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GeoConvention & Core Conference In This Issue... Technical Abstract Sneak Peek Session Highlights Core Conference & The Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO: CSPG – 150, 540 – 5th Ave SW Calgary, AB, T2P 0M2 $7.00 MAY/JUNE 2017 VOLUME 44, ISSUE 3 Canadian Publication Mail Contract – 40070050 THANK-YOU TO ALL OF OUR SPONSORS SAMARIUM SPONSOR DIAMOND SPONSORS TITANIUM SPONSORS PLATINUM SPONSORS GOLD SPONSORS SILVER SPONSORS BRONZE SPONSORS T. Cadrin Holdings Ltd. CORPORATE SUPPORTERS *As of March 31st Chinook Consulting Services Halliburton Saguaro Resources Belloy Petroleum Consulting LXL Consulting Ltd. Siftgrid XRF Solutions Ltd MJ Systems TAQA North Ltd. RIGSAT Communications RS Energy Group Midwest Surveys I H S Markitt Schlumberger Canada Limited Navigator Resource Consulting Bannatyne Wealth Advisory Group Pulse Seismic Inc Synterra Technologies Canada Brokerlink Inc. Cabra Consulting Ltd. Birchcliff Energy Ltd. RPS Energy Canada Ltd. 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Sedimentary Basin ..................................................................................................21 This spectacular vista is seen on the South Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories A Virtual Mcmurray Formation Outcrop Tour – An Evolving Tool For at the junction of the Selwyn Fold Belt and the Mackenzie Fold Belt. The river hurtles Characterizing Oil Sands Reservoirs And Creating Realistic Geomodels ..........24 through a section of rapids known as the Sluice Box before tumbling over limestone Caribou: The Next Montney Oil Sweet-Spot .........................................................25 and recessive shales of the Middle Ordovician Sunblood Formation and into the Fourth Session Highlights ...................................................................................................26 Canyon of the South Nahanni. A spire of limestone, known as Mason's Rock, survived as the falls migrated up-river and splits the Core Conference 2017: Grand Tour of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin .............33 flow. With a vertical drop of 96m, Virginia Falls almost doubles the 51m cascade of Core Conference Technical Program ...................................................................................35 Niagara Falls (Horseshoe Falls). Wes Waddell UPCOMING EVENTS Division Talks ..........................................................................................................37 SOCIETY NEWS Medal of Merit 2016 ................................................................................................42 RJW Douglas Medal 2016 .......................................................................................44 Link Award – Best Oral Presentation ................................................................................... 45 University Outreach ................................................................................................46 FROM THE ARCHIVES .........................................................................................47 RESERVOIR ISSUE 3 • MAY/JUNE 2017 5 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD A MESSAGE FROM KEVIN PARKS By Kevin Parks, CSPG Director for Publications eoConvention and Core Conference science out after the conference events. One emerging areas of study. Our editors in chief, are here again. The annual is by publication of articles in the Reservoir, Dr. Bernard Guest and Dr. Hairuo Qing, as Ggatherings are always a great time and the other is by publication of peer- well as myself, are available to answer your to hear new ideas, discover opportunities, reviewed papers in the Bulletin of Canadian questions on the Bulletin process. and network