| Archive: 2014 MSRL Review Meeting |
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| Monday, March 3 |
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8:30am - until |
X-ray Fluorescence Chemostratigraphy of Mudrocks - a short course: Rowe and Kaiser |
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| Tuesday, March 4 |
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8:00am - 5:00pm |
Mudrock Systems Short Course: Mudrock origins, distribution, and reservoir characterization: Ruppel, Frebourg, Loucks and Rowe |
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9:00am - 4:00pm |
Mudrock Petrography Users Group Workshop: Milliken |
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| Wednesday, March 5 |
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9:00am - 4:30pm |
Core Workshop, Core Research Center: Workshop presenters |
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| Thursday, March 6 |
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8:00 – 8:30am |
Welcome: Steve Ruppel |
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| Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford and equivalent successions |
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8:30 – 9:00am |
Facies, chemostratigraphy, and pore systems of the Niobrara shale: Bob Loucks |
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9:00 – 9:30am |
Tuscaloosa marine shale: organic matter pore and oil generation: Jiemin Lu |
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9:30 – 10:00am |
Defining facies continuity and correlatability in the Eagle Ford Fm: Steve Ruppel |
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10:00 – 10:15am |
BREAK |
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10:15 – 10:45am |
Sedimentary processes and facies; Eagle Ford Fm: Greg Frebourg |
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10:45 – 11:15am |
U-Pb geochronology of the Eagle Ford Fm and equivalents: J. D. Pierce |
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| Pore Characterization and Evolution in Mudrocks |
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11:15 – 11:45am |
Sapropels: analogs for early diagenesis of mudrocks: Kitty Milliken |
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11:45 - 1:00pm |
LUNCH |
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1:00 – 1:30pm |
Characterizing Eagle Ford pore evolution with N2 adsorption analysis: Tongwei Zhang |
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1:30 – 2:00pm |
Integrated FIB-SEM and CT scanning for improved pore network characterization:Sheng Peng |
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2:00 – 2:30pm |
Application of HIM analysis in shale characterization: JJ Yang (Zeiss) |
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2:30 – 3:00pm |
Distinguishing Organic Matter Pores Associated with In-Place vs Migrated Organic Matter: Bob Loucks |
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3:00 – 3:15pm |
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3:15 - 3:45pm |
Pore evolution during thermal maturation: Eagle Ford formation: Tongwei Zhang |
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3:45 - 4:15pm |
Pore evolution in the Eagle Ford and Barnett shales during anhydrous gold-tube pyrolysis: Lucy Ko |
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4:15 - 4:45pm |
Open Discussion |
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4:45pm |
Introduction to Poster Session |
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| Friday, March 7 |
| Pore Characterization and Evolution in Mudrocks |
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8:00 - 8:30am |
Low Thermal Maturity Pore Systems: Barnett Shale, Southern Fort Worth Basin: Rob Reed, Bob Loucks |
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8:30 – 9:00am |
Facies and stratigraphy of the Pennsylvanian (Atoka) 13 Fingers Fm; Permian Basin:Greg Frebourg |
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9:00 – 9:30am |
High-Resolution Elemental Signatures in Mudrocks Using Handheld ED-XRF: Harry Rowe |
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9:30 – 10:00am |
Wolfcamp-Leonard Facies, cyclicity, and chemostratigraphy, Midland Basin: Robert Baumgardner |
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10:00 – 10:15am |
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| Petrophysics and Flow Modeling |
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10:15 – 10:45am |
Shale Petrophysics: MICP Analysis: Ray Eastwood |
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10:45 – 11:15am |
Developments in NMR Laboratory Applications for Mudrocks: Hugh Daigle |
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11:15 – 11:45am |
Model to Relate Pore Size Distribution to Apparent Permeability: Morteza Elahi Naraghi and Farzam Javadpour |
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11:45 - 1:00pm |
LUNCH |
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1:00 – 1:30pm |
Liquid Flow in Liquid Rich Shale Plays: Farzam Javadpour |
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1:30 – 2:00pm |
Open Discussion and Future Research Directions |
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| Review Meeting Publication |
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Ruppel, et al. |
March 2014 Meeting, Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory, Extended Abstracts |
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| Review Meeting Posters |
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Baumgardner & Rowe |
Early Permian Lower Leonard (Wolfcamp A) in Southern Midland Basin: Insights from high-resolution geochemical and rock strength data |
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Frebourg, et al. |
Sedimentary Insights on the 13 Fingers Formation of the Atoka (Ochiltree Co., TX) |
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Fry & Pierce |
Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Formation From Zavala County, Texas: Integrated Lithofacies and Geochemistry Analyses of the Winterbotham J.M. Jr. #1 |
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Ko, et al. |
Pore Evolution in the Eagle Ford, Texas - Results from Anhydrous Gold-Tube Pyrolysis |
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Ko, et al. |
Pore Evolution in the Barnett Shale, Texas - Results from Anhydrous Gold-Tube Pyrolysis |
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Liu & Loucks |
Geologic Setting and Reservoir Characterization of Barnett Shale in Southeast Fort Worth Basin, Central Texas. |
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Loucks & Rowe |
Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk in Buck Peak Field, Sand Wash Basin, NW Colorado: Depositional Setting, Lithofacies, and Micropore Network |
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Nance & Rowe |
Scales of Cyclicity in Mudrocks, Lower Bone Spring Formation, Delaware Basin, Texas |
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Peng and Zhang |
CH4 Adsorption on Dry and Moisturized Oil-Bearing Shales: Implication for Oil and Gas Storage in Organic-Rich Mudrocks |
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Reed & Ruppel |
Variability in Organic-Matter Pore Development over Depth: A Case Study from the Devonian-Mississippian Woodford Formation, Delaware Basin, West Texas |
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Roush, et al. |
Regional Stratigraphic and Core-Based Characterization of the Upper Pennsylvanian Cline Shale, Midland Basin and Eastern Shelf, Texas |
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Rowe |
Middle Devonian Marcellus Shale of the Appalachian Basin, West Virginia: Core and Chemostratigraphy |
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Ruppel, et al. |
Eagle Ford Facies and Chemostratigraphy in the San Marcos Arch Area of the South Texas Basin |
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Sun, et al. |
Geochemical Evidence of Organic Matter Source and Depositional Environments of Lower and Upper Eagle Ford Formation |
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Woolston & Rowe |
High-Resolution Chemostratigraphy of the Haynesville Shale, East Texas |
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Zain, et al. |
Chemostratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk Formation, Getty Hurt core, La Salle County, TX |