2020 Meeting Resources
Annual Meeting
- Focused geologic studies on the Delaware Basin, Midland Basin, Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk Formations in Texas
- Special technical session and core workshop on the Vaca Muerta Fm., Argentina
- Integrated core characterization methods and results that tie to rock and fluid attributes
- Hydrocarbon geochemistry, expulsion, migration and oil saturation studies
- Understanding fluid transport, and permeability and porosity in mudrock systems
- Full day Mudrocks short course
- Full day core workshop (postponed)
Day 1: Wednesday, April 8th, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Technical session
| Video | 8:00 - 8:30 | Log in, set up, introduction, overview, and highlights – Toti Larson & Joseph Yeh |
| Reservoir Architecture and Attributes I: Eagle Ford Shale and Austin Chalk Formation | ||
| Document Video |
8:30 - 9:00 | Chemostratigraphy of the Eagle Ford Shale across the San Marcos Arch and Karnes Trough; Data analytics to integrate complex datasets – Toti Larson and Steve Ruppel |
| Document Video |
9:00 - 9:30 | Eagle Ford diagenesis as a function of burial depth and maturity and how it impacts petrophysical and mechanical properties – Lucy Ko and Robert Loucks |
| Document Video |
9:30 - 10:00 | Geochemical evidence of organic matter source and depositional environments of Lower and Upper Eagle Ford – Xun Sun |
| Video | 10:00 - 10:30 | Break with online discussion |
| Document Video |
10:30 - 11:00 | Spatial heterogeneity of crude oil in the Eagle Ford Shale and key controls to oil quality – Tongwei Zhang |
| Document Video |
11:00 - 11:30 | Mineralogy trends for the Austin Chalk across south Texas and Louisiana – Robert Loucks (given by Toti Larson) |
| Document Video |
11:30 - 12:00 | A preliminary study of the effects of thin bed layers on hydraulic fracturing – Farzam Javadpour & Mehran Mehrabi |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch break and online discussion | |
| Porosity, Permeability, Wettability, and Fluid Flow Modeling | ||
| Document Video |
1:00 - 1:30 | The effects of entrapped gas bubbles on liquid flow in shale– Farzam Javadpour and Hong Zuo |
| Document Video |
1:30 - 2:00 | Pore Connectivity, Porosity, Permeability, and Influence of TOC and Mineralogy in Shale– Sheng Peng |
| Document Video |
2:00 - 2:30 | Three Dimensional Digital Shale to Estimate Permeability- Farzam Javadpour & Tao Zhang |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Break with online discussion | |
| Document Video |
3:00 - 3:30 | Gas-water relative permeability and implications on optimal production strategies. Examples from the Eagle Ford Shale and Wolfcamp Formation – Sheng Peng |
| Document Video |
3:30 - 4:00 | Oil recovery by water imbibition and wettability (mostly Wolfcamp) – Sheng Peng |
| Document Video |
4:00 - 4:30 | Machine learning, convolutional neural network application in pore identification in shale/mudrock SEM images - Ken Ikeda & Lucy Ko |
| Document Video |
4:30 - 5:00 | Complex roles of calcite in organic-rich mudrocks: using micropetrography to understand grains, fossils, and cements – Rob Reed & Robert Loucks |
Day 2: Thursday, April 9th, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Technical session
| 7:30 - 8:00 | Sign in, Set up, Introduction, overview, and highlights – Toti Larson | |
| Video | 8:00 - 8:30 | Presentation of “Anatomy of a Paleozoic Basin Volume 2” and a stratigraphic framework for the Permian Basin – Charlie Kerans |
| Reservoir Architecture and Attributes II: Permian Basin | ||
| Document Video |
8:30 - 9:00 | Wolfcamp A and B lithologic and thermal maturity trends across Reagan County, Midland Basin – Toti Larson, Lucy Ko, Scott Hamlin, and Steve Ruppel |
| Document Video |
9:00 - 9:30 | Trace-elemental and petrographic constraints on the severity of hydrographic restriction in the silled Midland Basin during the Late Paleozoic Ice Age – Junwen Peng & Toti Larson |
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Slope to basin sediment pathways and stratigraphic correlations in the southern Delaware Basin – Xavier Janson and Buddy Price | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Break with online discussion | |
| Document Video |
10:30 - 11:00 | Data analytical tools to integrated lithofacies and geochemical characterizations of Wolfcamp A and B in the Delaware Basin, Reeves County – Toti Larson, Lucy Ko, Rob Reed, and Steve Ruppel |
| Document Video |
11:00 - 11:30 | Key controls to oil saturation in Wolfcamp A and timing of oil vertical migration in Delaware basin – Tongwei Zhang |
| Document Video |
11:30 - 12:00 | Organic source and deposition conditions of Wolfcamp A, Reeves County, Delaware basin – Sun Xun |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch break and online discussion | |
| Special Session on the Vaca Muerta | ||
| Document Video |
1:00 - 1:30 | Depositional Systems of the Vaca Muerta – Cornel Olariu & Ron Steel |
| Document Video |
1:30 - 2:00 | Lithofacies and Depositional Environments of Vaca Muerta, Neuquén Basin – Lucy Ko & Toti Larson |
| Document Video |
2:00 - 2:30 | A critical review of Vaca Muerta pore data with implications in hydraulic fracturing – Farzam Javadpour |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Break with online discussion | |
| Document Video |
3:00 - 3:30 | Hydrocarbon geochemistry, oil saturation and gas storage in the Vaca Muerta, Neuquén Basin, Argentina – Tongwei Zhang |
| Document Video |
3:30 - 4:00 | Preliminary Pore Systems and SEM Lithologies of a Vaca Muerta Core, Neuquén Basin, Argentina – Rob Reed |
| Video | 4:00 | Online discussion and questions |
Short Courses
Mudrocks Short course
Thursday, April 16th, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Outline: This short course will present methods of multidisciplinary data collection, analysis, and interpretation that are critical to characterize unconventional mudrock reservoir systems. The fundamentals of each concept will be introduced. Topics to be covered include depositional processes, facies characterization, chemostratigraphy, hydrocarbon geochemistry, pore systems, porosity/permeability, and fluid flow and their importance in mudrock oil and gas reservoir characterization, hydraulic fracturing and production.
Dr. David Mohrig, Associate Dean for Research at the Jackson School of Geosciences and John E. “Brick” Elliott Centennial Professor in Geological Sciences at The Department of Geological Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin will provide a guest presentation on depositional processes.
| Video | 7:30 - 8:00 | Sign in, Set up, Introduction, overview, and highlights – Toti Larson & Joseph Yeh |
| Video | 8:00 - 9:30 |
Mudrock depositional processes and deep water turbidites (David Mohrig)
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| Document Video |
9:30 - 10:30 |
Geochemistry of mudrock systems (Toti Larson)
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| 10:30 - 12:00 |
Diagenesis and pore networks (Robert Reed and Lucy Ko)
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| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch | |
| Document Video |
1:00 - 2:00 |
Fluid flow in mudrock systems (Farzam Javadpour)
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| Document Video |
2:00 - 3:00 |
Porosity and Permeability measurements (Sheng Peng)
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| 3:00 - 4:30 |
Hydrocarbon geochemistry – (Tongwei Zhang and Xun Sun)
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| 4:30 - onward | Online discussion and questions |
CorePy Short course
Wednesday, August 26th
| Document Video |
Integrating geology and data analytics | |
| Document | Identifying possible volcanic ash layers from fluorescent features in UV Mudrock core images using Python | |
| Document | Supplementing stratigraphic frameworks with chemofacies characterization |
Characterization of Mudrock Reservoirs Short course
Tuesday, December 15th
| Document | 9:00 - 9:45 |
CorePy: Data analytics and Chemostratigraphy to characterize mudrock systems (Toti Larson)
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| Document | 9:45 - 10:30 |
Distinguishing biogenic, detrital, and authigenic silica in mudrock systems (Rob Reed)
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| 10:30 - 11:15 |
Zircon U–Pb chemical abrasion (“CA-TIMS”) method (Neil Griffis - USGS)
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| Document | 11:15 - 12:00 |
In-Depth Rock-Eval Pyrolysis in Unconventional Source and Reservoir Rocks (Lucy Ko)
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Wednesday, December 16th
| Document | 9:00 - 9:45 |
Geochemistry of produced fluids (Tongwei Zhang)
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| Document | 9:45 - 10:30 |
Geochemical Biomarkers (Xun Sun)
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| Document | 10:30 - 11:15 |
Methods for measuring permeability and porosity (Sheng Peng)
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| Document | 11:15 - 12:00 |
Fluid flow in shale (Farzam Javadpour)
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Core workshop (postponed until further notice)
Held at Bureau of Economic Geology, Core Research Center. Cores to be presented:
- Delaware Basin - Bone Spring (Leonardian), Reeves County
- Delaware Basin - Wolfcamp A & B, Reeves County
- Midland Basin - Wolfcamp A & B and Dean Fm., Reagan County
- Eagle Ford Shale: Karnes County
- Eagle Ford Shale: Webb and Dimmit Counties (two cores)
- Vaca Muerta Fm., Neuquén Basin, Argentina
| 8:30 - 9:15 | Short oral presentations of cores to be viewed (BEG VR room) |
| 9:15 - 12:00 | Core workshop |
| 12:00 - 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 3:00 | Core workshop |
| 3:00 - 4:30 | Open core viewing |
Poster Presentations (postponed until further notice)
The use of neural network to quantify pores and porosity in organic matter - A. Wang & Farzam Javadpour
Effective slip length of heterogeneous surface with entrapped bubble - H. Zuo & Farzam Javadpour
Petrography of Mudrocks and Their Implications on Source Rock and Seal Properties in the Alaska North Slope: OM Types, Quality, Provenance, Diagenesis, and Depositional Environment – Lucy Ko
Bulk and Position-Specific Isotope Geochemistry of Natural Gases from the Eagle Ford Shale, South Texas – Liu, Horita, & Toti Larson
Pore Systems and SEM Lithologies for the Permian Wolfcamp Shale from the Delaware Basin, Texas – R. Reed, S. Peng, S. Ruppel, & E. Sivil
Carbonate Factory Response and Recovery following OAE-1A in Central Texas Esben Pedersen
Geochemical response of Lower Jurassic intervals to magmatic doming of the North Sea – Kiara Gomez
Quartz types in the Upper Pennsylvanian organic-rich Cline Shale (Wolfcamp D), Midland Basin, Texas: Implications for silica diagenesis and rock mechanical properties – J. Peng & Kitty Miliken
Integrated petrographic, lithologic, and geochemical characterization of the Lower Eagle Ford in Dimmit and Webb Counties – Lucy Ko
Geochemical controls of diagenetic limestone concretions in the Lower Eagle Ford Shale – E. Sivil, Toti Larson, & Lucy Ko
SEM image automation using machine learning techniques – Building a tool for size-distribution and detection of pyrite framboids in mudrocks – Artur Davletshin & Ko
Hydrocarbon geochemistry, thermal maturity and oil saturation in the Vaca Muerta – Tongwei Zhang
Tracer-guided characterization of dominant pore network and implication for permeability and wettability in unconventional reservoir rocks Sheng Peng, Rob Reed, Xianghui Xiao, & Yijin Liu
