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March Short Course Intro to Unconventional Play Prospecting & Development

Date: 3/21/2019 Location: Encana @ Republic Plaza 370 17th St., Denver 80202 Members: $200 Non-Members: $225 Students: $125

Presenters: Randy Miller, Core Laboratories Kory Holmes, Core Laboratories Claudio Ramos, Core Laboratories Abstract: This course is an introduction to unconventional play prospecting and development, which will provide a broad overview of “start to finish” play development process. The course includes topics covering regional investigation, prospect selection and appraisal, drilling, completion planning and production optimization. The course touches on geologic data assessment, reservoir characterization methods, drilling techniques and planning, geophysical well logging, landing zone assessment, completion implications, and production optimization. Participants will come away with a broad understanding of many factors pertinent to successful development of a project area. The content of the course will be drawn from real life North American examples, but the workflows and techniques described can be applied to unconventional plays anywhere in the world.

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2019 OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT

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Fall Symposium October 22, 2019

Call 4 Papers The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and the Denver Well Logging Society are teaming up again to present the 2019 Fall Symposium on October 22, 2019 at the Sheraton Denver West!

MULTISCALE IMAGING FOR RESERVOIR OPTIMIZATION

The technical program will be organized topically and will attempt to provide cross-disciplinary collaboration between our two societies. We welcome abstracts in the following categories: Imaging at nano, micro, and macro scales, Image analysis, 2-D and 3-D, Quantitative SEM imaging data and links to petrophysical measurements, Modeling properties: capabilities and limitations, Applications to reservoir characterization, conventional reservoirs, Applications to reservoir characterization, unconventional reservoirs, Applications to optimizing completions and production, including EOR, Dynamic imaging, and Future Directions We are especially interested in recent multidisciplinary reservoir studies, new interpretations of image analysis linked to production optimization and understanding, new play concepts and prospects based on application of image analysis and petrophysics, and new insights into conventional and unconventional petroleum systems in US basins. We welcome abstracts for the technical talks with a minimum of 500 words and up to a page. Send your abstract in today and join us for Multiscale Imaging for Reservoir Optimization, 2019!

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18 Lead Story: The Data Driven Exploration Company

12 RMAG February 2019 Board of Directors Meeting 14 Presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Letter

ASSOCIATION NEWS 2 RMAG March Short Course 4 RMAG/DWLS Fall Symposium, Call For Papers 6 2019 RMAG Summit Sponsorship

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RMAG FEBRUARY 2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING By Anna Phelps, Secretary aphelps@sm-energy.com

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lined up for most of the summer field trips. Keep an eye out for field trip registration opening in April. February’s fun geology fact involves dinosaurs, and sadly, their extinction. There were two papers published in Science in February about the Deccan Traps flood basalt in India and correlations between volcanic eruptions and the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction. One paper found evidence from uranium-lead zircon geochronology for four eruptive periods including an eruption shortly before the Chicxulub impact, which may have contributed to an ecosystem collapse and extinction (Schoen et al., 2019). The other paper agrees that the Deccan Traps volcanism contributed to an ecosystem collapse at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary but, through argon-40/argon-39 data, found that most of the volume from eruption was emplaced after the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (Sprain et al., 2019). Either way, it sounds like the dinosaurs may have had more to worry about than a giant fiery ball of rock careening through the sky towards Earth!

Hey there rock adorers! Now this is what I call winter - snowy and cold (but heck, I’m from Minnesota). I hope everyone is staying safe on the roads and warm in their winter coats. My skis (and toe warmers) have been getting a lot of use and I’ve caught a few glances of wind-swept cirques of Silver Plume Granite. Hang in there outcrop lovers, and if your nostalgia for the outcrop becomes too great to bear, it may be a good time to dust off the old sample collection and dream of warm sunny days collecting garnets at Ruby Mountain. The February meeting of the RMAG Board of Directors was held on February 20, 2019 at 4:00 PM. All board members except Chris Eisinger and Donna Anderson were present. Director Barbara Kuzmic reported that there are currently 1,468 RMAG members, but that that number will likely go up as members renew in 2019. The Permian Basin Symposium was an outstanding success, with many attendees who traveled from out of state, huge attendance, and excellent technical talks. Treasurer Eryn Bergin reported that RMAG was high on expenses due to the office move and a new website (coming soon) and that revenue from the Permian Basin Symposium was higher than expected. The Continuing Education Committee reported that the February Mudrock Petrography course sold out! The committee has great luncheon talks booked into the summer. The Membership Committee 2019 Mentorship Program kicked-off with pairing of mentors and mentees and a happy hour event in February. The Publications Committee has two Mountain Geologist articles for February and a queue of others coming soon. The On the Rocks Committee has dates

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Schoene, B., Eddy, M.P., Samperton, K.M., Keller, C.B., Keller, G., Adatte, T., & Khadri, S.F.R. (2019). U-Pb constraints on pulsed eruption of the Deccan Traps across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Science, 363, 862-866. Spain, C.J., Renne, P.R., Vanderkluysen, L., Pande, K., Self, S. & Mittal, T. (2019). The eruptive tempo of Deccan volcanism in relation to the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Science, 363, 866-870.

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PRESIDENT’S LETTER By Tom Sperr

What a long, strange trip it has been undergraduate geology classes. In 1977, natural gas prices were set by FERC and had been since 1954 (the year I was born, ouch!) For most of this period, the US had adequate supplies of cheap natural gas which were coupled with stable oil prices. The Arab Oil embargo of 1973 changed all that. Oil prices soared and energy users shifted to cheaper natural gas. Controlled, low gas prices left drillers little incentive to add to the gas supply. Shortages of gas resulted and were especially severe in this cold winter. The government slowly deregulated the price of natural gas and by 1989 price controls were completely dropped. I got my first job with Texaco in 1978. The Arab Embargo had helped to raise oil prices to where even I could get a job. The nation worried about our energy supplies and who controlled them. Free enterprise and technology were linked up in the oil industry to produce changes that none of us could have imagined. In 1981, Mitchell Energy drilled their first successful Barnett shale well in the Newark East Field in Texas and set off the US unconventional

Now that I am reaching my golden years I feel the need, and right, to ramble on about the good old times. So here we go… In the particularly cold winter of 1976 -1977, the eastern portion of the US was facing a natural gas crisis. In February, industry’s use of natural gas was being curtailed so there would be an adequate supply to heat homes. By early March, schools were closing in Pennsylvania. Ohio’s Governor James Rhodes called for prayer “to get us through the coldest days of our time.” Starting in the 1960’s, there had been growing concern that the earth was heading back into another ice age. Radio-carbon dating had recently been developed and geologists had discovered that there had been at least eight cooling and warming cycles in the last 700,000 years. Mankind recently had enjoyed a warm period for about 100,000 years, but now a long winter was coming! Studies had also revealed that the change from warm to cold might occur within a human lifetime rather than hundreds or thousands of years. Major national magazines had covers declaring the start of a new ice age. We discussed this dire threat in my

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an adverse effect on energy supplies and doing little to combat climate change. For instance, New York State is trying to revisit the gas shortages of the 1970’s. The state permanently banned fracing in 2015, turning their backs on an abundance of Marcellus shale gas. Andrew Cuomo, New York’s governor, has also blocked two recent pipelines that would have brought Marcellus gas from Pennsylvania. A utility in Westchester County, N.Y., will no longer accept new customers for natural gas due to a lack of supply. And by the end of 2021, two major nuclear power plants will be closed, one of which supplied 25% New York City’s electricity. This electric generation is to be replaced with gas powered plants, but where will the gas come from? I guess the consequences of government interference in free markets will need to be learned again.

resources boom. Soon, oil and gas production in the US reversed a long decline. Let’s come back to the present. Ohio and Pennsylvania are awash in locally derived, cheap, natural gas. In fact, the whole nation is. No more closing of schools and factories. Consumers are heating their homes with a product cheaper than it was in 1977. The US is no longer reliant on oil from the Middle East

to keep our economy alive. US industry is thriving with cheap energy supplies. In the meanwhile, the US has slowed the increase of its carbon footprint with a price-driven shift to natural gas from coal. Today the possibility of advancing ice sheets is not a worry and human caused global warming is the scientific climate paradigm. This has brought on a number of ill-advised and poorly thoughtout government policies having

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While our focus tends to be on maximizing financial returns and driving efficiency, we should also consider maximizing social utility. Put another way, we want to make money but also foster an environment that supports and enhances the fundamentals of our business: grow by collaborating with and giving back to society. This means we need to measure as much as we can about our environment and our interactions with it and measurements mean data. In today’s global economy, organizations need to cultivate a culture that places a high value on data and data measurement. For the market economy purists, for the sake of this exercise, please just consider money to be data. To unlock the value of data you must foster a culture that enables an organization to make the most of their data. Subject matter experts frequently say things like “I really wish I had a database for this” or “that’s a really great equation there, but what data infrastructure does it need?” These are some of the challenges we face, and a good culture is one that fundamentally uses data to drive results.

Love them or hate them as a mathematician working as a data engineer in oil and gas I hear them every day and wonder if it won’t drive me insane. Some of them in time will turn out to be total nonsense and perhaps some will be the next big thing. Since we do not know we must experiment and take calculated risks, which leads to the crux of this article: how do you build an organization to create platforms (Economist: “Broadly defined, platforms are a type of marketplace where people and businesses trade under a set of rules set by the owner or operator.”) that efficiently and economically capture data, while fostering experimentation, all while managing risk?

WHAT IS A GOOD CULTURE FOR A DATA DRIVEN ORGANIZATION?

Merriam-Webster defines culture as a set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization (Merriam-Webster, 2019). With this definition as a path forward I would suggest starting by defining the goal of the organization and exploring possibilities for dimensional complexity.

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called “excel hell” or worse. It is difficult to execute any data analytics internally and organizations at this beginning stage face a long and expensive road to build trust in the data and ultimately drive a culture that embraces the results. Your organization may be getting by based on market share or great economics, but this will not last. Often at this first stage, each functional operation generates different digital content for each task, but there are no set standards, so these “artifacts” are stored in project or user specific locations and never make it beyond the localized group of users who use this information to perform a narrow function. Taking things to level two requires repetition, namely making processes repeatable and documentable. However, at this stage, repeated processes may still yield inconsistent results. You may have some central databases, but the data is still difficult to manage, and not driving change. Returns on your

»»CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19 HOW TO BEST USE DATA? Socrates posited that all we know is that we know nothing. Start there. It is a bit of paradox, but we are dealing with an emerging phenomenon that we can dig up, measure and accumulate as much data about anything. Information is nothing new (maps, ledgers, notes, people with experience), but what is new is that anything that we can gauge can be put into a database at its most granular level thanks to behemoth IT firms, such as Google, that have driven data costs down to essentially zero. If you start smart, namely without any definitive preconceived notions about the data, you can build a smart data driven culture to achieve optimum results for any initiative or project. Different organizations are at different levels of data management maturity (Oracle, 2016). The first level is undocumented processes that are chaotic, ad hoc, uncontrolled, and reactive. This stage can be

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ORGANIZATIONAL DATA MANAGEMENT MATURITY LEVELS 1

Undocumented processes that are chaotic, ad hoc, uncontrolled, and reactive.

Reporting has been made a key business process and is fully documented.

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Processes are repeatable and documented properly but results are inconsistent. Quantitatively managed and controlled reporting process using approved metrics. Optimization of organizational processes using the reporting process.

driven activity. At this point vendors are also likely clued into your new ways of working and are modifying their processes to make more data available to stay competitive. Level four requires you to quantitatively manage and control reporting in accordance with clearly defined metrics. Here, the way you manage data will make a big difference, and strong governance can directly drive strong reporting. Statistically speaking, estimates are static and most of the company understands and trusts data driven decision-making. Data is a valuable tool to manage the business and the focus is shifting from letting people make decisions to letting data drive the decisions. Level five requires optimization, sometimes referred to as “data democratization,” since non-data specialists are using data in non-data roles and generally face minimal barriers to relevant data, which accelerates data usage within the company. To reach

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initial investment and overall value remain nebulous. The organization has started to rely less on outside experts and is beginning to derive utility and trust from internal sources, but the road ahead remains unpaved. Perhaps now you are monitoring service provider performance based on cost and qualitative metrics, but you are not necessarily leveraging that information to make business decisions. Level three builds on level two. At this point an organization has clearly defined processes for managing data and everything is fully documented. By now you’re also ready to attach realistic business value estimates on all activities since reporting is clearly defined at all levels of the company’s operations. Ongoing operating and investment decisions can be made internally, without outside experts, and with strong reliance on data. Outside experts may add experiential data, but advancing initiatives is primarily the result of the now more mature data

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Once you have made it to step five it is time to do it all over again. However, now you are not just creating new data driven processes but combining them. In my work we are interested in optimizing drilling operations with the overall objective of improving well performance and decreasing drilling downtime (World Economic Forum In Collaboration with Accenture, 2017). This problem necessitates a mature data environment before we can articulate relative well performance on a risk adjusted basis or the reasonableness of downtime. After the data is set up, we evaluate the effect of different technologies, again using data, and with mature processes and metrics

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we can make statistically significant assertions. Like anything else, there is a macro view and a micro view of evaluating technology. Ideally high-level managers are evaluating the effects of new technology trials, clearly articulating technology advancement as a priority with associated incentives, and then fostering an environment where everyone can buy in because they see the results. This generates a feedback loop of learning just how little your organization knows, but just like running from a bear in the woods… you’ll survive so long as there is just one guy slower than you. Valuing curiosity at an organization is huge and should be an area of active focus to build up a culture that is amenable to thriving in any environment. Once an organization has a decent data foundation it can foster a culture that self-organizes around data driven decisions. The path of maturity has many levels but ultimately benefits the organization. New technology in your industry? Let’s have it evaluated for utility. If you are afraid to try new things because the initial return on your investment seems small, you might be facing an organizational issue and should start the conversation regarding your data culture. The only constant is change.

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RMAG LUNCHEON PROGRAMS Speaker: C. Robertson Handford | March 6, 2019

Tidal-Channel and Flood Tidal-Delta to Mud-Flat Lithofacies Associations and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Famennian Three Forks Formation Williston Basin, North Dakota C. Robertson Handford, Tracy Wulf, and Peter Holterhoff

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nodular to laminated anhydrite in red, green, and gray silty mudstone (lower Three Forks) - salina and supratidal sabkha (3) crudely bedded/burrowed/disturbed breccia (clastand matrix-supported) tidal-channel floor/ lag with variable-sized clasts derived from bank-margin collapse, (4) flaser-wavy-lenticular laminated, mud-cracked, tan dolosiltite with green silty mudstone - point-bar (inclined heterolithic strata), tidal channel levee and levee/pond margin, (5) laminated to wave/current rippled tan dolosiltite with Skolithos - tidaldelta mouth bar, mid-channel bar, and levee crest (6) green, silty mudstone - restricted lagoon and pond and (7) gray, silty mudstone - restricted lagoon. We have identified six depositional sequences in the Famennian Three Forks formation. The youngest two sequences comprise the upper Three Forks reservoir. Lowstand deposits consist mainly of lithofacies associations 1, 6, and 7 representing

Long-term sea-level fall during the late Devonian (Famennian) isolated much of the Williston Basin into a restricted intrashelf basin where mixed dolomite, siliciclastic sand-siltclay, and anhydrite lithologies of the Three Forks Formation were deposited. Facies successions record abrupt basinward and landward shifts of restricted shelf, channeled-peritidal, and arid coastal mudflats during high-frequency relative sea-level changes in a low-accommodation setting. Our interpretation of environments hinged upon recognition of (1) normal depositional processes and facies signatures associated with transgressive ravinement, tidal channel/point-bar migration, and tidal-delta progradation and (2) facies trend maps of systems tracts. Major lithofacies associations and environments are (1) massive to faintly laminated, red mudstone with scattered mud-clasts and occasional fitted-breccia layers â&#x20AC;&#x201C; supratidal mudflats with runoff channels, (2)

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RMAG LUNCHEON PROGRAMS and highstand systems tracts in the youngest sequence (TF1) indicate that the basin opened to the northwest and closed to the southwest and southeast. A lowstand tidal-channel belt forms a horseshoe-shaped trend separating a restricted lagoon in the northwest from a supratidal coastal plain in the southwest-southeast. Transgressive deposits comprise a branching tidal-channel belt passing laterally to the SE into a lobe-shaped trending tidal delta system and restricted lagoon. Highstand deposits consists of a series of branching channels and lobes representing tidal channel, channel mouth-bar, levee and tidaldelta mud flats. These maps demonstrate where specific facies associations are best developed in the reservoir-prone TST and HST of the upper Three Forks sequence, and they open the door for pre-drill targeting based upon facies trends.

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restricted lagoon and supratidal environments. A sharp surface caps the lowstand deposits, followed above by transgressive tidalchannel deposits. These include one or more fining-upward bedsets of dolosiltite rudstone and/or floatstone/wackestone of lithofacies association 3 passing upwards into either accretionary pointbar strata of lithofacies association 4 or tidal-delta mouth-bar and mid-channel bar dolosiltites of lithofacies association 5. A provisional maximum flooding surface is interpreted at a burrowed mudstone marking the turnaround to coarsening-upward bedsets of progradational tidal-delta levees, sandflats and mudflats (lithofacies association 4 and 5) of the highstand systems tract. Facies maps of the lowstand, transgressive, DR. C. ROBERTSON HANDFORD received his Ph.D. in geology from Louisiana State University in 1976. He has spent most of his professional career in petroleum industry research chiefly within the field of sedimentology and stratigraphy. He has worked for the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, and the research laboratories of Unocal, Amoco, and Arco. In addition, he taught geology at the University of Arkansas for two years and was a senior advisor with Hess Corporation for 4 years. With more than 15 years of consulting experience, Robert is now consulting from his home base in Huntsville, Alabama. Although his primary interest is in sequence stratigraphy and its application to hydrocarbon exploration and production, Dr. Handford has conducted research and published papers on the sedimentology and stratigraphy of carbonates, evaporites, mixed clasticcarbonate systems, fluvial to deep-marine siliciclastics, and karst processes and facies. His experience base ranges from OUTCROP | March 2019

North America, Central America, and South America, to Africa, Europe, Russia, the Middle East, Australia, and Southeast Asia. He has worked in the Middle East to develop a high-resolution sequence stratigraphic framework for the world’s largest field (Ghawar Field of Saudi Arabia). In 2005-6, he worked on sequence stratigraphic and depositional facies analysis of Miocene postrift fluvial-lacustrine and paralic siliciclastic strata in Malaysia. In 2006 he began a longterm investigation of Jurassic and Cretaceous deltaic and estuarine facies in giant fields of Western Siberia. He also worked with PEMEX geoscientists in 2007 to develop a seismic sequence stratigraphic framework of a Cretaceous carbonate platform in southern Mexico. With Hess Corporation, Dr. Handford interpreted the sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of sub-salt lacustrine carbonates in the Santos Basin, Brazil, linked deltaic and basin-floor turbidites from the Barrow Group in northwestern Australia, and Miocene turbidite reservoirs from Pony field, Gulf of 28

Mexico. From 2013-2015, Robert developed a sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic study of the Fayetteville Shale in Arkansas and the Haynesville Shale in Louisiana and Texas for BHP. He has subsequently consulted with Hess Corporation to conduct similar studies of the Middle Bakken and Three Forks reservoirs. An invited lecturer to numerous geological societies and universities, Dr. Handford was selected as AAPG Distinguished Lecturer for 199596 on carbonate sequence stratigraphy. He has received the SEPM Excellence of Oral Presentation Award on two different occasions, the SEPM Excellence of Poster Presentation Award, second runnerup for the AAPG Jules Braunstein Memorial Award, and SEPM Excellence of Presentation Honorable Mention. He also received Honorable Mention for Best Paper published in SEPM’s Journal of Sedimentary Research in 1995. Dr. Handford is a member of the AAPG, IAS, and SEPM.

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RMAG LUNCHEON PROGRAMS Speaker: Lisa Morgan | April 3, 2019

The Hydrothermal System Beneath Yellowstone Lake (and why it’s so important to map lakes in Yellowstone) Lisa Morgan one third; tectonism has affected the entire lake basin. Mapping in the northern lake basin has identified a dynamic lake floor with active faults, active and inactive hydrothermal vent craters, hydrothermal domes, large hydrothermal explosion craters, extensive rhyolitic lava flows, land slide deposits in an area with very high seismicity and heat flow values. The vent fields on the floor of Yellowstone Lake represent the third largest thermal basin in Yellowstone, the largest continental hydrothermal system on Earth. Our current project, Hydrothermal Dynamics of Yellowstone Lake (hdylake.org),

Yellowstone Lake lies above the active Yellowstone hot spot, a region strongly affected by young (<2.1 million year) silicic volcanism, active tectonism, and accompanying uplift. Yellowstone Lake is the largest (surface area of 341 km2), high altitude (>7000 feet in elevation) lake in North America and straddles the southeast margin of the 630,000-year Yellowstone Caldera, one the world’s largest active silicic volcanoes. Previous high-resolution bathymetric mapping reveals a lake floor dominated by volcanic and hydrothermal processes in the northern two-thirds of the lake and by fluvial and glacial processes in the southern

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RMAG LUNCHEON PROGRAMS The instruments monitored the flow and chemistry and temperature of fluids from deep in the subsurface and how that flow was affected by high seismicity (Yellowstone averages 3000 small earthquakes annually), and seasonal changes in lake level. Preliminary results of analyses of over 100 m of sediment core from the northern basin of Yellowstone Lake with additional cores from West Thumb basin and nearby lakes provide an improved perspective regarding postglacial climate and indicate that hydrothermal activity on the lake floor has been active at least since the last glaciers receded from the basin. The HD-YLake project has afforded researchers the opportunity to examine and better understand subsurface processes in a very active and dynamic environment that few have been able to observe.

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funded by the National Science Foundation and supported by the U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, The Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration, and Yellowstone National Park, seeks to understand the relationship between seismicity, hydrothermal activity on the lake floor, and seasonal lake level changes as well as the past 15,000-year climate and geologic history of the northern lake basin. Our field strategy used a two-pronged approach: geophysical and geochemical monitoring of the active system, and analyses of 14+ lake sediment cores. Over a period of two years, geophysical and geochemical instruments were deployed in the deepest part of Yellowstone Lake in a 200-m-wide active hydrothermal vent field for one-year increments.

LISA MORGAN is scientist emeritus for the U.S. Geological Survey, whose focus is on the geology and geophysics of volcanic terrains. With co-author Ken Pierce, Morgan developed major concepts and a model for development of the track of the Yellowstone hot spot, documenting the northeastward spatial and temporal progression of volcanism, faulting, and uplift along the 17-Ma Snake River Plain-Yellowstone Plateau volcanic province. From 1999-2004, Morgan with colleagues mapped the floor of Yellowstone Lake becoming the first to recognize the complex geology present and active on the floor of Yellowstone Lake. Processes such as hydrothermal explosions, emplacement of rhyolitic lava flows, landslides, extensive hydrothermal vent fields, and

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active faulting contribute to the geologic framework of the lake. Presently, her research with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory on the Yellowstone Plateau focuses on the geology and associated hazards in Yellowstone Lake, physical processes associated with eruption of the post-glacial (<15 ka), large (>100 m diameter) hydrothermal explosion craters, the physical characteristics associated with emplacement of the 0.63-Ma Lava Creek Tuff and development of the Yellowstone caldera, and emplacement of post-caldera rhyolitic lava and pyroclastic flows on the Central Plateau. Currently, Morgan and colleagues at multiple institutions are examining the relationships between seismicity, fluid chemistry, and active hydrothermal vents on the lake floor

and how those processes are affected by seasonal changes in lake level. Our project, Hydrothermal Dynamics of Yellowstone Lake (hdylake.org), uses a two-pronged approach: geophysical and geochemical monitoring of the active system and analyses of sediment cores to study the postglacial (~15,000-year) history of hydrothermal activity beneath the lake. Morgan has a Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Hawaii where she specialized in physical volcanology. She has a M.S. in Geology from the University of Colorado with an emphasis on volcanic stratigraphy, petrology, and rock magnetics. Her B.S. is in Geology from the University of Missouri at Kansas City with minors in Mathematics and Philosophy.

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Each year, our industry spends hundreds of billions of dollars creating, collecting or buying data to support the Each year, our industry spends hundreds of billions of Exploration and Production life cycle. Shared among dollars creating, collecting or buying data to support the many stakeholders and complex processes over lengthy Exploration and Production life cycle. Shared among periods of time, this valuable resource is best managed many stakeholders and complex processes over lengthy holistically as a strategic asset. periods of time, this valuable resource is best managed holistically as a strategic asset. Even organizations who have successfully created data management as a corporate discipline recognize that the Even organizations who have successfully created data majority of data used within any company comes from management as a corporate discipline recognize that the sources outside their area of control. It is only through majority of data used within any company comes from collective, industry driven developed and adopted data sources outside their area of control. It is only through management expectations that we, as a global industry, collective, industry driven developed and adopted data will fully achieve our objectives. management expectations that we, as a global industry, will fully achieve our objectives. Since 1991, the PPDM Association has developed standards and best practices for data management. In Since 1991, the PPDM Association has developed 2007, the PPDM membership expanded its remit to standards and best practices for data management. In support the professionalization of data management as a 2007, the PPDM membership expanded its remit to recognized discipline for industry. support the professionalization of data management as a recognized discipline for industry. Many components are necessary for this to happen, including the development of regional and local Many components are necessary for this to happen, communities, the creation of training and certification including the development of regional and local programs, the development of professional development communities, the creation of training and certification pathways, and the development of a body of knowledge programs, the development of professional development for petroleum data managers. pathways, and the development of a body of knowledge for petroleum data managers.

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Professional recognition is not achieved quickly. The illustration above shows the progressive development Professional recognition is not achieved quickly. The plan of the PPDM Association; our programs have been illustration above shows the progressive development grounded in these strategies for more than a decade. plan of the PPDM Association; our programs have been The iterative PPDM approach is multifaceted, with each grounded in these strategies for more than a decade. element in the strategy providing the framework within The iterative PPDM approach is multifaceted, with each with the next elements are grounded. element in the strategy providing the framework within with the next elements are grounded. Every discipline starts with the growth of an intentional and purposeful community, in this case of data Every discipline starts with the growth of an intentional management professionals, who build personal, and purposeful community, in this case of data professional and technical relationships with each other. management professionals, who build personal, PPDM strives to build these relationships through: professional and technical relationships with each other. ✓ Communities are built regionally, each with a PPDM strives to build these relationships through: strong and committed leadership team. ✓ Communities are built regionally, each with a Luncheons, workshops, symposia and expos strong and committed leadership team. bring data managers together to share Luncheons, workshops, symposia and expos knowledge and ideas. bring data managers together to share ✓ Communications are fostered through technical knowledge and ideas. publications, social media and professional ✓ Communications are fostered through technical journals. publications, social media and professional ✓ Relationships between service providers and journals. service consumers are fostered in a neutral ✓ Relationships between service providers and collaborative environment. service consumers are fostered in a neutral ✓ Leadership is provided by a strategic board of collaborative environment. directors who guide the global community ✓ Leadership is provided by a strategic board of toward success. directors who guide the global community toward success.

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Subject Matter Experts (SME) in the community of practice identify or create a family of products that support and sustain a foundation of practice. This is the core of a recognized professional discipline. The existence of a professional discipline is predicated on the existence and use of these materials as appropriate. ✓ Best practices: This is foundational knowledge for a data manager in the practice of their profession. What is a Well, “What is a Completion” and the Business Rules Library are good examples of foundational knowledge elements. ✓ Standard Specifications: These specifications are used by a data manager to ensure that data is interoperable, accessible and available to all stakeholders. The PPDM Data Model is an example of a Standard Specification. Members of the Standards Leadership Council also develop and promote standard specifications that are useful. ✓ Professional Expectations: In the practice of any profession, it is necessary to determine what constitutes appropriate expectations. These expectations support the necessary trusted relationship between data managers and their stakeholder customers.

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Recognition of a trusted and useful professional discipline is grounded on a clear validation that practitioners understand and follow industry best practices, and that training, education and qualification opportunities are available in a variety of capacities through PPDM to (and used by) practitioners. ✓ Training and Education: Industry training programs, along with post-secondary programs, include data management elements that align with industry expectations. ✓ Certification and Professional Development: Certification programs validate the data managers’ skills and knowledge and enforce the expectation for continuous professional development. ✓ HR support: Standardized job descriptions, salary surveys, career ladders and other support materials help Human Resources build and maintain a competitive environment for data managers. The Professional Petroleum Data Management Association (PPDM) is the not for profit, global society that enables the development of professional data managers, engages them in community, and endorses a collective body of knowledge for data management across the oil and gas industry. For more information, contact us: info@ppdm.org www.ppdm.org

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The Mountain Geologist Best Paper Award for 2018 The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists is pleased to announce the winner of The Mountain Geologist Best Paper Award for 2018. The winning paper is “Subsurface reinterpretation of Ordovician and Devonian strata in southwest Wyoming with implications for upwarping across the Transcontinental Arch” by Donna S. Anderson and Mark W. Longman. The authors re-evaluated the stratigraphy of the Mountain Fuel Supply UPRR #11-19-10404 using core. This re-evaluation and examination of other wells resulted in reinterpretation of the stratigraphy and geometry of the Ordovician and Devonian strata, particularly the Bighorn Dolomite. True-geometry multi-datumed stratigraphic cross sections were key to understanding truncation and onlap. Truncation and onlap relationships constrain two successive upwarping episodes along the northern margin of the Transcontinental Arch in southwestern Wyoming. The collection of papers published in 2018 in The Mountain Geologist are outstanding and it was a very close competition. We would like to thank all of the authors for their contributions to the journal. Congratulations to Donna and Mark. —The Best Paper Selection Committee Vol. 68, No. 3 | www.rmag.org

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IN THE PIPELINE MARCH 1, 2019

MARCH 8, 2019

MARCH 26, 2019

COGA 2019 Mardi Gras Ball. www.coga.org/events/2019mardi-gras-ball

HERWorld Global Energy Forum. University of Colorado Denver - Terrace Room, 1380 Lawrence Street, Denver, CO.

RMS-SEPM Luncheon. Speaker Charlie Harman. “Quantified Facies Distribution and Sequence Geometry of the Yates Formation, Slaughter Canyon, New Mexico.” Wynkoop Brewing Company. Denver, CO.

2019 GeoLand Ski Day. Copper Mountain. dapl@ dapldenver.org MARCH 1-3, 2019 SPE & DAPL 2019 Ski Fast Oil Bash. Copper Mountain. dapl@ dapldenver.org MARCH 6, 2019 RMAG Luncheon. Speaker C. Robertson Handford. “Tidal-Channel and Flood Tidal-Delta to MudFlat Lithofacies Associations and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Famennian Three Forks Formation, Williston Basin, North Dakota.” Maggiano’s Downtown Denver.

GPA Midstream Rocky Mountain Chapter Ski Bus. Copper Mountain. DIPS Luncheon. Members $20 and Nonmembers $25. For more information or to RSVP via email to kurt.reisser@gmail. com.

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DWLS Luncheon. Speaker TBA. Wynkoop Brewing Company. Denver, CO. DGS 25th Annual 3D Seismic Symposium. MARCH 21, 2019 Short Course. Intro to Unconventional Play Prospecting & Development. Contact: staff@rmag.org

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Nominations Sought for RMAG Professional Awards • Only one award per year. Award may be shared • Member of RMAG

The RMAG Professional Awards Committee is responsible for recommending deserving individuals each year for RMAG Professional Awards. The Committee relies on the RMAG membership to assist in identifying nominees and providing required documentation to present to the RMAG Board of Directors for voting and approval of award recipients. RMAG Awards are presented each year at the Rockbuster’s Ball in late November. To submit nominees for the Committee’s consideration, please contact Debby Sycamore, Committee Chair at sycamore777@comcast.net. The following is a summary of RMAG Professional Award categories.

OUTSTANDING SCIENTIST

• Having conducted or reported outstanding earth science studies either recently or throughout career • Only one award per year • Member of RMAG

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE TO RMAG • No more than three per year • Members of RMAG only

HONORARY MEMBER

• For outstanding service to geology and/or the RMAG • No more than two per year • Generally for members but open to outstanding nonmembers

DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC SERVICE TO EARTH SCIENCE • No more than three per year • Members or nonmembers

GEOSCIENCES IN THE MEDIA

MICHAEL S. JOHNSON OUTSTANDING EXPLORER

• Achievement which of notable benefit to the profession or public understanding of geology, exploration or resources • Generally nonmember professionals, but members are not to be excluded

• Significant energy or mineral discovery (ies) • Having accomplished outstanding earth science exploration within recent years or throughout career

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WELCOME NEW RMAG MEMBERS!

Benjamin Jackson

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is a Principal Geophysicist at WesternGeco/Schlumberger in Denver, Colorado.

is a Staff Geologist at Shell Oil Co. (retired) and lives in Aurora, Colorado.

is a Technical Advisor at Halliburton and lives in Edgewater, Colorado.

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is an Operations Geologist at Centennial Resources and lives in Erie, Colorado.

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is a Geological Operations Manager at RPS Energy and lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Amy Ellwein

is an Adjunct Professor of Geology at Western State Colorado University and lives in Crested Butte, Colorado.

Christopher Kunz

is President at Core Geologic in Denver, Colorado.

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is a Geoscience Team Lead at BPX Energy (BP America Inc.) in Denver, Colorado.

John Sinclair

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CALENDAR SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SPE & DAPL Ski Fast Oil Bash.

2 COGA 2019 Mardi Gras Ball. GeoLand Ski Day.

7 DGS Luncheon.

SPE & DAPL Ski Fast Oil Bash.

RMAG Luncheon.

GEM Program: Alumni Panel Discussion & Lunch.

GPA Midstream Winter Luncheon.

HERWorld Global Energy Forum.

GPA Midstream Ski Bus. DIPS Luncheon.

DPC Speaker Series.

DWLS Luncheon. RMAG Short Course.

DGS 25th Annual 3D Seismic Symposium.

26 RMS-SEPM Luncheon.

27 WEN National Conference.