Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

and Gulf Coast Section of SEPM

68TH ANNUAL CONVENTION SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA

SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 2, 2018

CONVENTION PROGRAM

Hosted by the Shreveport Geological Society

Special Thanks to our Platinum Sponsors

Baker Hughes

Chevron Products Company

Will-Drill Operating

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Convention!! Welcome to the 2018 Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies and Gulf Coast Section of the Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists annual convention in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Shreveport Geological Society, founded in 1924, is honored and proud to be hosting the convention for the ninth time in the

entire GCAGS-GCSSEPM history dating back to 1951. Our local committee chairmen have worked diligently for the past three years to provide you today with a quality, well informed, modern technological program and we hope you take full advantage of the enjoyable educational and networking opportunities herein. Almost all events and programs are located on the second floor of the Shreveport Convention Center for your convenience. Enclosed in this program are technical session topics, locations, and times for the scheduled 66 oral and 40 poster presentations, and other events. You will find numerous topics of interest, ranging from a Gulf Deepwater session to a critical assessment of the Unconventional Shale plays now dominating our industry. An outstanding session on “Climate Change” will evaluate trends and concepts affecting us for future generations (What Have We Done to Our Planet?). Field studies along with technological advances topics including “Artificial Intelligence” will be offered for your assessment. Take advantage of the outstanding speakers we have during our lunches and breakfasts, who will evaluate global hydrocarbon trends, industry directions, and your planned personal career advancements. A daily free breakfast is offered in the exhibit hall, which is filled with industry vendors wishing to advertise their new products to help your company grow. Enjoy our Sunday night icebreaker networking event complete with a band for entertainment. Our premier social event, the dinner featuring “Wines of Burgundy, France” will be held Monday night at the Petroleum Club, only three blocks away from the hotel. Come join this educational event to see how geology affects your personal tastes. Guest events include the “Red River Revel Arts Festival,” a nationally acclaimed event promoting music, daily rotating national known art vendors, and local food delicacies, only five blocks from the hotel, and guaranteed to invigorate your senses. While there at the “Revel” perhaps you can drop by the Shreveport Geological Society’s “Mock Dig” and help out or enjoy and observe young children experiencing the “Thrill of Discovery.” We all need that. Our sponsors and GCAGS-GCSSEPM committee chairmen wish you an enjoyable time at our 2018 convention. We sincerely hope your educational needs and networking opportunities will be fulfilled. Have a great convention! Thank you.

Alan L. Brittain General Chairman

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THANK YOU to our sponsors for supporting the 2018 GCAGS/GCSSEPM Annual Convention and Exhibition!

Your support is essential for the success of this meeting and very much appreciated.

PLATINUM

Baker Hughes Chevron Products Company

Will-Drill Operating

GOLD Anadarko

Justiss Oil Company, Inc. Willis School of Applied Geoscience

SILVER

Halliburton Toledo Mudlogging

Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, LLC East Texas Geological Society

Franks Exploration Company, LLC Oden & Associates Stroud Petroleum

BRONZE

C H C Gerard & Associates TMR Exploration, Inc.

Ark-La-Tex Energy Buffco Production, Inc.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation Coutret and Associates, Inc.

Empresa Energy Hargrove, Smelly & Strickland

Heard, McElroy and Vestal Hill Geophysical Consulting

Kingwood Exploration Marlin Exploration, LLC Petro-Chem Operating

Sartor-Richardson

Tanos Exploration II, LLC William Whiting

Patron

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Security Exploration, Inc. ABCD GIS Mapping

Barrow-Shaver Resources LLC Bivens Energy Corporation

Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts

Brittain Geoconsulting Services

Milbird Resources, LLC Milestone Energy, LLC

Palmer Petroleum

South Texas Geological Society

Spanoil Sugar Creek Producing

Company LLC Sunland Production Company,

Inc. Yegua Energy Associates

Anonymous Auburn Energy

Rockcliff Energy LLC

Sponsors/Social Media

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Saturday, September 29, 2018 8:00 am Departure Field Trip: Oxbow Lignite Surface Mine – Mining Wilcox

Formation Lignites Overlain by Red River Alluvial Deposits, Departs from Hilton p. 29

3:00 pm–6:00 pm Registration Open, Pre-Function Area, p. 12 6:00 pm–7:00 pm GCAGS Continuity Committee Meeting (by invitation only),

Room 205, p. 11

Sunday, September 30, 2018 7:00 am–8:00 pm Registration Open, Pre-Function Area, p. 12 8:00 am–3:00 pm GCAGS Board Meeting (by invitation only), Room 208,

p. 11 8:00 am–4:00 pm Exhibitor Move-In, Halls A–D 12:30 pm–4:00 pm Short Course: Hydrology and Water Resources

Management for the Petroleum Geologist, Room 206, p. 28

1:00 pm–5:00 pm Speaker/Judges Room Open, Room 203, p. 13 5:00 pm–6:00 pm Opening Session/Awards Ceremony, Rooms 204/205,

p. 10 6:00 pm–8:00 pm Icebreaker in Exhibit Hall, Halls A–D, p. 10 Monday, October 1, 2018 7:00 am–8:00 am Speaker/Poster Presenters’ Breakfast, Room 209/210,

p. 12 7:00 am–8:00 am Judges' Breakfast, Room 209/210, p. 12 7:00 am–6:00 pm Registration Open, Pre-Function Area, p. 12 7:00 am–6:00 pm Speaker/Judges Room Open, Room 203, p. 13 7:30 am–8:30 am AAPG Leadership Breakfast (by invitation only), Hilton A

(off Hotel Lobby), p. 11 7:30 am–9:00 am Guest Hospitality Suite, Hilton Executive Boardroom (off

Hotel Lobby), p. 30 8:20 am–10:55 am Oral Session: Deepwater Gulf of Mexico, Room 206,

p. 19 8:20 am–10:55 am Oral Session: Seismic Attributes and Modern Geophysical

Technology, Rooms 204/205, p. 20 8:20 am–11:20 am Oral Session: Regional Geological Studies and

Depositional Facies Analysis, Part 1, Room 202, p. 19 8:30 am–6:00 pm Exhibits Open, Halls A–D, p. 12 8:30 am–12:30 am Poster Session I, Halls A–D, p. 24 8:30 am–9:30 am Exhibit Hall Breakfast, Halls A–D, p. 10 11:30 am–1:00 pm All-Convention Luncheon, Room 209/210, p. 16 1:00 pm–5:35 pm Oral Session: Climate Change: Current Thinking and

Assessment, Rooms 204/205, p. 20 1:30 pm–4:30 pm Oral Session: Regional Geological Studies and

Depositional Facies Analysis, Part 2, Room 202, p. 20 1:30 pm–4:30 pm Oral Session: Advanced Studies in Geology, Room 206,

p. 21 1:30 pm–6:00 pm Poster Session II, Halls A–D, p. 24

All activities on Level 2 of the Shreveport Convention Center unless otherwise noted.

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4:30 pm–6:00 pm President's Reception in Exhibit Hall, Halls A–D, p. 10 7:00 pm–10:00 pm Geology & Wine of Burgundy, France (Ticketed Event),

Petroleum Club, p. 10

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 7:00 am–12:00 noon Registration Open, Pre-Function Area, p. 12 7:00 am–8:00 am Speaker/Poster Presenters’ Breakfast, Room 209, p. 12 7:00 am–8:30 am Women in Geosciences Breakfast, Room 210, p. 16 7:00 am–5:00 pm Speaker/Judges Room Open, Room 203, p. 13 7:30 am–9:00 am Spouse Hospitality, Hilton Executive Boardroom (off Hotel

Lobby), p. 30 8:20 am–9:45 am Oral Session: Ground Water and Environmental Studies,

Part 1, Room 206, p. 22 8:20 am–10:55 am Oral Session: Lower Cotton Valley – Bossier: Jurassic

Gulf Coast Reservoirs, Rooms 204/205, p. 21 8:20 am–11:45 am Oral Session: Regional Geological Studies and

Depositional Facies Analysis, Part 3, Room 202, p. 22 8:30 am–1:00 pm Exhibits Open, Halls A–D, p. 12 8:30 am–1:00 pm Poster Session III, Halls A–D, p. 25-26 8:30 am–9:30 am Exhibit Hall Breakfast, Halls A–D, p. 10 11:45 am–1:30 pm AAPG DPA Luncheon, Room 209, p. 16 1:20 am–3:40 pm Oral Session: Geology and History, Room 202, p. 22 1:30 am–3:40 pm Oral Session: Ground Water and Environmental Studies,

Part 2, Room 206, p. 23 1:30 am–5:20 pm Oral Session: Special Session – Shale Resource Plays:

10 years later, Rooms 204/205, p. 23

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Schedule of Events

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Bradley Murchison Kelly & Shea, LLC

East Texas Geological Society

Franks Exploration Company, LLC

Halliburton

Sponsors

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All activities on Level 2 of the Shreveport Convention Center unless otherwise noted. Check at Registration to see if tickets are still

available to optional events. OPENING SESSION and AWARDS CEREMONY

Date: Sunday, September 30, 2018 Time: 5:00 pm–6:00 pm Location: Room 204/205

Join GCAGS President Ralph Richardson, GCSSEPM President Thomas Demchuk, and General Chairman Alan Brittain in welcoming attendees to Shreveport and acknowledging worthy individuals for their contribution to both GCAGS and GCSSEPM. Tom Ewing will give a short talk on the Convention of the Future. Entrance by badge only. ICEBREAKER RECEPTION

Date: Sunday, September 30, 2018 Time: 6:00 pm–8:00 pm Location: Halls A–D

See old friends and meet new ones as you check out the Exhibit Hall. Entrance by badge only. FREE BREAKFAST AT THE EXHIBITION (Sponsored by Toledo Mudlogging)

Dates: Monday and Tuesday, October 1 and 2, 2018 Time: 8:30 am–9:30 am Location: Halls A–D Cost: $0

Running short on breakfast time after reviewing that early-morning drilling report or weekend core analysis? Come join us in the exhibit hall along with the commercial vendors for a tasty quick breakfast. Commercial vendors will also be there to discuss their latest products designed to assist you. It’s a free meal each convention morning courtesy of our generous sponsor Toledo Mudlogging! ALL-CONVENTION LUNCHEON (Sponsored by Will-Drill Operating; speaker costs defrayed with help from Security Exploration, Inc.)

Date: Monday, October 1, 2018 Time: 11:30 am–1:00 pm Location: Room 209/210 Cost: $50

Join us for the All-Convention Luncheon, where John R. Dribus, will be our keynote speaker. He will discuss “The Continuing Evolution of Global Exploration.” Space is limited, so check early at the Registration Help Desk to see if tickets are still available. PRESIDENTS' RECEPTION IN THE EXHIBIT HALL (Sponsored by Baker Hughes)

Date: Monday, October 1, 2018 Time: 4:30 pm–6:00 pm Location: Halls A–D

Mix and mingle with GCAGS President Ralph Richardson and GCSSEPM President Thomas Demchuk. Entrance by badge only. GEOLOGY & WINE OF BURGUNDY, FRANCE (Sponsored by Baker Hughes)

Date: Monday, October 1, 2018 Time: 7:00 pm–10:00 pm Location: Petroleum Club of Shreveport Cost: $80 Speaker: Kevin Hill

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Kevin has presented the Annual Shreveport Geological Society Geology and Wine Dinner Meeting for 10 years. In this special edition, he explores the geology and wine of Burgundy, France. A shuttle bus will be provided between the Convention Center and the Petroleum Club from 6:15 pm to 10:15 pm. WOMEN IN GEOSCIENCES BREAKFAST (Sponsored by Auburn Energy)

Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Time: 7:00 am–8:30 am Location: Room 210 Cost: $25

Connect with Geoscience professionals and students in this special breakfast networking event. Denise Cox, AAPG President, will present “The Value of Leadership in your Geoscience Career—Life Lessons from the Petroleum Industry.” AAPG DPA LUNCHEON

Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Time: 11:45 am–1:30 pm Location: Room 209 Cost: $50

Jeff Jones, Quantum Energy Partners, will present “Looking into the 21st Century.” Join Jeff Jones in this event, hosted by the AAPG’s Division of Professional Affairs, for a plated luncheon and thought-provoking conversation.

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GCAGS Board Meeting Sunday, September 30, 8:00 am–3:00 pm Shreveport Convention Center, Room 208

GCAGS Officers, Committee Chairs, and Society Presidents or their representatives are invited to attend the Board Meeting. By invitation only.

AAPG Leadership Breakfast Monday, October 1, 7:30 am–8:30 am

Shreveport Convention Center, Hilton A (off Lobby) All representatives to the AAPG House of Delegates are invited to attend. By invitation only.

GCAGS Continuity Committee Meeting Saturday, September 29, 6:00 pm–7:00 pm Shreveport Convention Center, Room 205

By invitation only.

Special Events

REGISTRATION (Sponsored by Justiss Oil Company, Inc.) Location: Pre-Function Area Dates & Times:

Saturday, September 29 ................................................. 3:00 pm–6:00 pm Sunday, October 30 ....................................................... 7:00 am–8:00 pm Monday, October 1 ......................................................... 7:00 am–6:00 pm Tuesday, October 2 ....................................................... 7:00 am–12:00 am

THE EXHIBITION Location: Halls A–D Dates & Times:

Sunday, September 30.................................................... 6:00 pm–8:00 pm Monday, October 1 ......................................................... 8:30 am–6:00 pm Tuesday, October 2 ........................................................ 8:30 am–1:00 pm

Explore the displays of service companies, a fossil and gem dealer, research institutions, and publishers during the two days of the exhibition. Please support all those who have made this vital commitment to the success of the convention, now more than ever in these dynamic times for our industry. Breakfast items are available each day, sponsored by Toledo Mudlogging. Note: Please note that children under the age of 13 will not be allowed in the Exhibit Hall anytime during exhibit setup or teardown. During exhibit hours, children not of school-age will not be allowed into any activities within the Exhibit Hall, including the Icebreaker reception, unless they are young enough or small enough to be confined to a stroller, backpack, or front pack. School-age children will be allowed to attend the exhibition during regularly scheduled hours if they are properly registered (as students) and they wear their badges at all time. SPEAKERS & POSTER PRESENTERS BREAKFAST

Dates: Monday and Tuesday, October 1 & 2 Time: 7:00 am–8:00 am Location: Room 209/210 on Monday, Room 209 on Tuesday

All session chairs, speakers, and poster presenters are invited to attend this complimentary breakfast on the day of their presentations. You can meet the other presenters for your session and get poster presenter ribbons for your name badge. Presenter/Session Chair ribbons will be available both at the breakfast and in the Speaker Ready Room (Room 203). Poster supplies are available in the in the Ready Room. JUDGES BREAKFAST

Date: Monday, October 1 ONLY Time: 7:00 am–8:00 am Location: Room 209/210

All judges are invited to attend this complimentary breakfast on Thursday morning. Information will be provided as to judging criteria and regarding which sessions to attend. Instructions and judging forms will be available at both the breakfast and in the Speakers/Poster Presenters/Judges Room (Room 203).

THE GCAGS EXHIBITION—Where Geoscience Meets Industry: Networking, technology, information systems, and data all

under one roof!

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SPEAKERS & POSTER PRESENTERS ROOM & JUDGES TALLY ROOM Location: Room 203 Dates & Times:

Sunday, September 31.................................................... 1:00 pm–5:00 pm Monday, October 1 ......................................................... 7:00 am–6:00 pm Tuesday, October 2 ........................................................ 7:00 am–5:00 pm

STUDENT PARTICIPATION We offer a special registration fee (only $45) to facilitate student participation. This fee is applicable for students or new grads who have not yet accepted employment offers. Students may also register as a Student Volunteer. If selected, you will receive a refund of your registration fee after you have worked a half day, as assigned. This fee allows entry to the Opening Session, Icebreaker, Exhibition, all technical sessions, and a digital copy of the 2018 GCAGS Transactions. See page 31. SPOUSE & GUEST ACTIVITIES Visit us in the Hospitality Suite (Hilton Executive Boardroom), and join other GCAGS registered guests for coffee and a snack to plan your day of Shreveport attractions. Enjoy our Red River Arts Festival tour. For more information, please see page 30. POSTER SESSIONS The poster sessions will take place in the Exhibit Hall (Halls A–D). Student and professional posters covering a diverse range of topics will rotate (Monday morning–Tuesday afternoon). Authors will be available for discussion during the coffee breaks (sponsored by Halliburton) on Monday and Tuesday mornings (9:30 am–10:30 am) and Monday afternoon (2:30 pm–3:30 pm). For more information, please see pages 24–26.

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OPENING SESSION AND AWARDS CEREMONY 5:00 pm–6:00 pm • Sunday, September 31

Level 2 of the Shreveport Convention Center, Room 204/205

Join GCAGS President Ralph Richardson and General Chairman Alan Brittain in welcoming attendees to Shreveport and acknowledging worthy individuals for their contribution to both GCAGS and GCSSEPM. Entrance by badge only. The Awards Ceremony recognizes the 2018 recipients of GCAGS and GCSSEPM special honors, as well as the awardees of the 2017 best presentations and best published papers in the 2017 GCAGS Transactions and GCAGS Journal, all of whose works have made important contributions to GCAGS and the advancement of geosciences. • The GCAGS Transactions (2018) will be dedicated will be presented to C. Ray

Scurlock. • 2018 AAPG Gulf Coast Section Imperial Barrel Award – 1st Place, University

of Louisiana at Lafayette; 2nd Place, University of New Orleans, 3rd Place, Auburn University. Global Finals: 1st Place, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

• The 2017 AAPG Gulf Coast Section A. I. Levorsen Memorial Award – John R. Dribus, “Geologic Hazards Associated with Exploration in Deep Water and around Salt Structures in the Gulf of Mexico”

• The 2017 President’s Award for Outstanding Paper, GCAGS Journal (vol. 6), will be presented to:

Qifei Huang and Yuefeng Sun, “Carbonate Reservoir Characterization Using the Cementation Factor: A Case Study of Little Cedar Creek Field, Onshore Alabama”

• The 2017 Thomas A. Philpott Excellence of Presentation Awards will be presented to:

1st Place: Peter Clift, Yuting Li, and Peng Zhou for their paper, “Sediment Transport Processes and Rates in the Indus Submarine Fan, Arabian Sea” 2nd Place: Shirley P. Dutton, William A. Ambrose, Bohdan B. Horodecky, and Robert G. Loucks for their paper, “Regional Variation in Composition, Diagenesis, and Reservoir Quality of Onshore Jurassic Cotton Valley Sandstones, Northern Gulf of Mexico” 3rd Place: David A. Ferrill, Ronald N. McGinnis, Alan P. Morris, Kevin J. Smart, Kirk D. H. Gulliver, Daniel Lehrmann, and Mark Evans for their paper, “Mechanical Stratigraphic and Tectonic Controls on Natural Fracturing in the Eagle Ford Formation”

• The 2017 Gordon I. Atwater Best Poster Awards will be presented to: 1st Place: Peter R. Rose for his poster, “Stratigraphy of the Fredericksburg-Washita Division (Comanche-Cretaceous), Texas, Emphasizing the Person and Georgetown Formations: The “Classic” View” 2nd Place: Pin Lin and Paul Mann for their poster, “Comparison of Regional, Total Tectonic Subsidence Variations in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Produced during Two-Stage, Mesozoic Basin Opening” 3rd place: Vsevolod Egorov, Robert Neese, and Jonathan Neese for their poster, “Delineation of Structural Trends in Caldwell County, TX”

• The 2017 Grover E. Murray Best Published Paper Awards, GCAGS Transactions, will be presented to:

1st place: Scott W. Singleton for his paper, “Occurrence of Fossil Woods in Texas, Primarily the Cretaceous and Tertiary” 2nd place: James J. Willis and William G. Bixler, III for their paper, “Deformation of the Pennsylvanian Collings Ranch Conglomerate, Arbuckle Mountains, Southern Oklahoma: An Outcrop Mesoscale Intragranular and Intergranular Deformation Analogue to Subsurface Sandstone and Carbonate Reservoirs”

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3rd place: David L. McCabe, Alan J. Katz, Arthur H. Thomson, and Robert W. England for their paper, “Application of Electroseismic Technology for Direct Hydrocarbon Detection in Conventional Reservoirs—A Case History”

• The GCAGS Statesmanship Awards (2018) will be presented to Christopher D. McLindon.

• The GCAGS Distinguished Service Awards (2018) will be presented to Dawn S. Bissell, Jeffrey A. Spencer, and James J. Willis.

• The GCAGS Don R. Boyd Medal for Excellence in Gulf Coast Geology (2018) will be presented to Thomas E. Ewing.

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ALL-CONVENTION LUNCHEON (Sponsored by Will-Drill Operating)

“The Continuing Evolution of Global Exploration” Speaker: John R. Dribus

Date: Monday, October 1, 2018

Time: 11:30 am–1:00 pm Location: Room 209/210

Cost: $50

WOMEN IN GEOSCIENCES BREAKFAST “The Value of Leadership in your Geoscience Career—

Life Lessons from the Petroleum Industry” Speaker: Denise Cox, AAPG President

Date: Tuesday Morning, October 2, 2018

Time: 7:00 am–8:30 am Location: Room 210

Cost: $25

AAPG DPA LUNCHEON “Looking into the 21st Century”

Speaker: Jeff Jones, Quantum Energy Partners

Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Time: 11:45 am–1:30 pm

Location: Room 209 Cost: $50

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Stroud Petroleum

TMR Exploration, Inc.

Hargrove, Smelly & Strickland

CONVENTION TRANSPORTATION (Sponsored by Milbird Resources)

Shuttle transportation will be available on Monday evening to and from the Petroleum Club for the Wine Dinner and will leave from the front of the Hilton. Feel free to walk if the weather is nice; it's just two blocks away. For those going to the Red River Revel, the hotel shuttle will be happy to drop you off. Again, if the weather is good and you feel up to it, the Revel's activities are about a 12 minute walk.

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MONDAY MORNING • OCTOBER 1 Regional Geological Studies and Depositional Facies Analysis, Part 1 (Room 202) (8:20 am–11:20 am)

Deepwater Gulf of Mexico (Room 206) (8:20 am–10:55 am)

Seismic Attributes and Modern Geophysical Technology (Rooms 204/205) (8:20 am–10:55 am)

Poster Session 1 (Exhibit Hall, Halls A–D) (8:30 am–12:30 pm)

MONDAY AFTERNOON • OCTOBER 1 All-Convention Luncheon (Sponsored by Will-Drill Operating) (Rooms 209/210) (11:30 am–1:00 pm)

Climate Change: Current Thinking and Assessment (Rooms 204/205) (1:00 pm–5:35 pm)

Regional Geological Studies and Depositional Facies Analysis, Part 2 (Room 202) (1:30 pm–4:30 pm)

Advanced Studies in Geology (Room 206) (1:30 pm–4:30 pm) Poster Session 2 (Exhibit Hall, Halls A–D) (1:30 pm–6:00 pm)

TUESDAY MORNING • OCTOBER 2 Women in Geosciences Breakfast (Sponsored by Auburn Energy) (Room 210) (7:00 am–8:30 am) Lower Cotton Valley – Bossier: Jurassic Gulf Coast Reservoirs (Rooms 204/205) (8:20 am–10:55 am) Regional Geological Studies and Depositional Facies Analysis, Part 3 (Room 202) (8:20 am–11:55 am) Ground Water and Environmental Studies, Part 1 (Room 206) (8:20 am–10:45 am) Poster Session 3 (Exhibit Hall, Halls A–D) (8:30 am–1:00 pm)

TUESDAY AFTERNOON • OCTOBER 2 AAPG DPA Luncheon (Room 209) (11:45 am–1:30 pm) Geology and History (Room 202) (1:30 pm–3:40 pm) Ground Water and Environmental Studies, Part 2 (Room 206) (1:30 pm–3:40 pm) Special Session – Shale Resource Plays: 10 years later (Rooms 204/205) (1:30 pm–5:20 pm)

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REGIONAL GEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND DEPOSITIONAL FACIES ANALYSIS, PART 1

(Room 202) Session Chair: Jamey Walker

8:20 OPENING REMARKS 8:30 Lawrence R. Baria and Ezat Heydari: The Smackover Facies Distribution at

Brooklyn Field, Conecuh County, Alabama 8:55 Steven Walkinshaw: The Jackson Gas Rock, a Unique Upper Cretaceous

(Selma Chalk) Lithofacies, Mississippi 9:20 Kiana McFadden and Ezat Heydari: Sedimentology, Petrography, and

Mineralogy of the Tallahatta Formation near the City of Meridian, Mississippi 9:45 BREAK 10:05 Osareni C. Ogiesoba and Angela K. Eluwa: Structural Styles of Eocene

Jackson and Oligocene Vicksburg Formations within the Rio Grande and Houston Embayments near the San Marcos Arch, Refugio and Calhoun Counties, South Texas Gulf Coast

10:30 Randy Bissell: Concepts of Stratigraphic Correlation—Applied Imagination: Comprehending and Expanding the Vision of Infinite Geologic Detail with Limited Data

10:55 Robert G. Loucks: Eagle Ford–A Depositional Setting and Processes in Southwestern Texas: An Example of Deeper-Water, Below-Storm-Wave-Base Carbonate Sedimentation on a Drowned Shelf

DEEPWATER GULF OF MEXICO

(Room 206) Session Chair: Scott Comegys

8:20 OPENING REMARKS 8:30 Dominic J. Smith: Success and Failure in the Deepwater Norphlet Play,

United States Gulf of Mexico 8:55 James Pasley and James J. Willis: Evaluating Petrophysical Variations of

Turbidite Depositional Systems with Implications for Enhanced Reservoir Modeling in Lobster Field, Ewing Bank 873, Gulf of Mexico

9:20 Paul Mann: Hydrocarbon Prospectivity of Rifted, Conjugate Margins of the Gulf of Mexico, Central Atlantic, and South Atlantic

9:45 BREAK 10:05 William A. Ambrose and Shirley P. Dutton: Depositional and Diagenetic

Controls on Reservoir Quality in Deepwater Sandstones in the Lower Wilcox Group, Lavaca Canyon Complex in the Hallettsville Embayment, Southeastern Texas Gulf Coast

10:30 Muhammad Nawaz Bugti and Paul Mann: Extracting Fault and Regional Salt Flow Information from a High-Resolution, Bathymetric Map of the Shelf, Slope, and Abyssal Plain of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

All sessions will be held on Level 2 of the Shreveport Convention Center.

Poster Sessions: Exhibit Hall (Halls A–D) Oral Sessions: Rooms 202, 204/205 & 206 Breakfast/Luncheons: Rooms 209 and 210

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Technical Program

Coffee Breaks Sponsored by Halliburton

SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES AND MODERN GEOPHYSICAL TECHNOLOGY (Rooms 204/205)

Session Chair: Woodie Huffman 8:20 OPENING REMARKS 8:30 Alan R. Huffman: Recent Advances in Pore Pressure Prediction in Complex

Geologic Environments 8:55 Colby Reece and Melinda Shaw Faulkner: Using Electrical Resistivity

Surveys to Determine Subsurface Connectivity in a Karst Terrain, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas

9:20 Robert V. Schneider, Lenora D. Perkins, Margarita Wilhelm, and Ivan Villareal: Observation of Anomalous Seismic P-Wave Velocities in Catahoula-Aged Ash, South Texas

9:45 BREAK 10:05 Eric Getz: Will A.I. Make Interpreters Obsolete? Enhancing Seismic

Interpretation using Artificial Intelligence 10:30 Deborah K. Sacrey: Machine Learning using Multiple Seismic Attributes could

be the Paradigm Shift in the Interpretation Process

MONDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 1

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CLIMATE CHANGE: CURRENT THINKING AND ASSESSMENT (Rooms 204/205)

Session Chair: Rick Turner

1:00 OPENING REMARKS 1:10 John Christy: Climate Change Ideas Meet the Scientific Method 1:40 David R. Legates: Climate Models: Forecasts of the Future? 2:20 Douglas Carlson: Which will Dominate Future Global Temperature Changes

in the Next 200 Years: Solar Irradiance or Greenhouse Gases? 2:55 BREAK 3:15 H. Leighton Steward: CO2—Greening Earth and Saving Lives 3:50 H. Sterling Burnett: What if Climate Skeptics are Wrong? Best Policy

Responses in the Face of Anthropogenic Climate Change 4:25 Harold H. Doiron: An Independent, Objective Assessment of the

Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) Issue 5:00 John Dale Dunn: Warming is a Benefit to Humans and the Biosphere

REGIONAL GEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND DEPOSITIONAL FACIES ANALYSIS, PART 2

(Room 202) Session Chair: Jamey Walker

1:30 OPENING REMARKS 1:40 Jacob Allan Meinerts and Melinda Shaw Faulkner: Complex Reef Mound

Environment on a Cretaceous Shelf: Facies Analyses and Depositional Environment of the Owl Mountain Province, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas

2:05 Gary L. Kinsland, Kody Shellhouse, Eric Muchiri, Forrest Frederick, and Kevin Broussard: Analyses and Interpretations of a Conventional Core from Central Louisiana, which Contains Deposits Resulting from the Effects of the Chicxulub Impact

2:30 Richard A. Urwin and LaRell Nielson: Petrographic and SEM Analyses of the Fort Terrett Formation of the Lower Edwards Group, near Junction, Texas

2:55 BREAK 3:15 John R. Dribus: Considering Key Geologic Risk Factors in Basin Margin

Turbidite Plays Utilizing Analogs from the African Margin

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3:40 Nick Loundagin and Gary L. Kinsland: Structural Styles and Geotectonic Elements in Northwestern Mississippi: Interpreted from Gravity, Magnetic, and Proprietary 2D Seismic Data

4:05 Khaled S. Amrouni, Osama Rahil Shaltami, Ahmed S. El-Hawat, Michael C. Pope, Aimen Ame, Essa A. Elbileikia, Hassan S. El-Bargathi, Adel A. Obeidi, Khalid A. M. Mustafa, Ahmed M. A. Al-Alwani, Mohamed SH. Abdalla El-Jahmi, Salah S. Abdelsalam El-Ekhfifi, and Matthew P. Wehner: Geochemical Analysis of the Carbonate-Evaporite Miocene Outcrops in the Cyrenaica Region of Libya: Cyrenaica Platform and Sirt Basin

ADVANCED STUDIES IN GEOLOGY

(Room 206) Session Chair: Ian Byram

1:30 OPENING REMARKS 1:40 Timothy W. Duex, Ben Lissard, and Steve Sinitiere: Potential Field

Observations of Soil-Water Tension throughout a Capillary Fringe in New Iberia, Louisiana

2:05 Scott G. Comegys, Qiu G. Lu, and Patrick K. Johnson: The Effects of Complex Geology in Planning Long Horizontal Wells

2:30 James J. Willis, Duncan S. McIntosh, Jr., Gregory J. Ferguson, Jesse W. Zwennes, James Pasley, and Garrett M. Goettel: Quick-Look Deterministic Approach for Evaluating Shale Distribution in Sandstone Reservoirs: Progress Report

2:55 BREAK 3:15 Derrick Whiting, Patricia DuBois, and Tracie Walker: Disposal/Injection

Crisis—A Step by Step Evaluation Method to Determine if a Well is at the End of Life when it Stops Taking Fluid

3:40 Lauri A. Burke, Ofori N. Pearson, Scott A. Kinney, and Janet K. Pitman: Methodology for Correcting Bottomhole Temperatures Acquired from Wireline Logging Measurements in the Onshore U.S. Gulf of Mexico Basin to Characterize the Thermal Regime of Total Petroleum Systems

4:05 Gregory J. Ferguson, James J. Willis, Duncan S. McIntosh, Jr., Jesse W. Zwennes, James Pasley, and Garrett M. Goettel: Influence of Shale Distribution Types on the Effective Porosity of Sandstone Reservoirs

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2

–ORAL SESSIONS–

LOWER COTTON VALLEY – BOSSIER: JURASSIC GULF COAST RESERVOIRS

(Rooms 204/205) Session Chair: Matthew Chumley

8:20 OPENING REMARKS 8:30 Nick B. Pollard and Nicole Elhaj: A Microseismic Case Study: Cotton Valley

Taylor Sandstones, Overton Field, Texas 8:55 Johnny R. Dean: Benton Field, Bossier Parish, Louisiana: Revitalization of an

Old Field in the Lower Cotton Valley 9:30 Matthew Chumley, Bhaskar Sarmah, Joseph Anderson, Rojelio

Medina, and Hoda Tahani: A Tight Gas Sand Reservoir Characterization Approach in Delineating Different Benches across Lower Cotton Valley Rocks

9:45 BREAK 10:05 Craig D. Hall: Geomechanical Heterogeneity in the Lower Cotton Valley Shelf

System—Applications to Completion Design 10:30 Marvin E. Markley and Ian M. Byram: Using Legacy Data from Cores,

Open Hole Logs, and Production Logs to Optimize the Placement of Horizontal Well Targets in the Cotton Valley Formation of North Louisiana and East Texas

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REGIONAL GEOLOGICAL STUDIES AND DEPOSITIONAL FACIES ANALYSIS, PART 3

(Room 202) Session Chair: Jamey Walker

8:20 OPENING REMARKS 8:30 James J. Willis: Weld Types and Classification 8:55 Dale Short: Tectonics of the Texas Portion of the Sabine Island 9:20 Oscar Eduardo Torres Jaimes, Bruno Okoh, Heidi Albrecht, Shahnawaz

Khan, and Dariusz Strapoc: “In Time” Estimation of GOR Using FLAIR Advanced Mud Gas Analysis

9:45 BREAK 10:05 Gary Rice: Using Fluorescence Data in Petroleum Exploration 10:30 Anish Kumar, Josselin Kherroubi, Florent Bringer, George Richard

Kear, Robert Laronga, and Juan Herrera: Slabbing Borehole Images: A True 2D Visualization of Wellbore Geology

10:55 Thomas E. Ewing: The Peripheral Graben System in Texas: An Overview 11:20 Robert G. Loucks, Zsófia Poros, and Hans G. Machel: Characterization,

Origin, and Significance of Carbonate Pulverulite: A Weathering Product of Microporous Strata

GROUND WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, PART 1

(Room 206) Session Chair: Mary Barrett

8:20 OPENING REMARKS 8:30 Melinda Faulkner: Using Relict Vegetation Communities as a Proxy for

Transmissivity in the Comanche Peak Formation, Owl and Bear Creek Watersheds, Bell County, Texas

8:55 Daniel J. Acquaviva and Omar Rodriguez: Influence of Fracture Proximity and Vertical Extent on Source Water Quality from Lower Arcadia Formation (Miocene) Brackish Groundwater Public Water Supply Wellfields in Southwestern Florida

9:20 Douglas Carlson and Michael Layne: Impact of Agriculture on the Distribution of Chloride, Nitrate, and Other Ion Concentrations in the Mississippi Alluvial Aquifer in Northeastern Louisiana

TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 2

–ORAL SESSIONS–

GEOLOGY AND HISTORY (Room 202)

Session Chair: Jeff Spencer

1:30 OPENING REMARKS 1:40 Mary L. Barrett: A History of Louisiana Casinghead Gas Venting and Flaring:

Patching Together Incomplete Regulatory Records, 1930s–1970s 2:05 Matthew R. Silverman: Science under Attack: John T. Scopes, the

Monkey Trial, and a Lesson for our Times 2:30 Douglas Carlson: An Overview of American Association of Petroleum

Geologists at its Centennial with a Focus on the Gulf Coast Section 2:55 BREAK 3:15 Jeff A. Spencer: The Myles Companies—From Salt to the Short-Lived First

Pine Prairie, Louisiana, Oil Boom

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GROUND WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, PART 2 (Room 206)

Session Chair: Mary Barrett

1:30 OPENING REMARKS 1:40 Thomas E. Ewing and Steven Young: The Milano Fault System, Central

Texas: Structure and Implications for the Simsboro Aquifer 2:05 George Losonsky, Hamilton L. Shaw, Mike B. Kyle, Durwood Franklin,

and Raymond Sturdivant, Jr: Depositional Controls on High-Resolution Aquifer Characterization and Remediation

2:30 Mark C. Robinson and Daniel M. Lupton: Brackish Groundwater Resources of the Northern Trinity Aquifer, Texas

2:55 BREAK 3:15 Timothy W. Duex, Carson Allen, and Steve Sinitiere: Lithological

Influences on the Synthetic Leaching Procedure Test and Implications to Remediation and Assessment at the Southwest Foods Site in Lafayette, Louisiana

SPECIAL SESSION – SHALE RESOURCE PLAYS: 10 YEARS LATER

(Rooms 204/205) Session Chair: David Benscoter

1:30 OPENING REMARKS 1:40 Douglas Carlson: An Overview of Trends within Hydraulic Fracturing in

Louisiana with a Focus on Haynesville Gas Play 2:05 Katherine J. Whidden, Janet Pitman, Stanley Paxton, Ofori Pearson,

Scott Kinney, Nicholas Gianoutsos, Lauri Burke, and Russell Dubiel: The 2018 USGS Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas Resources in the Eagle Ford Shale and Associated Cenomanian-Turonian Strata, Texas

2:30 Sean Kimiagar: Haynesville—A Resurgence to Bank on? 2:55 BREAK 3:15 Sean Kimiagar: Eagle Ford—In the Age of Permian and STACK-SCOOP

Dominance, can Eagle Ford Reign Supreme Again? 3:40 Shirley P. Dutton, Marilyn E. Hutton, William A. Ambrose, A. Taylor

Childers, and Robert G. Loucks: Preservation of Reservoir Quality by Chlorite Coats in Deep Tuscaloosa Sandstones, Central Louisiana, U.S.A.

4:05 Roland J. Cadotte, III: Modern Stimulation and Restimulation Techniques in the Haynesville Shale

4:30 Sergio Perez: Lessons Learned from a Shale Gas Hallmark Well in the Eagle Ford Formation: The Case of the Emergente–1 Well, the First Shale Gas Well in Mexico

4:55 Frank Hernandez and Mel Sorrell: Small Companies Overcoming Challenges in the Haynesville/Bossier Play—Integration and Execution in a Mature Basin

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Poster Sessions will be Monday Morning (8:30 AM) and Monday Afternoon (1:30 PM), October 1, and

Tuesday Morning (8:30 AM), October 2, in the Exhibit Hall (Halls A–D).

POSTER SESSION 1: Monday, 8:30 AM – 12:30 AM

(Exhibit Hall, Halls A–D) Session Chair: Roger Berg

P1 Alexandra Elizabeth Warren: Correlation of Sand Reservoirs of the Lower

Tuscaloosa Formation in the Smithdale and East Fork Fields in Amite County, Mississippi

P2 Celeste D. Lohr and Paul C. Hackley: Carbon Dioxide Sealing Capacity of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale: Insights from Mercury Injection Capillary Pressure Analyses

P3 David T. King, Jr., Jean Cornec, Lucille Petruny, Douglas Milham, Brian Holland, Sandor Ricketts, Nicholas R. Myers, Ryan D. Weber, and Richard George: Sedimentary Characteristics and Geological History of the Cenozoic Red Bank Group, Northern Belize

P4 Grace L. Stone and Raphaël Gottardi: A Geochemical Analysis of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (Upper Cretaceous) Core Recovered from the Eads Poitevent #1 Well, Louisiana

P5 Kaitlyn LaFleur, Brent V. Miller, Thomas E. Yancey, and David T. Dockery III: Zircon Geochronology of Glendon Formation Bentonite, Rankin Trails Park, Brandon, Mississippi

P6 Mary K. Fearn and Raphaël Gottardi: Petrographic Analysis of Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (Upper Cretaceous) Core Recovered from the Eads Poitevent #1 Well in Lacombe Bayou Field, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

P7 Nicholas J. Gianoutsos, Katherine J. Whidden, Russell F. Dubiel, and William A. Rouse: Correlation of the Eagle Ford Shale, Woodbine Formation, and Equivalent Cenomanian-Turonian Mudstones using Regional Wireline-Log Cross Sections across the Texas Gulf Coast, U.S.A.

P8 Nicholas Jarrett: Thermal Maturation of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale: Associations for Pore Pressure, Oil Generation, and Secondary Porosity

P9 Russell W. Jackson: Linear Shoals of the Jeter Limestone Member of the Rodessa Formation in the Ark-La-Tex Region

P10 Thu A. Nguyen and Andrew Goodliffe: Reservoir Characterization of the Hartselle Sandstone in the Vicinity of Gorgas Power Plant, Walker County, Alabama, Using Amplitude Variation with Offset (AVO)

P11 William A. Rouse, Catherine B. Enomoto, and Nicholas J. Gianoutsos: Correlation of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale in Mississippi, Louisiana, and East Texas, U.S.A.

P12 Timothy Palmer and Zachary Musselman: Late Pleistocene to Holocene Meandering and Lateral Migration of the Big Black River, Mississippi

P13 Victoria Chevrot and Raphaël Gottardi: Finding Sweet Spots: An Outcrop-Based Investigation, Eagle Ford Formation, Val Verde County, Texas

P14 Ross Ledoux and Raphaël Gottardi: Characterizing the Natural Fracture System of the Buda Formation, South Texas

POSTER SESSION 2: Monday, 1:30 PM – 6:00PM (Exhibit Hall, Halls A–D) Session Chair: Roger Berg

P1 Adewale Amosu, Mohamed Imsalem, and Yuefeng Sun: Estimating the

Effect of Rock Mineral Composition on Reservoir Quality: Application in the Spraberry and Wolfcamp Formations, Permian Basin, Texas and New Mexico

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P2 Douglas Carlson: A Comparison of Holocene with Pleistocene Interglacial Periods Similarities and Differences

P3 Jack Kenning and Paul Mann: Role of Eocene-Oligocene Mass Transport Deposits for Controlling Along-Strike Variations in Thickness, Structural Geometry, and Hydrocarbon Sealing in the Mexican Ridges Fold-Thrust Belt, Western Gulf of Mexico

P4 Kyle Olsen, Rebecca Totten Minzoni, and Delores Robinson: Paleoenvironments and Reservoir Quality of the Norphlet Formation, Southeastern Alabama

P5 Muhammad Nawaz Bugti and Paul Mann: Extracting Fault and Regional Salt Flow Information from a High-Resolution, Bathymetric Map of the Shelf, Slope, and Abyssal Plain of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

P6 Austin Harris and Stan Galicki: Distribution of Elements and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in a Commercial Retention Pond: Colony Crossing, Madison, Mississippi

P7 Wesley Turner: Frequency and Distribution of Carbonate Gravity Flow Deposits in the Wolfcampian of the Southwestern Midland Basin

P8 William F. Morrison: Lateral Hydraulic Connectivity Assessment of the Outbound Structural Province of the Deepwater Wilcox Formation, Northern Gulf of Mexico

P9 Kaleb J. Henry and Melinda Faulkner: Geochemical Analyses of Karst Springs within the Lampasas Cut Plain, Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas

P10 Mohsen Kariminia, Yingqian Xiong, Nancy L. Engelhardt-Moore, and Bernard Lee: Preliminary Report on Radiolarians from Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Seafloor Samples

P11 Tim Palmer and David Dockery: Mineralogical, Geothermal, and Porosity Analysis of the Eagle Mills Formation, Newton County, Mississippi

P12 Jens Schmieder, Mohsen Kariminia, and David Bord: Revisiting of Stone City Member of Claiborne Group, Stone City Bluff, Texas

P13 Bernie J. Smith and Kevin W. Stafford: Characterization of Clastic Pseudokarst and Associated Phenomena in East Texas

P14 WITHDRAWN Rykley Crowe: Fault-Related Reservoir Compartmentalization in the Oligocene Vicksburg Formation, Brooks County, Texas

P15 Danielle Minteer and Wesley A. Brown: The Use of Gravitational and Electrical Resistivity Techniques to Delineate the Big Barn Fault Located within the Gulf Coastal Plain, Montgomery County, Texas

POSTER SESSION 3: Tuesday, 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM (Exhibit Hall, Halls A–D) Session Chair: Roger Berg

P1 Allen Lowrie and Mikio Fukuhara: Dynamic Global Processes Including

Mantle Plume Generation Assist in Hydrocarbon Emplacement in Sedimentary Basins

P2 W. Kaleb Kirk, David B. Bieler, and Scott K. Vetter: Petrology and Geochemistry of a Mitchell Dam Amphibolite Core, Chilton County, Alabama

P3 Karena K. Gill, David T. King, Jr., Haibo Zou, and Fay Smith: Sedimentary Facies Analysis and Strontium-Isotope Stratigraphy of the Hillbank and Yalbac Formations, Corozal Basin, Belize

P4 Marc L. Buursink, Catherine B. Enomoto, Colin A. Doolan, William H. Craddock, and James L. Coleman, Jr.: 2017 U.S. Geological Survey Assessment of Undiscovered Conventional Oil and Gas Resources in Downdip Paleogene Formations, U.S. Gulf Coast

P5 Marcus Zinecker and Paul Mann: Mega-Regional Scale, Decision-Tree Analysis for Hydrocarbon Prospecting on Passive, Conjugate Margins of the Circum-Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

P6 Marcus Zinecker and Paul Mann: Two Successive Phases of Triassic-Jurassic Gulf of Mexico Rifting Recorded in the Subsidence History of the Southeastern Gulf of Mexico

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P7 Mohamed Imsalem, Adewale Amosu, Matthew Wehner, Anne Raymond, and Yuefeng Sun: Reservoir Quality Assessment of the Lower Acacus and Tannezuft Formations in the NC4 Block, Ghadames Basin, Libya

P8 Muhammad Nawaz Bugti and Paul Mann: Structural Modeling and Kinematic Restoration of the Corsair Normal Fault Trend, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

P9 Omar Zavala and Paul Mann: Comparison of Multi-Stage Cooling Histories on Conjugate Rift Margins of the South Atlantic Ocean

P10 Ryan P. Jones and Prabhat C. Neupane: Paleoclimate and Paleoecology of the Neogene Siwalik Group, Muksar Khola Area, Nepalese Himalaya

P11 Zachary Harrison, David B. Bieler, and Scott K. Vetter: Petrology of the Beaverdam Amphibolite, Eastern Blue Ridge, Alabama

P12 Maya Willis and Zachary Musselman: Exploring the Oxbow Lake Facies Model at LeFleur's Bluff State Park, Jackson, Mississippi

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Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts

Bivens Energy Corporation

Barrow-Shaver Resources LLC

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2018 37th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Perkins-Rosen Research

Conference

December 3–4, 2018—Houston, Texas Location: TBD

In lieu of our annual research conference, the GCSSEPM Foun-dation will be hosting a 2-day core workshop focusing on Res-ervoir Characterization. The dates will be the same as our regularly scheduled annual meeting in December, and the lo-cation will be announced soon.

Please check back at www.gcssepm.org for workshop details and opportunities to get involved.

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Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation

Buffco Production, Inc.

Unless otherwise noted, short course will be held on Level 2 of the Shreveport Convention Center. Please check at

Registration for last-minute spots. Short Course — Hydrology and Water Resources Management for the Petroleum Geologist Sunday, September 30 12:30 am–4:00 pm Instructor: Carrie Salinas Location: Room 206 Fee: $175 per person

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Milbird Resources, LLC

Milestone Energy, LLC

Palmer Petroleum

Sugar Creek Producing Company LLC

South Texas Geological Society

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Sunland Production Company, Inc.

Yegua Energy Associates

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Field trip will depart PROMPTLY at the indicated departure time and return to the Shreveport Convention Center. Check

at Registration for last-minute availability.

(Field Trip Sponsored by Sartor-Richardson) Field Trip — Oxbow Lignite Surface Mine – Mining Wilcox Formation Lignites Overlain by Red River Alluvial Deposits Saturday, September 29 Leaders: David Williamson and John McCorkle Departure: 8:00 am (from Hilton) Fee: $125 per person

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Field Trip

Marlin Exploration, LLC

Heard, McElroy and Vestal

Petro-Chem Operating

Sartor-Richardson

William Whiting

The Guest/Spouse fee includes the Opening Session, Icebreaker, Exhibition, all coffee breaks (sponsored by Halliburton), Monday's Presidents' Reception (sponsored by Baker Hughes), and Hospitality Suite on Monday and Tuesday. Please check at Registration for

last-minute availability of the guest tour.

HOSPITALITY Welcome to Shreveport and the 2018 GCAGS-GCSSEPM Convention! All guests and spouses are invited to take part in the events that are included in your registration fee. In addition, one activity is available at extra cost that will give you the opportunity to see Shreveport and the local Shreveport culture. The Guest Fee includes the Opening Session, Icebreaker, Exhibition Hall and all coffee breaks. Please note that professionals may not register as guests. Join us in the Hospitality Suite at the Shreveport Convention Center, Hilton Executive Boardroom, from Monday, October 1st, through Tuesday, October 2nd. Join other GCAGS registered guests for coffee and a snack to plan your day of Shreveport attractions.

HOSPITALITY SUITE HOURS Shreveport Convention Center, Hilton Executive Boardroom

Monday, October 1 .......................................................... 7:30 am–9:00 am Tuesday, October 2 .......................................................... 7:30 am–9:00 am

GCAGS HOSPITALITY ENRICHMENT PROGRAM Guest Activity: Red River Arts Festival

• Live Music, Food, and Commercial National Artists • Nationally Recognized in Top 100 Arts Festivals • Five Blocks from Convention Center • Free Admittance with GCAGS Badge If we have a group that wants to leave hotel Monday @ 3:45 pm, we will have a hostess ride the shuttle and explain the Revel to them. The shuttle will pick up those who wish to attend wine dinner at 5:30 pm. It’s only a 5 block walk or 3 min ride to hotel from the Revel. Those who do not attend wine dinner can either walk back to hotel or we can provide shuttle transportation to hotel at 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm, and 8:30 pm. This is an outdoor event, so casual dress is recommended.

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STUDENT PARTICIPATION We offer a special registration fee (only $45) to facilitate student participation. This fee is applicable for students or new grads who have not yet accepted employment offers. Students may also register as a Student Volunteer. If selected, you will receive a refund of your registration fee after you have worked a half day, as assigned. This fee allows entry to the Opening Session, Icebreaker, Exhibition, all technical sessions, and a digital copy of the 2018 GCAGS Transactions. STUDENT VOLUNTEERS Half-day volunteers are needed beginning 7:00 am, Sunday, September 30, through Tuesday, October 2. Volunteers will earn full-paid student registration. Assignment preferences will be weighed on volunteer date, and registration fees will be refunded on site upon completion of a half day’s work. Possible responsibilities include serving as short course assistants, checking in field trip/short course participants, technical session ‘runners,’ ticket taking, manning registration, preparing convention packets, and staffing judges’ room. For more information, contact Alf Hawkins, Volunteers Chair, at hawkinsalf@hotmail.com.

Volunteers Needed during these Times and Dates

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2017–2018 GCAGS Officers President ............................................................... Ralph Richardson Vice President.......................................................... Deborah Sacrey Treasurer ..................................................................... Daniel Sutton Past President ................................................................. Tom Ewing Executive Director .......................................................... Kate Kipper 2017 GCAGS Convention General Chair .................. Gene Ames, III 2018 GCAGS Convention General Chair ...................... Alan Brittain 2019 GCAGS Convention General Chair ................ Mike Erpenbeck

2017–2018 GCSSEPM Officers President .............................................................. Thomas Demchuk President-Elect ............................................................... Laura Zahm Vice President ........................................................... Joe Macquaker Secretary ......................................................................... Milly Wright Treasurer..................................................... Julitta Kirkova-Pourciau Past-President ................................................................. John Suter

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Convention Team

Convention Organizing Committees Convention General Chair ....................................................................... Alan Brittain Convention Vice-Chair ............................................................................ Larry Frizzell Convention Secretary/Treasurer ....................................................... David Benscoter Technical Program Chairs ............................................ Kurt Ley and Zach McDonald Oral Chair ............................................................................................ Zach McDonald Poster Chair .............................................................................................. Roger Berg GCAGS Managing Editor and Publisher .............................................. James J. Willis GCAGS Journal Editor ....................................................................... Robert K. Merrill GCAGS Transactions Editor ................................................................ James J. Willis GCAGS Transactions Co-Editor (representing GCSSEPM) ........... Norman C. Rosen Audio-Visual Speakers Assistance ..................................................... Sam Kalmbach All-Convention Luncheon ...................................................................... Donna Walker DPA Luncheon .................................................................................... Thomas Wyche Entertainment ................................................................................................ Kevin Hill Exhibits ............................................................................................... Bruce Lemmon Field Trips ........................................................................................ David Williamson Icebreaker ..................................................................................................... Kevin Hill Judging ................................................................................................. Mark Dunham Printing ................................................................... Greg Zerrahn and James J. Willis Publicity ................................................................................................ Simeon Horton Registration ............................................................................................... Ellen Husch Short Courses ..................................................................................... Miles McDowell Speakers and Judges Breakfast .............................................................. Robin Smith Sponsorship ................................................................................................ Daryl Fultz Transportation ......................................................................................... Gary Abrams Volunteers ................................................................................................ Annie Green Webmaster ...................................................................................... Rachel McNerney President, Shreveport Geological Society, 2017–2018 ...................... Scott Comegys President, Shreveport Geological Society, 2018–2019 ........... D. Lewis Billingsley, III

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AAPG Karin Alyea kalyea@aapg.org

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AAPG provides publications, conferences, and educational opportunities to geoscientists and disseminates the most current geological infor-mation available to the general public. AAPG is about the science of petroleum geology and is the world's premier professional association for explorationists. We hope you will contact us for membership information or details about the many services we provide.

East Texas Geological Society Barbara Cade (903) 593–3071

212 The ETGS is the non profit professional society for the advancement of the study of geology for the East Texas area.

EDGE Systems Daniel Baker dbaker@edgelog.com Mudlogging – Remote Logging – Geosteering

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PML provides, Mud logging, Geosteering, Re-mote logging & Gas detection services to ener-gy companies. Additionally, our subsidiary, EDGE Systems provides rental gas analyzers to other service providers. Our lead loggers have at least 5 years’ experience and/or a de-gree in geology. Our systems are web enabled to provide logs, calibration, etc.

GCAGS Bookstore www.begstore.beg.utexas.edu/store/ pubsales@beg.utexas.edu

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Be sure to drop in and browse our extensive array of publications. If you pre-ordered your Journal or a hard copy of the 2018 Transac-tions volume, bring your voucher by to ex-change it for your book.

Gems & Crystals Unlimited www.gemsandcrystalsunlimited.com Jeweler@mindspring.com Customized gold and platinum jewelry

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Complete custom work, including engagement, anniversary and any special celebrations for you! Outstanding collection of gemstones, diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds, tanza-nite, etc. Great collection of Art Deco and other antique jewelry in gold, platinum, and silver, cameos, cufflinks, pins and collectibles, crys-tals, and minerals.

GeoFrontiers http://www.geofrontiers.com 201

GeoFrontiers provides quality geochemical exploration services worldwide. Direct hydro-carbon sampling, sample analysis, mapping, reporting, and data integration enhance any exploration project. How to interpret fluores-cence exploration data will be presented Tues-day morning.

Houston Geological Society 211 Host of the 69th GCAGS Annual Convention, Oct. 23-25, Marriott Westchase Houston. Please visit our website, http://hgs.org.

Gravity Map Service http://gravityservices.com b.neese@gravityservices.com

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Gravity Map Service provides oil and gas and mining exploration companies with high resolu-tion gravity data and processing. In addition to the GMS gravity data library, GMS also brokers gravity and magnetic data for various other geophysical data companies. Providing a bet-ter understanding of subsurface structure through the integration of gravity data into ex-ploration programs will assist in defining the areas where more expensive geophysical methods will be used.

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Exhibitor Details

LMK Resources Inc. http://www.lmkr.com Mark Mixon mmixon@lmkr.com LMKR’s GeoGraphix® and GVERSE platform

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LMKR is a petroleum technology company – with an extensive products and solutions portfo-lio that includes: • Reservoir-centric interpreta-tion • Geoscience consulting and technology development • Information management solu-tions • E&P data services • Mobile technology solutions Customer base includes Independ-ents, Regulatory Authorities, IOCs, and NOCs spread over 80 countries globally.

Neuralog http://neuralog.com Ben Mitchell bmitchell@neuralog.com Desktop – Well Data, Document & Log Management

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Neuralog provides intuitive, efficient, low-cost solutions to capture, organize and analyze Oil and Gas data. Our products include the world's only purpose-built well log scanner, best-in-class well log printers, industry-standard auto-mated well log and map digitizing software, the most efficient geology analysis package, and a GIS-based data access and visualization appli-cation.

Petrosys Volker Hirsinger volker.hirsinger@petrosys-usa.com

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Petrosys is the industry-leader in mapping and surface modeling software solutions for petrole-um E& P – delivering direct connectivity with the most popular exploration, production, and GIS data sources and offering powerful data management options. The Petrosys® software suite produces high quality maps and surface models.

Rogii Inc. 209

Society of Independent Pro-fessional Earth Scientists (SIPES) http://www.sipes.org Networking, Professional Devel-opment, Publications, and Meet-ings

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The Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists (SIPES) is a unique organization for Earth Science Independents. It is the only national organization designed for the inde-pendent or consulting professional earth scien-tist. Members include geologists, engineers, geophysicists, and other earth scientists. SIPES has a network of 12 local chapters locat-ed in several states. These chapters hold monthly luncheon meetings where ideas are exchanged, and speakers are heard.

Stratagraph William Hagan wahagan@stratagraph.com

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StructureSolver http://www.structuresolver.com Mary Rogan mary@structuresolver.com

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Thompson Solutions www.thompsonsolutions.com Gary Thompson gary.thompson@thompsonsolutions.com Gravity and Magnetic Data and Interpretation

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Thompson Solutions LLC provides geophysical & geological interpretation solutions for exploration of oil, gas, and minerals. Custom solutions are based on integration of client's data with our expertise in the interpretation of gravity, magnetic, and geological data. Broker-age of commercial gravity and magnetic data and management of new data acquisition en-sures the best data coverage.

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TRICON Geophysics http://www.tricongeophysics.com dave.williams@tricongeophysics.com

409 Seismic Imaging Time and Depth Reservoir Services for AVO Inversion, Pre-stack Inversion & Fracture Analysis Petrophysical Analysis

Weatherford Laboratories 310

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Auburn Energy

Rockcliff Energy LLC

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Mark Your Calendars for 2019!

GeoGULF 2019 69th Annual GCAGS/GCSSEPM

Convention

Oct. 23–25, 2019 Houston, Texas

Hosted by the

Houston Geological Society

www.gcagshouston.com