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OUTCROPNewsletter of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
Volume 62 • No. 7 • July 2013
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The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) is a nonprofit organization whose purposes are to promote interest in geology and allied sciences and their practical application, to foster scientific research and to encourage fellowship and cooperation among its members. The Outcrop is a monthly publication of the RMAG.
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President – Debra Higley-Feldman [email protected]
President-Elect – Matt Silverman [email protected]
1st Vice-President – Larry Rasmussen [email protected]
2nd Vice-President – Laura Mauro Johnson [email protected]
Secretary – Jacinda Nettik Brown [email protected]
Treasurer – Mike Kozimko [email protected]
Treasurer Elect – Reed Johnson [email protected]
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Counselor (1 Year) – John Ladd [email protected]
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The Board of Directors meeting was held on May 15th, 2013 at the RMAG office. We began this meeting with approval of last month’s minutes and Mike Kozimko followed up with the Financial Report. It’s worth noting RMAG’s expenses took a hit in April due to the poor turnout at the Spring Symposium, “Making Money with Science.” This event lost money for RMAG. It was held on the same day as the DWLS Spring Workshop. In the future, RMAG hopes to avoid scheduling conflicts such as these.
The Publications Committee is happy to report the Outcrop is now paying for itself and making money, much of this is attributed to the lack of printing and postage costs because Outcrop went digital. If your company would like to advertise in the Outcrop, please contact the RMAG Staff.
The Continuing Education Committee has proposed adding a co-chair to this committee to add continuity of the position and help with the large workload of the chair position. The RMAG by-laws will be checked to see if adding a co-chair requires a membership vote or if a board of directors’ vote is sufficient. If you’re interested in co-chairing this committee please contact the RMAG staff.
The Industry Leaders of the Future held their first event on May 14th titled, “The Road to Owning Your Own Oil and Gas Company.” This event was free and well attended with positive feedback. The RMAG BOD thanks
Neil Sharp and John Mark Strahan for organizing such a great event and look forward to the future ILF events.
The Membership Committee has a new policy in place to disseminate funeral details to RMAG members in a timely manner. Friends and family please supply funeral details of RMAG Members in an email-ready blast to the RMAG staff and it will be sent out to the RMAG members. Additionally, The Outcrop would like to publish obituaries of recently deceased members. Please help keep RMAG members informed of their dear colleagues and friends passing by providing this information to the RMAG staff.
Although no motions were passed at the May Board of
Directors meeting, important RMAG business was covered. I hope everyone is enjoying their summer and some of the RMAG summer events.
RMAG May Board of Directors MeetingBy Jacinda Nettik Brown, Secretary ([email protected])
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Volume 62 • No. 7 • July 2013
COVER PHOTOPalouse Falls in the channeled scablands
of southeastern Washington. The channeled scablands are crossed by erosional valleys downcut during the catastrophic floods caused by the failure of the ice dam that held back Lake Missoula during the Pleistocene. Photo by Dean Bubois.
Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
Features 8 Lead Story: RMAGA –
60 Year Celebration
association news10 GeoLand Ski Day
201312 Authors and Editors
Needed13 From the
Membership Committee
18 Colorado Science and Engineering Fair
20 Thank you to 2012 RMAG Foundation Donors
21 RMAG 2013 Summit Sponsors
27 Connect with RMAG Online!
33 Submit a Manuscript to The Mountain Geologist
34 2013 Proposed On-the-Rocks Field Trips
36 What You Need to Know
37 Studies in Geology 65
Departments 4 RMAG May Board
of Directors Meeting 6 President's Column 14 On-the-Rocks Field
Trips: Medicine Bow Mountains
16 Outcrop Advertising Rates
24 New Members29 RMAG Luncheon
Program31 Bits & Pieces34 In the Pipeline38 Advertisers Index38 Calendar of Events
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Porosity Across the Denver Basin
President’s Column
By Debra Higley
July is commonly a slow time; people are busy with vacations and other important activities. So hot days and nights lead me to mention the first NAPE Rockies, which will be held December 11-13 of this year in Denver (http://www.napeexpo.com/nape-shows/nape-rockies). This is when we’ll be turning the thermostat up instead of down, today’s green yards (depending upon watering restrictions) will be mostly yellow and gray, and we’ll yearn for spring.
I’m looking forward to NAPE Rockies, partly because as a research geologist I barely know what a prospect is; it will be very interesting. RMAG is an endorsing society. Through our cooperative agreement with NAPE we will contribute to this event, and RMAG will have a booth in perpetuity, or maybe longer. Denver has become a popular place for petroleum industry events, and RMAG is glad to contribute to NAPE Rockies.
One of my research interests is rock porosity/permeability distribution and pore networks, which tend to be smaller than LinkedIn networks but more appealing in thin section views. The above Muddy “J” Sandstone 3D view is tilted, at 700x vertical exaggeration, and has
draped county (red) and state (black) lines. Porosity in Weld County is dissected by Bob Weimer’s wrench fault systems (Higley and Cox, 2007, Fig. 6). The primary effect shown on the image is westward-decreasing porosity with increasing burial depth, from the eastern basin to the deep basin just west of Denver. Lithofacies also strongly influence porosity distribution, and contribute, with increased burial depth, to the mostly unconventional oil and gas resources of Weld County, and the mostly conventional resources of the eastern basin.
Latitude-longitude locations, vitrinite reflectance for the Lower Cretaceous Mowry and Graneros Shales, and porosity/permeability statistics data are in the “Jsandsto.*” files (Higley, 1988). The various permutations of “ID” column headings in individual files correspond to specific wells that are listed by ID NUMBER” in the “Pordata.*” pre-metadata documentation file. Thankfully, my data publication abilities have improved some over the decades (as in less painful).
ReferencesHigley, D. K., 1988, Core porosity, permeability, and vitrinite
reflectance data from the Lower Cretaceous J sandstone in 141 Denver Basin coreholes; USGS Open-File Report 88-527, 6 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-p/OF88_527/
Higley, D.K. and D.O. Cox, 2007, Oil and gas exploration and development along the Front Range in the Denver Basin of Colorado, Nebraska, and Wyoming, in D.K. Higley, compiler, Petroleum systems and assessment of undiscovered oil and gas in the Denver Basin Province, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming—USGS Province 39: USGS Digital Data Series DDS–69–P, ch. 2, 40 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-p/REPORTS/69_p_CHAP_LIST.pdf.
RMAG hosts the “What you need to know to implement a successful job change for your career in the oil and gas industry” event this month by the Industry Leaders of the Future RMAG committee. Neil Sharp and John Mark Strahan are committee chairs of these social and informative events.
Image is of median percent-porosity contours using Higley (1988) data of the Lower Cretaceous
Muddy (“J”) Sandstone in wells across the Denver Basin in Colorado (CO), Nebraska (NE), and
Wyoming (WY).
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LEAD STORY
RMAGA – 60 Year CelebrationBy Germaine Gregg
A Diamond Jubilee was held at Pinehurst Country Club on May 16, 2013. The members and their guests enjoyed greeting old friends and sharing memories of the past 60 years, in the beautifully decorated ballroom. After a champagne toast we enjoyed the wonderful tenderloin luncheon, with music performed by Mary Ann McAllister, Bobbe Harms and Peach Albertus.
The entire program was a salute to “The Way We Were” and the committee – Pat Wingert, Joyce Near and Sandy Hatch spent many months preparing the activities. The commentary described the past in segments of 10 years, explaining what had happened to RMAGA each decade. The fashion show featured clothes from past “sew your own” fashion shows as well as fun outfits from each time period. Many beautiful clothes were modeled by members who could still wear the youthful dresses, including wedding dresses. It was delightful to see slim daughters and granddaughters model the clothes. We enjoyed seeing the tap-dance group from the 60s and 70s come out in a chorus line with walkers and perform. It was a day of fun with friends. RMAGA has remained an active group through the years and we still meet every 3rd Thursday, September through May for lunch and to enjoy outstanding programs.
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The Jubilee Committee, Pat Wingert, Joyce Near and Sandy Hatch
Co-Presidents Alys Veal and Jackie Meissner
Jo Gray in her “Mother of the Bride” dress which she made.
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RMAGA has remained an active group through the years and we still meet every 3rd Thursday, September through
May for lunch and to enjoy outstanding programs.
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Editor's Note:The RMAGA was formed in 1953 when geologists still actually went out on the wells and were gone
for weeks to months at a time. Many of the RMAGA women described multiple relocations, sometimes only one to two days after the birth of a child. One member related how they had moved twenty times before finally remaining on assignment in Denver. The RMAGA provided a community of support for these remarkable women who shared their husband's careers. I was amazed at how many read the Outcrop (even the items most of the members don’t read.)
At one time the RMAGA had over 27 interest groups in which the members could share and hone their skills in topics ranging from tap dance or bridge to stitchery. Today there are still nine active interest groups. One member recently celebrated her 100th birthday and several others are more than ninety and still going strong; six of the original charter members received roses at the Jubilee. If ever there was a recipe for successful living it would be the RMAGA, the community, friendship, support and camaraderie among this group of highly talented women, which is inspiring.
Congratulations, RMAGA on your 60th Anniversary.
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GeoLand Ski Day 2013What better way to spend the day than to hit the slopes
with fellow members of the RMAG and DAPL along with several friends, family and industry partners. We started the day at Heritage Square parking lot with a very warm welcome from the people with Petroleum Field Services (PFS) serving coffee, donuts and gifts to all the participates who were ready to board the busses and enjoy the ride. It was a snowy day in the mountains and a good day to have someone else driving.
Copper Mountain Resor t hosted our event on March 1st this year and did a great job. We were greeted with 6 inches of fresh powder on top of a 53” base. This was a very welcome sight after a slow start to the winter ski season earlier in the year. The conditions were great and the snow kept coming through most of the day. We had 140 eager skiers, riders and x-country athletes enjoying all the events throughout the day.
The entire mountain was in good shape, from the groomed out runs on Andy’s Encore and Collage to the steep and deep powder runs of Triple zero and So Fine up top in the Spalding Bowl.
The day was full of fun and friendly competition with over 40 participants racing the GS gates on the Copperopolis Trail NASTAR course. All these racers were competing for a top spot on the winner’s podium and the choice of some nice awards at our annual Après Ski party. Winners in the women’s division were Whitney “wicked fast” Dahms with a top ranked finish time of 26.72 sec. followed by Carla “too quick” Konopka at 28.41 sec. and
Caroline “catch me” Ortega with a time of 28.83 sec. The men’s competition was won by Doug “ the divine “ Potter with a time of 23.45 sec. In second place was Chris “the carver” Gough at 25.29 sec. followed by Gary “dangerous” Davis crossing the line at 25.88. Congratulations to all those who braved the race course this year.
Copper Mountain B a n q u e t s d i d a wonderful job hosting our Après ski party in the Kokopelli room in the Center Village area. There was a delicious
spread of food and beverages to refresh and restore everyone after a full day on the slopes. Awards and door prizes were announced and given out to many lucky
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winners at the party. Thanks to Christy Sports for helping with the door prizes. We had two special top prize winners with a pair of new Atomic skis going home with Steve Alexan and a nice set of woman’s K2 boards to Susan Rickard.
At 5:30 PM the buses departed for a smooth and relaxing ride back to Denver with Warren Miller extreme skiing films playing on the video screens and a special drawing of a dinner for four sponsored by Marlowe’s restaurant.
This year’s trip was hosted by both the RMAG and DAPL. Chris Gough and Larry Bennett were Chairmen for the RMAG and Patsy Botts was chairman for the DAPL.
Special thanks go out to the sponsors listed below who make this annual event possible. If you weren’t able to join us this year, get in and register early with us next year. Those who did attend thank you for your participation and we hope to see you on the slopes again next year.
Extreme TerrainBurleson, LLPLathrop & Gage, LLP
Double Diamond SponsorsBaseline Minerals, Inc.Bjork, Lindley, Little, P.C.CalFracMesa Energy Partners, LLCNoble Energy, Inc.Wellborn, Sullivan, Meck & Tooley, P.C.
Black Diamond SponsorsBecker Oil Corp.Christy SportsColumbine Logging, Inc.Drilling Info.EOG Resources, Inc.Marlowe’sMeagher Energy AdvisorsPetroleum Field ServicesPoulson, Odell & Peterson, LLCSFC Energy Management, LPStewart Petroleum, Corp.
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Blue Sponsors Allen & Kirmse, LTDAnschutz Exploration Corp.Baker Hughes, Inc.Black Hills Expl. & Production, Inc.Flagg Diamond CorporationFronterra GeosciencesJ.L. Obourn, Jr. & Company
Green Sponsors: Caerus Oil & Gas, LLC
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Authors and Editors Needed: RMAG Oil & Gas Fields of Colorado!
Dean DuBois, Committee Chair 720-876-5366 [email protected]
James Milne 303-894-2100 x5117 [email protected]
James Rogers 303-832-2328 [email protected]
Steve Cumella 720-979-0718 [email protected]
RMAG is working toward the publication of a guidebook dedicated to short field studies of a set of selected oil and gas fields in Colorado. In large part the format will be similar to earlier publications of this type: a several page article that will include a one page summary with a small set of maps and cross-sections adequate to give the reader a lot of information in a short amount of time. The RMAG committee working on this publication has selected 85 fields for review. In addition, we expect to have extended discussion around several large “resource play” areas such as the Piceance Basin or the Greater Wattenberg complex including the recent horizontal Niobrara play.
The committee is currently looking for authors to do field studies and to put together material for publication. Each author may contribute one or multiple field studies. We will also need a group of editors for both technical and copy (grammatical and graphical) review.
Please volunteer! Committee contacts below:
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From the Membership Committee
With the goal of “creating an RMAG community spirit that fosters the acknowledgement, respect, and involvement of all individual RMAG members,” the RMAG has recently formed a Membership Committee. The RMAG Membership Committee brings two subjects to your attention, and we invite your participation.
The Outcrop will soon be featuring a new section titled “Membership Highlights.” Please use this space to share personal information with our general membership. Appropriate information might include: marriage announcements; birth announcements; job and/or career changes; memorable excursions (such as that trip to Nepal and beyond); etc. Now that the Outcrop is digital, we have more space for sharing interesting and/or fun information and photos.
Our RMAG staff has graciously accepted the respons ib i l i t y o f forwarding death and memorial service announcements of deceased RMAG members to our membership. We encourage family members and friends of the deceased to submit death and funeral notices via email to [email protected]. So that our staff can accurately and quickly disseminate pertinent information, please convey messages by email rather than over the phone.
We understand that sometimes RMAG members feel they are bombarded with RMAG email messages. We ask for everyone’s patience. When family members are sharing funeral information, time is of the essence. Using the RMAG email “hotline” greatly benefits the deceased, the family of the deceased, and the RMAG community members. I appreciate your time and attention.
Connie Knight, Chairperson Membership Committee
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On-the-Rocks Field TripsMedicine Bow MountainsBy Cat Campbell
Trip Leader: Art Snoke, August 17, 2013
Explore the majestic Medicine Bow Mountains on August 17th with Art Snoke, a professor of geology at the University of Wyoming.
Highlights of the field trip will include: spectacular exposures of the Paleoproterozoic Medicine Peak Quartzite, stromatolites of the Nash Fork Formation, polyphase-deformed French Slate, mylonitic rocks of the Cheyenne Belt, and Quaternary glacial features and deposits.
Note these facts for the trip: (more details to follow).
Maximum number of participants: 30, and 8-to-• 11 vehicles (check the RMAG website Events for registration).Morning meeting place: Centennial, Wyoming at the • Friendly Store (approx. 155 miles from Denver)Morning meeting time: 10:00 am.• There is no charge for the trip, though drivers • please plan for a $5.00 fee per vehicle at one of the stops.Trip end: 5:00 pm at Centennial, Wyoming.•
More than two and a half billion years of geologic history are recorded in the rocks of the Medicine Bow Mountains. From an ancient continent and stromatolites to ocean basins and volcanic island chains, the Medicine Bow Mountains are a geologist’s dream to explore. This trip will specifically visit the Snowy Range, which consists of the magnificent quartzite peaks visible from the scenic byway. The Laramide uplift exposed this brilliant white rock with the highest peak, Medicine Bow Peak at an elevation of 12,013 feet.
Beyond the Laramide orogeny, the Medicine Bows have added structural complexity due to the Cheyenne Belt, a suture zone that runs through the mountains southwest-northeast. The metamorphosed rocks to the south of the belt were deposited in an ocean basin ~1.79 to 1.75 billion years ago and then were intruded by granite plutons and mafic complexes until 1.4 billion years ago.
North of the Cheyenne Belt, a vastly different set of rocks are preserved with an Archean core overlain by metasedimentary and volcanic rocks ~2.7 to 2.1 billion years old. These Archean and younger rocks are over 42,000 feet thick in some areas.
Paleozoic time was dominated by regressions and transgressions of numerous seas over this area
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Medicine Bow Peak, elevation 12,013 ft., Albany County, Wyoming. Photo by Art Snoke.
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of Wyoming. The region was structurally quiescent until the Pennsylvanian when uplift near the present-day Medicine Bow Mountains/Sierra Madre and to the southeast created the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. Erosion reduced this mountain to chain to low relief highlands into the Permian as oceans returned to the area.
The boundary between the Paleozoic Era and Mesozoic Era cannot be defined in the rock succession due to lack of fossils in the record. Things changed however in the Mesozoic Era with deposition of thousands of feet of sediment consisting of sands, silts, volcanic and even coal. Most of this deposition occurred during the Cretaceous due to the vast sea covering the land. By the end of the Cretaceous, the compressional forces of the Laramide orogeny likely produced islands in this seaway allowing erosive forces to remove the Paleozoic and Mesozoic sections exposing the Precambrian basement in the central part of the Medicine Bows. This uplift continued until the end of the Paleocene.
The current scenery of the Medicine Bow Mountains is dominated by the carving of glaciers that receded approximately 15,000 years ago. Shallow glacial basins are now filled with water throughout the alpine environment of the Snowy Range, adding to the magnificence of the white quartzite cliffs.
Since the glaciers retreated, the appearance of the mountains have changed little except for small traces of mineral exploration that has occurred over the past 100 years. The initial gold rush brought hundreds to the mountains exploring stream bed and digging for the metal; few were successful. The early 1900s brought slightly more successful prospectors for platinum and palladium followed by copper and in the 1970s, uranium. Fluctuating prices caused prospectors to come and go with the last rush occurring in 1977 for placer diamonds, which
were few and far between. Traces of mines and tailings can be seen in the area.
ReferencesKnight, Samuel H., 1990. Illustrated geologic history of the Medicine
Bow Mountains and adjacent areas, Wyoming. Geological Society of Wyoming Memoir 4. For more information please see http://www.wsgs. uwyo.edu/stratweb/MedicineBowMts/Default.aspx
Hausel, Dan W. 1993. Guide to the Geology, Mining Districts, and Ghost Towns of the Medicine Bow Mountains and Snowy Range Scenic Byway. Geological Society of Wyoming Public Information Circular No. 32.
»Fossil stromatolite of Early Proterozoic age, early evidence of life on earth, found on the field trip route. Photo by Art Snoke.
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Colorado Science and Engineering Fair
The Colorado Science and Engineering Fair was held at the Lory Student Center of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, April 11-13, 2013. Regional junior and senior high school winners from across Colorado participate in this event. The RMAG grants awards to exceptional projects in the earth sciences. Susan Wager (Chair), Richard Louden, and Anna Wells represented the RMAG as Special Awards Judges. The RMAG awards Certificates of Excellence and a cash award of $250 from the RMAG Foundation to each of the winners.
This year, the winners were: Molly Nehring (6th grade) for Have You Been Mooned? (Study of Jupiter, its four Galilean moons and Johannes Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary motion) Joe Pope (6th Grade) Got Oil? The Study of Oil Absorption in Rocks
Hannah DeKay and Raelen Barr – Team Project (8th Grade) How Does Temperature Affect the pH of Cement Creek?
Brisha Wakasugi (12th Grade) The Minnie Lynch: A Comparative Study in the Effects of Parent Material on Water Quality in Ephemeral Streams
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THANK YOU TO 2012 RMAG FOUNDATION DONORS
The Trustees of the RMAG Foundation wish to acknowledge the generous support of the Foundation’s donors in 2012. Approximately $35,000 was raised for student scholarships and the general fund which supports geologic endeavors within the geologic community at large. The Foundation, a tax-exempt organization under section 501 (c) 3 of the Internal Revenue Code (Tax ID # 84-0730294), relies on these donations for its ongoing contributions which are made each year from the interest accrued by the fund.
In addition to the individuals, companies, and corporations on the facing page who gave in 2012, the Foundation would like to recognize a major gift to the scholarship funds by the RMAG Golf Tournament contributors. Thank you to all who organized and played in that tournament!
If any donor has failed to be thanked individually by letter, please contact:
RMAG Foundation, #165 Independence Plaza 1001 16th Street, B-180 Denver, CO 80265
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PTTC Summer Workshops
Petroleum Geology for Non-Geologists Tuesday July 9, 2013, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Colorado School of Mines, Berthoud Hall room 241 Fee: $250 (includes food at breaks, workbook, and PDH certificate) Instructor: Dr. Stephen Sonnenberg (Colorado School of Mines) Course is for petroleum industry personnel in need of basic geological training. Course participants include: engineering, geophysical, technical support, and administrative personnel. Topics covered include: plate tectonics and sedimentary basins, geologic time; the petroleum system; depositional systems; porosity and permeability; conventional reservoirs; unconventional reservoirs; well log correlation and analysis; contour maps and cross sections; source rocks and seals. The Instructor: Dr. Stephen A. Sonnenberg is a Professor and holds the Charles Boettcher Distinguished Chair in Petroleum Geology at the Colorado School of Mines. He specializes in unconventional reservoirs, sequence stratigraphy, tectonic influence on sedimentation, and petroleum geology. A native of Billings, Montana, Sonnenberg received BS and MS degrees in geology from Texas A&M University and a Ph.D. degree in geology from the Colorado School of Mines. He has over twenty-five years’ experience in the industry.
Petroleum Engineering for Non-Engineers Wednesday July 10, 2013, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Colorado School of Mines, Berthoud Hall room 241 Fee: $250 (includes food at breaks, workbook, and PDH certificate) Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Miskimins (Colorado School of Mines) This one-day short course provides a broad, basic understanding of various petroleum engineering topics for non-engineers. The focus of the course is placed on the design, construction, stimulation, and production of wells. Specific topics discussed include the drilling of wells, rig types, wellbore integrity and design, completion types, casing and tubing definitions, downhole tools such as packers, formation damage, and stimulation including hydraulic fracturing. As the title implies, the course is designed for those who work in the oil and gas industry but do not have a technical background in subsurface topics. Previous attendees that have found the course useful include landmen, technicians, accountants, financiers, and field personnel. The Instructor: Dr. Jennifer Miskimins is an Associate Professor in the Petroleum Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) in Golden, Colorado, USA. Dr. Miskimins holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in petroleum engineering. Prior to joining CSM, she worked for Marathon Oil Company in a variety of locations. Dr. Miskimins is the founder and Director of the Fracturing, Acidizing, Stimulation Technology (FAST) Consortium at CSM. She teaches a variety of courses including completions and stimulation classes, geologic field camps, and petroleum economics courses at CSM and as industry short courses.
Come to Workshops Before and After the URTeC Conference in August!!
Stimulating Shale Oil/Gas Wells: Permeabilities from Matching Microseismic and Gas Rates, Defining the Fracture Network, and Implications for Proppant Sunday August 11, 2013, 1:00pm – 5:00 pm, Denver Athletic Club Fee: $75 (includes food at breaks, workbook, and PDH certificate) Instructor: Dr. Ian Palmer (Higgs-Palmer Technologies)
Confessions of a Frac Engineer: 200 Field Studies Prove our Frac Jobs are Not Optimized Wednesday July 10, 2013, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm Denver Athletic Club, Fee: $250 (includes food at breaks, workbook, and PDH certificate) Instructor: Mike Vincent, Fracwell, LLC
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Dean Anderson works for Pioneer Energy Services in Denver, CO.
Aaron Bateman works for CGG in Houston, TX.
Cliff Brooks works for Geospace Technologies Corporation in Houston, TX.
James Brooks works for Intermountain Wellsite Geologists in Nederland, CO.
Dale Burrier works for Oasis Petroleum in Houston, TX.
Ryan Dobbs works for EnergyNet.com in Evergreen, CO.
John Frame works for WPX Energy in Centennial, CO.
Alex Gibson works for Colorado School of Mines in Estes Park, CO.
Dan Grenard is a Retired Geologist in Canon City, CO.
Colby Hazard lives in Monument, CO.
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Andrew Heger lives in Evergreen, CO.
Zachary Hollon works for Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO.
Kyle Hoppes works for Triangle Petroleum Corporation in Denver, CO.
David Keller lives in Golden, Colorado
Kelly Kirkland works Duncan, OK.
Doug Kozak lives in Calgary, Canada.
Jennifer Loos works for AGEISS Inc. in Denver, CO.
Deborah Luckenbill works for Seismic Equipment Solutions in Houston, TX.
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Sean Marsh works for Denver Sturm College of Law in Denver, CO.
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Mud deposition often has been attributed to slow fallout from suspension into low-energy, frequently anoxic, settings. In reality, sediment delivery and resulting organic content, grain size, and lithology are quite variable. Understanding sedimentologic processes help us better describe mudrock cores and interpret stratigraphic and basinal variations in reservoir quality and mechanical properties.
Compositional variability reflects the complex interaction of biologic productivity, detrital input, organic preservation vs. destruction, and diagenesis. Intrabasinal biogenic material includes calcareous and siliceous hard parts of zooplankton and phytoplankton; cellular matter from algae, bacteria, spores, and pollen; fecal pellets; and feeding nets. Much of this matter sinks rapidly as aggregates, not individual particles, removing it from shallow, oxidizing waters. At the sea floor, suspension and deposit feeders (e.g., polychaetes and nematodes) may ingest the organics, reducing carbon content.
Biogenic influx is not constant. Extrabasinal carbonate and/or siliceous detritus vies with, and often overwhelms, intrabasinal input. Much extrabasinal material is delivered under the influence of storm waves or density flows. Storms suspend and mold bottom sediment, variably producing wave-enhanced sediment-gravity flows, graded tempestites, and hummocky and
The Sedimentology of Mudrocks: Organics, Organisms, and Occasional OccurrencesBy Jeffrey A. May, PhD, Chief Geologist (Retired), EOG Resources, July 10
At the sea floor, suspension and deposit feeders (e.g., polychaetes and nematodes) may ingest the organics, reducing carbon content.
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Luncheon will be held at the Marriott City Center at California and 17th St. Please check the event listing in the lobby for the room. Check-in/walk-in registration begins at 11:30 a.m., lunch is served at 12:00 noon, and the talk begins at 12:20 p.m. The luncheon price is $30.00. To listen only to the talk, walk-in price is $10.00. If you make a reservation and do not attend the luncheon, you will be billed for the luncheon. Online registration closes at 4:00 p.m. on the Thursday before the luncheon. Cancellations are not guaranteed after that time.
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At the sea floor, suspension and deposit feeders (e.g., polychaetes and nematodes) may ingest the organics, reducing carbon content.
wave-rippled bedforms. Hyperpycnal deposits form as rivers transit through flood cycles. Ignitive events yield slides, slumps, debrites, and turbidites. Sedimentary structures produced by these various processes may be difficult to recognize or interpret. They typically are subtle, due to small variations in grain size and/or post-depositional bioturbation, or very thin.
Thus, the paradigm of grain-by-grain settling of mud onto a deep, quiet, stagnant sea floor is being revised. The concomitant slow, continuous rain of organic matter is unlikely. Instead, mud accumulates under dynamic conditions. Active bottom currents are frequent. Persistent bottom-water anoxia is overestimated; diminutive, often “cryptic”, bioturbation is common. These interacting processes produce deposits of varying reservoir quality and cycles of various frequencies - seasonal, climatic, tectonic, and eustatic – that can be interpreted in core, outcrop, and well logs. Consequently, the study of mudrock sedimentology is generating new concepts that can be applied to rock description and appraisal and mapping of drilling targets.
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uSGS open-file Report 2013–1012 Simplified Stratigraphic Cross Sections of the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance Basin, Northwestern Colorado
Thirteen stratigraphic cross sections of the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance Basin of northwestern Colorado are presented in this report. Originally published in a much larger and more detailed form by Self and others (2010), they are shown here in simplified, page-size versions that are easily accessed and used for presentation purposes. Modifications to the original versions include the elimination of the detailed lithologic columns and oil-yield histograms from Fischer assay data and the addition of ground-surface lines to give the depth of the various oil shale units shown on the cross section.
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uSGS Digital Data Series DDS–69–Z (4/9/2013)Map of Assessed Shale Gas in the United States, 2012
The USGS has compiled a map of shale-gas assessments in the United States that were completed by 2012 as part of the National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project. Using a geology-based assessment methodology, the USGS quantitatively estimated potential volumes of undiscovered gas within shale-gas assessment units. These shale-gas assessment units are mapped, and square-mile cells are shown to represent proprietary shale-gas wells. The square-mile cells include gas-producing wells from shale intervals.
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old forty-four, A historical and Geological Excursion over New Mexico's old Route 44 Dirk Van Hart
Retired petroleum geologist Dirk Van Hart combines geologic and cultural history along the Rio Grande Valley and San Juan River Valley in New Mexico in this new volume.
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Well Database and Maps of Salt Cycles and Potash Zones of the Paradox Basin, utah.Terry W. Massoth
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The Mountain Geologist is a quarterly, online, peer-reviewed
journal published by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
since 1964. Circulation is about 2600. Editors for The Mountain
Geologist welcome manuscripts that focus on or relate to geology
of the U.S. Rocky Mountain region and environs.
When writing a manuscript for The Mountain Geologist, please
refer to the downloadable “Author Style Guide” found under
“Publications – The Mountain Geologist” on the RMAG website: www.
rmag.org It is important to write your manuscript according to this
style guide to mitigate revision time for both authors and editors.
The style guide is being updated in 2013; please send inquiries to
the Executive Editor at [email protected] or refer to issues published
in 2012-2013 when questions arise.
Back issuesA bibliography and index is available on the RMAG website (1964-
2009, see The Mountain Geologist web page, www.rmag.org). See
also, “Cumulative Bibliography and Index to The Mountain Geologist,
1999-2010” by Michele Bishop, The Mountain Geologist, July 2011,
v. 48, no. 3, p. 59-80 .
Back issues of the journal are available on DVD (The Mountain
Geologist 1964-2005 except 1985, v. 22, no. 4; The Mountain
Geologist 2006-2010 with 1985, v. 22, no. 4) available through the
RMAG office, 303-573-8621, or online on the RMAG website. Some
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If you have any events that you would like to post in this column, please submit via email to Holly Sell at [email protected] or to the RMAG office at [email protected] for consideration.
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July 9, 2013Desk and Derrick Luncheon. For reservations,
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What You Need to Know to Implement a Successful Job Change for Your Career in the Oil and Gas IndustryJuly 18, 2013, RMAG Event, Sponsored by Industry Leaders of the Future (ILF)
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Thinking about making a job change? This presentation will highlight several tools to be used to make your next job change a successful venture. It will also provide insight on how to best determine your career priorities in terms of what is most important to you. Is there a new technology or skill you would like to incorporate into your professional portfolio? Is there a perfect place in the U.S. where you would like to live? Do you want management responsibility or less? By highlighting a systematic approach to making a job change, this presentation will provide the audience with
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Location: OXFORD HOTEL 1600 17th Street Denver CO 80202
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Studies in Geology 65Application of Structural Methods to Rocky Mountain
Hydrocarbon Exploration and DevelopmentEdited by C. Knight, J. Cuzella, & L. Cress
Co-published byTulsa, OK and Denver, CO
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With increasing industry emphasis on developing “unconventional” tight reservoirs and on enhancing recovery from existing fields, geologists are facing new challenges. Identifying fracture characteristics within petroleum systems is essential. Understanding the timing of tectonics and the formation of structures is
important, as these factors strongly influence hydrocarbon generation, migration, entrapment, and preservation. As a means of addressing complex interrelationships between structural geology and hydrocarbon exploration and development, the editors are pleased to present this compilation of key papers.
Studies in Geology 65Table of Contents
Using Free-hand 3-D Drawings • to Clarify and Verify Subsurface Structural Interpretations — D. Stone
Introduction to Low-temperature • Thermochronologic Techniques, Methodology, and Applications — S. L. Peyton & B. Carrapa
Overview of Low-temperature • Thermochronology in the Rocky Mountains and its Application to Petroleum System Analysis — S. L. Peyton & B. Carrapa
Using Detrital Zircon • Geochronology to Solve Complex Structural Problems: Application with Pitfalls in the Helena Salient of the Montana Disturbed Belt, West Central Montana — P. T. Doughty, K. R. Chamberlain, & M. C. Pope
Regional and Local Fractures of • the Bakken Petroleum System, Williston Basin: Integrating Field Studies and 3-D Seismic Analysis — S. Angster & F. Sarg
Role of Wrench Faults and • Fractures in Creating “Sweet Spots” in Tight Gas Exploration and Production at Rulison Field Colorado — T. L. Davis & R. D. Benson
Fracture Control of P-wave • Azimuthal Anisotrophy in a Laramide Basement-cored Anticline at Casper Arch, Wyoming: Insights from Correlations with Surface Analogs and Curvature Analyses — R. D. Cooley & E. Erslev
Natural Fractures and Strain • Accommodation in the Tensleep Formation at Beer Mug Anticline — S. P. Cooper
Natural Fracture Patterns in • Folded Tensleep Reservoirs, Wyoming — S. P. Cooper & J. C. Lorenz
Fractures, Hydraulic Injections, • and Strain Accommodation in the Tensleep Formation at Flat Top Anticline, Carbon County, Wyoming — J. C. Lorenz
Beaver Creek Detachment • System: Syn-Laramide Gravity Detachment and Folding Oblique to Regional Compression — S. Smaltz & E. Erslev
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Studies in Geology 65Application of Structural Methods to Rocky Mountain
Hydrocarbon Exploration and DevelopmentEdited by C. Knight, J. Cuzella, & L. Cress
Co-published byTulsa, OK and Denver, CO
www.aapg.org/www.rmag.org
With increasing industry emphasis on developing “unconventional” tight reservoirs and on enhancing recovery from existing fields, geologists are facing new challenges. Identifying fracture characteristics within petroleum systems is essential. Understanding the timing of tectonics and the formation of structures is
important, as these factors strongly influence hydrocarbon generation, migration, entrapment, and preservation. As a means of addressing complex interrelationships between structural geology and hydrocarbon exploration and development, the editors are pleased to present this compilation of key papers.
Studies in Geology 65Table of Contents
Using Free-hand 3-D Drawings • to Clarify and Verify Subsurface Structural Interpretations — D. Stone
Introduction to Low-temperature • Thermochronologic Techniques, Methodology, and Applications — S. L. Peyton & B. Carrapa
Overview of Low-temperature • Thermochronology in the Rocky Mountains and its Application to Petroleum System Analysis — S. L. Peyton & B. Carrapa
Using Detrital Zircon • Geochronology to Solve Complex Structural Problems: Application with Pitfalls in the Helena Salient of the Montana Disturbed Belt, West Central Montana — P. T. Doughty, K. R. Chamberlain, & M. C. Pope
Regional and Local Fractures of • the Bakken Petroleum System, Williston Basin: Integrating Field Studies and 3-D Seismic Analysis — S. Angster & F. Sarg
Role of Wrench Faults and • Fractures in Creating “Sweet Spots” in Tight Gas Exploration and Production at Rulison Field Colorado — T. L. Davis & R. D. Benson
Fracture Control of P-wave • Azimuthal Anisotrophy in a Laramide Basement-cored Anticline at Casper Arch, Wyoming: Insights from Correlations with Surface Analogs and Curvature Analyses — R. D. Cooley & E. Erslev
Natural Fractures and Strain • Accommodation in the Tensleep Formation at Beer Mug Anticline — S. P. Cooper
Natural Fracture Patterns in • Folded Tensleep Reservoirs, Wyoming — S. P. Cooper & J. C. Lorenz
Fractures, Hydraulic Injections, • and Strain Accommodation in the Tensleep Formation at Flat Top Anticline, Carbon County, Wyoming — J. C. Lorenz
Beaver Creek Detachment • System: Syn-Laramide Gravity Detachment and Folding Oblique to Regional Compression — S. Smaltz & E. Erslev
The American Association of Petroleum Geologists
The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists
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