15 Exploring Below the Salt in Angola and Beyond 28 Go Take a Hike 30 The Value of Borehole Image Logs – Part 1: Introduction to Borehole Image Logs and Why They Should be Run $10.00 JANUARY 2015 VOLUME 42, ISSUE 01 Canadian Publication Mail Contract – 40070050 JANUARY 2015 – VOLUME 42, ISSUE 01 ARTICLES CSPG Core Conference .............................................................................................................. 14 Exploring Below the Salt in Angola and Beyond ................................................................... 15 CSPG OFFICE #110, 333 – 5th Avenue SW 2014 CSPG Awards ...................................................................................................................... 20 Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 3B6 Tel: 403-264-5610 Web: www.cspg.org The 2015 CSPG Executive Committee .................................................................................. 22 Please visit our website for all tickets sales and event/course registrations Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 4:30pm Honorary Member – Dr. Jeffrey Packard ............................................................................... 26 The CSPG Office is Closed the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month. Go Take a Hike .............................................................................................................................. 28 OFFICE CONTACTS Membership Inquiries Tel: 403-264-5610 Email: [email protected] The Value of Borehole Image Logs – Part 1: Introduction to Borehole Technical/Educational Events: Biljana Popovic Tel: 403-513-1225 Email: [email protected] Image Logs and Why They Should be Run ....................................................................... 30 Advertising Inquiries: Emma MacPherson Tel: 403-513-1230 Email: [email protected] DEPARTMENTS Sponsorship Opportunities: Candace Seepersad Tel: 403-513-1227 Email: [email protected] Message from the Board .......................................................................................................... 5 Conference Inquiries: Candace Seepersad Tel: 403-513-1233 Email: [email protected] Photo of the Month ................................................................................................................... 6 CSPG Educational Trust Fund: Kasandra Amaro Tel: 403-513-1234 Email: [email protected] Technical Luncheons ................................................................................................................. 9 Accounting Inquiries: Eric Tang Tel: 403-513-1232 Email: [email protected] Division Talks ........................................................................................................................... 12 Executive Director: Lis Bjeld Tel: 403-513-1235, Email: [email protected] Rock Shop ............................................................................................................................ 7, 19 EDITORS/AUTHORS Please submit RESERVOIR articles to the CSPG office. 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Alluvial fans discharge into Under no circumstances shall the CSPG and its officers, directors, employees, and agents be Doris Lake, Carcajou Range, Northwest Territories. liable for any injury, loss, damage, or expense arising in any manner whatsoever from the the lakes between the Stony Anticline of the Carcajou Range (right) and the Imperial acts, omissions, or conduct of any third-party user. Syncline (left). Photo by Wayne Laturnas. Designed and Printed by The Data Group of Companies, Calgary, Alberta. RESERVOIR ISSUE 01 • JANUARY 2015 3 20152015 CSPG/SEPMCSPG/SEPM MountjoyMountjoy ConferenceConference ABSTRACTABSTRACT SUBMISSIONSUBMISSION NOWNOW OPENOPEN Sessions & Session Chairs The Nature of Unconventional Carbonate Reservoirs Jay Gregg & Mike Grammer | Oklahoma State University Carbonate Reservoirs in Structurally Complex Regions Rudy Swennen | Division of Geology, KU Leuven The Nature of Intensely Fractured, Vuggy Carbonates Ron Nelson | Broken N Consulting, Texas Alex J. MacNeil | Osum Oil Sands, Calgary Advances in Modeling Carbonate Systems and Reservoirs Part 1, Methods: Georg Warrlich | Shell, Malaysia Rachel Wood | School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh Part 2, Flow in Carbonates: Xiomara Marquez | Maersk, Doha, Qatar Fiona Whitaker | School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol Advances in Diagenesis Eva Drivet | Drivet Consulting, Calgary Conxita Taberner | Shell, Netherlands Dolostones – The Nature of Dolostones in the Geologic Record Hans Machel | University of Alberta, Edmonton Jeff Lonnee | Shell, Qatar Deadline for Abstracts: March 31st, 2015 For more information visit: www.cspg.org/Conferences Message from the Board A message from Dale Leckie, Past President CSPG BOARD Your Professional PRESIDENT Tony Cadrin • Journey Energy Inc. Organization [email protected] Tel: 403.303.3493 Your professional organization – the This meeting was small, but enthusiastically Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists attended. PRESIDENT ELECT Greg Lynch • Shell Canada Ltd. – is strong and viable. As Gordon Stabb, [email protected] Tel: 403.384.7704 CSPG 2014 Finance Director, reported last When the late Dr. Eric Mountjoy passed month the Society’s finances are in good away, he bequeathed to CSPG funds to PAST PRESIDENT shape with an appropriate reserve in place to support students attending conferences on Dale Leckie weather any unforeseen difficulties. CSPG, carbonates and structural geology. [email protected] a not-for-profit organization, was able to donate $75,000 to the CSPG ETF. Also, our Dr. Mountjoy also bequeathed funds to FINANCE DIRECTOR membership remains stable. SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) to Astrid Arts • Cenovus Energy support research. The follow-up is that we [email protected] Tel: 403.766.5862 What happened during the 2014 year? One negotiated with SEPM to hold regular (every of my personal mandates was to improve the ~4 years) carbonate conferences. In August, FINANCE DIRECTOR ELECT technical side of CSPG, as this strengthens our 2015, the inaugural SEPM-CSPG Mountjoy Scott Leroux • Long Run Exploration niche and complies with our mission statement. Carbonate Meeting entitled “Advances [email protected] 403.716.3205 To this end, we built relationships. These in Characterization and Modeling of relationships took the form of co-operative Complex Carbonate Reservoirs” will be DIRECTOR technical ventures with other societies. held in Banff. This meeting is looking to be a Mark Caplan • Athabasca Oil Corp. major international carbonate event. [email protected] Tel: 403.975.7701 2014 GeoConvention FOCUS, partnered with CSEG and CWLS, was an outstanding With AAPG, we are hosting Playmaker DIRECTOR success. One of the premiere events of Forum in March 2015, which will feature Milovan Fustic • Statoil Canada Ltd. CSPG, GeoConvention was well attended industry experts to gain improved understanding [email protected] Tel: 403.724.3307 with an extremely high technical level. of scientific and commercial requirements DIRECTOR The 2015 GeoConvention GeoScience: for successful prospect generation and Michael LaBerge • Channel Energy Inc. New Horizons annual meeting, under development of oil and gas assets. [email protected] Tel: 403.301.3739 the guidance of the new GeoConvention Partnership, is shaping up quite nicely. Did Your Alberta regulatory body is APEGA. This DIRECTOR you submit an abstract for 2015? year CSPG introduced the Tracks Awards Ryan Lemiski • Nexen Energy ULC for Industry and Associations and I am [email protected] Tel: