Geological Society of America

9:00 AM

EVALUATION OF THE STRANDED KAVIK GAS FIELD, NORTH SLOPE OF ALASKA

Mahendra K. Verma, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Kenneth J. Bird, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Philip H. Nelson, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Robert C. Burruss, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA

84464 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

NATURAL GAS -- SUPPLY AND DEMAND IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ALASKA

David M. Hite, Anchorage, AK and Charles P. Thomas, Anchorage, AK and David D. Faulder, Lakewood, CO and Tom C. Doughty, Lakewood, CO

84802 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

GAS AND OIL PLAYS RELATED TO FRONTAL THRUSTS AND FOLDS OF THE BROOKS RANGE FOOTHILLS AND ARCTIC COASTAL PLAIN, CENTRAL NORTH SLOPE, ALASKA

Christopher J. Potter, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Thomas E. Moore, U.S.Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA

84938 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

TECTONIC EVENTS LEADING TO ESTABLISHMENT OF YUKON FLATS BASIN, ALASKA

A.B. Till, U.S. Geol Survey, Anchorage, AK and Richard G. Stanley, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Paul O'Sullivan, Apatite to Zircon, Inc, Viola, ID and RW. Saltus, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Jesse Crews, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA

85040 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

ASSESSMENT OF UNDISCOVERED OIL AND GAS RESOURCES IN YUKON FLATS, EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA

R.G. Stanley, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and J.M. Crews, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and A.B. Till, U.S. Geol Survey, Anchorage, AK and M.K. Simpson, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and CJ. Schenk, U.S. Geol. Survey, Denver, CO and RW. Saltus, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and E.L. Rowan, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and J.D. Phillips, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and RL. Morin, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and P.G. Lillis, U.S. Geol Survey, Lakewood, CO

85058 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

EVALUATION OF PETROLEUM SOURCE ROCKS FROM YUKON FLATS, EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA

Paul G. Lillis, U.S. Geol Survey, Lakewood, CO and Richard G. Stanley, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA

85091 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

GEOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PRE-CENOZOIC BASEMENT FOR HYDROCARBON ASSESSMENT, YUKON FLATS, ALASKA

RW. Saltus, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Jeffrey D. Phillips, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Richard G. Stanley, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and A.B. Till, U.S. Geol Survey, Anchorage, AK and RL. Morin, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA

85140 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

GRAVITY AND AEROMAGNETIC DATA ANALYSIS, CENTRAL NORTH SLOPE, ALASKA – HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE AND CONTEMPORARY IMPLICATIONS

RW. Saltus, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Jeffrey D. Phillips, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Christopher J. Potter, U.S.Geol Survey, Denver, CO

85144 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

BURIAL AND THERMAL HISTORY MODELS TO EVALUATE HYDROCARBON SOURCE ROCK MATURITY IN THE YUKON FLATS BASIN, CENTRAL ALASKA

Elisabeth L. Rowan, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA and Richard G. Stanley, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA

85269 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

THICKNESS OF SEDIMENTARY ROCKS IN THE YUKON FLATS BASIN, EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA, AS ESTIMATED USING CONSTRAINED ITERATIVE GRAVITY INVERSION

Jeffrey D. Phillips, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and RW. Saltus, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO

85308 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

SURFACE THERMAL MATURITY OF THE YUKON FLATS REGION, EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA

JM. Crews, U.S. Geol. Survey, Menlo Park, CA and R.G. Stanley, U.S. Geol. Survey, Menlo Park, CA and A.B. Till, U.S. Geol Survey, Anchorage, AK and P.G. Lillis, U.S. Geol Survey, Lakewood, CO and M.K. Simpson, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA

85340 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

4-D MODELING OF THE SHUBLIK-IVISHAK(!) PETROLEUM SYSTEM, NORTH SLOPE, ALASKA

Kenneth E. Peters, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Carolyn Lampe, IES Integrated Exploration Systems GmbH, Aachen, N/A and Kenneth J. Bird, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Leslie B. Magoon, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA

85375 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

GEOPHYSICAL EXPRESSION OF THE YUKON FLATS BASIN, EAST-CENTRAL ALASKA

Robert L. Morin, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Richard G. Stanley, U.S. Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Naresh Kumar, Richardson, TX and David J. Taylor, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO

85396 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BEAR LAKE AND MILKY RIVER FORMATIONS, BRISTOL BAY BASIN, ALASKA PENINSULA

Emily S. Finzel, Fairbanks, AK and Kenneth D. Ridgway, Purdue Univ, West Lafayette, IN and Paul Decker, Alaska Div of Oil & Gas, Anchorage, AK and Rocky R. Reifenstuhl, Alaska Div of Geol & Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK

85454 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

NEW FIELD AND GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE ON THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF THE LISBURNE PETROLEUM SYSTEM (NORTHERN ALASKA)

JA. Dumoulin, U.S. Geol Survey, Anchorage, AK and R.C. Burruss, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and P.G. Lillis, U.S. Geol Survey, Lakewood, CO and T.M. Parris, Kentucky Geol Survey, Lexington, KY

85474 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

CARBONIFEROUS PHOSPHORITE DEPOSITION AND CARBONATE PLATFORM DROWNING, LISBURNE GROUP, CENTRAL BROOKS RANGE, ALASKA

Michael T. Whalen, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Julie Dumoulin, U.S. Geol Survey, Anchorage, AK and Jeff J. Lukasik, Petro-Canada Oil and Gas, Calgary, AB and Michelle M. McGee, Core Laboratories, Houston, TX and Jesse G. White, Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Tonje D. Toendel, Norwegian Univ of Sci and Technology, Trondheim, N/A

85617 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

PETROGRAPHIC STUDY OF 50 POTENTIAL TIGHT GAS RESERVOIR SAMPLES, TERTIARY, COOK INLET, ALASKA

Rocky R. Reifenstuhl, Alaska Div of Geol & Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK and James J. Hickey, Applied Reservoir Petrology, Dallas, TX and Michael D. Wilson, Geol consultant, Lakewood, CO

85687 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

BRISTOL BAY, FRONTIER BASIN, ALASKA PENINSULA: HYDROCARBON RESOURCES, PETROLEUM RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION, AND SOURCE POTENTIAL

Rocky R. Reifenstuhl, Alaska Div of Geol & Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK and Emily S. Finzel, Fairbanks, AK

85693 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

YUKON FLATS BASIN, ALASKA: RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION STUDY

Rocky R. Reifenstuhl, Alaska Div of Geol & Geophysical Surveys, Fairbanks, AK

85695 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

RESOLUTION OF CONFLICTING DATA FROM THE BEAUFORT SEA AURORA#1 WELL CLARIFIES THE PETROLEUM SOURCE ROCK POTENTIAL OF THE LOWER CRETACEOUS SUCCESSION, ALASKA

Margaret A. Keller, DOI/US Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA and Kenneth J. Bird, DOI/US Geol Survey, Menlo Park, CA

85698 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

ALASKA NORTH SLOPE DIGITAL MAP PROJECT

C.G. Mull, Santa Fe, NM and DW. Houseknecht, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA and C.P. Garrity, U.S. Geol Survey, Reston, VA

85726 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

SHALLOW COALBED GAS ASSESSMENT AT FORT YUKON, ALASKA

Charles E. Barker, US Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Arthur C. Clark, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and James G. Clough, Fairbanks, AK and Elizabeth A. MaClean, Anchorage, AK and David O. Ogbe, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK and Karen H. Clautice, Fairbanks, AK and Edwin P. Weeks, U.S. Geol Survey, Denver, CO and Robert F. Fisk, Anchorage, AK

85773 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

9:00 AM

NEW CONSTRAINTS ON THE STRUCTURAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROXIMAL COLVILLE FORELAND BASIN: IMPLICATIONS FOR BURIAL HISTORY AND OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION IN THE CENTRAL BROOKS RANGE FOOTHILLS, NORTHERN ALASKA

Marwan A. Wartes, Fairbanks, AK and Robert Swenson, Denali Geologic Svcs, Eagle River, AK

85846 (SYMPOSIA SESSIONS)

40 Alaskan Energy Resources: New Assessments and Related Geological, Geophysical, and Geochemical Studies (Posters)

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