Publications

2009 Conference Abstracts

Advanced Geophysical Analysis

Greedy Least-Squares and its Application in Radon Transforms
Juefu Wang* and Mark Ng

Rock Physics Models for the Seismic Velocity of Cracked Media
Zimin Zhang* and Robert R. Stewart


Assessing Frontiers: GSC Energy Program

Regional Geoscience Studies and Petroleum Potential, Peel Plateau and Plain, Northwest Territories and Yukon: Highlights from the Final Project Volume
Leanne Pyle, Adrienne Jones*, Len Gal, Thomas Hadlari, Tammy Allen and Tiffani Fraser

An Update of Hydrocarbon Potential in Yukon's Peel Region
Tammy Allen* and Tiffani Fraser

Stratigraphic Correlations for Six Wells in the Adgo Oil and Gas Field, Beaufort-Mackenzie Basin, Arctic Canada
James Dixon*, Kezhen Hu, Jim Dietrich and Dave McNeil

A New Look at the Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Labrador Shelf
Kate Dickie*, Graham Williams and Charlotte Keen

Map Compilation Series of Saskatchewan's Ultimate Potential for Natural Gas – Energy Market Assessment
Melinda Yurkowski*, Arden March, Rick McLean, Steve Rymes, Peter Budgell and Mike Johnson


Basin Analysis, Sequence Stratigraphy

Integrated High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of Cardium Formation, Bilbo Field – Key to Finding Hidden Shoreface Reservoirs
Valentina Baranova*, Azer Mustaqeem and Mohammad Irfan

Thermal Models Across the Central Nova Scotia Slope Basin Constrained by New Marine Heat Flow Measurements
Eric Negulic*, Keith Louden and P.K. Mukhopadhyay

Carbonate and Siliciclastic Sequence Stratigraphy - Examples from the Late Jurassic Abenaki Limestone and West Venture Deltaic Beds, offshore Nova Scotia, Canada
Leslie Eliuk* and Grant Wach

Anatomy of a Transgressive Sandstone: Sequence Stratigraphy of the Martin House and Lower Arctic Red Formations (Albian), Peel Plateau and Plain, NWT
Thomas Hadlari*

Heavy Mineral Provenace of Prospective Reservoir Sandstones in the Flemish Pass and Orphan Basins
David Lowe*, Paul Sylvester and Michael Enachescu


Biodegradation, Methanogenesis and Heavy Oil

Low Emission Microbial Upgrading and Recovery (LEMUR) A Potential Route to Low or Zero Emission Energy Recovery from Oilfields
Steve Larter*, Ian Head, Ian Gates, Jennifer Adams, David Rafter and Peter Santosham

Methods for Recovery of Microorganisms and Intact Microbial Polar Lipids (IPLs) from Oil-Water Mixtures Lab Experiments and Natural Well-Head Fluids
Thomas Oldenburg*, Steve Larter, Jennifer Adams, Arlene Rowan, Angela Brown and Ian Head

Biogenic Methane Production from Crude Oil by Enrichment from a Low-Temperature Western Canadian Oil Reservoir
Adewale Lambo*, Macy Yurkiw and Gerrit Voordouw

Determination of the Viscosities of Grosmont Reservoir Bitumen, Alberta, Canada
Yi Zhao* and Hans Machel

Geochemical Characterization of Heavy Oil Accumulations at Neuquén Basin Northeastern Margin, Argentina
Martin Cevallos*, Edmundo Marot, Herán Paponi and Héctor Villar


Borehole Imaging, Log Analysis

Automatic Time Picking and Velocity Determination on Full Waveform Sonic Logs
Lejia Han*, Joe Wong, John C. Bancroft, and Robert R. Stewart

Empirical Mode Decomposition Based Instantaneous Spectral Analysis and its Applications to Heterogeneous Petrophysical Model Construction
Jun-Wuang* and Bernd Milkerei


Converted Waves

3D-3C Full Wave Modeling in Anisotropic 2,5-D Medium
Alexander Kostyukevych* and Ian Iantsevitch


Foothills Geology, Structural Geology

Early to Middle Jurassic Subsidence History of the Bowser Basin and Hazelton Trough in the Area of Tsatia Mountain, North-central British Columbia
Jean-Francois Gagnon*

Geometry and Kinematic Interpretation of a Triangle Zone in the Central Alberta Foothills
Josgre Salazar*, Deborah Spratt and Don Lawton

Coltop3D: A New Software for Structural Analysis with High Resolution 3D Point Clouds
and DEM

Richard Metzger*, Michel Jaboyedoff, Thierry Oppikofer, Alessia Viero and Antonio Galgaro

New Regional Mapping within the Foothills of Halfway River Map Area (NTS 94B/2 and 7)
Filippo Ferri*


Geophysical Innovations

Fracturing is Distinctly Revealed by the Duplex Wave Migration
Alexander Kostyukevych*

Regime Rays: Visualizing the Fermat/Snell Loci in Homogeneous Anisotropic Media
William Vetter*


Geophysical Interpretation

Seismic Attribute Applications for Interpreters
Satinder Chopra* and Kurt Marfurt

Seismic Attribute as an Aid to Production from Fractures
Satinder Chopra* and Kurt Marfurt


Geophysics - Data Processing

Correlation of P-P and P-S Data in Yinggehai Basin, South China Sea
Jinfeng Ma*, Ms. Le Gao and Igor Morozov

Impedance Inversion of Blackfoot 3D Seismic Dataset
Abdulsalam Swisi* and Igor Morozov

An Open-Source Passive Seismic Data Processing and Visualization Package: Passeis
Haishan Zheng* and Leiv-J Gelius


International Exploration and Development

Reservoir Characterization of Unconsolidated Coastal Plain and Littoral Sandstones. Case Study of a New Heavy Oil Shallow Play, Neuquina Basin, Western Argentina
Martin Cevallos* and Manuela Rivero

Synkinematic Channel Depositional Architecture in Active Fold and Thrust Belt Revealed by 3D Seismic Visualization, Example from Deepwater South East Asia
Erlangga Septama*


Resource Plays: CBM

Methodology and Workflows for Calculating a Statistically Enhanced OGIP Value for Coals
Mitchell Allison*, Quinton Rafuse and Darren Lee

Successful Identification of Complex Cleat Systems in Coals
Salman Khalid*, Ahmed Al-Jubori, Thanos Natras and Ian Mcllreath


Resource Plays: Oil Sands, Heavy Oil

The Dynamic Interplay of Oil Charge, Basin Dynamics, Caprock Leakage and Gas Generating Biodegradation Produces Heavy and Super-Heavy Oil Fields: Examples from Western Canada
Jennifer Adams*, Haiping Huang, Berry Bennett and Steve Larter

Heavy Oil and Super Heavy Oil Viscosity Measurement and Estimation: Getting Representative Samples
Jennifer Adams*, Dennis Jiang, Berry Bennett, Lloyd Snowdon, Ian Gates and Steve Larter

Mapping Lithological Heterogeneity in Athabasca Oil Sand Reservoirs Using Surface Seismic Data: Case History
Yong Xu* and Satinder Chopra

Hondo Evaporites in the Grosmont Heavy oil Carbonate Reservoir
Mary Borrero* and Hans G. Machel

Statistical Analysis of Depositional Cyclicity within Point Bar Deposits, McMurray Formation, Northeastern Alberta
Phillip Labrecque*, Jerry Jansen and Stephen Hubbard

Update on Northwest Saskatchewan's Lower Cretaceous Dina Formation Bitumen Play
Dan Kohlruss*, Per Kent Pedersen and Guoxiang Chi

Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Breccias and Fills in the Upper Devonian Grosmont Bitumen Reservoir, Alberta, Canada
Kevin Carriere* and Hans Machel


Resource Plays: Shale Gas, Shale Oil

A Comparison of the Montney / Doig, Horn River and Barnett
Alexei Belonogov* and Dave Russum

Shallow Unconventional Cretaceous Shale Gas in Southwestern Manitoba
Michelle Nicolas* and James Bamburak

Borehole Microseismic Monitoring to Optimize Hydraulic Fracturing and Re-Fracturing Treatments
Joel Le Calvez*, John Daniels, Stewart Taylor and Meredith Appelt

Duvernay / Muskwa and Montney Formations Shale Gas Resource Analysis
John Pawlowicz*, Shar Anderson, Mike Berhane, Dan Rokosh and Andrew Beaton

Microseismic Monitoring of a Hydraulic Fracture in a Horizontal Well near Pouce Coupe BC
Michael Jones* and Richard Parker


Resource Plays: Tight Gas, Gas Hydrates

Seismic Wave Attenuation due to Scattering and Leaky Mode Mechanisms in Heterogeneous Reservoirs
Jun-Wei Huang*, Gilles Bellefleur and Bernd Milkereit

Recent Advances In Mapping Deep Permafrost And Gas Hydrate Occurrences Using Industry Seismic Data, Richards Island Area, Northwest Territories, Canada
Gilles Bellefleur*, Tom Brent, Michael Riedel, Kumar Ramachandran and Scott Dallimore


Seismic Reservoir Characterization

Determining Scale Properties from Seismic Transmission Responses: A Modeling Study
Emmanuel Bongajum* and Bernd Milkereit

An Azimuthal-AVO-Compliant 3D Land Seismic Processing Flow
David Gray, Darren Schmidt, Nirupama Nagarajappa, Charles Ursenbach and
Jonathan Downton


Structural Geophysics

Multi-Spectral Volumetric Curvature Adding Value to 3D Seismic Data Interpretation
Satinder Chopra* and Kurt Marfurt

When Thin Is In – Relative Acoustic Impedance Helps
Satinder Chopra* and Kurt Marfurt

Carbonate Ramp Controlled by Alternate Fault Activity, Geological versus Seismic Expressions
Jeff Closson*, Jean-Yves Chatellier and Anne Hargreaves


The Arctic and Canadian Frontiers

The Bonnet Plume Basin, Yukon, Canada: A Previously Unrecognized Oil Play
Lowey Grant*

Hydrocarbon Reservoir Potential in Carboniferous Sandstones in the Maritimes Basin, Eastern Canada
Kezhen Hu* and James Dietrich

A New Geological Map of the Arctic: Geological Survey of Canada Open File 5816
Christopher Harrison*, Marc St-Onge, Oleg Petrov, Sergey Strelnikov, Boris Lopaten and Frederic Wilson

Research Highlights: Petroleum Potential of Paleozoic Rocks, Peel Plateau and Plain, Northwest Territories and Yukon
Len Gal*

Essential Elements of Petroleum Systems in the Nechako Basin
Janet Riddell*

Geometric Characterization of Anhydrite Piercement Structures on Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago
Jennifer Macauley*, Alexander Cruden, Tom Brent and Randell Stephenson

Seismic Mapping of the King Christian Formation, Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada: Spatial Visualization with Potential Field Data
Thomas Brent*

The Formation of a Miocene Deepwater Erosional Unconformity and the Effects on Subsequent Deposition Patterns on the western Scotian Slope, Canada
Calvin Campbell*


What's New in Clastic Sedimentology?

High Resolution Sedimentology of the Upper Jurassic Nikanassin Formation, in the Grande Cache Area of Alberta
Jon Noad* and Torrie Turner

Stratigraphy and Characterization of the Lower Cretaceous Cummings Formation, Lloydminster, Alberta
Meredith Browning* and Andrew Leier

Reservoir Architecture of the Middle Jurassic Upper Shaunavon Member in the Whitemud Pool – SW Saskatchewan
Julianne D. Fic* and Per K. Pedersen

A Thin Section Petrographic Study Examining Biogenic Porosity Alteration Within the Avalon and Ben Nevis Formations, Whiterose Field, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada
Andrew Lawfield*, Murray Gingras, George Pemberton and Karl Butler


What is New in Geomodeling and Reservoir Engineering?

Point Bar Modeling, Middle McMurray Formation, Alberta
David Patruyo*, Haiping Huang, Stephen Hubbard and Ron Spencer

Applications of 1D Electro-Facies Modeling
David Garner*, Paul Broughton and Amanda Woo

 

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