Luncheons Archive

Mar. 2005 Jane E. Estes-Jackson McElvain Oil & Gas Properties, Inc.
Reservoir Characterization of the Wasatch Formation in the Hanging Rock Development Area, Southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah
Apr. 2005 Pete Varney Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Some Thoughts on Dakota Stratigraphy and Exploration, Chama Basin, New Mexico
May 2005 Stephen O. Norris EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.
Characterization, Simulation, and Successful Development of a Tight Gas, Fluvial Reservoir System in the Piceance Basin, CO
Sept. 2005 Paul Heller University of Wyoming
Controls on Alluvial Architecture on Intermediate Time Scales
Oct. 2005 Stephen Sturm Schlumberger DCS
Geologic Constraints on Restimulation of the Blair Formation, Brady Field, SW Wyoming
Nov. 2005 Donna Anderson Colorado School of Mines
Comparing types of fluvial bodies, with implications for reservoir description: Nonmarine Iles Formation near Rangely, Colorado
Jan. 2006 William C. Ross GeoGraphix
Searching for Sub-Seismic Resolution Features in Mature Basins: Log-Based Sequence Stratigraphy of the Fox Hills and Lewis Formations
Mar. 2006 Yuval Bartov,
Dag Nummedal
Colorado Energy Research Institute - Colorado School of Mines
The Basin Fill History of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin, CO
Apr. 2006 Kitty L. Milliken University of Texas at Austin
Reservoir Quality Assessment: Petrography as a Tool for Deciphering Kinetically-dominated Systems and the Need for Petrographic Education
May 2006 Robert E. Zilinski Jr,
Donna M. Goldstein
Western Gas Resources Inc.
Paleotectonic Controls and their Relationship to Wyodak Coal Deposition and Production in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming
Sept. 2006 R.W. Dalrymple Queen's University
Where Does the Mud Go? The Dispersal of Mud From Rivers and the Stratigraphic Implications
Oct. 2006 Steve Cumella Bill Barrett Corporation
Relationship of Marine Sandstones, Coals, and Fluvial Architecture, Mesaverde Group, Piceance Basin, Colorado
Nov. 2006 Piret Plink-Bjorklund Colorado School of Mines
Wave-to-Tide Process Change in a Campanian Shoreline Complex, Chimney Rock Tongue, Wyoming/Utah
Jan. 2007 Donna Anderson Colorado School of Mines & EOG Resources
Turbidites in the Western Interior Cretaceous Seaway:
The Known and the Possible

Feb. 2007 Marian J. Warren EnCana Corp.
A High-Impact Gas Discovery in a Maturing Basin (Western Canada)
Mar. 2007 David R. Pyles Chevron Center of Research Excellence,
Colorado School of Mines
Integrating outcrop and subsurface data to define regional and reservoir-scale patterns in the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone of the Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming
April 2007 Edmund R. "Gus" Gustason,
Marshall Deacon,
Colleen Sherry
El Paso
Corporation
EnCana Oil & Gas
Kerogen Resources
Resource Potential of Fine-grained Source Rocks, Wattenberg Gas Field, Denver Basin, Colorado
May 2007 Mark D. Sonnenfeld,
Donna S. Anderson
Whiting Petroleum Corp.,
EOG Resources and Colorado School of Mines
Approaches to Stratigraphic Cross-Section Construction
Sept. 2007 Mark D. Sonnenfeld,
Michael P. Dempsey,
Hai-Zui Meng,
Stephen O. Norris
Whiting Petroleum Corp.,
EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.,
iReservoir.com, Inc.,
J-W Operating Company
3D Geomodeling of Heterogeneous Fluvial Reservoirs of the Williams Fork Formation, Mamm Creek Field, Piceance Basin, CO
Oct. 2007 Mary J. Kraus Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
Using multiple paleosol proxies to interpret paleoclimate change: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in Wyoming
Feb. 2008 John Webb*,
Alan Byrnes**,
and Dan Krygowski*
*The Discovery Group, **Kansas Geological Survey
Reservoir Quality of the Mesaverde Group, Piceance Basin, Colorado (or: How can Rock Typing and Petrophysics help us to Understand and Predict Reservoir Performance?)
Mar. 2008 Tony D'Agostino OMNI Laboratories, Weatherford Core Evaluation Services
Age, Sequences, Depo-Models, and Biofacies: U.S. Mississippian Shale-Gas Basins
Apr. 2008 Rick Sarg Colorado Energy Research Institute, Colorado School of Mines
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Economic Importance of Carbonate-Evaporite Transitions with Emphasis on the Paradox Basin
May 2008 Michael H. Gardner Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman MT 59717
Deepwater Sedimentation from Hyperpycnal Flows of Shelf-Margin Deltas in an Active Tectonic Setting: Upper Cretaceous Prairie Canyon Member (Mancos B) of Mancos Shale, Eastern Utah and Western Colorado
Sept. 2008 Carmela N. Garzione Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Rise of the Andes & the Geodynamics of Orogenic Plateaus

Oct. 2008 Charles T. Feazel ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas North Sea Chalk: 40 Years of Production at Ekofisk
Field from a Rock Some Said Would Never Flow Oil

Nov. 2008 David A. Budd Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado, Boulder , CO Lateral diagenetic patterns in the fabrics, petrophysics and geochemistry of Madison dolograinstones – evidence of self-organizing phenomena?
Jan. 2009  Lyn Canter, Orion Skinner, Mark Sonnenfeld  Whiting Oil and Gas Corp.  Facies and Mechanical Stratigraphy of the Middle Bakken, Mountrail County, North Dakota 
Feb. 2009  Harvey DuChene  Consultant  Tectonic Influences on Speleogenesis in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas 
Mar. 2009  Brian Berwick  Samson Resources  Deposition Environment, Mineralogy and Sequence Stratigraphy of the late Devonian Sanish member (Upper Three Forks), Williston Basin, North Dakota 
Apr. 2009  Jennifer Aschoff  Colorado School of Mines  Recognition and Significance of Ancient Bayhead Delta Deposits: Examples from the Western Interior, USA 
May 2009  Jim Borer  El Paso  Altamont Field, Northern Uinta Basin: Development Operations and Regional Correlation of the Wasatch and Green River Formations