ABSTRACTS
(By Author)

AAPG/EAGE International Research Conference

 

Carbonate Reservoir Characterization and Modeling for Enhanced Hydrocarbon Discovery and Recovery

October 1-5, 2000, El Paso, Texas,

 

Search and Discovery Article #90049 (2005)

Posted December 24, 2005

 

Note: Items preceded by asterisks(*) designate extended abstracts, most with illustrations.

 

Select letter corresponding to first letter of last name of author, or of first coauthor.

 

AB    CDE    FGH    JKL    MNOP    STUVW

 

AB

Capillary Pressure, Hg Withdrawal Efficiency, Pore Throat Diameter, and Pore Geometry as “Quality Indicators” in Carbonate Reservoirs

Wayne M. Ahr

 

New Exploration Models for an “Old” Play: Terminal Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian Intrasalt Carbonates of Oman

Amthor, J.E., J.W. Reinhardt, and J. Grotzinger

 

Platform to Basin Transition in Terminal Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian Intrasalt Carbonates, Ara Group, South Oman Salt Basin

Amthor, J.E., J. Reinhardt, J. Grotzinger, and N. Cross

 

Sedimentological Analysis and Permeability Prediction within Highly Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoirs using Borehole Image Logs

Aplin, Graham F., Ajay K. Sapru and Mark J. F. Lawrence

 

Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Washita Group (Albian/Cenomanian), Main Pass Field Area, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

Badali, Marcello

 

Potential for Large, Late Jurassic Reef Development along the Wiggins Arch, Eastern Gulf Coast

Baria, Lawrence R., and Woodie D. Huffman

 

Heterogeneity of the Capitan Reef and Its Importance to Reservoir Development

Bell, Gorden L., Jr., and Christopher J. Crow

 

CDE

*Comparison of Permeability Prediction using Back-Propagation and Hybrid Neural Networks

Chang, Hsien-Cheng, Hui-Chuan Chen, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel

 

*Determination of Carbonate Permeability Category using Hybrid Neural Network and Fuzzy Inference Systems

Chang, Hsien-Cheng, Hui-Chuan Chen, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel

 

Paleontological and Lithological Variability in the Upper Capitan Limestone, Southeastern New Mexico: Significance to Petroleum Exploration

Crow, Christopher J., and Scott Brande

 

Influence of Salt Structures on Reservoir Rocks in Block L-2, Dutch Continental Shelf

Dronkert, Hans

 

3-D Carbonate Stratigraphic Model based on Energy and Sediment Flux

Duan, Taizhong, Timothy A. Cross, and Margaret A. Lessenger

 

*Sequence Stratigraphy of the Finnmark Carbonate Platform (Upper Carboniferous-Permian), Barents Sea

Ehrenberg, S.N., T.A. Svana, and N.A.H. Pickard

 

FGH

*Modeled Restoration of the Cretaceous “Shelf Edge” in the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico: Reservoir Facies Implications

Fillon, Richard H.

 

Understanding the Effects of Antecedent Topography and Differential Compaction on the Development of Play Trends in the Permian Basin: An Example from Means Field, Andrews County, West Texas

Fitchen, William M.

 

Characterization of the Smackover Reservoir: Chatom Field, Washington County, Alabama

Fowler, H.E., and D.J. Benson

 

Reservoir Quality Problems in Carbonates Overcome by Application of Quantitative Image Analysis

Gutteridge, Peter, Norman Oxtoby, and Francis Witkowski

 

*Characterization of Chosen Ordovician Yeoman Dolostones of the Northern Williston Basin, Southeast Saskatchewan

Harvey, Doug, Don M. Kent, and Hairuo Qing

 

Deciphering Fluid Flow and Mass Transfer in a Carbonate Reservoir

Heydari, Ezat

 

Sequence Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of Upper Permian Richthofeniid Limestones (Chios, Greece)

Hüssner, Hansmartin, and Gerd Flajs

 

3-D Computer Based Modeling of Carbonate Platforms

Hüssner, Hansmartin, Jochen Roessler, Christian Betzler, and Rainer Petschick

 

JKL

*High-Frequency Sequence Stratigraphic Controls on Reservoir Development in the Lower Leonardian (Permian) Abo and Drinkard Shallow-Water Carbonates on the Central Basin Platform, New Mexico

Johnson, Imelda Gorman, G.B. Asquith, and R. Winn

 

Sequence Geometry as a Predictor of Reservoir Architecture

Kerans, Charles

 

*Smackover Microbial Mound Trend, Mississippi Interior Salt Basin, Alabama

Kopaska-Merkel, D.C.

 

Temporal and Spatial Variability in the Fill and Diagenesis of Syndepositional Fault Zones, Permian Capitan Reef Platform, Slaughter Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico: Implications for Platform Development, Diagenesis and Connectivity of Yates Reservoirs

Kosa, Eduard, Dave Hunt, Gerald Roberts, William Fitchen, and Marie-Odile Bockel-Rebelle

 

Determining the Reservoir Potential of Lower Cretaceous Carbonates and Evaporites of Northeastern Mexico using High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretations

Lehmann, Christoph

 

MNOP

Stratigraphic Models of the Franklin Mountains, Texas and New Mexico

LeMone, David V.

 

Effect of Relative Sea-Level Changes on Carbonate Reservoir Geology: Example from Permian North Cowden Field, West Texas

Loucks, Robert, David Entzminger, and Shinichi Sakurai

 

Origin and Significance of Reservoir Heterogeneities in Mabruk Oil Field, Sirt Basin, Libya

Machhour, L., B. Courme, and E. Metais

 

Oxfordian Smackover Carbonate Hydrocarbon Exploration Strategies for the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico Area

Mancini, Ernest A.

 

Integrated Geoscientific Study of Upper Jurassic Smackover Reef and Carbonate Shoal Reservoirs Associated with a Paleotopographic Basement Structure: Appleton Field, South Alabama

Mancini, Ernest A., D. Joe Benson, and Bruce S. Hart

 

Reservoir Characterization and Geostatistical Modeling for a New Mexico Waterflood Project

Meddaugh, W. Scott, Raymond Garber, Mauricio Villegas, and Jasper Ring

 

Upper Cretaceous to Lower Paleogene Carbonate Growth Strata Associated with a Passive Salt Diapir, La Popa Basin, Mexico: An Outcrop Analog to Shelfal Salt Exploration

Mercer, David W., and Katherine A. Giles

 

Reservoir Geological Controls on Production Behavior in a Lower Cretaceous Rudist Reef, Al Huwaisah Field, North Oman

Morrison, Walter

 

Case Study of an Oil Field in the Regional Peripheral Fault Trend Play: North Choctaw Ridge, Alabama

Panetta, Brian J.

 

Classification of Microbial Growth Forms and Fabric in the Smackover Formation, Southwest Alabama and Implications for Reservoir Quality

Parcell, William C.

 

*Geological Analysis of the Zechstein Limestone Formations (Ca1) in Western Poland

Pikulski, Leszek, and Tadeusz Wolnowski

 

*Geological Analysis of the Main Dolomite Formations (Ca2) in Western Poland

Pikulski, Leszek, and Tadeusz Wolnowski

 

Lower Cretaceous Carbonate Petroleum Systems in the Mississippi Interior Salt Basin

Puckett, T. Markham

 

STUVW

Learning the Relationship between Seismic Attributes and Lithofacies by Back-Propagation Neural Network

Siripitayananon, Punnee, Hui-Chuan Chen, and Bruce S. Hart

 

Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation of the Finlay Formation (Albian, Lower Cretaceous), Rimrock Escarpment, Hudspeth County, Texas

Steinhoff, Doerte, and David V. Lemone

 

Mixed Carbonate and Evaporite Hydrocarbon Reservoir Systems: An Example from the Permian of NW Germany and the Cretaceous of NE Mexico

Steinhoff, Ingo, and Christoph Lehmann

 

*An Integrated Study of the Liuhua 11-1 Field using an Ultra High-Resolution 3-D Seismic Dataset: South China Sea

Story, Chip, Patrick Peng, Claire Sullivan, Christoph Heubeck, and Jian Dong Lin

 

Reservoir Compartmentalization in the San Andres Formation of Vacuum Field, Lea County, New Mexico—Peritidal Deposits and Karst Overprints Create Vertical and Lateral Barriers to Fluid Flow in Carbonate Platform Dolopackstones and Dolograinstones

Stoudt, Emily L., and Michael A. Raines

 

Increased Seismic Resolution by Universal Kriging Approach

Wang, Lei, Punnee Siripitayananon, Hui-Chuan Chen, and Bruce S. Hart

 

Improved Modeling of a Shallow Shelf Carbonate Reservoir using 3-D Seismic Attributes, Welch Field, Permian Basin, Texas

Watts, George P., Gregory D. Hinterlong, and Archie R. Taylor

 

A CL/PPL Based Image Analysis Technique Leads the Way to Improved Understanding of Carbonate Reservoir Systems

Witkowski, Francis, and Peter Gutteridge