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1 Follow on Twitter PAPG Officers President Katie Heckman EQT Vice President Timothy Vance Consol Energy Secretary Ian Thomas Shell Appalachia Treasurer Tom Bardol Seneca Resources Webmaster Dave Boyer Mountaineer Keystone Membership Committee Lee Avary Avary Geoscience Chuck Moyer Range Resources Outreach Committee Natalie Uschner Schlumberger Matt Weinreich Vista Resources PAPG Dinner Meeting Thursday May 19 th, 2016 Structural Evolution and Petroleum Potential of a Cambrian Intracratonic Rift System in Kentucky Hickman, John B. (speaker) Harris, David C. University of Kentucky Abstract Drilling and geophysical data demonstrate that the Rome Trough, the Rough Creek Graben, and the Mississippi Valley Graben are fault-bounded extensional features filled with as much as 27,000 feet of Cambrian sediments. Detailed analysis of well logs, seismic profiles, and surface geologic maps indicates that active rifting of the Precambrian crystalline bedrock began by the Early Cambrian, and resulted in thick, sand-rich deposits of the Rome Formation in the Rome Trough and the Reelfoot Arkose in the Mississippi Valley and Rough Creek Grabens. Subsidence continued in these grabens during the Middle to Late Cambrian, leading to an alternating succession of shales and carbonates being deposited (Conasauga Group of the Appalachian Basin and the Eau Claire Formation of the Illinois Basin) on top of the coarse clastic Reelfoot Arkose and Rome Formation. Although the tectonic extension that formed these features ended by the Late Cambrian, fault zone reactivation during the Taconic, Acadian, and Alleghenian Orogenies altered fault-block orientations and produced areas of basin inversion. Samples taken from the Rogersville Shale in the Exxon No. 1 Smith well in Wayne County, W.Va., contain organic matter in the form of amorphous marine algal macerals and solid bitumen. Although no vitrinite is present in Cambrian rocks, calculated equivalent vitrinite reflectance (%Ro) values from bitumen in these samples are 1.49 to 1.54, within the wet gas generation window. Bitumen extracted from the Rogersville Shale in the Exxon No. 1 Smith core produces a gas chromatic profile nearly identical to that of oils produced from the shallower Maryville Limestone in Elliott County, Ky. This strong similarity allows correlation of the Rogersville with produced hydrocarbons, and defines a Cambrian petroleum system in the Rome Trough. Although no similar organic-rich units have yet been found in the Rough Creek and Mississippi Valley Grabens, the presence of contemporaneous units of the same lithology and environment of deposition in these grabens (Eau Claire and Davis Formations) opens up the possibility of petroleum systems in these basins that are equivalent to the Conasauga System in the Rome Trough.

2 Structural Evolution and Petroleum Potential of a Cambrian Intracratonic Rift System in Kentucky Biography John Hickman received his B.Sc. in geology from the University of Michigan, an M.Sc. from Texas A&M University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. He joined the Kentucky Geological Survey at the University of Kentucky in 1999, and has since worked on four regional (multistate) oil and gas assessment projects, local (site assessment) and regional CO2 sequestration capacity projects, as well as performing structural and reflection seismic interpretations for various other KGS projects. John is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UK, and teaches classes on well-log interpretation and petroleum-geology software. Meeting Details & Reservations Date May 19 th 2016 Location Cefalo s Banquet & Event Center, 428 Washington Ave, Carnegie, PA Tel: Time 5:00pm Social Hour, 6:00pm Dinner Buffet, 7:00pm Speaker Cost $35 Member, $40.00 Non-Member, $10.00 Students (Checks payable to PAPG) your reservation request to Timothy Vance vicepresident@papgrocks.org OR visit the PAPG website at to register using PayPal or your credit card

3 Officer Elections The PAPG is seeking volunteers for the positions of President, Vice President and Secretary for the season. If you are interested or if you have a suggested nominee for one of these roles please contact Katie Heckman, current PAPG President (President@papgrocks.org). The closing date for nominations is May 9 th. PAPG 2016 FIELD TRIP FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, JUNE 3 AND 4 MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! FAR-FIELD EFFECTS OF APPALACHIAN OROGENESIS: COMPARISON OF CATOCTIN AND ROME TROUGHS AND RELATIONS AMONG STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING AND FRACTURING This trip will focus upon the conditions that influenced the development of structures and to a lesser degree stratigraphy in the western Appalachian basin (present Dunkard basin). We will visit outcrops in the Blue Ridge anticlinorium with the goal of comparing the age(s) of formation and structural setting of the Catoctin rift basin with the Rome trough. The effects of subsequent deformation(s) also will be discussed. We are very fortunate to have Dr. Thomas Anderson as our field trip leader. Dr. Anderson is a Professor Emeritus and Structural Geologist from the University of Pittsburgh. COST: $165 Active PAPG Members $195 Non PAPG Members $50 Students

4 ITINERARY Leave Southpointe area Friday morning, 6/03. Rock our way down I-79S to I-68E to Sidling Hill for lunch and discussions on structure and Devonian glaciation. If you have never seen Sidling Hill, it is a must-see for all geologists! Eastward, along I-70 and US 40 we will examine exposures of Catoctin basalt and overlying clastic units as well as younger Paleozoic strata. Dinner, discussion and lodging in Frederick, Md. On Saturday morning we will make a traverse across the Precambrian floor of the basin exposed in the core of the Blue Ridge anticlinorium. At Harpers Ferry we will visit exposures that may record strong inversion of the basinal strata across the western bounding fault(s) Work our way back to Pennsylvania.

5 Calendar of Events - May 2 nd to 5 th : Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, TX - May 17 th to 18 th : SPE/IAEE Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium, Royal Sonesta Hotel Houston, 2222 West Loop S, Houston, TX - May 19 th : PTTC-EFD Workshop, Erickson Alumni Center, 1 Alumni Dr, Morgantown, WV. Learning from Shales: Applying New Technology to Old Plays - May 26 th : RPSEA Onshore Technology Workshop, Denver Athletic Club 1325 Glenarm Pl Denver, CO Other announcement The Eastern Section AAPG annual meeting is approaching! It's September 25-27, in Lexington Kentucky. The organizers are calling for papers. Please consider submitting an abstract. (Abstract deadline: May 20.) MIKE LYNCH Communications and Outreach Kentucky Geological Survey University of Kentucky

6 PAPG SPONSORSHIP Please consider sponsoring the PAPG. Our continued success and strength depends not only on a dedicated membership but also on corporate alliance. Sponsorship of PAPG includes your company s logo or business card prominently displayed on our website, in our monthly newsletters throughout the year, and in a PowerPoint slide presentation during each of our monthly meetings. The PAPG will continue to use the following levels of support to facilitate both individual and corporate sponsorships: Kerogen Level up to $100 Oil Level up to $500 Condensate Level up to $1,000 Natural Gas Level > $1,000 Thank you in advance for your generous support of PAPG and for helping to ensure another successful year of education and professional development. The PAPG Committee Copyright 2016 Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists, All rights reserved. You are receiving this because you are a PAPG member. Our mailing address is: Pittsburgh Association of Petroleum Geologists P.O. Box 2036 Cranberry Twp., PA 16066