Fueling the Future: Core Insights for Energy Resource
Exploration and Development
Thursday, June 20, 2024
| 8:30am | CORE CONFERENCE WELCOME Planning Committee Co-Chairs: Carolyn Furlong, MacEwan University & Scott MacKnight, Crescent Point Energy |
 | SESSION 1: BASAL CAMBRIAN & CO2 SEQUESTRATION Session Chairs: Mastaneh Liseroudi, GSC & Rob Paul |
| 9:00am | The Cambrian section of southwestern Ontario, and the competition for pore space Allan R. Phillips, Clinton-Medina Group |
| 9:25am | A Regional Case Study of the Basal Cambrian Sandstone, Alberta, Canada Dave Herbers, AER/AGS, Tyler Hauck, AER/AGS, John Gordon, Spectrum Geoscience |
| 9:50am | Basal Cambrian Sandstone: Core Heterogenities and their Impact on Fluid Dynamics Carolyn Currie, Core Laboratories |
| 10:15am | Coffee Break and Core Viewing |
| 10:45am | Assessing CO2 Sequestration Potential for the Basal Cambrian Sand in the Wolf Lamont Carbon Hub, Alberta Canada: A Case Study of Well 100/06-05-055-17W4/00 John Hirschmiller, Whitecap Resources, Steve Parkins, Whitecap Resources |
| 11:10am | Experimental Evaluation of CO2 Storage Potential of the Leduc Formation in the Simonette Area Adnan Younis, University of Calgary |
| 11:35am | Salts and non-salts in the Elk Point Group (Devonian) of Western Canada Sedimentary Basin Pavel Kabanov, GSC, Julia Shustova, GSC |
| 12:00pm | Lunch Break |
| SESSION 2: CARBONATES: THE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR Session Chairs: Celine Chow, Saturn Oil + Gas Inc., Ozzy Ofoegbu, Cenovus Energy | |
| 1:15pm | Reefs By the Roadside- Carbonates in Subsurface and Outcrops Leslie S. Eliuk |
| 1:40pm | Sequence stratigraphy and facies modelling of the Fusselman Formation in the RM-1 core (Silurian, Permian Basin, USA) using integrated cluster analysis and ordination of pXRF chemostratigraphic data Wilmar Andres De la Hoz, Texas Tech University |
| 2:05pm | Early and late carbonate cementation in the shallow marine Hibernia formation, offshore Newfoundland: links to sea-level fluctuations and percolation of late diagenetic pore fluids Mateo Acuna, Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| 2:30pm | Coffee Break and Core Viewing |
| 3:00pm | Regional Sequence Boundaries in the Swan Hills Formation, Southern Alberta Joel F. Collins, Pak K. Wong |
| 3:25pm | Cleaning up the Lithostratigraphy Wreckage of the Lower Mississippian Frobisher Beds, Williston Basin of Southeastern Saskatchewan John H. Lake, Lake Geological Services Inc, Arden Marsh, Saskatchewan Geological Survey |
| 3:50pm | Day One Closing Remarks |
Friday, June 21, 2024
| 8:30am | CORE CONFERENCE WELCOME Planning Committee Co-Chairs: Carolyn Furlong, MacEwan University & Scott MacKnight, Crescent Point Energy |
 | SESSION 3: GEOSCIENCE IN ACTION: RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION FOR RESOURCE EXPLOITATION Session Chairs: Lauren Eggie, Imperial Oil, Daniela Becerra, SLB |
| 9:00am | Sask, Eh! Analysis of the Mississippian Frobisher State A Marker in the Steelman Region of Southeast Saskatchewan for Open-hole, Multi-lateral Well Development Kelsey Glennie, Inland Country Earth Consulting, Hummingbird Energy |
| 9:25am | Detrimental Effects of Unoptimized Pull-Out-Of-Hole Core (POOH) Trip Schedules on Core Quality and Reservoir Property Measurements Xiaojun (Albert) Cui, AGAT Laboratories |
| 9:50am | SA- SAGD in the Grand Rapids- Taking Cold Lake Development to the Next Level Breanna Uzelman, Imperial Oil, Brittan Jones, Imperial Oil |
| 10:15am | Coffee Break and Core Viewing |
| 10:45am | Humbled by reality: levels of stratigraphic and structural heterogeneity within the McMurray formation at Kearl Oil Sands Mine Bogdan L. Varban, Imperial Oil, Lauren A. Eggie, Imperial Oil, Lindsey N. Abbott, Imperial Oil |
| 11:10am | Chasing a sand-filled Quaternary Channel at the Kearl Oil Sands Mine Aurore C. Kurc, Imperial Oil, Bogdan L. Varban, Imperial Oil |
| 11:35am | Understanding Fracability in the Cardium at West Pembina: Is Fabric Important? Simon Poirier, CNRL, Dan Hill, University of Calgary, Per Kent Pedersen, University of Calgary |
| 12:00pm | Lunch Break |
 | SESSION 4: CLASTIC CHARACTERIZATION Session Chairs: James Burr, Spur Petroleum, Cole Ross, Spur Petroleum |
| 1:15pm | Using evidence of subaerial exposure to develop stratigraphic and depositional models in lacustrine and marginal environments: examples from the Lower Cretaceous Alberta Cheryl A. Hodgson, Simon Fraser University, Jennifer J. Scott, Mount Royal University |
| 1:40pm | Depositional Environments and Sequence Stratigraphic Architecture of the Dina-Cummings Interval, East-Central Alberta Scott E. Botterill, AER, Eric R. Timmer, AER, Murray K. Gingras, University of Alberta |
| 2:05pm | Coffee Break and Core Viewing |
| 2:35pm | A review of Core from the Sturgeon Lake Duvernay play Bradley T. Culver, Culver Geophysics |
| 3:00pm | Mixed influence (river-, wave-, storm-, and tide-influenced) deltaic deposits and hybrid event beds in unconventional reservoirs of the Montney Formation, Lower Triassic, northwestern Alberta Dr. Kerrie L. Bann, Ichnofacies Analysis Inc. Calgary, Peter Proverbs, Tourmaline Oil Corp., Max Landi, University of Calgary |
| 3:25pm | Closing Remarks |
| 4:00pm | Core Meltdown at the Canadian Brewhouse, University District Core Conference Awards: Andrew D. Baillie Award, Best Student Core Presentation & Pemberton Award, Best Core Presentation |
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