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AAPG Bookstore Annual Convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 2006 TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 1 Source Rock Characterization-Dependent Biomarker Distributions of Crude Oils in the Southern Giant Oilfields of the Gulf of Suez Province, Egypt........................................................ 1 Mohamed Abdel-Aziz Younes, Paul Philp Petroleum System in the Shushan Basin: A Mature Basin Leading to Future Exploration in the Western Desert of Egypt..................................................................................... 7 Mohamed Abdel-Aziz Younes Application of Magnetic Resonance Mud Logging for Rapid Reservoir Evaluation ................. 13 Gang Yu, Zhizhan Wang, Konstantin Mirotchnik, Lifa Li Do Dry Holes Lie? Cusiana and Cupiagua Fields, Colombia, South America............................ 14 Woodruff G. Leel, Jr Growing the Forest: The Integration of International Data into a Global-Scale GIS, Decision Support System ................................................................................................................ 15 Melanie McQuinn First-order Relationships Between Lunar Crater Morphology, Degree of Degradation, and Relative Age: The Crater Degradation Index .......................................................................... 16 William A. Ambrose An Overlooked Play-Type on a Ramp Margin: Prodelta Turbiditic Lobes, Lower Kenilworth Member, Cretaceous Western Interior, Book Cliffs, Utah ......................................... 17 Simon A.J. Pattison Transgressively-Modified Coarse-Grained Sandstones and Turbidite-Rich Shelf Deposits, Upper Aberdeen to Lower Kenilworth Stratigraphic Interval, Campanian Book Cliffs, Utah: Evidence for Tectonically-Driven Sedimentation Patterns ........................... 18 Simon A.J. Pattison Turbidity Currents Physical Simulation in a Small-Scale Model of Large Dimensions (Canyon Almirante Câmara – Campos Basin, Brazil): Methodology and Preliminary Results ............................................................................................................................................... 19 Rafael Manica, Rodrigo Sartor, Rogério Dornelles Maestri, Ana Luiza De Oliveira Borges New Stratigraphic Trap Oil Play Associated with the Upper Jurassic Smackover Microbial Reef Trend, Onshore Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain ......................................................... 24 Ernest A. Mancini, William C. Parcell, Wayne M. Ahr, Juan Carlos Llinás, Bennett L. Bearden, Berry H. Tew Three-Dimensional Reservoir and Simulation Modeling of Hyperpycnal Systems: A Case Study of LAG-3047, Block X, Misoa Formation, Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela ................. 25 Helena Gamero, Lucienne Laporte, Jose Luis Perdomo, Tami C. Rahn, Christina Isakson, Freddy Rodriguez Depositional Environments and Diagenesis of the Lower Cretaceous (Neocomian) Fahliyan Formation in Bibi-Hakimeh, Khyrabad , Kilurkarim and Sulabedar Fields in the Zagros Basin, Southwest Iran ................................................................................................... 26 Forooz Keyvani, Ezat Heydari, Alireza Rostami Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology Study in Fluvial Systems – A New Approach ............... 27 Lorena Moscardelli, Denise Woods, Lesli Wood Characterization and 3-D Reservoir Modeling of Fluvial Tight-Gas Sandstones in the Williams Fork Formation, Rulison Field, Piceance Basin, Colorado, USA ................................. 28 Marielis F. Vargas, Matthew J. Pranter, Thomas L. Davis Integration of Multidisciplinary Tools for Study of the Tectonic-Stratigraphics Features in the Post-Rift Sequence in Camamu-Almada Basin, Bahia State, Brazil ................................. 29 Márcia K. Karam, Nilo Chagas de Azambuja Filho, Luiz Landau Frontally Confined against Frontally Emergent Submarine Landslides: a 3-D Seismic Characterization ................................................................................................................................30 Jose Frey-Martinez, Joe Cartwright, David James Depositional Environments, Architecture and Diagenesis of Fahud Field, Oman..................... 31 Volker C. Vahrenkamp, Alia Al Bahry, Talal Al Musallami, Abhijit Mookerjee, Wadie Mansour, Richard Singleton, Cathy Hollis, Peter Homewood, Henk Droste, Carine Grelaud, Philippe Razin, Quintin Davies, Boris Kostic, Conxita Taberner, Mateu Esteban Artificial Neural Networks May Help Predicting Abnormal Pressures in the Anadarko Basin................................................................................................................................................... 32 Constantin Cranganu High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization of Upper Thamama (Lower Cretaceous) Reservoirs of a Giant Abu Dhabi Oil Field, United Arab Emirates ............................................................................................................................................. 33 Christian J. Strohmenger, L. Jim Weber, Ahmed Ghani, Khalil Al-Mehsin, Omar Al-Jeelani, Abdulla Al-Mansoori, Taha Al-Dayyani, Lee Vaughan, Sameer A. Khan, John C. Mitchell Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Architecture of the Burgan and Mauddud Formations (Lower Cretaceous), Kuwait........................................................................................ 34 Christian J. Strohmenger, Penny E. Patterson, Ghaida Al-Sahlan, John C. Mitchell, Howard R. Feldman, Timothy M. Demko, Robert W. Wellner, Patrick J. Lehmann, G. Glen McCrimmon, Robert W. Broomhall, Neama Al-Ajmi Carbonate Reservoir Modeling Using Multiple-Point Statistics (MPS)/Facies Distribution Modeling (FDM)............................................................................................................ 35 Marge Levy, Paul Mitch Harris, Sebastien Strebelle Comparative Hydrocarbon Potential Analysis of Turkish Interior Basins and New Exploration Opportunities: a Critical Review and New Insights.................................................. 36 Ozkan Huvaz, Hasan Sarikaya Evaluating the Precision of Well Location Datasets Using ArcGIS............................................. 37 Don Downey Implications of Cell Size on Modeling of Facies Proportions: A Modern Carbonate Platform Example.............................................................................................................................. 38 Gregory S. Benson, Steve Bachtel Mass-Transport Complexes (MTCs), and Tectonic Control on Confined Basin-Floor Submarine Fans, Middle Eocene, South Spanish Pyrenees ........................................................ 40 Kevin T. Pickering, Nicole Bayliss Fundamentals of Rock-Based Reservoir Modeling: A Case History from the Lower Permian Fullerton Field, Permian Basin......................................................................................... 41 Stephen C. Ruppel, Rebecca H. Jones, F. Jerry Lucia, Fred P. Wang, Hongliu Zeng, Jeff Kane, James W. Jennings Downhole Geochemical Analysis of Gas Content and Critical Desorption Pressure for Carbonaceous Reservoirs ............................................................................................................... 42 John M. Pope Sequence Stratigraphy of the Permo-Carboniferous Unayzah Reservoir in Saudi Arabia and Its Correlation with Oman......................................................................................................... 43 Muhittin Senalp Karst and Early Fracture Networks in Carbonates, Turks and Caicos Islands, British West Indies ........................................................................................................................................ 44 Sean A. Guidry, Mark Grasmueck, Andrew Gombos, Jr, Daniel G. Carpenter, Steven L. Bachtel, David A. Viggiano Sedimentology of the Incised Valleys and Their Associated Lowstand Deltaic Sequences in the Ash-Shiqqah Formation of the Unayzah Reservoir, Saudi Arabia................ 45 Muhittin Senalp The Potential for Coalbed Gas Resource Development, Western Maracaibo Basin, Venezuela........................................................................................................................................... 46 Roger Tyler, Noel Tyler, Rafael Tocco, Vania Savian Overlooked Gas Exploration Play: The Deep Lake Formation of Southern Florida .................. 47 Hugh J. Mitchell-Tapping Superimposed Folding, Northwest Canada ................................................................................... 48 James R. Taylor Underdeveloped Oil Fields in Upper Pennsylvanian and Lower Permian Carbonate Reservoirs of Southeastern New Mexico: Initial Development Missed Major Reserves........... 49 Ronald F. Broadhead Volume-Based Characterization of a Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoir, Lower Cretaceous, Abu Dhabi..................................................................................................................... 50 Lyndon A. Yose, Amy S. Ruf, Christian J. Strohmenger, James S. Schuelke, Linda W. Corwin, Andrew Gombos, Jr, Imelda G. Johnson, Ismail Al-Hosani, Shamsa S. Al-Maskary, Gerard