Scott A. Barboza

ExxonMobil, Houston, Texas

Funded by the AAPG Foundation

Lecture Abstracts:

Mud Volcanoes: A Dynamic Model Motivated by Observations Offshore Eastern Trinidad

Consequences of Multiple Phases of Tertiary Uplift and Erosion on the Thermal Evolution of Mesozoic Source Rocks, North Slope – Chukchi Sea, Alaska

Ron Boyd

ConocoPhillips

Funded by the AAPG Foundation

Lecture Abstracts:

A One-Way Ticket from Antarctica to the Tasman Abyssal Plain via the Great Barrier Reef – Sediment Dispersal on the Eastern Australian Margin

Coastal Facies Models

James L. Coleman Jr.

U. S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA

Funded by the AAPG Foundation

Lecture Abstracts:

Tight-Gas Sandstone Reservoirs: the 200-year path from unconventional to conventional gas resource and beyond

Examination of Potential Factors Affecting Successful Exploration and Production of Devonian Marcellus Shale Gas, Eastern United States

Tight-gas Sandstone Reservoirs: 25 Years of Searching for ‘‘The Answer’’

Stephen P. Cumella

Bill Barrett Corporation, Denver, Colorado

Funded by the AAPG Foundation Haas-Pratt Endowment

Lecture Abstracts:

Geology of the Giant Continuous Gas Accumulation in the Mesaverde Group, Piceance Basin, Colorado

Important Characteristics of Rocky Mountain Tight Gas Accumulations

Matthew D. Jackson

Funded by the AAPG Foundation

Lecture Abstracts:

From outcrop analogue to flow simulation: Understanding the impact of geologic heterogeneity on hydrocarbon production

Integrating production geoscience and engineering: Can smart wells mitigate uncertain reservoir behaviour?

Donald Arthur Medwedeff

Chevron Energy Technology Company
San Ramon, CA

Funded by the AAPG Foundation

Lecture Abstracts:

Insight in Lieu of Truth: an approach to probabilistic fault seal analysis

Joann E. Welton

ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Houston, Texas

Funded by the AAPG Foundation J. Ben Carsey Endowment

Lecture Abstracts:

Evaluating Siliciclastic Reservoir Quality in a Changing World

Grain Coats on the Brazos: Using modern studies to understand the origin of porosity-preserving early clay grain coats