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14 Alberta’s Cardium: Evolution of Cutoffs & Evaluation Procedures in Response to Horizontal Drilling 17 27th Annual CSPG Mixed Golf Tournament August 26 21 GeoConvention 2016: Thank you for all your support 23 2015 Honorary Membership Award RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO: CSPG – 110, 333 - 5 Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta T2P 3B6 $4.00 MAY 2016 VOLUME 43, ISSUE 05 Canadian Publication Mail Contract – 40070050 FEATURED SPEAKERS* CORE LOCATIONS Greg Soule, Brazil Unconventional Resources in Turbidite Sands of the Recôncavo Basin, Onshore Brazil: Core to Seismic Interpretation Jonathan Garrett, Michigan Regional Chemo- and Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of the A-1 Carbonate, Michigan Basin, USA Bryan Turner, Oklahoma The Use of Chemostratigraphy to Refine Ambiguous Sequence CANADA USA Stratigraphic Correlations in Marine Mudrocks. An Example from EUROPE the Woodford Shale, Oklahoma Carlos Molinares-Blanco, Oklahoma Woodford Shale (Unconventional Resource) Core from the Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma: Litho/Sequence Stratigraphy, Palynology, Chemostratigraphy, Hardness, and Organic Geochemistry Steve Sonnenberg, North Dakota The Giant Continuous Oil Accumulation in the Bakken Petroleum SOUTH System, U.S. Williston Basin AMERICA Riley Brinkerhoff, Montana The Bakken-Three Forks Petroleum System in the Northern Williston Basin as Displayed by the Douts 4-7 Core, Burke County, North Dakota, USA Cornelius Rott, Germany Reservoir Quality of a Diagenetically Altered Shallow Marine Other core locations include British Columbia, Alberta, Carbonate Interval in the Permian Zechstein (Ca2), East Germany Saskatchewan and Ontario. – Implications for Porosity Prediction Using Seismic Inversion Data Rob Sadownyk, Turkey * View full list of speakers at: www.cspg.org/CSPG/Conferences/ACE/Speakers Mezardere Slope Fan Exploration Model, Thrace Basin, Turkey: Integration of Core, Outcrop, Seismic and Well Log Data Register today! www.ace.aapg.org/2016 FULL Core Conference: $195 US June 23–24 | Core displays, presentations, breakfast, lunch, and 1 Core Meltdown Ticket Conference Student Price: $35 US Core Meltdown Ticket ONLY: $25 US | June 24, starts at 2pm | Includes two drink tickets and appetizers Register directly at www.CSPG.org for group registrations and the NEW In Transition Rate of $75 CAD! 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