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TSOP 2010 Annual Meeting
Schedule of Presentations

Monday, September 13
0815 Meeting opens: Welcome, Opening Words
0825 1. Shale Gas: From Resources and Reserves to Carbon Isotope Anomalies
John Curtis
0900 2. Characterization of Gas Composition Evolved from Different Source Rocks in Tight-Gas Reservoirs in the Rocky Mountain area: Examples from Piceance Basin, Colorado, and Jonah Field, Wyoming, USA
Tingwei (Lucy) Ko, Michael D. Lewan, Nicholas B. Harris
0920 3. Stability Analysis of two horizontal CBM Wells in the deep Mannville coals in the Alberta Basin, Canada
Thomas Gentzis
0940 4. Chemical Pre-treatment of Coal and its Influence on Extractable Organic Matter
Lisa Gallagher, Steve Harris, Junko Muankata-Marr
1000 Coffee Break
1020 5. Review on the Origin of Oil and Hydrocarbon Gases within our Solar System - Biogenic and Abiogenic?
Prasanta K. Mukhopadhyay, David J. Mossman, James M. Ehrman
1040 6. Hartshorne coal rank applied to Oklahoma Arkoma Basin coalbed-methane activity
Brian J. Cardott
1100 7. Technological Characterization of Selected Coal Seams for Estimation of Potentiality of Coal Bed Methane - Case Studies from East and West Bokaro Coalfields, Jhakhand, India
Vinod Kumar Saxena, Atul.Kumar Varma, Nilesh Ahirwar, Vinod Atmaram Mendhe
1120 8. Chemical structural changes in bituminous coal in response to heating by dike intrusions as investigated by advanced solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Jingdong Mao, Xiaoyan Cao, Mark Chappell, Arndt Schimmelmann, Maria Mastalerz, Yuan Li
1200- 1400 Business Luncheon
1400 9. Middle Pennsylvanian Age (Atoka and Cherokee Group) Carbonaceous Shales in the Denver Basin
Steven A. Tedesco, Neil Sharp
1420 10. Estimating thermal maturity, generation potential and mineralogical composition of oil shale and post-pyrolysis residues using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Justin E. Birdwell
1440 11. Paleozoic lacustrine shales of Northeast Greenland: characteristics and petroleum potential
Jørgen A. Bojesen-Koefoed, Henrik I. Petersen, Stefan Piasecki, Lars Stemmerik
1500 12. Custom kinetics and composition of a global set of lacustrine and marine oil shales: influence on petroleum generation characteristics /b>
Henrik I. Petersen, Jørgen A. Bojesen-Koefoed, Anders Mathiesen
1520 Coffee Break
1540 13. Variation of coal flow properties with probe gas, composition, and fabric in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (WCSB)
Leye Adeboye, R. Marc Bustin
1600 14. Mineralogical Changes in the High Rank Coals of the South Walker Creek Area, Northern Bowen Basin
Asep K. Permana, Colin R. Ward
1620 15. Locally Robust Fc-factors for Utah Coal
Jeffrey C. Quick
1640 16. Fuzzy Expert System Applied for the Color Reduction of Fluorescent Microscopic Coal Images
Alejandro Restrepo-Martinez, Astrid Blandon Montes
Tuesday, September 14
0815 Arrival: Opening Words
0830 1. Lower Organic Carbon Limits and Upper Thermal Maturity Limits for Methane Generation from Type-III Kerogen in Coals and Fine-grained Rocks
Michael D. Lewan
0900 2. Geochemical characterization of an oil seep from the Bagua Basin, north-central Peru
Thomas Gentzis
0920 3. Systematic characterization of kerogen using advanced solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance
Jingdong Mao, Arndt Schimmelmann, Maria Mastalerz, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr
0940 4. Assessing the Importance of Pyrobitumen in Unconventional Reservoirs
Tim E. Ruble, Christopher D. Laughrey, Herman Lemmens, Greg Walker, Wayne R. Knowles
1000 Coffee Break
1020 5. Preliminary Evaluation of the Rhenium-Osmium Geochronology of Phosphoria Oils, Big Horn Basin, Wyoming
Paul G. Lillis, David Selby
1040 6. Sedimentary records of organic matter and Hg as influenced by change in depositional environment in recent sediments of thermokarst lakes from the Mackenzie River Delta, Canada
Hamed Sanei, P.M. Outridge, A. Dallimore, P.B. Hamilton
1100 7. The occurrence, distribution and influence of authigenic clays in reservoir rocks of Agbada Formation, Niger Delta
Olugbenga A. Ehinola, Olusola R.Yussuf
1120 Lunch
1300 8. Mineralogy and geochemistry of individual coal seam subsections in the Sydney Basin, Australia
Lei Zhao
1320 9. Igneous Intrusions in the Sedimentary Basins of Eastern Australia- Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration
Lila W. Gurba
1340 10. An influence of crude oil on microscopically measured reflectance
Neely Bostick
1400 11. Petrographic applications in prediction of combustion behavior of inertinite rich coal and char and fly ash formation
Atul Kumar Varma, Mrityunjay Kumar, Vinod Kumar Saxena, Ashish Sarkar
1800 Dinner

Poster Presentations: P-

1. Comparison of Pennsylvanian age coalbed methane and shale gas resources in the Illinois and Cherokee Basins
Steven A. Tedesco, Amanda Huffer
2. Insights on biomarker parameters of the Tremembé Formation (Type I kerogen), Brazil, based on hydrous pyrolysis experiments
Regina Binotto, Noelia Del Valle Franco Rondón, Michael D. Lewan, Eugenio Vaz dos Santos Neto, João Graciano Mendonça Filho, André L. D. Spigolon
3. Geochemical and petrographic features of the organic matter through a simulated maturation series: An application in the Los Cuervos source rock-Llanos Foothills, Colombia
Vladimir Blanco, Luisa Campiño, Carlos Parra, Angelo Plata
4. Influence of CO2 on organic-rich shale composition and pore structure; Example from the New Albany Shale
R.W. Lahann, M. Mastalerz, J. R. Rupp
5. Organic facies characterization of a sedimentary section from the Santa Catarina Coalfield
Mendonça Filho, J.G., Guerra Sommer, M., Cazzulo Klepzig, M., Kern, M. L., Mendonça, J.O., Silva, T.F., Menezes, T.R., Bongiolo, D.E.
6. Thermal maturity trends in the Mowry Shale in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming and Montana
Thomas M. Finn, Mark J. Pawlewicz
7. Appalachian Basin Natural Gas Database: Distribution, composition, and origin of natural gases
Yomayra A. Román-Colón, Leslie F. Ruppert, Linda J. Bragg
8. Petrography of subbituminous Tertiary Colombian coals and their evaluation in pyrolysis, activation and petroleum source processes
Oscar Javier Jaramillo Rua
9. Partitioning of trace elements in feed coals and coal combustion products from a power plant in the Colorado Plateau, USA
Sharon M. Swanson, Ronald H. Affolter, Mark A. Engle
10. Spontaneous combustion possibilities from piles of subbituminous coals from Amaga Formation
Astrid Blandón Montes
11. Petrographic Characteristics of Some Coals from the Cuervos Formation in the Cesar Basin (Colombia)
Tatiana Juliao, Oscar Jaramillo Rúa, Astrid Blandón Montes
12. CO2 emissions from Illinois Basin coals and influence of their petrographic composition
Agnieszka Drobniak, Maria Mastalerz
13. Coalbed methane potential of carboniferous coal basins from onshore and offshore Nova Scotia and geochemistry of waters associated with coal beds
P. K. Mukhopadhyay
14. Evaluation of the hydrocarbon generation potential in coals of the Caballos Formation of Cretaceous age in the Upper Magdalena Valley Basin - Colombia
Viviana María Bermúdez Cortés, Astrid Blandón Montes, Oscar Jaramillo Rúa
15. Organic geochemistry and petrology of the Pearsall Formation as a potential shale gas resource, Maverick Basin, south Texas
Paul C. Hackley, Kristin O. Dennen, Peter D. Warwick, Sharon M. Swanson
16. Estimated shale gas resources in the Middle Magdalena Valley and Eastern Cordillera Basins of Colombia
Maria Alexandra Aguja, Martha Liliana Sarmiento, Gustavo Navas Guzmán, Carlos Hernán Vargas
17. The origin and the composition differences of coalbed methane and shale gas in the eastern part of the Illinois Basin
Ling Gao, Agnieszka Furmann, Maria Mastalerz, Arndt Schimmelmann
18. Coalbed methane in Colombia: An overview
Adriana Gómez Prada, Sandra Liliana Rodriguez, Romeo Flores, Jorge Roballo Fuentes, Gustavo Navas Guzmán