Papers, Presentations and Posters
given in part by Humble Instruments & Services personnel

2004

M Jarvie, Daniel M. and Ronald J. Hill, 2004, Source facies identification from light hydrocarbon analysis - Implications for petroleum system analysis, Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, Augus 8-13, 2004, Holderness, New Hampshire, oral presentation

Montgomery, Scott L., Daniel M. Jarvie, Kent A. Bowker, and Richard M. Pollastro, 2004, Mississippian Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, North-Central Texas: Gas-Shale Play with Multi-Tcf Potential, AAPG Bull., E&P Note, in press.

Daniel M. Jarvie, Ronald J. Hill, Richard M. Pollastro, David A. Wavrek, Kent A. Bowker, Brenda L. Claxton, and Mark H. Tobey, 2004, Characterization of thermogenic gas and oil in the Ft. Worth Basin, Texas, AAPG National Convention, April 18-21, 2004, Dallas, Texas, poster presentation.

Jarvie, D. M., H. A. Illich, J. A., Zumberge, 2004, Petroleum Generation Kinetics based on Oil Asphaltene Pyrolysis, Goldschmidt Conference, June 7-11, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark, oral presentation.

Pollastro, Richard M., Ronald J. Hill, Daniel M. Jarvie, and Craig Adams, 2004, Geologic and Organic Geochemistry Framework of the Barnett-Paleozoic Total Petroleum System, Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin, Texas AAPG National Convention, April 18-21, 2004, Dallas, Texas, oral presentation.

R.J. Hill, D.M. Jarvie, R.M. Pollastro, K.A. Bowker and B.L. Claxton, 2004, Geochemistry of an unconventional gas prospect: The Barnett Shale gas model, Goldschmidt Conference, June 7-11, 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark, oral presentation.

Jarvie, D. M., C. Jiang, H. Alimi, M. H.Tobey, Patrick Obot, and O. S. Adegoke, 2004, Prediction of Hydrocarbon Type and Quality: Geochemical Analyses of Gas, Oil, and Rock Samples, NAPE Conference, November 14-17, 2004, Abuja, Nigeria, submitted.

Daniel M. Jarvie, Chunqing Jiang, Hossein Alimi, Mark Tobey, Brian Jarvie, Wayne Westhoff, and Dave Weldon, 2004, Advances in Geochemical Logging Applications and Strategies: Assessment of pay zone quality and compartmentalization using well cuttings, side wall cores, and gas samples, 6^th AAAPG International Meeting, Beijing, China, October 12-14, 2004, oral presentation.

Jarvie, Daniel M., Jackie Reed, J. Alejandro Morelos G., Marcio Rocha Mello, Mark H. Tobey, and Hossein Alimi, 2004, Geochemical Characteristics of Tertiary, Cretaceous, and Jurassic Source Rocks, Gulf of Mexico, AAAPG Conference, October 25-27, 2004, Cancun, Mexico, submitted.

Jarvie, Daniel M., Ronald J. Hill, Richard M. Pollastro, David A. Wavrek, Kent A. Bowker, Brenda L. Claxton, and Mark H. Tobey, 2004, Assessment of the Gas Potential and Yields from Shales: the Barnett Shale Model, Unconventional Gas of the Southern Mid-Continent Symposium, March 9-10, Oklahoma City, OK, oral presentation.

Ronald J. Hill, Daniel M. Jarvie, Brenda L. Claxton, Jack D. Burgess, and Jack A. Williams, 2004, Petroleum Systems of the Permian Basin USA, AAPG National Convention, April 18-21, 2004, Dallas, Texas, oral presentation.

Pollastro, Richard M., Ronald J. Hill, Daniel M. Jarvie, and Craig Adams, 2004, Geologic and Organic Geochemistry Framework of the Barnett-Paleozoic Total Petroleum System, Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin, Texas AAPG National Convention, April 18-21, 2004, Dallas, Texas, oral presentation.

Daniel M. Jarvie, Marcio Rocha Mello, J. M. Moldowan, K.F.M. Thompson, C. Jiang, and Hossein Alimi, 2004, Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Charge and Oil Quality in the Gulf of Mexico, 9^th Alago Conference, Merida, Mexico, submitted.

Daniel M. Jarvie, Ronald J. Hill, Richard M. Pollastro, Brenda L. Claxton, Kent A. Bowker, 2004, Evaluation of Hydrocarbon Generation and Storage in the Barnett Shale, Ft. Worth Basin, Texas, Ellison Miles Barnett Shale Symposium, Brookhaven College, June 22-23, 2004, Dallas, Texas, oral presentation.

2003

AAPG Mid-Continent Meeting, Tulsa, OK, October 12-14, 2003

Development of Unconventional Gas Prospects and Evaluation of Production Using Geochemical Techniques.
, Brenda L. Claxton, Mark Tobey, Humble Geochemical Services.

21st IMOG Meeting, Krakow, Poland, September 8-12, 2003

An Investigation of Petroleum Systems of the Permian Basin, USA.
Ronald J. Hill¹, ², Brenda L. Claxton², Jack D. Burgess², and Jack A. Williams.
1 USGS,
2 Humble Geochemical Services,
3 Amoco (retired)

CORRELATION BETWEEN OIL GENERATION KINETICS BY OPEN-SYSTEM COMPOSITIONAL PYROLYSIS AND HYDROUS PYROLYSIS.
M. D. Lewan^* and D. M. Jarvie^**,
*  USGS, Denver, CO.
** Humble Geochemical Services, Humble, TX.

Evaluation of Unconventional Natural Gas Prospects: the Barnett Shale fractured shale gas model.
Daniel M. Jarvie¹, Ronald J. Hill², Richard M. Pollastro², David A. Wavrek³, Kent A. Bowker⁴, Brenda L. Claxton¹, and Mark H. Tobey¹.
1 Humble Geochemical Services,
2 USGS,
3 Petroleum Systems International,
4 Star of Texas Energy Co.

OIL ASPHALTENE AND SOURCE ROCK COMPOSITIONAL KINETICS in open and closed systems: A 2-d BASIN MODELLING case history,
Fausto MOSCA¹, Daniel M. JARVIE², Volker DIECKMANN³, Antonella DE POLI⁴, David A. WAVREK⁵
1 Enterprise Oil Italiana,
2 Humble Geochemical Services,
3 GFZ Potsdam,
4 ENI Exploration and Production,
5 Petroleum Systems International

Houston Geological Society Africa Symposium, Houston, Texas, September 3-4, 2003

Actual and Prospective Petroleum Systems of the East Africa Rift System: Prospectivity of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Daniel M. Jarvie¹, Brenda L. Claxton¹, Mark Tobey¹, Hossein Alimi¹, and Albert Maende², Flora Panju³, Meshack Kagya³, Rueben Kashambuzi⁴, and Ernest Rubondo⁴
1 Humble Geochemical Services, Division of Humble Instruments & Services, Inc., P.O. Box 789, Humble, Texas 77347
2 National Oil Corp. of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
3 Tanzania Petroleum Development Corp., Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania
4 Petroleum Exploration and Production Department, Entebbe, Uganda

AAPG Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, May 11-14, 2003

New Applications to Assess Reservoir Quality in Oil Reservoirs Using Pyrolytic Techniques.
P. J. Jones¹, H. I. Halpern¹, D. M. Jarvie², W. D. Weldon², J. M. Al-Dubaisi¹, and S. M. Al Qathami¹
1 Saudi Aramco, Dahran, Saudi Arabia
2 Humble Geochemical Services, Humble, Texas

Can the Reservoir Continuity Technique be Applied to a Compositionally Graded Oil Column? Methodological Remarks and Case History Application
F. Mosca¹, D. A. Wavrek², and D. M. Jarvie³
1 Enterprise Oil Italiana S.p.A., Rome, Italy
2 Petroleum Systems International, Salt Lake City, Utah
3 Humble Geochemical Services, Humble, Texas

The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Orlando, FL, March 9-14, 2003, (submitted)

Thermal extraction and pyrolysis-gas chromatography coupled with Atomic Emission Spectroscopy for assessment of elemental composition.
, Mark Tobey, , ,

PetroCon, Delhi, India, February 2003

The timing of hydrocarbon generation and prediction of reservoir products by compositional kinetic and yield assessments.
, Mark H. Tobey, Brenda L. Claxton , and David A. Wavrek

Geological Society of London, London, England, February 2003

Compositional Grading in the Oil Column Advances from a Mass Balance and Quantitative Molecular Analysis.
, Fausto Mosca, and

2002

8th Latin American Association of Organic Geochemists (ALAGO) Congress, Cartegena, Colombia, October 20-23, 2002

Evaluation of Petroleum Systems with Dual Hydrocarbon Charges: Complementary application of light hydrocarbon, mid-range hydrocarbons, and biomarker assessments.
Mark McCaffrey, Frank Mango, and Ron Hill

Oil Asphaltene Kinetics: Constraints and comparison to source rock kinetics.
, Volker Dieckmann, Rolando di Primio, and Brian Horsfield

Geochemical Logging Applications and Strategies: Assessment of pay zone quality and compartmentalization using well cuttings or side wall cores.
, David A. Wavrek, and Peter Jones

Joint Meeting of The Canadian Society for Coal Science and Organic Petrology and The Society for Organic Petrology, Banff, Alberta, Canada, August 31-September 4, 2002

Kerogen kinetics of highly oil-prone Jurassic source rocks west of Britain: Impact on the petroleum system, Emerging Concepts in Organic Petrology & Geochemistry.
Scotchman, Iain C., , and Andrew D. Carr

AAPG Southwest Section Meeting, Ruidoso, New Mexico, June 7-8, 2002

2001

2000

• Fast Chromatographic Analysis of Oil and Whole Rock Samples: 10 minute, high resolution assessment of oil quality, Spring 2000 American Chemical Society, San Francisco, , P. R. Walker, B. Leroux, and , Oral presentation, 2000
• Detection of By Passed Oil/Gas, SPE meeting, Milan. , Oral presentation, 2000
• Thermal Extraction-Pyrolysis Fast Gas Chromatography, Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy, King, D., Paul R. Walker, , Bruno Leroux, and , 2000.
• Williston Basin Petroleum Systems: Inferences from Oil Geochemistry and Geology, U.S.A., The Mountain Geologist. , submitted
• Evaluation of the composition and ratios of organic matter of the Miocene Monterrey Formation, and Lee Lundell, 2000, in the Monterrey Formation: From Rocks to Molecules, and , eds, Columbia University Press

1999

• Bulk kinetics of petroleum asphaltenes: Characterization of source rock stability at time of liquid phase generation, 19^th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Istanbul, Turkey. , , , and , 1999.
• Compositional Kinetic Parameters and Yields from Oil and Gas Prone Source Rocks and Oil Asphaltene Fractions, 19^th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Istanbul, Turkey. , B. Leroux, , P. R. Walker, and , 1999.
• Hydrocarbon Potential of the Middle Proterozoic Nonesuch Formation in Northwestern Wisconsin and Michigan, in Terra-Patrick #7-22 Deep Hydrocarbon Test, Bayfield County, Wisconsin: Investigations and Final Report, Albert B. Dickas and M.G. Mudrey, Jr., eds., Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Miscellaneous Paper 97-1, pp. 95-106. , , and , 1999.
• Characterization of Solid Reservoir Bitumen: Insights to Formation Mechanism, Timing, and Correlation, TSOP Annual Meeting, Snow Bird, Utah. , , Jack D. Burgess, and Zhiwen Han, 1999
• Evaluation of Petroleum Residues and Heavy Oils for Upgrading Petroleum Feedstocks by Thermal Slicing/Pyrolysis/GC, Gulf Coast Conference. . and Doug King, 1999.
• Chemistry of Maceral and Groundmass Density Fractions of Torbanite and Cannel Coal, Org. Geochem., accepted. Han, Zhiwen and , 1999.

Previous Works

• A Comparison of the Rates of Hydrocarbon Generation from Lodgepole, False Bakken, and Bakken Formation Petroleum Source Rocks, Williston Basin, U.S.A., 1996 AAPG Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Billings, Montana, July 31, 1996; , , R. F. Inden, and J. G. Palacas, 1996.
• Optimization of Kerogen Decomposition Kinetics and Quantitative Characterization of Products Formed During Open and Closed System Pyrolysis, 5th ALAGO Congress, Cancun, Mexico, October, 1996; , 1996.
• Re-investigation of Williston Basin Potential Paleozoic Source Rocks and Petroleum Systems, AAPG National Convention, AAPG Petroleum Geochemistry as an Exploration Tool, Dallas, Texas, oral presentation; . and R. F. Inden, 1997.
• Geochemical Comparison of Paleozoic Oils, Williston Basin, U.S.A., AAPG Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Denver, oral presentation. Upcoming Aug 1997; , P. R. Walker, and L. C. Price, 199.7
• High Resolution Petroleum System Analysis: Application to Kimmeridgian Valanginian Megasequence of Neuquen Basin, Argentina, AAPG International Meeting, Vienna, Austria, oral presentation. Upcoming Aug 1997; , , M. E. Lara, G. A. Lafitte, and , 1997.
• Correlation of oils and source rocks in the Williston Basin using classical correlation tools and thermal extraction very high resolution C₇ gas chromatography, 18^th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Maastricht, The Netherlands, oral presentation. Sept 1997; and P. R. Walker, 1997.
• Comparison of kerogen transformation and petroleum generation in oxygen-rich Type II-ONS kerogens to sulfur-rich Type II-S kerogens, 18^th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Maastricht, The Netherlands, poster presentation. Upcoming Sep 1997; and P. R. Walker, 1997.
• Trapping and resolving light hydrocarbon gases and higher molecular weight liquid hydrocarbons for calculation of oil and gas generation kinetics, 49^th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy, New Orleans, La, submitted; Bruno Leroux, , , and P. R. Walker, 1998.
• Predicting API gravity, viscosity, and cloud point from thermal extraction/FID and high temperature quantitative gas chromatography analyses, 49^th Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy, New Orleans, La, submitted; , P. R. Walker, Bruno Leroux, and , 1998.
• Comparison of the Rates of Hydrocarbon Generation from Potential Petroleum Source Rocks of the Bakken Formation and Upper Lodgepole, False Bakken, and Scallion units of the Lodgepole Formation, Williston Basin, U.S.A.; and , Humble Geochemical Services, and R.F. Inden, LSSI.
• Examples and New Applications in Applying Organic Geochemistry for Detection and Qualitative Assessment of Overlooked Petroleum Reservoirs; and , Humble Geochemical Services, Joe T. Senftle, APTI, Washington, D.C.; , ARCO International Oil and Gas Co., Plano, TX; , Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Houston, TX.
• Calculated Geologic Oil Generation Temperatures of the Miocene Monterey Formation; and L. Lee Lundell, Humble Geochemical Services, Houston, TX.
• Automated Thermal Extraction and Pyrolysis Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon and Kinetic Analysis Using the SR Analyzer; , , and Paul Walker, Humble Instruments & Services, Inc., Humble, TX.
• Compound and Compound-Class Kinetic Calculations using Pyrolysis-Multiple Automatic Cryogenic Trapping-Gas Chromatography; , , and Bruno Leroux, Humble Instruments & Services, Inc., Humble, TX.
• Quantitative, Open or Closed System High Performance Programmable Thermal Extraction-Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography; , , and Bruno Leroux, Humble Instruments & Services, Inc., Humble, TX.