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BEG
researcher Shinichi Sakurai recently
traveled to Noordwijk, Netherlands, to participate in
the 45th SPWLA (Society
of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts)
Symposium, which was held June 6 through 9. Shinichi helped
organize the Carbonate Petrophysics Workshop, attended
Board of Directors meetings, served as a session chair,
and presented “Petrophysics
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Reservoir Characterization, the Poza Rica Field, Mexico,”
a paper he coauthored with Bob Loucks, Charlie
Kerans, Fred Wang, and Mario
Rojano. [Abstract]
06/30/04
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Scientist William Ambrose, lead author
of “Upper Miocene and
Pliocene Gas and Oil Plays in the Macuspana Basin, Southeastern
Mexico,”
received the Best Paper Award from the Houston
Geological Society (HGS) for his presentation
at the HGS International Meeting in March. Bill’s
coauthors are Khaled Fouad, Rebecca
Jones, Mark Holtz, Shinichi
Sakurai, Edgar Guevara, Javier
Meneses-Rocha, Leonardo Aguilera,
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Roberto Rojas, José Morales,
José Berlanga, Suhas Talukdar,
and Tim Wawrzyniec [Abstract]
06/28/04
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Dr. Robert Reed (at right) discusses Barnett Shale fracture
and rock properties with colleagues. This Barnett Shale
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On
June 22 and 23, Ellison
Miles Geotechnology Institute (EMGI),
located at Brookhaven College
in Farmers Branch, Texas, hosted its second Barnett
Shale Symposium. An estimated 200 operators
and others attended this popular event that included
various presentations on Barnett Shale, such as hydrocarbon
generation, geophysical needs, resource assessment,
challenges of urban drilling, the need for more pipeline
infrastructure, and stepping out from the traditional
field
area. EMGI will host a third
Barnett
Shale
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symposium
in January 2005. This event was co-sponsored by the PTTC
Texas Region, a program managed by the Bureau.
For more information, visit the PTTC
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Research Associate Xavier Janson and Research
Assistant Ryan Phelps spent June 8 through
17 conducting fieldwork in the Dry Canyon area of the Sacramento
Mountains of New Mexico. These data will be used to help build
a 3-D reservoir model of classic Pennsylvanian carbonates
in the area. 06/28/04 |
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Xavier
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Dr.
Ursula Hammes talks about the STARR program with Gulf
Coast operators.
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On
June 15, a team from the STARR
(State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery) project met
with representatives of 15 operators of Texas State waters
leases at the Houston Research
Center (HRC). The meeting was held in
conjunction with the PTTC
Texas Region, represented by Sigrid
Clift. The purpose of the meeting was to familiarize
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new working relationships between STARR and interested operators.
Bob Loucks provided an overview of STARR and
presented some of the recent research results from STARR’s
work in Texas State waters. Ramón Treviño
and Ursula Hammes presented overviews of some
of STARR’s field studies. The operators also examined
important core samples from the Corpus Christi Bay region and
viewed posters that STARR has presented at recent professional
society meetings. Also in attendance was Peter Boone,
Chief Geologist of Mineral Leasing
at the General Land Office, who answered questions
concerning lease terms. The meeting was open to all Texas State
waters operators and leaseholders. 06/23/04
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Scientist Lesli Wood just returned from a week
of teaching UT undergraduates enrolled in the Geo660
Field Camp at Rock Springs, Wyoming, in collaboration
with Dr. Ron Steel. Lesli and Ron led the students
through several outcrop exercises, measuring and describing
sections and mapping rocks throughout the Rock Springs Uplift
area. Units studied included the Upper Cretaceous
clastic wedge successions of
southwestern Wyoming. 06/23/04 |
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Geo660
students work in the field near Rock Springs, Wyoming, measuring
a large incised valley in Upper Cretaceous strata.
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3-D
image, looking north along the Pecos River Canyon at
Shumla Bend. The canyon here is approximately 80 m deep.
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RCRL
researchers Jerry Bellian, Charlie
Kerans, Xavier Janson, Ned
Frost, and Matt Davis recently
completed 3-D imaging of Cretaceous carbonate reservoir
analogs on the Pecos River. Their goal is to create a
digital outcrop model. The data set of 78 laser scans
that they gathered covers the 2-km2 area around
Painted Canyon/Shumla Bend, at an average point spacing
of 4 cm (a total of
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model will allow detailed geologic and simulation modeling
of this critical outcrop analog. Click
here to view a larger image.
06/17/04
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| Bureau
Director Scott Tinker and Associate Director
Jay Raney were in Stevenson, Washington,
June 13–16,
to attend the
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meeting of the Association
of American State Geologists.
Highlights
included dinner on the Sternwheeler Columbia Gorge.
06/17/04 |
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Researchers
at BEG and New Mexico Bureau of Geology
and Mineral Resources have just completed a new digital
oil-play portfolio of the Permian Basin of west Texas and southeast
New Mexico. The portfolio defines 32 oil plays in the Permian
Basin and assigns all significant-sized reservoirs that had
cumulative production of >1 MMbbl through the year 2000 to
a play. The project was funded by DOE as part of the PUMP program.
The draft final report has been posted on the project Website;
click
here for more information. 06/10/04 |
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May 27, 2004, an NSF workshop titled
“Curation of Terrestrial
Scientific Cores, Samples, and Collections”
was held at the Houston Research Center. The goal of the
workshop was to bring together academic researchers to
discuss needs of the geologic community for storage of
terrestrial scientific cores, samples, and other collections.
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academic
research community were invited and asked to provide advice
to NSF about logical approaches to curation, metadata management,
and future accessibility of geologic samples. Click
here for more information. 06/03/04
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