MSRL March 2016 Meeting Resources
| 2016 MSRL Review Meeting | |||
| Click here to download meeting agenda. Click on the icons for presentation video, slide show and poster. | |||
| Pre-Meeting activities: Held at J.J. Pickle Research Campus, Bureau of Economic Geology, Building 130 | |||
| Sunday, March 20 | |||
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8:30am - 4:30pm | Short Course: Introduction to Chemostratigraphy: concepts, methods, instrumentation, and interpretation Instructors: Harry Rowe and Bruce Kaiser | |
| Monday, March 21 | |||
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8:00am - 5:00pm | Short Course: Introduction to Mudrock Systems: origin, distribution, and reservoir characterization: Instructors: Greg Frebourg, Steve Ruppel, Bob Loucks | |
| Main Meeting: Held at J.J. Pickle Research Campus, The Commons, Building 137, L'il Texas Room | |||
| Tuesday, March 22 | |||
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8:00 - 8:05am | Welcome: Associate Director Eric Potter | |
| 8:05 - 8:20am | Introduction: Ruppel et al | |
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| 8:20 - 8:30am | Update on MSRL members' website: data and delivery: Breton | |
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| Mini-Session 1: Revisiting the Barnett | |||
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8:30 - 8:55am | Revisting the Barnett in the heart of the Fort Worth Basin: Loucks | |
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8:55 - 9:20am | Depositional systems and models: Barnett Formation, southern Forth Worth Basin:Redmond | |
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9:20 - 9:55am | Refining Mississippian depositional conditions in the southern midcontinent: Rowe | |
| 9:55 - 10:10am | BREAK | ||
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10:10 - 10:35am | Barnett Shale pores revisited: Reed | |
| Facies and Facies Architecture | |||
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10:35 - 11:00am | Regional controls on Woodford mudrock attributes: Permian Basin: Ruppel | |
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11:00 - 11:25am | Integrated analysis of Pennsylvanian Cherokee Group mudrocks; Anadarko Basin:Hu | |
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11:25 - 11:50am | Lateral variability in mudrocks: example from the Eagle Ford Formation on core and outcrop: Frebourg | |
| 11:50 - 1:00pm | LUNCH | ||
| Paleo-oceanography and Redox | |||
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1:00 - 1:25pm | Interpreting the occurrence and absence of OAE-2 event in South Texas: Rowe | |
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1:25 - 1:50pm | High resolution chemostratigraphy of the Woodford Formation in the Permian Basin:Rowe | |
| Organic matter and hydrocarbons | |||
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1:50 - 2:15pm | Gas geochemistry of Spraberry and Wolfcamp Formations, Midland Basin: Zhang | |
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2:15 - 2:40pm | Organic matter source and depositional environments in the Eagle Ford Group: Sun | |
| 2:40 - 2:55pm | BREAK | ||
| Pores, pore systems, and porosity I | |||
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2:55 - 3:20pm | Pore and organic matter evolution from dynamic nano-CT imaging: Peng | |
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3:20 - 3:45pm | Organic matter pores - new findings from lower thermal maturity mudrock: Reed | |
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3:45 - 5:15pm | Introductions to Poster Session | |
| 5:15 - 7:00pm | Evening Poster Session: Hors d'oeuvres and drinks provided | ||
| Wednesday, March 23 | |||
| Mini-Session 2: Construction of an Eagle Ford 3D geological model with multi-scalar data | |||
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8:00 - 8:25am | Integrated multiscale study of fluid flow in shale: molecular-to-core scales and wireline log-to-reservoir scales:Javadpour | |
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8:25 - 8:50am | Sedimetology and architecture of the Eagle Ford for interwell modeling: Frebourg | |
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8:50 - 9:15am | 3D model of Eagle Ford outcrop: Tahmasebi | |
| Pores, pore systems, and porosity II | |||
| 9:15 - 9:40am | Quantifying pore types and reservoir quality in the Late Triassic Yanchang lacustrine system, Ordos Basin: Loucks | ||
| 9:40 - 9:55am | BREAK | ||
| 9:55 - 10:20am | Pore types and pore-size distribution in Upper Triassic Yanchang lacustrine mudstones (Ordos Basin, China): revisiting pore evolution models: Ko | ||
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10:20 - 10:45am | Importance of natural microfractures in unconventional shale oil and gas systems: Real, imaginary or hypothetical?: Loucks | |
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10:45 - 11:10am | Mudrock porosity: different results from different methods: Peng | |
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11:10 - 11:35am | Effect of oil and water on mudrock pore size: Zhang | |
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11:35 - noon | Confinement correction to MICP data of shale: Javadpour | |
| noon - 1:00pm | LUNCH | ||
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1:00 - 1:25pm | Wolfcamp pore systems from Eddy Co., New Mexico: Reed | |
| Permeability and fluid flow | |||
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1:25 - 1:50pm | Matrix permeability in shale: particle/plug size effect and implications: Peng | |
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1:50 - 2:15pm | In-situ stress measurement of Eagle Ford matrix permeability: Bhandhari | |
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2:15 - 2:40pm | Multiscale 3D stochastic characterization of shale SEM samples: Tahmasebi | |
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2:40 - 3:05pm | Network modeling of liquid flow in noncircular pores: Afsharpoor | |
| 3:05 - 3:20pm | BREAK | ||
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3:20 - 3:45pm | Langmuir slp-sorption stochastic gas permeability model: Naraghi | |
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3:45 - 4:30pm | Discussion of future research directions and collaborations: All | |
| Thursday, March 24 | |||
| 8:00am - 4:00pm |
Core Workshop, Bureau of Economic Geology
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| Review Meeting Publication | |||
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Ruppel, et al. | March 2016 Meeting, Mudrock Systems Research Laboratory, Extended Abstracts | |
| Meeting and Core Workshop Posters | |||
| Facies and Facies Architecture | |||
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Alnahwi | Lithologic and Chemical Changes across the Stuart City Reef Margin of the Eagle Ford Group in South Texas | |
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Berney | Subregional variations in Bakken Facies and Stratigraphy, Williston Basin, North Dakota-Montana | |
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Hendrix | Chemolithostratigraphy of Calcareous Mudrocks (Chalks) from the Late Cretaceous South Texas Shelf | |
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Nieto | Geochemical and Chronostratigraphic Record of Cenomanian-Turonian Strata, South Texas, USA | |
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Redmond | Integrating lithostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy: Barnett Formation, Forth Worth Basin | |
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Rowe, Nance | High-resolution chemostratigraphy of Wolfcamp mudrocks: Delaware Basin | |
| Pores, Pore Systems, and Porosity | |||
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Baumgardner | Basin-wide study of thermal maturity data from the Wolfcamp interval, Midland Basin, Texas | |
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Reed | Grain-edge Dissolution Pores in Carbonates Imaged on Ar-Ion-Milled Surfaces; Authentic or Artifacts? | |
| Organic Chemistry | |||
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Enriquez | CH4 Re-Saturation in Core Plugs of Barnett Shale and Determination of Post-Coring Gas Loss | |
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Lu | Impact of Reactions Between Middle Bakken and Brine/CO2 During CO2-Based Fracturing | |
| Fluid Flow | |||
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Javadpour | Langmuir slip-Langmuir sorption model for gas flow in shale | |
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Javadpour | Molecular dynamics simulation of liquid slip flow in shale | |
| Methods and Instrumentation | |||
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Baumgardner | Advances in Using 'Categorized' Cluster Analysis to Define Facies in Basinal Mudrock Sequences, Midland Basin, Texas | |
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Ko | Chemostratigraphy of the Lower Bexar Member of the Pearsall Formation | |
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Reed | Artifacts Related to Large-Area Ar-Ion Milling of Mudrock Samples | |
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Sivil | Technical Methods for conducting horizontal core XRF-Based Chemostratigraphy: An example from the Eagle Ford Formation, Atascosa County, South Texas | |
