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Date: September 16th Time: 11:30AM – 2:00PM Location: The Petroleum Club of Lafayette Abstract: Multi-Scale Fault Control on Smackover Dolomitization at Big Escambia Creek Field, Alabama
James J. Willis, Ph.D. Willis School of Applied Geoscience
Big Escambia Creek Field is a large, updip fault trap of the Smackover Formation . . . → Read More: LGS Luncheon Sep 2020 
To friends and colleagues, Hello! I hope everyone made it through the storm well enough. To say 2020 has been a challenge represents an affront to understatements the worldwide, especially for those still within the industry. As I write, WTI sits just below $43 and natural gas at $2.66. Between continued COVID-19 concerns, depressed oil . . . → Read More: President’s Column – Sep 2020 
Dear LGS Members, As it becomes clear that our battle against Covid-19 takes on the characteristics of a long war, with campaigns, skirmishes, hotspots, successes, and setbacks, it is worthwhile to note that in matters like this, science doesn’t have all the answers. Science can provide guidance, which we should integrate into our . . . → Read More: President’s Column – May 2020
Last month, in this letter, I wrote about unexpected events and uncertainty. We were at the beginning of the COVID event in the United States and I intended the letter to convey a note of optimism, both about the world events that were just then heating up rapidly, and about our own scientific . . . → Read More: President’s Column – April 2020 
Lafayette Geological Society Field Trip, Saturday April 25th In the aftermath of the great Mississippi River flood of 1927, the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project was authorized, and protection levees began to be constructed along the Atchafalaya River. These levees provided for increased development in our area of south Louisiana, but they also cut off . . . → Read More: Field Trip: Teche – Vermilion 2020 
As many of you know, the Lafayette Geological Society has four main objectives. They are to advance Geology as a Science and profession, to promote fellowship between members and others interested in geological problems, to foster high standards of education and ethics among members and students, and to encourage public appreciation of the utility and application of geologic science. We try to accomplish these objectives through a series of activities and events scheduled throughout the year. In doing so we incur a number of expenses. If you have contributed to these activities in the past we thank you for you generosity and hope . . . → Read More: March 2020 Bulletin 
Abstract: Exploration and Production High-Grading Utilizing Petroleum Geochemistry Dan Jarvie, Wildcat Technologies/Worldwide Geochemistry/TCU Energy Institute
The present-day keys to petroleum source rocks is the knowledge of how much petroleum they have generated and expelled versus how much they have retained and the quality of each (API gravity, viscosity, sulfur content and . . . → Read More: LGS Luncheon – March 2020 |
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