Faults, Fractures, and Fluid Flow in Carbonate Reservoirs

Technical Program
Monday August 24th
Dolostones – The Nature of Dolostones in the Geologic Record
Jeff Lonnee, Shell, Qatar
Eva Drivet, Drivet Geological Consulting, Calgary
Dolomite, Very High-Magnesium Calcite, and Microbes; Stephen E. Kazcmarek, Jay M. Gregg,
David L. Bish, Hans G. Machel
Can Mn-S Redox Cycling Drive Sedimentary Dolomite Formation? A Hypothesis; Daniel
Petrash; Stefan V. Lalonde, Gabriela González, Robert A. Gordon, José A. Méndez, Murray K.
Gingras, Kurt O. Konhauser
Dolomite Through the Phanerozoic: Ups and Downs; David Morrow
Lateral Autogenic Patterns in the Properties of Dolomites: An Overview; David A. Budd
Intriguing Spatial Trends in Porosity and Process Temperature in Hydrothermal Dolomite
Systems Hosted in the Upper Devonian Carbonates of Western Canada; Jeffrey J. Packard and
Ihsan Al-Aasm
Seismic Response and Properties of Non-Stratabound Dolostone Reservoirs: Scenario
Evaluation; Conxita Taberner, John Solum, Katherine Lauriks, Andrea Bistacchi, Mahtab Mozafari,
Fabrizio Balsamo, Fabrizio Storti, Rudy Swennen, Christian Tueckmantel
Posters (Displayed Monday and Tuesday)
Dolomitization of the Cambrian Petroleum Bearing Strata in the Tarim Basin, China ; Lei Jiang,
Chunfang Cai, Richard H. Worden
Dolomite Recrystallization Along the Devonian Rimbey-Meadowbrook Reef Trend, Western
Canada Sedimentary Basin, Canada; Sergey Kuflevskiy, Hans G. Machel, Nick Harris
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Advances in Diagenesis
Hairuo Qing, University of Regina
Conxita Taberner, Shell, Netherlands
Major Impacts of Multiple Stages of Hydrothermal Fluid Flow on Carbonate Reservoirs; Robert
H. Goldstein
Fault-related Dolomites on the Isle of Man and Implications for the Hydrothermal Dolomite
Play Concept; James Hendry and Jay M. Gregg
A Multidisciplinary Modeling Workflow to Asses Facies-Dolomitization-Porosity
Interdependence in a Dolomitized Lower Cretaceous Platform (Northern Spain); Marta
Gasparrini, Silvia Blázquez-Fernández, Ignacio López-Cilla, Idoia Rosales, Olivier Lerat, Brigitte Doligez,
Javier Martín-Chivelet
Hydrothermal Karstification in the Ordovician Carbonate Reservoirs, Tarim Basin, Northwest
China; Honghan Chen, Ziye Lu, You Wu, Zicheng Cao
The Unique Structural-Oceanographic Setting of a Recent Permian Discovery in the Barents
Sea Also Exists in the Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada; Benoit Beauchamp and Charles M. Henderson
Posters (Displayed Monday and Tuesday)
Petrography and Geochemistry Studies of Late Cambrian Dolomite Reservoirs, Tabei Uplift,
Northern Tarim Basin, NW China: implications for the Multi-Stage Dolomitizing Processes;
Siyang Zhang, Hairuo Qing, Shaonan Zhang
Origin of Porosity Due to the Recrystallization of Devonian-Age Limestones From Reservoirs
in Western, Northern and Arctic Canada; Jack Wendte and Laurie Slezak
Clumped Isotopes Thermometry as a New Tool to Investigate Carbonate Diagenesis and
Thermal History of Sedimentary Basins - A Case Study From the Paris Basin; Xavier Mangenot,
Alina Goetz, Marta Gasparrini, Magali Bonifacie, Virgile Rouchon, Pascal Houel, Carine Chaduteau
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Tuesday August 25th
Faults, Fractures, and Fluid Flow in Carbonate Reservoirs
Rudy Swennen, Division of Geology, KU Leuven
Mark Mallamo, Arcan Resources, Calgary
Paleofluid Evolution in Complex Fault and Fracture Networks of the Jabal Qusaybah Anticline
(Adam Foothills, North Oman); R. Swennen, Mozafari, M., Balsamo, F., Clemenzi, L., Storti, F., El
Desouky, H.A., Tueckmantel, C., Solum, J., Taberner, C.
Structurally-Controlled Dolomitization of the Cambrian to Lower Ordovician Carbonates at
Quruqtagh Area, Northeastern Flank of Tarim Basin, NW China; Daizhao Chen, Shaofeng Dong,
Yixiong Qian, Xiqiang Zhou, Hairuo Qing
Fault Sealing Analysis in Carbonate Platform Reservoir of Tiaka Field, Eastern Sulawesi;
Darojatun Fakhrul Dzakirin, Deddy Hasanusi, Reza Armanda
Fault-Controlled Dolomitization in a Cenozoic Rift Basin: Hammam Faraun Fault Block, Egypt;
Cathy Hollis, Hilary Corlett, Eivind Bastesen, Rob Gawthorpe, Jesal Hirani, Atle Rotevatn, Fiona Whitaker
Investigating the Hierarchical Impact of Polygenetic Fracture Populations in Compressive
Settings and Their Implications on Static Fracture Modeling; Thibault Cavailhes, Erich Funk, Ståle
Monstad, Wieske Paulissen, Julio Marré, Alberto Riva, Mirko Looser, Ali Chalabi, Magdalena Figa, Håvard
Morset-Klokk, Kathryn Canner, Nils Bang
Reconstructing the Burial History of Complex Tectonic Settings Using Clumped Isotopes
Paleothermometry: Challenges and Perspectives; Cedric John and Maria Gusarevich
Posters (Displayed Monday and Tuesday)
Paleofluid Flow, Fracturing and Reservoir Implications in Dolostone Reservoirs: Examples
from Foreland vs. Cratonic Tectonic Settings; Ihsan Al-Aasm and Omid Haire-Ardkani
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The Nature of Unconventional Carbonate Reservoirs
Jay M. Gregg, Oklahoma State University
G. Michael Grammer, Oklahoma State University
Diagenesis of Mississippian Carbonates on the Southern Midcontinent: The Influence of
Basinal Fluids; Jay M. Gregg, Sahar Mohammadi, Taylor A. Ewald, Morgan A. Unrast, Kevin L. Shelton,
Martin S. Appold
Sequence Stratigraphic Control on Distribution and Porosity Evolution in Cherts in the
Mississippian of the Mid-Continent; Buddy Price and G. Michael Grammer
Reservoir Characteristics of the Three Forks Dolostone in the North Dakota Portion of the
Williston Basin; David M. Petty
Naturally Sealed Fractures from the Barnett Formation (Fort Worth Basin, Texas): From
Characterization to Appraisal in Basin Modeling; Marta Gasparrini, William Sassi, Laura Milelli,
Sébastien Rohais, Julia Gale
Reservoir Characterization in Carbonate Mudrocks – The Unconventional Conventional – The
Next Generation Carbonate Reservoir; J. Frederick Sarg, Alyssa Dykes, T. Dawn Jobe
Posters (Displayed Monday and Tuesday)
Types and Characteristics of the Microbial Carbonate Reservoirs in Dengying Formation in
Upper Sinian, Sichuan Basin, SW China; Jinmin Song, Shugen Liu, Hairuo Qing, Ping Luo
The Eagle Ford Group in West Texas: The Record of an Alternating Anoxic-to-Euxinic and Oxic
Shallow-Water Carbonate and Shale Ramp; Michael C. Pope, Michael Tice, Arthur Donovan,
Matthew Wehner, Rand Gardner, Zhirui Zeng, Ivan Maulana
Influence of Hydrothermal Dolomitizing Fluids on Basinal Sediments: Devonian of Western
Canada; Ron Spencer and Tom Weedmark
Preliminary Evaluation of the Mississippian Elkton Member in the Manning Area of
Northwestern Alberta: Another Unconventional Carbonate Bitumen Play; Steven Peter
Wednesday August 26th
Field Trip Day – No Technical Sessions
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Thursday August 27th
The Nature of Intensely Fractured, Vuggy Carbonates
Ron Nelson, Broken N Consulting, Texas
Alex J. MacNeil, Osum Oil Sands, Calgary
Characterization and Evaluation of Natural Fracture Effects in Carbonate and Vuggy
Carbonate Reservoirs and How it Differs From Other Fractured Reservoirs; Ronald A. Nelson and
Jeff Lonnee
High-Resolution Delineation of Reservoir Units and Controls on Reservoir Performance in the
Grosmont Formation – Implications For Building Realistic Geological Models and History
Matching Performance; Alex J. MacNeil, Ken Gray, Kelli Fraser
Differentiating Surface Epikarst and Intrastratal Karst - Relation to Reservoir Architecture,
Mississippian Madison Fm., Wyoming and Montana; Charles Kerans, Chris Zahm, Travis Kloss
Vuggy Carbonates at Top of the Shuaiba Platform (Al Shaheen Field, Block 5 and Block 5
Extension, offshore Qatar): Burial or Meteoric Karst-Related?; Irene Cantarero, Anna Travé,
Xiomara Márquez, Tarek Gagigi
A Triple Porosity Model for Quantitative Evaluation of Carbonate Reservoirs; Roberto Aguilera
Dolomitization, Dedolomitization and Karst and Their Impact on the Reservoir Quality of the
Permian Zechstein Gp. Carbonates of the Johan Sverdrup Field, Norway; Israel Polonio, Ingrid
Piene, Paul A. Gillespie, Frans S. Van Buchem
Posters (Displayed Monday and Tuesday)
Vuggy Dolomite Reservoirs of the Slave Point Formation (Devonian) at Slave Field, Alberta:
Significant Light-Oil Production from a Complex Reservoir With High Water Cut ; John B.
Dunham and Nigel Watts
Stratigraphic and Reservoir Quality Assessment of the Late Devonian Grosmont and Upper
Ireton Formations, Northeastern Alberta, Canada; Stacy Atchley, Hunter Harlow, Caitlin Leslie,
Gabriella Carrelli, Warren Bindon, Jessica Beal
Modeling Oil Recovery in the Late Devonian Grosmont and Upper Ireton Formations of
Northeastern Alberta, Canada; Scott C. James, Angelo Lucia, Stacy Atchley, Hunter Harlow, Caitlin
Leslie, Gabriella Carrelli, Warren Bindon
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Advances in Modeling Carbonate Systems and Reservoirs
Part 1 – Modeling Carbonates at the Pore Scale
Georg Warrlich, Shell, Malaysia
Rachel Wood, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Multi-stage Upscaling of Flow Through Carbonate Rocks, Covering the Effect of Nano-pores,
Micro-pores and Vugs; Ali Qaseminejad Raeini, Sven Roth, Martin Blunt
Quantifying the Effect of Microporosity on Fluid Flow in Carbonate Reservoirs ; Sophie Harland,
Rachel Wood, Rink van Dijke, Andrew Curtis, Zeyun Jiang, Ken Sorbie, Wissem Kallel
Using Pore Architecture in Carbonate Mudrocks to Provide Insight into Porosity and
Permeability Trends in Unconventional Carbonates: Examples from the Mid-Continent
“Mississippian Limestone”; Beth Vanden Berg and G. Michael Grammer
Posters (Displayed Monday and Tuesday)
Seismic Measurements of Grosmont Carbonates and Bitumen; Arif Rabbani and Douglas R.
Schmitt
The Role of Pore Structure in the Pressure Dependence of Velocities in Carbonate Rocks ;
Douglas R. Schmitt, Zizhen Wang, Ruihe Wang, Randy Kofman, Gautier Njiekak
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Part 2 – Outcrop and Reservoir-Scale Modeling
Xiomara Márquez, Maersk, Qatar
Fiona Whitaker, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol
Impact of Geometry and Spatial Arrangement of Heterogeneous Storm-Event Deposits on
Fluid Flow Behaviour of Late Jurassic Arab-D reservoir, Saudi Arabia; Carl Jacquemyn, Matthew
D. Jackson, Gary J. Hampson, Cédric M. John, Dave Cantrell, Rainer Zühlke, AbdulJaleel AbuBshait, Robert
F. Lindsay
Dynamics of Hydrothermal Circulation and Implications for Diagenesis in Faulted Carbonate
Systems; Fiona Frances Whitaker, Alia Jasim, Tatyana Gabellone, Hamish Robertson, Alison Rust
Multi-Scale Characterization and Modeling of Carbonate Reservoirs in Analogue Outcrops:
Reservoir Proprieties and Geologic Processes. Case-Studies in Sergipe-Alagoas Basin,
Northeastern Brazil; Antonio Jorge Vasconcellos Garcia
Posters (Displayed Monday and Tuesday)
Petrophysical Analysis and Synthetic Seismic Modelling of Miocene Carbonate Factories;
Lucas Kleipool, Eveline De Vaal, Koos De Jong, John Reijmer
Evolution of Pennsylvanian-Permian Carbonate Platforms, Loei-Phetchabun Foldbelt,
Northeastern Thailand; Kaylee D. Anderson, Annette D. George, John Booth
The Search for Fluids with HTD Potential; Hamish Robertson, Fiona Whitaker, Tom Palmer, Tatyana
Gabellone
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Friday August 28th
Core Convention in Calgary at the AER Core Research Centre
Technical Chair – Ian McIlreath
Core-based Facies Characterization of a Pervasively Dolomitized Upper Devonian Reservoir
Targeted for CO2 Sequestration and Miscible Flood EOR: The Clive Field of Central Alberta,
Canada; Jeffrey Packard, David Hills, Bill May, Farid Remtulla
Thirty-Four Years of Oil Production from Vuggy Dolomites of the Slave Point Formation
(Devonian) at Slave Field, Lubicon Lake, Alberta; John B. Dunham and Nigel Watts
Stratigraphic Discontinuities in Devonian Carbonate Core, Mackenzie River Corridor, NWT;
Pavel Kabanov
Genesis of the Mid Carbonate Member in Black Shale – A View From Core, Thin Sections, and
Logs – Duvernay Core Display and Black Shale Analogues; Jean-Yves Chatellier and Tom Moslow
The Devonian Upper Ireton in Northeastern Alberta: Genesis of an Evaporite Karst Bitumen
Reservoir; Jeff Lonnee
Quiescence and Catastrophe – The Accumulation of Stratiform Breccia Deposits With
Examples from the Upper Ireton Formation (Devonian) and Mission Canyon Formation
(Mississippian); Alex J. MacNeil
Bitumen Bearing Units of the Grosmont Formation, Saleski Alberta; Kent Barrett
A Novel Approach for Polygenetic Fracture Characterization in the Upper Devonian Grosmont
Formation; Kelli Fraser, Alex J. MacNeil, Jamie Jamison
The Elk Point Basin Transition From Marine to Evaporitic Conditions: The Keg River Formation
to Prairie Evaporite Formation Transition in N.E. Alberta, Canada; Michael Bernard Rogers
Stratigraphy, Depositional Facies, and Diagenesis of the Keg River – Prairie Evaporite Aquifer,
NE Athabasca Basin; Becky Rogala, Michael Wamsteeker, Joel Shank, Roger Bloch, István Almási
Paleozoic Stratigraphic Framework Beneath the Muskeg River Mine (Twp 95, Rge 9-10W4):
Controls and Constraints on Present Day Hydrogeology; Frank A. Stoakes, Robert Mahood,
Alejandro Gomez
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The Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Zama member of the Muskeg Formation in the
Zama Basin, Middle Devonian Elk Point Basin, Northern Alberta, Canada; Graeme Bloy
Origin of The Frobisher Coated Grains: Deposition and Early Alteration; Alexander Pollard, Noel P
James, Bill Martindale, Bill Gatenby, Bob Dalrymple
Reservoir Quality Variations in the Oligocene Kirkuk Group at Topkhana-Kurdamir, Kurdistan,
Iraq; Jean Hsieh, Normand Begin, Mazhar Qayyum
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