
archived Luncheon Talks
past luncheons
Geology, Paleontologists, Mineralogists
2021 - 2022
August 2021: How advanced formation evaluation makes Permian Basin operators profitable with oil price $20 per barrel - Dr. Vladimir Ingerman
October 2021: Low Rate Horizontal Wells: Bane of Existence or Lateral to Opportunity? - Laura Freeman
January 2022: Themes in Western Canada Foreland Basin Stratigraphy - Dr. Guy Plint
February 2022: Strategies for Energy Capture Indicate Environments of Carbonate Production - Dr. Pamela Hallock Muller
March 2022: K-Ar geochronology and trace-element geochemistry of illite from upper Paleozoic shale of SW Laurentia – Insights into sediment origin and drainage pathways in the Anadarko Basin, OK - Dr. Branimir Segvic
April 2022: Integrated Sequence Stratigraphy, FTIR and ED-XRF Geochemical Characterization of Wolfcamp A- and Wolfcamp B-Equivalent Outcrop Facies in the Glass Mountains (Skinner Ranch Fm, Lenox Hills Fm), West Texas, USA - Eric J. Peavey
May 2022: The Way We Were - Jeff A. Smith
2020 - 2021
2019 - 2020
August 2019: Depositional Remnants: Common Components of the Stratigraphic Record with Important Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production - Randi S. Martinsen
September 2019: Depletion Effects of Parent Well Production over Time and Impact on Well Spacing in the Wolfcamp, Delaware Basin - Cyrille Defeu
October 2019: Pressure-Dependent Permeability of Shale Reservoirs and Implications for Estimated Ultimate Recovery - Greg Salter
November 2019: Investigating Redox Conditions of the Early Paleozoic Ocean: Isotopic and Elemental Constraints from the Middle Ordovician Argentine Precordillera - Dr. Miles A. Henderson
January 2020: PBS-SEPM Carbonate Well Log and Core Analysis Spreadsheet v. 5.0: Overview and Utility - Dr. Cory Hoffman
February 2020: Applying a Sequence Stratigraphic Model to Explain Stratigraphic Architecture and the Spatial Distribution of Reservoir Facies in the Mississippian Limestone - Dr. Jim Puckette
March 2020: A Preview of the San Andres ROZ Core Workshop and Field Trip, April 3-5, 2020, Midland, Texas, Guadalupe and Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico - Dr. Robert (Bob) F. Lindsay
June 2020: Well Optimization Powered by Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Sarah Tamilarasan
July 2020: Status of Global Ice - The View from Above - Dr. Rebecca Dodge
2018 - 2019
September 2018: Application of Rapidly-Acquired Whole-Rock Elemental Data for Improved Drilling Results: The Permian Basin and Beyond - Michael C. Dix
October 2018: Processes, Products, and Pit-falls: Organic Matter Enrichment in the Permian Basin and the Utility of Core Descriptions in Unconventional Reservoir Characterization - Dr. Jason S. Mintz
January 2019: The Geology and Ediacaran Fauna of Mistaken Point, Newfoundland - Antony Giles
February 2019: Controls on Wolfcampian and Leonardian Slope Morphology and Implications for Basinal Sedimentation Patterns and Stratigraphy, Delaware Basin, Southeast New Mexico and West Texas - Buddy J. Price
March 2019: Organic Facies, Paleoenvironment, and Hydrocarbon Source Potential of the Cretaceous Mancos and Gallup Formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico - Ashton Faulkner Bruyere
April 2019: Sandy Building Blocks of Basin-Floor Sunmarine-Fan Reservoirs: Low-Sinuosity Deepwater Channel Deposits, Permian Basin - Jacob Covault
May 2019: Orogenesis and Post-Orogenic Collapse: Rocky Mountain Analogs and New Permian Insights - Ryan Thompson