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“Recommended Practices for Core Analyis.” Recommended Practice 40 (RP 40), Second Edition, February 1998.
“Improving Estimation of NMR T2 Cutoff Value with Core NMR and Capillary Pressure Measurements.” paper SCA 9822.
“Improved Petrophysical Core Measurements on Tight Shale Reservoirs Using Retort and Crushed Samples.” paper SPE 147456.
“Reconcilling Retort versus Dean Stark Measurements on Tight Shales.” paper SPE 159976.
“Core Analysis for Electrical Properties.” Petrophysics Volume 47, Number 3, June 2006: 191-213.
“Recent Advances in Core Analysis.” Petrophysics Volume 54, Number 6, December 2013: 554-579.
“Crushed-Rock Vs. Full Diameter Core Samples for Water-Saturation Determination in a Tigth-Gas Siltstone Play.” SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Volume 18, Issue 3, August 2015: 407-416.
“Building a Multi-Well Model for Partitioning Spectroscopy Log Elements into Minerals Using Core Mineralogy for Calibration.” SPWLA Fifty Fourth Annual Logging Symposium, June 22-26, 2013.
“Universal Scaling of The Formation Factor in Porous Media Derived by Combining Percolation and Effective Medium Theories.” doi: 10.1002/2014GL060180, AGU Publications, Geophysical Research Letter 41, 2014: 3884-3890.
“A Robust Permeability Estimator for Siliciclastics.” paper SPE 49301, 1998.
“Real-Time Petrophysical Analysis in Siliciclastics From The Integration of Spectroscopy and Triple-Combo Logging.” paper SPE 77631, 2002.
“Elemental Composition and Nuclear Parameters of Some Common Sedimentary Mineral.” Nuclear Geophysics Volume 7, Number 3, 1993: 383-406.
“Quantitative Lithology: An Application For Open And Cased Hole Spectroscopy.” SPWL 37th Annual Logging Symposium, June 16-19, 1996.
“Application Of Nuclear Spectroscopy Logs To The Derivation Of Formation Matrix Density.” SPWL 41st Annual Logging Symposium, June 4-7, 2000.
“Application And Quality Control Of Core Data For The Development And Validation Of Elemental Spectroscopy Log Interpretation.” SPWLA 55th Annual Logging Symposium, Abu Dhabi, May 18-22, 2014.
“Crain’s Petrophysical Handbook.” at http://www.spec2000.net, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada, 2013.
“An Algorithm for Estimating Gas-Production Potential Using Digital Wire-Line Log Data (Cretaceous of Northern Montana).” Open File Report 01-12, U.S. Geological Survey, 2001.
“Factors Controlling Prolific Gas Production From Low-Permeability Sandstone Reservoirs: Implications For Resource Assessment, Prospect Development, and Risk Analysis.” AAPG Bulletin Volume 88, Number 8, August 2004: 1083-1121.
“Well Log Normalization: Methods and Guidelines.” Petrophysics Volume 45, Number 3, May-June, 2004: 268-280.
“Theoretical and Experimental Bases for the Dual-Water Model for Interpretation of Shaly Sands.” paper SPE 6859, 1984.
“Evaluation of Shaly Clastic Reservoirs.” paper SPE 8450, 1980.
“Porosity In Shaly Sands.” SPWLA Sixteenth Annual Logging Symposium, June 4-7, 1975.
“Bound Water in Shaly Sands – Its Relation to Qv and Other Formation Properties.” The Log Analyst Volume 20, Issue 3, May 1979: 3-19.
“Normalised Qv – The Key To Shaly Sand Evaluation Using The Waxman-Smits Equation In The Absence Of Core Data.” SPWLA Twenty Second Annual Logging Symposisum, June 23-26, 1981.
“The Central Role Of Qv And Formation-Water Salinity In The Evaluation Of Shaly Formations.” SPWLA Twentieth Annual Logging Symposium, June 3-6, 1979.
“Review of Existing Shaly-Sand Models and Introduction of a New Method Based on Dry-Clay Parameters.” Petrophysics Volume 55, Number 6, December 2014.
“Evaluation of Water Saturation in Shaly Formations.” SPWLA 12th Annual Logging Symposium, May 2-5, 1971.
“Dielectric Measurements on Porous Media and Applications to Shaly Formations.” English Translation by Moinard, L., SPWLA Shaly Sand Reprint, Volume IV97-IV124, 1982.
“The Determination of Qv from Membrane Potential Measurements on Shaly Sands.” paper SPE 5505, 1976.
“Electrical Conductivities in Oil Bearing Shaly Sands.” Paper SPE 1863-A, June, 1968.
“Electrical Conductivities in Shaly Sands: I – The Relation Between Hydrocarbon Saturation and Resistivity Index; II – The Temperature Coefficient of Electrical Conductivity.” paper SPE 4094, 1974.
“The Evolution of Shaly-Sand Concepts in Reservoir Evaluation.” Volume 26, Issue 1, January 1985: 23-40.
“Characterization of Petrophysical Flow Units in Carbonate Reservoirs.” AAPG Bulletin Volume 81, Number 5, May 1997: 734-759.
“Porosity Systems And Petrophysical Models Used In Formation Evaluation.” SPWLA London Chapter Porosity Seminar, September 10, 1986.
“Predicting Permeability From Well Logs In Carbonates With A Link To Geology For Interwell Permeability Mapping.” SPWLA London Chapter Porosity Seminar, September 10, 1986.
“The Permeability Of Porous Media To Liquids And Gases.” Drilling and Production Practice January 1941: 200-2013.
“Estimating Formation Permeability From Single-Point Flow Data.” paper SPE 12847, 1984.
“Introduction To Petrophysics Of Reservoir Rocks.” Bulletin Of The American Association Of Petroleum Geologists Volume 34, Number 5, May 1950: 943-961.
“The Electrical Resistivity Log As An Aid In Determining Some Reservoir Characteristics.” Transactions of the AIME Volume 146, Issue 1, December 1942: 54-62.
”Hydraulic Properties Of Porous Media.” Hydrology Paper Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, March 1964.
”Correlating and Averaging Connate Water Saturation Data.” The Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology Volume 4, Issue 1, January 1965: 42-52.
“Cementation Exponents in Middle Eastern Carbonate Reservoirs.” paper SPE 13735.
“A Method Of Averaging Capillary Pressure Curves.” The Log Analyst, July-August 1974: 3-7.
“Capillary Behavior In Porous Solids.” Transactions of the AIME Volume 142, Isuue 1, December 1941: 152-169.
“Formation Factor Relationships Of Western Canada.” SPWLA 34th Annual Logging Symposium, June 13-16, 1993.
“Using Log-Derived Values Of Water Saturation And Porosity.” SPWLA Eighth Annual Logging Symposium, June 12-14, 1967.
“Trends In Cementation Exponents (m) For Carbonate Pore Systems.” Petrophysics Volume 43, Number 5, September-October 2002: 434-446.
“Effects of Pore Structure and Wettability on The Electrical Resistivity of Partially Saturated Rocks – A Network Study.” Geophysics Volume 62, Number 4, July-August 1997: 1151-1162.
”Stress and Rock Property Profiling for Unconventional Reservoir Stimulation.” paper SPE 118703 presented at the 2009 SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference held in the Woodlands, Texas, USA, 19-21 January 2009.
“The Stress Regime Of The Western Canadian Basin And Implications For Hydrocarbon Production.” Bulletin Of Canadian Petroleum Geology Volume 34, Number 3, September 1986: 364-378.
“Stress Magnitudes From Logs: Effects Of Tectonic Strains And Temperature.” paper SPE 38719.
“A Method for Full-Range Young’s Modulus Correction.” paper SPE 143604.
“Digital Log Data To Mechanical Rock Properties For Stimulation Design.” presented at the GeoConvention Conference held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 12-16 May 2014.
“Synthetic Log Curves: An Essential Ingredient For Successful Stimulation Design.” CSPG Reservoir Volume 40, Issue 5, May 2013: 19-24.
“Geomechanical Characterization of the Montney Shale Northwest Alberta and Northeast British Columbia, Canada.” Thesis submitted to the Faculty and the Board of Trustees of the Colorado School of Mines, November 2012.
“Characterization of Anisotropic Elastic Moduli and Stress for Unconventional Reservoirs Using Laboratory Static and Dynamic Geomechanical Data.” SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering May 2018: 392-404.
“Uses and Abuses of the Brittleness Index With Applications to Hydraulic Stimulation.” paper SPE 178678
“Pore Pressure/stress coupling and its implications for seismicity.” Exploration Geophysics Volume 31, Number 2, 2000: 448- 454.
“A Shaley Look at Brittleness.” presented at the 45th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 26-29 June 2011.
“Deriving Reservoir Pore-Volume Compressibility From Well Logs.” paper SPE 26963.
“Experimental Determination of the Biot Elastic Constant: Applications in Formation Evaluation (Sonic Porosity, Rock Strength, Earth Stresses and Sanding Predictions).” paper 30593.
“Dynamic Rock Mechanics Testing for Optimized Fracture Designs.” paper 38716 presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas, 5-8 October 1997.
“Using Empirically Developed Rock Tables to Predict and History Match Fracture Stimulations.” paper SPE 86989.
“Prediction of Static Elastic/Mechanical Properties of Consolidated and Unconsolidated Sands From Acoustic Measurements: Basic Measurements.” paper SPE 14159.
“Fracturing of High Permeability Formations: Mechanical Properties Correlations.” paper SPE 26561.
“A Composite Determination of Mechanical Rock Properties for Stimulation Design (What To Do When You Don’t Have a Sonic Log).” paper SPE 108139.
“Hydraulic Fracture Modeling in Formations Exhibiting Stress Dependent Mechanical Properties.” paper SPE 26599.
“Resolving In Situ Stress Regime, Hydraulic Fracture Geometry and Complexity by Comparing Acoustic Well Logging Data Acquired in Horizontal and Vertical Wells in the Montney Formation.” paper SPR 171576-MS.
“Predicting The Stiffness Tensor Of A Transversely Isotropic Medium When The Vertical Poisson’s Ratio is Less Than The Horizontal Poisson’s Ratio.” SPWLA Fifty Fifth Annual Logging Symposium, May 18-22, 2014.
“A Practical Use of Shale Petrophysics for Stimulation Design Optimization: All Shale Plays Are Not Clones of the Barnett Shale.” paper SPE 115258.
“Well Log Applications in Rock Mechanics.” paper SPE 9833.
“A New Technique To Estimate Vertical Variability of Rock Properties for Reservoir Rock Evaluation.” paper SPE 24724.
“Hydraulic Fracture Propagation in Layered Rock: Experimental Studies of Fracture Containment.” SPE Journal Volume 24, Number 1, 1984.
“Hydraulic Fracture Height in Gas Shale Reservoirs.” presented at the SEG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 18-23 September 2011.
“Determination of the Effective Stress Law for Permeability and Deformation in Low-Permeability Rocks.” paper SPE 20572.
“In-Situ Stresses in Low-Permeability, Nonmarine Rocks.” paper SPE 16402.
“Comparison of Single and Dual-Array Microseismic Mapping Techiques in the Barnett Shale.” presented at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, Dallas, Texas, 9-12 October 2005.
“In Situ Stress and Moduli: Comparison of Values Derived from Multiple Techniques.” paper SPE 49190.
“Evaluation Method Of The Least Horizontal Principal Stress By Logging Data In Anisotropic Fast Formations.” Petroleum Exploration And Development Volume 44, Issue 5, October 2017: 789-796.
“Unconventional Resource Assessment of the Montney Formation in Alberta.” paper SPE 137795.
“Laboratory Permeability and Diffusivity Measurements of Unconventional Reservoirs: Useless or Full Information? A Montney Example from the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin.” paper SPE 167047.
“Liquids Rich Unconventional Montney: The Geology and the Forecast.” paper SPE 162824.
“Play-Wide Well Performance Analysis in Montney Siltstone.” paper SPE 162843.
“Well Construction Optimization in the Montney Formation in the Karr Kakwa Area of Central Western Alberta: A Case Study.” paper SPE 162734.
“Water Distribution in the Montney Tight Gas Play of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin: Significance for Resource Evaluation.” SPE Reservoir Evaluation & Engineering Volume 16, Issue 3, August 2013: 290-302.
“Geochemical and Geological Characterisation of the Duvernay and Muskwa Formations in Alberta.” paper SPE 137799.
”Optimization of Duvernay Fracture Design Workflow.” paper SPE 167238
“Reservoir Characteristics of Low-Permeability Sandstones in the Rocky Mountains.” The Mountain Geologist Volume 34, Number 1, January 1997: 39-51.
“Classification Of Carbonate Rocks According To Depositional Texture.” American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1962.
“Paleokarst In The Midale Beds, Carnduff Field, Southeast Saskatchewan.” Number 118-1, Abstract submitted to the CSPG Annual Convention, 2001.
“Mississippian Madison Formation Low-Gravity Oilfields In Southwestern Saskatchewan: Examples Of Unconformity Diagenesis Controlling Reservoir Quality.” Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Summary of Investigations, Volume 1, 2001: 46-55.
“Reservoir Quality Mapping Based on IDC Analyses and Hydraulic Frac Size.” paper SPE 149488.
“Depositional Facies, Textural Characteristics, and Reservoir Properties of Dolomites in Frobisher-Alida Interval in Southwest North Dakota.” The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin Volume 72, Number 10, October 1988: 1229-1253.
“A 12 Step Program to Reduce Uncertainty in Kerogen-Rich Reservoirs: Part 1 – Getting the Right Porosity.” CSPG Reservoir Volume 41, Issue 3, March 2014: 19-23.
“A 12 Step Program to Reduce Uncertainty in Kerogen-Rich Reservoirs: Part 2 – Getting the Right Hydrocarbon Volume.” CSPG Reservoir Volume 41, Issue 4, April 2014: 34-38.
“Unconventional Reservoirs: Basic Petrophysical Concepts for Shale Gas.” paper SPE 153004.
“Organic Metamorphism and the Generation of Petroleum.” The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin Volume 59, Number 6, June 1975: 986-996.
“Organic Carbon Content Determined from Well Logs: Examples from Cretaceous Sediments of Western Canada.” Open File 4362, Geologic Survey Of Canada, Calgary, 2002
"Shale Gas Petrophysics – Montney And Muskwa, Are They Barnett Look – Alikes?" SPWLA Fiftieth Annual Logging Symposium, June 21-24, 2009.
“Integrating Data Crucial in Shale Plays.” American Oil & Gas Reporter, Special Report: Oil & Gas Shales, March 2011.
“A Practical Model For Organic Richness From Porosity And Resistivity Logs.” Bulletin of American Association of Petroleum Geologists Volume 68, Number 2, 1990: 1777-1794.
“Petrophysical Considerations in Evaluating and Producing Shale Gas Resources.” paper SPE 131768.