Annual Report 2011: FY July 1, 2010-June 30, 2011
Research
Goals
Goals achieved by the Research Committee (RC) during the fiscal year include: (1) seven Hedberg conferences or symposia completed and scheduled,
(2) three or more joint conferences (SEG/SPE/EAGE), with AAPG organizing at least one/year, and (3) major restructuring of the RC to broaden expertise, increase young members (<35 yr.) without losing “corporate memory,” and increase international representation, continue support of (4) Special Interest Groups (Reservoir Deformation & Unconventional Reservoirs).
Progress during Fiscal Year (July 1, 2010–June 30, 2011)
- Conferences completed so far this year include Multi-Disciplinary Examination of an Outcrop and Analog for Exploration and Reservoir Prediction In Deep-Water Depositional Systems – A Field Conference (Approved) with Conveners Peter King, Greg Browne, and Malcolm Arnot
- Applications of Reservoir Fluid Geochemistry (June 8–11, 2010, Vail, CO)
- Critical Assessment of Shale Resource Plays (joint
- AAPG/SPE/SEG/SPWLA, December 5–10, 2010, Austin, TX)
- Natural Gas Geochemisty (May 9–12, 2011, Beijing)
Proposals Approved and in the planning process
- Applications of Reservoir Fluid Geochemistry, Conveners: Michael and McCaffrey
- Enhanced Geothermal Systems (Spring, 2011 – date and location TBD)
- Estimating Reserves (Geoscience Technology) Conveners: Sneider and Ritter,
- Workshop, GTW; that may become Hedberg, Conveners: Tearpock and Jenkins
- Microbial Carbonate Reservoirs, Convener: Mancini
- Fundamental Controls on Flow in Carbonates, Convener: Agar
Conferences Proposals Being Reviewed and in the Planning for 2011–2012
- Basin Modeling, Convener” Marie-Christine Cacas
- Reservoir Heterogeneity: Integrated Analysis/Modeling, Convener: Snedden
- Latitudinal Controls on Stratigraphic Models and Sedimentary Concepts, Convener: Fraticelli and Markwick
Topics Under Discussion
- Eustasy, Tectonics and Climate: What Drives the Stratigraphic Pulse
- Latitudinal Controls on Stratigraphic Models and Sedimentary Concepts
- Multi-Disciplinary Examination of an Outcrop Analog for Exploration and Reservoir Prediction in Deep-Water Depositional Systems – A Field Conference
- Reservoir Heterogeneity: Integrated Analysis and Modeling
- Mathematic Basis for Basin and Petroleum System Modeling
- Appalachian Unconventional Oil & Gas Plays
- Eustatics versus Tectonics: What Drives the Stratigraphic Pulse
- Eolian Reservoir Compartmentalization
Special Interest Groups
Both special interest groups have met during the year and published results of their meetings.
Make-up of the Research Committee
The RC now consists of 44 members: 25 industry, 8 services, 10 academia, 1 government. This includes 3 student members and 5 new young professionals (developed with the aid of the AAPG Young Professionals Committee). In addition, we have 2 AAPG Representatives. We now have a Committee Co-Chair serving on the Technical Advisory Committee and have Committee members serving as representatives to the AAAS & AAPG Education Committee.
Peter Hennings, Co-chair Ron Nelson, Co-chair
Committee members:
Jonathan Patrick Allen, James Howard Anderson, Andrew Nicholas Bishop, Jean-Yves D. Chatellier, Jean-Marc Daniel, Thomas W. Dignes, Geoffrey Ellis, Bryant Robert Fulk, Fang Hao, Ulysses S. Hargrove III, Werner M. Heigl, Christian J. Heine, Julia Black Hennings, Peter Hill Hennings (co-chair), Ronald Jay Hill, Allegra Hosford Scheirer, Ayodele Jegede, Barry Jay Katz, Christopher G. St. C. Kendall, Angela Dial Kennedy, Lee Krystinik, Joel Herve Le Calvez, Ernest A. Mancini, Lisa Marie Marlow, David McCormick, Tip Meckel, Donald Arthur Medwedeff, Tess Menotti, Gerald Eric Michael, Daniel Moos, Ronald Alan Nelson (co-chair), Henrique Penteado, Kenneth Eric Peters, Matthew Troy Poole, Bradford Eugene Prather, Jon R. Schwalbach Jr., Eugene A Shinn, Arthur Tremaine Smith, Paul David Wagner, Kate S. Weissenburger, Joann E. Welton, Lesli Joy Wood, and Yanqing Yu