Technical Program
Join us for a robust technical session featuring a keynote panel of industry experts. Dive into insightful presentations covering critical areas such as the Fort Worth Basin, Permian Basin, Eastern Shelf, and the Mid-Continent. Discover the latest advancements in technology applications that are shaping the future of these vital regions.
Keynote Panel
"Shaping the Oilpatch: The impact and Evolution of the Barnett Shale"
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Monday - April 28th
Fort Worth Club - 12th Floor
8:00AM-5:00PM
Short Course: Andrew Pepper | TIPS, LLC. | Discovery Thinking in the Onshore Through Offshore Petroleum Systems of the Gulf of Mexico Mega-Basin
Fort Worth Club - 12th Floor
Tuesday - April 29th
8:00AM
Opening Remarks and Awards
Convention Chair: Trey Cortez
SWS AAPG President: René Wiksveen
8:30AM
KEYNOTE PANEL: Larry Brogdon, Four Sevens Oil | Andree Griffen, XTO| Rebecca Harrington, BKV| Gideon Powell, Cholla
Moderator: Nikki Morris, TCU-Director Ralph Lowe Energy Institute
"Shaping the Oilpatch: The Impact and Evolution of the Barnett Shale"
9:30AM
SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT: Lorena Moscardelli | BEG Director
"Emerging Energies, Expansions and the New Role of the Subsurface"
10:00AM
Coffee & Poster Break
Morning Session - Fort Worth Basin/Barnett
10:30AM
Review of the basic reservoir characterization of the Mississippian Barnett Shale in the northeast Fort Worth Basin, Texas
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Bob Loucks - Bureau of Economic Geology
10:50AM
Integrated Analysis of Stratigraphy, Structure, Geochemistry, and Gas Production in the Barnett Shale, Northwest Dallas County, Texas, Fort Worth Basin
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Dennis Browning - Panther City Exploration
11:10AM
The Ellenburger Formation in the Fort Worth Basin – More than Just a Water Hazard for the Barnett Shale
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Rebecca Harrington - BKV
11:30AM
The Ghosts of Exploration Past: From Shale Reservoirs to Oil Cracking
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Dan Jarvie - Worldwide Geochemistry
12:00PM
ALL CONVENTION LUNCHEON: Opening with Deborah Sacrey | AAPG President
Dr. Nowell Donovan | TCU | "AHA! Moments that Shape Geologic Discovery"
Afternoon Session I - Eastern Shelf
1:20PM
The Flat Top JC Field, a Wildcatter’s Story
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Jim Browning- NBX Energy
1:30PM
Strawn Clastic Depositional Systems of the northern Eastern Shelf with Observations on Regional Petroleum Sourcing
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Bill Stephens - Delta Oil and Gas
2:00PM
Pennsylvanian reefs of the Eastern Shelf: What do we really know?
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Lowell Waite - UT Dallas
2:20PM
Geology of the 6666 Ranch, King County, Eastern Shelf
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Trey Cortez - Burnett Oil
2:40PM
Coffee & Poster Break
3:10PM
Identification and Characterization of Produced Oil from the Strawn Group Using Geochemical Source and Maturity Parameters: A Study from the Northern Part of the Eastern Shelf of the Midland Basin
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Xun Sun - Bureau of Economic Geology
3:30PM
Going with the flow: Permeability measurement and prediction in Katz Field (Upper Strawn), Stonewall County, Texas
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Jerry Jensen - Bureau of Economic Geology
3:50PM
Emerging Barnett Shale Play
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Mike Party- Beryl Oil and Gas
4:10PM
Preliminary evaluation of the Barnett and Mississippian Play in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico
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Qiqi Wang - Bureau of Economic Geology
4:30PM
Using Geochemical Fingerprinting to Optimize Barnett Production and Infill Development
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Jana Bachelada - Revochem
Afternoon Session II - Emerging Barnett Play in the Permian Basin
Fort Worth Club - 12th Floor
Wednesday - April 30th
8:00AM
SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT: Sean Kimiagar | EnergyNet
"The Evolving Landscape of U.S. Energy: A look at the activity across the Periman, Eastern Shelf, Fort Worth, and Mid-Con"
Morning Session - Permian Basin
8:30AM
Permian Basin unconventional oil production is the dominant production influence on global oil prices
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Bill Fairhurst - Riverford Resources
8:50AM
Direct H2S Detection from Cuttings to Explain Sour Gas Production Trends in the Delaware Basin
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Christopher Smith - Advanced Hydrocarbon Stratigraphy
9:10AM
Predicting the Occurrence of In-Situ H2S in Carbonates Using Porosity Well Log Gas Crossover as a Proxy: A Case Study in the Delaware Basin
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Mandi Guerrero - Point Energy Partners
9:30AM
Cores at the base of a stratigraphic framework and a basin infill history in the Delaware Basin, Texas
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Daniel Minisini - ExxonMobil
9:50AM
Coffee & Poster Break
10:30AM
The peerless value of accurate and consistent data: integrated mineralogical, geochemical and petrophysical models for the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring formations, Delaware Basin
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Arkadiusz Derkowski - Core Alliances
10:50AM
Cline Shale (‘Wolfcamp D’) core-calibrated wireline logs utilized to map chemofacies throughout the Midland Basin, West Texas
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Dave Carr - Bureau of Economic Geology
11:10AM
Multi-Bench Child Well Placement Amid Parent Well Production-Induced Stress Depletion in the Midland Basin
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Yiwen (Sophia) Gong - Bureau of Economic Geology
11:30AM
Enhanced Porosity Detection in Carbonate Reservoirs Using Phase Residual Acoustic Inversion
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Umberto Barbato - Lumina Geophysical
11:50AM
West Texas Geological Society 100 Year Anniversary: A Core Workshop of Early Field Discoveries from the 1920’s -1930’s in the Permian Basin.
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Bob Trentham - West Texas Geological Society/UT Permian Basin
12:00PM
DPA LUNCHEON: Opening by Bryan Horn | AAPG President-Elect
Rick Fritz | GEO-CEO Xplora Energy | “Energy at a Crossroads: Crisis, Innovation, and the Path to Prosperity”
Afternoon Session - Mid-Con, Tech
1:30PM
Assessing Hydrogen Geostorage in Natural Gas Reservoirs: Anadarko Basin
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Nick Hayman - Oklahoma University
1:50PM
Statewide Assessment of CO2 Storage Capacity for the lower Paleozoic Strata, Oklahoma
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Anna Turnini - Oklahoma University
2:10PM
Small Operator in the Anadarko Basin: Highlights from the “Cherokee” Shale play in Ellis County
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Tiffany Stephens - Duncan Oil Properties
2:30PM
The Unexpected Reach of Strike-Slip Faulting
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Molly Turko - Devon
2:50PM
Geochemical Relation of the Ft. Worth Basin, Permian Basins (Tobosa), and Oklahoma Oil Provinces
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Philip Bergeron - GeoMark
3:10PM
Coffee & Poster Break
3:40PM
CO2-Brine Relative Permeability using a Multi-rate Unsteady State Method
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Einas Ahmed - PremierCorex
4:00PM
AI-Driven Data Management: Revolutionizing data discovery, standardization, and intelligent accessibility
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Michael Ramirez - NthDS
4:20PM
Machine Learning for Engineers: Case Histories in Reserves Calculations and Seeing Depletion in Old Fields
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Deborah Sacrey - Auburn Energy
4:40PM
Application of Artificial Intelligence Tools for Fault Imaging in an Unconventional Reservoir: A Case Study from the Permian Basin
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Hugo Garcia - Geoteric