Core
Conference


The GeoCanada 2010 Core Conference Committee is pleased to announce the following list of core displays that capture the many facets of Working with the Earth. On display will be examples of new Methodologies and Technical Applications in evaluation of the subsurface, examples of Carbonate and Clastic Depositional Systems and the new paradigm of subsurface exploitation encompassed by Unconventional Heavy Oil, Shallow Gas, Tight Gas and Shale Gas opportunities.

This year the Core Conference will be presented on

Thursday, May 13 9:00am – 4:00pm
Friday, May 14 8:30am – 3:30pm

Remember, your delegate badge allows you free access to public transit for the week of the Convention – public parking at the ERCB is extremely limited and pay-only.

Walking from Brentwood CTrain station (approx 8 mins)

1. Head northwest towards 33 St NW
2. Slight left at Research Rd NW
3. Turn left at 33 St NW
4. Turn right at Research Way NW

(ERCB will be on the left)

Unconventional Shale Gas, Tight Gas, and Shallow Gas
Potential Unconventional Gas Reservoirs of Alberta - What Do They Have in Common? What are the Main Differences? Douglas Cant
Unconventional Montney: An Integrated Approach for the Comprehensive Evaluation of an Unconventional Montney Core for Improved Formation Evaluation and Optimized Completion Practices Ian Hunter and Wayne Sealey
Horn River Shales …Boring and Black? ...or…Beautifully Complex? Shona Ness, Roy Benteau and Shelley Leggitt
Unconventional, low-permeability offshore marine reservoir facies, with hiatal conglomerates developed at internal stratigraphic unconformity surfaces – the Alderson member of the Milk River formation, Upper Cretaceous, southern Alberta and Saskatchewan Shaun O’Connell
Integrated Sedimentology, Ichnology and Petrography of Unconventional Gas Reservoirs of the Montney Formation; Dawson Creek Region, Northeastern B.C. I Peter Proverbs, Kerrie L. Bann and Chris Fratton
Correlating the Subsurface Nikanassin Group to an Outcrop Near Grande Cache, Alberta Rachael M. Rose, Stephen M. Hubbard, Ross B. Kukulski, Brett D. Miles, M. Keegan Raines, Andrew Leier, Holly Rose, Tanya Dixon, Cassandra Frosini, Jon Noad, and Mehran M. Faridan
Heavy Oil
Regional Stratigraphy and Reservoir Units of the Grosmont Formation: Laricina’s Saleski and Burnt Lakes Leases J. Hopkins, K. Wilde, S. Christiensen and K. Barrett
Paleogeographic Distribution of the Lower Cretaceous McMurray (Dina) Formation in northeastern Alberta and Northwestern Saskatchewan Dan Kohlruss, Jenna Phillips, Mike Ranger, Murray Gingras, and Per Pedersen
Lithofacies Identification and the Implications for SAGD Well Planning in the McMurray Formation, Christina Lake Area, Alberta Travis Shackleton, Robert Gardner, Sung Youn, Grace Eng, and Lori Barth
The Wabiskaw D Member, Clearwater Formation: A World Class Oil Sands Reservoir Hosted in an Incised Valley Complex Daren J. Shields and Rudy Strobl
Sandstone Depositional Systems
Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Tukweye Member of the Martin House Formation, Mackenzie Corridor, Northwest Territories Julia E.A. Davison, Stephen M. Hubbard, Thomas Hadlari, and Dennis Meloche
Sedimentological and Ichnological Assessment of a Regional Sequence Boundary/Transgressive Ravinement Surface, Bluesky-Gething Interval, northern Alberta Cassandra Frosini, Stephen M. Hubbard, and Kaylee D. Anderson
Pedogenic and Groundwater Silcretes in Paleovalley Filling J3 & J2 Sandstones, Medicine River Area, West Central Alberta, Canada Federico F. Krause and Andrea F. P. Mellor
Facies Architecture of the Upper Mannville Group (Sparky, Waseca, and McLaren Formations), West-Central Saskatchewan Alireza Morshedian, James A. MacEachern, and Shahin E. Dashtgard
Sedimentology of the Lower Vivian Formation: An Extensive Lowstand Fluvial System, Marañon Basin, Peru Mark A. Radomski and Mark Hearn
Carbonate Depositional Systems
Subaerial Unconformities in the Upper Devonian Snipe Lake Reef Complex, West-Central Alberta Beverly J. Mack and Nancy Chow
New Production and Facies Model for the Devonian Torquay Formation (Three Forks Group) in Southern Saskatchewan Erik H. Nickel and John Lake
Reservoir Characteristics of the Birdbear Formation in West-Central Saskatchewan Chao Yang and Don Kent
Methodologies and Applications
Reservoir Characterization by Means of Drill Cuttings; An Example of Hydrothermal Dolomite in Cuttings from the West Sukunka River Area of British Columbia Tijmen H.D. Hartel
How to Log Core (With Examples from the Williston Basin of Southeast Saskatchewan) D. M. Kent and J. H. Lake
Wellsite Geochemistry – Using New Analytical Tools to Evaluate Conventional & Unconventional Reservoirs Albert Maende, Tim Ruble, Diego Ortiz, W. David Weldon, William Paul, Brandon Binford, and Mark Tobey
Using Paralic Coal as an Indicator of Accommodation Space and Correlation Tool in Terrestrial Sediments: Examples from the Mannville Group and Falher Member J. A. Wadsworth
Chemostratigraphic Characterization of Incised Valley Fill Sequences from the Lower Cretaceous Mannville Group, and the Basal Colorado Sandstone A.M. Wright, K.T. Ratcliffe and Brian A. Zaitlin