MSRL March 2013 Meeting Resources

Archive: 2013 MSRL Review Meeting
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Monday, March 4
	9:00am - 4:00pm	Mudrock Petrology/Petrography Interest Group Meeting: Milliken

Tuesday, March 5
	8:00 – 8:20am	Welcome: Associate Director, Eric Potter
	8:20 – 8:40am	Status of MSRL Research Activities and Data: Ruppel: Ruppel
The Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford System
	8:40 – 9:10am	Sedimentology of the Unit B, Boquillas Fm., Val Verde Co., Texas: Frebourg
	9:10 – 9:40am	Defining Mudrock Facies, Continuity, and Sequence Stratigraphy: Methods and Caveats:Ruppel
	9:40 – 10:10am	Shale Petrophysics: Eastwood
	10:10 – 10:25am	BREAK
	10:25 – 10:55am	Cyclostratigraphy and Chemostratigraphy of Cenomanian-Turonian Succession, South Texas, USA: Rowe
Pores, Porosity, and Permeability
	10:55 – 11:25am	Form and Distribution of Organic matter-Hosted pore, Marcellus Formation: Milliken
	11:25 – 11:55am	Controls on Pore Distribution in the Lower Bexar Member of the Pearsall Formation, south Texas: Lucy (Tingwei) Ko
	11:55 – 1:00pm	LUNCH
	1:00 – 1:30pm	Microfractures in Organic-Rich Mudrocks: Reed
	1:30 – 2:00pm	An Approach to Quantifying Abundance, Heterogeneity, and Distribution of Pore Types in Mudrocks: Loucks, Reed
Sedimentology, facies, and chemostratigraphy I
	2:00 – 2:30pm	Preliminary Geologic and Reservoir Characterization of the Lower Cretaceous Skull Creek Shale, Wyoming: Loucks, Rowe
	2:30 – 3:00pm	Oceanographic and Depositional Models for Leonardian Mudrocks: Nance
	3:00 – 3:15pm	BREAK
	3:15 – 3:45pm	Core-based Geochemical Study of Basinal Mudrocks in the upper Wolfcamp Formation:Baumgardner
	3:45 – 4:15pm	The Weak Textural and Compositional Control on Rock Properties in the Barnett Shale:Milliken
	4:15 – 4:45pm	Chemostratigraphic and Cyclostratigraphic Constants on Water Mass and Sediment Accumulation during Deposition of the Kimmeridgian Haynesville Formation: Rowe
	4:45 - 5:00pm	Introductions to Poster Presentations: Rowe

Wednesday, March 6
Sedimentology, facies and chemostratigraphy II
	8:30 – 9:00am	Paleoceanography of the Late Devonian-Early Mississippian Bakken Formation: Rowe
Hydrocarbon saturation and flow
	9:00 – 9:30am	Hydrocarbon geochemistry and pore characterization of Bakken Formation: Zhang
	9:30 – 10:00am	Gas Migration in the Anahuac Formation - a core gas study: Lu
	10:00 – 10:15am	BREAK
	10:15 – 10:45am	Shale Liquid Permeability: Javadpour
	10:45 – 11:15am	Discussion of future research directions: Ruppel
	11:15 – 12:00n	Introduction to Core Workshop: Workshop presenters
	12:00n – 1:00pm	LUNCH
	1:00 – 5:00pm	Core workshop, Core Research Center: Workshop presenters

Review Meeting Posters
	Hammes	Modeling the burial and maturation history of Haynesville Formation in the East Texas Salt Basin and Sabine Uplift region.
	Hammes	Source potential and sequence stratigraphic characterization of microbial evaporitic mudrocks: Upper Permian Zechstein Group, Northern Germany
	Maende	Prospectivity and Producibility of Shale Oil Resource Systems
	McCreight	Chemostratigraphy and Geochemical Analysis Comparison of Two Drill Cores from the Barnettt Shale, Hamilton County, Texas
	Ovalle	Chemostratigraphic Analysis of the Smithwick Formation in the Southwest Fort Worth Basin
	Jabri & Rowe	Depositional Environment of the Haynesville Formation with a Focus on Chemostratigraphy, Harrison County, Texas
	Sun	Liquid Hydrocarbon Extraction, Separation and Quantification for Organic-rich Rocks and Studies on Thermal Maturity and Depositional Environments
	Wang	Petrophysical and Mechanical Properties of Organic-Rich Shales and Their Influences on Fluid Flow and Production
	Zain	Chemostratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk Formations, Getty Hurt core, La Salle County, TX
	Zhang	Pore Characterization of Organic-rich Shales by Using N2 Adsorption and Desorption Isotherms

Core Workshop Posters
	Baumgardner	Basinal Facies in Lower Permian Wolfcamp Formation, Reagan County, Midland Basin, Texas
	Frebourg	Sedimentary dynamics and associated response of calcium and molybdenum geochemical proxies of the Haynesville and Bossier Fm. on the eastern slope of the Gilmer Platform
	Frebourg	Figure 9. Sedimentary facies, gamma-ray response, calcium content and molybdenum content of the BP George A-8H core.
	Frebourg	Figure 10. Sedimentary facies, calcium content and molybdenum content of the NRF Energy Huffman #1 core. Note that the lower part of the core is missing calcium data.
	Ko	Lower Cretaceous Pearsall Mudrock System, La Salle County, South Texas
	Loucks	Preliminary Geologic and Reservoir Characterization of the Lower Cretaceous Skull Creek Shale, Wyoming
	Lu	Tuscaloosa Marine Shale - Chemostratigraphy
	Nance	Chemostratigraphy for Interpreting Mudrock Lithofacies and Depositional Cyclicity
	Ruppel	Core-based Facies Characterization of Mudrocks: Integrating Conventional and Chemostratigraphy Methods with Examples from the Barnett and Eagle Ford
	Wood	Facies of the Marble Falls Formation (Morrowan-Atokan), Central Texas: XRF-based versus core facies