MSRL March 2017 Meeting Resources

MSRL 2017 Agenda

Monday, March 20, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Core Workshop: Held at the Core Research Center, Building 131 on the J.J.Pickle Research Campus

MSRL 2017 Core Workshop Book

Organic-Poor and Organic-Rich Cycles in the Lower Austin Chalk: Marathon #1 Robert Todd in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Loucks, et al.
Defining Lateral Fluid and Rock Heterogeneities in a Horizontal Mudrock Core: Eagle Ford Group: Ruppel, et al.
Lithofacies Characterization of the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group in South Texas: Alnahwi, et al.
Chemofacies Characterization of the Updip Lower Cretaceous Pearsall Formation in South Texas: Ko, et al.
Leonardian Third Bone Spring Shale in the Whiting No. 1201 Collier Core: Delaware Basin, Reeves County, Texas: Loucks
Permian Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Slope and Toe-of-Slope Deposits in the Southern Delaware Basin: Bone Spring, Avalon, and Brushy Canyon Formations, Pecos County, Texas: Whiting Wolfpup 9604: Janson

Tuesday, March 21, 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Main Meeting: Held at Commons L’il Texas Room, Pickle Research Campus

MSRL 2017 Extended Abstracts

Oral Presentations - click the blue icon for video stream, click the presentation title for slideshow
	8:00 - 8:20am	Welcome: Welcome by the Bureau of Economic Geology's Associate Director for Energy: Shuster
	8:20- 8:40am	Introduction and meeting highlights: Ruppel et al
Reservoir Architecture and Attributes
	8:40- 9:10am	Can we apply sequence stratigraphic concepts in mudrock successions?: Ruppel
	9:10 - 9:40am	Chemostratigraphy record of the Devonian Three Forks Fm, Williston Basin: Rowe
	9:40 - 10:10am	Bone Spring pore networks, southern Delaware Basin: Loucks
	10:10 - 10:25am	BREAK
	10:25 - 10:55am	Geochemical proxies of the Wolfcamp in the Delaware basin: Rowe
	10:55 - 11:25am	Stratigraphic architecture and associated sedimentological and geochemical variability in the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group: Alnahwi
	11:25 - 11:55am	Facies and chemostratigraphy: Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin, China: Ruppel
	11:55 - 1:00pm	LUNCH
Pores and Porosity
	1:00 - 1:30pm	Pores in organic matter in mudrocks: a ten-year retrospective: Reed
	1:30 - 2:00pm	Integrated SEM and organic petrography to understand OM-pore origin and evolution in Barnett and Woodford mudstones: Ko
	2:00 - 2:30pm	Pore System Heterogeneity and Microlithology in an Eagle Ford Horizontal Core: Reed
	3:00 - 3:15pm	BREAK
	3:15 - 3:45pm	Lithofacies, depositional setting, organic matter, and pores in the Austin Chalk: Loucks
	3:45 - 4:00pm	Group Discussion: All
	4:00 - 4:15pm	Introduction to poster session
	4:15 - 7:00pm	Evening Poster Session. Hors d'oevres and drinks provided

Poster Presentations

Lithofacies Characterization of the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group in South Texas: Alnahwi, et al.
Preliminary XRF and Rock Strength Data for Interpreting Delaware Basin Mudrock Lithofacies, and Comparison to Midland Basin Mudrock Lithofacies: Baumgardner, et al.
CH4 Re-Saturation in Core Plugs of Barnett Shale and Determination of Post-Coring Gas Loss: Enriquez, et al.
Permeability in Heterogeneous Rocks: Upscaling Techniques from Statistical Physics: Ghanbarian
The Application of High-Resolution XRF Analyses to Lithofacies Characterization in Calcareous Mudrocks: Hendrix, et al.
Integrated Sedimentology, Chemostratigraphy, and Pore Systems in the Lower Bexar Shale of the Pearsall Formation, South Texas: Ko, et al.
Chemofacies Characterization of the Updip Lower Cretaceous Pearsall Formation in South Texas, panel 1: Ko, et al.
Chemofacies Characterization of the Updip Lower Cretaceous Pearsall Formation in South Texas, panel 2: Ko, et al.
Organic-Poor and Organic-Rich Cycles in Lower Austin Chalk in the Marathon #1 Robert Todd Core in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana: Loucks, et al
Leonardian Third Bone Spring Shale in the Whiting No. 1201 Collier Core: Delaware Basin, Reeves County, Texas: Loucks
Mississippian Two-Fingers Sand Midland Co. Texas: Mauck, Loucks
Lithofacies and Chemostratigraphy of the Upper Wolfcamp Shale in the Southern Delaware Basin, Pecos County, Texas: Moede, et al
The Barnett Formation: Lithofacies, Depositional Systems, and Depositional Model in the southern FWB: Redmond, et al.
Integrated Pore System Analysis and Chemostratigraphy of a Barnett Shale Core: Reed, et al.
Defining Fluid and Rock Heterogeneties in a Horizontal Mudrock Core: Eagle Ford Group: Ruppel, et al.

Wednesday, March 22, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Main Meeting: Held at Commons L’il Texas Room, J.J.Pickle Research Campus

Oral Presentations
Pores and Porosity (continued)
	8:30- 9:00am	Application of MICP in mudrock: conformance and compression corrections: Peng
	9:00- 9:30am	Investigation on multi-phase fluid flow in shale through dynamic micro-CT imaging: Peng
Hydrocarbons and Saturation
	9:30- 10:00am	Liquid hydrocarbon saturation and migration from Eagle Ford horizontal core: Sun
	10:00 - 10:30am	Geochemical and lithological controls on oil saturation in a horizontal Eagle Ford core: Zhang
	10:30 - 10:45am	BREAK
	10:45 - 11:10am	Thermal maturity of source rocks and controls to oil quality in the Eagle Ford shale, Texas: Sun
	11:10 - 11:35am	Organic matter type, thermal maturity and gas geochemistry in Wolfcamp formation, Midland Basin, TX: Zhang
	11:35 - 12:00am	Methane re-saturation of Barnett shale core plugs and determination of post-coring gas loss: Enriquez
	12:00 - 1:00pm	LUNCH
Permeability and Fluid Flow
	1:00 - 1:25pm	Geological modeling of Eagle Ford facies continuity based on outcrop images and depositional processes: Tahmasebi
	1:25- 1:50pm	Data mining and machine learning for identifying sweet spots and fracable zones of shale reservoirs: Tahmasebi
	1:50- 2:15pm	Network modeling of two-phase flow in shale: Afsharpoor
	2:15- 2:45pm	Measurements of intact and fractured Eagle Ford shale gas permeability under in-situ stress: Bhandari
	2:45 - 3:00pm	BREAK
	3:00- 3:30pm	Realistic and stochastic permeability model of shale: Naraghi, Javadpour
	3:30- 4:00pm	Role of gas diffusion in gas reserve and production of shale reservoirs: Mehrabi
	4:00 - 4:25pm	Upscaling shale gas permeability via the effective-medium approximation: Ghanbarian
	4:25 - 5:00pm	Group Discussion of Present and Future Research Focus: All

Thursday, March 23, 7:45 AM – 5:00 PM
Mudrocks Short Course: Held at the Bureau of Economic Geology, Building 130 on the J.J.Pickle Research Campus
Classroom: VR room at the Bureau of Economic Geology (Bldg 130) on the Pickle Research Campus.
Instructors:
Dr. Steve Ruppel – Stephen.Ruppel@beg.utexas.edu – (512) 471-2965
Dr. Bob Loucks – Bob.Loucks@beg.utexas.edu – (512) 471-0366
Dr. Farzam Javadpour – Farzam.javadpour@beg.utexas.edu – (512) 232-8068

Introduction to Mudrock Systems: Origin, Distribution, Fluid Flow and Reservoir Characterization
7:45 – 8:00am	Meet and greet, coffee and breakfast (provided), Welcome: All
8:00 – 9:30am	Introduction to mudrock systems: origin, distribution, fluid flow and reservoir characterization, Part 1: Introduction: Ruppel
9:30 – 10:45am	Introduction to mudrock diagenesis and reservoir quality: Loucks
10:45 – 12:00pm	Mudrock pores, pore networks and a classification scheme: Loucks
12:00 – 1:00pm	Lunch (catered)
1:00 – 2:30pm	Introduction to mudrock systems: origin, distribution, fluid flow, and reservoir characterization, Part 2: Defining and characterizing reservoirs: Ruppel
2:30 – 3:45pm	Advances in gas-in-place analysis and methods: Javadpour
3:45 – 5:00pm	Advances in fluid flow in shale: Javadpour