138 Fault Seals or Conduits? Insights from Hydrologic and Petroleum Systems

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Sunday, 5 October 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
George R. Brown Convention Center, 330A

Presiding:
Victor F. Bense and Mark Austin Person
8:00 AM
Aquifer Compartmentalization in the Lower Rhine Embayment
Victor F. Bense, University of East Anglia; Mark Austin Person, Indiana University; Peter E. Sauer, Indiana University; L. Niel Plummer, U. S. Geological Survey; Nils Cremer, Erftverband; Stefan Simon, Erftverband; Carl W. Gable, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Lee Gumm, University of East Anglia
8:35 AM
The Baton Rouge fault, South Louisiana: a barrier and/or conduit for vertical and/or lateral ground water flow?
Colleen Wendeborn, Louisiana State University; Jeffrey S. Hanor, Louisiana State University
8:50 AM
Faults as Barrier/conduit Systems in Oil Migration
Yao You, Indiana Univ; Mark Austin Person, Indiana University; Victor Bense, University of East Anglia; Carl W. Gable, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:05 AM
Toward Predicting Fault-Zone Architecture and Permeability Structure in Clastic Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
Laurel B. Goodwin, Univ. of Wisconsin; Jennie Cook, Univ. of Wisconsin; Geoffrey Rawling, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources
9:25 AM
Characterization of Deformation Bands Associated with Normal and Thrust Stress States in the Navajo Sandstone, Western US
John G. Solum, Shell International Exploration and Production; J.P. Brandenburg, Shell International Exploration and Production; Olga V. Kostenko, Shell International Exploration and Production; Richard A. Schultz, University of Nevada; Scott Wilkins, Shell International Exploration and Production
9:40 AM
From Fault Seal to Fault Leak: Effect of Mechanical Stratigraphy on the Evolution of Transport Processes in Fault Zones
Janos L. Urai, RWTH Aachen University; Joyce Schmatz, RWTH Aachen University; Steffen Abe, RWTH Aachen University; Heijn W. van Gent, RWTH Aachen University; Marc Holland, RWTH Aachen University
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
Empirical Calibrations of Proven Sealing Faults
S.J. Naruk, Shell International E&P; S.J. Wilkins, Shell International E&P; W.F. Dula, Shell International E&P
10:30 AM
Progress in Predicting Fault Zone Deformation for Fault Seal Analysis
Russell K. Davies, Rock Deformation Research USA Inc; Rob J. Knipe, Univ of Leeds; Christine Souque, Univ of Leeds; Michael Welch, Univ of Leeds; Henry Lickorish
10:45 AM
The Role of Fault Permeability Evolution on Groundwater Flow Patterns and Brine Flushing within the Papuan Fold Belt
Mark Austin Person, Indiana University; Autumn Kaylor, Indiana University Bloomington; Paula Konfal, Indiana Univ; Victor Bense, University of East Anglia; Karen Swanberg, University of Minnesota; Peter Eadington, CSIRO, Petroleum
11:00 AM
Effects of Fault Zone Permeability on Fault Controlled Fluid Circulation in Active and Fossil Hydrothermal Systems in the Great Basin
Amlan Banerjee, Indiana University; Mark Austin Person, Indiana University; Albert Hofstra, US Geol Survey; Donald Sweetkind, USGS
11:15 AM
Toward Understanding the Processes That Control the Hydrologic Properties of Thrust Faults
Olga V. Kostenko, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc; John G. Solum, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc; Miguel Mora-Glukstad, Shell Exploration and Production Company; Steve Naruk, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc; Scott Wilkins, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc; Michael Myers, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc; Mike Arasteh, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc
11:30 AM
Stress Analysis and Fracture-Based Fluid Transmissivity at the Underground Research Laboratory Site at Horonobe, Hokkaido, Japan
Alan Paul Morris, Southwest Research Institute; Tetsuichi Takagi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Sci and Technology; Darrell Sims, Southwest Research Institute; Kevin J. Smart, Southwest Research Institute; Danielle Y. Wyrick, Southwest Research Institute; John A. Stamatakos, Southwest Research Institute
11:45 AM
Terrestrial Gas Hydrate Characterization in Alaska North Slope: Exploring New Ideas and Research Directions
Anupma Prakash, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Timothy Collett; Catherine Hanks, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Robert F. Fisk; Kristin Papp, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Sudipta Sarkar, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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