EMD: Growth Industries of the 21st Century: Gas Hydrates, Oil Shales, and Tar Sands
Room 291-292
Co-Chairs: A. Scott, K. McCandlish, J. R. Dyni, and T. S. Collett
8:15 -- Introductory Remarks
8:20 -- M. Kloska, W. S. Holbrook: Characterizing volumes and distribution of methane hydrate and underlying free gas with wide angle seismic data on the Blake Ridge, offshore South Carolina
8:40 -- R. Hesse, S. Frape, P. Egeberg: A geochemical method to quantify gas-hydrate abundance based on chlorine isotopes
9:00 -- J. A. Majorowicz, K. G. Osadetz: Canadian gas hydrate distribution and volume
9:20 -- P. Symonds, G. O'Brien, N. Exon, H. Stagg, J. M. Auzende, I. Pecher, G. Dickens, S. van De Beuque: Potential gas hydrate accumulations on the Lord Howe Rise off Eastern Australia, and their implications for conventional hydrocarbon resources
9:40 -- F. F. Krause: Clathrate hydrate frost heave structures in a carbonate mud-mound: Meiklejohn Peak, Nevada, U.S.A
10:00 -- Break
10:15 -- D. G. Lee, B. A. Rottenfusser, R. J. Knight: The geology of bitumen and associated gas in the Athabasca Oilsands, Alberta, Canada
10:35 -- B. A. Rottenfusser, T. Torigoe: Development of a SAGD Pilot in the Athabasca Oil Sands
10:55 -- B. W. Mattison, R. W. King, D. Parry, J. Knight, B. Slevinsky: Geology and reservoir modeling of Petro-Canada's MacKay River Project, Athabasca oil sands area, northeastern Alberta, Canada
11:15 -- P. F. Burollet: What about hydrogen?