This research was supported by the following U.S. Geological Survey projects; Enhanced Oil Recovery, Reservoir Characterization, Graduate Intern, and 3-D Reservoir/Basin Characterization for CD-ROM Publication. Many individuals and organizations contributed greatly to this publication. We wish to thank all of you for your technical advice, donation of time, data, and equipment, and for your assistance.
Woods Petroleum and Meridian Oil Corporations donated reservoir and core analysis data. We would like to thank Steve Fillingham, Dick Morrow, and Bill Walford of Woods Petroleum Corp., and William Brown and Oscar Peters of Meridian Oil for their assistance. Kerr-McGee Corporation scientist John Roffers added information on secondary recovery operations. U.S. Geological Survey geologists Mark Pawlewicz and Thomas Finn provided vitrinite reflectance and X-ray diffraction analyses, respectively.
We thank Ronald Charpentier, Ronald Johnson, Randy Schumann, Rick Scott, and Steve Sonnenberg for their reviews. Frederick (Nick) Zihlman and Randy Schumann, of the USGS, gave valuable advice on incorporation and use of WWW and other computer applications, and on producing CD ROMs. David K. Vaughan assisted in collecting porosity and permeability data and in constructing the 2-D and 3-D map models. Fran Gay did a superb job of scanning photographs and saving digital images.
Numerous individuals, software companies, AAPG, SEPM, and NCSA have allowed us to install their shareware, freeware, and postcardware computer programs on this CD-ROM. We would like to thank all of you. Highlighted links are GIF-format-scanned copies of license agreements and copyright releases. A list, in no particular order, of contributors and their software programs follows:
Thank you all for your contributions, /s/ Debra Higley <Higley@USGS.GOV;
