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An Affiliate (1963) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)
2009-2010 Officers President Chris Gordon Eagon & Associates, Inc. 100 Old Wilson Bridge Rd. Worthington, OH 43085 (614) 888-5760 [email protected] Vice President Steve Zody Zody Geoscience P.O. Box 921 Wooster, OH 44691 (330) 262-4323 [email protected] Secretary Amy Lang Forman Energy, Ltd. P.O. Box 340346 Columbus, OH 43234 (614) 717-9262 [email protected] Treasurer John Miller EnerVest Operating, LLC 110 E. Wilson Bridge Rd. Worthington, OH 43085 (614) 436-4631 [email protected]
The Newsletter of the Ohio Geological Society October 2009
Thanks to the 2009 OGS Golf Outing sponsors!
Altheirs Oil, Inc.
American Refining Group Appalachian Geophysical Services, LLC
Bakerwell, Inc. Buckeye Oil Producing Co.
Butcher Energy Corp. Clermont Natural Gas Company
Conquest Seismic Services Elexco Land Services, Inc.
Elite Seismic Processing, Inc. Energy Cooperative
EnerVest Operating, LLC Equity Oil & Gas Funds, Inc.
Exploration Development, Inc. (EDI) Flint Ridge Energy, LTD.
Forman Energy, Ltd. John L. Forman
Knox Energy, Inc. MacKenzie Land & Exploration, LTD
MFC Drilling, Inc. Murphy Oil Company, Inc. OGIA Insurance Agency Ohio Geological Survey
Ohio Oil and Gas Association Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program and Foundation
Osprey Consulting HSV, LLC Poulson Drilling Corporation Precision Geophysical, Inc. PTTC - Appalachian Basin
Range Resources - Appalachia, LLC Shamrock Golf Club
Solid Rock Energy, Inc. Sterling Seismic Services Ltd.
Stratagraph NE, Inc. Superior Well Services, LTD
Tatum Petroleum Company, LLC Tipka Oil & Gas, Inc., A.W.
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP Zody Geoscience
Our first meeting of the Fall is around the corner… I’d like to thank all the sponsors of our annual golf outing. Without them we would have to charge much more and would not have the selection of prizes that we do each and every year. Thanks for continuing to support the OGS Golf Outing even though times are tough. Thanks to all that came out to play, too. This year was the biggest year yet! The first meeting of the year has been set for Wednesday, November 4. Mark Jones, from the Ohio Division of Geological Survey, will be presenting the work that he has helped lead involving coastal erosion along the shores of Lake Erie. Lunch starts at 11:30 and Mark’s talk is scheduled for a 12:30 start. Please RSVP to Steve Zody.
Our second meeting of the year will be held in conjunction with Ohio-AIPG on Thursday, November 19th. The following announcement is taken from Ohio-AIPG’s Web site:
Our guest speaker will be Mr. Bob Evans. Mr. Evans is best known for his work with the S.S. Central America, a California Gold Rush era steamship that sank in 1857 carrying tons of gold coins, bars, nuggets and dust. In 1983 Bob was recruited to take charge of the historical and scientific research involved in the search for the fabled treasure ship. The shipwreck site was located in 1986 using side-scanning sonar, and its identity was confirmed in 1988 when the first coins and bars were brought to the surface. The gold was recovered from a depth of a mile and a half, from the Atlantic seabed 170 miles off the Carolina coast. If you have not done so already, please mark your calendars for the GSA Annual meeting October 18-21 or the 2009 OOGA Fall Technical Conference on October 20. Please visit the Society Web site for other meetings and events listed for October and November. Chris Gordon
Welcome New Members! Adam Hester Ohio University The Plains, OH Pamela Olson Ohio University Powell, OH Damian Piaschyk Pennsylvania General Energy Warren, PA
OGS MEETING
Wednesday, November 4th
Lunch at 11:30, talk at 12:30 pm
Ramada Plaza Hotel & Conference Center 4900 Sinclair Road
Columbus, OH 43229 http://www.ramadahotelcolumbus.com/
Please RSVP to Steve Zody at [email protected] or 330-262-4323
Recession News Isn't Always Bad: Coastal Erosion Mapping in Ohio
D. Mark Jones, CPG Ohio Division of Geological Survey
Ohio’s Coastal Erosion Area (CEA) program was conceived to address erosion problems on Ohio’s Lake Erie coast. The CEA program was a response to decades of land loss, infrastructure damage, and haphazard shore protection structure designs that were ineffective and sometimes worsened erosion problems. The CEA program maps coastline areas likely to be impacted by erosion in the next 30 years, and these areas are subject to certain requirements for building or further development. Map creation starts with aerial photographs, which serve as the base maps onto which historical shorelines are traced. The historical shoreline and the shoreline on the aerial photographs are digitized, and GIS calculates the distance between the shorelines and the yearly rate of recession. The yearly recession rate is multiplied by 30 to arrive at a 30-year anticipated recession distance, which is plotted onto the base map. Landowners can use the maps to determine if their properties are affected. The first CEA maps were finalized in 1998, and an updated set of maps is due to be released soon. The maps will show that the amount of Ohio’s coastline in a 30-year recession zone has declined by about two-thirds since the first maps were finalized. The reduction is most likely due to lower lake levels and increasing amounts of shoreline protection.
October 1, 2009
Greetings Fellow Ohio Geological Society Members,
Last Thursday’s Ohio AIPG Section meeting at La Scala was so well attended that we nearly hit the maximum capacity of the meeting room. Chris Krumm’s informative presentation, Climate Change, a Geological Perspective was very well prepared, delivered, and received by those in attendance. The comprehensive presentation cites many of the references accompanying the Ohio AIPG Section position statement opposing House Bill H.R. 2454. The position statement is posted on the Ohio Section website http://www.aipg-ohio.org/, and is available for download.
Several meeting attendees requested a copy of Chris’s Power Point presentation and Chris has graciously provided them on an individual basis. As a courtesy to both Chris, and to other interested parties who would like to look into this topic further, or who were unable to attend the meeting but would like to review the presentation materials, the Ohio Section will be posting Chris’s presentation on our website http://www.aipg-ohio.org/ , this Monday (October 5) for a limited time. Viewing the Power Point slides is a poor substitute for the live presentation, but it does allow more time to delve into the wealth of information that Chris has assembled. It should be noted that last Thursday’s presentation included only slides 1 through 67; the others were removed from the talk due to time constraints, but were available in the event they were needed for the question and answer session that followed the talk. Thanks again Chris for all of your efforts in sharing with us your specialized knowledge!
Several OGS members were present at Chris’s presentation. Thank you for attending! I hope that all OGS members will consider it an open invitation to attend any and all Ohio AIPG meetings and functions. Amy Lang does a great job of keeping us informed of upcoming events with the OGS Calendar in each monthly newsletter.
Special thanks also to Steve Zody who did the work on an entire committee by authoring the OGS position paper on “Cap and Trade”. Both position papers did a great job of confining our statements to our area of expertise as scientists and avoiding political rhetoric which, unfortunately, is the hallmark of this issue. Nothing in either statement is anti-progress or anti-conservation. Clearly we need both, but we must recognize that the solutions to our dependence on foreign energy sources will have come from innovation not legislation. As a driller friend often says: “If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it”!
I also wish to update you on the status of House Bill H.R. 2454, the Markey-Waxman “cap & trade” bill. This week, Senator Jeff Bingham, chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Senator Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, each introduced the bill to their respective committees for debate. On a state level, the Ohio Senate passed Senate Concurrent Resolution (SRC) 15 on June 30, 2009, urging the U.S Congress to oppose the bill. The resolution has not yet passed the Ohio House of Representatives.
Don’t forget to save the date of November 19, 2009 for a joint meeting that will be co-hosted by Ohio AIPG and the Ohio Geological Society as a means of sharing the cost of bringing to both groups a nationally recognized speaker who will be presenting a popular topic that we hope will be entertaining and informative to both geologic organizations and their guests. I’ll be looking forward to seeing you all then.
Best regards,
Frank L. Majchszak, Ohio Geological Society Trustee
2009 Ohio Geological Society Golf Outing
Chapel Hill Golf Course Mount Vernon, Ohio
HOLE 1 Longest Drive Gary Sitler
HOLE 2 Longest Drive LADIES Amy Lang
HOLE 3 Closest to Pin Rusty Storrer
HOLE 4 Straightest Drive Bob Hobbs
HOLE 5 Closest 2nd Cal Hobbs
HOLE 6 Longest Drive Brandon Garling
HOLE 7 Closest 2nd Bob Atha
HOLE 8 Closest to Pin Brian Allbritton
HOLE 9 Longest Putt Don Caton
HOLE 10 Longest Drive Joe Schriml
HOLE 11 Longest Putt David Anthony
HOLE 12 Closest to Pin Robin Lemberger
HOLE 13 Closest 2nd Chris Byrd
HOLE 14 Closest 3rd Mike Slattery
HOLE 15 Closest to OGS Sign Allen Allbritton
HOLE 16 Longest Putt Dan Kosikowski
HOLE 17 Shortest Drive Nicole Venteris
HOLE 18 Longest Drive Don Wheeler
1ST PLACE TEAM (57) Cal Hobbs, George Hobbs, Scott Jackson, Wayne Jones
2ND PLACE TEAM (58) Nicole Venteris, Steve Zody, Steve Schultheis, Joe Schriml
3rd PLACE TEAM (BLIND DRAW) Bud Hoessly, Kim Hoessly, Mark Gardner, Patti Anderson
50/50 WINNER ($144) Jim Shoots
CALENDAR
October 15 PAPG/SPE Meeting – Some Observations and Thoughts on Selected Gas- Shale Plays – Kent Bowker. Radisson Hotel – Greentree, Pittsburgh, PA. www.papgrocks.org October 16 Fossil Tour of Capitol Square. The Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, OH. www.ohiostatehouse.org October 20 2009 OOGA Fall Technical Conference. The University Center at Kent State – Stark Campus. www.ooga.org October 21-22 North American Coalbed Methane Forum. Lakeview Conference Center, Morgantown, WV. Contact Ihor Havryluk at [email protected], 412-445-5803. November 4 OGS Meeting – Recession News Isn't Always Bad: Coastal Erosion Mapping in Ohio - D. Mark Jones. Ramada Plaza Hotel & Conference Center, Columbus, OH. November 19 OGS/AIPG Meeting – Bob Evans. La Scala Restaurant, Dublin, OH. November 19 PAPG Meeting - Dancing in the Stars. Basic remote sensing using satellite imagery and examples from users in the Oil and Gas industry – Gary Crew. Radisson Hotel – Greentree, Pittsburgh, PA. www.papgrocks.org
Visit www.ohgeosoc.org for all upcoming events
Ohio Geological SocietyP.O. Box 14304 • Columbus, OH 43214
http://www.ohgeosoc.org/
Ohio Geological Society Publications
The in-print publications of the Ohio Geological Society may be purchased from the Ohio Division of Geological Survey. Members of the Society receive a discount; the member price is in parentheses (M:). For more information on the Society, write the Ohio Geological Society, P.O. Box 14304, Columbus, OH 43214. OGS 4. Clinton sandstone papers presented at the Ohio Oil and Gas Association Winter Meetings 1961 to 1978 (abridged reprint of 1980 volume). 228 p., 1985. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 5. The new Clinton collection--1985, edited by Jack Gray, Andy Maslowski, Warren McCullough, and W. E. Shafer (2nd printing). This edition includes a transcript of "Deeper Clinton-Medina drilling in southeastern Ohio" from a March 1986 Ohio Geological Society meeting. 257 p., 1985. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 7. Computer-aided analysis of geologic data, edited by Lawrence H. Wickstrom. A collection of papers from a seminar presented at the 1987 AAPG Eastern Section meeting. 100 p., 1987. $15.00 (M: $12.00). OGS 8. Maps and cross sections of the Cambrian and Lower Ordovician of central Ohio, by G. G. Shearrow. 31 p., 8 pls., 1987. $12.00 (M: $10.00). OGS 10. The Ohio Geological Society anthology, the Morrow County, Ohio "oil boom" 1961-1967 and the Cambro-Ordovician reservoir of central Ohio, edited by William E. Shafer. 452 p., 1994. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 14. Ohio Geological Society Fifth Annual Technical Symposium. Proceedings from the November 1997 technical symposium held in Akron, Ohio. 11 papers. 117 p., 1997. $25.00 (M: $20.00). OGS 15. Petroleum seismology in the digital age. Course notes from the Ohio Geological Society's 3-D Seismic Seminar presented at the 1998 AAPG Eastern Section meeting. $20.00 (M: $15.00). OGS 17. Into the new millennium: The changing face of exploration in the Knox play. Proceedings from the Sixth Annual Fall Symposium held in Akron, Ohio, October 1999. 16 papers. 120 p., 1999. $25.00 (M: $20.00). To order any of the Society's publications contact: The Geologic Records Center, Ohio Division of Geological Survey, 2045 Morse Road, Columbus, Ohio 43229-6693. Telephone (614) 265-6576. FAX: (614) 447-1918. E-mail: [email protected].