Program Guide
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Paige Mamer CSEG General Chair
Victoria Biersteker CSPG General Chair
Welcome to GeoConvention 2021 After a tumultuous year, we are excited to welcome you to GeoConvention 2021. The past year has been challenging for everyone, but particularly so for geoscientists, who have endured layoffs, mergers, acquisitions, and limited field activity.
It has also been a time of ingenuity and innovation. The global pandemic has accelerated looming cultural and environmental revolutions in which our geoscience community plays a critical role in shaping a new energy landscape. Lithium extraction to support increasing battery use, geothermal project development in remote communities, and carbon capture and sequestration to reduce emissions are just a few examples of how sustainability is shaping the 2020s.
GeoConvention 2021’s expanded program aims to support the geoscience community in all these endeavours, including petroleum extraction, energy diversification, emerging resources, and cultural and career leadership. With over 400 technical talks in 63 sessions, over 50 digital posters, and more than 50 exhibitors, the 2021 GeoConvention promises to be an exciting year.
Conference attendees can share insights with leading industry professionals and have a place to interact and network with our geoscience community. Hosting the convention virtually has afforded new opportunities for collaboration, extending GeoConvention’s reach with more international speakers and delegates, making this a truly extraordinary experience.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Networking Opportunities 4
Exhibitor Listing 5
Showcase Stage 6
Poster Listing 7 – 9
Monday Program 10 – 13
Tuesday Program 14 – 17
Wednesday Program 18– 21
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WELCOME
Gary Bugden CWLS General chair
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Co-Chair Paige Mamer General Co-Chair Victoria Biersteker General Co-Chair Gary Bugden Posters Chair Breanne Rathgeber Student Outreach Co-Chair Adam MacInnis Student Outreach Co-Chair Mitchell Gillrie Finance Chair Spryng Kubicek Judging Chair Scott Matieshin Committee Member Zekai Jia Committee Member Giselle Fonseca Social Media and Advertising Marry Zhang Social Media and Digital Production Chris Harrison
GeoConvention 2021
GeoConvention is excited to offer In-Person and Virtual Networking Opportunities for the 2021 program
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September 15 Virtual Beer Tour
Join us for the Conference Wrap-Up Virtual Beer Tasting!
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September 10 Icebreaker
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June 20 - 22
The 2022 edition of GeoConvention is anticipated to be a hybrid event with both in-person and online technical program
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EXHIBITION HOURS
September 13th
MONDAY 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM
September 14th
TUESDAY 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM
September 15th
WEDNESDAY 9:00 AM – 6:30 PM
VIRTUAL EXHIBITITION REGISTRAION IS OPEN
CURRENT EXHIBITORS (listed in alphabetical order, as of September 1)
APEGA Advanced Logic Technology AGAT Laboratories Athena Subsurface Belloy Geologists - GazServ Cabra Consulting Canadian Discovery Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists Canadian Society of Petroleum Geology Canadian Well Logging Society Cegal Geoscience Inc. CGG Chinook Consulting DigitCore Emerson Environmental Isotope Lab, University of Waterloo GEO ExPro GeoConvention 2022 Geomodeling Technology Corp. Geotomo Hydrocarbon Data Systems Inc. Loring Tarcore Labs Ltd. Nanometrics Newfoundland and LabradorNorthwest Territories Geological Survey OpenGeoSolutions Petro-Explorers Inc. Pro Geo Consultants Qeye Labs Canada Ltd Sound QI Solutions Ltd WellSight Systems Inc
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Petro Explorers Introductory Video: Integrated Reservoir Characterization Services
Azer Mustaqeem and Valentina Baranova
Presentation Title Presenter
Tuesday, September 14
RPSRoger Edgecombe,Operations Director
ESG Solutions: Operational Technology in the OilfieldSheri Bowman-Young,
Senior Manager of Global Energy Services at Engineering Seismology Group
Canadian Discovery: CDL ONE and Clean Technology
Christa Williams, Account ExecutiveAdam Strauiala, Sr. Account Executive
GeoGather Showcase Stage Available all day, all conference on Virtual Platform; lunch and 3pm - 6pm on GeoGather
Monday, September 13
Presentation Title Presenter
Chinook: Large project setup and analytics in Starsteer - A Python driven workflow
Calin Dragoie, P. Geo
GeoTomo: 4D Time-Lapse Full Waveform Inversion Case Study for SAGD Steam Chamber Imaging
Anthony Kay
Katalyst: Your Well Data, We Have a Module for That!
Sue CarrSolutions Manager, Subsurface
Consulting
Christa Williams, Account ExecutiveAdam Strauiala, Sr. Account Executive
Canadian Discovery: CDL ONE and Clean Technology
Qeye: De-risking geothermal plays in Zealand, Denmark with seismic AVO inversion
Adriana Gordon, Geophysicist
Wednesday, September 15
Presentation Title Presenter
Paige Mamer, Business Development Manager –
Onshore Seismic & Well Data Products
TGS: Making well data work for you using AI
Introducing SeisEarth™ Essentials powered by Emerson
Dennis Ellison, Interpretation Principle, Emerson E&P Software
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POSTERS (available all conference and on-demand)
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6D interpolation determinants 47 Aeolian Sandstones of the Upper Triassic Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada.
46 Chloride Concentration Forecasting in Urban Streams Using Deep Learning models
18
Mark Ng Kenneth Martyns-Yellowe Sepideh Emami Tabrizi
A Field Investigation on Transport and Fate of Fugitive Gas in Glacial-derived Deposits
32 Applications of end-to-end deep learning models in processing digital rock data 29
Clarke Lake Geothermal Case Study: using the Geothermal Resource Portfolio Optimization and Reporting Technique (GeoRePORT) for Community Engagement and Socio-economic Analysis
14
Jessie Chao Majid Bizhani Yuliana Proenza
A new parallel simulated annealing algorithm for 1.5D acoustic full-waveform inversion
19 Atlas 2027: Compiling the World's Most Comprehensive Geological Atlas 63
Comparing Temperature Data from Oil and Gas and Geothermal Logs - An AB No.1 Case Study
13
Xin Fu David Hills Yannick Champollion
A qP wave propagator using staggered grid in 2D VTI media
11 Breaking the Conflict-Stress-Wellness Cycle: Effective Strategies to Protect Your Health at Work and at Home
59 Convolutional Neural Network based Geophysical Model for Automatic Velocity Picking in Seismic Data
53
He Liu Olga Rines Dennis Quinn
A Jurisdiction Review of Groundwater (Drinking Water) Pathway Assessments
50
Carbonate deposition during terminal closing stage of the eastern Neo-Tethys Ocean: The Chorgali Formation of the Potwar and Hazara Sub-basins, Northern Pakistan
43 Core-scale pulse-decay experiment based on Embedded Discrete Fracture Model (EDFM)
41
Sheila Duchek Muhammad Khan Bao Jia
A recurrent neural network for l1 anisotropic viscoelastic full waveform inversion with high-order total variation regularization
48 Characterization of the Lower Charlie Lake, a Naturally Fractured, Tight-Oil Reservoir, Alberta, Canada
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Critical metals in hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water from the Montney and Duvernay formations, WCSB
24
Tianze Zhang Jonathan White Dennis Jiang
Acoustic FWI using amplitude encoding strategy
49 Characterizing the Lisama Formation: Jewel of the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia 54
Cyclic Gas Injection and Continuous Gas Injection into a Low Permeability Depleted Reservoir
36
He Liu Jonathan Noad Richard Baker
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POSTERS, Continued (available all conference and on-demand)
Deblending using convolutional neural networks
52 Evidence for late Carboniferous episodic marine incursions in eastern Laurasia
7 In situ microbial free phase gas production causes tensile fracturing: a laboratory demonstration
2
Zhan Niu Trevor Kelly Yuan Zhang
Degassing in the standing water column of a monitoring well completed in gas-charged groundwater
17 Feature extraction of petrophysical log data for machine learning-based SAGD performance prediction
27 Integration of data science methods and tech: A case study in Montney shale gas resource, Canada
28
Tiago Morais Namhwa Kim Shayan Jamil
Diffraction Multifocusing Stacking With The Watershed Transform
51
Ferruginous sandstone in Late Ordovician Winnipeg Formation, SE Saskatchewan: sedimentary properties and their genetic implications
45
Leadership Opportunity for Canada: Western Canadian LNG as a Key to Climate Change Mitigation and Economic Reconciliation
22
Charles Pinnegar Naveed Iqbal Travis Brookson
DFIT Before Closure Analysis in Naturally Fractured Rocks: Implementing FDEM-DFN Approach
1
Geophysical evidence of upper-crustal Archean basement folding and/or faulting below the East Range of the Sudbury impact crater
5 Methanogenesis and sulfur-cycling in Eocene phosphatic carbonate lacustrine oil shale
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Rasoul Sheikhmali Rajesh vayavur Alexander Ani
Dispersion Behavior of Some Bentonites Used for Drilling Fluid: Effects of Polymers and Water Qualities
42 Geothermal in Alberta - The Holistic View. An Eco-Industrial Cluster Centered on Alberta No. 1
15
Modeling fluid migration and distribution in unconventional reservoirs; an example from the Montney Formation, British Columbia, Canada
34
Shamima Akther Catherine Hickson Victoria Chevrot
Effect of Water-soluble Solvent Injection on Bitumen/Water Relative Permeability
16 Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for the Analysis of Structural Damage After Extreme Weather and Seismic Events
39
Maojie Chai Thomas Chen
Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery in Low-Permeability Reservoirs using Surfactants: An Integrated Rock and Fluid Study
37 How Your Brain Sabotages You and How To Build Mental Fitness For The Most Challenging of Times
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Amin Ghanizadeh Jackie McKay
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Novel Modelling Approach to Geothermal Greenhouse Agriculture for Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Yukon
21
Stratigraphic architecture and characterization of a Neoproterozoic continental slope system, Windermere Supergroup, east-central British Columbia, Canada
9 The Impact of CCUS Infrastructure on the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) at Cascade
23
Lonn Brown Simona Ruso Kevin Grimeau
Numerical investigation of air injection in a multilayer heavy oil reservoir
35
Study of the chemical properties in mixtures of red mud with acidic savanna soil, and their effect on the growth of the species Chrysopogon zizaniodes (Vetiver)
55 DAS VSP monitoring at the CaMI Field Research Station, Newell County, Alberta
4
Min Yang Dubraska González Yichuan Wang
Pivot to Thrive: How to Harness Change to Unlock Opportunities
30
The Fundamental Role of Electrostatic Forces Within Pore Systems and Their Effects on Resource Evaluation and Reservoir Performance. Part 1: Global resource distribution: a case for adding the classification of semi-conventional resources to the resource pyramid.
58 Time-lapse DAS-VSP data acquisition from a permanent seismic source at Aquistore CO2 storage site in 2020
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Olga Rines Robert Lee Yuta Kitawaki
Preliminary Stratigraphic Framework for the Lower Mannville Dina-Cummings Interval, East Central Plains, Alberta
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The Fundamental Role of Electrostatic Forces Within Pore Systems and Their Effects on Resource Evaluation and Reservoir Performance. Part 2a: Capillary Forces Theory: a model for understanding the electrostatic forces and their effects within pore systems. Water saturated reservoir.
59 Using AI/ML to Explore & Develop Quickly and Efficiently
26
Scott Botterill Robert Lee Anthony Aming
Sedimentologic properties of mud-dominated deep-shelf carbonates of the Upper Indus Basin: The Paleocene-Eocene Patala Formation of the Hazara Sub-basin, Northern Pakistan
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The Fundamental Role of Electrostatic Forces Within Pore Systems and Their Effects on Resource Evaluation and Reservoir Performance. Part 2b: Capillary Forces Theory: a model for understanding the electrostatic forces and their effects within pore systems. Emplacement.
60 Virtual Petrophysical Laboratory - Part 2: Testing and Simulation
40
shakeel ahmad Robert Lee Leon Fedenczuk
Seismic and Lithological Characterization and Source Rock Potential of the Aptian Naskapi Shale Member, Logan Canyon Formation, Offshore Nova Scotia
38
The Fundamental Role of Electrostatic Forces Within Pore Systems and Their Effects on Resource Evaluation and Reservoir Performance. Part 2c: Capillary Forces Theory: a model for understanding the electrostatic forces and their effects within pore systems. Response to change.
61 Well Done Foundation - Making a big impact by reducing methane emissions #onewellatatime
31
Anne Hargreaves Robert Lee Curtis Huck
Simultaneous inversion for anisotropy parameters and microseismic-event locations in orthorhombic media
33
The Fundamental Role of Electrostatic Forces Within Pore Systems and Their Effects on Resource Evaluation and Reservoir Performance. Part 3: CFT-based resource evaluation: a framework for understanding the effects of electrostatic forces on fluid saturation distributions and reservoir performance.
62 Wind - Hydrogen, a coupled energy alternative to diesel for Nunavut and other northern communities
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Hongliang Zhang Robert Lee Christopher Wallace
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MONDAY MORNING Seismic data processing Energy Transition Duvernay Formation: Geological,
Geochemical, Geophysical, and Engineering Advance from Regional to Microscale
Rock Physics Canadian Oil Sands: Case Studies and Technical Advancements
Session Chairs: Aaron Stanton and Svetlana Bidikhova Echo Seismic Room
Session Chairs: Krista Beavis SPONSOR: Room 2
Session Chairs: Marco Venieri and Gabriela Gonzalez Arismendi SPONSOR: Room 3
Session Chairs: Darren Kondrat SPONSOR: Room 4
Session Chairs: Lori Barth and Darren Hinks Athabasca Oil Corporation Room
8:35-9:00 Using modeling for non-Oil and Gas seismic processing ratings
Comparison of GHG Emissions from LNG Canada to American Alternatives: The Canadian Advantage
Introducing the Greater Kaybob Duvernay Basin: A paleogeographic to well correlation mapping project.
The co-evolution of rock physics and seismic inversion
Optimized Well Production Using Flow Control Devices: A Case Study in Successful Subsurface Team Integration
Alexander Kostyukevych Pengfei Zhao Bradley Culver Brian Russell
Marcus Hoehn
9:00-9:25 Noise attenuation by 3D greedy Radon transform
The Global Energy Transition: Challenges and Opportunities
Assessment of vertical and lateral facies variability in organic-rich mudstones at the km-scale: a case study from the Devonian Duvernay Formation of Alberta, Canada
Overcoming SAGD reservoir challenges in the Upper McMurray formation
Juefu Wang Tako Koning Marco Venieri Robin Happy
9:25-9:50 Application of HPC methods for Radon and Deblending
Reimagining Energy - Opportunities Emerging For Oil & Gas Companies Through The Energy Transition
Clay composition and origins of the Devonian Duvernay shale, Western Canadian Basin, Canada
Bayesian Facies Classification using depth trends from Simultaneous and Facies-based Inversions: A Montney case
Light time-lapse seismic monitoring for SAGD: a new approach & operational model
Kai Zhuang Colleen Sherry Hui Li Joaquin Aristimuno Victoria Brun
9:50-10:35 COFFEE BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
10:35-11:00 Deblending by asymmetrical multidirectional vector-median filtering
Design and Implementation of a Comprehensive Carbon Intensity Estimation and Forecasting Platform
Detailed Analysis of the δ13C Gas Isotope Composition from the Unconventional Duvernay Fm.
Rock-physics properties from seismic attributes with global optimization methods
Advances in Reservoir Monitoring in Steam Floods Using Multidetector Pulsed Neutron Tools
Dan Negut Fernando Gutierrez Gabriela Gonzalez Arismendi Qi Hu Paul Pavlakos
11:00-11:25 3D Seismic data reconstruction using adaptive weighted rank-reduction method
Is permanent Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) an effective solution to the Climate Change Crisis?
Brittleness value in the Duvernay Formation
CRISP: A New Method for Determining Petrophysical Properties in Athabasca Oil Sands Plays
Farzaneh Bayati Willem Langenberg Carmen Dumitrescu Graham Spray
11:25-11:50 Microbially Enhanced Thermally Engineered Oil Recovery (METEOR) - proof of concept from post-steam cores, outcrops, and laboratory experiments
Milovan Fustic
11:50-12:15
MONDAY MORNING (Continued) Sequence Stratigraphy of Unconventional Reservoirs
Skill Fundamentals 101 and Case Studies - Geology
Industry Leaders Session part 1 Best of SEG South America Basins
Session Chairs: Dallin Laycock and Emma Percy
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Session Chairs: Shelley Leggitt and Brian Zaitlin
Room 7
Session Chairs: Alison Essery and Daniela Waldbott von Bassenheim
Timing Subject to Change
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Session Chairs: Paige Mamer
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Session Chairs: Nanna Eliuk and Shaun Addison
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8:35-9:00 Investigating resource play potential using 3D Models: The Montney Formation of Western Canada
Carbonates: A Basic Guide and Some Considerations for Opportunity Generation in the Energy Transition
Investment Outlook impacting North American Oil and Gas Industry
8:35am-9:30am
A semi-quantitative integration of 4D seismic with the reservoir model for monitoring of injected gas volumes in a land carbonate reservoir
Latin America Energy Outlook Report
Oliver Ralph Eva Drivet Derek Wheatley, Co-Chair TPH Eric Nuttall, partner Ninepoint
Philippe Nivlet Jorge Milanese
9:00-9:25 Oil rush! The dramatic story of the "Alberta Bakken"
Predicting drilling performance in unconventional reservoirs using seismic inversion
Discovery on an Onshore Gas Basin, SE Trinidad
Jon Noad Colin Sayers Xavier Moonan
9:25-9:50 Data Analytics and Application of Automated Sequence Stratigraphic Approach to Montney Deposition in Fort St. John Graben Area
CCUS Case Study: Clive, Alberta Environment, Social and Governance Performance of the Oil and gas industry
9:30am-10:00am
Seismic interpretation for unconventional resources in the Permian Basin, West Texas, USA
Azer Mustaqeem David Hills Hilary Foulkes. Enerplus, TPH Jon Mitchell, VP Sustainability, Suncor
Andreas Laake
9:50-10:35
10:35-11:00 Deltaic depositional processes, fluctuating relative sea-level and syndepositional tectonism: controls on the geometry and distribution of fine-grained reservoirs, Montney Formation, northeast British Columbia, northwest Alberta
Chemostratigraphy 101: A practical guide to the use of elemental data for characterization and correlation of sedimentary rocks
First Nations projects and Investment
10:35-11:05
Characterizing a physical model of a collapsing void using time-lapse surface-wave analysis
New Exploration Opportunities Revealed with Enhanced Seismic Datasets Offshore and Onshore Argentina and Peru
Peter Proverbs Milly Wright Sue Kuethe VP, Kiwetinohk Eugene Horselake, Horse Man FN
Sarah Morton Rupert Karyna Rodriguez
11:00-11:25 How Links Between Complex Earth Systems Processes and Sequence Stratigraphy Constrained Organic Carbon Burial in the Early Cenomanian Mowry Shale, Wyoming, USA
Conventional Canadian Oil and Gas Activity
11:05-11:35
Near-surface velocity uncertainty estimation through Bayesian tomography approach
Characterizing the Lisama Formation: Jewel of the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia
Jonathan Schueth Tim McMillan, CEO CAPP Myles Bosman, COO Birchcliff
Anton Egorov Jonathan Noad
11:25-11:50 High-resolution Cyclostratigraphy of a Late Devonian reef-to-basin Margin: Insights from equivalent outcrops to the Duvernay Formation in Alberta-Canada
Temperatures are Rising - An Introduction to Geothermal
Oil Sands Outlook
11:35-12:05
A logical error in Gassmann poroelasticity
Exploring in South America for Oil and Gas in Naturally Fractured and Weathered Basement Reservoirs
Henry Galvis-Portilla John Hirschmiller Derek Evans, CEO MEG Energy Harbir Chhina, CTO, Cenovus
Leon Thomsen Tako Koning
11:50-12:15 Hydrogen: The Evolution of a New Energy Economy
George Ardies
12:15-12:40 Helium 101 - A Lightweight Application of Subsurface Skills
Brad Hayes
12:40-1:05 A Case Study: An application for real-time lithofacies identification using artificial intelligence and machine learning
Ian Theunissen Julia McElgunn
MONDAY AFTERNOON Seismic Processing/Seismic Imaging
Helium Workplace Culture, Diversity and Inclusion
Mining Geophysics Machine Learning in Geoscience/Petrophysics
Session Chairs: Svetlana Bidikhova and Felix Oghenekohwo
Echo Seismic Room
Session Chair: Brad Maynes
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Session Chair: Alicia Bjarnason
Room 3
Session Chairs: Robert Hearst
Room 4
Session Chairs: Kelly Skuce and Farrukh Hamza
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1:25-1:50 Fractures - enemies or friends? How to answer this and navigate with DWM to increase production and mitigate hazards
Helium Market Overview & Opportunity For Canada
Breaking the Conflict-Stress-Wellness Cycle: Effective Strategies to Protect Your Health at Work and at Home
Mining for Net Zero: The impossible task
Bayesian Hyper-Parameter Optimization: Neural Networks, TensorFlow, Facies Prediction Example
Brian Link Phil Kornbluth Olga Rines Alan Jones Ryan Mardani
1:50-2:15 A tale of two realities: comparing physical and numerical modeling responses for a common physical model
Helium in Southern Saskatchewan
Gender Equality as a Critical Economic Challenge in Relation to STEM
Lessons Learned, Pitfalls and Feature Engineering for FORCE 2020: Log Facies Classification using Machine Learning.
David Henley Melinda Yurkowski Grace Adaghe Marcelo Guarido
2:15-2:40 Computational aspects of Full Waveform Inversion
Show Me the Money! How Pay Equity Continues to be a Barrier to Inclusion in the Engineering and Geoscience Professions.
Cosmic-ray muon tomography: Current developments in how Canadian innovation is helping industry drill less and discover more
Machine learning assisted lithofacies workflows: using model performance metrics and Shapley values to guide geoscientists during model training.
Daniel Trad Mohamed El Daly Douglas Schouten
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Thomas Grant
2:40-3:20 COFFEE BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
3:20-3:45 Full-wavefield applications in migration
Helium - An Evolving Industry of Contingent Opportunities
At What Cost? The Collectivity of Diversity, Responsibility, and Gain: A deep discussion of diversity in STEM.
Exploring for minerals and metals under cover: the right geophysics at the right scale in the right order
Using Deep Learning Techniques to De-glare Historical Core Photos
Shang Huang David Johnson Makda Habtegergesa Graham Banks Shervin Azad
3:45-4:10 Acoustic FWI using amplitude encoding strategy
Helium Fallacies? Ten assertions are examined to explain the truth behind the hype
Equitable Scholarship - Lessons learned from AWSN's new Scholarship Program for Alberta STEM students
Predictive Analytics for Full Pore System Characterization of an Arab D Carbonate Reservoir.
He Liu Jon Noad Alicia Bjarnason Akshay Gulati
4:10-4:35 A qP wave propagator using staggered grid in 2D VTI media
How Your Brain Sabotages You and How To Build Mental Fitness For The Most Challenging of Times
Rock physical properties related to mineral systems
Petrophysical log recovering and core-log calibration using Machine Learning
He Liu Jackie McKay Sherry Matheson
Randy Enkins Tark Hamilton
Yexin Liu
4:35-5:00 Diffraction Multifocusing Stacking With The Watershed Transform
Women In Geothermal – The case for gender equality and benefits to becoming a WING Canada member.
Convolutional Neural Networks for Density Log Prediction
Robert Pinnegar Jeanine Vany Alex Falkovskiy
4:00-5:25 Simultaneous inversion for λρ and μρ via machine learning from multi-component poststack seismic data
Rongfeng Zhang
5:00-6:30 GEOGATHER
MONDAY AFTERNOON (Continued) Sedimentology, stratigraphy and paleontology
Skill Fundamentals 101 and Case Studies - Geophysics
Industry Leaders Session part 2 How do reservoirs respond to fluid injection?
Offshore (East Coast) Atlantic Canada Resource Exploration & Economics
Session Chairs: Erin Pemberton and Sean Fletcher
Room 6
Session Chairs: Kathleen Dorey and David Gray
Room 7
Session Chairs: Alison Essery and Daniela Waldbott von Bassenheim
Timing Subject to Change
Room 8
Session Chairs: Rebecca Salvage and Thomas Eyre
Room 9
Session Chairs: Robinson Olugbemiro and Martin Fowler
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Room 10 1:25-1:50 Integrating borehole data with
mine-face photography to improve geologic models, Imperial Oil's Kearl Mine
How to acquire seismic data with steep dips
North American Pipeline Activity
1:25-1:55
Hydraulic Fracture Characterization using Distributed Acoustic Sensing
Petroleum Exploration on the Scotian Margin
Trevin Ferens Andrea Crook Jackie Forrest, VP Arc Financial Steve Holyoake, CEO Fireweed Energy Ltd.
Carson Laing Grant Wach
1:50-2:15 Paleontology and tectono-stratigraphic setting of the Lower Permian Johnston Canyon Formation, Banff National Park: Was it a sponge-rich estuary?
International Ventures for Canadian energy companies
1:55-2:25
Moment-tensor inversion of hydraulic-fracturing induced events in a Montney reservoir, northeastern BC
Sarah Hyslop Bryana Fraser
John Wright, Chairman Touchstone Tim Marchant
Hanh Bui
2:15-2:40 Revisiting the Imperial Formation - palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and potential hydrocarbon play
Case Study: Designing a Seismic Survey in an Area with Steep Dips
Small Business Ventures Outlook and Capitalization
2:25-2:55
The rise, peak and decline of the induced seismicity related to hydraulic fracturing activities in the Duvernay play, Fox Creek area, Alberta.
Processing to inversion: a case study of revitalizing legacy seismic data offshore Nova Scotia
Viktor Terlaky Andrea Crook Tom Pavic, President Sayer Brian Schmidt, CEO Tamarack Valley
Mauricio Reyes Canales Natasha Morrison
2:40-3:20
3:20-3:45 Ferruginous sandstone in Late Ordovician Winnipeg Formation, SE Saskatchewan: sedimentary properties and their genetic implications
Thinking about Processing in an Unconventional 3D World
Geothermal Capitalization and Outlook
3:20-3:50
Hydraulic fracturing of the Upper Devonian Duvernay Formation and induced strike-slip fault reactivation in the Fox Creek area: insight from 3D geomechanical and reservoir modeling
Crestal faulting: Trap integrity loss and gas migration in the Migrant Structure, Sable Subbasin, Offshore Nova Scotia.
Naveed Iqbal David Gray Jeanine Vany, EVP Eavor n/a Elena Konstantinovskaya Kenneth Martyns-Yellowe
3:45-4:10 Passive margin sedimentation- Low density turbidites of the Meguma Supergroup
Hydrogen Capitalization and Outlook
3:50-4:15
For Those About To Rock - Revisiting the Rocky Mountain House Seismogenic Zone
Jeanne D'arc Basin (Offshore Eastern Canada) 3D Petroleum Systems Modeling
Adam Fraser Grant Strem, CEO Proton Technologies
Kienan Marion Robinson Olugbemiro
4:10-4:35 The Age of the Edmonton Group in the City of Edmonton
Interpretation 101: How to tie a well to Seismic
Helium Capitalization and Outlook
4:15-4:40
Insights into Induced Seismicity in the Duvernay East Shale Basin from 3D Seismic
Willem Langenberg Joaquin Aristimuno David Johnson, CEO of Imperial Helium Inc.
Elwyn Galloway
4:35-5:00 Drainage-line silcrete in the Athabasca Oil Sands deposit: Evidence for Early Cretaceous hypogene anhydrite-halite dissolution and brine seeps to the surface
Paul Broughton
5:00-5:25 Interior architecture of anthropogenic stalactite-form deposits
Paul Broughton
5:00-6:30 GEOGATHER
TUESDAY MORNING Microseismic/DAS part 1 Geothermal Exploration and
Development in Canada part 1 Advancements in Geomechanical Characterization and Frack Design for Completion Optimization
Carbon capture, utilisation and storage part 1
Petroleum Geochemistry
Session Chairs: Barry Fish and Johnny Wentzel ESG Solutions Room
Session Chairs: Yannick Champollion and Sochi Iwuoha SPONSOR: Geoscience BC Room A
Session Chairs: Mehrdad Soltanzadeh and Juan Arias SPONSOR: Room 3
Session Chairs: David Hills and Anne-Louise Halladay SPONSOR: Geoscience BC Room B
Session Chairs: Zied Ouled Ameur and Andy Mort Room 5
8:35-9:00 Least Squares DAS to geophone transform
Geothermal Exploration at Mount Meager, Southwestern BC: A Regional Resistivity Model from 3-D Inversion of Broadband Magnetotelluric Data
A Case of Integrated Geomechanical Characterization for Well Placement and Production Improvement in the Montney Formation
An Attempt at Comparatively Ranking Negative Emission Techniques for Canadian Deployment
Organic geochemistry of highly mature fluids in the Montney resource play
Jorge Monsegny Cedar Hanneson Mehrdad Soltanzadeh Macrae Riedlinger Joshua Bowyer Shawn Servinski
Andy Mort
9:00-9:25 Surface wave full waveform inversion with the data collected from a trench deployed Distributed Acoustic Sensing survey
De-risking geothermal plays in Zealand, Denmark with seismic AVO inversion
DFIT Before Closure Analysis in Naturally Fractured Rocks: Implementing FDEM-DFN Approach
Acid Gas Sequestration The significance of light hydrocarbon geochemistry for the assessment of low-permeability reservoirs of the Montney Formation, WCSB
Luping Qu Adriana Gordon Rasoul Sheikhmali Michelle Gaucher Jaime Cesar
9:25-9:50 Reconstructing Hydraulic-Fracture Induced Strain from Microseismicity
An Evaluation on Closed-Loop Geothermal Energy Recovery from Canadian Deep High Enthalpy Systems
US Lower 48 CO2 Demand Potential via CCUS
Organic matter composition in the Alberta Montney Formation
Adam Baig Wanju Yuan Mohammad Tavallali Melissa Greig
Omid Ardakani
9:50-10:35 COFFEE BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
10:35-11:00 Time-frequency sparse Gabor transform for detecting microseismic events
Role and Importance of Geosteering in Geothermal Projects
Evolution of the Quest CCS MMV Plan: 2011 to 2020
Reservoir Evaluation and DRV Analysis in Unconventional Reservoirs across Multiple Basins of North America
Hanh Bui Rocky Mottahedeh Simon O'Brien Jana Bachleda
11:00-11:25 A comparison of collocated surface and shallow borehole arrays for microseismic monitoring
Geothermal, Hydraulic Fracturing & Earthquakes: How contrasting industries have shaped our approach to induced seismicity
Improving Caprock Integrity Assessment Workflows for CCUS Operations
Deciphering the Upper Cretaceous Second White Specks self-sourced reservoir rock. Insight from organic geochemistry and basin modelling
Ben Witten Paige Mamer Mehrdad Soltanzadeh Mailyng Aviles
11:25-11:50 Reverse time migration approaches for DAS VSP data
Jorge Monsegny
11:50-12:15
TUESDAY MORNING (Continued)
Diagenesis of shale and tight reservoirs
Advancements in unconventional core analysis for reservoir characterization
Managing Transition in a Changing Industry part 1
Emerging Technologies - Seismic Acquisition
Geochemical surface exploration methods
Water Disposal
Session Chairs: Levi Knapp and Isabelle Zelazny SPONSOR: Room 6
Session Chairs: Kyoung Suk Min Room 7
Session Chairs: Karena Brawley and Carrie Youzwishen Room 8
Session Chairs: Andrea Crook and Richard Gray SPONSOR: SAExploration Room
Session Chairs: Mahdi AbuAli Room 10
Session Chairs: Kim Kingsmith and Kelly Kingsmith Geoscience BC Room C
8:35-9:00 Diagenetic Carbonate Concretions in Devonian organic-rich mudrocks of the Appalachian Basin: How to predict their occurrence while drilling horizontal oil and gas wells
Development of Automatic Multistage Triaxial Test to Characterize Failure Criteria in Siltstone Rock - Applied to the Montney Formation, BC, Canada
From Birth to Death Throughout Adulthood and Careers - How to Stand in Your Power When Change Occurs in Your Life
High-density seismic with minimal environmental footprint
Frontier Exploration in the Republic of Kenya- using geochemical tools to derisk exploration leads
Water Disposal 2021: Four Reservoir Pillars that Define the Best Geological Formations for Disposal in Western Canada; the Good, the Bad, the Ugly.
David Blood Ali Mehrabifard John Grillo Amine Ourabah Rick Schrynemeeckers Kim Kingsmith Kelly Kingsmith
9:00-9:25 Assessing the origin of diagenetic quartz in organic-rich mudstone via in-situ geochemical and hyperspectral characterization
Characterization of the Lower Charlie Lake, a Naturally Fractured, Tight-Oil Reservoir, Alberta, Canada
Pivot to Thrive: How to Harness Change to Unlock Opportunities
Mission Possible: High Density Seismic Acquisition with Near-Zero Footprint
Recent Developments in Radiometric Technique for Hydrocarbon Exploration: Case Study Dongara Area, Perth Basin
Salty Stratigraphy: Salt Caverns in the Elk Point Group of Alberta
Claudio Delle Piane Jonathan White Olga Rines Richard Gray AFIF ARBI Tyler Hauck
9:25-9:50 Quartz types, origins in the Ordovician-Silurian Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation, Upper Yangtze Platform, China: Insights into the role of quartz cementation on porosity development in shales
All Models Are Wrong but Some Are Useful: Understanding the Inputs for X-Ray Fluorescence
Living in the Gray - Society's Secret Curse
A new approach to low impact seismic data acquisition in the Boreal forest
Enabling Hydrocarbon Exploration through Microbiome Analysis
Recent earthquakes induced by wastewater disposal near Musreau Lake, Alberta
Tian Dong Cory Twemlow Kari Schwear Howard Watt Alin Chiţu Tianyang Li
9:50-10:35 COFFEE BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
10:35-11:00 Mudrock Diagenesis with Depth and Thermal Maturity and How it Impacts Petrophysical and Mechanical Properties in the Upper Cretaceous Eagle Ford Group
Moving Through Uncertainty - Meeting Complex Times with Simple Actions
Case Study: Testing a Miniaturized Source for Reduced Environmental Impact
Preliminary seismic hazard analysis from wastewater disposal-induced seismicity near Musreau Lake, Alberta
Lucy Tingwei Ko Pam August Andrea Crook Mauricio Reyes Canales
11:00-11:25 Does Grain Size Matter? (what do we know about grain size and reservoir quality of siltstones)
Trends from the Trenches: How others create career opportunities in challenging times
Tactics for Explosive Deployment Deep Basin Seismic Exploration
Wastewater Disposal in the Montney Play Fairway of NE British Columbia - Assessment and Recommendations
Noga Vaisblat Carre Youzwishen Douglas Brost Brad Hayes
11:25-11:50 Using elemental and isotopic geochemistry to identify the geochemical signatures of diagenetic events in the Montney Formation and their relationship with H2S formation and distribution
Water Disposal Well Regulation and Capacity Forecasting in British Columbia
Andrew Kingston Logan Gray
11:50-12:15 Occurrence and Diagenesis of Organic-rich Strata in Deep Marine Levees
Field testing of multicomponent DAS sensing
Managing Saltwater Disposal Induced Seismicity in the Cadomin Formation: NE British Columbia
Celeste Cunningham Kevin Hall Amanda Greig Nadia Monaghan
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
Microseismic/DAS part 2 Geothermal Exploration and Development in Canada part 2
Reservoir Optimization Carbon capture, utilisation and storage part 2
CSPG Fieldwork Award Winners
Session Chairs: Barry Fish and Johnny Wentzel ESG Solutions Room
Session Chairs: Yannick Champollion and Sochi Iwuoha SPONSOR: Geoscience BC Room A
Session Chairs: Jordan Wilson and Xiaojun (Albert) Cui SPONSOR: Room 3
Session Chairs: David Hills and Anne-Louise Halladay SPONSOR: Geoscience BC Room B
Session Chairs: Mark Cooper Room 5
1:25-1:50 A comparative study of data from different DAS interrogators
Preliminary Results of a Temperature Log Using a Deep Disposal Well in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
Innovative Approach for Multilateral Well Completion with TAML 3 Junction Installation in Open Hole in Russia's Yaro-Yakhinskoe cap gas oil deposit
Using Geochemical Surface Detection to Perform Reservoir Characterization and Monitoring of CO2 Sequestration Sites
Introducing the CSPG Fieldwork Based Research Awards for Undergraduate Students
Jorge Monsegny Katherine Huang Evgeny Pyatkov Rick Schrynemeeckers Mark Cooper
1:50-2:15 Tensile radiation from slip on rough fractures
Geothermal assessment of the Upper Devonian carbonate aquifer systems in the Alberta Basin, Canada
Core-scale pulse-decay experiment based on Embedded Discrete Fracture Model (EDFM)
Surface Monitoring and Seepage Verification of Geologic Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Carbon Dioxide EOR
Litho- and chemostratigraphic analysis of meter-scale cycles in an ancient mixed siliciclastic-carbonate slope system, Windermere Supergroup, Southern Canadian Cordillera, B.C., Canada
Scott Leaney Leandra Weydt Bao Jia Ronald Klusman Jessie Kehew
2:15-2:40 Feasibility Study of 3D Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) for Imaging the Steam Chamber: An Experiment of 3D DAS FWI in Sunrise Oil Sands
An Innovative Approach to Geothermal Prospecting through Interactive Analytics: Western Canada Applications
Variable Production in the Montney and the Potential for Improved Liquid Recovery: Insights from Produced and in situ Hydrocarbon Fluids
Semi-continuous Electrical Resistivity Tomography monitoring for CO2 injection at the CaMI Field Research Station, Newell County, Alberta, Canada
Petroleum System Elements of Trinidad - Field School Techniques Comprising Sedimentology and Ichnology
Hong Feng Phil Harms Albert Cui Marie Macquet Lauren Morris
2:40-3:20 COFFEE BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
3:20-3:45 Geothermal in Alberta - The Holistic View. An Eco-Industrial Cluster Centered on Alberta No. 1
Excess Pressure, A New Concept for Mapping Liquids Recovery Potential in Unconventional Plays. Example From The Montney Formation (Western Canada)
Time-Lapse Seismic Monitoring in CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery and Storage at Weyburn, SE Saskatchewan
Catherine Hickson Neil Watson Sandy Chen
3:45-4:10 Clarke Lake Geothermal Case Study: using the Geothermal Resource Portfolio Optimization and Reporting Technique (GeoRePORT) for Community Engagement and Socio-economic Analysis
Geomechanical characterization of proppant embedment behaviours in Montney siltstone using laboratory tests
Maturing DAS VSP as an onshore CCUS monitoring technology at the Quest CCS Facility
Yuliana Proenza Wenbo Zheng Jonathan Hopkins
4:10-4:35 Horizontal Drilling for Geothermal Power Generation in the Williston Basin (Canada)
Novel Chemical Flooding Technology - Applicability to Canadian Oil Fields
Kirsten Marcia Jeffrey Southwick
4:35-5:00
5:00-5:25
5:00-6:30 GEOGATHER
TUESDAY AFTERNOON (Continued)
Clastic Sedimentology Petrophysics Managing Transition in a Changing Industry part 2
Back to the Basics: Geophysics International Exploration
Session Chairs: Jon Noad and Mark Caplan Room 6
Session Chairs: Nasir Rahim and Draga Talinga SPONSOR: Room 7
Session Chairs: Karena Brawley and Carrie Youzwishen Room 8
Session Chairs: Dennis Ellison and Nathan Fester ESG Solutions Room
Session Chairs: Ian Dawes and Mahbub (Bob) Alam Room 10
1:25-1:50 Turning Geology upside down: completely new approaches to traditional sedimentology
Virtual Petrophysical Laboratory - Part 2: Testing and Simulation
Repositioning Your Mindset How to ensure you acquire the frequencies you need in your seismic program
Exploring in the USA and Canada for Oil and Gas in Naturally Fractured and Weathered Basement Reservoirs
Jon Noad Leon Fedenczuk Grace Adaghe Andrea Crook Tako Koning
1:50-2:15 The sedimentological impact of three extreme floods on the Assiniboine River, southwestern Manitoba
Comparison of High Resolution Petrophysical Screening Measurements on Core from a North Sea Jurassic Reservoir
Permanent Transformational Pivot Seismic analysis of well data-minimizing uncertainties from seismic interpretation to reservoir characterization
A Model for the Exploration and Development of Fractured Basement Oil Pools
Claire Morrow Emmanuel Okwoli Andrea Stephens Dennis Ellison Gordon Graham George Hepler
2:15-2:40 Brine silcrete: An expansion of the definition of silcrete and a unique early diagenetic feature of basin-basement interaction
Beyond Mineralogy_Utilizing Geochemical Spectroscopy for Improved Petrophysical Evaluation in McMurray Oilsands
Changing Your Mind to Thrive - A Neuroscience Approach
AVO Compliant Processing - Common Pitfalls
Using Sequence Stratigraphy to Resolve Depositional Misconceptions on the Arabian Plate - The Example of the Gotnia Basin Creation and Infill
David Lowe Geoffrey McBryan Karena Brawley Brian Hargreaves Christoper Gravestock
2:40-3:20 COFFEE BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
3:20-3:45 Preliminary Stratigraphic Framework for the Lower Mannville Dina-Cummings Interval, East Central Plains, Alberta
Subsurface Reservoir Characterization Using Core Images and Petrophysical Properties: Case Study of an Onshore Field, in the Niger Delta Basin.
Turn Your Biggest Profit Killer Into Biggest Asset
What Do We Need To Know To Manage Induced Seismicity?
Salt remobilization timing and its impact on two Norwegian Continental Shelf organic-rich shale formations
Scott Botterill Efeoghene Enaworu Debbie Pickus Shawn Maxwell James Johnson
3:45-4:10 Deconstructing Organic-Rich Mudrocks: Palaeoceanographic Considerations from the Exshaw Formation, Alberta, Canada
Quantum Leadership Conventional Interpretation in an Unconventional Environment
Llanos Basin, PSDM contribution to fault shadow zone effect mitigation - Case study
Mark Caplan Christian Grancourt John Duhault Alex Negut
4:10-4:35 Sometimes Planar, Sometimes Irregular: a Bipartite Bed Interface Conundrum.
Teamwork - The Competitive Advantage
Resistivity Imaging: An Introduction and Integration with Seismic Data for Enhanced Interpretations
Jagabir Ningthoujam Ayako Ohtake Mike Law
4:35-5:00 How are Changes in Sediment Supply Manifest in an Ancient Deep-Marine Slope Channel System?
Patricia Fraino
5:00-5:25 Deep-sea slope channels - if commonly sinuous, why only uncommonly laterally accreting?
Bill Arnott
5:00-6:30 GEOGATHER
WEDNESDAY MORNING Hydrogeology part 1 Lithium resource assessment and
development - an emerging element for decarbonization and Canada’s opportunity
Montney Advances in Geological Storage of CO2 part 1
Geophysical Reservoir Characterization
Session Chairs: Steve Sturrock and Samantha Murphy Room 1
Session Chairs: Eric Pelletier and Courtney Reimert Room 2
Session Chairs: Calin Dragoie and Richard Harris SPONSOR: Room 3
Session Chairs: Noga Vaisblat and Alireza Rangriz Shokri Athena Subsurface Room
Session Chairs: Bahaa Beshry and Raúl Cova SPONSOR: Room 5
8:35-9:00 Gases in groundwater: bubbles, energy, and radioactivity
Petro-Lithium and Helium Resources of Western Canada: The State of the Basin
Vertical and lateral facies heterogeneities within the Montney Formation of NE BC: Implications for fluid mapping
Advancing Canadian Experience and Best Practices in Containment, Conformance, and Injectivity of Deep Subsurface CO2 Storage, CO2 EOR, and CO2 Geothermal
Time-lapse acoustic FWI of VSP data with applications to monitoring CO2 at the CaMI Field Research Station: a feasibility study
Cathy Ryan
W. Steven Donaldson Samantha Mackie Rick Chalaturnyk Ninoska Amundaray
9:00-9:25
Exploitation Framework of Lithium-Rich Brine Resources in Saskatchewan: A Tale of Two Industries
Poly-genetic stratigraphically controlled hydrocarbon accumulation within the Montney Formation, British Columbia: molecular, stable carbon isotope and petrographic evidence
Commercial Deployment of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) in the Williston Basin - An Overview of Current Projects and Opportunities
Fluid saturation and pressure changes in the Hugin Formation of the Volve oil field: Insights from time-lapse, rock physics, and pore pressure prediction
Mark Caplan Jaime Cesar James Sorensen Draga Talinga
9:25-9:50 The Use of Iterative Ensemble Smoother in Data Assimilation and Predictive Uncertainty
Lithium Data and Observations in Alberta
BC Central Montney Fluid Dynamics and Liquids Production
Injection of cold CO2 in depleted gas fields
Does Geostatistical Inversion Increase Resolution?
Louis-Charles Boutin Steve Lyster Jeffrey Horton Suzanne Hurter John Pendrel
9:50-10:35 COFFEE BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
10:35-11:00 Simulating the Evolution of End Pit Lake Development During Mine Reclamation
Estimating Lithium Resources and Reserves in Groundwater Brines
The Relationship between Sedimentological Heterogeneities, Structural Fabric, and Induced Seismicity in the Montney Formation from the KSMMA (Kiskatinaw Seismic Monitoring and Mitigation Area), Northeaster British Columbia, Canada
Modeling CO2 Circulation Test, as a Key Element of CO2 Plume Geothermal, at An Active CO2 Storage Site
Don Haley Steven Shikaze Carolyn Furlong Kevin Hau
11:00-11:25 Hydrodynamics, Deep Basin Systems and Exploring Downhole Geochemical Interactions in Unconventional Reservoirs: An Introduction
Li-enriched oilfield waters in the Woodbend Reef Complexes of the Alberta Basin: A tale of two brines.
Geology-Guided Classification of an Alberta Montney Reservoir
2D and 3D geomechanical modeling of CO2 storage in deep saline aquifers of the Early Paleozoic sedimentary basin of the St. Lawrence Lowlands, Quebec: risk of high-angle fault reactivation and caprock tensile failure
Tessa Wilson G.F. Huff Carl Reine Elena Konstantinovskaya
11:25-11:50 "omne trium perfectum" - The Rule of Three: Using Microseismic, Geochemistry & Interference Testing to Optimize Spacing and Stacking.
Michael de Groot Travis Hobbs
11:50-12:15
WEDNESDAY MORNING (Continued)
Geomodelling & Production Simulation
Advancements in Downhole logging & NMR techniques
Indigenous Partnerships in Science
Seismic Signal Processing, Imaging and Inversion: Can Machine Learning replace what we have learned for more than half a century?
Mentorship Geomechanics of Induced Seismicity part 1
Session Chairs: Alexandra Ashrafi and Matthew Minnett Room 6
Session Chairs: Chris Okuku and Ekpo Archibong Room 7
Session Chairs: Celia Kennedy and Chelsea Benally Room 8
Session Chairs: Mauricio Sacchi and Naseer Kazemi Echo Seismic Room
Session Chairs: Wendy Shier and Andre Mu-Chin Chow Room 10
Session Chairs: Adam Baig and Amy Fox Room 11
8:35-9:00 Modelling the Devonian Horn River Group of the Central Mackenzie Valley, NWT
Optimizing petrophysical properties in unconventional reservoirs using integrated Novel NMR methodology with other Advanced downhole measurements (A Montney Example).
The CREATE-REDEVELOP program: Building relationships with Indigenous communities in a graduate-student training setting
Deep learning for 3D fault detection within virtual reality visualization seismic volumes
Mentorship: A Deliberate Program or an Ad Hoc Adventure? Part 1
Quantitative Measures of Stress and Pore Pressure: Applications to Fault Stability
Jonathan Rocheleau Christopher Okuku Steve Saddleback Ali Fathalian Ian Watson Douglas Schmitt
9:00-9:25 Modeling three ways from electro-facies workflow elements: categorical, e-facies probabilities, and petrophysics with assignment
Well log NMR T2 factor analysis integrated with core analysis for reservoir quality and saturation estimation in a low-resistivity reservoir, offshore Vietnam
Nipiih potability study integrating western scientific method and traditional knowledge through a mentorship pipeline.
Seismic Swell Noise Processing with Machine Learning Methods
Mentorship: A Deliberate Program or an Ad Hoc Adventure? Part 2
David Garner Levi Knapp Shelley Alexander Olga Brusova C. Mike Finn
9:25-9:50 Modelling the Drainage of Wells and Frac Shadows in Montney Grimshaw
T1-T2 NMR on Shale Cuttings
Leadership Opportunity for Canada: Western Canadian LNG as a Key to Climate Change Mitigation and Economic Reconciliation
Adapting natural image-learned denoiser for noise suppression in seismic and drilling datasets
Coaching and Mentoring: my personal journey in a large corporate environment
Probabilistic maximum magnitude estimation of induced earthquakes from stochastic modelling
Rocky Mottahedeh Dragan Veselinovic Travis Brookson Nasser Kazemi Valentina Vallega Thomas Eyre
9:50-10:35
10:35-11:00 Can Well Test Data Be
Used to Reduce The Uncertainty in Geostatistical Realizations?
Geomechanical Index Log from Drilling Data for Selective Stimulation and Engineered Completion
The Impact of CCUS Infrastructure on the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) at Cascade
Deep Learning solutions for inverse imaging: applications to LSRTM
So, You Want to be a Mentor? Building & Supporting the Next Generation of Geoscientists
Development of an Induced Seismicity Susceptibility Framework and Map for NEBC using an Integrated Machine Learning and Mechanistic Validation Approach
Hamidreza Hamdi Mazeda Tahmeen Kevin Grimeau Kristian Torres Mandy M. Williams Afshin Amini
11:00-11:25 Impact of Plurigaussian Parameter Options on Model Facies Transition Statistics
Novel Modelling Approach to Geothermal Greenhouse Agriculture for Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Yukon
The smooth and not-so-smooth fitting of machine learning algorithms into a modern seismic inversion project
A mentee in the Energy industry
The mechanistical study of the effects of rock stiffness and wellbore orientation with respect to SHmax on induced seismicity: a numerical study
David Garner Lonn Brown Kristopher Innanen Jieyu Zhang Ali Mehrabifard
11:25-11:50 Wind-Hydrogen, a coupled energy alternative to diesel for Nunavut and other northern communities
How to Build a Mentorship Program
GeoMatch, A Mentoring Community
Further insights on Induced Seismicity in the Duvernay East Shale Basin
Christopher Wallace Nathan Fester and 2021 GeoMatch Committee
Terry Zwicker
11:50-12:15 Building the Framework for Meaningful Indigenous Partnerships While Building Corporate Culture for an Emerging Energy Company.
Colin Anton
12:15-12:40 Working Together: Indigenous Knowledge & Science
Celia Kennedy
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON Hydrogeology part 2 Methane Emission Reductions:
Success Stories and Trends New Horizons for Enhanced Oil Recovery
Advances in Geological Storage of CO2 part 2
Machine Learning applications in unconventionals reservoir characterization & operations
Session Chairs: Steve Sturrock and Samantha Murphy Room 1
Session Chairs: Cooper Robinson and Brenna Barlow Geoscience BC Room A
Session Chairs: Majid Faskhoodi and Colin Thiessen Room 3
Session Chairs: Noga Vaisblat and Alireza Rangriz Shokri Athena Subsurface Room
Session Chairs: Volodymyr Vragov and Brian Emmerson Room 5
1:25-1:50 A Jurisdiction Review of Groundwater (Drinking Water) Pathway Assessments
Unlocking Economic Zero Bleed Pneumatic Instrument Air Retrofits: A Review of Learnings from Westgen's Emission Reduction Alberta Demonstration Project
Numerical investigation of air injection in a multilayer heavy oil reservoir
Permanent deep fluid recovery and bubble tube system for downhole pressure measurements deployed in Aquistore, a CCS integrated project
Geomechanically Informed Machine Learning Models Predict Trouble Stages and Casing Deformation
Sheila Duchek Connor O'Shea and Ben Klepacki Min Yang Gonzalo Zambrano Narvaez Joel Mazza
1:50-2:15 How Can Data Science Be Used in Groundwater Flow and Transport Modelling?
Thermal Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging of Methane Landfill Emissions
Cyclic Gas Injection and Continuous Gas Injection into a Low Permeability Depleted Reservoir
Closing the Loop: 4D Seismic Constraints on CO2 Flow Simulations from the Aquistore CO2 Storage Site
Applications of end-to-end deep learning models in processing digital rock data
Louis-Charles Boutin Jean-Philippe Gagnon Richard Baker Don White Majid Bizhani
2:15-2:40 Simulating fracture zone channel networks in groundwater models
Methane Mitigation Requires Accurate Measurement and Quantification
The Value of Pulsed Neutron Geochemical Logging Tools in Geomechanical Characterization of Unconventionals
A probabilistic petrophysical modeling and coupled thermal-geomechanical study of the Deadwood and Winnipeg Formations
Predicting microseismic event density during hydraulic fracturing from surface seismic with gradient boosted trees
Stefano Normani Pete Roos Rachel Ospina Noga Vaisblat Bobby Gunning
2:40-3:20 COFFEE BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
3:20-3:45 Improving Canadian Shield crystalline rock characterization in hydrogeological models
Platoi's Global Leak Detection, and Infrastructure Remote Monitoring System - GENWS
Enhanced Hydrocarbon Recovery in Low-Permeability Reservoirs using Surfactants: An Integrated Rock and Fluid Study
Physical and Chemical Characteristics of Salts Recovered from an Active CO2 Injection Well
Machine learning for moment tensor estimation of DAS data
Andrew Snowdon Chengkai Zhang Amin Ghanizadeh Stephen Talman Matthew Eaid
3:45-4:10 Where's the Waterline? The Case of the Disappearing Lake
A Field Investigation on Transport and Fate of Fugitive Gas in Glacial-derived Deposits
Time-lapse VSP monitoring of shallow CO2 sequestration at the CaMI Field Research Station
Combining machine learning and physics for robust optimization of completion design and well location of unconventional wells
Collen Middleton Jessie Chao Brendan Kolkman-Quinn Dayanara Betancourt
4:10-4:35 Well Done Foundation - Making a big impact by reducing methane emissions #onewellatatime
Curtis Shuck
4:35-5:00
5:00-5:25
5:00-6:30 GEOGATHER AND BEER TOUR
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON (Continued)
From geomodelling to optimization in unconventionals
Advancements in Operations
Value of Integrated Geosciences
Seismic Inversion, Anisotropy and FWI
Open Data, Open Source, and Open Geoscience
Geomechanics of Induced Seismicity part 2
Session Chairs: Pippa Murphy and David Wetta Room 6
Session Chairs: Mustafa Pasha and Kurt Armbruster Room 7
Session Chairs: John Duhault and Julia McElgunn Room 8
Session Chairs: Azer Mustaqeem and Bill Goodway SPONSOR: Room 9
Session Chairs: Tanya Yeomans and Janaki Vamaraju Room 10
Session Chairs: Adam Baig and Amy Fox Room 11
1:25-1:50 Understanding subsurface controls on operations in Kakwa
An Objective Skills Assessment for Operations Geoscience
Recent events, combined with the Covid 19 pandemic, have led to uncertainty in the Energy industry, especially If you are a geoscientist. VIG Session Part 1: 1:25 PM – 2:50 PM Oil and Gas Industry Colin Frostad: VP Exploration; Tourmaline Oil and Gas Denise Yee: SVP Head of Subsurface Modelling and Analysis; Enervus Shelley Leggitt: Past VP Exploration; Velvet Exploration
Quantifying the Value of Preconditioning in a Montney Inversion Workflow
Compilation of fault database for the NEBC and NW Alberta using publicly available data and open-source software
Pressure Mapping of the Kiskatinaw Seismic Monitoring and Mitigation Area, Northeastern British Columbia
Daniel Haider Christine Telford Andrew Mills Paulina Wozniakowska David Cronkwright
1:50-2:15 Unraveling the Nukhul Reservoir in the Arta Field, Egypt
Survey Uncertainty and Implications for Development with Horizontal Wells
Comparison of Various Seismic Inversion Methods - Lower Mannville Case Study
Enabling data science against legacy software application data.
An Investigation of Fault Slip Potential in the Kiskatinaw Seismic Monitoring and Mitigation Area (KSMMA), Northeast British Columbia
Jessica Dongas Calin Dragoie Azer Mustaqeem Sebastian Grebe Amy Fox
2:15-2:40 Geomodeling to Optimize Well Designs in the Montney
How well do you know your Well Survey? A Geologist's Perspective on the Impact of Unanalyzed Surveys
Direct probabilistic inversion: Improving interpretation of the Mannville sequence by injecting geology back into geophysics
Transitioning to Open-Source Geological Data and Analysis
Recent Seismicity in the Kiskatinaw Area, British Columbia: What can we learn about the dynamics of fault activation?
Gupreet Sawhney Jessica Beal Evan Mutual David Cronkwright Rebecca O. Salvage
2:40-3:20 COFFEE BREAK WITH EXHIBITORS AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS
3:20-3:45 Validating geologic representations with dynamic modeling
Integration of Electromagnetics in Potash Mining Geohazard Analysis
VIG Session Part 2: 3:10 PM – 4:35 PM Energy Transition Industry Amanda Hall: CEO; Summit Nanotech Yuliana Proenza: Exploration Geologist; Barkley Group Geothermal Kirsten Marcia: President and CEO; Deep Earth Energy The sessions will be moderated by Danielle Smith a Post Media columnist, past Radio talk show host, and past Leader of the Wildrose Party. She will inquire, challenge, motivate the panelists, providing a lively and informative discussion.
Anisotropic direct probabilistic inversion of AVO seismic data
Relative Significance of Controlling Factors on the Seismogenesis of Induced Seismicity in the Southern Montney Play
Garrett Fowler Todd LeBlanc Raul Cova Bei Wang
3:45-4:10 A Novel Method for In-Situ, Representative Measurement of Asphaltene Precipitation
A recurrent neural network for l1 anisotropic viscoelastic full waveform inversion with high-order total variation regularization
Farrukh Hamza Tianze Zhang
4:10-4:35 2020-21 Western Canada Activity Review: The Patch in the Time of COVID
Tunneling: an approach for including rock-physics constraints in full-waveform inversion
Christopher Podetz Scott Keating
4:35-5:00 Incorporating multiple a priori information for full waveform inversion
Da Li
5:00-5:25 Seismic physical modeling of COZD and COVA surveys: AVAZ effects observed on reflections from HTI targets
Kevin Hall
5:00-6:30 GEOGATHER AND BEER TOUR