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Sunday, September 28, 1997
12 Noon - 8:00 pm Slide Center/Judges’ Room Open, Hyatt-Patterson H
Monday, September 29, 1997
7:00 - 8:00 am Presenters’/Judges’ Breakfast, Hyatt-Regency West and Center
7:30 - 5:00 pm Slide Center/Judges’ Room Open, Hyatt-Patterson H
8:00 -12:00 N Technical Session 1: TSOP: Coal Bed Methane in the Appalachian Basin, Heritage Hall, Ballroom 4
8:00 -12:00 N Technical Session 2: AAPG-DEG: Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, Heritage Hall, Meeting Rooms A ,B, C
8:00 -12:00 N Technical Session 3: AAPG: Ordovician Opportunities, Heritage Hall, Meeting Rooms D, E, F
8:00 - 5:00 pm Poster Session 1: AAPG-EMD, -DEG, and General, Hyatt-Patterson Ballroom
1:30 - 5:00 pm Technical Session 4: AAPG:Optimizing Industry Investments: New Trends in Shared Research, Heritage Hall-Ballroom 4
1:30 - 5:00 pm Technical Session 5: AAPG-EMD: Coal Resource Assessment and Public Policy, Heritage Hall-Meeting Rooms D, E, F
2:00 - 5:00 pm Technical Session 6: TSOP: Organic Petrology and Geochemistry, Heritage Hall-Meeting Rooms A, B, C
Tuesday, September 30, 1997
7:30 - 5:00 pm Slide Center/Judges’ Room Open, Hyatt-Patterson H
8:00 - 12 N Technical Session 7: AAPG: Deep Structure and Plays of the Eastern Midcontinent and Appalachian Basin, Heritage Hall-Ballroom 4
8:00 - 12 N Technical Session 8: AAPG: Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics, Heritage Hall-Rooms D, E, F
8:00 - 12 N Technical Session 9: TSOP: Coal Petrology, Heritage Hall-Meeting Rooms A, B, C
8:00 - 5:00 pm Poster Session 2: AAPG and TSOP, Hyatt-Patterson Ballroom
1:30 - 5:00 pm Technical Session 10: AAPG: DOE Reservoir Management and Characterization, Heritage Hall, Ballroom 4
1:30 - 5:00 pm Technical Session 11: AAPG: Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality, Heritage Hall, Meeting Rooms D, E, F
1:30 - 4:00 pm Technical Session 12: TSOP: Organic Petrology and Geochemistry, Heritage Hall, Rooms A, B, C
4:00 - 5:00 pm TSOP: Research Committee Panel Discussion, Heritage Hall, Meeting Rooms A, B, C (follows Technical Session 12)
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Presiding: Paul C. Lyons, Heritage Hall, Ballroom 4
8:00 A Critical Look at the Geologic and Reservoir Controls on Producing Appalachian Basin Coalbed Methane, Vello Kuuskraa, Jonathan Kelafant, Jason A. Kuuskraa
8:30 High Pressure Adsorption/Desorption Isotherms: Application to Predicting Reservoir Capacity and Drainage, C.R. Clarkson, R.M. Bustin*
9:00 Tectonic and Hydrologic Influences on Coalification and Hydrocarbon Generation in the Warrior and Cahaba Coal Fields, Alabama, Richard E. Carroll, Jack C. Pashin
9:30 Coalbed Methane Development in the Virginia Portion of the Central Appalachian Basin, Jack E. Nolde, David B. Spears
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 Coalbed Methane Resources in the Northern Appalachian Coal Basin, Southwestern Pennsylvania and North-Central West Virginia, Antonette K. Markowski*, William C. Grady, David L. Matchen*
11:00 Composition and Maturity of Appalachian Coals from Nova Scotia: Their Relationship to Methane Generation and Adsorption, Development of Micropores and Permeability, P.K. Mukhopadhyay, D.J. MacDonald, J.H. Calder, J.D. Hughes, A. Simoun, P.G. Hatcher
11:30 Coalbed Methane in Kentucky,
D.R. Chesnut, Jr., B.C. Nuttall*, C.F. Eble, J.C. Hower, S.F. Greb, J.K.
Hiett
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Technical Session 2 AAPG-DEG: Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology
Presiding: Alan E. Fryar, Heritage Hall, A,B,C
8:00 ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN: The Distribution of Hydraulic Conductivity Within the Dolomite Aquifer of Southern Wisconsin and Its Relation to System Sedimentology, Douglas S. Cherkauer, Douglas A. Carlson, Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Charles W. Rovey
8:30 Hydrodynamics of the Shallow Salt-Water Interface in the Unglaciated Appalachian Plateau, David R. Wunsch
9:00 Geologic and Geochemical Controls on Radioactivity in Produced Water and Scale, Stephen R. Fisher
9:30 Gas Chromatography - It's Not Just for Source Rocks Anymore: An Environmental Case Study at the Lexington-Bluegrass Army Depot Site, Fayette County, Kentucky, Michael T. May
10:00 Identifying the Sources of Stray Methane Using Geochemical and Isotopic Fingerprinting, F.J. Baldassare, Christopher D. Laughrey*
10:30 Assessment of Ground-Water Quality Impacts Caused by Land Spreading of Saline Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Solid Wastes, Andrew C. Barton, E. Scott Bair
11:00 Surfactant-Enhanced Remediation of Saturated Ottawa Sand Contaminated by Ethylbenzene, Marek Matyjasik, Yoram Eckstein
11:30 Influence of Bicarbonate on Pyrite Oxidation, V.P. Evangelou, A.K. Seta
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Technical Session 3 AAPG-DEG: Ordovician Opportunities
Presiding: Robert T. Ryder, Heritage Hall, D,E,F
8:00 Stratigraphic and Structural Framework of Granville-Like Lithologies in the Tanglewood Member, Middle and Upper Ordovician Lexington Limestone, Central Kentucky, Frank R. Ettensohn, Mark A. Kulp
8:30 The Sebree Trough - Did It Really Exist? Upper Ordovician Sequence Stratigraphy Provides an Answer, John C. Hohman, Brian D. Keith
9:00 Reflection Configuration and Paleotopography of Rose Run Sandstone Remnants in Ohio, Bryan L. Roth
9:30 Relationship of Middle Ordovician Late Stage Diagenesis to Diagenesis of Lower Ordovician Upper Knox Carbonates in East Tennessee, Mark D. Steinhauff, Kenneth R. Walker
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 Structural Evolution of the Killbuck Dome, East-Central Ohio, John L. Wicks, Lawrence H. Wickstrom
11:00 Recognition of Seismogenic Influence During Paleozoic Epicontinental Sedimentation: Examples from the Middle Ordovician Lexington Limestone, Central Kentucky, Frank R. Ettensohn, M.A. Kulp, N. Rast
11:30 Are the Shallow Oil Reservoirs of South-Central Kentucky Undergoing Natural, Microseismic Deformation?, James Rutledge
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MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 29
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Technical Session 4 AAPG: Optimizing Industry Investments: New Trends in Shared Research
Presiding: Kathy Manger and John P. Martin, Heritage Hall, Ballroom 4
1:30 Industry-Government Research Partnerships: An Example from the Mississippian of Eastern Kentucky, David C. Harris, Thomas N. Sparks
2:00 Technology Alliance to Examine Reservoir Characterization for Enhanced Recovery Potential in the East Canton Field, Ohio, Ronald A. Riley
2:30 EPA's Natural Gas STAR Program: Using a Voluntary Approach to Reduce Oil and Natural Gas Emissions, Rhone A. Resch
3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 3-D University-Industry Relations - 4-D Seismic Technology, Scott J. Tilden
4:00 A 3-D Seismic and Aeromagnetic Case Study, Western New York, David L. Copley
4:30 Developing Viable Industry-Government Oil and Gas Research Partnerships, John P. Martin
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Technical Session 5 AAPG-EMD: Coal Resource Assessment and Public Policy
Presiding: James C. Cobb and Hal Gluskoter, Heritage Hall, D,E,F
1:30 Coal Resource Estimates in Kentucky - Historical Perspective, James C. Cobb, Gerald A. Weisenfluh
2:00 Assessing the Nation's Coal Resources: The Role of a Federal Agency, Hal Gluskoter
2:30 The Interface of Science and Politics: A Porous or Impermeable Boundary?, Michael T. Childress
3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 Coal Economics - A Factor to Consider for Reserve Evaluations, James T. Truman
4:00 Preparation of Coal Reserve/Resource Estimates - A Consultant's Perspective, Alan K. Stagg, Gregory C. Smith*
4:30 Deregulation's Impact on Resource Studies, Daniel L. Rimstidt
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Technical Session 6 TSOP: Organic Petrology and Geochemistry
Presiding: Suzanne Russell, Heritage Hall, A,B,C
2:00 Deposition of Organic Matter to the Modern and Pleistocene Equatorial Atlantic: Links with African Climate and Marine Productivity, Thomas Wagner
2:30 Acritarch Fluorescence as a New Thermal Maturity Indicator, Mark Obermajer, Lavern D. Stasiuk, Martin G. Fowler, Kirk G. Osadetz
3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 Cretaceous to Late Oligocene Development of Sedimentary and Organic Facies at ODP Leg 159: Paleoenvironmental Implications for the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic, Thomas Wagner, Thomas Pletsch, Wolfgang Kuhnt
4:00 Kinetic Modeling of Oil Cracking, N. Tsuzuki, Y. Yokoyama, K. Takayama, M. Suzuki, N. Takeda
4:30 Study of Structure and Biomarkers of Organic-Clay Complexes in Immature Oil Source Rocks, Shengli Oil Field, China, Xiancai Lu, Wenxuan Hu*, Guangjia Zhou, Deyu Miao, Zhilin Chen
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, Poster Session 1
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Presiding: John Rupp, Hyatt Patterson Ballroom
AAPG-EMD: Coal Availability Research in the Illinois Basin: A Ten-Year Retrospective
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Technical Session 7 AAPG: Deep Structure and Plays of the Eastern Midcontinent and Appalachian Basin
Presiding: James A. Drahovzal and Carl Steffensen, Heritage Hall, Ballroom 4
8:00 Reservoir Properties and Hydrocarbon Potential in Cambrian and Lower Ordovician Strata in the Michigan Basin, William B. Harrison, III, Estella Atekwana
8:30 Precambrian/Cambrian Rifting in the Southern Illinois Basin: A Potential New Hydrocarbon Province, Glenn W. Bear, Albert J. Rudman, John A. Rupp, Carl Steffensen
9:00 Evidence for the Presence of Hydrocarbon Charge in the Knox and Pre-Knox Rocks of the Rough Creek Graben, Douglas W. Reynolds, Jr.
9:30 Cambrian Hydrocarbon Potential in the Region of the Serpent Mound Disturbance of Southern Ohio, Mark T. Baranoski, Doyle R. Watts
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 Continuing Cambro-Ordovician Exploration in the Stephens Area, Elliott County, Kentucky, David R. Earle, Richard K. Ellis, Allen W. Holmes, Jr.
11:00 Regional Unconformities Beneath Source Beds and Geologic Constraints on Deep Plays in the Appalachian Basin, R.C. Milici, R.T. Ryder
11:30 Western Newfoundland Onshore Oil and Gas Potential with Emphasis on the Carboniferous Basins, Allen W. Holmes Jr.
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Technical Session 8 AAPG: Oil and Gas Geology and Geophysics
Presiding: Paul D. Howell, Heritage Hall, D,E,F
8:00 Oil-Finding Strategy for the Warsaw Limestone (Meramecian) of Warren County, Kentucky, Kenneth W. Kuehn
8:30 Subsurface to Surface: Use of Outcrop Gamma-ray Logs to Interpret Structurally Complex Exposures of Appalachian Devonian Strata, John M. Dennison, Jonathan K. Filer, Larry J. Cavallo, Robert A. Drake, Jeremy D. Middleton
9:00 Natural Resources and Sequence Stratigraphy of Aux Vases Sandstone, Hannes E. Leetaru
9:30 Digital Oil-and-Gas-Well Spot Maps for Ohio, James McDonald and Lawrence H. Wickstrom
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 Cyclone Reef 3-D Seismic Study, James R. Morris
11:00 Compositional Changes in Reef Sediments Related to Changes in Coral Reef Community Structure, W.F. Precht, R.B. Aronson
11:30 An Adduction Zone - A Precursor to a Subduction Zone, Frank H. Jacobeen, Jr.
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Presiding: Cortland Eble, Heritage Hall, A,B,C
8:00 Combining Micropetrographic and Palynologic Methods to Improve Paleoecological Interpretations of Peat Deposits: Examples from a Carolina Bay in South Carolina and the Everglades of Florida, Arthur D. Cohen, Christian P. Gage, Willard S. Moore, Robert S. Vanpelt
8:30 Coalbed Methane: Adsorptive Gas Storage Capacity of Coal Seams in the Upper Carboniferous of the Ruhr Basin, Germany, Roland Gaschnitz, Bernhard M. Krooss, Ralf Littke
9:00 The Character of Permian Coking and Non-Coking Coal in the Sohagpur Coal Field, Madhya Pradesh, India, Peter D. Warwick, Robert C. Milici, Edwin R. Landis, Abhijit Mukhopadhyay, S. Adhikari
9:30 The Deformation Metamorphism of Tectonic Coal and Its Application in Geological Mining Hazards, Yunxing Cao, Ruixun Liu*
10:00 COFFEE BREAK
10:30 Coal Sample Preservation in Foil Multilaminate Bags, David C. Glick, Gareth D. Mitchell, Alan Davis
11:00 Modes of Occurrence of HAPs Elements in Samples from the Pittsburgh, Elkhorn/Hazard, and Illinois No. 6 Coal Beds, Sharon S. Crowley, Curtis A. Palmer, Allan Kolker, Robert B. Finkelman, Kathleen C. Kolb, Jason C. Willett
11:30 Ultralaminae in Humic Coals, Ping He
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TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 30
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Technical Session 10 AAPG: DOE Reservoir Management and Characterization
Presiding: Betty Felber and Herbert B. Carroll, Heritage Hall, Ballroom 4
1:30 Petroleum Technology Advances Through Applied Research by Independent Oil Producers, Four Case Studies, W.I. Johnson, Betty Felber, F. Dexter Sutterfield, Herbert B. Carroll
2:00 Recovery of Bypassed Oil in the Dundee Formation Using Horizontal Drains, J.R. Wood, W.D. Pennington, W.B. Harrison
2:30 Reservoir Management Techniques Applied in East Randolph Field, Portage County, Ohio: Final Results, L. Eugene Safley
3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 Area Balance in Extensional Structures: Comparison Between the Black Warrior and Gulf Coast Basins, Jack C. Pashin, Richard H. Groshong, Jr.
4:00 Reservoir Characterization Efforts for Improved Recovery Guided by Attention to Reservoir Management Context in the Citronelle Field, a Fluvial Reservoir in the Rodessa Formation (Cretaceous), South Alabama, Michael L. Fowler, L. Eugene Safley, Mark A. Young
4:30 Field Demonstration of the Ability of In-Situ Microorganisms in the Oil-Bearing Formations to Modify Waterflooding Profiles, Lewis R. Brown, Alex A. Vadie, James O. Stephens
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Technical Session 11 AAPG: Diagenesis and Reservoir Quality
Presiding: Brian Keith, Heritage Hall, D,E,F
1:30 Fluvial Catskill Magnafacies of New York Dates an Acadian Event of Hydrothermal Circulation at Iapetus Mid-Ocean Spreading Ridges, Gerald M. Friedman
2:00 Porosity Pathways for Devonian Reservoir Sandstones of Pennsylvania, Richard Smosna, Kathy R. Bruner
2:30 Detrital and Geochemical Control on Chlorite Grain-Coats in Sandstones, Nicholas B. Harris
3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 Petrographic and Geochemical Changes in Biogenic Aragonite During Dissolution, Laura C. Quinn, Douglas W. Haywick
4:00 Geochemical Analogs of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs in the Appalachian and Illinois Basins, Glenn W. Zagger
4:30 Petrography, Petrophysics and Stratigraphy in the Basin Analysis Laboratory at Ball State University: Application to the Oil and Gas Industry, Jeffry D. Grigsby
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Technical Session 12 TSOP: Organic Petrology and Geochemistry
Presiding: Carolyn Thompson-Rizer, Heritage Hall A,B,C
1:30 Far-East Tertiary Coal-Related Petroleum System, Rui Lin, Leon Dzou, Kevin Doyle, Eric Jardine
2:00 Organic Petrology and Geochemistry in Pennsylvanian Tidally-Influenced Sediments from SW Indiana, Maria Mastalerz, Erik P. Kvale
2:30 Origin of Chinese Lacustrine High-Wax Oils and Organic Petrology of Its Source Rocks, Feiyu Wang, Ping He, Shisheng Hao
3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:30 The Study on the Contributing Factors of Phase State of Condensate Gas: Examples from Tarim Basin, Xingxi Zhou, Hongjun Wang, Yicai Chen and Zhiming Xu
4:00 RESEARCH COMMITTEE PANEL DISCUSSION
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, Poster Session 2
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Presiding: Doug Reynolds, Jr., Hyatt Patterson Ballroom
AAPG: Deep Structure and Plays of the Eastern Midcontinent and Appalachian Basin
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