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Field Course

Instructor:

W. Lansing Taylor, Ph.D.Senior Research Scientist

Course Structure2-day Field Course

Duration2 days

LocationPennsylvania & Maryland

January 13, 2017 10:42 AM

The Marcellus Formation & the Allegheny Structural Front

Available to EGI Corporate Associate Members

Outline• A 2-day geologic field excursion in Pennsylvania and Maryland for

companies working the Appalachian Basin.• View the complete stratigraphic sequence, Cambrian through

Carboniferous, focused on the Marcellus interval.• Compare deformation in outcrop with seismic, focused on how

mechanical stratigraphy affects deformation style.• Discuss the Marcellus Petroleum System and its relationship to regional

tectonics.• Share insights for seismic interpretation and sweet spot identification

Figure 1: Field Trip Location and Logistics

A) The Appalachian Basin. Contours on top Marcellus

B) Field Trip Venue, 2 hours east of Pittsburgh at the Allegheny Structural Front

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Short Course | The Marcellus Formation & the Allegheny Structural Front | Instructor: W. Lansing Taylor

Figure 2: Representative Shale Outcrops

A) Stratigraphic Column

B) Large exposure of the Upper Devonian Brallier Formation

C) Detail of the Marcellus Formation

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Short Course | The Marcellus Formation & the Allegheny Structural Front | Instructor: W. Lansing Taylor

Kilometer-scale

Meter-scale

Millimeter-scale

A

B

C

Figure 3: Representative Structural Outcrops

A) Syncline, Sidling Hill, MD

B) Detail showing impact of mechanical stratigraphy

C) Small-scale en échelon veins

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Lansing (Lans) Taylor Ph.D. has seventeen years of experience in the oil and gas industry working for Anadarko Petroleum, Talisman Energy, and as an independent consultant and industry instructor. Dr. Taylor has developed extensive knowledge of the tectonic and structural settings of petroleum systems across the globe. His primary areas of experience include the western cordillera of the Americas and their associated foreland basins and the Tethyan margin from North Africa through the Middle East to South East Asia. Lans has worked on hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation projects in Alaska, Canada, the US Rockies, West Texas, the Gulf Coast, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina; and Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Jordan, Iraq, UAE, Oman, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, PNG, and Australia.

Lans received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1999 as Phillips Fellow in the Rock Fracture Project where he specialized in quantitative structural geology, neotectonics, and geomechanics. Part of his research at EGI and much of his prior work in the industry focuses on the application of mechanical principals to structural restoration and to the prediction of natural fractures and other stress-dependent reservoir properties. ‘From mantle plume to molecular cohesion’ was the theme of his opening address for the 2013 Houston Geological Society Conference ‘Geomechanics for Unconventionals,’ a biennial conference where Lans serves as chair of the organizing committee.

Lans is recognized as an outstanding teacher and field course leader for industry. He instructs several popular courses including ‘Structural Geology for Petroleum Exploration,’ ‘Structural Geology for Reservoir Characterization,’ and ‘Structural Styles for Seismic Interpretation,’ addressing the morphology and evolution of the fundamental structural forms that create hydrocarbon traps. Noted as an enthusiastic and knowledgeable field guide, Lans has led more than 850 geoscientists on trips to the Basin and Range in Southern Nevada, the Northern Rockies in Montana, the Paradox Basin in Utah, the Cretaceous Platform of central Texas, the Pedernal uplift in New Mexico, the Canadian Cordillera in Alberta, and the Spanish Pyrenees.

Dr. Taylor’s current research at EGI includes basin-scale petroleum systems evaluation, using seismic and well data, surface mapping, and potential fields to build the structural and stratigraphic framework necessary to predict hydrocarbon prospectivity in hydrocarbon-bearing basins. Lans is also working on fundamental research in structural geology with two new projects, one for mechanical stratigraphy and one on rotation in continuum, including research examining the effects of mechanical stratigraphy on subsurface stress heterogeneity to improve our understanding of how natural and hydraulically stimulated fractures propagate through layered materials. The second project is a combination of regional tectonic interpretation with numerical simulation and is focused on documenting the patterns, scales, and temporal evolution of rotational deformation within solid material.

Research Interests

• Structural geology & tectonics

• Geomechanics in unconventional resources

• Petroleum system evaluation

Email ltaylor@egi.utah.edu

Phone 801-581-8430

W. Lansing Taylor, PhD

October 27, 2016 4:35 PM

Senior Research Scientist & Advisor