| Archive: 2012 MSRL Review Meeting |
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| Monday, March 5 |
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10:00am - 4:30pm |
Mudrock Petrology/Petrography Interest Group Meeting: Milliken |
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| Tuesday, March 6 |
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8:00 – 8:20am |
Welcome: BEG Director, Scott W. Tinker |
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8:20 – 8:40am |
Status of MSRL Research Activities – Present and Future: Ruppel |
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| Paleozoic Mudrock Systems |
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8:40 – 9:10am |
Natural fractures in the Marcellus Shale: Gale |
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9:10 – 9:40am |
Devonian mudrock pore systems: Bakken, Woodford, New Albany: Reed |
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9:40 – 10:10am |
Geochemistry and sedimentology of Bone Spring mudrocks: Nance |
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10:10 – 10:25am |
BREAK |
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10:25 – 10:55am |
Permian Mudrocks of the German Basin: Hammes |
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| Mesozoic Mudrock Systems: Facies Architecture and Depositional Systems |
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10:55 – 11:25am |
Haynesville-Bossier facies and architecture: Frebourg |
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11:25 – 11:55am |
Chemostratigraphy and Paleoceanography of the Haynesville-Bossier: Rowe |
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11:55 – 1:00pm |
LUNCH |
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1:00 – 1:30pm |
Regional patterns of facies architecture in the Eagle Ford System: Ruppel |
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1:30 – 2:00pm |
Small-scale facies variability in the Eagle Ford System: Fairbanks |
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2:00 – 2:30pm |
Evidence of controls on Eagle Ford rock properties from 3D seismic data: Zeng |
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2:30 – 3:00pm |
Preliminary characterization of the Tuscaloosa shale: Lu |
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3:00 – 3:15 |
BREAK |
| Petrography and Diagenesis |
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3:15 – 3:45pm |
Petrology and early diagenesis of the Pearsall: Milliken |
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3:45 – 4:15pm |
Quantitative microstructure and x-ray mapping of mudstones: Hayman |
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4:15 – 5:15pm |
Introductions to Core and Poster Presentations: All |
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5:15pm - until |
Icebreaker & Poster and Core presentations |
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| Wednesday, March 7 |
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8:30 – 9:00am |
Wireline modeling of mudrock petrophysical properties: Eastwood |
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9:00 – 9:30am |
Pore characterization and gas adsorption in organic-rich shales: Zhang |
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9:30 – 10:00am |
Gas production analysis of the Barnett Shale: Browning |
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10:00 – 10:15am |
BREAK |
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10:15 – 10:45am |
Wettability and geomechanical attributes of mudrocks: Wang |
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10:45 – 11:15am |
Modeling of flow characteristics in mudrock systems: Javadpour |
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11:15am – 12:00n |
Discussion of future research directions: All |
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12:00n – 1:00pm |
LUNCH |
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1:15PM |
Board Buses: Leave for Del Rio |
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| Thursday, March 8 |
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8:00am – 6:00pm |
Examine Upper Cretaceous Del Rio, Buda, and Boquillas Fms west of Del Rio |
| Friday, March 9 |
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8:00am – 12:00n |
Examine Upper Cretaceous and Boquillas and Austin rocks west of Del Rio |
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12:00n – 6:00pm |
Return to Austin |
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Ruppel, S. C., et al., Guide to Field Exposures of the Eagle Ford-Equivalent Boquillas Formation and Related Upper Cretaceous Units in Southwest Texas: a field trip prepared for MSRL 2012, 151 p. |
