Publications

2006 Conference Abstracts

Poster Displays

What are the Promises and Limits of Unconventional Gas?

Commercial CBM Production at Corbett Creek– An Evolving Exploitation Strategy
Mike Finn*, Murray Rodgers & Dana Codding
Shale Gas Development in Alberta: The Role of the Alberta Geological Survey
Dean Rokosh* & Andrew Beaton
The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Belly River Group Coals of SW Saskatchewan, Canada
Michael Frank* & Doyin Akinbiyi
The Sedimentology and Ichnology of the Falher D Member, Deep Basin, West-Central Alberta: Effects of Bioturbation in Low Permeable Gas Prone Reservoirs
Trevor Hoffman*, Murray Gingras & George Pemberton
Indications of the Roles that Gas Hydrates Could Play in Future Natural Gas Developments
Kirk Osadetz*, Steven Hancock & Tadahiro Okazawa
Quantifying Shale Gas Potential of the Triassic Montney and Doig Formations, Northeast British Columbia
Warren Walsh*, Cassandra Lee, Ben Kerr & Mark Hayes

International Session - What is happening outside of Canada and where is it going?

Geochemical Exploration in Deserts of North Africa and the Middle East: Strategies for Success
Dietmar Schumacher*, Luis Clavijo Clavareau & Daniel Hitzman
Identification of High Porosity Sands using the Bayesian Decision Theory of Pattern Recognition
Luiz Geraldo Loures* & Igor Lopes

Heavy Oils and Tar Sands - What are the promises and limits?

Athabasca Oil Sands Deposit in the Fort McMurray Area, Alberta (Canada): Recognizing Geological Complexity and Reservoir Rock Heterogeneity
Hasan Ferdous*
Properties of Oil sands and Bitumen in Athabasca
Hisako Mochinaga*, S. Onozuka, Fumio Kono, Toyokazu Ogawa, Akihisa Takahashi & Takahiro Torigoe
Clay Mineralogy and Chemistry of Cretaceous Shales from Athabasca Oil Sands
Samantha Brough* & Ron Spencer

How will Petroleum Systems Analysis Facilitate Future Developments and Discoveries?

A Stratigraphic and Petrographic Study of Cretaceous Siliciclastic Rocks in Central Saskatchewan
Autumn Wang*, Guoxiang Chi & Per Kent Pedersen

Petrophysics - Case Studies

Building Better Models– Making Full Use of Petrophysical Data
Elizabeth L'Heureux*

How do We Get New Petroleum from Old Basins?

Dolomitization and Dedolomitization of the Middle Devonian Winnipegosis Carbonates in South-central Saskatchewan
Qilong Fu, Hairuo Qing & Katherine Bergman
Dolomitization models for the Frobisher and Midale Beds in the Steelman Field, southeastern Saskatchewan
Arden Marsh* & Andrew Nimegeers
Origin of Mottled Fabrics and Nodules in Silurian Dolostones of the Niagara Escarpment, Ontario
Lona-Kate Dekeyser*, Mario Coniglio, Anthony Endres & Frank Brunton
Constraints on the Origin of Dolomite in the Middle Cambrian Eldon Formation at Mt. Wapta from Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Data
Ron Spencer*
Sedimentology, Biostratigraphy, and Petrology of Marine Firm/Hardgrounds: Middle Triassic Halfway Formation, West-Central, Alberta
Mark Radomski*, Charles Henderson, Tom Moslow & John-Paul Zonneveld
Regional Tectonic and Petrophysical Study in and Around the Weyburn Oil Field, Southern Saskatchewan
Sándor Süle*, Zoltan Hajnal, Bhaskar Pandit & Jeff Closson
Dolomitization of the Presqu'ile Barrier: An Alternative Paleohydrological Model
Mario Coniglio*, Dave Morrow & Nick Wilson
Data Mining and Exploratory Statistics to Visualize Fractures and Migration Paths in the WCBS
Jean-Yves Chatellier* & Michael Chatellier

Migration Techniques

Seismic Facies Classification Using a Visual-Based Method, Part 2: Application to 3D Seismic Data
Iván Marroquin*, Bruce Hart & Jean Jules Brault

Can the Promise of the Frontiers be Fulfilled?

Structural Constraints for Oil and Gas Assessment in the Whitehorse Trough: New Results from Seismic Profiling
Donald White*, Grant Buffett, Brian Roberts & Maurice Colpron
Nunavut: The Untapped Petroleum Frontier
Gordon MacKay* & Peter Frampton
Snapshots of New Geological Framework and Energy Resource Studies in the Frontier Bowser and Sustut Basins, North-Central British Columbia
Carol Evenchick*, Kirk Osadetz, Lavern Stasiuk, Margot McMechan, Peter Mustard & David Snyder
A Potential Outcrop Analogue for a Secondary Reservoir in the Mccully Gas Field, Sussex, New Brunswick: Lithofacies and Spectral Gamma-Ray Analysis
Dave Keighley* & Devin Mohan
Geological Atlas of the Northern Canadian Mainland Sedimentary Basin
David Morrow*
Southern Nechako Basin: Preliminary Apatite Fission Track Thermochronology and its Bearing on Petroleum Prospectivity
Filippo Ferri *, Janet Riddell & Paul O'Sullivan
Porosity, Permeability and Petrographic Analysis of Twenty-Two Bowser Lake and Skeena Group Hand Samples, Bowser Basin
Filippo Ferri*, Iftikhar Abid, Janet Riddell & Phil Haig
New Geological Compilation of the Liard - La Biche Region Provides New Insights into Cordilleran Structural Evolution
Larry Lane*, Karen Fallas & Lisel Currie
Lower Cretaceous Sequence Stratigraphy of the North Carolina Coastal Plain– An analogue for North Atlantic Basins
Richard Sunde* & Brian P. Coffey
Constraining the Timing of Maturation and Type of Hydrocarbon Generated in the Bowser Basin, BC Using 1D Petroleum Systems Modeling
Torge Schümann* & Filippo Ferri
Provenance Studies on the Bowser and Sustut Basins, and their Implications for the Depositional History of the Bowser Basin and Regional Tectonic Models
Carol Evenchick*, Vicki McNicoll, Terry Poulton & Peter Mustard
Petroleum Resource Potential of Northern Mainland Sedimentary Basins of the Mackenzie Corridor
Yvon Lemieux* & Leanne Pyle
The Quaternary Geology of Orphan Basin: Applications to Geohazard Evaluation for Hydrocarbon Exploration
Calvin Campbell*, David Piper & Efthymios Tripsanas
Preliminary Seismic Interpretation and Maps for the Paleogene - Neogene (Tertiary) Succession, Orphan Basin
Renee Burton-Ferguson*, Michael Enachescu & Richard Hiscott

Geophysical Papers

Well-Seismic Bandwidth and Time-Lapse Seismic Characterization: Physical Considerations
Yinbin Liu*, Don Lawton & Gary Margrave
First-Arrival TomoStatics and Residual Statics for Near-Surface Corrections
Jie Zhang*, Oz Yilmaz & Nanxun Dai
Quantitative Evaluation of the Quality of Seismic Repeatability: A Case Study using Differing Metrics
Yajun Zhang* & Douglas Schmitt
Seismic Imaging of Gas Hydrate Distribution - A Case Study
Jun-Wei Huang*
Velocity Dispersion in Field Seismic Data: Impact, Detection and Application
Langqiu Sun*
Designing Wavefield Extrapolators using a Weighted Least-Squares with a Transition Band Approach
Saleh Al-Saleh*, John Bancroft & Gary Margrave
Nonlinear AR Modeling Using Second Order Volterra Filters
Soner Bekleric* & Mauricio Sacchi
Simulteneously Acquring 3D-3C Well Data During 3D Surface Seismic Survey: A Useful Quality Control Tool
E.L Bongajum*
Mapping Magnetic Lineaments in the Foothills of Northeastern British Columbia using 2-D Wavelet Transform
Hassan Hassan*
Migrating Reflections from the Moho Using a Refraction Velocity Model– An Example from the Slave Craton, NWT
Joaquin Aristimuno* & Claire Samson
3D Aeromagnetic Mapping of the Williston Basin Basement
Jiakang Li* & Igor Morozov
Using Fuzzy Logic to Predict Petrophysical Parameters and Improve the Accuracy of Least Squares Regression Analysis
Joaquin Aristimuno*, Milagrosa Aldana & Anna Atencio
Near Surface Anomalies and Solutions
Todd Mojesky*, David LeMeur & Ali Karagul
Curvature Attribute Applications to Seismic Data
Satinder Chopra*, Kurt Marfurt & Vladimir Alexeev
Seismic Resolution and Thin Bed Reflectivity Inversion
Satinder Chopra* & John Castagna
Spectral Decomposition Applications
Satinder Chopra*, John Castagna & Vladimir Alexeev
Porosity of Meteorite Impact Rocks: Inferences from Geophysical and Petrophysical Studies from the Lake Bosumtwi Impact Crater, Ghana
Damien Meillieux*, Douglas Schmitt, Meghan Brown, Marek Welz, Tiewei He, Bernd Milkereit, Tobias Karp, Christopher Scholz & Sylvester Danour
Seismic Imaging of Imbricate Structures in Mountainous Area: Case Studies
Nanxun Dai*, Oz Yilmaz, Weizhong Wang & Jie Zhang
Duplex Wave Migration – Imaging Vertical Boundaries
Brian Link* & Naum Marmalevsky
Working With 2D Horizon Amplitude Maps
John Townsley* & Steve Lynch

General Session

Modelling Alberta's Base of Groundwater Protection Surface
Dustin Shauer* & Tony Lemay
Subsurface Stratigraphic Mapping of the Middle Devonian Carbonates: Beaver River Gas Field, Liard Basin, Northeastern British Columbia
Osman Salad Hersi*, Akhtar Khan & Warren Walsh
Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Attributes of the Late Devonian Duperow Formation, Southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada
Xiaochun Cen* & Osman Salad Hersi
New Methods for Data Processing in Geochemical Hydrocarbon Exploration and their Application in Chinese Continent
Liuping Zhang*
Seismic While Drilling (SWD) Techniques: A Journey From 1986 to 2006
Abhishek Anchliya*

Where is Sequence Stratigraphy Going?

Stratigraphic Discontinuities, Characterized by Palimpsest Softground Trace Fossil Suites in the Viking Formation, Alberta
Lynn Dafoe*, George Pemberton & James MacEachern
Where is Sequence Stratigraphy Going? Stratigraphy – Quo Vadis?
Taras Storey*
Upper Cretaceous Belle Fourche Sandstone, Southeastern Alberta
Yongtai Yang*, Andrew Miall & Hadi A-Rasouli

AVO Methods

Spherical-Wave AVO Modelling in VTI Media
Arnim Haase* & Charles Ursenbach
Derivation of Generalized Reflections From Point Sources in VTI Media
Charles Ursenbach* & Arnim B. Haase
AVO Inversion in Marine Gas Hydrate Studies
Marc-André Chen*, Stan Dosso, George Spence, Michael Riedel & Roy Hyndman
P- and S-Wave Velocity Measurements and Pressure Sensitivity Analysis of AVA Response
Tiewei He* & Douglas Schmitt

Pore Pressure Inversion using AVO Information. The Influence of Overburden Changes on Pore Pressure Quantification
Petar Angelov*, Rob Arts & Kees Wapenaar

From Foothills to Foreland: Linkages and New Approaches

What are you Interpreting? Is your Seismic Image Flawed?
Rachel Newrick*, Jim Pullishy & Elvira Gomez
Dynamical Numerical Models of Thin-Skinned Thrust-and-Fold Belts: Linkages Between Structural Style and Foreland Deposition
Glen Stockmal*, Chris Beaumont, Mai Nguyen & Bonny Lee

 

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