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RCRL
team members (from left) Bob Loucks, Charlie
Kerans, and Jerry Lucia,
were in Houston on January 22 and 23 to teach a 2-day workshop
titled “Carbonate
Reservoir Geology.”
It was one of the highlights of AAPG's Winter Education Conference.
To look at a clickable pdf, click
here. 01/30/04 |
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January 15, 2004, the Bureau and the
Petroleum Technology Transfer Council
(PTTC) Texas
Region hosted a meeting at The University of Texas Permian
Basin (UTPB) Center for Energy and Economic Diversification
(CEED) in Midland. Dr. Steve Ruppel
presented “Integrated
Synthesis of Permian Basin Depositional History and
Stratigraphic Architecture: Data and
Models for Recovering Existing
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Undiscovered
Oil Resources.”
Click
here for more information. 1/26/04 |
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Dr.
Kerry L. Sublette is director of the Center for Environmental
Research and Technology and Sarkeys Professor of Environmental
Engineering at The University of Tulsa. He also serves
as the director of the Integrated Petroleum Environmental
Consortium (IPEC).
PTTC Texas and Central Gulf Regions
hosted more than 40 people at the Soil Remediation Workshop
in Tyler, Texas, on January 21, 2004.
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attendees learned how to cost-effectively
remediate oil and brine spills using hands-on tools and teaching
materials developed by Dr. Kerry
L. Sublette, Director of Integrated Petroleum
Environmental Consortium (IPEC). Attendees
also learned how to evaluate vendor claims for such things
as adding microbes, using surfactants, etc. Click
here to get
more information about this program and to visit the IPEC
Web site. 1/26/04
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researchers Hongliu Zeng and Tucker
Hentz, together with a seismic stratal slice
image interpreted by Bureau’s Offshore Secondary
Gas Recovery project, are the highlight of the cover of
the February 2004 issue of the American Association
of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin. The Bulletin
features the scientists’ article “High-Frequency
Sequence Stratigraphy from |
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Seismic
Sedimentology: Applied to Miocene,Vermilion
Block 50-Tiger
Shoal Area, Offshore Louisiana.” 1/23/04 |
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Bureau
researcher Jean-Philippe Nicot was a guest
presenter at the Texas Independent
Producers and Royalty Owners Association’s (TIPRO)
Mid-Winter Policy Meeting in Fort Worth on January 12–13.
Jean-Philippe presented “Please,
Pass the Salt: Can the Oil Industry Benefit from Desalination
Wastes?”
[Powerpoint
presentation] [PDF]
[Project
Details]. 1/16/04 |
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| Keith
W. Shanley of Stone
Energy, LLC, in Denver, Colorado, was
a guest speaker at the Bureau on Tuesday, January 13,
2004. His presentation was titled “Controls
on Prolific Gas |
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from Low-Permeability Sandstone Reservoirs in Basin-Centered
Regions: Implications from the Rocky Mountain Region for Resource
Assessment, Prospect Appraisal, and Risk Analysis.”
This work reexamines the widely accepted model for
basin-centered gas, and comes to some new conclusions. [Abstract]
1/13/04 |
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Applied
Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL) bids farewell
to Bruno Vendeville after 15 years of
service. Bruno will be joining the faculty of the Université
des Sciences et Technologies de Lille in
Lille, France, on February 1. Bruno received a Ph.D. from
the Université de
Rennes in 1987 and a postdoc from Texas
A&M in 1988. He then joined the Bureau
of Economic Geology |
in 1988
as the first hire for the newly formed AGL.
Click here for more information.1/13/04 |
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| Bureau
Director Scott Tinker, together with Dr.
William Fisher, Jackson School Director, and Dr.
Peter Flawn, President Emeritus, was invited to participate
in the inaugural conference of the Texas
Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine
(“Academy”)
that was held on January 6–7, 2004, in San Antonio. U.S.
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
served as the Conference Honorary Chairman. The newly established
Academy “will serve as a vehicle to foster the next generation
of scientists and to project Texas’ technical strengths
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| (left
to right) Drs. Tinker, Flawn, and Fisher at Academy inauguration. |
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UT
President Larry Faulkner makes a special presentation
to the Texas Nobel Laureates. |
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FDA
Commissioner Mark McClellan speaks to a full session at
lunch. |
1/12/04 |
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January 5, 2004, Bureau Director Scott Tinker
presented “Energy Studies
on State Lands” to members and attendees
of the Western States Land Commissioners
Association (WSLCA) Winter Conference in Austin.
The WSLCA is
an organization of 23 U.S. states that together manage 447
million acres of land, mineral rights properties, and land
below navigable waterways. 1/06/04 |
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