Meeting Sponsors Single Barrel Eastern Unconventional Oil and Gas Symposium Small Batch AAPG Division of Professional Affairs Straight Bourbon RS Energy LLC TGS Geophysical Pittsburgh Geological AAPG Energy Pittsburgh Association Society Minerals Division of Petroleum Geologists Mash Eastern Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists 45th Annual Meeting Lexington, Kentucky September 24–28, 2016 Program with Abstracts Hosted by The Geological Society of Kentucky Kentucky Geological Survey University of Kentucky Cover Photo: Newly filled bourbon barrels waiting to be stacked and aged in the rickhouse at Woodford Reserve Distillery, Versailles, Kentucky. Photo by Ashley Bandy, hydrogeologist, University of Kentucky. Contents Mayor’s Welcome Letter ............................................................................................................................1 Welcome .......................................................................................................................................................2 2016 Organizing Committee .........................................................................................................2 Eastern Section AAPG Officers ....................................................................................................2 Geological Society of Kentucky Officers ....................................................................................2 Kentucky Geological Survey ........................................................................................................2 General Information ...................................................................................................................................3 Registration Hours .........................................................................................................................3 Parking.............................................................................................................................................3 Airport Transportation ..................................................................................................................3 Maps .................................................................................................................................................3 Exhibits ............................................................................................................................................3 Presenters and Judges Room ........................................................................................................3 Wireless Internet Access ...............................................................................................................3 Professional Development Hours (PDH) Certificates ..............................................................4 Meeting Program and Schedule on Your Phone .......................................................................4 Presenters, Judges, and Session Chairs Breakfast and Information .......................................4 Business Meetings .......................................................................................................................................4 AAPG House of Delegates Breakfast ..........................................................................................4 Eastern Section AAPG Executive Council Luncheon ...............................................................4 Eastern Section AAPG Committee on Section Meetings Breakfast ........................................4 Special Events ..............................................................................................................................................5 Opening Session .............................................................................................................................5 Honors and Awards Ceremony ...................................................................................................5 Icebreaker Reception .....................................................................................................................5 Jammin’ Geologists ........................................................................................................................5 AAPG Young Professionals Happy Hour ..................................................................................5 Monday Evening Entertainment .................................................................................................5 All-Division Luncheon ..................................................................................................................7 Guest Activities and Hospitality ...............................................................................................................7 Monday, September 26 ..................................................................................................................7 Tuesday, September 27 .................................................................................................................7 For More Information ....................................................................................................................8 Contents (continued) Calendar of Events ......................................................................................................................................9 Saturday, September 24.................................................................................................................9 Sunday, September 25 ...................................................................................................................9 Monday, September 26 ..................................................................................................................9 Tuesday, September 27 ...............................................................................................................10 Wednesday, September 28 ..........................................................................................................10 2016 Meeting Sponsors .............................................................................................................................11 Exhibitor List and Contacts .....................................................................................................................12 Student Activities ......................................................................................................................................13 Student Chapter Leadership Summit .......................................................................................13 Eastern Section Student Expo.....................................................................................................13 Opening Session Agenda .........................................................................................................................14 Honors and Awards Ceremony ..............................................................................................................15 Technical Program Schedule ...................................................................................................................16 Monday Morning, September 26 ...............................................................................................16 Monday Afternoon, September 26 ............................................................................................17 Monday Posters, September 26 ..................................................................................................18 Tuesday Morning, September 27 ...............................................................................................18 Tuesday Afternoon, September 27 ............................................................................................19 Tuesday Posters, September 27 ..................................................................................................20 Field Trips ..................................................................................................................................................22 Distillery Hydrogeology .............................................................................................................22 Upper Ordovician Reservoir Analogs in the Lexington Limestone/Point Pleasant Interval ....................................................................................................................................22 Pennsylvanian Sequence Stratigraphy and Coal Geology .....................................................22 Workshops .................................................................................................................................................23 Dolomite and Dolomitization: Current Knowledge and Its Application ............................23 Congress Needs You: Communicating with Your Washington Legislators .......................23 Unconventional Reservoir Quality Analysis ...........................................................................24 Introductory Geochemistry for Shale-Gas, Condensate-Rich Shales, and Tight Oil Reservoirs .........................................................................................................................24 Abstracts .....................................................................................................................................................25 Hyatt Regency Floorplan .........................................................................................................................67