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“Perfecting the Search – Delivering on Promises”

April 9-12, 2006 Houston, Texas, USA

Volume 1 of 2

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume 1

Source Rock Characterization-Dependent Biomarker Distributions of Crude Oils in the Southern Giant Oilfields of the Gulf of Suez Province, Egypt........................................................ 1

Mohamed Abdel-Aziz Younes, Paul Philp

Petroleum System in the Shushan Basin: A Mature Basin Leading to Future Exploration in the Western Desert of Egypt..................................................................................... 7

Mohamed Abdel-Aziz Younes

Application of Magnetic Resonance Mud Logging for Rapid Reservoir Evaluation ................. 13Gang Yu, Zhizhan Wang, Konstantin Mirotchnik, Lifa Li

Do Dry Holes Lie? Cusiana and Cupiagua Fields, Colombia, South America............................ 14Woodruff G. Leel, Jr

Growing the Forest: The Integration of International Data into a Global-Scale GIS, Decision Support System ................................................................................................................ 15

Melanie McQuinn

First-order Relationships Between Lunar Crater Morphology, Degree of Degradation, and Relative Age: The Crater Degradation Index .......................................................................... 16

William A. Ambrose

An Overlooked Play-Type on a Ramp Margin: Prodelta Turbiditic Lobes, Lower Kenilworth Member, Cretaceous Western Interior, Book Cliffs, Utah ......................................... 17

Simon A.J. Pattison

Transgressively-Modified Coarse-Grained Sandstones and Turbidite-Rich Shelf Deposits, Upper Aberdeen to Lower Kenilworth Stratigraphic Interval, Campanian Book Cliffs, Utah: Evidence for Tectonically-Driven Sedimentation Patterns ........................... 18

Simon A.J. Pattison

Turbidity Currents Physical Simulation in a Small-Scale Model of Large Dimensions (Canyon Almirante Câmara – Campos Basin, Brazil): Methodology and Preliminary Results ............................................................................................................................................... 19

Rafael Manica, Rodrigo Sartor, Rogério Dornelles Maestri, Ana Luiza De Oliveira Borges

New Stratigraphic Trap Oil Play Associated with the Upper Jurassic Smackover Microbial Reef Trend, Onshore Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain ......................................................... 24

Ernest A. Mancini, William C. Parcell, Wayne M. Ahr, Juan Carlos Llinás, Bennett L. Bearden, Berry H. Tew

Three-Dimensional Reservoir and Simulation Modeling of Hyperpycnal Systems: A Case Study of LAG-3047, Block X, Misoa Formation, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela ................. 25

Helena Gamero, Lucienne Laporte, Jose Luis Perdomo, Tami C. Rahn, Christina Isakson, Freddy Rodriguez

Depositional Environments and Diagenesis of the Lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) Fahliyan Formation in Bibi-Hakimeh, Khyrabad , Kilurkarim and Sulabedar Fields in the Zagros Basin, Southwest Iran ................................................................................................... 26

Forooz Keyvani, Ezat Heydari, Alireza Rostami

Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology Study in Fluvial Systems – A New Approach ............... 27Lorena Moscardelli, Denise Woods, Lesli Wood

Characterization and 3-D Reservoir Modeling of Fluvial Tight-Gas Sandstones in the Williams Fork Formation, Rulison Field, Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA ................................. 28

Marielis F. Vargas, Matthew J. Pranter, Thomas L. Davis

Integration of Multidisciplinary Tools for Study of the Tectonic-Stratigraphics Features in the Post-Rift Sequence in Camamu-Almada Basin, Bahia State, Brazil ................................. 29

Márcia K. Karam, Nilo Chagas de Azambuja Filho, Luiz Landau

Frontally Confined against Frontally Emergent Submarine Landslides: a 3-D Seismic Characterization ................................................................................................................................ 30

Jose Frey-Martinez, Joe Cartwright, David James

Depositional Environments, Architecture and Diagenesis of Fahud Field, Oman..................... 31Volker C. Vahrenkamp, Alia Al Bahry, Talal Al Musallami, Abhijit Mookerjee, Wadie Mansour, Richard Singleton, Cathy Hollis, Peter Homewood, Henk Droste, Carine Grelaud, Philippe Razin, Quintin Davies, Boris Kostic, Conxita Taberner, Mateu Esteban

Artificial Neural Networks May Help Predicting Abnormal Pressures in the Anadarko Basin................................................................................................................................................... 32

Constantin Cranganu

High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of Upper Thamama (Lower Cretaceous) Reservoirs of a Giant Abu Dhabi Oil Field, United Arab Emirates ............................................................................................................................................. 33

Christian J. Strohmenger, L. Jim Weber, Ahmed Ghani, Khalil Al-Mehsin, Omar Al-Jeelani, Abdulla Al-Mansoori, Taha Al-Dayyani, Lee Vaughan, Sameer A. Khan, John C. Mitchell

Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Architecture of the Burgan and Mauddud Formations (Lower Cretaceous), Kuwait ........................................................................................ 34

Christian J. Strohmenger, Penny E. Patterson, Ghaida Al-Sahlan, John C. Mitchell, Howard R. Feldman, Timothy M. Demko, Robert W. Wellner, Patrick J. Lehmann, G. Glen McCrimmon, Robert W. Broomhall, Neama Al-Ajmi

Carbonate Reservoir Modeling Using Multiple-Point Statistics (MPS)/Facies Distribution Modeling (FDM) ............................................................................................................ 35

Marge Levy, Paul Mitch Harris, Sebastien Strebelle

Comparative Hydrocarbon Potential Analysis of Turkish Interior Basins and New Exploration Opportunities: a Critical Review and New Insights .................................................. 36

Ozkan Huvaz, Hasan Sarikaya

Evaluating the Precision of Well Location Datasets Using ArcGIS ............................................. 37Don Downey

Implications of Cell Size on Modeling of Facies Proportions: A Modern Carbonate Platform Example.............................................................................................................................. 38

Gregory S. Benson, Steve Bachtel

Mass-Transport Complexes (MTCs), and Tectonic Control on Confined Basin-Floor Submarine Fans, Middle Eocene, South Spanish Pyrenees ........................................................ 40

Kevin T. Pickering, Nicole Bayliss

Fundamentals of Rock-Based Reservoir Modeling: A Case History from the Lower Permian Fullerton Field, Permian Basin ......................................................................................... 41

Stephen C. Ruppel, Rebecca H. Jones, F. Jerry Lucia, Fred P. Wang, Hongliu Zeng, Jeff Kane, James W. Jennings

Downhole Geochemical Analysis of Gas Content and Critical Desorption Pressure for Carbonaceous Reservoirs ............................................................................................................... 42

John M. Pope

Sequence Stratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous Unayzah Reservoir in Saudi Arabia and Its Correlation with Oman ......................................................................................................... 43

Muhittin Senalp

Karst and Early Fracture Networks in Carbonates, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies ........................................................................................................................................ 44

Sean A. Guidry, Mark Grasmueck, Andrew Gombos, Jr, Daniel G. Carpenter, Steven L. Bachtel, David A. Viggiano

Sedimentology of the Incised Valleys and Their Associated Lowstand Deltaic Sequences in the Ash-Shiqqah Formation of the Unayzah Reservoir, Saudi Arabia ................ 45

Muhittin Senalp

The Potential for Coalbed Gas Resource Development, Western Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela........................................................................................................................................... 46

Roger Tyler, Noel Tyler, Rafael Tocco, Vania Savian

Overlooked Gas Exploration Play: The Deep Lake Formation of Southern Florida .................. 47Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping

Superimposed Folding, Northwest Canada ................................................................................... 48James R. Taylor

Underdeveloped Oil Fields in Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Carbonate Reservoirs of Southeastern New Mexico: Initial Development Missed Major Reserves........... 49

Ronald F. Broadhead

Volume-Based Characterization of a Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoir, Lower Cretaceous, Abu Dhabi..................................................................................................................... 50

Lyndon A. Yose, Amy S. Ruf, Christian J. Strohmenger, James S. Schuelke, Linda W. Corwin, Andrew Gombos, Jr, Imelda G. Johnson, Ismail Al-Hosani, Shamsa S. Al-Maskary, Gerard Bloch, Yousef Al-Mahairi

Fractured Limestones Vs. Fractured Sandstones ......................................................................... 51John C. Lorenz

Reservoir Characterization of the Giant Sulige Gas Field, Ordos Basin, China ........................ 52Dongbo He, Ailin Jia, Tianguang Xu

Petroleum Systems in the Junggar Basin, a Complex Multicycle Basin in NW China .............. 53Tianguang Xu, Dengfa He, Yun Huang

Connectivity of Channelized and Other Reservoirs ...................................................................... 54D. K. Larue, J. Hovadik

Carbonate Diagenesis in a Geologically Complex Region – Lower Carboniferous of the Southern Irish Midlands ................................................................................................................... 55

Jay M. Gregg, Kevin L. Shelton, Ian D. Somerville, Wayne R. Wright, Aaron W. Johnson, Zsolt R. Nagy, Stephen P. Becker

Sealing Properties of Source Rocks: The example of the North Sea’s Kimmeridge Clay Formation........................................................................................................................................... 56

Olufemi A. Jokanola, Andrew C. Aplin, Steve R. Larter, Kuncho D. Kurtev

Golden Zone Implications for Global Exploration ......................................................................... 57Paul H. Nadeau, Per Arne Bjørkum, Gillian Darke, Øvind Steen

A Review of Porosity Semivariogram Parameters from Giant (and Not so Giant) Carbonate Reservoirs....................................................................................................................... 58

W. Scott Meddaugh

Sources and Fluxes of Carbon Buried on Subaqueous Delta of Lena River and Inner Shelf of Laptev Sea (Russian Arctic) .............................................................................................. 59

Eugene Karabanov, Janiel Rivera, Douglas Williams, Michael Kuzmin, Valeryi Buchunskyi, Alexander Mamontov

Anatomy of Mass-Transport Complexes in the Cretaceous of Livingston Island, Antarctica: Sedimentation and Deformation Processes on a Mud-Rich Deep-Water Clastic Slope...................................................................................................................................... 60

Simon A. Lomas, Duncan Pirrie

Experimental Investigation on the Role of Pore-Fluid Pressure during Active Extensional Shale Tectonics ........................................................................................................... 61

Lucie Baudouy, Régis Mourgues, Bruno Vendeville

Bromide Dolomite (Ordovician) Inner Ramp Depositional Cycles, Arkoma Basin, Southeastern Oklahoma................................................................................................................... 62

Gregory P. Wahlman, Vince L. Felt, Brad D. Moon

Lower Permian (Wolfcampian) Fusulinid Biostratigraphy, Carbonate Microfacies, and Stratigraphic Model, Central Basin Platform Margin, Permian Basin, Texas ............................. 63

Gregory P. Wahlman, Douglas R. Tasker

Numerical Modeling of Continental Margin Contractional Deep Water Salt Tectonics ............. 64Sofie Gradmann, Chris Beaumont, Steven J. Ings, Markus Albertz

Quantitative Seismostratigraphic Inversion of Seismic and Geophysical Data......................... 65Matthias Imhof, Arvind Sharma

Comparison of Outcrop - Defined and Wireline Log - Defined Guadalupian Sequences in the Guadalupe Mountains Area, New Mexico and West Texas................................................ 66

Willis W. Tyrrell, Jr, John A. Diemer, Gorden L. Bell, Richard Bichsel

The Giant Forgotten Sub-Salt Hydrocarbon Province in the Greater Campos Basin, Brazil; a Journey from a Great Mistake to a Learning Experience .............................................. 67

M.R Mello, Paul Willian Brooks, J.M Moldowan, B. Wygrala

Vertical and Lateral Scales of Heterogeneity in a Fractured Reservoir Analog, Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic La Boca Formation, NE Mexico......................................................... 68

Stephen E. Laubach, Meghan E. Ward, Leonel A. Gomez

Fracture Pattern Heterogeneity in Km-scale Reservoir-Analog Outcrops.................................. 69Kira Diaz Tushman, Stephen E. Laubach, Randall Marrett

Mass Transport Complexes from a Late Miocene Deep-Water Succession, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: Scales, Styles, and Significance in Relation to Tectonic, Eustatic, and Autocyclic Drivers ..................................................................................................................... 70

Greg H. Browne, Lorna J. Strachan, Peter R. King, Malcolm J. Arnot

High-Resolution Stratigraphy of Multiple, Vertically Stacked Slope Channel Complexes, Tanqua Depocentre, Karoo Basin, South Africa ...................................................... 76

Richard Wild, David Hodgson, Stephen Flint, Willem Van der Merve

Stratigraphic Prediction of a Range of Soft-sediment Deformation Phenomena in a Submarine Slope Setting: an example from the Tanqua Karoo, South Africa ........................... 77

Richard Wild, David Hodgson, Stephen Flint, Carlos Oliveira

Tectonic Evolution and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Arabian Plate.......................................... 78Firyal Bou Rabee, A.S. Alsharhan

Using “Wheeler Diagrams” as an Exploration Tool in the Gulf of Mexico.................................. 79Ramón H. Treviño, L. Frank Brown, Jr, Robert G. Loucks, Ursula Hammes

Satellite-based Long-term Monitoring of Saltcedar Control along the Riparian Corridor of the Lower Pecos River, Texas..................................................................................................... 80

Seiichi Nagihara, Charles R. Hart

Sequence Stratigraphy of Robertkiri Field, Niger Delta, Nigeria ................................................. 81Olusola A. Magbagbeola, Brian J. Willis

Depositional Patterns across Syndepositional Normal Faults, Niger Delta, Nigeria ................. 82Ajibola O. Owoyemi, Brian J. Willis

Clastic Facies Development under Unsteady Flow Conditions and Consequences over Petrophysical Properties (an Experimental Approach) ................................................................ 83

Temistocles S. Rojas, Deborah S. Lawrence

Compartmentalisation of Deepwater Sediments In a Mini-Basin Fill – An Outcrop Example From the Donkey Bore Syncline, Flinders Ranges. South Australia........................... 84

Blaise Fernandes, Carmen Krapf, Kerrie E. Deller, Simon C. Lang, Tobias H.D. Payenberg

An Outcropping Salt-Withdrawal Mini-Basin Filled with Deepwater Sediments – the Donkey Bore Syncline, South Australia ......................................................................................... 85

Tobias Payenberg, Simon C. Lang, Mark Reilly, Blaise Fernandes, Carmen Krapf

Analysis of Screened/Cleaned Databases for Exploration, Prospect Identification, Play Definition and Infill Decisions.......................................................................................................... 86

Robert Ehrlich, Michael Dropkin, Kristin Campbell

Renewed Debate about Icehouse-Greenhouse Oscillations ........................................................ 87Wolfgang Schlager

Controls on Reservoir Architecture in Cross-Bedded Shallow Marine Siliciclastic Systems: A Subsurface Methodology and Case Study from the Cretaceous of SW Wyoming ............................................................................................................................................ 88

Simon A. Lomas

Multiscale Geologic and Petrophysical Modeling of the Giant Hugoton Gas Field (Permian), Kansas and Oklahoma................................................................................................... 89

Martin K. Dubois, Alan P. Byrnes, Geoffrey C. Bohling, John H. Doveton

Impact of Earth Model Workflow and Up-scaling on Fluid Flow Response Reservoir Modeling in Mature Fields ................................................................................................................ 90

W. Scott Meddaugh

Circum-Arctic Petroleum Systems: Data Mining and Prediction of Physiochemical Properties Using Chemometrics and Paleoreconstruction.......................................................... 91

Kenneth E. Peters, L. Scott Ramos, John E. Zumberge, Christopher R. Scotese, Donald L. Gautier

Rock Physics Patterns of Clastic Depositional Sequences ......................................................... 92Juan-Mauricio Florez-Nino, Gary Mavko

Upscaling of Borehole Resistivity Image Logs in a Complex Fractured Carbonate Reservoir: Improving Drilling Location Selection ......................................................................... 93

Manfred Frass, Efrain Mendez, Sean Boerner

The Sanha Condensate Project: Increasing Value and Eliminating Flaring, Angola, Southern Africa ................................................................................................................................. 94

Brigitte Wexler, Mel Croft, Joana Benge, Claudio Morsetti, Eric Vaubourdolle

Three Common Source Rock Evaluation Errors Made by Geologists ........................................ 95Harry Dembicki

Seismic Estimation of Gas Hydrate Concentrations in Deep-Water Environments: Assumptions and Limitations.......................................................................................................... 96

Bob A. Hardage, Diana Sava

Early Paleogene Isolation of the Gulf of Mexico from the World’s Oceans................................ 97Joshua H. Rosenfeld, Jon F. Blickwede

Structural and Stratigraphic Controls on Storage and CO2 EOR Potential in Major Basins in Texas, California, Illinois, and Michigan........................................................................ 98

William A. Ambrose, Mark H. Holtz, Vanessa Núñez-López, Susan D. Hovorka, Edgar H. Guevara, Caroline Breton, Charles Christopher

Scour Lobe: Fundamental Depositional Element of Deepwater Distributary Systems............. 99Vitor Abreu, John Van Wagoner, Rick Beaubouef, D. C. J. D. Hoyal

Brookshire Field, Waller County, Texas: Bypassed Pay at 2000 Feet....................................... 100Ray Blackhall

Reducing Synthetic Oil-Based Drilling Mud Contamination in Geologic Materials ................. 101Harry Dembicki, Jr, Robert K. Olson, N. Hung

Review of Global Upstream Licensing Strategies ....................................................................... 102Graham Kellas

Comparing Exploration Results Internationally .......................................................................... 103Andrew Latham

Stratal and Facies Anatomy of a Lower Jurassic High-rising Carbonate Platform (Jebel Bou Dhar, High Atlas, Morocco), Part 1: Digital Outcrop Model ................................................ 104

K. Verwer, J. A. M. Kenter, E. W. Adams, G. Della Porta, O. Merino-Tomé

Post-30-M.y. Sequence Stratigraphy, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico .......................................... 105Leipin He, Nancye Dawers, Chuck Stelting

The Caribbean and Central America Region: Attractive Fiscal Regimes, Interesting Geology, Lofty Oil and Gas Prices, Political Stability, and a Close Market Provide For a Climate of Exploration .................................................................................................................... 111

Ron Harper

Increasing Production by Identification of Drilling-Mud-Influenced "Low Contrast" Pay at Sangatta Field, Kutei Basin, Indonesia......................................................................................... 112

S. R. Agustinus, B. N. Susanto, . Pak Senodji, Ricky Adi Wibowo, Parada D. Silitonga

NMR T2 Relaxation Times and Pore Facies Relationships in Carbonate Reservoirs.............. 113Coralie Genty, Wayne M. Ahr, Jerry Jensen

Burgos Basin, Mexico: Current Focus, Prospects, and Frontiers ............................................. 119Melanie McQuinn

Tampico Misantla Basin, Mexico: Current Focus, Prospects, and Frontiers ........................... 120Melanie McQuinn

Reservoir Quality and Continuity, and Secondary Recovery Potential of the Mississippian Pekisko Formation at Twining Field, South-Central Alberta, Canada .............. 121

Erika M. Josson, Stacy C. Atchley, Julia A. Kahmann

Analysis of the Bagley Otsego Antrim Shale Infill Program for 2004 - A Case History........... 122Timothy Jay Brock

The Sequence Stratigraphy of the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Reservoir at Wafra field, Partitioned Neutral Zone, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait – Key to Reservoir Modeling and Assessment.............................................................................................................................. 123

Dennis W. Dull, Raymond A. Garber, W. Scott Meddaugh

High Impact Sequence Biostratigraphy of the Fim Kassar Oil Field, Kohat-Potohar Basin, Pakistan................................................................................................................................ 124

Ali Jaffri

Gee Whiz Geophysics…But What About the Log Data? Normalizing, Editing, and Supplementing Log, Core and Production Data from 1935 to the Present............................... 125

Jeff S. Arbogast, Steven M. Goolsby

Stratigraphic Organization and Predictability of Mixed Coarse- and Fine-Grained Lithofacies Successions in a Lower Miocene Deep-Water Slope Channel Complex System, Angola Block 15 ............................................................................................................... 126

M. L. Porter, A.R.G. Sprague, M.D. Sullivan, D.C. Jennette, R. T. Beaubouef, T. R. Garfield, C. Rossen, D. R. Sickafoose, G. N. Jensen, S.J. Friedmann, D.C. Mohrig

Slumps and Debrites in the Paleocene Chicontepec Formation, Mexico: Implications for Subsurface Identification ......................................................................................................... 127

Stephen P.J. Cossey

Pressure Solution and Mica in Quartzose Sandstone: Observations and Experiments......... 128James R. Boles, Jacob Israelachvili, Emily Meyer, Wren Greene, Margaret Pataki

Hydrocarbon Potential of Volcanic Basins: Principles & rules of thumb ................................. 129Max Rohrman

Genesis and Shapes of Delta Distributary Networks .................................................................. 130Rudy Slingerland, Douglas A. Edmonds

World-Class Cores for Fluvial-Deltaic Reservoir Characterization: The Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone of East-Central Utah........................................................................................ 131

Michael D. Laine, Thomas C. Chidsey, Jr, J. Thomas Dempster

Chemostratigraphy and Its Role in a Multi-Disciplinary Stratigraphic Approach to the Exploration and Development of Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) Gas Fields in Southern North Sea ........................................................................................................................ 132

Timothy J. Pearce, Duncan McLean, John H. Martin, Georgina Doughty, David Wray

The 1979 Nice Harbour Catastrophe Revisited. A New and Consistent Trigger Mechanism....................................................................................................................................... 133

Gabriela Dan, Nabil Sultan, Bruno Savoye

Complex Structural/Stratigraphic Combination Traps with a Diagenetic Overprint and the Recognition of Bypassed Pay in Pennsylvanian Rocks of the Anadarko Basin, USA ..... 134

Diego I. Sanabria, German D. Molina, Robert B. Lieber, John R. Adams

Exploratory Analysis of Neural Networks for Facies Discrimination from Logs ..................... 135Geoffrey C. Bohling

History of Methane Seepage in the Delaware Basin and its Relationship to Bacterial Diagenesis ....................................................................................................................................... 136

Brian E. Lock, Ashley Fife

Ichnology of Wave-dominated Deltas from Miocene Reservoirs in the Carapita and Capaya Formations, Tacata Field, Eastern Venezuela: Using Trace Fossils to Reveal Fluvial Input in Shallow-Marine Successions .............................................................................. 137

Manuel Delgado, Luis A. Buatois, Solange Angulo, Dennis Sánchez, Jr

The Surface Geochemical Expression of Carbonate-Hosted Hydrocarbon Reservoirs and Faults in New York, Ohio, Nevada and Utah ......................................................................... 138

David M. Seneshen, James H. Viellenave, John V. Fontana

By-Passed Giant Fields of the Rockies ........................................................................................ 139M. Ray Thomasson, Lawrence A. McPeek

Stratigraphic Analysis of the Cretaceous Turbidite Reservoirs in the Campos Basin, Brazil................................................................................................................................................. 140

Eduardo G. Barboza, Ricardo N. Ayup-Zouain, Maria Luiza C. C. Rosa

Origin of Molds in Dolostones Formed by the Dissolution of Calcitic Grains: Evidence from the Devonian Swan Hills Formation in West-Central Alberta............................................ 141

Jack Wendte

Honoring Uncertainty in Mapping and Interpreting Large Volumes of Digital Spatial Data................................................................................................................................................... 142

John D. Grace

Microfractures in Sandstone ......................................................................................................... 143John N. Hooker, Stephen E. Laubach, Julia F. W. Gale, Robert M. Reed

Integrated Genetic Analysis of Sand Character for Predicting Reservoir Quality in the Deep Frontier ................................................................................................................................... 144

William A. Heins, Suzanne Kairo

Structural Styles of the Canela and its Surrounded Areas, Tabasco - Southern Mexico ....... 145Raul Ysaccis, Gustavo Hernandez, Raul Villa, Jaime Barker, Miguel Araujo, Felipe Audemard, Javier Meneses Rocha

Phanerozoic sea level changes: ODP drilling constrains the last 100 million year................. 146Kenneth Miller, Sr, Michelle Kominz, James V. Browning, James D. Wright

A New Facies Model for Terminal Splays in Dryland Fluvial-Lacustrine Basins ..................... 147Simon C. Lang, Mark Reilly, John Fisher, Carmen Krapf, Tobias Payenberg, Jochen Kassan

Characteristic Bed Thickness Variation in Submarine Levee Deposits: Rosario Formation, Baja California, Mexico ............................................................................................... 148

Ian Kane, Ben Kneller, Mason Dykstra, Ahmed Kassem, Bill McCaffrey

Oil-Play Analysis of the Permian Basin: A Tool for Increasing Recovery from a Mature Oil-Producing Province .................................................................................................................. 149

Shirley P. Dutton, Eugene M. Kim, Stephen C. Ruppel, Charles Kerans, Ronald F. Broadhead, William D. Raatz, Caroline L. Breton

Interpreted MOHO of West Africa from New Pre-Stack Depth Migrated (PSDM) Reflection Seismic .......................................................................................................................... 150

Steven G. Henry, Al Danforth, Sujata Venkatraman

Strain in Extensional Monoclines: Insights from Numerical Models ........................................ 151Kevin J. Smart, Alan P. Morris, David A. Ferrill

CO2-Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery Potential in the Michigan and Appalachian Basins ........................................................................................................................ 152

Lawrence H. Wickstrom, John A. Harper, David A. Barnes, Katharine Lee Avary, Brandon C. Nuttall

Prediction of Reservoir Properties in Deep-Marine Channel-Levees ........................................ 153Ben Kneller, Ahmed Kassem, Ian Kane, Mason Dykstra

Spatial Fault Size Distribution and Normal Fault System Evolution ......................................... 154Alan P. Morris, Nathan M. Franklin, Darrell W. Sims, David A. Ferrill

The Use of LANDSAT Images to Constrain Facies Variability on Isolated Carbonate Platforms from the Exploration to the Production Scale............................................................ 155

Steven L. Bachtel, Gregory S. Benson, Robert L. Brovey, Lisa Li

Integrating Geomechanical Modelling with Conceptual Fracture Network Models................. 156Stephen J. Dee, Serena Jones, Brett Freeman, Graham Yielding

Recent to Late Neogene Seafloor Instabilities on the Deep Pacific Margin of the Antarctic Peninsula......................................................................................................................... 157

Valentina Volpi, Michele Rebesco, David Amblas, Angelo Camerlenghi

Comparison of Deterministic and Stochastic Fault Seal Techniques....................................... 158Stephen J. Dee, Graham Yielding, Brett Freeman, Peter Bretan

The Impact of Depositional Facies and Diagenesis on Reservoir Characteristics of the Abu-Madi Giant Gas Field Sandstones (Upper Miocene), the Nile Delta Basin, Egypt ........... 159

Marcelo Ketzer, Alaa Salem, Sadoon Morad, Raafat Rizk, Ihsan Al-Aasm

Field Analysis of Effective Reservoir Permeabilities in Gas-Hydrate-Bearing Sediments ..... 160Timothy Collett, Scott Dallimore, Steve Hancock

Airborne Measurement of Transient Pulses Locates Hydrocarbon Reservoirs ...................... 161Leonard A. LeSchack, John R. Jackson

Oilfield Reactivation, Rejuvenation, Rehabilitation and Redevelopment – North Sea Case Histories ................................................................................................................................. 167

Jon G. Gluyas

Covisualization: Rapid Visual Access to Multidisciplinary Datasets ........................................ 168Paul White, Skip Pack, Graham Brew

Contrasting Structural Styles of Major Fields Associated with Fold-Thrust Structures in the Offshore Campeche Bay, Mexico ....................................................................................... 169

Shankar Mitra, Juan Duran Gonzalez, Jesus Hernandez Garcia

A Stochastic Model for Assessing In-Place Methane Hydrate Resources ............................... 170Pulak K. Ray, John Grace, Tim Collett, William Shedd, Jesse Hunt

New Detailed (1:63,360-scale) Mapping of the Brooks Range Northern Foothills, Siksikpuk River Area, Central Brooks Range, Alaska................................................................. 171

P.R. Peapples, W.K. Wallace, E. S. Finzel, C.G. Mull

Reservoir Potential of Tertiary Sandstones, Bristol Bay Basin, Alaska Peninsula ................. 172Kenneth P. Helmold, Paul L. Decker, Rocky R. Reifenstuhl, Michael D. Wilson

Distributary Channels, Fluvial Channels and Incised Valleys ................................................... 173Janok Bhattacharya, Cornel Olariu

Neogene Deep-Water Carbonate Mud-Mounds and Their Paleozoic Counterparts – Comparisons of Geometry, Sedimentology, and Petrology....................................................... 174

Jay M. Gregg, Ian D. Somerville, Anneleen Foubert, Eibhlin Doyle

Isotopic Characterization of Methane Helps Differentiate Landfill Gas from Shallow Drift Gas and Other Potential Sources ......................................................................................... 175

Keith C. Hackley

Shallow Natural Gas Occurrences in Quaternary Deposits in North Dakota ........................... 176Fred J. Anderson, John P. Bluemle, David W. Fischer, Edward C. Murphy

Soil Gas Hydrocarbons: A Dual Purpose Tool Towards Perfecting the Search in Petroleum Exploration.................................................................................................................... 177

Dale A. Sutherland, Eric L. Hoffman

Using Structural Relief/Missing Section Growth Plots to Predict Missing Section on Unconformities on the Steeply Dipping Flanks of Salt Bodies .................................................. 178

Richard E. Bischke, Daniel J. Tearpock, Joseph L. Brewton

Depositional Facies, Reservoir Distribution, and Infield Potential of the Lower Atoka Group (Bend Conglomerate) in Boonsville Field, Fort Worth Basin, Texas: New Look at an Old Play....................................................................................................................................... 179

Tucker F. Hentz, Jeffrey A. Kane, William A. Ambrose, Eric C. Potter

Petroleum System Attributes of Bossier and Barnett Shale of East Texas: Evolving Ideas and their Impact on Shale and Tight Sand Gas Resource Assessment ......................... 180

Ahmed Chaouche

Laboratory Simulation of Moldic Porosity Formation................................................................. 181Amy B. Herhold, Stephen D. Cameron, Hubert E. King, John H. Dunsmuir, Deniz Ertas, Chris E. Kliewer, Doug L. Dorset

Predicting Fracture and Porosity Evolution in Dolostone.......................................................... 182Julia F. W. Gale, Robert H. Lander, Robert M. Reed

Predictive Modeling and Timing of Porosity-Preserving Events in Maastrichtian-Danian Chalk Reservoirs of the North Sea................................................................................... 183

Peter A. Scholle, Henrik Tirsgaard, Lene Clausen

Study of Viability of Seismic Imaging for Site Selection and Monitoring of CO2 .................... 184Iraj A. Salehi, Sherif I. Gowelly, Samih I. Batarseh

Barrier Island Aggradation via Inlet Migration, Mustang Island, Texas .................................... 190Alexander R. Simms, John B. Anderson, Mike Blum

Synkinematic Carbonate Fracture-Sealing Cements in Opening-Mode Fractures: Characteristics and Models ........................................................................................................... 191

Julia F. W. Gale, Robert M. Reed, Robert H. Lander

Pinch Out of Upper Cretaceous-Oligocene Reservoir Units in the Llanos Basin of Colombia: a Result of Flexural Deformation in a Broken Foreland?......................................... 192

German Bayona, Martin Cortes, John Jairo Aristizabal, Carlos Jaramillo, German Ojeda, Andres Reyes-Harker, Milton Rueda, Patricia Villamarin

High-Latitude Recipe for Sand Delivery to the Deepwater Via Hyperpycnal Flow: A Greenhouse Example from the Early Eocene, Central Spitsbergen Basin............................... 193

Andrew L. Petter, Ronald J. Steel

3D Geologic Modeling and Integration of Diagenesis Predictions for Carbonate Reservoirs........................................................................................................................................ 194

Hsin-Yi Tseng, Sean A. Guidry, Gregory S. Benson, Linda W. Corwin

Automated Analysis of Gridded Geologic Map Data................................................................... 195Susan M. Schrader, Robert S. Balch

Data Mining Techniques for Segmentation Analysis of Seismic Data ...................................... 201Daniel R. S. Moraes, Rogério P. Espíndola, Márcia K. Karam, Alexandre G. Evsukoff, Nelson F. F. Ebecken

Geological Setting and Hydrocarbon Occurrences, Guajira Basin, Offshore Northern Colombia .......................................................................................................................................... 202

Victor O. Ramirez

Preliminary geochemical study of Afghanistan and Tajikistan petroleum and source rocks................................................................................................................................................. 208

Ronald J. Hill, Paul G. Lillis, J. David King, Tim Klett, Gregory Ulmishek, Craig Wandrey, Amir Zada Abdul, Amir Mohammad Selab, K. Khalikov, Khayot Z. Latyfov

Sediment Record of Falling Sea Level .......................................................................................... 209Wolfgang Schlager, Georg Warrlich

Aptian Organic-rich Intrashelf Basin Creation in the Dezful Embayment (Kazhdumi and Dariyan Formations, SW Iran)........................................................................................................ 210

Frans S.P. van Buchem, D. Baghbani, Luc-Georges Bulot, M. Caron, Fabrice Gaumet, A. Hosseini, A. Immenhauser, F. Keyvani, R. Schroeder, V. Vedrenne, Benoit Vincent

First Steps Toward Evaluation of Ultra-Shallow Gas Accumulations in the Northern Great Plains ..................................................................................................................................... 211

George W. Shurr, Layne D. Schulz, Richard H. Hammond

Exploration Strategies for Ultra-Shallow Microbial Methane on the Eastern Margin of the Williston Basin .......................................................................................................................... 212

George W. Shurr, Thomas Haggar, Sarah A. Chadima

Cretaceous Sedimentation Patterns in the Zagros of SW Iran - a Geomodel........................... 213V. Vedrenne, D. Baghbani, F. Gaumet, D. Granjeon, F. Keyvani, S. Lopez, D. Morsalnejad, F. Van Buchem, B. Vincent, M. Yavari

Allostratigraphic subdivision of the Upper Cretaceous Fish Scale Formation, southwestern Alberta: implication for the forming mechanism of the Barons Sandstone ........................................................................................................................................ 214

Yongtai Yang, Bogdan Varban, Andrew Miall

Revised Numerical-Ages of the ‘SEPM’ Mesozoic-Cenozoic Sequence Chronostratigraphic Charts, and a Display Interface.................................................................. 215

James George Ogg, Adam Lugowski

Use of Post-stack Seismic in Fractured Reservoir Characterization ........................................ 216Gary C. Robinson, Ahmed Ouenes, Udo Araktingi, Abdel Zellou

Comparison of Reservoir Management Strategies in Fractured Carbonate vs Sandstone Reservoirs: Lessons Learned from Giant Fields ..................................................... 217

Jack Allan, S. Qing Sun, Rod Sloan

Optimum 3D Seismic Designing in Bibi Hakimeh Oil Field of Iran ............................................ 218Siavash Tarkhan, IV, Hoda Tahani, Jr

Flow Transformation of Debris-Flows Flowing from Subaerial to Subaqueous Environments .................................................................................................................................. 224

Hajime Naruse, Yu Saitoh, Fujio Masuda

DEPTHX: Underwater mapping and imaging of deep karst shafts ............................................ 225Marcus Gary, Nathaniel Fairfield, William Stone, David Wettergreen, George Kantor, John M. Sharp

Ultra-Shallow Gas, NW-Alberta, Canada: Origin and Detection................................................. 226Hans H. von der Dick, Peter Bauman, Dane A. Bosman

A Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) to Predict Bitumen Saturation in the Tengiz Platform-Interior: Implications for Improved Geologic Modeling of Uncertainty..................... 227

Sean A. Guidry, Alex Woronow, Linda Corwin, Kevin Putney, Lyndon Yose

Chemostratigraphy of a Turbidite System: the Britannia Formation (Lower Cretaceous), of the Brodgar Field, Outer Moray Firth, North Sea ............................................. 228

Ken Ratcliffe, Tim Pearce, Cristian Scheie, Steve Tucker

The Upper Devonian Dunkirk Shale, Western New York State – Results of Hydrous Pyrolysis Experiments.................................................................................................................... 229

David Blood, Gary Lash

Lowstand Shale Gas Reservoirs of the Western Interior Seaway ............................................. 230Steven Schamel, S. Robert Bereskin

Fracture-Swarm Sweet Spots ........................................................................................................ 231Bruce S. Hart

Turbidite Channel Architecture: Recognizing and Quantifying the Distribution of Channel Base Drapes Using Core and Dipmeter Data................................................................ 232

Mark Barton, Ciaran Obyrne, Carlos Pirmez, Bradford Prather, Frans Van der Vlugt

Use of Outcrop Analog Data in Integrated Reservoir Modeling of Deepwater Depositional Systems..................................................................................................................... 233

Ciaran O'Byrne, Mark Barton, Carlos Pirmez, Brad Prather, Gary Steffens, Frans Van der Vlugt, Zoltan Sylvester, Mark Deptuck, Deirdre Commins

Depositional Systems Response to Dynamic Slope Profile Evolution in Deepwater Margins with Mobile Substrates .................................................................................................... 234

Ciaran O'Byrne, Brad Prather, Carlos Pirmez, Gary Steffens, Scott Sumner

Elastic Fracture Analysis in the Tight Gas Sands of the Mesaverde Formation, Piceance Basin, Colorado .............................................................................................................. 235

Jay R. Scheevel

Unconventional analytical techniques for unconventional gas: A case study of a Late Cretaceous–Tertiary Ardley gas-charged coal in the Pembina – Warburg Exploration Area, Alberta, Canada..................................................................................................................... 236

Shane M. Harrison, Thomas Gentzis, Mickey Payne

Evaluation of Reservoir Modeling Techniques to Assess the Impact of Stratigraphic Architecture on Production Performance .................................................................................... 242

Carlos Pirmez, Frans van der Vlugt, Ciaran O'Byrne, Vaughan Cutten, Gareth Jenkins, Mark Barton, Ed Kruijs, Luiz Amado, Andrew Hoover, Robert M. Stovall

Role of Physical Experiments and Near-Seafloor Reservoir Analogues in Modeling Deepwater Reservoirs .................................................................................................................... 243

Carlos Pirmez, Mark Barton, Ciaran O'Byrne, Zoltan Sylvester, Frans van der Vlugt, Mark Deptuck, Bradford Prather, David Mohrig, Jasim Imran, Gary Parker, James Buttles, Kyle Straub, Alessandro Cantelli, Heqing Huang, Brandon McElroy, Sara Johnson

When Does Flow Splitting Occur in Submarine Channel Bends? ............................................. 244Kyle Straub, David Mohrig, Jim Buttles, Brandon McElroy, C. Pirmez

Hydrocarbon Charge and Leakage in Deep North Sea Geopressured Sandstones: Calibrated by Diagenesis ............................................................................................................... 245

R.Stuart Haszeldine, Mark Wilkinson

Seal and Reservoir in CO2 Long-Term Natural Analogues: North Sea Miller Oilfield ............. 246R.Stuart Haszeldine, Jiemin Lu, Mark Wilkinson, Gordon Macleod

Identifying Surface Alterations Caused by Hydrocarbon Microseepages in the Patrick Draw Area of Southwest Wyoming, Using Image Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing .............................................................................................................................. 247

Sarah Jacobson, Shuhab Khan

Stratigraphic Mistakes and Forced Models - Lessons Learned from Flood-World, Flat-World and Lowstand-World Correlations ..................................................................................... 248

C. Robertson Handford

Hydrocarbon Occurrence Models Controlled by Graded Multi-factors in Marine Reservoirs, Southern China........................................................................................................... 249

Sihuang Xu, Yongsheng Ma, Lianfu Mei, Caiping Yuan, Tongluo Guo

Integrated Studies of Basin Structure in the Southwest U. S .................................................... 255G. Randy Keller

The Ungava Rift and Labrador Sea Graben between Greenland and Canada.......................... 256Jens Christian Olsen, Reidun Myklebust, Sverre Planke

Grain Coatings in Deep Reservoirs – Sandstones Last Defense against Chemical Compaction ..................................................................................................................................... 257

Jens S. Jahren, Knut Bjørlykke, Per Aagaard

Late Visean to Bashkirian Platform Cyclicity in the Central Tengiz Buildup (Precaspian Basin): Depositional Evolution and Reservoir Development ..................................................... 258

Jeroen A.M. Kenter, Paul M. Harris, L.J. (Jim) Weber, Jr, Joel F. Collins, M. Stalinski, G. Kuanysheva, Dennis J. Fischer

The Upper Devonian Rhinestreet Shale: an Unconventional Fractured Reservoir in Western New York State................................................................................................................. 259

Gary G. Lash

The Upper Devonian Rhinestreet Shale, Western New York State: from Seal to Fractured Reservoir ........................................................................................................................ 260

Gary G. Lash

Web-based Outcrop Digital Analog Database (WODAD): Archiving and Searching Carbonate Platform Margins .......................................................................................................... 261

Jeroen A.M. Kenter, Paul M. Harris

Integrating Digital Outcrop Geology with Traditional Field Geology Methods: Examples from the USA, Egypt, Morocco and the UK ................................................................ 262

David Hodgetts, Rob Gawthorpe, Jonathan Redfern, Franklin Rarity, Kevin G. Taylor, Paul Wilson, Ivan Fabuel Perez

Stratal and Facies Anatomy of a Lower Jurassic High-rising Carbonate Platform (Jebel Bou Dhar, High Atlas, Morocco), Part 2: Static Modeling........................................................... 263

Erwin W. Adams, Klaas Verwer, Jeroen A.M. Kenter, Cathy Hollis

3D Geometrical Simulations of LOSCs (Laterally Offset Stacked Channels)........................... 264Richard Labourdette, Sebastien Ducos, Tarick Bahraoui

3D Modeling of Flank Margin Caves ............................................................................................. 265Richard Labourdette, Ioan Lascu, John Mylroie

Complex Sandbody Architecture of Basin Margin Shallow-Marine Delta System: The Eocene Cemalettin Formation, Boyabat Basin, North Turkey.................................................... 266

Beate L. S. Leren, John Howell, Ediz Kirman, Allard W. Martinius, W. Nemec

Impact of Tectonic Stresses on Reservoir Quality in a Toe-Thrust Setting of a Tertiary Delta.................................................................................................................................................. 267

Joann E. Welton, Tina G. Fitts, James M. DeGraff, Brian R. Crawford, Ganeswara R. Dasari

Why Do You Think Wireline Logs Will Recognize Your Carbonate Facies?: Here Is How It Works ............................................................................................................................................ 268

F. Jerry Lucia

Regional Structural Evolution of the North Colombia Accretionary Wedge ............................ 269Steven J. Ings, Mark Deptuck, Scott Sumner, Chris Beaumont

Understanding The Hydrocarbon Systems of The Barents And Kara Seas: New Field Data from Novaya Zemlya .............................................................................................................. 270

James P. Howard, Robert A. Scott, Li Guo, Jenny Omma, Irene Gómez Pérez, Roman Schekoldin, David G. Gee, Evgeny Korago, Galina Kovaleva

The Role of Gas Hydrate in a Global Gas Market ........................................................................ 271Arthur H. Johnson, Michael D. Max

The Devil in the Small Details: Pore-level Reservoir Characterization of the Cotton Valley-Taylor Tight Gas Sand, Rusk County, Texas.................................................................... 272

Charles L. Vavra

Role of Sedimentation-Controlled Overpressure Development in Mobilizing Salt And Shale Substrates: Implications for the Tectonic Evolution of Passive Margins ...................... 273

Markus Albertz, Christopher Beaumont, Steven J. Ings, Sofie Gradman

The Puguang Gas Field – New Giant Discovery in the Mature Sichuan Basin, SW China...... 274Yongsheng Ma, Xusheng Guo, Tonglou Guo, Rui Huang, Xunyu Cai, Guoxiong Li

Representing Geological Detail in Dynamic Modeling of Turbidite Reservoirs ....................... 275Frans van der Vlugt, Omer F. Alpak, Mark Barton, Carlos Pirmez, Kachi K. Onyeagoro, Stephen J. Naruk

Ghawar Arab-D: Widespread Porosity in Shoaling-Upward Carbonate Cycles, Saudi Arabia ............................................................................................................................................... 276

Robert F. Lindsay, Dave L. Cantrell, Geraint W. Hughes, Thomas H. Keith, Harry W. Mueller, S. Duffy Russell

CHRONOS: Cyberinfrastructure for Earth History ...................................................................... 278Cinzia Cervato, Douglas Fils, Geoff Bohling, Pat Diver, Doug S. Greer, Brice Lambi, Joshua A. Reed, Xiaoyun Tang

Attributes and history of the Cretaceous-Eocene La Popa Salt Weld derived from Halokinetic Sequence Stratigraphy............................................................................................... 279

Daniel M. Loera, Katherine A. Giles

Three-dimensional heterogeity of processes, sedimentation and morphology for a modern shelf clinoform: Gulf of Papua ........................................................................................ 280

Charles Nittrouer, Andrea Ogston, John Crockett, D. Preston Martin

Seismic Multiples can be Responsible for Completely Masking Underlying Data. A Case Study Shows a Remarkable Example of Hidden Information Revealed .......................... 281

John DeWildt, Derek Skoyles, Halle Rhea, Nigel Payne

CHRONOS’s Paleontological-Stratigraphic Interval Construction and Analysis Tool (PSICAT)........................................................................................................................................... 286

Joshua A. Reed, Cinzia Cervato, Christopher R. Fielding, Douglas Fils

Gulf of Mexico Gas Hydrates Monitoring Station and Sea-Floor Observatory: A Status Report............................................................................................................................................... 287

Carol Blanton Lutken, Tom McGee, J. Robert Woolsey

Time, Surfaces, and Rock Volume: A Four-Dimensional Re-Evaluation of Reservoir Development in the Spiro Sandstone and Wapanucka Limestone, Arkoma Basin, Southeast Oklahoma ...................................................................................................................... 288

Brian W. Horn

Structure and Tectonic Evolution of the Provincia Field, Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia .......................................................................................................................................... 289

Martin Morales, Shankar Mitra

Global Cycle Charts and Tertiary Stratigraphic Sequences of the San Joaquin Basin: Calibration and Constraints from a Tectonically Active Basin .................................................. 290

Cari Johnson, Stephan Graham, Roger B. Bloch

The Storegga Slide: A Major Challenge on the Northeast Atlantic Margin............................... 291Espen Sletten Andersen, Anders Solheim, Petter Bryn, Carl Fredrik Forsberg, Kjell Berg, Tore Kvalstad

Hydrodynamic Control of Coalbed Methane Reservoir Performance in the Black Warrior Basin................................................................................................................................... 292

Jack C. Pashin

The Value of Information ................................................................................................................ 293Melanie McQuinn

What’s Still Needed for Profitable Risk Analysis? ...................................................................... 294Gary Citron, Glenn McMaster

Stability of Turbidites Deposited on the Sidewalls of Subaqueous Channels ......................... 295James Buttles, David Mohrig

Wattenberg Field Area—a Near Miss and Lessons Learned After 35 Years of Development History ...................................................................................................................... 296

Stephen A. Sonnenberg, Thomas L. Birmingham, Guonong Hu

Surface Geochemical Studies over Stratigraphic Traps: Examples from the Neuquen Basin, Argentina.............................................................................................................................. 297

Daniel C. Malizia, Sr, Luis Álvarez, Graciela Prestia, Luigi Clavareau

The Heidrun Field, Offshore Mid-Norway ..................................................................................... 298James S. Jackson, Thomas Arthur, Robert C. Olson, Dennis B. Tower

The Application of High Resolution Chemostratigraphy to Differentiate Between Low Accommodation Incised Valley Systems in a Foreland Basin Setting: The Lower Cretaceous Basal Colorado and Basal Quartz of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin................................................................................................................................................. 299

Amelia Wright, Brian Zaitlin, Ken Ratcliffe

Cold Lake: A Giant Heavy Oil Field From Cretaceous Incised Valleys of Alberta, Canada ............................................................................................................................................. 300

G. Glen McCrimmon, Howard R. Feldman

Norphlet Aeolian Dunes in the Deep Water Gulf of Mexico........................................................ 301Theodore Godo, Joris Grimbergen, Tom Walker, John Wagner, Steve Gabay, Laurens Gaarenstroom

Project Management: A New Approach to International Consulting......................................... 302James M. Hollywood, Robert C. Olson

Lower Tertiary Deposition in Walker Ridge, Gulf of Mexico: An Example of Sedimentary Distribution in an Unrestricted Basin..................................................................... 303

Adam M. Seitchik, Timothy Powell

The Need of a Paradigm for Ancient Microbial Gas Accumulations—the Upper Cretaceous Milk River Formation, Alberta and Saskatchewan .................................................. 304

Neil S. Fishman, Paul G. Lillis, Donald L. Hall, Debra K. Higley

Numerical Simulation of Turbidity Currents in Sinuous Channel ............................................. 305Heqing Huang, Jasim Imran, Carlos Pirmez, James Buttles, David Mohrig, Kyle Straub

Wind-Powered Bioventing System for Remote Cleanup ............................................................ 306Joey Hickey, Sean Ragain

Late Carboniferous Separation of the Eastern Interior Seaway from the Rheic Ocean as Indicated by Tidal Rhythmites in the Illinois Basin, U.S.A .................................................... 307

Erik P. Kvale

Recent Discoveries and Future Exploration in the Polish Basin: Perfecting the Search by Geological Modeling.................................................................................................................. 308

Pawel H. Karnkowski

Thinking Outside the Pond: Benchmarking Performance Expectations for Deep-water Reservoirs Using Analog Data from the GoM .............................................................................. 309

Bradford E. Prather, Ciaran J. O'Byrne, Carlos Pirmez

Conventional Natural Gas Resources of North Eastern British Columbia, Canada ................ 310M. Hayes, W. Walsh, C. Adams, J.A. Davidson, B.S. Feduniak, W.B. Bingham

Sealing Attributes of Giant Fields from around the World ......................................................... 311Jose I. Guzman, Rod Sloan, Shengyu Wu, Shaoqing Sun

Shale Gas Potential of Devonian Strata, Northeastern British Columbia ................................. 312M. Hayes, W. Walsh

Interpretations of Stratigraphic Inclines and Fractures of the Low Hill Carbonate Reservoirs, Liaohe Depression, Northeast China ....................................................................... 313

Guohui Li, Susan M. Schrader, Robert S. Balch, Roger Ruan

Permeability from Seismic in Carbonate Reservoirs, Part II: The Field Example .................... 319Guido L. Bracco Gartner, Ralf Weger, Mossab Nasser, Jaap Leguijt, Kees Van der Kolk, Heiko Hillgartner, Wenche Asyee, G. Eberli, Yue-Feng Sun, Paul Wagner

Choosing the Heterogeneous Reservoir Modeling According to the Exploration Stage........ 320Helene Beucher, Isabelle Cojan, François Geffroy, Jacques Rivoirard, Didier Renard

Amalgamated Sandsheet to Layered Sandsheet Architecture of Deep Water Deposits from the Upper Jurassic Angel Fan, Northwest Shelf, Australia ............................................... 321

Dessy Dharmayanti, Alan Tait, Richard Evans

Seismic Geomorphology of Cretaceous Epeiric Platform Carbonates in Oman ..................... 323Henk Droste

Nucleation And Evolution Of The Early Stage In The Development Of Growth Faults Using 3D Seismic Interpretation.................................................................................................... 324

Catherine Baudon, Joe Cartwright

The Lower Cretaceous James Lime Play of the Northeast Gulf of Mexico A New Trend Discovery Made on the Mature Gulf of Mexico Shelf .................................................................. 325

B. Thomas Himes

Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Architecture of the Eocene Mirador Formation, Cupiagua field, Llanos Foothills, Colombia ............................................... 326

Juan Carlos Ramon, Andres Fajardo-Diaz

Geochemical Investigations in the Michigan Basin: Vernon Field and Springdale ................. 327James R. Wood, David Seneshen

Collapse/sag features in northern Fort Worth Basin, Texas: suprastratal deformation associated with coalesced paleocave system collapse or wrench fault sags? ....................... 328

Angela McDonnell, Tim Dooley, Robert Loucks

Regional High-Resolution Biosequence Stratigraphy, Kuparuk Sandstone and Associated Strata, Central North Slope, Alaska .......................................................................... 329

Robert L. Ravn, David K. Goodman

Comparative Morphology of Oolitic Tidal Deltas......................................................................... 330Stacy Lynn Reeder, Gene Rankey

Construction of a 4D Synthetic Model of a Turbiditic Reservoir: The Pab Channel Complex ........................................................................................................................................... 331

Tristan Euzen, Aline Bourgeois, Julien Cap, Brigitte Doligez, Remi Eschard, Karine Labat

Integrated Assessment of Seismic Anomalies in Niger Delta Deepwater ................................ 332Krzysztof M. Wojcik, Neil R. Braunsdorf

Formation of Cohesionless Debris Flows and Turbidity Currents from Sediment Failures: A Case Study from the Continental Margin of Southwest Orphan Basin, Labrador Sea ................................................................................................................................... 333

Efthymios K. Tripsanas, David J.W. Piper

The Relationship between Rate, Mechanism, and Solution Composition in Diagenetic Reactions: Insight from Observation of Mineral Surfaces ......................................................... 334

Rolf S. Arvidson

Stratigraphic Evolution of Linked Basins within the Brazos-Trinity Slope System: Western Gulf of Mexico .................................................................................................................. 335

Bradford E. Prather, Carlos Pirmez, Ciaran J. O'Byrne, Charles Winker, Ggianni Mallarino, Andre W. Droxler, Peter Flemings, Jan Behrmann, Cedric John

Integrated Subsurface Carbon Sequestration and Enhanced Coalbed Natural Gas Recovery Using Cement-Kiln Emissions, Wilson County, Kansas ........................................... 336

Stephen G. Schurger, K. David Newell, Timothy R. Carr, James G. Blencoe

The Barrington Submarine Landslide: Southwestern Scotian Slope........................................ 337David C. Mosher, D. Calvin Campbell, Laurie Tremblay

Impact of Seismic Loop-Scale Depositional Models on Reservoir Architecture in a Heavy Oil Accumulation, Santos Basin, Brazil ............................................................................ 338

W. Keith Campbell, Ciaran O'Byrne, Neil W. Stillman

The Geochemical Impact of CO2 Injection in Limestone: From Experiments to Modelling ......................................................................................................................................... 339

Etienne Brosse, Caroline Magnier, Benoît Vincent

Uncertainty Management Planning - Turning Failure into Opportunity .................................... 340Mark Ian Smithard, Antonio M'Panzu

The Barnett Shale Play of North Texas: Current Issues ............................................................. 341Kent A. Bowker

Risk and Reserve Assessment - Lessons Learned from By-Passed Plays: Shongaloo Field, Louisiana, and Mission Canyon Play, North Dakota......................................................... 342

William DeMis

Sequence Stratigraphy and Environments of Deposition of the Cenozoic of Central and Northern Arabia ....................................................................................................................... 343

D. Mark Steinhauff, Chengjie Liu, Keith C. King, George J. Grabowski, Jr

Age-Depth Plot and ConDoor: Two CHRONOS Data Analysis Tools ........................................ 344Geoffrey C. Bohling

The Development of the Central Caspian Region; New Insights from 2-D and 3-D Structural Modeling ........................................................................................................................ 345

Robert Hooper, Jerry Drake, Kevin Dorrington, Eric Michael, Elchin Bagirov, Terry Baganz

Experimental Studies of Channel Mouth Bar Formation and Evolution in Deep and Shallow-Water Clastic Sedimentary Systems .............................................................................. 346

David C.J.D Hoyal, Ben A. Sheets, Neal L. Adair

Play Concepts for Reopening the Bristol Bay Basin: Tertiary and Mesozoic Petroleum Systems of the Alaska Peninsula.................................................................................................. 347

Paul L. Decker, Rocky R. Reifenstuhl, Emily S. Finzel, Kenneth P. Helmold

The Yacoraite-Olmedo Petroleum System of Paraguay’s Cretaceous Basin, Pirity Sub-Basin, Exploration Potential Re-examined................................................................................... 348

Michael J. Dyer, Fernando Wiens

The Methane Potential of the Upper Fort Union Formation Sandstones in the Powder River Basin, Western Campbell County, Wyoming ..................................................................... 349

Michael J. Blackstone

Why Do Microquartz Coatings Preserve Sandstone Reservoir Quality? .................................. 350Robert H. Lander, Richard E. Larese, Linda M. Bonnell

Volume Based Curvature Analysis Illuminates Fracture Orientations, Fort Worth Basin, Texas ................................................................................................................................................ 351

Charles H. Blumentritt, Bill Stinson

Texas Geothermal Energy - a New Profit Commodity for the Oil and Gas Industry ................ 352Richard J. Erdlac

Hydrocarbon versus Microquartz Inhibition of Quartz Cementation in North Sea Sandstones: Empirical and Experimental Evidence ................................................................... 353

Linda M. Bonnell, Richard E. Larese, Robert H. Lander

Mass Transport Deposits: Combined Outcrop Studies, 3-D Seismic Interpretation and Forward Modeling ........................................................................................................................... 354

Benjamin Kneller, Mason Dykstra, Philip Thompson, Vanessa Ketznus, Magdalena Szuman, Katerina Garyfalou, Matteo Molinaro, Mads Huuse, Peter Butterworth, David Macdonald, Juan Pablo Milana

Allochthonous Salt Extrusion, Roof Dispersion, and Intrusive Import and Export of Salt in Squeezed Stocks................................................................................................................. 355

Tim P. Dooley, Martin P.A. Jackson, Michael R. Hudec

Computer Modeling of Internal Architecture in Deep Water Reservoirs: A Quantitative Method to Estimate Connectivity and Performance.................................................................... 356

Renjun Wen, Mark Barton

Carbonate Lithofacies Prediction Using Neural Network and Geostatistical 3D Modeling of Oolite Shoals, St. Louis Limestone, Southwest Kansas ....................................... 357

Lianshuang Qi, Timothy R. Carr, Robert H. Goldstein

3-D Seismic Characterization of Submarine Landslides on a Pliocene-Pleistocene Siliciclastic Continental Slope, South China Sea ........................................................................ 358

Mangzheng Zhu, Stephan Graham, Timothy McHargue

Hydrocarbon Potential of a Duplex Interpretation below the Giant Orocual Oil Field of the Eastern Venezuela Basin ......................................................................................................... 359

Gilberto Sánchez, Anahy Finno, Jay Namson, Jesús Hernández, Linda Montilla, Lucila Hernández, Noelia Baptista

New 2-D Regional Structural Model, Restoration and Geochemical Calibration of the Maturín Sub-Basin, Eastern Venezuelan ...................................................................................... 360

Gilberto Sánchez, Anahy Finno, Jay Namson, Linda Montilla, Lucila Hernández, Noelia Baptista

Successful Exploration in a Thrust Belt, Lessons Learned from the Giant Fields of Eastern Venezuela (the Furrial Trend) .......................................................................................... 361

Jean-Yves D. Chatellier, Sergio Olave-Hoces

Sequence Stratigraphy of Lower Cretaceous Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Passive Margin Sediments, Southeastern U.S.A ....................................................................................... 362

Richard F. Sunde, Brian P. Coffey

Faults and Fractures of Polideformed Folds in the Llanos Foothills, Colombia...................... 363Alberto Ortiz-Fernandez, Oswaldo Ordoñez, Mauricio Valencia

Source to Sink Sedimentation in a Dryland Fluvial System, Western Lake Eyre Basin, Central Australia ............................................................................................................................. 364

Saju Menacherry, Simon C. Lang, Tobias H. D. Payenberg, William Heins

Cap-Rock Alteration in CO2-H2O Medium: Experimental Approach of Clays Behavior ......... 365Eric Kohler, Teddy Parra, Etienne Brosse, E. Tocque, B. Dubacq

The Arctic Slide: A Giant, Submarine Slope Failure on the Northern Svalbard Continental Margin, Arctic Ocean ................................................................................................. 366

Maarten Vanneste, Juergen Mienert

Baffles and Barriers in a Passive-Margin Slope Channel-Complex Set (Neoproterozoic Isaac Formation, Canadian Cordillera): Implications for Scale of Internal Heterogeneities in Slope Turbidite Reservoirs ............................................................................ 367

Ernesto Schwarz, R. William C. Arnott

Mapping, Modeling and Evolution of Salt Structure Geometries: Implications for Improved Sub-Salt Exploration ..................................................................................................... 368

Markus Mohr, Peter A. Kukla, Janos L. Urai, Georg Bresser

Depositional Environment and Reservoir Architecture of the Carboniferous Section in RKF Field, Berkine Basin, Algeria ................................................................................................. 369

N. Sabaou, N. Connolly, T. Bartrina, A. Alaminos, A. James, N. Adamson, G. Paintal, N. Alem

Oil Formation Environment and Water-Injection Development of Chang-2 Oil Bed in Ordos Basin, Central China ........................................................................................................... 370

Guang Cheng Xie, Rong Xi Li

Numerical Simulation of Turbidity Currents: A Progress Report on Development and Applications..................................................................................................................................... 371

Christopher S. Lerch, Moshe Strauss, Eckart Meiburg, Ben Kneller, Michael E. Glinsky, Stanislav Kuzmin, Brendon Hall

Chaotic Deposits: Examples from the Brazilian Offshore and from Outcrop Studies in the Spanish Pyrenees and Northern Apennines, Italy ................................................................ 372

Emiliano Mutti, Mario Carminatti, Jobel L. P. Moreira, Alexandre A. Grassi

Effect of Active Structural Growth on Deep-Water Reservoir Architecture: An Example from the Cretaceous Upper Gosau Subgroup, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria ................ 373

Morgan D. Sullivan, Donald A. Medwedeff, Jim Borer, Hugo Ortner, Julian Clark, Douglas Paton, Bruce Trudgill, Robert Amerman

The Influence of Geophysical Modeling for Vertical, Directional and Horizontal Drilling in Carbonate Gas Reservoir of Batu Raja Formation, South Sumatra, Indonesia ................... 374

Adi Ringoringo, Rusalida Raguwanti, Wisnu Hindadari

Microgravity Techniques Assessing New Potential in an Existing Giant Field: Teapot Dome ................................................................................................................................................ 375

Sandra K. Raeuchle, Brett A. Huffman, Dinesh S. Fernando, Erin D. Duffey, Richard G. Talbert

Characteristics of Petroleum Systems and Plays in the Dongying Depression, Shandong, China............................................................................................................................. 381

Youlu Jiang, Hua Liu, Le Zhang, Shanwen Zhang, Ning Wang

Interpretation of a 3-D 9-Component Survey Over Ismay Algal Mounds, Paradox Basin, Colorado .......................................................................................................................................... 384

Paul La Pointe, Robert Benson, Rich Van Dok, James Gaiser, Claudia Rebne

Variation in Seabed Geochemical Signature Relative to Reservoir Hydrocarbons ................. 385Michael A. Abrams, Harry Dembicki, Jr

Integrated Characterization and Simulation of Multi-section Areas in Hugoton and Panoma Gas Fields ......................................................................................................................... 386

Saibal Bhattacharya, Martin K. Dubois, Alan P. Byrnes, Geoffrey C. Bohling, John H. Doveton

Organic Carbon Deposition in Gyre Versus Eddy Oceans......................................................... 387William W. Hay

Digital Mapping of Post-Glacial Deep Water Depositional Systems, Carboniferous, NW Argentina ......................................................................................................................................... 388

Philip Thompson, Mason Dykstra, Benjamin Kneller, Vanessa Kertznus, Magdalena Szuman, Juan Pablo Milana

Preserving Fine-scale, Irregularly-shaped Geological Features in Reservoir Flow Models Using Edge Properties ...................................................................................................... 389

Lisa Stright, Jef Caers

The Character and Genesis of Mass Transport Complexes II: Processes, Classification and Insights from Outcrops ........................................................................................................... 390

Ole Martinsen, Henry W. Posamentier

Application of the Sequence Stratigraphic Approach – Models vs. First Principles............... 391Ole Martinsen, Henry W. Posamentier

3D Karst and Associated Potential Reservoir Geometry and Continuity in Eastern Margin of Midland Basin in Glasscock and Sterling Counties Texas ....................................... 392

Paul D. Lake, Christopher G. St. C. Kendall

Experimental Studies of Allocyclic Controls on Stratal Architecture of Alluvial and Shallow-Marine Systems ................................................................................................................ 393

Penny E. Patterson, Benjamin A. Sheets, John Martin, John W. Snedden, Chris Paola, Chris Ellis

Origin and Character of Biogenic Coal Gas in North-Central Louisiana .................................. 394Peter D. Warwick, Paul C. Hackley, F. Clayton Breland

Facies and Reservoir Quality Variations in the Late Visean to Bashkirian Outer Platform, Rim, and Flank of the Tengiz Buildup, Precaspian Basin, Kazakhstan.................... 395

Joel F. Collins, Jeroen A. M. Kenter, Paul M. Harris, G. Kuanysheva, Dennis J. Fischer, Kelley L. Steffen

Area-Balanced Compressional Folding above a Salt Detachment: Application to Anticline from Angolan Continental Margin................................................................................. 396

Richard H. Groshong, Jr

Using Value-of-Information with Continuous Distributions to Optimize Appraisal Well Locations ......................................................................................................................................... 397

Patrick Leach

Magnetostratigraphy Susceptibility: A Useful High Resolution Correlation Tool in Stratigraphy ..................................................................................................................................... 398

Brooks Ellwood, Aziz Kafafy, Ahmed Kassab, Abdelaziz Abdeldayem, Paul Sikora

Reservoir-Prone Mass Transport and Slump Deposits .............................................................. 399Lawrence D. (Trey) Meckel, III

Integrate Seismic to Constrain Uncertainties in Rock Property Distribution, an Example from the Far East............................................................................................................. 400

Wenche H. Asyee, Georg Warrlich, Conxita Taberner, Maria Boya-Ferrero, Ben Stephenson

Evaluating Unconventional Resource Plays ................................................................................ 401William J. Haskett, P. Jeffrey Brown

Cenozoic Tectono-Stratigraphic Relationships between the Cesar Sub-Basin and the Southeastern Lower Magdalena Valley Basin of Northern Colombia ....................................... 402

Alejandro Mora, Alberto García

Shallowest Coalbed Methane Accumulation in the West: It’s All About Water and Microbes in the Powder River Basin............................................................................................. 408

Gary D. Stricker, Romeo M. Flores, Donald A. Klein, Cynthia A. Rice, Raleigh A. Schmidt

Application of Microfossils to Production-Scale Problems in Ground-Water: Aquifer Biostratigraphy of the Cretaceous and Miocene of Delaware and New Jersey, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA............................................................................................................ 409

Peter P. McLaughlin, Jr, Peter J. Sugarman, Kenneth G. Miller, Richard N. Benson, James V. Browning, Gilbert J. Brenner

Regional Stratigraphic Framework of the Paleocene in the Cesar Sub-basin of Colombia .......................................................................................................................................... 410

Alejandro Mora, Alberto García, Ricardo Triana

Belridge Giant Oil Field - Learnings from an Unusual Marine Reservoir in an Old Field ........ 411Malcolm E. Allan, Mahmood Rahman, Barbara A. Rycerski

Stratigraphic Architecture and Basin Fill Evolution of the Columbus Foreland Basin, Eastern Offshore Trinidad.............................................................................................................. 417

Emilio J. Garciacaro, Paul Mann, Alejandro Escalona, Lesli Wood

Detecting and Evaluating Hydrodynamic Sealing by Faults ...................................................... 418Alton Brown, Quentin Fisher

Quantifying Uncertainty in Original-Oil-In-Place Estimates From Volumetric and Material Balance Methods .............................................................................................................. 419

C. Ogele, D. A. McVay, W. J. Lee

Mega-Merged LIDAR Surveys: Quantitative Analysis of Stratigraphic and Structural Systems at the Basin Scale ........................................................................................................... 420

Rob Gawthorpe, David Hodgetts, Frank Rarity, Paul Wilson

Fluid Flow in a Touching-Vug Cretaceous Carbonate Outcrop: Measurements and Models from Millimeters to Kilometers......................................................................................... 421

James W. Jennings, Jr, Liying Zhang, Narayan Nair, Steven L. Bryant, F. Jerry Lucia

Reservoir Fluid Characterisation of Tar Sand and Heavy Oil Reservoirs-Impact of Fluid Heterogeneity on Production Characteristics ............................................................................. 422

Steve Larter, Ian Gates, Jennifer Adams, Barry Bennett, Haiping Huang, Tamer Koksalan, Milovan Fustic

Deep Burial Microbial Sterilization Limits the Canadian Tar Sand Reservoirs ........................ 423Jennifer Adams, Steve Larter, Cindy Riediger, Martin Fowler

Delineation of Onshore Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Using the Multi-Transient Electromagnetic Method (MTEM) .................................................................................................. 424

Bruce A. Hobbs, Anton M. Ziolkowski, David A. Wright

Tectonic Setting of 31 Giant Oil and Gas Fields Discovered from 2000-2005: Implications for Future Discovery Trends.................................................................................... 425

Paul Mann, Myron Horn, Ian Cross

Giant Palaeogene Debris Flow Tongues in the United Kingdom North Sea Sector ................ 426F. Surlyk, H. Tirsgaard, A. Uldall, J. Megson

The Mangala Field, Rajasthan, India - A Story of Rapidly Advancing Subsurface Understanding in Readiness for Development ............................................................................ 427

Yashwant Singh Rathore, B. Ananthakrishnan, Mark Flynn, Paul Michael Compton

The Role of Biostratigraphy in Exploration-Led Play Prediction; the Importance of Regional Subsurface Chrono-Sequence Stratigraphy in Rapid Basin Evaluation, Barmer Basin, Rajasthan, India ..................................................................................................... 428

Sarah L. Bower, Jenna, L. Brady, Richard Frost

Mass Transport Deposits of Deepwater Northwest Sabah: Characterization from Borehole and Seismic Data............................................................................................................ 429

Sam Algar, Hans F. Schwing, Paul Crevello, Jon Roestenburg

Neogene Tectonic Phases of Central and Southern Trinidad Based on Brittle Tectonic Analysis of Faults Exposed in Coastal Cliffs and Rock Quarries.............................................. 430

Paul Mann, Jean-Claude Hippolyte, John Weber

Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of Pliocene and Miocene-Age Fluvio-Deltaic Reservoirs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Shelf Province......................................................... 431

Carla M. Sanchez, Lesli Wood

Plumbing the Depths of the Caribbean-South American Arc-Continent Collisional Zone Using Long Seismic Reflection and Refraction Transects......................................................... 432

Paul Mann, Gail Christeson, Alejandro Escalona, Alan Levander, Colin Zelt, Beatrice Magnani, Dale Sawyer, Michael Schmitz

Climatic Controls on Alluvial Architecture, Doba Basin, Chad.................................................. 433Penny E. Patterson, Clive R. Jones, Raymond Skelly

Heavy Mineral Stratigraphy of the Clair Group (Devonian) in the Clair Field, West of Shetland, UK .................................................................................................................................... 434

Andrew Morton, John Kunka, Ewan Laws, Simon Payne, Dave Walder

Tectonic and Stratigraphic Controls on the Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt, Eastern Venezuela Foreland Basin ................................................................................................................................ 435

Hugo A. Castellanos, Alejandro Escalona, Luis Rodriguez, Paul Mann

Oil and Gas Prospects in the Venezuelan Offshore Area Identified Using a Regional Grid of 2D Seismic Lines................................................................................................................ 436

Alejandro Escalona, Paul Mann

Multiphase Tectonic Evolution of Northwestern Venezuela and Its Offshore Area: Implications for the Distribution of Source and Reservoir Rocks ............................................. 437

Alejandro Escalona, Paul Mann, David Gorney

Vernon Field—Waking a Sleeping Giant in North Louisiana...................................................... 438Steve Blanke, Sean Kelly

Location, Evolution and Internal Geometries of Shelf Canyons; Pleistocene, Offshore Ebro Delta (Spain) ........................................................................................................................... 439

Ivan Fabuel-Perez, Gianluca Badalini, Jonathan Redfern, Richard Blight

Fluvial Facies and Rock Property Modeling of a Tight-Gas Reservoir in Green River Basin, Wyoming .............................................................................................................................. 440

Yuan 'Zee' Ma, Terry Young, Ernie Gomez, Dennis Cox, Fabian Iwere, Phil Mosher

Hydrothermal alteration of dolomite - yet another strike against the hydrothermal dolomite band wagon ..................................................................................................................... 441

Hans G. Machel, Jeff Lonnee

1-D Burial History Modeling in the Permian Basin, Western Texas and Southeastern New Mexico...................................................................................................................................... 442

Mark Pawlewicz, Mitchell Henry

Calcite-Dolomite Delineation Using Airborne Hyperspectral Data for Ordovician Paleokarst Mapping ........................................................................................................................ 443

Jerome A. Bellian, Charles Kerans, Richard A. Beck, Yolanda Price, Kumar Nedunuri

Reservoir-Model Analog and Pore-Network Summary for Ellenburger Coalesced Collapsed Paleocave Systems ...................................................................................................... 444

R. G. Loucks

A Comprehensive Classification Scheme for the Mass Transport Deposits in the Ainsa Slope Complex. Southern Pyrenees, Spain ................................................................................. 445

Pau Arbués, Oriol Falivene, Oscar Fernandez, Mariano Marzo, Josep Anton Muñoz

Sequence Stratigraphy and Structure of the Miocene Guantao and Pliocene Minghuazhen Formations, Zhao Dong Field, Bohai Bay, Eastern China .................................. 446

Hugo A. Castellanos, Paul Mann, Alan Clare

Deconstructing the High–Latitude Characteristics of the Mackenzie Delta, Arctic Canada ............................................................................................................................................. 447

Philip R. Hill

The Barnett Shale Play: Phoenix of the Ft. Worth Basin, a History........................................... 448George P. Mitchell, Dan B. Steward

The Character and Genesis of Mass Transport Complexes I: Geomorphology and Process Sedimentology from 3-D Seismic Data.......................................................................... 449

Henry Posamentier, Ole Martinsen

Chronostratigraphic Correlation and Interpreted Depositional Environments of the Miocene Bear Lake Formation, Bristol Bay Basin, Alaska Peninsula ....................................... 450

Emily S. Finzel, Kenneth D. Ridgway, Rocky R. Reifenstuhl, James White, Robert B. Blodgett

From Black Magic to Swarms: Hydrocarbon Exploration using Non-Seismic Technologies ................................................................................................................................... 451

Ed.K. Biegert, Saad J. Saleh

A New Approach to Seismic Interpretation in Challenging Imaging Environments ................ 452C. Edward Helsing, David C. Berman

Recent Advances in Reactive Transport Modeling of Carbonate and Clastics Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality Prediction .............................................................................. 453

Yitian Xiao, Gareth Jones

The Effect of Scaleup on Bivariate Statistics: Insight into Modeling Imperfectly Correlated Porosity and Permeability........................................................................................... 454

James W. Jennings, Jr

Impact of Improved Seismic Resolution and Signal-to-Noise Ratio on Monitoring Pore-Fluid Composition Changes: CO2-Injection, Hall Gurney Field, Kansas, USA ........................ 455

Abdelmoneam E. Raef, Richard D. Miller, Alan Byrnes, William E. Harrison

Geologic Success but Economic Failure: Uncovering Hidden Problems Using Recursive Partitioning .................................................................................................................... 456

Jeffrey M. Yarus, R. Mohan Srivastava, Richard L. Chambers

Heterogeneous Deformation in an Extensional Fault-Tip Monocline: Insights from Field Analysis .................................................................................................................................. 457

David A. Ferrill, Alan P. Morris, Kevin J. Smart

By Choice and Neccessity : Integrated Non-Seismic Exploration in the Southern Georgina Basin................................................................................................................................ 458

Ian Whitchurch, Clarke Petrick, Andrew Mulder

The Upper Miocene Sedimentation and Salt Tectonics of the East Central Gulf of Mexico Basin ................................................................................................................................... 459

Xinxia Wu, William E. Galloway

Role of Microbes in Dolomite Formation...................................................................................... 460Judith A. McKenzie, Crisogono Vasconcelos, Tomaso Bontognali, Rolf Warthmann

Fault Rock Property Prediction in Deep Water Reservoirs ........................................................ 461Stephen J. Naruk, U.O. Onyeagoro

Compaction Processes from Shallow to Deep Burial. Future of Diagenetic Research........... 462Knut Bjørlykke

Mitigating Compartmentalization: Challenges In Appraisal and Field Development Planning ........................................................................................................................................... 463

U.O. Onyeagoro

Environmental Superiority of Lunar 3He Based Fusion Energy ................................................ 464Gerald L. Kulcinski, John F. Santarius

Early Diagenesis Recorded in Glendonites of Wandrawandian Siltstone of the Sydney Basin, Australia ............................................................................................................................... 465

Stephanie Thomas, Tracy Frank, Christopher Fielding

Villeperdue Field ............................................................................................................................. 466Michael J. FitzGerald, III

Cohesive Strength of Gas-hydrate-bearing Marine Sediments ................................................. 467Ann Elizabeth Cook, David Goldberg, R.L. Kleinberg

Middle Permian to Lower Triassic Fluvial-Lacustrine Depositional Systems and Sequence Stratigraphy, Bogda Mountains, Turpan Intermontane Basin, NW China .............. 468

Wan Yang, Yiqun Liu, Qiao Feng, Jinyan Lin, Dingwu Zhou, Dan Wang, Michel T. Runnion

Early Part of Last Deglaciation: A Short Interval Favorable for the Building of Coralgal Edifices on the Edges of Modern Siliciclastic Shelves (Gulf of Papua and Gulf of Mexico) ............................................................................................................................................. 469

Andre Droxler, Gianni Mallarino, Jason M. Francis, Jerry Dickens, Luc Beaufort, Samuel Bentley, Larry Peterson, Bradley Opdyke

The Use of Graphic Correlation for Reservoir Scale Stratigraphic Resolution........................ 470Donald S. Van Nieuwenhuise

Volume 2

Significance of Large Quaternary Mass Transport Deposits on Exploration and Development of the Nile Fan, Offshore Egypt ............................................................................. 471

C. Simon Newton, R. Craig Shipp, Ahmed Farouk, Erik D. Scott, Timothy M. Farnham

The Hopedale Basin, Offshore Labrador, Canada: Stranded Gas and Remaining Petroleum Potential ........................................................................................................................ 472

Michael E. Enachescu, John R. Hogg, Stephen J. Kearsey

Barents Sea Source Rocks ............................................................................................................ 473Malvin Bjorøy, Peter Barry Hall, Ian L. Ferriday

Lateral Heterogeneity in Exhumed Eolian Reservoirs Due to Preservation of Eolian Topography, Permian Cedar Mesa Sandstone, Southeast Utah................................................ 474

Richard P. Langford, Krystal Pearson, K. A. Duncan, David Tatum

Eustatic and Tectono-Geomorphic Controls on Late Quaternary Sequences in Rift Basins: Alkyonides Gulf, Greece .................................................................................................. 475

Rob Gawthorpe, Mike Leeder, Richard Collier, Emma Finch, Lisa McNeil

Innovative Approach to Hydrocarbon Recovery - "Gone With The Wind" ............................... 476Samuel J. Senn

Architecture and Reservoir Potential of Coastal to Nearshore Successions in Low-Accommodation, Continental Margin Settings: Examples from the Permian and Cenozoic of Eastern Australia ....................................................................................................... 477

Christopher Fielding, Jonathan P. Allen, Patrick Ducey, Kerrie Bann, Jonathon Trueman, J. Alexander

Analysis of Fluvial Sand-body Characteristics and Connectivity in a High Net-to-Gross System, Upper Williams Fork Formation, Plateau Creek Canyon, Piceance Basin, Colorado .......................................................................................................................................... 478

Quentin German, Matthew Pranter, Rex D. Cole

Stratigraphic Stacking Patterns Through a Protracted Icehouse Interval Disclose Alternating Glacial and Non-Glacial Periods: the Permian of Eastern Australia ..................... 479

Christopher Fielding, Kerrie L. Bann, James A. MacEachern, Tracy Frank, Michael C. Rygel

Impact of Mass Transport Deposits on Field Development on the Upper Slope of Sabah, Deepwater Northwest Borneo........................................................................................... 480

Hongbo Lu, Craig Shipp, Chris Hadley

Salt Involvement in the Jujo-Tecominoacán Thrust Belt, Chiapas-Tabasco Region, South East Basin, Mexico .............................................................................................................. 481

Hugo Martinez-Kemp, Fernando Gonzalez-Posadas, Peter Bartok

SedDB and PaleoStrat - Crossing the Water Line ....................................................................... 482Walter S. Snyder, Kerstin Lehnert

The International Geo Sample Number IGSN: Advancing Integration of Sample-Based Data in Data Systems for Chronostratigraphy and Geochronology.......................................... 483

Kerstin Lehnert, Steven L. Goldstein, Sri Vinayagamoorthy, W. Christopher Lenhardt

Peridotites, Serpentinization, and Hydrocarbons ....................................................................... 484Stanley B. Keith, Monte M. Swan

Tectonostratigraphy of Foreland Basins: the Upper Cretaceous in Southwestern Wyoming .......................................................................................................................................... 485

Hongjun Luo, Dag Nummedal

2000 km and 600 Ma from Source to Sink - the Eastern Australian Sediment Dispersal System ............................................................................................................................................. 486

Ron Boyd, Kevin Ruming, Marianne Sandstrom

Microbially Mediated Dolomite Associated with The Oil Shales of The Lacustrine Green River Formation, Green River, Uinta, And Piceance Creek Basins................................ 487

Long Ma, Henry S. Chafetz

Methane Accumulation and High Concentration of Gas Hydrate in Marine and Terrestrial Sandy Sediments ......................................................................................................... 488

Takashi Uchida, Amane Waseda, Takatoshi Namikawa

Sedimentological Insights into Deepwater Mass Gravity Sands from the North West Shelf, Australia ................................................................................................................................ 489

Kerrie E. Deller, Tobias H. D. Payenberg, Simon C. Lang

Variations in Detrital (Atmospheric Dust) Flux Within Icehouse Carbonates of Horseshoe Atoll (Pennsylvanian, West Texas) ............................................................................ 490

Sohini Sur, Sabata Pereira, Gerilyn S. Soreghan

Tectono-geomorphological Evolution of an Extensional Back-arc Province, Baja California: Object-Oriented Classification and Slope-Area Analysis ........................................ 491

Hesham F. El-Sobky, Steven L. Dorobek

Hierarchical Outcrop Reservoir Modelling of a Shallow Marine Deltaic Complex from the Eocene Roda Sandstone, Spain.............................................................................................. 492

Håvard H. Enge, Beate L.S. Leren, Simon Buckley, John A. Howell, Allard W. Martinius

The Deriugin Basin, Offshore Sakhalin: Discovery of a New Play ............................................ 493Bryan Ritchie, Ellen Paasche Birkeland, Philip Hirst, Edouard Koblov, Boris Salnikov, Alexander Zharov

Determining the Depositional Controls on Rift Axis, Synrift Deposits: the October Fault Block, Gulf of Suez Rift, Egypt............................................................................................. 494

Paul Woodman, Rob Gawthorpe

Reservoir Architecture Modeling of the Cook Formation, Oseberg Field, Offshore Norway: Integrated Analysis of Core, Well Log and Seismic Data ............................................ 495

Marinus E. Donselaar, Rory Dalman, Tom Dreyer, Steen Agerlin Petersen, R.A.J. Thomassen, Gerrit Toxopeus

Kela-2 Field: Structural Model and Risk of Fault Compartmentalization .................................. 496Fred Dula, Eddie McAllister, Amgad I. Younes, Jonathan Pugh, Akke-Marijke Gunst

Reservoir Quality Prediction, Tarbert Formation, Tune Field .................................................... 497Ruth Elin A. Midtbø, Sr, Ingrid Sylliaas, Sr, Julio R. Marre, Sr

Play Implications of the Neogene Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Sakhalin Region ........ 498Graham Yielding, Bryan Ritchie, Ellen Birkeland, Philip Hirst, Alastair Bent

High-Latitude, Shallow Marine Sedimentation during the Late Paleozoic Gondwanan Ice Age: The Early Permian Wasp Head Formation, Sydney Basin, Australia ......................... 499

Michael C. Rygel, Christopher R. Fielding, Kerrie Bann, Tracy Frank, Lauren Birgenheier

Parameters Controlling Mudstone Sealing Capacity .................................................................. 500Sally J. Sutton, Frank G. Ethridge, William C. Dawson, William R. Almon

Evaluation of Sonic Velocity Anomalies Associated with Basin-Centered Gas Acumulations in the Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming ....................................................... 501

Mario A. Gutierrez, Brent A. Couzens, Neil R. Braunsdorf

Shale Facies and Seal Variability in Deep Water Depositional Systems .................................. 502William C. Dawson, William R. Almon

Lithospheric Extension of the Espirito Santo Basin – Petroleum System Implications ......... 503Scot I. Fraser, Kristan Reimann, Rod RP Nourse, Neil Casson

Channel Bodies of the Pennsylvanian Joggins Formation: A Unique Opportunity to Compare Internal Architecture and External Form ..................................................................... 504

Michael C. Rygel, Martin R. Gibling

Using Chemostratigraphy to Identify Reservoirs with Optimal Deliverability to Increase Gas Production from The Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) of The UK Southern North Sea .................................................................................................................................................... 505

Georgina Doughty, Tim Pearce, Duncan McLean

Exploring for Deep-water Petroleum Systems with SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). Fact or Fiction? Comparing Results from Two of Today’s Hot-spots (Congo Fan and Santos) with Two of Tomorrow’s (Campeche and Cariaco) ....................................................... 506

Alan K. Williams, Geoffrey M. Lawrence, Michael King

4D Basin Reconstruction and Palaeooceanographic Simulations of the Peri-Alpine Foreland Basin During the Early Miocene.................................................................................... 507

Ulrich Bieg, Michael Peter Suess

Lithologic Consequences of Glacially Influenced Deposition: A Case Study from the Late Paleozoic of New South Wales, Australia ............................................................................ 508

Lauren T. Birgenheier, Christopher R. Fielding, Tracy D. Frank, Michael C. Rygel, John Roberts

Seismic Stratigraphy and Late Quaternary Evolution of Mobile Bay and Eastern Misssissippi Sound, Alabama - A Record of Large and Small-Scale Fluvial Systems Through Multiple Sea-Level Cycles .............................................................................................. 509

D. Lawrence Greene

Rift Climax Synrift Sedimentation in Major Rift Accommodation Zones: the Wadi Gharandal – Gebel Gushea Area, Miocene Suez Rift, Egypt ...................................................... 510

Paul Woodman, Rob Gawthorpe, David Hodgetts

Integrated Prospect Evaluation Using Electromagnetic, Seismic, Petrophysical, Basin Modeling, and Reservoir Engineering Data.................................................................................. 511

Elizabeth Lorenzetti Harvey, Odd-Petter Skogly, Tracy Burke, Luiz Amado

Mapping Sandstone Reservoir Quality – Linking 3-D Burial History and Calibrated Diagenesis Models.......................................................................................................................... 512

Thomas R. Taylor, Melvyn R. Giles, Gareth S. Yardley, Gino G. Birbiglia, Rob Lander, Linda Bonnell

Reality Checks for Prospect and Play Risk Assessment ........................................................... 513Chris Wold, Jay Leonard, Marshall Titus, Robert Coskey, P. Jeffrey Brown

Mechanical Modeling of Slip Along Regional Faults in the Arbuckle Anticline to Estimate Fracture Orientation and Density Constrained by Geohistory .................................. 514

Russell K. Davies, Michael Welch, Colin Daly, Rob Knipe

CHRONOS Cyclostratigraphy Tools: Astronomical Calibration of Geologic Time at 0.02 to 0.40 Myr Resolution.................................................................................................................... 515

Linda A. Hinnov

Geochemical and Petrophysical Evaluation of the Khuff and Hanifa Formations in the Giant North Gas Field, Qatar.......................................................................................................... 516

Hanafy M. Holail, Mossbah M. Kolkas

An Integrated Stratigraphic Framework from Modified Global Cycle Chart Nomenclature .................................................................................................................................. 517

Chengjie Liu, John W. Snedden, Tom D. Davies

Detailed Fault Zone Architecture Mapped from Inside a Tunnel Near Salina, Utah................. 518Anne H. Covault, Russell K. Davies, Janok Bhattacharya

Using Global Cycle Charts in Tectonically Active Basins, Neogene of the Southeast Asia Region, and Comparison with the Passive Margin Standard ............................................ 519

J. Frederick Sarg, John W. Snedden

Shallow Gas Production in the Michigan Basin .......................................................................... 520William Baxter Harrison, III

Deepwater West Africa Waterbottom Debris Flows Captured and Analyzed by 3-D Visualization Techniques ............................................................................................................... 521

Jason P. Sutton, Robert M. Mitchum

Sedimentology, Depositional History, and the Effect of Bioturbation in Low-Permeable Gas-Prone Reservoirs of the Falher D Member, Deep Basin, West-Central Alberta, Canada ............................................................................................................................................. 522

Trevor Hoffman, Murray Gingras, S. George Pemberton

Mechanical Compaction of Sandstones during Deep Burial...................................................... 523Quentin Fisher, Christine Souque, Anren Li

Submarine Troughs: Examples from Deep-Water Campos Basin, Offshore Brazil................. 524Alexandre A. Grassi, Mario Carminatti, Paulo de Tarso M. Guimaraes

Hydrate and free gas exploitation along the northern Gulf of Mexico continental slope ....... 525Allen Lowrie, Carol Lutken

A Tectono-Magmatic Cycle that Links Shortening in Thrust Belts with Arc Magmatism, Lithosphere Delamination, and Recycling of Continental Crust ............................................... 526

P.G. DeCelles, G. Zandt, M. Ducea, P. Kapp

Karst and Fracture Features Affecting Reservoir Performance in a Mississippian Reservoir, Cheyenne County, Colorado ....................................................................................... 527

Natalie B. Givens, Susan Nissen

Understanding Present-Day Stress in the Oil Patch and its Implications for Subsurface Fluid Flow ........................................................................................................................................ 528

Mark Tingay, Oliver Heidbach, Birgit Müller, John Reinecker

Correspondence Between Geomechanical Prediction of Fracture Intensity with P-Wave Velocity Anisotropy .............................................................................................................. 529

Scott J. Wilkins

Early vs. Late Diagenesis as Main Controls for Porosity Distribution in Malampaya Field, Philippines............................................................................................................................. 530

C. Taberner, M. Esteban, G. Warrlich, W. Asyee, M. Boya Ferrero, P. Cassidy

Deltaic and Shallow-marine Seismic Geomorphology of the West Natuna Basin: Implications for Reservoir Architecture and Basin Evolution ................................................... 531

Jed M. Flint, Lesli J. Wood

Constraints from Reactive Transport Numerical Modeling for Porosity Distribution as a Result of Hydrothermal Dolomitization ..................................................................................... 532

C. Taberner, J. Salas, M. Esteban, C. Ayora

Integrated Analysis of the Bakken Petroleum System: U.S. Williston Basin ........................... 533Jack Flannery, Jeff Kraus

Seismic Stratigraphy and Structure of The Crest of The Barbados Prism and Adjacent Tobago Basin .................................................................................................................................. 534

Nysha Chaderton, Lesli Wood, Paul Mann

Sequence Architecture and Climate Controls on Diagenesis Related to Subaerial Exposure in Pennsylvanian and Permian Cyclic Carbonates, Western Kansas...................... 535

Govert J.A. Buijs, Robert H. Goldstein

Discriminating between Drilling Induced and Natural Fractures in Wellbores: a Reappraisal of Criteria and Methodologies.................................................................................. 536

Pedram Zarian

3D Structure and Evolution of Passive Margin Salt Systems: Insights from Analogue Modeling and Optical Deformation Analysis................................................................................ 537

Csaba Krezsek, Juergen Adam, Steve King, Djordje Grujic

Diagenetic Origins of Lateral Periodic Variations in the Properties of Dolomite – Evidence of Self-Organizing Phenomena? .................................................................................. 538

David A. Budd, Matthew J. Pranter, Zulfiquar A. Reza, Anthony J. Park

Petroleum Assessment of Danmarkshavn Basin, Northeast Greenland: Protocol for the United States Geological Survey Circum-Arctic Resource Appraisal ................................ 539

Donald L. Gautier, Loring P. White

Stratigraphic Architecture and Significance of Mass Transport Deposits in the Deep-Marine Strata of the Windermere Supergroup, Southern Canadian Cordillera ........................ 540

R.W.C. Arnott

Detailed Fingerprints of Global Sea-level Change Revealed in Upper Devonian / Mississippian Woodford Shale of South-central Oklahoma....................................................... 541

Stanley T. Paxton, Anna M. Cruse, Alischa M. Krystyniak

A Lacustrine Petroleum System: the Pliocene South Caspian Basin, Azerbaijan................... 542Gregory W. Riley, Nazim Abdullayev, Tony Reynolds, Toby Harrold, Stephan Duppenbecker, Andrew Bowman

Developing Facies Models of Jurassic Deposits and Lower Cretaceous Clinoform Deposits for Forecasting Reservoir Rocks, Western Siberia..................................................... 543

M.D. Belonin, Vladimir Shimansky, I.M. Kos, Sergey Hafizov

Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Global Paleo-Climate Modeling for Source Rock Prediction in Frontier Basins ......................................................................................................... 544

Daniel R. Burggraf, James P. Harris, John Suter, Nick Stronach, Bradley J. Huizinga, Rob Crossley, Paul J. Markwick, Frank Richards, Samir Ghazi, Tim Hudson, Paul Valdes, Roger Proctor

Deep Porosity Prediction in the Norphlet Formation, Alabama: Linking Early Grain Coat Development to Paleo Groundwater Regimes .................................................................... 545

Joanna M. Ajdukiewicz, Paul H. Nicholson, Jill Pachell, Abbas Seyedolali

Trends in Gas Content in Eastern Kansas Coals and Implications for Future Coalbed Natural Gas Exploration ................................................................................................................. 546

K. David Newell, Timothy R. Carr

A Lithospheric Plate-scale Fracture System: Evidence for the Simultaneous Maturation of Coal and Oil in the Appalachian Basin Based on the Correlation between the Development of Face Cleat in Coal and Early Joints in Organic-rich Shale ...................... 547

Terry Engelder

Moving Forward toward Standardizing Sequence Stratigraphy ................................................ 548Octavian Catuneanu

Vegetation-Climate Interactions Drive Sedimentologic Evolution Through the Phanerozoic ..................................................................................................................................... 549

C.M. Fraticelli, K.M. Bohacs, B.P. West

Laboratory Quartz Growth Kinetics for Predicting Reservoir Quality....................................... 550Hubert E. King, Jr, Amy B. Herhold, Robert T. Stibrany, Stephen D. Cameron

Forward Sediment Modeling of Carbonate Platforms and a Survey of Genetic Controls....... 551Lisa A. Roehl, Sherry L. Becker

Preservation of Highstand Coals in a Basin Marginal Context: the Late Permian Betts Creek Beds, Queensland, Australia .............................................................................................. 552

Jonathan P. Allen, Christopher Fielding

Instantaneous Spectral Attributes to Assist 3-D Seismic Interpretation .................................. 553Jianlei Liu, Kurt J. Marfurt, Charlotte Sullivan

Polytopic Vector Analysis - Non-Constant Sum (PVA-NCS): Confidence and Risk Assessment ..................................................................................................................................... 554

William Full, Anthony C. Gary

Petroleum Potential and Oil Correlation of the Middle Jurassic Sargelu Formation, Iraq ...... 555Thamer Al-Ameri, Ahmed Asker Najaf, John E. Zumberge, Stephen W. Brown

Pressure Stratigraphy in Deep Marine Sediments ...................................................................... 556Kenneth E. Williams, Martin D. Matthews

Comparison of Kinetic and Equilibrium Reaction Models in the Simulation of Gas Hydrates in Porous Media .............................................................................................................. 557

Michael B. Kowalsky, George Moridis

Lateral Variations in Log, Core, and Seismic Attributes of a Mass Transport Deposit in the Mars-Ursa Region, Mississippi Canyon, Northern Gulf of Mexico ...................................... 558

Derek E. Sawyer, Craig Shipp, Peter B. Flemings, Jan Behrmann, Cedric M. John

Permeability from Seismic in Carbonate Reservoirs, Part I: Dream or Reality? ...................... 559Gregor P. Eberli, Jose Luis Massaferro, Ralf Weger, Yue-Feng Sun, Gregor T. Baechle, Guido Bracco Gartner

Evolution of Fault-Related Folds in the Contractional Toe of the Deepwater Niger Delta ...... 560Scot W. Krueger, Neil T. Grant

Well Log Analysis of Volcanic Rocks: Examples from the Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada ............................................................................................................................... 561

Lance Prothro, Sigmund Drellack

Microporosity and Reserves: Lessons Learned in the Lisburne Field, North Slope, Alaska............................................................................................................................................... 562

John Kaldi

Coalbed Methane Development In PEL 238, Gunnedah Basin, New South Wales, Australia ........................................................................................................................................... 563

David Decker, Dennis Morton, Brenton Smith

Sedimentology and Ichnology of Mixed Wave- and Storm-Dominated Deltaic Deposits: Examples from the Permian of Australia...................................................................................... 564

Kerrie L. Bann, Christopher R. Fielding, James A. MacEachern, Stuart C. Tye

Chaco foreland basin, Bolivia: An archive of the propagation sequence of the Andean deformation ..................................................................................................................................... 565

Cornelius Eji Uba, Manfred Strecker

How Low Should You Go: A Method To Calibrate Estimates of P99 Prospect Reserves ....... 566Robert Otis, Paul Haryott

Relationships between Thrust-Belt-Controlled Conglomerates and Extensive Sandstone Tongues in the Cordilleran Foreland Basin, USA .................................................... 567

Jennifer Aschoff, Ron Steel, Mark Kirschbaum

Testing the use of Microfractures to Predict Fracture Orientation and Intensity, La Boca Formation, NE Mexico .......................................................................................................... 568

Meghan Ward, Stephen E. Laubach, Randall Marrett

Non-flattening Delta Front Sheet Sand ----Evidence From Outcrops And Subsurface ........... 569Zhang Changmin, Yin Taiju, Wang Zhenqi, Xu Long

Stratigraphic Analysis of New Jersey Mid-Outer Continental Shelf Surficial Stratigraphy: Implications for Deposition, Erosion and Preservation during the Last Eustatic Lowstand and Holocene Transgression........................................................................ 579

Sylvia Nordfjord, James A. Austin, Jr, John A. Goff

Scattering Attenuation and Transmission Loss Effect on Acoustic Impedance Inversion .......................................................................................................................................... 580

Xingang Chi, Dehua Han

The Deep-water Thrust Belt of Cape Three Points, Ghana: an Unexpected Transpressional System Offshore West Africa ........................................................................... 581

Gabor Tari, Marek Kaminski, Jim Molnar, Dave Valasek, Gary Walters

Formation and Potential of Fractured Shale Reservoirs in China ............................................. 582Qi Li, Suwei Shao, Renhua Kang

Outer Ramp Carbonate Mudstone Channelization and Levee Development, Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico ........................................................................................................ 583

Ryan M. Phelps, Charles Kerans

Depositional-Process Changes in A Sequence-Stratigraphic Context: An Ingredient in A New Generation of Sequence-Stratigraphic and Basin Models ............................................. 584

Shuji Yoshida, Ron Steel, Robert Dalrymple

Along Strike Variability in a Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Ramp Setting, Last Chance Canyon, New Mexico ...................................................................................................................... 585

Sam Scott

Tsunami Sediments in Coastal Lagoons, Sri Lanka: Implications for Paleotsunamis............ 586Kelly L. Jackson, Falk Amelung, Miriam S. Andres, Gregor Eberli, H.A.H. Jayasena, K.V. Wilbert Kehelpannala, Larry Peterson, Eugene C. Rankey

Deltaic to Estuarine Regime Change on Proximal Paleo-Orinoco Shelf: Morne L’Enfer Formation, South Trinidad ............................................................................................................. 587

Ariana Osman, Ron Steel

Pleistocene and Holocene Stratigraphic Studies, Caicos Platform, British West Indies........ 588Christine Iannello, Tina Hughes, Aram Derewetzky, Peter Hillock, Matt Tremblay, Andrew McKerron, R. Scott Parker, Sue Gibbons, Steven Bachtel

Application of New Seismic Attributes to Identify Karst- and Fracture-Related Compartmentalization: Permian San Andres Formation, Central Basin Platform, West Texas (USA) ..................................................................................................................................... 589

E. Charlotte Sullivan, Susan Nissen, Kurt J. Marfurt, Charles. H. Blumentritt

Structural and Stratigraphic Evidence for the Offshore Extension of the Central Range Fault Zone of Trinidad into the Eastern Offshore Region........................................................... 590

Manuel David Soto, Paul Mann, Lesli Wood

Submarine mass transport complex evolution and control on overlying reservoir geometry, Permian Cutoff Formation, west Texas ...................................................................... 591

Robert Amerman, Eric P. Nelson, Michael H. Gardner, Bruce Trudgill

Fluvial-Aeolian-Lacustrine Controls on Large Scale Facies Distributions in the Dryland Continental Lake Eyre Basin, Australia ........................................................................................ 592

Carmen Krapf, Simon Lang, Tobias Payenberg

Variabilities of Dryland Terminal Splay Complexes – Examples from Western Lake Eyre, Australia ................................................................................................................................. 593

Mark Reilly, Simon Lang, John Fisher, Carmen Krapf, Tobias Payenberg, Jochen Kassan

Quantitative 3-D Facies Analysis of Tidal Point Bars vs. Shallow-Marine Tidal Bars: Comparative Studies of Modern and Ancient Tidal Systems for Reservoir Characterization .............................................................................................................................. 594

Shuji Yoshida, Ron Steel, Robert Dalrymple, James MacEachern, Kerrie Bann

Sourcerocker: a Heuristic Computer Program That Predicts the Occurrence of Source Rocks Using Information from Palogeography and Paleoclimate Models ............................... 595

Christopher Scotese, Thomas Moore, Harold Illich, John Zumberge

Stochastic Play Assessment of the Offshore Basins of Peru .................................................... 596Tarek Ghazi

Climate Simulations of Hot House (Cenomanian/Turonian) and Ice House (Early Permian) Worlds: Comparisons and Contrasts ........................................................................... 597

Tom Moore, Christopher Scotese, Harold Illich, John Zumberge, Marty Perlmutter

Stratigraphic Inversion Using a Genetic Algorithm: Lessons about Non-Uniqueness ........... 598Cornel Olariu, John F. Ferguson

Highstand Shelf-Edge Deltas: An Example from High-Latitude Eocene West Spitsbergen, Norway ...................................................................................................................... 599

Carlos A. Uroza, Ronald J. Steel

Latest Wolfcampian Tectonism as a Control on Early Leonardian Carbonate Slope Channel Complexes........................................................................................................................ 600

Ted E. Playton

Pliocene and Holocene Mass Transport Deposits of the West Nile Delta, Egypt .................... 601Peter J. Butterworth, Amin Moursy, Ibrahim Ramadan, Bryn Austin, Peter Cook, David Cowper, Tim Dodd, Roger Moore, Stephen Thomas, Nat Usher, Denys Brunsden

3D Restoration vs 3D Thickness Maps to Study the Evolution of Salt-Controlled Systems: An Example From the Atwater Fold Belt (Gulf of Mexico) ......................................... 602

Oscar Fernandez, Tim Buddin, Norman Armstrong, David MacConnell, Neil Gaynor

Linking Intra-channel to Extra-channel Facies through Contrasting Styles of Channel Margin in Deepwater Slope Systems, Karoo Basin, South Africa ............................................. 603

Rufus. L. Brunt, David. M. Hodgson, John. P. Kavanagh, Chris, J. Haigh, Jamie, K. Pringle, Stephen, S. Flint

Turbidite Channel-Levee and Lobe Evolution Around Active Salt-Related Folds ................... 604Lorna Strachan, Martin Gee, Rob Gawthorpe, Emmanuel Eseroghene Adiotomre

Pliocene to Pleistocene Mass Transport Complexes in the Niger Delta Toe-thrust : Analogs for Ancient Compressional Basins ................................................................................ 605

Joan F. Flinch, Heinz Bachmann, Ignacio Brisson, Pier Luigi Corradini, Cristina Muñoz Manzano

The Buzzard Field: Breaking from Traditional Conventions in Turbidite Concepts ................ 606Chantale K. McIntosh

Integrating Surface Geochemical Expressions with Geological, Geophysical and Remote Sensing Data: Case Histories from Selected Proterozoic Basins of India ................. 607

B. Kumar, S.V. Raju, D.J. Patil, G. Kalpana, C. Vishnu Vardhan

Recognizing River Mouths that Produced Hyperpycnal Flows, Eocene Central Basin of Spitsbergen ..................................................................................................................................... 613

Piret Plink-Björklund, Ron Steel

Modelling Carbonate Diagenesis of Icehouse Platforms Using CARB3D+: Fundamental Controls on Secondary Porosity Distribution.............................................................................. 614

Richard J. Paterson, Peter L. Smart, Fiona F. Whitaker, Gareth D. Jones, Graham Felce

Deep-Water Architecture Knowledge Base: Towards Objective Comparison of Deep-Marine Sedimentary Systems ........................................................................................................ 615

Jaco H. Baas, William D. McCaffrey

The Sensitivity of Modelled Ocean Upwelling and Terrestrial Runoff to Changing Boundary Conditions: Implications for Predictions of Source, Reservoir and Seal Facies ............................................................................................................................................... 616

Paul J. Valdes, Paul J. Markwick

Experimental Turbidity Current Transport and Deposition Using Scaled Realistic Bathymetry ...................................................................................................................................... 617

Jaco H. Baas, William. D. McCaffrey, Marco Patacci, Joanne Wyton

3D Modeling of the Santa Terezinha Coalfield, Brazil - Implications for Estimation of the CBM Potential ........................................................................................................................... 618

Heinz H. Burger, Wolfgang Kalkreuth, Michael Holz, René Prissang

Seismic and Multibeam Expression of a Clastic Shelf to Deepwater Sediment Delivery System, Eastern Australian Continental Margin.......................................................................... 619

Simon Lang, Ross Powell, Ron Boyd, Kevin Ruming, Ian Goodwin, Tobias Payenberg, Marianne Sandstrom

3-D Seismic Imaging of Thrust Fault Evolution and Interaction ................................................ 620Simon Higgins, Richard J. Davies, Benjamin Clarke

The Kinarut Sequence: A Model for Fan Deposition at the 10.6 Ma Sequence Boundary in NW Borneo Fold-Thrust Belt ..................................................................................................... 621

Andrew Cullen, Alec Bray, Peter Osterloff, Mathew Choo, Boon-Teck Yong, Alex Huerlimann, John Voon

An Integrated Approach to 3-D Seismic and Electromagnetic Interpretation for Reducing Risks in Hydrocarbon Exploration .............................................................................. 622

Mikhail Boulaenko, Roy Davies, Jonny Hesthammer, John Howell

High Frequency Cycles to Supersequences: Stratigraphic Controls on Early Dolomite Distributions Within Peritidal and Subtidal Carbonates, the Cupido Formation, Sierra Madre Oriental, NE Mexico............................................................................................................. 623

Younis K. Altobi

Pushing the Envelope: West Africa DHI'S .................................................................................... 624Alex Martinez, David McAdow, Matthew Novak

Source Kitchen Characterization and Petroleum Accumulation in Songliao Basin, Northeastern China......................................................................................................................... 625

Feiyu Wang, Xiongqi Pang, Zihui Feng, Wei Fang, Jingkun Li

Late Neogene Mass Transport Deposits of the West Nile Delta, Egypt .................................... 626Bryn J. Austin

GPR Facies Architecture of Dryland Fluvial Reservoir Analogues, Neales River and Umbum Creek, Lake Eyre, Australia ............................................................................................. 627

Ian A. Moffat, Mark Reilly, Carmen Krapf, Simon Lang, Tobias Payenberg

Development Of Turtle-back Anticlines In Gravity-driven Compressional Domains: Evidences From The Deep-Water Gulf Of Mexico ....................................................................... 628

Yann Philippe, Gwenael Guerin

Do Stratigraphic Variations Influence Fault Zone Architecture in Deep-Water Fold-Thrust Belts? ................................................................................................................................... 629

Rob Butler, Bill McCaffrey, Richard Morgan

Is the Work Station Killing Geology?............................................................................................ 630Cindy A. Yeilding, Lonnie Blake, Peter Carragher

Subsidence History of The Continental Margin Offshore Northwest Colombia....................... 631Germán Y. Ojeda, Alexander Rey, Andrés Reyes

From Outcrop to Flow Simulation: The Effects of Shallow Marine Clinoforms on Simulated Production from Outcrop Analogs in Utah ................................................................ 632

John Howell, Åsmund Vassel, Tanja Aune, Simon Buckley, Håvard H. Enge

Facies, outcrop gamma ray and carbon-oxygen isotope signature of exposed Miocene carbonates, North West Cape, Western Australia ....................................................................... 633

J. Fred Read, L.B. Collins, J.W. Hogarth, Brian P. Coffey

The Practice of Risk Quantification and Portfolio Analysis in the Decision-Making of Offshore Prospects......................................................................................................................... 634

Gabriel Alves da Costa Lima, Saul B. Suslick

Role of Paleoclimate and Paleoceanography in Sediment Delivery to the Gulf of Papua over the Last ~300kyrs Based on Foraminiferal and Organic Matter Stable Isotope Records ............................................................................................................................................ 635

Melany A. McFadden, Larry C. Peterson, Samuel J. Bentley, Gerald Dickens, Andre Droxler, Bradley Opdyke

Slurry Flows Revisited – Re-interpretation of the Occurrence and Significance of Banding ............................................................................................................................................ 636

Simon P. Barker, Peter D. W. Haughton, William D. McCaffrey, Bill Hakes

Injection of Biogenic Landfill Gas into Coal Seams for Enhanced Coalbed Natural Gas Recovery and Carbon Sequestration............................................................................................ 637

Timothy R. Carr, K. David Newell, James G. Blencoe, Saibal Bhattacharya

Flow Dynamics of Sinuous Submarine Channels ....................................................................... 638Gareth Keevil, Jeff Peakall, Jim Best

Dynamic Formation of Rugosity on Mass Transport Complexes – Implications for Emplacement Dynamics................................................................................................................. 639

Rob Butler, Adriana Del Pino Sanchez, Bill McCaffrey, Joris Eggenhuisen, Peter Haughton, Simon Barker, Bill Hakes, Gillian Apps

Frontier Exploration on the Continental Shelf of Myanmar – The Role of Tectonics, Palaeodrainage and Earth System Modelling in Reducing Risk and Uncertainty ................... 640

John M. Jacques, Paul J. Markwick, Kerri Wilson, David Wright, Jon Savage

The Influence of Lateral and Vertical Heterogeneities on Stress Orientations: Insights and Applications Using Numerical Modelling.............................................................................. 641

Jose Dirkzwager

An Integrated Assessment of Fault Behaviour During Depressurization................................. 642R. J. Knipe, A.I.F. Welbon, S.R. Freeman, S.D. Harris, O. Hostad, M. Hettema, T. Berre, K.B. Lyslo, T. Olsen

Assessment of Hydrocarbon Generation Potential in the Paleozoic Akkaz and Khabour Formations, Akkaz Field, Western Desert, Iraq ........................................................................... 643

Thamer K. Al Ameri, Mohamed Zine

A Novel Approach to the Classification of Deep-Water Mudrocks; Application of a New Paleoenvironmental Model based on Biofacies .......................................................................... 644

Keith A. Knabe, R. T. Beaubouef, Y. Chen, T. C. Huang

Process Interpretation of Flow-Substrate Interactions in the Late Oligocene Macigno Formation, Northern Apeninnes, Italy........................................................................................... 645

Joris Eggenhuisen, Robert W.H. Butler, William D. McCaffrey, Peter D. W. Haughton, Bill Hakes

“Time-Scale Creator” Visualization Tool and Phanerozoic Database....................................... 646James George Ogg, Adam Lugowski, Felix Gradstein

The Signal and the Noise: Forward Modelling of Allocyclic and Autocyclic Processes Influencing Peritidal Carbonate Stacking Patterns ..................................................................... 647

Peter M. Burgess

Risk And Uncertainty Analysis in Known Hydrocarbon Systems: A Fit-for-Purpose Approach ......................................................................................................................................... 648

W.C. Riese, W.A. Hill, T. Koleszar, R.M. MacDonald, G. McMaster, R. Rudser, H.M. Sebastian, L. Tomberlin

Structural Evolution of the Northern Assam Basin: A Case for a Dynamic Hydrocarbon System Model .................................................................................................................................. 649

W. Norman Kent

Application of Seismic Forward Modeling of Detailed Outcrop Data in Improving Sub-Surface Interpretation..................................................................................................................... 650

Mark Tomasso, Florence L. Bonnaffé, David R. Pyles, Xavier Janson, Renaud Bouroullec, David C. Jennette, Jerome A. Bellian, Charles Kerans

The CHRONOS Online Taxonomic Dictionary Initiative for Planktonic Foraminifera ............. 651Brian T. Huber, R. Mark Leckie, Cinzia Cervato

Bundled Turbidite Deposition in the Central Pandora Trough (Gulf of Papua) during Last Glacial-Interglacial Cycle: a Potential Link to Millennial Time Scale Climatic Variations and Sea Level Fluctuations ......................................................................................... 652

Stephan J. Jorry, Gianni Mallarino, Andre W. Droxler, Luc Beaufort, Gerald R. Dickens, Sam J. Bentley, Larry C. Peterson

High Siliciclastic Flux during the Last Sea Level Transgression, Ashmore Trough, Gulf of Papua ........................................................................................................................................... 653

Jason M. Francis, Brooke Olson, Gerald R. Dickens, André W. Droxler, Luc Beaufort, Thibault De Garidel-Thoron, Samuel Bentley, Larry C. Peterson, Bradley Opdyke

Distribution of Pore and Mixed Pore-Fractured Reservoir Rocks in the Neocomian Deposits of Deep-Water Fans, Western Siberia........................................................................... 654

Michail D. Belonin, Vladimir V. Shimansky

Facies Prediction in Turbidite Fan Systems – Nature and Significance of ‘Linked Debrites' in Sand-Rich Versus Mixed Sand-Mud Systems ......................................................... 655

Peter Haughton, Chris Davis, William McCaffrey

Seismic Rock-Property Transforms for Estimating Lithology and Pore-Fluid Content .......... 656Haitao Ren, Fred J. Hilterman, Zhengyun Zhou, Mritunjay Kumar

Direct measurement and analysis of structural data using photorealistic outcrop models, Somerset, UK .................................................................................................................... 662

Paul Gillespie, John B. Thurmond, Melina Vartdal, Roald Farseth

Global Variation in Submarine Channel Sinuosity: Implications for Channels in Space and Time .......................................................................................................................................... 663

Jeffrey Peakall, Ransome Corney, Gareth Keevil, Ian Kane, Bill McCaffrey

Geological Modeling Using Cellular Automata............................................................................ 664Tristan Salles, Simon Lopez, Marie-Christine Cacas, Didier Granjeon, Thierry Mulder

Hydrothermal Dolomite Reservoirs (HTDR) in a Mature Petroleum Province, Michigan Basin, USA ....................................................................................................................................... 665

David A. Barnes, G. Michael Grammer, William Harrison, III, Robb Gillespie

Fault Impact on Reservoir Performance - a Synthetic Case Study of Host Rock Sand Lenses in Fault Cores..................................................................................................................... 666

Niclas Fredman, Jan Tveranger, Siv Semshaug, Alvar Braathen, Einar Sverdrup

Solving Specific Problems with 3D Outcrop Data – Examples in Reservoir Characterization, Training, and Research .................................................................................... 667

John B. Thurmond, Paul Gillespie, David Hunt, Ole Martinsen, Tore Løseth

A Method for Acquiring and Processing Ground-Based LiDAR Data in Difficult to Access Outcrops for use in 3-D Virtual-Reality Models ........................................................................... 668

Florence L. Bonnaffé, David C. Jennette, John R. Andrews, David R. Pyles, Renaud Bouroullec, Mark Tomasso

Seepage-Induced Magnetic Anomalies Associated with Oil and Gas Fields: Onshore and Offshore Examples ......................................................................................................................... 669

Dietmar Schumacher, Robert S. Foote

Sandstone-Shale Interaction of Gulf Coast: Calcite Mobilization in Response to Varying Concentrations of CO2(g) and Acetates, and Feldspar Buffering Capacity ............................. 670

Anthony Park, Kitty Milliken

Detachment Folding in the Alaminos Canyon Area of the Western Gulf of Mexico ................ 671John H. Spang

Submarine Channel Processes: Implications for ‘Point-Bar’ Development ............................. 672Jeffrey Peakall, Kathryn Amos, James Best, Ransome Corney, Sanjeev Gupta, Gareth Keevil, Daniel Parsons

Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy of the Jaitique Formation: A Possible Albian-Cenomanian Boundary in Honduras ................................................................................................................... 673

Robert D. Rogers, Aaron J. Cavosie

Diagenesis Related to the Stratigraphic Sequences in Tensleep Sandstones, Wyoming ...... 674Peigui Yin

The Origin of High-frequency Peritidal Cycles; a Regional Comparative Project from Liassic Platforms of Western Tethys ............................................................................................ 675

Dan Bosence, Marc Aurell, Marcelle Boudagher-Fadel, Francesca Casaglia, Simonetta Cirilli, Mohammed Mehdie, Luis Nieto, Emily Procter, Javier Rey, Rudy Sherreiks, Mohammed Soussi, Dave Waltham

Tectonics and Sedimentation in the Fold and Thrust Belts of the Deep Water Niger Delta ... 676Freddy Corredor, John H. Shaw

Diverse Toe-of-Slope Depositional Systems Revealed in Large 3-D Seismic Coverage ........ 677Qunling Liu, David Steele, kurt Steenson

A New Approach To 3D Synthetic Structural And Stratigraphic Basin Modelling: Impact Assessment Of Evolving Structural And Sedimentary Architectures On Reservoir Connectivity And Performance.................................................................................... 678

P. W. Bradbury, S. R. Freeman, S. D. Harris, R. J. Knipe, W. D.. McCaffrey, Jaco H. Baas, Gavin Lewis

Spatio-Temporal Flow Evolution of Turbidity Current Flow Structure, Linked to Deposit Development.................................................................................................................................... 679

Simon P. Barker, William D. McCaffrey, Jaco H. Baas, Peter D. W. Haughton, Caroline Choux

Discover, Retrieve, and Apply CHRONOS Services for Science ............................................... 680Douglas Fils, Geoff Bohling, Cinzia Cervato, Pat Diver, Doug S. Greer, Joshua A. Reed, Xiaoyun Tang

Comparative analysis of the petroleum systems of two super-giant foreland basin accumulations: the Canadian Athabasca Tar Sands and the Venezuelan Orinoco Heavy Oil Belt .................................................................................................................................. 681

John R. Suter

Mature Field Production Management of The Fruitland Coal, San Juan Basin, USA .............. 682R.R. Gierhart, W.L. Pelzmann, W.C. Riese

Prospect Risking using 3D Seismic Derived Gas Chimney Volumes ....................................... 683David L. Connolly, Fred Aminzadeh

Prospecting for Gas Hydrate Accumulations Using 2D and 3D Seismic Data, Milne Point, North Slope Alaska .............................................................................................................. 684

Tanya Inks, Timothy Collett, David Taylor, Warren Agena, Myung Lee, Robert Hunter

A Re-Determination of Besitang River Sand Reservoir, Using Electric Facies and Neural Network Approach, Besitang Field, North Sumatra Basin, Indonesia .......................... 685

Bob Wikan H. Adibrata, Muharram Jaya Panguriseng, Ory Sadjati, Zulkifli Abu Bakar, Indra Shahab

The Use of Seismic Emission Tomography (SET) for Imaging Hydraulically Linked Fracture/fault Networks of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs .................................................................. 686

Peter Geiser, Jan Vermilye, Robert Scammell, Steve Roecker

Practical Limitations of the Interpretation of Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Subsalt Seismic Data .................................................................................................................................... 687

Louis Liro, Qingbo Liao, Brigida Fontecha, Wenying Cai, Marcelo Benabentos

3D Seismic Interpretation of Mass-Transport Complexes: Examples from the Offshore Nile Delta and West Africa ............................................................................................................. 688

Dorthe Moeller Hansen, Jonathan Redfern, Rob Gawthorpe, Gianluca Badalini, Martin Gee

Real-Time Formation Fluid Evaluation using Direct Mass Spectrometry ................................. 689S. Michael Sterner, Donald L. Hall, Bruce Warren

3-D Stratigraphic Interpretation of Quaternary Mass- Transport Deposits in the Mensa and Thunder Horse Intraslope Basins, Mississippi Canyon, Northern Deep Gulf of Mexico .............................................................................................................................................. 690

Jorge Diaz, Paul Weimer, Geoff Dorn

The Raven Story…..a Play Fairway Opener in the Nile Delta ..................................................... 691Peter Cook, Jerry Siok, Hamish Matheson, Timothy Dodd, Dave Cowper, Peter Butterworth

Large sand extrusions affecting slope channel architecture and evolution, Mio-Pliocene Monterey and Capistrano Formations, Dana Point Harbor, California...................... 692

Renaud Bouroullec, David R. Pyles

Mechanics of the Advance of Buried Salt Sheets and Implications for Predicting Subsalt Pore Pressures.................................................................................................................. 693

Michael R. Hudec, Martin P. A. Jackson, Daniel D. Schultz-Ela

Provenance of Ben Nevis Formation Reservoir Sandstones, White Rose Field, Grand Banks, Newfoundland..................................................................................................................... 694

Angela F. Dearin, Rudi Meyer

Hierarchical Stacking of Submarine Channels and their Depositional Lobes in Distributary Landscapes, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Western Ireland........................... 695

David Pyles

Facies Trend Metrics of Modern Carbonate Depositional Systems .......................................... 696Brigitte Vlaswinkel, Gene Rankey, Paul M. Harris

Processes and Facies Associations in Basin-Margin Strata of Structurally Confined Submarine Fans: Example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Ireland......................... 697

David Pyles, Renaud Bouroullec

Mapping Active Faults in the Houston Area Using LIDAR Data................................................. 698Richard M. Engelkemeir, Shuhab D. Khan, Carl Norman

Investigating Sedimentary Systems at a Basin Scale using GIS. Examples from the Champsaur Sandstones of SE France.......................................................................................... 699

Rufus L. Brunt, William D. McCaffrey, Robert W. H. Butler

Modeling of evolution of transgressive sediments on the northern Adriatic Sea after the Last Glacial Maximum .............................................................................................................. 700

James P. M. Syvitski, Yu'suke Kubo, Eric W. H. Hutton, Albert J. Kettner

Ground Penetrating Radar and Outcrop Interpretation of Achitecturally Complex Carbonate Platforms: Analogs for Deciphering Seismic Profiles ............................................. 701

Leonardo Piccoli, J. A. Toni Simo

Insights into Reservoir Characteristics of Sinuous Deepwater Channel Fills from Outcrop Analogs - Part I: Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Evolution of a Sinuous Slope Channel-Fill, Beacon Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas ....................... 702

David Pyles, R.T. Beaubouef, D.C. Jennette, C. Rossen, Mark Tomasso, Richard W. Lovell, A. R. Sprague

Sediment Flux to the Gulf of Papua Continental Slope Using Pb-210 Geochronology, Source to Sink Papua New Guinea Focus Area........................................................................... 703

Zahid Muhammad, Samuel Bentley, Andre Droxler, Gerald Dickens, Bradley Opdyke, Larry Peterson

Using the Neptune Database to Explore Mesozoic-Cenozoic Chronostratigraphy and the Deep Sea Microfossil Record .................................................................................................. 704

R. Mark Leckie, Cinzia Cervato, Kendra Clark, Patrick Diver, Douglas Fils, Brian Huber

Ancient Mangroves: Swamped with Hydrocarbon Potential...................................................... 705Jon Noad

Sedimentology of the Miocene Capaya Formation in the Orégano River Section, Anzoátegui State, Eastern Venezuelan Basin .............................................................................. 706

Marilyn Daniela Herrera

Diagenetic Advective and Diffusive Mass-transfer Rates of Selective Solutes in Hematite Concretion Formation .................................................................................................... 707

Marjorie A. Chan, William T. Parry, Anthony Park

Analysis of The Industry Lower Tertiary Discoveries And Failures In The Gulf of Mexico: Guidelines For Prospect Risk Analysis ......................................................................... 708

William H. Schoellhorn, Gwenael Guerin

Reservoir Characteristics and Architectural Elements Associated with Production from a Localized Slump Deposit, Deep-Water Gulf of Mexico ................................................... 709

John B. Wagner, Richard L. Blythe, Patrick F. Rush

Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO2 Storage in the Weyburn Oilfield -- an Economic and Environmental Win-Win.................................................................................................................. 710

Marty Hewitt

Petrological and Geochemical Investigations of Deep Sea Turbidite Sands in the Pandora and Moresby Troughs, Source to Sink Papua New Guinea Focus Area ................... 711

Luke J. Patterson, Samuel J. Bentley, Darrell Henry, Gerald R. Dickens, Andre W. Droxler, Larry C. Peterson, Bradley N. Opdyke

The Quaternary Deltaic Series of the St. Lawrence Estuary (Canada): An Analog for the Paleozoic Glacial Reservoir Deposits........................................................................................... 712

Bernard F. Long, Mathieu J. Duchesne

Stages of Construction of the Distal Lobes of the Amazon Deep Sea Fan .............................. 713Isabelle Jegou, Bruno Savoye, Laurence Droz, C. Pirmez

Modern and Pleistocene Turbidite Sedimentation in the Gulf of Papua S2S Study Area: Implications for Modulation of Sediment Sources by Oceanic and Climatic Processes ........ 714

Samuel J. Bentley, Zahid Muhammad, Luke Patterson, Andre Droxler, Gerald Dickens, Larry Peterson, Bradley Opdyke

A Geologic Strain and Reservoir Attribute-Based Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) Model of the Humma Field, Partitioned Neutral Zone ................................................................. 715

Sherilyn Williams-Stroud, Stewart Griest, Scott Meddaugh

Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Mackenzie Delta-Beaufort Sea Foldbelt ...................... 716Timothy P. Seeley, Deborah Spratt

The Paleocene–Eocene of the Gulf of Mexico, a 350-Mile-Long Salt Gravity-Driven Sliding System ................................................................................................................................ 717

Jacques-Antoine Dal, Gwenael Guerin, Julian Mather

Experimental Work on Self-Formed Submarine Channels ......................................................... 718Alessandro Cantelli, Sara Johnson, Gary Parker, Carlos Pirmez

Interdecadal Variability in the Southern Part of the California Current for the Last Century: Diatom Assemblages from Laminated Sediments in San Lázaro Basin ................... 719

M.A Esparza Alvarez, J. C. Herguera, C. B. Lange

Application of Large Online Data Sets for Improved Understanding of the Subsurface ........ 720Timothy R. Carr, Kurt Look, Jeremy Bartley, Keith L. Hunsinger

Impact Of Amount Of Gravity-Driven Compression And Intermediate Décollement Levels On The Sigsbee Salt Canopy Formation, Gulf Of Mexico............................................... 721

Gwenael Guerin, Yann Philippe, Jacques-Antoine Dal

Examples of Seismic Fracture Detection in the Midcontinent of North America..................... 722Donald C. Adams, Mark Meadows

Falling Stage Fluvial Deposition: A Source-to-Sink Perspective from Late Quaternary River Systems of the Texas Coastal Plain and Shelf .................................................................. 723

Mike Blum

Characterization of Seismically Imaged Pennsylvanian Ooid Shoal Geometries and Comparison with the Modern ........................................................................................................ 724

W. Lynn Watney, Evan K. Franseen, Alan P. Byrnes, Richard D. Miller, Abdelmoneam Raef, Stacy L. Reeder, Eugene C. Rankey

Stratigraphic Locations and Rank Determination of Subsurface Pennsylvanian Coals in North-Central Texas: Pilot Study for Coalbed-Methane Potential Assessment................... 725

Edgar H. Guevara, Paul C. Hackley, Shinichi Sakurai, Peter D. Warwick, Caroline L. Breton, Martina S. Hopkins, Rosalba Mendoza

Control of Upstream Variables on Incised-Valley Morphology: a Look at Late Quaternary Systems Along the Northern Gulf of Mexico Margin .............................................. 726

Christopher Robin Mattheus, Antonio B. Rodriguez

Variation of Mass-Transport and Turbidite Deposits in Different Continental Margin Settings and Time Periods ............................................................................................................. 727

C. Hans Nelson, Carlota Escutia, D.C. Twichell, Jr, John E. Damuth

A Modified Approach to Coalbed Methane Exploration – What Have We Learned in the Past 20 Years?................................................................................................................................. 728

Charles Morris Boyer, II, Stephen W. Lambert

3-D Geological Model Building Using Remotely Sensed Satellite Data .................................... 729Mike Oehlers, Pedro Barreto

Mechanics and Kinematics of Backthrusting in Deep Water Fold and Thrust Belts – Observations From the Niger Delta............................................................................................... 730

Ana Krueger, Ed Gilbert

Salt Tectonics Controlling Sedimentation in Deep-Water Settings: An Example from Santos Basin, SE Brazil.................................................................................................................. 731

Alexandre S. Castro, Michael Holz

Uses, Abuses, and Examplees of Seismic-Derived Acoustic Impedance Data: What Does the Interpreter Need to Know?............................................................................................. 732

Rebecca Latimer

Retooling Hydrocarbon Show Analyses to Identify Play Potential in Unconventional Reservoirs........................................................................................................................................ 733

Philip H. Stark, Sandy Rushworth, Alex Chakhmakhchev

Production of Lunar Helium-3 Energy Resources....................................................................... 734Harrison H. Schmitt

Improved modeling of deepwater reservoir architecture and shapes with multipoint geostatistics applied to a deepwater outcrop analog, Tanqua Karoo Basin, South Africa ................................................................................................................................................ 735

David S. McCormick, Daniel Tetzlaff, Roy Davies, Tuanfeng Zhang, Nneka Williams, Claude Signer, Dave M. Hodgson

Petroleum Fueled Microbially Mediated Carbonate and Native Sulfur Authigenesis in a Gypsum Caprock of a Zechstein Diapir, Northern Germany...................................................... 736

Henning Peters, Joern Peckmann

Integrated Sequence and Seismic Stratigraphy of the Jurassic Strata, Northeastern Gulf of Mexico ................................................................................................................................. 737

Jamal A. Obid

The Provenance of Heavy Minerals in the Mesozoic and Tertiary Formations at the Venture B-13 Borehole, Offshore Nova Scotia, Canada ............................................................. 738

Yawooz Kettanah, Grant D. Wach

Recent to Late Pleistocene Sedimentary Organic Matter in the Gulf of Papua, Papua-New Guinea...................................................................................................................................... 745

Lawrence A. Febo, Samuel J. Bentley, Gerald R. Dickens, André W. Droxler, Larry C. Peterson, Bradley N. Opdyke

Topographic Control on the Architecture of High-Energy, Carbonate, Incised-Valley Fills in the Miocene of Southeast France ..................................................................................... 746

Robert W. Dalrymple, Jean-Yves Reynaud, David Besson, Olivier Parize, Jean-Loup Rubino, Noel P. James

Seismic Survey Planning and Interpretation in Widely Varied Tectonic Settings of Southeast Asia: Putting the Lines in Useful Places and Making the Most of the Design Tools and Resulting Profiles ......................................................................................................... 747

William G. Dickson, Mark E. Odegard, James W. Granath, Janice M. Christ

Renewable Energy in Environmental Remediation ..................................................................... 748Ralph Nichols, Mark Phifer, Brian Riha, Ken Dixon, Jay Noonkester, Mary Harris

From Euphoria to Reality: One Operator's Experience with Reservoir Performance in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico........................................................................................................ 749

Bret D. Hampton, Thomas V. Wilson, Robert Crookbain

Timing, Diagenesis and the Spatial Arrangement of Fractures: an Example from the Cupido Fm., Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico.................................................................................. 750

Leonel A. Gomez, Randall Marrett

Foraminiferal, Sedimentological and Ichnological Analysis of Early Cretaceous Sediments (Scotian Shelf).............................................................................................................. 751

Grant D. Wach, Flavia Fiorini, David Scott

Sequence Stratigraphy of Baoshi Structure, East China Sea Shelf Basin ............................... 752Qingsheng Zhang, Dag Nummedal

MD2 (Multi-dimensional, Multi-disciplinary) Interpretation: Geochemical and Heat Flow Integration with 2.5D Seismic Interpretation Examples from Gabon, the Congo Fan, Kwanza Basin and Niger Delta ...................................................................................................... 753

William G. Dickson, Craig F. Schiefelbein, Mark E. Odegard, James M. Brooks

Fractures and Structural Heterogeneities within a Deformed Paleozoic Limestone in the Basin and Range Province ...................................................................................................... 754

Scott P. Cooper, John C. Lorenz

Petroleum System of Baoshi Structure of Xihu Trough, East China Sea Shelf Basin ............ 755Qingsheng Zhang, Dag Nummedal

The Transylvania Basin (Romania) and its Relation to the Carpathians Fold and Thrust Belt: Insights in Gravitational Salt Tectonics .............................................................................. 756

Csaba Krezsek, Albert W. Bally

Shale-Ridge and Fault Geometries in Growth-Faulted Subbasins Along the Central and South Texas Gulf Coast: Oligocene Frio Formation ................................................................... 757

Ursula Hammes, Robert Loucks, Khaled Fouad, Ramón Treviño, Frank Brown

Modeling of Carbonate-Evaporite Lithology and Mineralogy from Whole-Rock Elemental Analyses: A Tool for Improving Petrophysical Evaluation and Chemostratigraphic Correlation.................................................................................................... 758

Michael C. Dix, Timothy Pearce, Steve Jones

Synsedimentary Extension and its Effect on Platform Carbonate Cycle Stacking: The Norian Dolomia Principale, the Dolomites, North Italy ............................................................... 759

Robert Forkner, Linda A. Hinnov

Analysis of Light Hydrocarbons in Soil-Gases, Lost River Region West Virginia: Relation to Stratigraphy and Geological Structures ................................................................... 760

William Harbert, Victor T. Jones, III, John Izzo, Thomas H. Anderson

Fracture/Fault Pattern Delineation in Gulf of Mexico .................................................................. 767Rao Yalamanchili

Hydrogen Abundances at the Lunar Poles as Measured with Lunar Prospector Neutron Spectrometer Data ........................................................................................................... 768

D. J. Lawrence, W. C. Feldman, R. C. Elphic, J. J. Hagerty, G. W. McKinney, T. H. Prettyman, S. Maurice

Integration of GPR, GPS, Remote Sensing and Geochemistry for Shallow Reservoir Studies in Central and South-Central Texas ................................................................................ 769

Damayanti Mukherjee, Shuhab D. Khan, Charlotte E. Sullivan

Stratigraphic Insights into Late Devonian Black Shales of the Illinois and Appalachian Basins: Outcrop to Subsurface Examples ................................................................................... 770

Ovidiu Remus Lazar, Juergen Schieber

Links Between Dynamic Pressure Variations and Internal Velocity Strucure in Experimental Turbidity Currents: Implications for Flow-Substrate Interactions ..................... 771

William D. McCaffrey

Recognition of Hydrocarbon Related Spectral Anomalies Using a Transect Method............. 772Ronald J. Staskowski, John R. Everett, Cynthia K. Dacre

Porosity Modification Under Soft-sediment Shear: Application of Magnetic Techniques...... 773Rob Butler, Ernie Hailwood, Adriana Del Pino Sanchez, William McCaffrey

Evaluating Controls on the Formation and Reservoir Architecture of Niagaran Pinnacle Reefs (Silurian) in the Michigan Basin: A Sequence Stratigraphic Approach ......... 774

Anthony Sandomierski, G. Michael Grammer, William Harrison, III

Characterizing the Formation of Clay-bearing Fault Rocks: Techniques and Applications for Understanding Fault Seal Behavior.................................................................. 775

John G. Solum, Nicholas C. Davatzes, David Lockner

Finding Hydrocarbon-Induced Alterations in Lisbon Valley,Utah: Hyperspectral Remote Sensing and Geochemical Studies ................................................................................. 776

Ana Petrovic, Shuhab Khan, Henry Chafetz

Exploration Applications of High-Resolution Aeromagnetic (HRAM) Surveys in Western Canada .............................................................................................................................. 777

Zeev Berger

GIS Activities in the U.S. Geological Survey Central Energy Resources Team: A Model for Expanding GIS Utilization ........................................................................................................ 778

Laura R.H. Biewick, Gregory L. Gunther, Christopher C. Skinner, David A. Ferderer

Exploring initial and preserved depositional shapes from experimental strata ...................... 784John Martin, Chris Paola

The Challenging Role for Giant Fields: Can We Expect Giant Fields to Meet Increasing Oil Demand Trends? ....................................................................................................................... 785

Sandy Rushworth, Philip H. Stark, Alex Chakhmakhchev, Melissa A. Manning

Reducing the Cost of Production Allocation by 95% Using a Geochemical Technique ......... 786Mark A. McCaffrey, David K. Baskin, Mark A. Beeunas, Brooks A. Patterson

Grain Fabric Control on Directional Permeability in Deep-Marine Sandstones ....................... 787Jaco H. Baas, William. D. McCaffrey, E. Hailwood, M. Kay

Constructing a Stratigraphic Framework for East African Hominid Localities: A Case Study in the Application of Tephrostratigraphy .......................................................................... 788

Christopher J. Campisano, Craig S. Feibel

Fracture-controlled Karsted Carbonate Platform Tops, Rattlesnake Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, USA .................................................................................... 789

J. A. Toni Simo, Jana M. Van Alstine, Dave Hunt, Conxita Taberner, John Thurmond, Leonardo Piccoli

Three Appalachian Orogenies: Their Influence on Sedimentation in the Southern-Central Appalachian Foreland Fold-Thrust Belt and Beyond .................................................... 790

Robert D. Hatcher

Tectonic Modification to Timing, Distribution and Architecture of Deep-water Basin Floor and Slope Deposits Within a 3rd Order Composite Lowstand Systems Tract, Karoo Basin, South Africa ............................................................................................................. 791

David M. Hodgson, Stephen Flint

High Sediment-Supply Shelf and Shelf-break Morphology; Implications for Interpretation of Ancient Shelf Margins........................................................................................ 792

Cornel Olariu, Ronald J. Steel

The basin fill history of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin, CO ........... 793Yuval Bartov, Dag Nummedal

Biogenic Coalbed Methane in Illinois Expands the Play Area ................................................... 794David G. Morse, Ilham Demir, Scott D. Elrick, Keith C. Hackley

Testing Production Sensitivity in a Constrained 3-D Fluvial-Estuarine Channel Complex, Trinidad........................................................................................................................... 795

Grant D. Wach, Hasley L.G. Vincent, Farrukh Akram

On the Geometry of Tidal Channels.............................................................................................. 796Aitor Ichaso, Robert W. Dalrymple

A Lattice Model for Simultaneous Multi-Phase Flow and Matrix Deformation ......................... 797Sakalima Sikaneta, Lawrence Plug, Grant D. Wach

Source-to-Sink Sediment Movements in Structurally Complex Setting: The Role of Gateway Basins............................................................................................................................... 798

Lesli J. Wood

The Sequence Stratigraphy, Depositional Environment and Reservoir Characterization of the Taylor Sandstone at Woodlawn Field, Harrison County, East Texas ............................. 799

Jennifer Hoyt, Floyd "Bo" Henk

Carbonate Platform Models in Strike-Slip Settings ..................................................................... 800Steven L. Dorobek

Cenomanian-Turonian Bioevents-Implications for Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis ............ 801Dragana Nebrigic

Comparison of Attributes and Formation of Stratal Carapaces versus Halokinetic Sequences ....................................................................................................................................... 802

Katherine A. Giles

Bouguer Gravity Anomaly Expression of The Abbay (Blue Nile) Basin, Ethiopia ................... 803Ketsela Tadesse, G. R. Keller

Late Pleistocene and Holocene Seismic Stratigraphy of an Active Forearc Basin, Waipaoa Continental Shelf, New Zealand..................................................................................... 804

Thomas P. Gerber, Lincoln Pratson, Steve Kuehl, Lila Gerald, J.P. Walsh, Clark Alexander

Core–Image Logs Integration Approach to Enhance Reservoir and Production Characterization In Wells Drilled With Oil Base Mud, Pirital Field North Monagas Eastern Venezuela......................................................................................................................................... 805

German Gomez, Marla Garcia, Eduardo Rivas, Jorge Marchan, Carlos Jimenez, Jesus Cedeño

Kinematic 3D Analysis of Dina Field Structure from Growth Strata Patterns, Neiva Sub-Basin, Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia .................................................................................. 806

Pedro Alejandro Galindo, Freddy Corredor

Sedimentation Patterns in Zones of Flow Separation Along the Inner Banks of Bends in Submarine Channels ...................................................................................................................... 807

David Mohrig, Kyle Straub, James Buttles, Brandon McElroy, Carlos Pirmez

Mediation of Dolomite Precipitation by Methanogenic Microorganisms .................................. 808Jennifer A. Roberts, Paul Kenward, Luis Gonzalez, Robert Goldstein

Using Wind Power to Remediate Groundwater ........................................................................... 809Andrew Curtis Elmore

Integrating Resource Potential, Infrastructure and Environmental Information to Compare Exploration Opportunities in the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area, Northeast British Columbia, Canada ............................................................................................ 810

Ben J. Kerr, Warren Walsh, Mark Hayes

The Importance of High-Frequency Tectonic Control during Greenhouse Times of Earth History .............................................................................................................................................. 811

Boyan Vakarelov, Janok Bhattacharya, Dragana Nebrigic

Naturally Underpressured Compartments and Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide ............................................................................................................................................. 812

James O. Puckette

The Importance of Mud Deposition in Generating Realistic Statigraphic Models ................... 813Boyan Vakarelov

Characteristics of Carbonate Reservoirs in Kentucky................................................................ 814Patrick J. Gooding

Geometry and Kinematics of Complex Structures in the Fold-and-Thrust Belt, NW Taiwan .............................................................................................................................................. 815

Kenn-Ming Yang, Shiu-Tsann Huang, Ching-Weei Lin, Jong-Chang Wu, Wan-Chi Chiang, Hsin-Hsiu Ting, Chen-Jung Chou, Wen-Wei Mei

Using Seismic Attributes to Unravel Complex Fault Tectonics in the Fort Worth Basin ........ 816Hao Guo, Charlotte Sullivan, Kurt Marfurt, Michael Murphy

Mounds that are Not Mounds: Build-and-Fill Architecture in Glacioeustatic Sequences....... 817Julienne Emry, Robert Goldstein, Evan K. Franseen

Comparison of Well-Based Chronostratigraphic Data and Mapping with Deep Seismic Imagery in the Gulf of Mexico Basin: Paleogene Reservoir Implications................................. 818

Richard H. Fillon, Arthur S. Waterman, Paul N. Lawless

Modern Deep-Water Mounds in the Atlantic: The Porcupine Seabight and the Straits of Florida.............................................................................................................................. 819

Miriam Andres, Gregor P. Eberli, Mark Grasmueck

The First Commercial Production of The Ulleung Basin, Offshore Korea................................ 820Byenggoo Choi, Choi Suyoung, Hun Jeong, Hyeon-gyu Kim, Yongsu Lim, Byeongwook Yoo

Facies distribution and dolomitization along the south-eastern shelf margin of the Jurassic Gotnia Basin .................................................................................................................... 821

Christoph Lehmann, Jeremy Goff, Bob W. Jones, Alexis Anastas

Alluvial Floodplain and Splay Ichnocoenoses, Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wymoing, USA..................................................................................................................... 822

Stephen T. Hasiotis, Mary J. Kraus

Exploration Opportunities in Western South Atlantic Continental Margin Sedimentary Basins .............................................................................................................................................. 823

Carlos Urien, Craig Schiefelbein

Depositional Control of Lateral Reservoir Variability within an Extensive Shoreline Complex: Examples from the Lower Cretaceous Cadotte Member of Western Canada ......... 824

Curtis D. Lettley, S. George Pemberton, Murray K. Gingras, Tom Saunders

Source, Maturity and Compartmentalization of Oil and Brines in the South Liberty Salt Dome, Texas Gulf Coast................................................................................................................. 825

Tat Banga, Regina Capuano, Adry Bissada, Don Van Nieuwenhuise

Results of High Resolution Aerogravity and Magnetic Survey, Onshore/Offshore Gulf of Suez, Egypt 1998 ........................................................................................................................ 826

Bruce Howe

Relationship between Aperture and Spatial Arrangement of Opening-Mode Fractures: Preferential Positioning of Large Fractures Inside Clusters ...................................................... 827

Leonel A. Gomez, Randall Marrett

Sensitivity analysis of depressurization-induced long-term production from Class 1 hydrate deposits ............................................................................................................................. 828

George J. Moridis, Michael Kowalsky

Comparison of Large Mass Transport Deposits from Industry Seismic, High-Resolution Geophysical, and Outcrop Data................................................................................. 829

C. Simon Newton

Is Gas Hydrate Near the Storegga Slide Offshore Norway Connected to a Petroleum System? ........................................................................................................................................... 830

Thomas D. Lorenson, William Winters, Charles Paull, William Ussler, III

Identifying and Scaling Fabrics in Carbonate Rocks – Outcrop and Stratigraphic Approach to Borehole Geophysical Logs .................................................................................... 831

W. Bruce Ward, William F. Murphy, Richard Nolen-Hoeksema, Gary Fleming, Beckett Boyd, David Allen

Sequence Hierarchy of Sinian-Cambrian Supersequence in South China and its Significance for Global Correlation............................................................................................... 832

Taizhong Duan, Jian Wang

Paleodepositional Environment and Paleogeography Model of the Santonian-Coniacian Rocks in the Gulf of Suez and Eastern Desert, Egypt .............................................. 833

Ahmed Abd - ElShafy Ibraheem, Abu Bakr Abd-Elmoneim Ahmed, Mohamed Mahmoud El Sarawy

Giant Palaeo Oilfields in the Silurian Sandstone, Tarim Basin, China: Evidence from Bitumen, Quantitative Fluorescence and Fluid Inclusions......................................................... 834

Keyu Liu, Xiongqi Pang, Zhenxue Jiang, Jun Zhang, Stephen Fenton

Critical Parameters in Static and Dynamic Modeling of Tight Fluvial Sandstone Reservoirs........................................................................................................................................ 835

Barbara A. Luneau, Osman G. Apaydin, Fabian Iwere

Origin and Organization of Mass-Transported Carbonate Debris in the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Tamabra Formation, Poza Rica Field Area, Mexico ................................. 836

R. G. Loucks, Charles Kerans, Xavier Janson, Alfredo Marhx

Petroleum Potential of Under-Explored Lower Paleozoic Strata in the Mature Illinois Basin................................................................................................................................................. 837

Beverly Seyler, John P. Grube, Joan E. Crockett, Philip M. Johanek, Bryan G. Huff, Rex A. Knepp, Steven R. Gustison, Randy D. Lipking

Tannehill Tribulations and Triumphs............................................................................................ 838Gary R. Rice, David Mowrey, Hollis R. Sullivan, Greg King

Integrated Fracture Properties by Using Structural and Geological Approaches in the Absence of Borehole Image Logs and Seismic Attributes......................................................... 839

Reza Shahali

Characterization of High Quality Oil Source Rocks in Ordos Basin ......................................... 840Ping'an Peng, Wen Zheng Zhang, Sr

Coalbed Methane Horizontal Drilling in North America .............................................................. 841Randy Franklin

Exploration Offshore West Greenland: an Emerging Frontier Rift Basin with Significant Hydrocarbon Potential ................................................................................................ 842

Mark Cooper, Robert Gardner, Neil Ethier

Depositional Control on Hydrocarbon Accumulations in Deepwater Nigeria .......................... 843Xijin Liu

Integration of Conventional and Unconventional Exploration Techniques in Block 12, Kura Basin, Republic of Georgia................................................................................................... 849

John R. Everett, Ronald J. Staskowski, Reginal Spiller, Arif Yukler, Bacho Glonti

Lockhart Crossing Field, a Serendipitous Discovery ................................................................. 850Dan J. Hartmann

Tertiary Paleogeographic Evolution of the Sureste Basin, Mexico ........................................... 851Juan I. Juarez Placencia, Marta Mata Jurado, Santosh Ghosh

Uncertainty Quantification in a Micro-porous, Fractured Limestone Reservoir (Kharaib Formation, Lekhwair Field, NW Oman) ......................................................................................... 852

Linda Poyser, Michael Pöppelreiter

From Regional to the Shotpoint: Chachalaca Discovery, Columbus Basin, Offshore Southeast Trinidad.......................................................................................................................... 853

Natalie Hosein, Gene Walton, Ian J. Stewart, Krystel St Clair

A Mass Transport Fairway in Block BS-4, Santos Basin, Deepwater Brazil: Implications for Field Development .................................................................................................................... 854

Lisa B. Ashabranner, R. Craig Shipp, Neil B. Stillman

Latitudinal (Climatic) Controls on Neoichnological Assemblages of Modern Marginal-Marine Depositional Environments............................................................................................... 855

Murray Gingras, Shahin E. Dashtgard, George Pemberton

Mass Transport Deposits in Deepwater Outcrops: Depositional Setting(s), Types, and Recognition ..................................................................................................................................... 856

Tor H. Nilsen, Roger Shew, Gary S. Steffens, Joseph J. R. Studlick

Resource Extraction on the Moon: Everything Including the Squeal ....................................... 857Philip E. Brown

GIS - The Key to Unlocking the Unstructured Data Prize ........................................................... 858Eric Hatleberg, Charles Basden, Brett Jones, Alejandro Mateos, Philippe Steinthal

Controls on matrix block size in fractured reservoirs and flow implications – a modeling perspective ..................................................................................................................... 859

Jon Olson

Integrating Advanced Seismic Analysis with Rock Physical Modeling to Refine Stratigraphy and Predict Reservoir Characteristics for the Norwegian Finnmark Carbonate Platform......................................................................................................................... 860

Arnout Colpaert, Juergen Mienert, Gregor P. Eberli, L. B. Henriksen, Gregor T. Baechle

Renewable Energy and Alternate Use on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf: A New Program under the Authority of the Minerals Management Service ......................................... 861

Maurice Hill

Instantaneous Channel Topography Versus Final Shape of Preserved Channel Bodies....... 862Benjamin A. Sheets, Chris Paola, Alessandro Cantelli, John Martin

Flow and Disintegration of Sand-Rich Debris Flows and the Possible Origin of Deep Water Sandy Bodies ....................................................................................................................... 863

Anders Elverhoi, Fabio V. De Blasio, Johan Petter Nystuen, Dieter Issler, Peter Gauer, Jeff Marr

Multicomponent-mulitphase equilibria in a CO2 sequestration project ................................... 864Renee J. Perez, Robert A. Heidemann

Impact of Carbonate Stratigraphy on Fracture Development in Fault Damage Zones, Central Texas................................................................................................................................... 865

Chris Zahm, Jerome Bellian, Peter Hennings

Bathymetric LiDAR Offers Insights into Sizes, Shapes and Distribution of Patch Reefs, Northern Florida Keys, USA........................................................................................................... 866

Eugene C. Rankey, John Brock, C. Wayne Wright

Quantitative Textural Analysis – Input for Reservoir Quality & Rock Property Models .......... 867Lori A. Hathon, Thomas R. Taylor, Fritz H. K. Rambow

Scale Effect on Flow and Deposit of Sustained Turbidity Currents .......................................... 868Jasim Imran, Carlos Pirmez, Heqing Huang

Core-and-Log Signature of High-Resolution Sequence-and-Cycle Stratigraphy of Permian Khuff Reservoir; Implications for Reservoir Characterization and Development, Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia................................................................................... 869

Raed K. Al Dukhayyil, Ghazi A. Al Eid, Aus A. Al Tawil

Rates of albitization in sandstones from the San Joaquin, Texas Gulf Coast, and Denver Basin ................................................................................................................................... 870

Renee J. Perez

A Modern Basin-Floor Fan Imaged in the Makassar Straits, Indonesia: Insights from High-Resolution Multibeam Bathymetry and Backscatter, Sub-Bottom Profiler Data, and USBL-Navigated Cores ........................................................................................................... 871

Daniel L. Orange, John Decker, Philip A. Teas, Rhys D. Schneider, Arthur H. Saller, Adam Heffernan, Norman Maher, Matt Levey

Neogene Sources and Sinks of Carbonates and Siliciclastics in the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea.......................................................................................................................... 872

Evgueni N. Tcherepanov, André W. Droxler, Gerald R. Dickens, Sam J. Bentley, Larry C. Peterson, Luc Beaufort

Re-evaluating the Relationship Between Consultant Companies, Clients, Academia and Contractors: One Consultant Company's Experience ........................................................ 873

Daniel L. Orange, Arnold S. Orange, Steven Constable

Application of an Assisted, Analogical Reasoner to E&P .......................................................... 874Anthony Gary, Arun K. Majumdar, William Full, John Sowa

High-Latitude Versus Low-Latitude: Capturing the Elusive Signal Using Trace Fossil Suites from the Ancient Record .................................................................................................... 875

S. George Pemberton, James A. MacEachern, Kerrie L. Bann, Murray K. Gingras, Thomas D.A. Saunders

Basics are Boring - The Essentials of Good Portfolio Management at Independent Oil and Gas Companies........................................................................................................................ 876

Gavin H.F. Ward

Shallow and Deep Structural Provinces of the Northern Gulf of Mexico.................................. 877Mark G. Rowan, Kerry Inman

Implementing a Framework to Make a Step Change in Data and Information Management .................................................................................................................................... 878

Stuart Byford, Christopher A. Cade, Glenn Mansfield, David Camden

Evolution and Organization of Fundamental Sedimentary Bodies: New Models for Reservoir Characterization ............................................................................................................ 879

John C. Van Wagoner, T. Sun, N. L. Adair, D. C. J. D. Hoyal, R. W. Wellner, P. A. Dunn

Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) Oil and Gas Inventory ........................................ 880Mike Marquis

What Makes a Good Prospect? ..................................................................................................... 881Daniel J. Tearpock

South Texas Sub-Regional Evaluation: Area-Wide Integrated Structural and Stratigraphic Framework of the Frio and Vicksburg Yields New Plays and Leads ................. 882

Manuel Berumen, Robert Bierley, Howard Feldman, Edward S. Feragen, Douglas Millman, Shirley Perkins

Cross-Well Imaging in the SACROC Unit ..................................................................................... 883Michael Raines, Brad Bryans

Are Scientific Honesty and "Best Practices" in Conflict? .......................................................... 884David M. Abbott, Jr

Computer Simulations of Shallow- and Deep-Water Depositional Systems ............................ 885Tao Sun, Dachang Li, Neal L. Adair, John C. Van Wagoner

Jet-Plume Depositional Bodies: The Primary Building Blocks of Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana ......................................................................................................................................... 886

Robert W. Wellner, Rick T. Beaubouef, John C. Van Wagoner, Harry R. Roberts, Tao Sun

Integrated Exploration Methods Applied to the Search for Natural Gas from Deeply Buried Coal Seams in Coos County, Oregon............................................................................... 887

George Hampton, III, Steve Pappajohn, Alan Niem, Russell Ralls, Walt Johnson```

New Source and Seal Types for Malaysia: The Key to Unlocking the Oil Potential of Deepwater Northwest Borneo........................................................................................................ 888

Sam Algar, Doug Waples

Getting More Meaningful Geological Information from the World Wide Web Using Semantic Webs................................................................................................................................ 889

Emil Platon

Overview of Recent Discoveries and Play Openers.................................................................... 890Andrew Latham

Integration of 3-D Seismic with Geological Knowledge can Detect Non-Amplitude Combination Traps and Discover New Pay Zones in a 600 BCF Mature Play, Northern Lafourche Parish, Louisiana .......................................................................................................... 891

Steven H. Brachman

Wamsutter Development Area, Wyoming: A Case Study in Developing a Giant Tight Gas Field .......................................................................................................................................... 892

Tony McClain, James A. Hornbeck, G. Earl Norris, Virginia L. Riggert, Reinel Solano, Frederick E. Bakun, Eugene J. Piekenbrock, Meredith Rhodes Carson, David S. Muller, Brian W. Horn, Debra H. Phillips, Evy Glorstad-Clark

New Opportunities for Advance in the Use of Geochemical Indices in the Study of Dolomitization ................................................................................................................................. 893

Peter K. Swart

Testing Carbonate Diagenetic Paradigms Using Reactive Transport Models ......................... 894Yitian Xiao, Gareth Jones

Use of Photovoltaic Technologies in Pollution Prevention and Environmental Restoration ...................................................................................................................................... 895

John Thornton

Applications of Photovoltaic Technologies in Oil and Gas Production.................................... 896John Thornton, Brian Meidinger

Variability of Depositional Systerms Related to the Latest Ordovician Glacial Events in Northern Gondwana........................................................................................................................ 897

Jean-Loup Rubino, Jean-François Ghienne, Max Deynoux, Julien Moreau, Daniel Le Heron

Abundant and Diverse Rosselia: An Indicator of Shallow Marine High-Latitude Deposition........................................................................................................................................ 898

Kerrie L. Bann, James MacEachern, George Pemberton, Murray Gingras, S. Dashtgard, Thomas Saunders

Current State of Barnett Shale Technology ................................................................................. 899Dan Steward, Brad Curtis, Natalie Givens, Nick Steinsberger

Detailed Geochemical Evaluation of Green River Shale Core: Implications for an Unconventional Source of Hydrocarbons .................................................................................... 900

Brian Jarvie, Daniel Jarvie, Tim Ruble, Hossein Alimi, Valentina Baum

Potential Gas Shales in Oklahoma, U.S.A .................................................................................... 901Brian J. Cardott

Rethinking Methodologies of Characterizing Gas in Place in Gas Shales ............................... 902R. Marc Bustin, Daniel Ross, Gareth Chalmers

Licensing in Texas: Its Role and Benefits .................................................................................... 903W. Kevin Coleman

Urban Geology: Quantifying Geological Descriptions into Guidelines and Ordinances ........ 904Peter M. Allen

The Role of Geology in Coastal Engineering Challenges Along the Gulf Coast...................... 905Roy K. Dokka

Gulf Coast Shoreline Erosion--a Complex Engineering Geologic Problem ............................. 906Christopher C. Mathewson

Impact and Identification of Gulf Coast Faults ............................................................................ 907Carl Norman

Marine Engineering Geology and the Challenge of Offshore Geohazards............................... 908Kerry J. Campbell

Whose "Fault" Is It?--Engineering Geologic Support for Litigation .......................................... 909Elizabeth Lincoln Mathieson

Surface Casing Program at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ): Fifty Years of Ground Water Protection Recommendations for the Petroleum Industry........ 910

Robert J. Traylor

Professional Practices as They Apply to Petroleum Geoscience ............................................. 911Daniel J. Tearpock

Tectono-Stratigraphic Framework and Petroleum Systems of Tertiary Rift Basins in Southeast Asia ................................................................................................................................ 912

Scott Sumner, Harry Doust

The Kikeh Field, Sabah, East Malaysia ......................................................................................... 913Chris Milton

Insights into Reservoir Characteristics of Sinuous Deep-Water Channel Fills from Outcrop Analogs--Part 2: Testing Production Scenarios Using Outcrops as Templates for Geologic and Reservoir Simulation Models ........................................................................... 914

Lars Seidler, J. Stewart, B. J. Fischer, C. J. Lyttle, A. R. Sprague, D. Box, J. R. Maynard, K. M. Campion, R. T. Beaubouef, David R. Pyles

Is the Geosciences Pipeline Drying Up?--K-12 and Undergraduate Education ....................... 915Edward C. Roy, Jr

Stochastic Model for Assessing In-Place Methane Hydrate Resources ................................... 916Pulak K. Ray, John Grace, Tim Collett, William Shedd, Jesse Hunt

Prudhoe Bay: New Eyes on a Mature Giant ................................................................................. 917Steve Jones, Jim Copen, Lisa Towery, Mark Scheihing, Ron Thompson, Sterling Helwick, Robert Lorenzen, Stephen Bergbauer, Sholan Ramnath, Jonathan L. Konkler

Seismic Geomorphology of Mass Transport Deposits and Controls on Formation and Character, Eastern Offshore Trinidad and Venezuela................................................................. 918

Lorena G. Moscardelli, Lesli Wood

Delineation of Debris and Turbidity Flows Through Integration of UHR Engineering Geophysical Systems, Geologic/Geotechnical Sampling and 3-D Seismic--Greater Gorgon Development, Northwest Shelf of Australia ................................................................... 919

K. R. McPhail

Comparing and Contrasting Slump-Related Mass Transport Deposits and Depositional Wavefields Offshore Papua New Guinea...................................................................................... 920

Gary Hoffman, D. Orange, N. Driscoll, B. Applegate

Anatomy of Oligocene-Miocene Debris Flows and Slumps from Demerara Rise: Implications for Margin Destruction ............................................................................................. 921

Wesley C. Ingram, Sherwood W. Wise

High-Resolution Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy of High-Energy Sediments from the Ursa and Brazos-Trinity Minibasins (Gulf of Mexico) during the Latest Quaternary: Preliminary Results from IODP Expedition 308...................................................... 922

A. Shumnyk, P. B. Flemings, J. Behrmann, C. John

Evolving Oil and Gas Fiscal Systems: Where Are we Going? ................................................... 923Andrew B. Derman

What if Your Company Finds Gas? ............................................................................................... 924James Barnes

Strategic Planning for Explorationists.......................................................................................... 925Thomas E. O'Connor

Tips for Success in High-Risk Exploration: The Tangguh Experience ..................................... 926James D. Robertson

Geologic Model Building from Non-Standard Core Analysis..................................................... 927Michael Raines

Evolution of Tengiz Rim/Flank Reservoir Quality: New Insights from Systematic, Integrated Core Fracture and Diagenesis Investigations ........................................................... 928

Daniel G. Carpenter, Sean A. Guidry, James D. Degraff, Joel Collins

Tectonic Controls on Tengiz Rim/Flank Reservoir Quality: New Insights from Integrated Log, Regional Stress, and Far Field Stress Modeling .............................................. 929

Daniel G. Carpenter, Michael C. Tsenn, James D. DeGraff, Joel Collins, Sean A. Guidry

Geothermal Convection in the Tengiz Carbonate Platform, Kazakhstan: Reactive Transport Models of Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality ............................................................. 930

Gareth D. Jones, Yitian Xiao

New Ideas and Their Diffusion: A Model for Exploration and Production Companies in the 21st Century .............................................................................................................................. 931

Arthur E. Berman

Reinventing the E&P Organization: Research and Technology Development......................... 932Peter M. Duncan

Do You Really Understand High Risk/High Reward Exploration? ............................................. 933Marlan Downey

AAPG Membership and the Dynamic of the E&P Industry ......................................................... 934Jeffrey W. Lund

The Future Lies in Talent and We Must Act Now......................................................................... 935Scott W. Tinker

Energy Geopolitics ......................................................................................................................... 936Michael J. Economides

Drilling and Leasing Patterns Among Major and Independent Companies in the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico and Their Implication for Future Lease Sales................................. 937

James Flanagan

Active Microbial Methane Production and Organic Matter Degradation in a Devonian Black Shale ...................................................................................................................................... 938

Anna M. Martini, Steven T. Petsch, Jennifer McIntosh, Klaus Nusslein

Reducing Deforestation Impacts of 3-D Seismic in Tropical Ecuador Using High-Resolution Satellite Imagery.......................................................................................................... 939

Mark Thurber, David Westlund, Gernando L. Benalcazar, Antonio Semanate

The Impact of the Reinventing of E and P Organizations on Geoscience Education ............. 940Christopher P. M. Heath

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