Tuesday Afternoon Oral Program Return to: Oral Program Overview Monday Morning Oral Program Monday Afternoon Oral Program Tuesday Morning Oral Program EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP FORUM II Charles Sternbach, Session Chair • Assembly Room A 1:15 Charles Sternbach: Opening Remarks 1:20 Richard Stoneburner, BHP: The Discovery, Reservoir Attributes, and Significance of the Hawkville Field and the Eagle Ford Trend: Implications for Future Development 2:00 Charles Kerans, University of Texas at Austin: Cretaceous Carbonate Sequences and Reservoir Systems of the Gulf of Mexico Basin 2:50 BREAK PANEL DISCUSSION Hosted by Charles Sternbach and Scott W. Tinker • Assembly Room A 3:10 to 4:30 Scott W. Tinker, Tom Tinker, and Nathan Tinker: Geo-Generations: 60 Years in the Patch and Counting ONSHORE GULF OF MEXICO EXPLORATION II Tim Rynott and Tom Ewing, Session Chairs • Assembly Room B 1:05 OPENING REMARKS 1:10 Larry Baria, Jura-Search: Relatively Large Mid-Ramp, Highstand, Microbialite Patch and Fringing Reefs: A New Exploration Play for Southern Alabama 1:35 Robert Karlewicz, RFH: The Cotton Valley Limestone Pinnacle Reef Trend, 20 Years Later, East Texas Basin 2:00 Charles Goodson, PetroQuest: Cris R in Vermillion Parish, Louisiana: Big Payoff for Conventional Explorers 2:25 Tim Rynott, Ridge Resources: Gulf of Mexico Inboard Lower Tertiary and Cretaceous: Plays and Potential 2:50 BREAK 3:20 Martin Cassidy, University of Houston: The Norphlet Desert and its Sand Dunes: In a Sub-Aerial Environment, but below Sea Level 3:45 Jeff Spencer, Amromco Energy: The 40th Anniversary of South Louisiana’s Lower Tuscaloosa Trend—Recollections and Early Media Coverage 4:10 Peter Rose, Rose and Associates: Late Cretaceous and Tertiary Geologic History, Edwards Plateau, Llano Uplift, and Hill Country, Texas ENVIRONMENTAL AND COASTAL GEOLOGY Jeff Paine Session Chair • Room 332ABC 1:05 OPENING REMARKS 1:10 Walter Wornardt, Micro-Strat: Correlation of the Eagle Ford, Eaglebine and Tuscaloosa Shales 1:35 Jeff Paine, University of Texas at Austin: Discriminating Quaternary Depositional Units on the Texas Coastal Plain Using Airborne Lidar and Near-Surface Geophysics 2:00 Kathleen Haggar, Dynamic Measurement: Analysis of the Goose Point area near Lacombe, LA, Area Validates New Geophysical Data Type—Natural Source Electromagnetism (NSEM) for Detection of Lineaments Associated with Faults and Sedimentary Features 2:25 Bruce Hart, Statoil: The Greenhorn Cyclothem of the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway: Lithology Trends, Stacking Patterns, Log Signatures, and Application to the Eagle Ford of West Texas 2:50 BREAK CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALEONTOLOGY Clement Bataille, Session Chair • Room 332ABC 3:15 OPENING REMARKS 3:20 Clement Bataille, Chevron: Chemostratigraphic-Based Age Model for the Black Peaks Formation: Implications for Early Paleogene Paleoclimate in SubTropical North America 3:45 Malcolm Hart, UK: Paleoecology of Cretaceous Foraminifera: Examples from the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico Region 4:10 [Open] 4:35 Juan Carlos Silva Tamayo, University of Houston: Sedimentologic Expression of the Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Events along Eastern and Northern Colombia SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES AND GEOPHYSICAL TECHNOLOGY Sharon Cornelius and Don Van Niewenhuise, Session Chairs • Room 332DEF 1:05 OPENING REMARKS 1:10 Andreas Laake, Schlumberger: Understanding Deepwater Transport Systems through Processing and Interpreting Seismic Data in Color 1:35 Deborah Sacrey, Auburn Energy: Geological Interpretation Using Pattern Recognition from Self-Organizing Maps and Principal Component Analysis 2:00 Sharon Cornelius, University of Houston: Extraction of Seismic Attributes for Reservoir Characterization in Subsalt Environments, Keathley Canyon and Walker Ridge Areas, Gulf of Mexico 2:25 Jingqui Huang, University of Houston: Seismic Profiles in Downtown Houston for an Integrated Approach to Identify Faults and Hazards NEW IDEAS IN MAPPING AND EXPLORATION Sharon Cornelius and Don Van Niewenhuise, Session Chairs • Room 332DEF 3:15 OPENING REMARKS 3:20 Selim Shaker, GAS: Exploring the Missing Blind Zone in the Gulf of Mexico Shelf 3:45 Paul Comet: The Sulfur to Nitrogen Ratio as an Aid in Mapping the Petroleum Producing Trends of the Contiguous U.S. 48 States Using the USGS Database 4:10 Ibrahim Cemen, University of Alabama: Along Strike Structural Variations in the Frontal Ouachitas-Arkoma Foreland Basin Transition Zone