Previous RMS-SEPM Talks

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Mar. 2005
Jane E. Estes-Jackson
McElvain Oil & Gas Properties, Inc.
Reservoir Characterization of the Wasatch Formation in the Hanging Rock Development Area, Southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah
Apr. 2005
Pete Varney
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Some Thoughts on Dakota Stratigraphy and Exploration, Chama Basin, New Mexico
May 2005
Stephen O. Norris
EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.
Characterization, Simulation, and Successful Development of a Tight Gas, Fluvial Reservoir System in the Piceance Basin, CO
Sept. 2005
Paul Heller
University of Wyoming
Controls on Alluvial Architecture on Intermediate Time Scales
Oct. 2005
Stephen Sturm
Schlumberger DCS
Geologic Constraints on Restimulation of the Blair Formation, Brady Field, SW Wyoming
Nov. 2005
Donna Anderson
Colorado School of Mines
Comparing types of fluvial bodies, with implications for reservoir description: Nonmarine Iles Formation near Rangely, Colorado
Jan. 2006
William C. Ross
GeoGraphix
Searching for Sub-Seismic Resolution Features in Mature Basins: Log-Based Sequence Stratigraphy of the Fox Hills and Lewis Formations
Mar. 2006
Yuval Bartov and Dag Nummedal
Colorado Energy Research Institute - Colorado School of Mines
The basin fill history of the Green River Formation in the Piceance Creek Basin, CO
Apr. 2006
Kitty L. Milliken
University of Texas at Austin
Reservoir Quality Assessment: Petrography as a Tool for Deciphering Kinetically-dominated Systems and the Need for Petrographic Education
May 2006
Robert E. Zilinski Jr and Donna M. Goldstein
Western Gas Resources Inc
Paleotectonic Controls and their Relationship to Wyodak Coal Deposition and Production in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming
Sept. 2006
R.W. Dalrymple
Queen's University
Where Does the Mud Go? The Dispersal of Mud From Rivers and the Stratigraphic Implications
Oct. 2006
Steve Cumella
Bill Barrett Corporation
Relationship of Marine Sandstones, Coals, and Fluvial Architecture, Mesaverde Group, Piceance Basin, Colorado
Nov. 2006
Piret Plink-Bjorklund
Colorado School of Mines
Wave-to-Tide Process Change in a Campanian Shoreline Complex, Chimney Rock Tongue, Wyoming/Utah
Jan. 2007
Donna Anderson
Colorado School of Mines & EOG Resources
Turbidites in the Western Interior Cretaceous Seaway:
The Known and the Possible

Feb. 2007
Marian J. Warren
EnCana Corp.
A High-Impact Gas Discovery in a Maturing Basin (Western Canada)
Mar. 2007
David R. Pyles
Chevron Center of Research Excellence,
Colorado School of Mines
Integrating outcrop and subsurface data to define regional and reservoir-scale patterns in the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone of the Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming
April 2007

Edmund R. "Gus" Gustason

Marshall Deacon

Colleen Sherry

El Paso
Corporation

EnCana Oil & Gas

Kerogen Resources

Resource Potential of Fine-grained Source Rocks, Wattenberg Gas Field, Denver Basin, Colorado
May 2007
Mark D. Sonnenfeld

Donna S. Anderson
Whiting Petroleum Corp.,

EOG Resources and Colorado School of Mines

Approaches to Stratigraphic Cross-Section Construction
Sept. 2007
Mark D. Sonnenfeld

Michael P. Dempsey

Hai-Zui
Meng

Stephen O.
Norris

Whiting Petroleum Corp.,

EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc.,

iReservoir.com, Inc.,

J-W Operating Company

3D Geomodeling of Heterogeneous Fluvial Reservoirs of the Williams Fork Formation, Mamm Creek Field, Piceance Basin, CO
Oct. 2007
Mary J. Kraus
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder
Using multiple paleosol proxies to interpret paleoclimate change: The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in Wyoming
Feb. 2008
John Webb*, Alan Byrnes**,
and Dan Krygowski*
*The Discovery Group, **Kansas Geological Survey
Reservoir Quality of the Mesaverde Group, Piceance Basin, Colorado (or: How can Rock Typing and Petrophysics help us to Understand and Predict Reservoir Performance?)
Mar. 2008
Tony D'Agostino
OMNI Laboratories, Weatherford Core Evaluation Services
Age, Sequences, Depo-Models, and Biofacies: U.S. Mississippian Shale-Gas Basins
Apr. 2008
Rick Sarg
Colorado Energy Research Institute, Colorado School of Mines
Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, and Economic Importance of Carbonate-Evaporite Transitions with Emphasis on the Paradox Basin
May 2008
Michael H. Gardner
Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman MT 59717
Deepwater Sedimentation from Hyperpycnal Flows of Shelf-Margin Deltas in an Active Tectonic Setting: Upper Cretaceous Prairie Canyon Member (Mancos B) of Mancos Shale, Eastern Utah and Western Colorado