12 Oil Sands and Heavy-Oil Symposium: A Local to Global Multidisciplinary Collaboration 14 Winter University Lecture Tour Wrap-Up Dr. Brad Hayes and Unconventional Oil and Gas 20 Go Take a Hike $10.00 JUNE 2014 VOLUME 41, ISSUE 06 Canadian Publication Mail Contract – 40070050 MORE THAN MAPPING WANT TO LIFT YOUR PETREL® WORKFLOWS TO NEW HEIGHTS? Seamlessly bring more data into the fold. Dynamically present your insight like never before. SOFTWARE SERVICES CONNECTIVITY DATA MANAGEMENT The Petrosys Plug-in for Petrel® gives you access to powerful Petrosys mapping, surface modeling and data exchange from right where you need it – inside Petrel. Now you have the power to effortlessly and meticulously bring your critical knowledge together on one potent mapping canvas. Work intuitively with your Petrel knowledge and, should you so require, simultaneously aggregate, map and model data direct from multiple other sources – OpenWorks®, ArcSDE®, IHS™ Kingdom®, PPDM™ and more. 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JUNE 2014 – VOLUME 41, ISSUE 06 ARTICLES Oil Sands and Heavy-Oil Symposium: A Local to Global Multidisciplinary Collaboration ........................................................... 12 CSPG OFFICE Winter University Lecture Tour Wrap-Up #110, 333 – 5th Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 3B6 Dr. Brad Hayes and Unconventional Oil and Gas ........................................................... 14 Tel: 403-264-5610 Web: www.cspg.org Honorary Member – Dr. Peter Putnam .................................................................................. 15 Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm 26th Annual CSPG/CSEG/CAPL 10Kkm/15km Road Race and Fun Run ....................... 17 Executive Director: Lis Bjeld 25th Annual Mixed Golf Tournament ....................................................................................... 18 Tel: 403-513-1235, Email: [email protected] Event Coordinator: Kelsey Thompson Go Take a Hike .............................................................................................................................. 20 Tel: 403-513-1226, Email: [email protected] Member Services: Photo of the Month ....................................................................................................................... 23 Tel: 403-264-5610, Email: [email protected] Publications and Website: Emma MacPherson 2013 Link Award ............................................................................................................................ 25 Email: [email protected], Tel: 403-513-1230 Educational Trust Fund/Outreach Coordinator: Kasandra Amaro 2013 Medal of Merit ...................................................................................................................... 26 Tel: 403-513-1226, Email: [email protected] Technical Programs: Biljana Popovic Graduate Student Thesis Award Best M.Sc. ......................................................................... 28 Tel: 403-513-1225, Email: [email protected] Corporate Sponsorship: Lis Bjeld Tel: 403-513-1235, Email: [email protected] DEPARTMENTS Controller: Eric Tang Executive Comment .................................................................................................................. 5 Tel: 403-513-1232, Email: [email protected] Technical Luncheons ................................................................................................................. 9 EDITORS/AUTHORS Please submit RESERVOIR articles to the CSPG office. 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RESERVOIR ISSUE 06 • JUNE 2014 3 Closing the Gap II: Advances in Applied Geomodeling for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Conference Sessions & Speakers Outcrops, Stratigraphy, and Geomodeling: Post-processing Geomodels: Lisa Stright, University of Utah,USA Clayton Deutsch, University of Alberta, Canada Michael Pyrcz, Chevron,USA Weishan Ren, Statoil, Canada Multi-scale Data and Multi-variate Modeling: Modeling Uncertainty: Sanjay Srinivasan, University of Texas at Austin, USA Emmanuel Gringarten, Paradigm, USA Claude Scheepens, ConocoPhillips, USA W. Scott Meddaugh, Midwestern State University, USA Properties in Models: Advancing Continuous Geomodeling Unconventionals: Variables Jeffrey Yarus, Halliburton, USA Mohan Srivastava, FSS Consultants, Canada Ian Gates, University of Calgary, Canada Colin Daly, Schlumberger, UK Early Bird Deadline - June 27th, 2014 Register now at www.cspg.org/conferences EXECUTIVE COMMENT A message from Darren Roblin, Director Corporate Relations Geoscience Community and CSPG Benefits of Being a EXECUTIVE Member of CSPG PAST PRESIDENT Paul MacKay • Shale Petroleum Ltd. Companies in the Canadian energy industry As an organisation, the CSPG largely [email protected] Tel: 403.457.3930 depend on the geoscience community to focuses on services to its members and be knowledgeable and innovative and to provides technical knowledge, often with PRESIDENT find, quantify and optimize oil and gas and the support of sponsors. This technical Dale Leckie manage risk in exploration, development knowledge is delivered in many forms and operations. The CSPG’s Corporate including on line and physical publications, Partners realize that Geoscientists who technical luncheons, conferences (both PRESIDENT ELECT are CSPG members are strengthened independently and in conjunction with Tony Cadrin • Journey Energy Inc. through participation in the geoscience other societies)