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A
grand opening of the Houston Research Center
(HRC) was held on Friday, June 4, 2004, at the facility located
at 11611 West Little York Road, Houston, Texas. The event was
grand, with 200+ attendees and an impressive list of speakers.
Click
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Ph.D. aspirant Lorena Moscardelli discusses results of some
of her research in deep-marine Mass Transport Complex development
to a standing-room-only AAPG crowd. Lorena’s co-presenter
from Landmark illustrates the latest edition of GeoProbe,
which supported Lorena’s research.
Members
of the Depositional Margins Industrial
Alliance (Click
here for web page) presented some
of their research results at an invited forum hosted by Landmark
Graphics at the recent 2004 AAPG Annual Meeting.
Graduate students and researchers at BEG use the latest in
Landmark interpretation and visualization software for their
research through a University Grant from Landmark, Inc. 05/28/04 |
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Research Scientist Sergey Fomel has received
Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award in Geophysics, from the
Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Sergey’s paper, coauthored with Paul Sava, is titled “Angle-Domain
Common- Image Gathers
by Wavefield Continuation Methods.”
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During
May, Reservoir Characterization
Research Laboratory geologists visited
the Pecos River Canyon area to collect data for 3-D modeling
of carbonate reservoir analog facies. Geologists Jerry
Bellian, Xavier Janson, Charles
Kerans, Ned Frost, and Matt
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approximately 1 billion data points so that they could accurately
model the geometry of the sequences and bedding architecture
of the system. In this photo, Xavier Janson operates the laser
scanning system at Painted Canyon on the Pecos River. 05/19/04 |
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Bureau is proud to announce the promotion of F.
Jerry Lucia to Senior Research Scientist—a
position equivalent to Full Professor in the University.
Jerry is well known throughout the geologic and petroleum
engineering communities for his pioneering work in carbonate
and evaporite sedimentology and diagenesis and in carbonate
reservoir characterization. Two of his publications |
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and 1995) on carbonate reservoir characterization research were
awarded the prestigious Wallace
E. Pratt Award presented by the American
Association of Petroleum Geologists. He co-authored
a landmark paper in Science (1994) on marine dolomites
and has published an internationally recognized book on carbonate
reservoir characterization. His early work at Shell
concentrated on fundamental principles of carbonate and evaporite
deposition and diagenesis. Jerry has also long been recognized
for a number of geologic principles that are now common knowledge—seepage
reflux dolomitization, reduction of porosity by dolomitization,
relationship of facies to diagenesis and reservoir quality,
and large-scale collapsed paleokarst reservoir systems. 05/17/04 |
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Research
Scientist Dr. Lesli Wood recently traveled
to Trinidad and Tobago, where, among other things, she presented
a talk titled “Deep Marine
Morphology and Processes of the Trinidad Continental Margin”
to the Geological Society of Trinidad and Tobago. Lesli has
been a society member for 8 years. [Abstract]
05/17/04 |
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Technologies, field service provider to
the Gulf Coast Carbon Center’s
Frio Brine Pilot Experiment (click
here for project description), recently completed
a workover on the monitoring well owned by Texas
American Resources. This |
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involves injecting a small volume of carbon dioxide (CO2)
into a well-known volume of the subsurface of South Liberty
oil field and then closely monitoring the well to calculate
rates of leakage. Remediation of existing wells is one of the
key unknowns in the plan to reduce atmospheric emissions of
carbon dioxide by reinjecting the CO2 into oil reservoirs
in decline in order to enhance production. 05/17/04 |
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Tarek
A. Elshayeb, a Ph.D. candidate in the UT Department
of Geological Sciences, recently received the Technical
Session Best Speaker award from the Department for his
talk titled “Integrated
Reservoir Characterization, 3D-Diagenetic Modeling and
Reservoir Assessment and Prediction of the Cotton Valley
Sandstones,
East Texas.” This
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of superior presentation by a Ph.D. candidate. Tarek is shown
here with his primary advisor, Dr. Earle F. McBride.05/07/04 |
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Turner, a member of BEG’s Administrative
Staff in Human Resources, will be awarded one of 30 Staff
Excellence and Outstanding Supervisor Awards at the 43rd
Annual Staff Recognition Program and President’s
Reception today at the Frank C. Erwin, Jr.,
Special Events Center. The Staff Recognition Program and
President's
Reception recognizes nonteaching UT
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employees who have made outstanding contributions to the continuing
success of the University.
Annual
UT Staff Service Awards will also be presented at the 43rd
Annual Staff Recognition Program and President’s Reception.
The Service Award Program recognizes the importance of contributions
of loyal and committed staff toward the betterment of the
University. Bureau employees receiving awards this year (years
of service in parentheses) are Bill White
(30), Jean Abernathy (25), Glynis
Morse (25), Jay Raney (20), Sigrid
Clift (15), Sharon Bierschenk (10),
Roberto Gutierrez (10), Bob Loucks
(10), and Lisa Remington (10). 05/05/04 |
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On
Tuesday, May 11, 2004, a special Bureau seminar featured
William L. Abriel, a geophysicist at
Chevron-Texaco USA, San |
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California. Mr. Abriel presented
“Earth
Model Complexity and Risk Description in Resource Exploration
and Development”
as part of his SEG Distinguished Lecture tour. His biography
and abstract are posted on the SEG Website. Click
here for more information. 05/05/04 |
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