Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin corners
Jackson School of Geosciences
Jackson School of Geosciences
Department of Geological SciencesBureau of Economic GeologyInstitute for Geophysics

PHOTOS FROM THE MEETING!

JSG will be at the 2006 AAPG Annual Meeting!

JSG will be represented at AAPG's 2006 Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, April 9-12, 2006, by members of its staff, students, and alumni.

Come visit us in booth 803 and be sure to plan on the Jackson School Alumni reception, Monday, April 10, 5:30- 7:30 PM at the Hilton.

Authors(s)

Title

Session

Date/Time

Monday Talks

W. A. Ambrose, M. H. Holtz, V. Núñez López, S. D. Hovorka, E. H. Guevara, C. Breton, and C. Christopher

Structural and Stratigraphic Controls on Storage and CO2 EOR Potential in Major Basins in Texas, California, Illinois, and Michigan

CO2 Sequestration-Coals/Shales/Produced and Unproduced Reservoirs as Sequestration Targets

Monday
08:05
Room 311

P Mann, M. Horn, and I. Cross

Tectonic Setting of 31 Giant Oil and Gas Fields Discovered from 2000-2005: Implications for Future Discovery Trends

Recent Discoveries and Play Openers: International and Frontier Basins (AAPG)

Monday
08:45
Room 312

D. Pyles

Processes and Facies Associations in Basin-Margin Strata of Structurally Confined Submarine Fans: Example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone (Ireland)

Recent Advances in Deepwater and Shelf Siliciclastic Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization (SEPM)

Monday
9:05 a.m.
General Assembly C

Plink-Björklund, P., R. Steel, and Kirschbaum, M.

Recognizing River Mouths That Produced Hyperpycnal Flows, Eocene Central Basin of Spitsbergen

Recent Advances in Deepwater and Shelf Siliciclastic Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization (SEPM)

Monday
10:45 a.m.
General Assembly C

S. E. Laubach, M. Ward**, L.A. Gomez*

Vertical and Lateral Scales of Heterogeneity in a Fractured Reservoir Analog, Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic La Boca Formation, NE Mexico

Fractured Clastics and Carbonates--What Constrains Their Reservoir Limits? (EMD)

Monday
1:20
Room 312

S. P. Dutton, E. M. Kim, S. C. Ruppel, C. Kerans, R. F. Broadhead, W. D. Raatz, and C. L. Breton

Oil-Play Analysis of the Permian Basin: A Tool for Increasing Recovery from a Mature Oil-Producing Province

Regional E&P in the Americas (AAPG)

Monday
1:40 p.m.
Room 317C

S. Nordfjord, J.A. Austin, Jr., and J.A. Goff

Stratigraphic Analysis of New Jersey Mid-Outer Continental Shelf Surficial Stratigraphy: Implications for Deposition, Erosion and Preservation during the Last Eustatic Lowstand and Holocene Transgression

Recent Advances in Shallow Marine to Non-Marine Siliciclastic Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization (SEPM)

Monday
1:40 p.m.
General Assembly C

W.E. Galloway

Participant of the SEPM Research Forum

SEPM Forum: High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy: Is the Model Breaking Apart?

Monday
3:20 p.m.
Room 311

Escalona, A., P. Mann, and D. Gorney

Multiphase Tectonic Evolution of Northwestern Venezuela and Its Offshore Area: Implications for the Distribution of Source and Reservoir Rocks

Regional E&P in the Americas (AAPG)

Monday
03:40 p.m.
Room 317

Wu, X. and W.E. Galloway

The Upper Miocene Sedimentation and Salt Tectonics of the East Central Gulf of Mexico Basin

Tectonics and Sedimentation of Mobile Substrates II (SEPM)

Monday
3:40 p.m.
General Assembly A

R. G. Loucks, C. Kerans, X. Janson, and A. Marhx

Origin and organization of mass-transported carbonate debris in the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Tamabra Formation, Poza Rica field area, Mexico

SEPM Research Symposium: The Significance of Mass Transport Deposits in Deepwater Environments II

Monday
4:20
General Assembly B

J. W. Jennings, L. Zhang, N. Nair, S.L. Bryant, and F. Jerry Lucia

Fluid Flow in a Touching-Vug Cretaceous Carbonate Outcrop: Measurements and Models from Millimeters to Kilometers

Recent Discoveries and Play Openers: Mature Basins (AAPG)

Monday
4:40 p.m.
General Assembly B

 

Monday Morning Posters

 

F. L. Bonnaffé, D.C. Jennette, J.R. Andrews, D.R. Pyles, R. Bouroullec, and M. Tomasso

A Method for Acquiring and Processing Ground-Based LiDAR Data in Difficult to Access Outcrops for use in 3-D Virtual-Reality Models

3-D Outcrop Imaging, Reservoir Analogs and Teaching (SEPM)
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

Castellanos, H.A.* and P. Mann

Sequence Stratigraphy and Structure of the Miocene Guantao and Pliocene Minghuazhen Formations, Zhao Dong Field, Bohai Bay, Eastern China

Selected Academic Research Topics: AAPG Student Presentations
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

R. Forkner* and L.A. Hinnov

Synsedimentary Extension and its Effect on Platform Carbonate Cycle Stacking: the Norian Dolomia Principale, the Dolomites, N. Italy

Recent Advances in Carbonate Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization (SEPM)
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

T.F. Hentz, W.A. Ambrose, and E.C. Potter

Depositional Facies, Reservoir Distribution, and Infield Potential of the Lower Atoka Group (Bend Conglomerate) in Boonsville Field, Fort Worth Basin, Texas: New Look at an Old Play

Case Studies of Bypassed Pays and Plays: Missed Opportunities and Lessons Learned (AAPG)
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

A. Osman** and R. Steel

Deltaic to Estuarine Regime Change on Proximal Paleo-Orinoco Shelf: Morne L’Enfer Formation, South Trinidad

Selected Academic Research Topics: AAPG Student Presentations
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

R.M. Phelps** and C. Kerans

Outer Ramp Carbonate Mudstone Channelization and Levee Development, Last Chance Canyon, NM

Recent Advances in Carbonate Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization (SEPM)
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

S.C. Ruppel, R. H. Jones, F. Jerry Lucia, F. P. Wang, H. Zeng, J. Kane, and J. W. Jennings

Fundamentals of rock-based reservoir modeling; A case history from the Lower Permian Fullerton field, Permian Basin

Core Workshop -- Giant Hydrocarbon Reservoirs of the World: From Rocks to Reservoir Characterization and Modeling (AAPG/SEPM)
Poster

Monday
8:30-5:00
Ballroom A

Scott, S.Z.** and C. Kerans

Along Strike Variability in a Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Ramp Setting, Last Chance Canyon, NM

Recent Advances in Carbonate Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization (SEPM)

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

M. Tomasso, F. L. Bonnaffé, D. Pyles, X. Janson, R. Bouroullec, D.C. Jennette, J.A. Bellian, and C. Kerans

Application of Seismic Forward Modeling of Detailed Outcrop Data in Improving Sub-Surface Interpretation

3-D Outcrop Imaging, Reservoir Analogs and Teaching (SEPM)
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

M. Ward**, S. E. Laubach, and R. Marrett

Testing the use of Microfractures to Predict Fracture Orientation and Intensity, La Boca Formation, NE Mexico

Matrix/Fracture Flow Interaction (SEPM)
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

 

Monday Afternoon Posters

 

R. Bouroullec and D. Pyles

Large sand extrusions affecting slope channel architecture and evolution, Mio-Pliocene Monterey and Capistrano Formations, Dana Point Harbor, California

Tectonics and Sedimentation of Mobile Substrates (SEPM)
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

U. Hammes

Shale-Ridge and Fault Geometries in Growth-Faulted Subbasins Along the Central and South Texas Gulf Coast: Oligocene Frio Formation

Tectonics and Sedimentation of Mobile Substrates (SEPM)
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

J. W. Jennings

The Effect of Scaleup on Bivariate Statistics: Insight into Modeling Imperfectly Correlated Porosity and Permeability

Data Mining: How the Forest Can Help See the Trees (AAPG)
Poster

Monday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

 

Tuesday Talks

 

B.A. Hardage

Seismic Estimation of Gas Hydrate Concentrations in Deep-Water Environments: Assumptions and Limitations

Gas Hydrates

Tuesday
8:45 a.m.
Room 311

W.A. Ambrose

First-order Relationships Between Lunar Crater Morphology, Degree of Degradation, and Relative Age: The Crater Degradation Index

Astrogeology: Moon, Mars, and Beyond (AAPG)

Tuesday
9:25 a.m.
Room 312

F. Jerry Lucia

Why Do You Think Wireline Logs Will Recognize Your Carbonate Facies; Here Is How It Works

Recent Advances in Carbonate Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization (SEPM)

Tuesday
10:45 a.m.
Room 315

D. Pyles, R.T. Beaubouef, D.C. Jennette, C. Rossen, M. Tomasso, R. W. Lovell, and A. R. Sprague

Insights into Reservoir Characteristics of Sinuous Deep-Water Channel Fills from Outcrop Analogs--Part I: Stratigraphic and Sedimentologic Evolution of a Sinuous Slope Channel-Fill, Beacon Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, W., Texas

Connectivity and Performance of Deepwater Reservoirs (SEPM)

Tuesday
1:20 p.m.
Room 306

L. Seidler, J. Stewart, B. J. Fischer, C. J. Lyttle, A. R. Sprague, D. Box, J. R. Maynard, K. M. Campion, R. T. Beaubouef, and D. R. Pyles

Insights into Reservoir Characteristics of Sinuous Deep-Water Channel Fills from Outcrop Analogs--Part 2: Testing Production Scenarios Using Outcrops as Templates for Geologic and Reservoir Simulation Models

Connectivity and Performance of Deepwater Reservoirs (SEPM)

Tuesday
1:40 p.m.
Room 306

T.E. Playton*

Latest Wolfcampian Tectonism as a Control on Early Leonardian Carbonate Slope Channel Complexes

Recent Advances in Carbonate Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization (SEPM)

Tuesday
3:20 p.m.
Room 315

Y.K. Altobi*

High Frequency Cycles to Supersequences: Stratigraphic Controls on Early Dolomite Distributions Within Peritidal and Subtidal Carbonates, the Cupido Formation, Sierra Madre Oriental, NE Mexico

Recent Advances in Carbonate Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization (SEPM)

Tuesday
4:00 p.m.
Room 315

Aschoff, J.*, R. Steel, and Kirschbaum, M..

Relationships between Thrust-Belt-Controlled Conglomerates and Extensive Sandstone Tongues in the Cordilleran Foreland Basin, USA

Tectonics and Sedimentation of Fold and Thrust Belts II

Tuesday
4:00 p.m.
General Assembly C

J.F.W. Gale, R.H. Lander, R.M. Reed

Predicting Fracture and Porosity Evolution in Dolostone

Recent Discoveries and Play Openers: Mature Basins (AAPG)

Tuesday
4:20 p.m.
General Assembly B.

 

Tuesday Morning Posters

 

L.G. Moscardelli* and L. Wood

Seismic Geomorphology of Mass Transport Deposits and Controls on Formation and Character, Eastern Offshore Trinidad and Venezuela

SEPM Research Symposium: The Significance of Mass Transport Deposits in Deepwater Environments I
Poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

R. H. Treviño, L. F. Brown, Jr, R. G. Loucks, and U. Hammes

Using “Wheeler Diagrams” as an Exploration Tool in the Gulf of Mexico

Out of the Box E&P: Integrated and Innovative Approaches to Exploration and Production (AAPG)
Poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

 

Tuesday Afternoon Posters

 

J. A. Bellian, C. Kerans, R. A. Beck, Y. Price, and K. Nedunuri

Calcite-Dolomite Delineation Using Airborne Hyperspectral Data for Ordovician Paleokarst Mapping

Modeling Karstified Reservoirs (SEPM)
Poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

J.M. Flint** and L. Wood

Deltaic and Shallow-marine Seismic Geomorphology of the West Natuna Basin: Implications for Reservoir Architecture and Basin Evolution

Practical Significance of Geobodies in Facies Modeling (SEPM)
Poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

Gary, M.*, N. Fairfield, W. Stone, D. Wettergreen, G. Kantor, and J. M. Sharp

DEPTHX: Underwater mapping and imaging of deep karst shafts

Modeling Karstified Reservoirs (SEPM)
poster

Tuesday
1:15 - 5:00 p.m.
Exhibition Hall C

R. G. Loucks

Reservoir-Model Analog and Pore-Network Summary for Ellenburger Coalesced Collapsed Paleocave Systems

Modeling Karstified Reservoirs (SEPM)
Poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

A. McDonnell, T. Dooley, and R. G. Loucks

Collapse/sag features in northern Fort Worth Basin, Texas: suprastratal deformation associated with coalesced paleocave system collapse or wrench fault sags?

Modeling Karstified Reservoirs (SEPM)
Poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

L. Moscardelli*, D. Woods, and L. Wood

Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology Study in Fluvial Systems – A New Approach

Recent Advances in Siliciclastic Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization II (SEPM)
poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

C. Olariu and J.F. Ferguson

Stratigraphic Inversion Using a Genetic Algorithm: Lessons about Non-Uniqueness

Practical Significance of Geobodies in Facies Modeling (SEPM)
poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

C. Olariu and R. Steel

High Sediment-Supply Shelf and Shelf-break Morphology; Implications for Interpretation of Ancient Shelf Margins

Modern Analogs from Source to Sink (SEPM)
Poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

D. Pyles

Hierarchical Stacking of Submarine Channels and their Depositional Lobes in Distributary Landscapes, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Western Ireland

Recent Advances in Siliciclastic Facies Models: Implications for Reservoir Characterization II (SEPM)
Poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

C.M. Sanchez** and L. Wood

Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of Pliocene and Miocene-Age Fluvio-Deltaic Reservoirs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Shelf Province

Practical Significance of Geobodies in Facies Modeling (SEPM)
Poster

Tuesday
Exhibition Hall C
1:15-5:00

 

Wednesday Talks

 

Yoshida, S., R. Steel, and Dalrymple, R.

Depositional-Process Changes in A Sequence-Stratigraphic Context: An Ingredient in A New Generation of Sequence-Stratigraphic and Basin Models

Modern Analogs From Source to Sink

Wednesday
8:05 a.m.
Room 306

L. Wood

Source-to-Sink Sediment Movements in Structurally Complex Setting: The Role of Gateway Basins

Modern Analogs from Source to Sink (SEPM)

Wednesday
8:25 a.m.
Room 306

T. P. Dooley, M.P.A. Jackson, and M. R. Hudec

Allochthonous Salt Extrusion, Roof Dispersion, and Intrusive Import and Export of Salt in Squeezed Stocks

Tectonics and Sedimentation of Mobile Substrates I (SEPM)

Wednesday
9:05 a.m.
General Assembly B

E.H. Guevara, P.C. Hackley, S. Sakurai, P.D. Warwick, C.L. Breton, M.S. Hopkins, and R. Mendoza

Stratigraphic Locations and Rank Determination of Subsurface Pennsylvanian Coals in North-Central Texas: Pilot Study for Coalbed-Methane Potential Assessment

Overlooked and Out-of-Favor Plays (AAPG)

Wednesday
9:05 a.m.
General Assembly C

J. M. Gregg, K. L. Shelton, I. D. Somerville, W. R. Wright, A. W. Johnson, Z. R. Nagy, S. P. Becker

Carbonate Diagenesis in a Geologically Complex Region – Lower Carboniferous of the Southern Irish Midlands

Recent Advances in Carbonate Diagenesis (SEPM)

Wednesday
10:05 a.m.
Room 316

M. R. Hudec, M.P.A. Jackson, and D.D. Schultz-Ela

Mechanics of the Advance of Buried Salt Sheets and Implications for Predicting Subsalt Pore Pressures

Tectonics and Sedimentation of Mobile Substrates I (SEPM)

Wednesday
11:05 a.m.
General Assembly B

Petter, A.L.** and R. Steel

High-latitude Recipe for Sand Delivery to the Deepwater via Hyperpycnal Flow: A Greenhouse Example from the Early Eocene, Central Spitsbergen Basin

High Latitude Depositional Systems

Wednesday
1:40 p.m.
Room 306

Uroza, C.A.* and R. Steel

Highstand Shelf-Edge Deltas: An Example from High-Latitude Eocene West Spitsbergen, Norway

High Latitude Depositional Systems (SEPM)

Wednesday
2:00 p.m.
Room 306

 

Wednesday Morning Posters

 

Castellanos, H.A.*, A. Escalona, L. Rodriguez, and P. Mann

Tectonic and stratigraphic controls on the Orinoco heavy oil belt, eastern Venezuela foreland basin

Regional E&P in the Americas (AAPG)
poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

Chaderton, N.*, L. Wood, and P. Mann

Seismic Stratigraphy and Structure of The Crest of The Barbados Prism and Adjacent Tobago Basin

Regional E&P in the Americas (AAPG)
poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

Escalona, A. and P. Mann

Oil and Gas Prospects in the Venezuelan Offshore Area Identified Using a Regional Grid of 2D Seismic Lines

Regional E&P in the Americas (AAPG)
Poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

J.F.W. Gale, R.M. Reed, and R.H. Lander

Synkinematic Carbonate Fracture-Sealing Cements in Opening-Mode Fractures: Characteristics and Models

Fractured Clastics and Carbonates--What Constrains Their Reservoir Limits? (EMD)
Poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

Garciacaro, E.J.**, P. Mann, Escalona, A., and L. Wood

Stratigraphic Architecture and Basin Fill Evolution of the Columbus Foreland Basin, Eastern Offshore Trinidad

Regional E&P in the Americas (AAPG)
poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

L.A. Gomez* and R. Marrett

Timing, Diagenesis and the Spatial Arrangement of Fractures: an Example from the Cupido Fm., Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico

Fractured Clastics and Carbonates--What Constrains Their Reservoir Limits? (EMD)

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

L.A. Gomez* and R. Marrett

Relationship between Aperture and Spatial Arrangement of Opening-Mode Fractures: Preferential Positioning of Large Fractures Inside Clusters

Fractured Clastics and Carbonates--What Constrains Their Reservoir Limits? (EMD)
Poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

J.N. Hooker, S. E. Laubach, J.F.W. Gale, and R.M. Reed

Microfractures in Sandstone

Fractured Clastics and Carbonates--What Constrains Their Reservoir Limits? (EMD)
Poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

P Mann, G. Christeson, A. Escalona, A. Levander, C. Zelt, B. Magnani, D. Sawyer, and M. Schmitz

Plumbing the Depths of the Caribbean-South American Arc-Continent Collisional Zone Using Long Seismic Reflection and Refraction Transects

Regional E&P in the Americas (AAPG)
poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

P Mann, J.-C. Hippolyte, and J. Weber

Neogene Tectonic Phases of Central and Southern Trinidad Based on Brittle Tectonic Analysis of Faults Exposed in Coastal Cliffs and Rock Quarries

Regional E&P in the Americas (AAPG)
poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

M. D. Soto**, P. Mann, and L. Wood

Structural and Stratigraphic Evidence for the Offshore Extension of the Central Range Fault Zone of Trinidad into the Eastern Offshore Region

Regional E&P in the Americas (AAPG)
poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

K.D. Tushman**, S. E. Laubach, and R. Marrett

Fracture Pattern Heterogeneity in Km-scale Reservoir-Analog Outcrops

Fractured Clastics and Carbonates--What Constrains Their Reservoir Limits? (EMD)
Poster

Wednesday
Exhibition Hall C
8:30-12:00

* PhD Student
** Master's Student