insights into the Evolution of Mid-Continent Intracratonic Basins of North America

Diar Ibrahim, Michael C. Pope, Brent V. Miller, Brian Witzke and William C. McClelland

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Geologic Characterization of Hydrothermally Altered Reservoirs and Future Exploration Potential in Eastern Michigan Basin

David Katz, Terry Thyer, Lyn Canter, Marshal Jung, Ken Parrot, Paul Delva and Charlie Harman

Peru and Urbana Fields, Indiana: A Comparison of Trenton Limestone (Ordovician) Reservoir Characteristics, History, and Economics

Brian Keith

Evolution of the Mississippian Carbonate Platform in the Illinois Basin As Seen From the Eastern Shelf in South-Central Indiana

Brian Keith and Todd Thompson

Reservoir Characterization of Devonian Deposits in the Salem Field

Mansour Khosravi, Yaghoob Lasemi and Zohreh Askari

Facies Analysis and Paleodischarge of Rivers within a Compound Incised Valley, Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah

Stephanie Kimmerle and Janok P. Bhattacharya

LiDAR and Its Use in the Identification of Faults, Fractures and Sub Surface Structures in Drift Covered Areas

Chuck Knox

Eustatic and Far- Field Tectonic Control on the Distribution of a Carbonate Shoal: Example from the Upper Ordovician Upper Tanglewood Member of Lexington Limestone, Central Kentucky, USA

Dibya Raj Koirala, Frank Ettensohn and Marta Clepper

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Microfacies of Curdsville through Grier beneath Cincinnati; Characterizing the Utica –Lexington transition in the Subsurface

Collin Lambert, Benjamin F. Dattilo, Allison Young and Carlton E. Brett

Geological Characterization and CO2 EOR Potential of the Silurian Racine Formation in Forsyth Field, Macon County, Illinois

Yaghoob Lasemi

Middle Mississippian Carbonate Reservoirs Facies in the Illinois Basin: Outcrop Analogues

Zak Lasemi

The Stable Isotope and Noble Gas Geochemistry of Point Pleasant, Utica, Tuscarora, and Trenton/Black River Formation Production Gases, Northern Appalachian Basin

Christopher D. Laughrey and Thomas Darrah

Geochemical Characterization of Post Mature Gases from Middle Devonian Marcellus Formation, Northern Appalachian Basin, USA – Insights into Deep Basin Hydrocarbon Generation, Alteration, and Productivity

Christopher D. Laughrey

The Critical Role of Voluntary Standards and Certification in the Hydraulic Fracturing Framework

Susan Packard LeGros and Matthew Mahoney

Investigations of Libyan Upper Mantle Anisotropy and Crustal Structure Using Shear Wave Splitting and Receiver Function Analyses

Awad Lemnifi, Kelly Liu, Stephen Gao, Ahmed Elsheikh, Cory Reed and Younqing You

Fluid Inclusions Characteristics and Hydrocarbon Accumulation Period Analysis of the Lixian Slope Northern Section Reservoir (the Bohai Gulf Basin in China)

Jian Liu, Xiaoyun Lin and Yong Feng

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Under-performing Federal Stewardship Threatens Energy Development Potential

Ned Mamula

The Effects of Structural Lineament Reactivation on Antrim Shale Natural Gas Development

Cameron Manche and William B. Harrison

Comparing High Resolution Sedimentology and Elemental Analyses in the Union Springs Formation of New York

John Mason, Michael McGlue, Teresa Jordan and Carl Sondergeld

A Diagenetic Partitioned Big Clifty Sandstone Reservoir in South Central Kentucky

Michael May and Kort Butler

Are States Effective Regulating Oil and Gas Production Operations?

Herschel McDivitt

Estimating Global Warming Mitigation from Carbon Dioxide Sequestration

Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Kanppenberger

Late Silurian Depositional Patterns in the Proto-Illinois Basin

Donald Mikulic, James Barrick, Anthony Butcher, Joanne Kluessendorf, David Loydell and Rodney Norby

Evaluation of Potential Stacked Shale-Gas Reservoirs Across Northern and North-Central West Virginia

Jessica Moore, Susan Pool, Philip Dinterman, Eric Lewis and Ray Boswell

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Oil Production From Low-Maturity Organic-Rich Shale: An Example from the Devonian New Albany Shale in the Illinois Basin, Breckinridge County, Kentucky

Brandon C. Nuttall, Thomas M. Parris, Glynn Beck, Donna C. Willette and Maria Mastalerz

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Fault Motion and the Characteristics of Fracture Intensification Domains: A Quantitative Analysis

Alex O'Hara, Robert Jacobi and David Sheets

Development of Dimensionless Performance Curves to Estimate CO2 EOR of Illinois Basin Oil Reservoirs

Roland Okwen and Scott M. Frailey

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An Integrated Geochemical Model Using Sulfur and Organic Carbon for the Late Devonian Antrim Shale, Michigan Basin, USA

Nicholas Panyard

Reexamining the Fresh-Saline Water Interface in the Area of the Devonian Berea Oil Play, Northeastern Kentucky

Thomas M. Parris, Jerrad Grider and Ethan Davis

Thinking of the Furture- What Can We Do Next For New Insights to the Paleozic/Precambrian Boundary in the Midwest?

Paul Potter

Late Stage High Temperature Dolomitization in the Ordovician of the Michigan and Illinois Basins – Why the Difference?

Dennis Prezbindowski

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Noble gas Isotopes, Major Element Isotopes, and Gas Composition From the Cumnock Formation: Sanford Sub-Basin, Deep River Basin, Lee County, North Carolina, U.S.A.

Jeffrey Reid, Andrew G. Hunt, Geoffrey S. Ellis, Kenneth B. Taylor and O.F. Patterson

Science and Policy Considerations in Developing the the Illinois Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act

Bradley Richards

Petrophysical and Stratigraphic Characterization of Michigan Silurian Reefs

Matthew Rine, David A. Barnes and William B. Harrison

Geological Framework for Appraising Continuous Petroleum Resources in the Chattanooga Shale of the Southern Appalachian Basin

William Rouse

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Inorganic Geochemistry of the Middle-Upper Ordovician Utica Shale Defining Clastic Trends Including a Change of Source Provenance Based on XRF Data

Steve Saboda and Gary Lash

Lithologic Properties of the Upper Ordovician Utica Formation, Michigan Basin, USA: A Geological Characterization and Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Confinement Potential from Mechanical and Petrophysical Properties

Frank Sattler

Tungsten Isotopic Fractionation During Adsorption to Birnessite

Gus Schaefer

The Effect of Coalbed Methane Well Hydraulic Fracturing on Coal Mining Roof Support and the Suggestions on Fracturing construction A Case Study From the Yanchuannan CBM Field, China

Rui Shi, Xiaoming Wang, Xingjin Wang, Sidong Pan and Zhenhua Jing

Class I and Class II Wells in Kentucky–A New Map Service of Waste-Disposal, Brine-Injection, and Enhanced-Recovery Wells in Kentucky

Thomas Sparks

The Historic Trenton Broad Ripple Fields: A Quaint Story Or a Unique Reservoir Study, Revisited

Kevin Strunk

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Geochemical Impact of Fluid Injection into St. Peter Sandstone Within the Kankakee Arch: Implications for Salt Water Injection and Disposal

Richard Thomas

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A Time-Transgressive Model for the Burnt Bluff Group: New Insights from Outcrop and Subsurface Samples

Peter Voice and William B. Harrison

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What's Lurking in the Basement? Recent insight into basement features in Indiana

Rachel Walker

Geological characterization and modeling of the Cypress Sandstone at Noble Field, Southeastern Illinois

Nathan D. Webb and Nathan P. Grigsby

Comparative Optical Properties of Vitrinite and Other Macerals From New Albany Shale (Devonian and Mississippian): Implications for Thermal Maturity

Lin Wei, Maria Mastalerz and Arndt Schimmelmann

Using Noble Gases to Assess the Compositional Variability and Sources of Natural Gas in the Antrim Shale, Michigan Basin, USA

Tao Wen, Clara Castro, Brian Ellis, Chris Hall and Kyger Lohmann

Origin and Maturity Estimates of Generated Gas Using Gas Isotopic Analyses - Examples From Experimental Pyrolysis Using Natural Oils and Gas Samples Collected From the New Albany Shale, Illinois Basin

Donna C. Willette and Brandon C. Nuttall

Boundary Element Modeling of Fault Cored Anticlines and Associated Blind Thrusts in Central California

Molly Williams and Kaj Johnson

Appalachian, Illinois and Michigan Basin Arch Geology Utilizing a Gamma Ray In-Situ Data Set to Visualize Hydrocarbon Plays

Ralph Williams

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Evaluating Prospective Resource Estimates for CO2 Utilization and Storage in Unconventional Reservoirs of the Illinois Basin

Qian Zhang

Thorough the Vagaries of Time: The Early History of the Trenton Field of Indiana Revealed

Charles Zuppann, Tim Schoch, David Jacob and Richard L. Powell