2023 AAPG MCS Themes
- How to be an Independent
- The Business Side of Oil and Gas
- Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: The Anadarko Basin-Part 1 & 2
- Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: Kansas and Arkoma
- Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: Regional Area
- Emerging Energy and Resources of the Midcontinent - Sponsored by Galvanic Energy
- Discovery Thinking
- Special Panel Session: Stump the Chump
Monday Morning Room 301AB
How to be an Independent (David Sanger, Jim Bedford)
8-8:05 Intro
8:05-8:35 Options for an Independent
Suzanne M. Rogers
8:35-9:05 The Independent Geologist - When Preparation Meets Opportunity
Michael W. Smith
9:05-9:35 To Be or Not to Be an Independent
Kristie Ferguson
9:35-10:00 Break
10:00-10:30 Open-Source Mapping Software for Independent Geoscientists
John McLeod
10:30-11:00 Geology on the other side of the rock: Life as an "environmental" geologist
Kathy Lippert
11:00-11:30 Theory, Application, Discovery: From OGCS Talk to Drilling to Production!
John Brett*, Ted Beaumont
Monday Morning Room 301CD
Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: The Anadarko Basin-Part 1 (Will Shaffer, Abidin Caf)
8-8:05 Intro
8:05-8:35 Finding New Oil the Old Fashioned Way – An Update on New Developments in Old Areas and Old Concepts Being Applied to New Places
Bryan Bottoms
8:35-9:05 Integration of Microseismic and Geochemical Profiling to Understand Effective Drainage Height
Shawn Maxwell*, R. Brito, G. Ritter, J. Sinclair, A. Leavitt, F. Liu and J. Bachleda
9:05-9:35 Comparison and Re-assessment of Middle-Late Mississippian Strata Across North America
Buddy Price
9:35-10:00 Break
10:00-10:30 The Red Fork Delta Revisited
Rick Fritz*, Chris Johnson, & Mike Kuykendall
10:30-11:00 Paradise Machine Learning Technology - Understanding the Sub-surface in Detail
Deborah Sacrey
11:00-11:30 Seismic-constrained reservoir modeling and simulation for CO2 sequestration potential of the Arbuckle Group: Wellington Field, Kansas
Abidin Caf
Monday Afternoon Room 301AB
Emerging Energy and Resources of the Midcontinent (Garrett Powell, Tyler Gruenbacher)
1:10-1:15 Intro
1:15-1:45 Identifying Value Elements in Oilfield Brines
Brent Wilson
1:45-2:15 Oklahoma Geological Survey & The Energy Transition
Nicholas Hayman
2:15-2:45 Chasing Lithium: Oil Field Brine and Petroleum Correlations Across Southeastern Oklahoma
Catherine Donohe*, Adam Turner, & Alex Zumberge
2:45-3:10 Break
3:10-3:40 ***NEW*** Super-giants, Giants and the Mid-Con
Richard Bishop* & Charles Sternbach
3:40-4:10 Future Prospects of Helium Exploration in Oklahoma with Legacy Samples, Modern Insights
Christopher M. Smith*, Timothy M. Smith, Patrick S. Gordon, & Michael P. Smith
Monday Afternoon Room 301CD
Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: Kansas and Arkoma (Troy Johnson, Jason Currie)
1:10-1:15 Intro
1:15-1:45 Demonstrating the Utility of CO2 Entrained in Legacy Drill Cuttings as a Proxy for Pressure Compared to Drill Stem Tests Measurements in Oil Fields from Kearny County Kansas
Christopher M. Smith*, Timothy M. Smith, Patrick S. Gordon, Michael P. Smith, & Franek Hasiuk
1:45-2:15 Breaking Bad – Ordovician Source Rocks: the Primary Origin of Pre-Pennsylvanian, Produced Oils in South Central, Kansas
Brian W. Wilhite* & Tim Ruble
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-4:00 Stump the Chump-Special Panel Session
Featuring Mark Oekerman, Caroline O'Keefe, Aubrey Humbolt, Herb Martin, Lanny Holman, Mark Lester, & John Brett
Tuesday Morning Room 301AB
The Business Side of Oil and Gas (Joe Stone, Karelia La Marca)
8-8:05 Intro
8:05-8:35 Let’s Make A Deal!!! – Starting and Funding an E&P
Joe Brevetti
8:35-9:05 "Onward and Upward” Entity Structure for the Self-Employed and Basic Agreements
Brett Sanger
9:05-9:35 A Day in the Life of a Branch Board Director
Walt Duncan
9:35-10:00 Break
10:00-10:30 Using Data, Facts, and Science to have a Rational Conversation about the Environment, Global Warming, Population Growth, and the Importance of Oil and Natural Gas in our Domestic and Global Economies
Steven C. Agee
10:30-11:00 Beyond Science and Technology, How Business and Regulations Impact Geology
Dana L. Murphy
11:00-11:30 Improved Diagnostic Insight through Near-Wellbore Measurements: Advancing Completions Understanding
Kevin Wutherich
Tuesday Morning Room 301CD
Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: The Anadarko Basin-Part 2 (Cole Mount, Chris Wiggers)
8-8:05 Intro
8:05-8:35 Rethinking the Woodford Petroleum System of Oklahoma
John McLeod
8:35-9:05 Geochemistry for unconventional petroleum exploration and development: A Case study from Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, USA
Wahid Rahman
9:05-9:35 Woodford Core-Log Facies Model tied to Sequence Stratigraphy and Applied to Full-field Development in STACK and SCOOP
Richard Brito*, Guanghua Xue, Cameron Cross, Cindy Guenard, John Sinclair, & Aaron Leavitt
9:35-10:00 Break
10:00-10:30 Insights from Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy from the Woodford in the Anadarko Basin
Christopher M. Smith*, Richard Brito*, John Sinclair, Aaron Leavitt, Timothy Smith, Patrick Gordon, and Michael Smith
10:30-11:00 Applications of Organic Geochemistry to Modeling Hydrocarbon Charge Events in Source-Adjacent Reservoirs: STACK Case Study
Carl Symcox*, R. Paul Philp
11:00-11:30 A Statistical Look at the Drainage Behavior of Unconventional Wells in the SCOOP and STACK Plays with Case Studies
David Duarte*, Shuangyu Ge, Richard Brito, Geoff Ritter, John Sinclair, Aaron Leavitt, Jana Bachleda, & Faye Liu
Tuesday Afternoon Room 301AB
Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: Regional/General (Hannah Morgan, Bryan Hunt)
1:10-1:15 Intro
1:15-1:45 Hydraulic-fracture triggered earthquakes in Oklahoma, 2013 to present
Jake Walter*, Paul Ogwari, & Nick Hayman
1:45-2:15 Geochemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Hydrothermally Altered Spavinaw Granite
Alexander Cordero* & Brett M. Carpenter
2:15-2:45 Oklahoma’s Intraplate Earthquakes: Insights from Pawnee 3D seismic
Priyank Jaiswal*, B. Springman, J. Walter, H. Daigle, S. Verma, & J.M. Gregg
2:45-3:10 Break
3:10-3:40 Estimating Recovery by Quantifying Mobile Oil and Geochemically Allocating Production in Unconventional Reservoirs
Jennifer J. Adams*, Tim Ruble, Matt Flannery & Mark A. McCaffrey
3:40-4:10 Improved Seismic Reservoir Characterization with Interbed Multiple Suppression
Gabriel Gil* & Jeff Martin
4:10-4:40 Tying local structure to regional deformation history: Integrating core data with published fault maps reveals the timeline of deformation within the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen
Jamie M. Bowie*, Brett M. Carpenter, & Michael J. Soreghan
Tuesday Afternoon Room 301CD
Discovery Thinking (John Dodds, Cam Thompson)
1:10-1:15 Intro
1:15-1:45 History of the first Seismic Reflection Experiment and Interpretation of a modern 2D Line Located Near the Original Experiment
Jan Dodson
1:45-2:15 The Horizontal Redevelopment of the Abandoned Pendleton Fractured Chalk Field
Julie Garvin
2:15-2:45 Visualizing Uncertainty & Risk to Reduce Bias and Improve Decision Making: My Favorite Diagrams
Andrew Cullen
2:45-3:10 Break
3:10-3:40 Helium Exploration in the Rio Grande Rift
Bruce A. Black, and Bruce H. (Buz) Black
3:40-4:10 Uncertainty Assessment in Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods for Deepwater Channel Seismic Facies
Karelia La Marca*, Heather Bedle , Lisa Stright, & Kurt Marfurt
4:10-4:40 Seismic identification of carbonate reservoir sweet spots using unsupervised machine learning: A case study from Brazil deep water Aptian pre-salt data
Marcus Maas*, Marcus Vinicius Rodrigues Maas, Heather Bedle, Marcilio Castro de Matos
How to be an Independent (David Sanger, Jim Bedford)
8-8:05 Intro
8:05-8:35 Options for an Independent
Suzanne M. Rogers
8:35-9:05 The Independent Geologist - When Preparation Meets Opportunity
Michael W. Smith
9:05-9:35 To Be or Not to Be an Independent
Kristie Ferguson
9:35-10:00 Break
10:00-10:30 Open-Source Mapping Software for Independent Geoscientists
John McLeod
10:30-11:00 Geology on the other side of the rock: Life as an "environmental" geologist
Kathy Lippert
11:00-11:30 Theory, Application, Discovery: From OGCS Talk to Drilling to Production!
John Brett*, Ted Beaumont
Monday Morning Room 301CD
Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: The Anadarko Basin-Part 1 (Will Shaffer, Abidin Caf)
8-8:05 Intro
8:05-8:35 Finding New Oil the Old Fashioned Way – An Update on New Developments in Old Areas and Old Concepts Being Applied to New Places
Bryan Bottoms
8:35-9:05 Integration of Microseismic and Geochemical Profiling to Understand Effective Drainage Height
Shawn Maxwell*, R. Brito, G. Ritter, J. Sinclair, A. Leavitt, F. Liu and J. Bachleda
9:05-9:35 Comparison and Re-assessment of Middle-Late Mississippian Strata Across North America
Buddy Price
9:35-10:00 Break
10:00-10:30 The Red Fork Delta Revisited
Rick Fritz*, Chris Johnson, & Mike Kuykendall
10:30-11:00 Paradise Machine Learning Technology - Understanding the Sub-surface in Detail
Deborah Sacrey
11:00-11:30 Seismic-constrained reservoir modeling and simulation for CO2 sequestration potential of the Arbuckle Group: Wellington Field, Kansas
Abidin Caf
Monday Afternoon Room 301AB
Emerging Energy and Resources of the Midcontinent (Garrett Powell, Tyler Gruenbacher)
1:10-1:15 Intro
1:15-1:45 Identifying Value Elements in Oilfield Brines
Brent Wilson
1:45-2:15 Oklahoma Geological Survey & The Energy Transition
Nicholas Hayman
2:15-2:45 Chasing Lithium: Oil Field Brine and Petroleum Correlations Across Southeastern Oklahoma
Catherine Donohe*, Adam Turner, & Alex Zumberge
2:45-3:10 Break
3:10-3:40 ***NEW*** Super-giants, Giants and the Mid-Con
Richard Bishop* & Charles Sternbach
3:40-4:10 Future Prospects of Helium Exploration in Oklahoma with Legacy Samples, Modern Insights
Christopher M. Smith*, Timothy M. Smith, Patrick S. Gordon, & Michael P. Smith
Monday Afternoon Room 301CD
Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: Kansas and Arkoma (Troy Johnson, Jason Currie)
1:10-1:15 Intro
1:15-1:45 Demonstrating the Utility of CO2 Entrained in Legacy Drill Cuttings as a Proxy for Pressure Compared to Drill Stem Tests Measurements in Oil Fields from Kearny County Kansas
Christopher M. Smith*, Timothy M. Smith, Patrick S. Gordon, Michael P. Smith, & Franek Hasiuk
1:45-2:15 Breaking Bad – Ordovician Source Rocks: the Primary Origin of Pre-Pennsylvanian, Produced Oils in South Central, Kansas
Brian W. Wilhite* & Tim Ruble
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-4:00 Stump the Chump-Special Panel Session
Featuring Mark Oekerman, Caroline O'Keefe, Aubrey Humbolt, Herb Martin, Lanny Holman, Mark Lester, & John Brett
Tuesday Morning Room 301AB
The Business Side of Oil and Gas (Joe Stone, Karelia La Marca)
8-8:05 Intro
8:05-8:35 Let’s Make A Deal!!! – Starting and Funding an E&P
Joe Brevetti
8:35-9:05 "Onward and Upward” Entity Structure for the Self-Employed and Basic Agreements
Brett Sanger
9:05-9:35 A Day in the Life of a Branch Board Director
Walt Duncan
9:35-10:00 Break
10:00-10:30 Using Data, Facts, and Science to have a Rational Conversation about the Environment, Global Warming, Population Growth, and the Importance of Oil and Natural Gas in our Domestic and Global Economies
Steven C. Agee
10:30-11:00 Beyond Science and Technology, How Business and Regulations Impact Geology
Dana L. Murphy
11:00-11:30 Improved Diagnostic Insight through Near-Wellbore Measurements: Advancing Completions Understanding
Kevin Wutherich
Tuesday Morning Room 301CD
Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: The Anadarko Basin-Part 2 (Cole Mount, Chris Wiggers)
8-8:05 Intro
8:05-8:35 Rethinking the Woodford Petroleum System of Oklahoma
John McLeod
8:35-9:05 Geochemistry for unconventional petroleum exploration and development: A Case study from Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, USA
Wahid Rahman
9:05-9:35 Woodford Core-Log Facies Model tied to Sequence Stratigraphy and Applied to Full-field Development in STACK and SCOOP
Richard Brito*, Guanghua Xue, Cameron Cross, Cindy Guenard, John Sinclair, & Aaron Leavitt
9:35-10:00 Break
10:00-10:30 Insights from Rock Volatiles Stratigraphy from the Woodford in the Anadarko Basin
Christopher M. Smith*, Richard Brito*, John Sinclair, Aaron Leavitt, Timothy Smith, Patrick Gordon, and Michael Smith
10:30-11:00 Applications of Organic Geochemistry to Modeling Hydrocarbon Charge Events in Source-Adjacent Reservoirs: STACK Case Study
Carl Symcox*, R. Paul Philp
11:00-11:30 A Statistical Look at the Drainage Behavior of Unconventional Wells in the SCOOP and STACK Plays with Case Studies
David Duarte*, Shuangyu Ge, Richard Brito, Geoff Ritter, John Sinclair, Aaron Leavitt, Jana Bachleda, & Faye Liu
Tuesday Afternoon Room 301AB
Geology and Geophysics of the Midcontinent: Regional/General (Hannah Morgan, Bryan Hunt)
1:10-1:15 Intro
1:15-1:45 Hydraulic-fracture triggered earthquakes in Oklahoma, 2013 to present
Jake Walter*, Paul Ogwari, & Nick Hayman
1:45-2:15 Geochemical and Mineralogical Characterization of Hydrothermally Altered Spavinaw Granite
Alexander Cordero* & Brett M. Carpenter
2:15-2:45 Oklahoma’s Intraplate Earthquakes: Insights from Pawnee 3D seismic
Priyank Jaiswal*, B. Springman, J. Walter, H. Daigle, S. Verma, & J.M. Gregg
2:45-3:10 Break
3:10-3:40 Estimating Recovery by Quantifying Mobile Oil and Geochemically Allocating Production in Unconventional Reservoirs
Jennifer J. Adams*, Tim Ruble, Matt Flannery & Mark A. McCaffrey
3:40-4:10 Improved Seismic Reservoir Characterization with Interbed Multiple Suppression
Gabriel Gil* & Jeff Martin
4:10-4:40 Tying local structure to regional deformation history: Integrating core data with published fault maps reveals the timeline of deformation within the Southern Oklahoma Aulacogen
Jamie M. Bowie*, Brett M. Carpenter, & Michael J. Soreghan
Tuesday Afternoon Room 301CD
Discovery Thinking (John Dodds, Cam Thompson)
1:10-1:15 Intro
1:15-1:45 History of the first Seismic Reflection Experiment and Interpretation of a modern 2D Line Located Near the Original Experiment
Jan Dodson
1:45-2:15 The Horizontal Redevelopment of the Abandoned Pendleton Fractured Chalk Field
Julie Garvin
2:15-2:45 Visualizing Uncertainty & Risk to Reduce Bias and Improve Decision Making: My Favorite Diagrams
Andrew Cullen
2:45-3:10 Break
3:10-3:40 Helium Exploration in the Rio Grande Rift
Bruce A. Black, and Bruce H. (Buz) Black
3:40-4:10 Uncertainty Assessment in Unsupervised Machine Learning Methods for Deepwater Channel Seismic Facies
Karelia La Marca*, Heather Bedle , Lisa Stright, & Kurt Marfurt
4:10-4:40 Seismic identification of carbonate reservoir sweet spots using unsupervised machine learning: A case study from Brazil deep water Aptian pre-salt data
Marcus Maas*, Marcus Vinicius Rodrigues Maas, Heather Bedle, Marcilio Castro de Matos