Dr. Mello's short course will present an overview of the use of petroleum biomarkers to correlate
oils with one another and to possible source rocks. Dr. Mello will discuss the increasing
importance of biomarkers in organic geochemistry and the current methodologies used in their
study. He will present examples of their use, discuss their advantages and limitations, and give
some insight into the current directions in biomarker research.
Limit: 20 persons
Special Session: The Organic Geochemistry of the World's
Deep-Water Areas
Sponsored by TSOP and HOGS (Houston Organic Geochemical
Society)
Chairs: Dr. A. N. Bishop and Dr. C. R. Robison
General Technical Session and Poster Session
General Technical Session and Poster Session
Field Trip (Limit 25 persons)
A one-day field trip to the Ocean Star Offshore Energy Center in Galveston, Texas, will be the main feature of the field trip. The Ocean Star is and old jack up rig with added buildings for displays (quite elaborate scaled models, oilfield equipment and tools). The tour of the Ocean Star will be guided. The guides are usually retired oil field engineers who are quite knowledgeable. The tour should last about 1.5-2 hours. Following the Ocean Star tour, we will visit the Galveston Seaport Museum; have lunch at a seafood restaurant; and then leave for the Johnson Space Center (NASA) at Clear Lake. We will return to Houston in the late afternoon.
| Sunday | 3 March 2002 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 am | Registration for Short Course |
| 9:00 am - 4:00 pm | Short Course: Biomarkers in Oil-Source Rock and Oil-Oil Correlation. Instructor: Dr. Marcio Rocha Mello |
| Noon - 6:00 pm | General Registration |
| 3:00 - 5:00 pm | Poster set-up |
| 6:00 - 9:00 pm | Reception |
| 8:00 - Midnight | Mid-Year Council Meeting |
| Monday | 4 March 2002 |
| 7:00 - 7:45 am | Registration |
| 7:45 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 8:00 am | Special Session: The Organic Geochemistry of the World's Deepwater Areas |
| M.R. Mello, J.M. Macedo, C. Schiefelbein and A. Requejo, KEYNOTE ADDRESS, "The deep and ultra-deep Great Campos: A frontier for new giant hydrocarbon accumulations in the Brazilian sedimentary basins." | |
| S. Imbus "Faeroe Islands: geochemical correlation of hydrocarbon seeps to those of the NE Atlantic Margin and the North Sea" | |
| B. Katz "Hydrocarbon shows and source rocks in scientific ocean drilling" | |
| E. Colling, et al. "Regional geochemistry and maturity modeling for the Northern Deepwater Gulf of Mexico" | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 am | Break and Poster Session |
| P. K. Mukhopadhyay "Deepwater source rocks and timing of hydrocarbon expulsion, Eastern Scotian Basin, East Coast Canada" | |
| K. Ferworn and J. Zumberge "Relationship between reservoir fluid properties and oil geochemistry" | |
| 11:30 am | Group Photo |
| 11:45am - 1:20 pm | Luncheon with Group and TSOP Business Meeting |
| 1:30 pm | General Technical Session: Coal |
| R. E. Carroll and J. C. Pashin "Carbon sequestration potential of coal-bed methane reservoirs in the Black Warrior Basin: relationship of sorption capacity to coal quality" | |
| B. Cardott "Lessons learned from coal-bed methane exploration" | |
| T. Moore, et al. "The role of macroscopic texture in determining coal-bed methane variability in the Anderson-Wyodak coal seam, Powder River Basin, Wyoming" | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 pm | Break and Poster Session |
| A. Cohen, A. M. Bailey, R. B. Gibbs and W. C. Riese "Differential coalification exhibited by petrographic changes during artificial coalification of Taxodium-dominated peats from Georgia and Louisiana" | |
| S. L. Bend "Coal models: descriptive or predictive? An examination and appraisal of coal petrographic models" | |
| R. Walker and M. Mastalerz "Individual maceral chemistry of selected Indiana coals: implications for coking properties" | |
| S. Pusz "Optical texture of bituminous coals - transformations during pyrolysis and hydropyrolysis" | |
| S. L. Buliga "Morphological analysis and genesis of coal beds in the Motru-Rovinari Basin, Romania" | |
| 7:00 pm | Banquet with Group Guest Speaker: Dr. G. Gulen, University of Houston "Why don't they get it? Politics versus reality in energy policy" |
| 8:30 - Midnight/TD> | Mid-Year Council Meeting, continued |
| Tuesday | 5 March 2002 |
| 8:00 am | General Technical Session: Petroleum Source Rocks |
| 8:00 am | R. C. Hankel and C. L. Riediger "Source rock and oil geochemistry of the Lower Montney formation, central Alberta, Canada" |
| I. Matyasik, A. Steczko, M. Mastalerz and S. C. Brassel "Petrographic and geochemical characterization of source rock variability in the Carpathian region of Poland: implications for oil generation" | |
| M. L. Malinconico "Organic petrographic studies of the Early Mesozoic Newark Rift Basin (1) thermal history using borehole and surface vitrinite reflectance and (2) organic sedimentation patterns in orbitally forced under filled lake cycles" | |
| C. Seibel and S. Bend "Organofacies and source potential of the Middle Ordovician Winnipeg formation within southern Saskatchewan" | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 am | Break and Poster Session |
| R. Locklair and B. Sageman "Origin, character, and stratigraphic hierarchy of organic-rich siltstones in deepwater facies, Upper Permian (Guadalupian) Brushy Canyon formation, west Texas" | |
| Z. Han, Q. Yang, and Z. Pang "Organic facies study of a Permian lake-swamp depositional sequence in Puxiang county, Shanxi Province, China" | |
| 11:30 am | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:00 pm | General Technical Session |
| S. M. Rimmer, J. A. Thompson, T. Robl, S. Goodnight and S. Hawkins "Controls on organic matter in Devonian-Mississippian marine black shales, east-central Kentucky: preservation vs. productivity" | |
| R. W. Stanton, R. M. Flores, P. D. Warwick and H. J. Gluskoter "CO2 sequestration in low rank coals" | |
| T. Sakulpitakphon, J.C. Hower and D.N. Taulbee "Predicted CO2 content of maceral concentrates from Kentucky and Illinois coals" | |
| H. Rahimpour-Bonab and Z. Zamani "Evaluation of source rock maturation using organic petrography as a tool: a case study from southern Caspian hydrocarbon source rocks" | |
| 3:00 pm | Break |
| Z. Shiqi and J. Youliang "Studies on petrology and geochemical characteristics of lacustrine condensed sections in Dongying Sag, Bohaiwan Basin, east China" | |
| H. J. McCunn and D. S. Moulton "A new mechanism for the formation and preservation of dolomitic and calcitic hydrocarbon reservoirs" | |
| Awards | |
| J. Burgess "2001 ICCP Meeting Highlights" | |
| W. Dow to lead Discussion Session "Can organic petrology survive in a virtual world?" |
List of Posters
A. S. Alsharhan "Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian Diyab formation as a major source rock unit
in southern Arabian Gulf"
A.N. Bishop, J. R. Castaño, A. N. Fuex, D. E. McKinney, S. J. Russell, N. Utech, M.
L. Weiss, and J. T. Westrich "Evaluation of oil quality in untested pay zones in the Gulf of
Mexico" (printed abstracts only) page 8
S. L. Buliga "The distribution of xylite in the coal beds of Motru-Rovinari Basin,
Romania"
A. Callejon and K. K. Bissada "Role of coals and carbonaceous shales in the generation
of oil in the Eastern Venezuela Basin"
V. C. Conde, C.V. Araujo, J. Botelho-Neto and E. Pedrão "Palynofacies and
sequence stratigraphy of an Upper Aptian section from Almada Basin, Brazil"
Z. Damyanov, M. Vassileva, J. Kortenski, and A. Sotirov "Petrology of the organic
matter in the Kremikovtsi siderite iron formation, West Balkan Mountain, Bulgaria"
W. G. Dow, J. R. Allen, and C. J. Kuhnel "Determination of API gravity from very
small
samples of oils, tar mats, and solid bitumens with the Rock-Eval 6 instrument"
E.C. Garcia, A. F. Callejón, N. H. Quiñones, K. K. Bissada and W. Elrod
"Exploration and reservoir heterogeneity: Implications of the composition of natural gases in the
Macuspna basin, Southern Gulf of Mexico"
S. Hawkins and S. M. Rimmer "Pyrite framboid size and size distribution: indicators of
anoxia during deposition of Devonian-Mississippian black shales"
B. Katz and C. Robison "Aspects of hydrocarbon charge of the petroleum system of the
Yamal Peninsula, West Siberia Basin"
J. Kortenski and A. Sotirov "Petrography of the Neogene lignites from the Sofia Basin,
Bulgaria"
B. M. Krzesinka, S. Pusz and R. Buszko "New approach to evaluation of coke
quality"
G. J. Nowak "Facies model of the Upper Carboniferous coal seams in the Lower
Silesian
Coal Basin (SW Poland) from the view point of microscopic studies"
A. Sotirov and J. Kortenski "Petrography of the coal from the Oranovo-Simitli Basin,
Bulgaria"
T. M. Williams and A. D. Cohen "Trace element distribution in an organic-rich wetland
at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina"
| Wednesday | 6 March 2002 |
| 8:00 am | Field Trip to Galveston to visit the "Ocean Star Offshore Energy Center" an actual retired Gulf of Mexico "jack-up rig" (oil platform) with guided tour and historical displays. It is tied to the dock and easily accessible for learning. Lunch will be in nearby restaurants. An optional afternoon trip to nearby NASA's Johnson Space Center will be offered. |