Speaker Archive: 2011

January 2011

Donna S. Anderson | EOG Resources, Inc. & Colorado School of Mines 

Stratigraphy and Depositional Controls on the Juana Lopez Member of the Mancos Shale, southeastern Uinta basin, Utah

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February 2011

Mason Dykstra | Colorado School of Mines

Deepwater Tidalites: Modern Occurrence and Ancient Preservation

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March 2011

Paul Myrow | Colorado College

Depositional Dynamics of a Highstand Prodeltaic System in the Pennsylvanian Minturn Formation of the Central Colorado Basin: Deposits of Wave-Influenced Turbidity Currents

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April 2011

Andres Aslan | Mesa State University

The Role of Avulsion During Valley Filling: Examples From the Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast

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May 2011

Steven T. Hasiotis | University of Kansas

Continental Ichnology: Interpreting Paleoenvironments, Sedimentation Rate, Paleosol Formation, Paleohydrology, and Paleoclimate

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September 2011

Jeffrey A. May & Donna S. Anderson | EOG Resources, Inc

Mudrock Reservoirs-Why Depositional Fabric & Sequence Stratigraphic Framework Matter

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October 2011

Michael Dolan | Dolan Integration Group

Constructing Regional Maturity Maps for Unconventional Success

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November 2011

Ed LoCricchio | Cordillera Energy

Stratigraphic Framework and Controls on Pennsylvanian Granite Wash Production, Anadarko Basin, Texas and Oklahoma

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Speaker Archive: 2010

January 2010

Erik R. Kling | EOG Resources, Inc.

A Framework for Finer-grained Fan Fringe Facies: Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of Distal Brushy Canyon Deposits, Delaware Basin, West Texas

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February 2010

Donna S. Anderson | Colorado School of Mines and EOG Resources, Inc.

Stratigraphy and Depositional Controls on the Juana Lopez Member of the Mancos Shale, southeastern Uinta basin, Utah

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March 2010

Robert Amerman | Colorado School of Mines

Stratigraphy of a Mass Transport Dominated Deepwater Carbonate Interval, Permian Cutoff Formation, West Texas

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April 2010

Christopher R. Fielding | University of Nebraska-Lincoln

A Modern Planform, Process and Facies Analog for the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone of Utah: Applications to Exploration and Reser voir Description

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May 2010

Gregory Wahlman | Wahlman Geological Services

Diverse Origins and Facies of Carbonate Microporosity

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September 2010

Marieke Dechesne | Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Four Dimensional Sedimentation Patterns in the Denver Basin, Colorado

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October 2010

Brian A. Zaitlin | BMO Capital Markets

Recent Advances in Our Understanding of Incised Valley Systems Utilizing Examples from the Lower Cretaceous (Lakota equivalent) of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

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November 2010

Ned L. Frost | ConocoPhillips 

Stratigraphic Controls on Fracture Patterns and the Development of a Platform-Scale Fluid-Flow Network in Carbonate Systems. Insights from the Canning Basin, Western Australia; and the Guadalupe Mountains, NM

ABSTRACT UNAVAILABLE

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Speaker Archive: 2009

January 2009

Lyn Canter, Orion Skinner, Mark Sonnenfeld  | Whiting Oil and Gas Corp. 

Facies and Mechanical Stratigraphy of the Middle Bakken, Mountrail County, North Dakota 

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February 2009

Harvey DuChene | Consultant 

Tectonic Influences on Speleogenesis in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas 

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March 2009

Brian Berwick | Samson Resources 

Deposition Environment, Mineralogy and Sequence Stratigraphy of the late Devonian Sanish member (Upper Three Forks), Williston Basin, North Dakota 

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April 2009

Jennifer Aschoff | Colorado School of Mines 

Recognition and Significance of Ancient Bayhead Delta Deposits: Examples from the Western Interior, USA 

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May 2009

Jim Borer | El Paso 

Altamont Field, Northern Uinta Basin: Development Operations and Regional Correlation of the Wasatch and Green River Formations 

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September 2009

Grace L. Ford | Baytex Energy USA Ltd. & Colorado School of Mines

Fluvial Architecture of the Wasatch Formation in Three Canyons, Utah: Implications for Reservoir Down-spacing and Drainage

ABSTRACT UNAVAILABLE

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October 2009

Alan J. Scott | Anadarko Petroleum Corporation

Graphic Methods to Illustrate Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Concepts:  Case Studies from Triassic “Red Bed Climatic Cycles” and Cretaceous Coastal Plain Fluvial and Lacustrine Systems

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November 2009

Mark Kirschbaum | United States Geological Survey

Stratigraphy, Age, and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Frontier Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming (no abstract submitted)

ABSTRACT UNAVAILABLE

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Speaker Archive: 2008

January 2008

No presentation

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February 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?)

ABSTRACT UNAVAILABLE

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March 2008

Tony D'Agostino | OMNI Laboratories, Weatherford Core Evaluation Services

Age, Sequences, Depo-Models, and Biofacies: U.S. Mississippian Shale-Gas Basins

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April 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

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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

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September 2008

Carmela N. Garzione | Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Rochester

Rise of the Andes & the Geodynamics of Orogenic Plateaus

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October 2008

Charles T. Feazel | ConocoPhillips

North Sea Chalk: 40 Years of Production at Ekofisk 
Field from a Rock Some Said Would Never Flow Oil

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November 2008

David A. Budd | Department of Geological Sciences University of Colorado

Lateral diagenetic patterns in the fabrics, petrophysics and geochemistry of Madison dolograinstones – evidence of self-organizing phenomena?

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Speaker Archive: 2007

January 2007

Donna Anderson | Colorado School of Mines & EOG Resources

Turbidites in the Western Interior Cretaceous Seaway: The Known and the Possible

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February 2007

Marian J. Warren | EnCana Corp.

A High-Impact Gas Discovery in a Maturing Basin (Western Canada)

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March 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

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April 2007

Edmund R. "Gus" Gustason, Marshall Deacon, and Colleen Sherry
El Paso Corporation | EnCana Oil & Gas | Kerogen Resources

Resource Potential of Fine-grained Source Rocks, Wattenberg Gas Field, Denver Basin, Colorado

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May 2007

Mark D. Sonnenfeld and Donna S. Anderson
Whiting Petroleum Corp., EOG Resources and Colorado School of Mines

Approaches to Stratigraphic Cross-Section Construction

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September 2007

Mark D. Sonnenfeld, Michael P. Dempsey, Hai-Zui Meng, and 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

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October 2007

Mary J. Kraus | Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado

Using multiple paleosol proxies to interpret paleoclimate change: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in Wyoming

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November 2007

No presentation

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