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AAPG Bulletin, V. 88, No. 11 (November 2004), P. 1467-1470.

Copyright copy2004. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.

Carbonate reservoir characterization and simulation: From facies to flow units: Report from the March 2004 Hedberg Research Symposium

Charles T. Feazel,1 Alan P. Byrnes,2 James W. Honefenger,3 Robert J. Leibrecht,4 Robert G. Loucks,5 Steven McCants,6 Art H. Saller7

1ConocoPhillips, Houston, Texas; [email protected]
2Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas; [email protected]
3Consulting Assets, Houston, Texas; [email protected]
4Decision RE Consultants, Midland, Texas; [email protected]
5Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, Texas; [email protected]
6Occidental Petroleum, Houston, Texas; [email protected]
7Unocal, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.; [email protected]

AUTHORS

Chip Feazel is principal carbonate stratigrapher for ConocoPhillips, with worldwide responsibility for interpreting carbonate depositional and diagenetic histories to predict reservoir properties. Following undergraduate studies at Ohio Wesleyan University, he received his M.A. degree and his Ph.D. in geology from Johns Hopkins University. In 29 years with Phillips, subsequently ConocoPhillips, he has enjoyed a variety of technical and managerial assignments in the United States and overseas in field development and technology teams.

Alan Byrnes has been a research geologist at the Kansas Geological Survey since 1997, where he works on lithologic controls on rock petrophysical properties, CO2-enhanced oil recovery, reservoir characterization, and modeling. Alan received his B.S. degree in geology from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his M.S. degree in geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago. He has been a research geologist at the Institute of Gas Technology, Marathon Oil Company Research Center, Core Laboratories, and Tetra Tech, and for 13 years, he owned and operated GeoCore, a special core analysis laboratory in Colorado.

With more than 30 years in the oil and gas industry, Jim Honefenger has worked in virtually every segment, starting in 1972 with Elliott Company, a turbomachinery manufacturer. He held senior management positions for Scientific Software Intercomp, Intera, Energy Systems, GeoQuest Schlumberger, Western Atlas, Landmark Graphics, GeoNet Services, and Veritas Exploration Services, developing the market for geophysical, geological, petrophysical, reservoir engineering, and pipeline simulation products. More recently, he sold the intellectual assets of (RC)2 and founded his own company, Consulting Assets, representing oil and gas industry-consulting firms located throughout the world. Honefenger is an active Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) member and has held various positions in both the international and local groups. A cofounder of the Houston Energy Council (a professional organization comprising board members from Houston Geological Society, Geophysical Society of Houston, Society of Professional Evaluation Engineers, Society of Professional Well Log Analysts, and Houston Association of Professional Landmen), he has also served on the SPE Gulf Coast Section Board and as vice chairman of the Board of Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation.

Bob Leibrecht is the chief engineer for Decision RE Consultants, specializing in decision analysis and reservoir evaluation studies. Prior to his retirement from Conoco in 2003, he was teaching decision and risk analysis in the company. During his 25-year tenure at Conoco, Bob worked in many international locations, including Dubai, London, Aberdeen, the Timan Pechora area of Russia, and the heavy-oil region in Venezuela. He has broad experience in reservoir characterization, having worked in and led multidiscipline teams on many occasions. Over the last 8 years, he focused on the Permian basin, working in the New Mexico central basin platform and the Val Verde basin. Following undergraduate studies at St. Louis University, he received an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona.

Bob Loucks obtained his B.A. degree from the State University of New York, Binghamton, in 1967 and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1976. He is a senior research scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, working on carbonate and siliciclastic reservoir characterization research. His major interests include sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, and diagenesis of both carbonates and siliciclastics.

Steve McCants started his oil field career in 1980 in the fields of west Texas, working for Amoco Production Company. He has experience in production, completions, reservoir simulation, petrophysics, and reservoir engineering. Steve is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and has served in many positions including chairman of the Gulf Coast Section, SPE. Steve is currently working for Occidental Petroleum as a senior reservoir engineering advisor on properties in west Texas. Steve has a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from Texas AampM University.

Art Saller currently works as a sedimentologist and stratigrapher for Unocal in Sugar Land, Texas. He received geology degrees from the University of Kansas (B.S. degree, 1974–78), Stanford University (M.S. degree, 1980), and Louisiana State University (Ph.D., 1984). From 1984 to 1986, he worked at Cities Service Oil and Gas in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and joined Unocal in 1986.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The seven authors were the coconveners of this Hedberg Symposium and were aided by a Program Committee representing both AAPG and SPE, including Steve Bachtel, Gregor Eberli, Steve Ehrenberg, Bob Goldstein, Mitch Harris, Pat Hooyman, Sameer Khan, Mike Metz, Bill Morgan, S. P. Singh, and Emily Stoudt. We also thank conference participants, field trip leaders, and especially Debbi Boonstra and Ron Denton of the AAPG staff.

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