Tuesday June 29th

 

Keynote Speaker

Parker Reese, Ameridev, Key Trends of the Roaring 20’s

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Invited Guest

Rick Fritz, AAPG, Pivots—Always Pay Attention to the Really Big Things

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Morning Technical Presentations

Special Session: STARR Studies of the Eastern Shelf and Fort Worth Basin

• Lorena Moscardelli, UT-BEG, State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery Program (STARR) and Its Role Supporting Knowledge Sharing and Creation in the Permian Basin, Eastern Shelf and Fort Worth Basin

• Peter Flaig, UT-BEG, Examples of Depositional Systems of the Strawn Group in the Fort Worth Basin and Eastern Shelf of the Permian Basin

• Robert Reed, UT-BEG, Variability of Quartz Types in the Upper Mississippian Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Wise County, Texas: Implications for Rock Brittleness

• Andrew Roberts, UT-BEG, Controls on facies variability and distribution during the Pennsylvanian glacial period from the Lower Strawn Group, Fort Worth Basin, Texas

• Osareni Ogiesoba, UT-BEG, Simultaneous Seismic Inversion Study of the Northern Part of the Eastern Shelf, King County, Central Texas

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Afternoon Technical Presentations

Permian Basin Session

• Ian Duncan, UT-BEG, Geology and reservoir properties of the Residual Oil Zone (ROZ) of the San Andres Seminole Unit, West Texas

• Dennis Browning, Panther City Exploration, Hiding in Plain Sight: Devonian Production in the Block A-50 Field, Andrews County, Texas

• Shuvajit  Bhattacharya, UT-BEG, Building Geology-informed Deep Learning Models for better Predicting Elastic Properties of the Spraberry-Wolfcamp in the Midland Basin

• Linda Sternbach, Star Creek, Guadalupe National Park/ Delaware Basin Virtual Field Trip #1

• Dwayne Purvis, Consultant, Insights to Log Analysis of the Southern Delaware Mountain Group

• Fritz Palacios, UT-BEG, An Updated Eastern Shelf-Midland Basin Stratigraphic Framework across the Southern Greater Permian Basin: Implications for the Distribution of Virgilian and Wolfcampian Reservoirs

• Jinyu Zhang, UT-BEG, Lithofacies segmentation in cores of Wilcox Group (Gulf of Mexico) and Spraberry Formation (Permian Basin) using U-net based convolutional neural networks

• Junwen Peng, UT-BEG, Quartz types in the Upper Pennsylvanian organic-rich Cline Shale (Wolfcamp D), Midland Basin, Texas

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Wednesday June 30th

Morning Technical Presentations

Special Session: West Texas Permian Super Basin

• Bill Fairhurst, Riverford Exploration, West Texas (Permian) Super Basin, USA: Super Basin concepts, introduction, resource exploration, and development history

• Tom Ewing, Frontera Exploration Consultants, West Texas (Permian) Super Basin, USA: Tectonics and Depositional History

• Andy Pepper, This is Petroleum Systems , West Texas (Permian) Super Basin, USA: source rocks and petroleum systems

• Robert Lindsay, Lindsay Consulting , West Texas (Permian) Super Basin, USA: Leonardian-Guadalupian Traditional Reservoirs

• Bill Fairhurst, Riverford Exploration, West Texas (Permian) Super Basin, USA: Unconventional Resources and Future Potential

 

Afternoon Technical Presentations

Permian, East Texas, and Beyond Session

• Craig Barrie, Applied Petroleum Technology, Fluid Geochemistry Applications & Challenges in Unconventional Resource Plays

• Andrew Sneddon, MCWL Paladin, Advanced Wellsite Geochemistry for Light Hydrocarbon Analysis in Unconventional Resources

• Kelly Hattori, UT-BEG, Facies and sequence stratigraphy of the Early Cretaceous Pettet Formation, Rusk County, East Texas

• Heather Anderson, Consultant, The Great Crew Change: Preparing for the Energy Transition & Petroleum Industry of the Future by Transferring & Preserving Institutional Knowledge

• Linda Sternbach, Star Creek, Guadalupe National Park/ Delaware Basin Virtual Field Trip #2

• David Tonner, Diversified Well Logging, Surface Logging while Drilling (SLWD) improves reservoir characterization and capital efficiency

• Tom Johnston, ShearFrac, Fracture Type Identification for Real-Time Pumping Parameters Optimization to Maximize Hydraulic Fracturing Surface Area for Production

• Xuewei Ning, UT-Arlington, A new model for simulating imbibition process of wetting-phase fluid in matrix-fracture dual connectivity system

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Poster Sessions 

• Jason Young, UT-Arlington, Structure and Lithofacies of a Middle Permian (Guadalupian) Carbonate Debris Flow Complex, Apache Mountains, West Texas

• Joshua Lewis, UT-El Paso, Method development for preconcentration and quantification of critical elements in Permian Basin Produced Waters

• Christopher McCauley, UT-Arlington, Late Silurian (Ludlow, Pridoli) and Earliest Devonian (Lochkovian) Colonial Agglutinated Foraminifers, Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma

• Ryan Collins, UT-Arlington, Stratigraphy and Distribution of Fusulinids within the Porvenir Formation (Pennsylvanian, Desmoinesian) southwest of Las Vegas, New Mexico

• Clayton Freimuth, TCU, Determining Leeb Hardness and its Controlling Factors to Assess the Strength of Sedimentary Rocks

• Andrew Hudgens, TCU, Spatial variation of sediment sources and its implications: U-Pb detrital zircon core-rim age analyses of the Mississippian Stanley Group in the Ouachita Mountains

• Bo Henk, TCU, Evidence for Tidal Influence in the Deposits of the Upper Woodbine, North-Central Texas

• Blake Warwick, TCU, Geochemical, Geomechanical, and Petrophysical Research Capabilities of the TCU Core Lab

• Maria Richards, SMU, Geothermal Resource Drive Towards Development

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