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We are a social species.Whether our highly evolved ability to communicate is a cause or a result of that social behavior is the subject of some debate amongst evolutionary biologists.Regardless,the most important outcome of our ability to communicate is our unparalleled ability to learn,one from the other.A key pillar of your Society reflects that mutually beneficial learning – indeed two of our Society’s goals advise us to “ promote the technology of exploration” and to “advance the science of geology,especially as it relates to petroleum,natural gas and other fossil fuels”.One could argue that this aspect of our Society is the prima facie reason for its existence.
The question that this editorial poses is,to what degree does our membership engage in and,more importantly,contribute to this learning process.The CSPG provides a variety of different avenues by which a member can contribute:oral presentations at Technical Division meetings or at our Technical Luncheons,leadership on field trips, teaching of short courses,active participation in SIFT,oral poster and core presentations at the annual conference or at our new miniconferences,written contributions to the Reservoir and Bulletin – to identify an incomplete list.For the sake of brevity,allow me to examine but one of these – the Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology.In fairness,the Bulletin will attract a specific subset of potential contributors – those whose message has a degree of complexity and technical detail best expressed as a relatively lengthy written paper.Nevertheless I have for some time been curious as to the demographics of our Bulletin contributors, and in particular,the role active oil patch professionals play.
I have arbitrarily restricted myself to a fiveyear period of publication (1994-1998),and have utilized my own collection of the
Bulletin.A consequence of this approach was, 1) it reminded me of what an excellent journal our Society has consistently published,and 2) it has led to the recognition that one or two of my issues have gone AWOL so my survey is not absolutely complete (let this editorial advise the scallywag who borrowed them to return same!).
Nevertheless the sample size is adequate –some 145 papers.I have restricted myself to senior authors only (a brutally unfair tactic to be sure),and have catalogued their affiliation at the time when the basic research was completed.In other words if Sheila Doe is currently working for Aggressive Oil Ltd.,but her Bulletin article is the result of her M.Sc. research,then I have credited her university, not her present employer.
The following graphs illustrate in a generic fashion where our Bulletin contributors come from.
The data is clear.Of the 145 papers contributed to the Bulletin over the time period examined,50% have come from the university sector,and 38% from government run or sponsored research institutions.Only
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WHAT IS THE VALUE OF CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP?
As part of my portfolio of responsibilities as Corporate Relations Manager,I have recently been promoting Corporate Membership to industry.During this process I have been frequently asked what the benefits are in being a Corporate Member.
My initial response to this question is that Corporate Members receive the following:
1) Corporate recognition on page seven of the Reservoir magazine;
2) Corporate recognition on the inside front cover of the CSPG technical journal,The Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology (Bulletin);
3) Corporate recognition at the Awards Dinner;
4) Corporate recognition on the inside back cover of the annual CSPG Geological Calendar;
5) Convenience of pre-ordering Technical Luncheon tickets and being invoiced for payment;
6) Two complimentary tickets to attend the Honourary Gala;and
7) A Corporate Member plaque with annual renewal plates to track the history of your company’s membership.
AND…
The individual who holds the Corporate Membership on behalf of the company receives:
1) Monthly copy of the Reservoir magazine;
2) Quarterly issue of the Bulletin;
3) Annual copy of the CSPG Geological Calendar;and
4) Individual membership rates on conferences,field trips,and membership rates at the CSPG bookstore.
In searching for more answers to provide to our current Corporate Members and to potential new Corporate Members,I have realized there are other benefits to Corporate Memberships.
A MESSAGE FROM CORPORATE RELATIONS
What is the value of Corporate Membership?
As members of the CSPG,all you need ask yourself is which field trip,luncheon talk, conference,or publication inspired ideas for your area of exploration? While one specific issue of the Bulletin may not have been relevant to your field at a certain time, cumulatively the quarterly issues of the Bulletin provide industry professionals with a valued information resource.This is why so many members have saved their publications dating back to the 1950’s.
The CSPG provides opportunities to industry professionals to enhance their knowledge base and share in the knowledge base of other professionals through conferences,technical luncheons,divisional talks,conventions,publications,etc.The Technical Luncheon program,I understand,is one of the largest regularly attended professional meetings in North America. While these programs and events occur largely through the generous efforts of our member volunteers,the costs are partially covered through Corporate Membership.
As recent research statistics indicate,the petroleum industry is facing a demographic shift in the near future.As these industry challenges arise,the CSPG will be there to continue to provide services to its membership to meet and prepare for these challenges.
It is perhaps appropriate that this column is being written in the month of May;as most of us will recall,this is the traditional month of Spring celebration surrounding the planting season and epitomized by the Maypole.The Maypole is perhaps emblematic of the CSPG. It is the centerpiece of a number of individuals bound loosely in the beginning by separate bands of ribbon but,as those individuals intertwine with one another, those ribbons weave into a tight,symmetrical fabric that ultimately draws all the participants together in one unifying purpose.The CSPG is your Maypole:it provides you,its members,with opportunities to intermingle and exchange ideas but,at the end of the day,the ‘fabric’, which has bound you all together,has created a unifying tapestry of skill,expertise,and knowledge that spans the generations and the industry.It is a catalyst and,as such, priceless,for without it,there could be no reaction or,in our case,interaction.
Kim MacLean
TECHNICAL LUNCHEONS
JUNE LUNCHEON
Accommodation and the sequence stratigraphic paradigm
SPEAKER
Dr.William E.Galloway Institute for Geophysics
John A.and Katherine G.Jackson School of Geosciences
The University of Texas at Austin
11:30 am
Tuesday,June 8,2004
TELUS CONVENTION CENTRE CALGARY, ALBERTA
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regressive ravinement surfaces as the singularly defining boundaries of sequences. These surfaces are conceptually associated with times of onset,maximum rate,and/or lowest position of relative sea level fall when accommodation space is reduced. However,a growing body of literature argues that the sequence paradigm itself needs to expand its “accommodation space”.I present three areas where greater flexibility is needed:
1.Well-dated Quaternary analogues demonstrate that the fluvial entrenchment surface is neither inherently synchronous nor regional, and that timing and attributes of lowstand systems tracts and their bounding surfaces are highly dependent upon the vagaries of paleogeography and sediment supply. The rigid presumption of regional isochroneity of fluvial entrenchment surfaces in the stratigraphic record results in unlikely paleogeographic interpretations.
2.A growing compendium of case histories of marine-dominated basin fills documents stratigraphies in which subaerial or ravinement surfaces correlative to fall events are poorly preserved or entirely lacking,but in which unconformity-bounded genetic stratigraphic units can be readily defined by combinations of transgressive ravinement,submarine deflation,mass wasting,and marine starvation surfaces.These surfaces may not and need not correspond to a relative fall of sea level.
3.High-resolution dating and stratigraphic relationships demonstrate that deposition of sandy facies along shelf margins, slopes,and deep basins commonly is diachronous,areally restricted,and not uniquely associated with specific relative sea-level.Extrapolation of genetic unit boundaries off-shelf by correlation of lithologic boundaries, such as base of thick sand bodies,or stacking patterns is undesirable.
Recognition,correlation,and mapping of genetic stratigraphic units require understanding of the overall depositional systems tract and of the full array of regime variables that create stratigraphic surfaces
and facies:sediment supply,textural composition,base level change,and energy regime.Surfaces include physical stratigraphic surfaces,which have environments of origin,predictable physical attributes,and specific stratigraphic context (i.e.,fluvial incision surface,transgressive ravinement surface),geometric surfaces (i.e.,downlap surface),and conceptual surfaces (i.e.,sequence boundary,maximum flooding surface,correlative conformity).An empirical,rather than model-based, methodology first defines the depositional systems context,then identifies the physical stratigraphic surfaces actually preserved, traces their extent,and tests their chronostratigraphic reliability.Selection of the most useful and geologically meaningful conceptual surface for defining regional genetic units builds upon this observational framework.Functional,reproducible,and chronostratigraphic “...genetically related successions of strata bounded by unconformities or their correlative conformities...” can be defined,correlated, mapped,dated,and interpreted through the use of a variety of regional stratigraphic surfaces of non-deposition and erosion.
BIOGRAPHY
Dr.William E.Galloway is currently a Research Professor at the Institute for Geophysics and Morgan Davis Emeritus Professor of Petroleum Geology at the University of Texas at Austin.He has more than 30 years of research and teaching experience in the areas of clastic depositional systems and sequences,basin analysis,and petroleum geoscience.Dr.Galloway is the author of more than 100 papers and abstracts on subjects ranging from clastic sedimentology,sequence stratigraphy,petroleum geology and resource evaluation,hydrogeology, and uranium geology,and is co-author of the popular reference “Terrigenous Clastic Depositional Systems”,first published in 1983, with a second edition in 1996.His research has included projects in the Gulf of Mexico,Permian, Anadarko,North Sea,Gulf of Alaska,Sydney,and Barrow-Dampier basins.He has taught a variety of courses for the AAPG Continuing Education program as well as for many petroleum and minerals exploration companies.He has won numerous awards for his teaching and publications,including most recently the AAPG Distinguished Educator Award.
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The society has great support from the petroleum industry with over 40 corporate sponsors and 500 members. The CWLS has in turn provided a great deal of support to the petroleum industry.
The CWLS holds a technical luncheon on the third Wednesday of every month (except in the Summer and February) for the benefit of those interested in log analysis and petrophysics.
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Members have free access to the Special Core Database. To gain access, visit the society’s website at www.cwls.org and visit the Core Database page. From there members can request access. You will then be supplied a user name and password information necessary to access the special core site. For more information please contact Jeff Levack at (403) 232-1705 or jlevack@tuckerenergy.com.
Upcoming Luncheons
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A Triple Porosity Model For Petrophysical Analysis Of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Jun. 9Brant Bennion
Formation Damage Issues Impacting The Productivity Of Tight Gas Producing Formations
Sept. 8TBA
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JUNE LUNCHEON
Elephant hunting in Nevada
SPEAKER
Alan
K.Chamberlain Cedar Strat Corp.
11:30 am Tuesday,June 29,2004
TELUS CONVENTION CENTRE CALGARY, ALBERTA
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The central Nevada thrust belt provides an opportunity to explore for giant oil and gas fields.Thick,thermally mature,organic-rich, lacustrine oil shales deposited in the Mississippian Antler basin flood plains are the source beds for the fifty million barrels of oil already produced in Nevada.Karsted unconformities,stromatoporoid reefs, impact breccias,and sandstones make Nevada’s Devonian reservoir rocks most favorable for giant accumulations.Late Cretaceous thrusting created the compressional features of the prolific Canadian foothills,Utah/Wyoming thrust belt and the central Nevada thrust belt.
Typically,oil seeps are associated with oilbearing thrust belts worldwide.However,a blanket of Tertiary volcanics sealed in many of Nevada’s oil seeps and concealed Nevada’s thrust belt.Some of these seeps, including Grant Canyon,Blackburn,Trap Spring,and Eagle Springs oil fields,built up enough oil to become commercial.So far,all of Nevada’s crude has been produced from these commercial oil seeps.Little effort has been expended to identify the source of these commercial oil seeps because of the lack of an accurate geologic map and model. In contrast to other states,the State of Nevada has never surveyed its mineral potential.The cursory geologic mapping by the federal government is not adequate for exploration purposes.Old depositional and deformational models,based on insufficient data,have been entrenched into the literature,thus impeding exploration.
An old model championed by the United States Geological Survey is the theory that the Mississippian Antler Basin siliciclastics were deposited as flysch turbidites into a deep foreland basin between the Antler highlands in central Nevada and the Utah
hingeline in central Utah.However,new field data indicates regressive sequences containing vascular plant roots (Stigmaria) penetrating bedding planes and lacustrine palynomorph assemblages.This new data dispels the old model and supports a new depositional environment model.The new model shows that the richest and most oilprone Mississippian source rocks are lacustrine oil shales.Lacustrine oil shales make oil exploration in the Antler Basin
very attractive.Cumulative thicknesses of these world-class lacustrine oil source rocks are measured in thousands of feet in outcrops and wells.They are thick enough and rich enough to generate trillions of barrels of oil.
Until the early 1980s the typical exploration practice in Nevada was to drill just the Tertiary valley fill in synclines.Therefore,most of the eight hundred wells drilled in Nevada
penetrate only syncline Tertiary valley fill.Few wells have penetrated any Paleozoic section. However,two significant fields were found by drilling “too deep” and penetrating Devonian rocks below the Tertiary unconformity.Oil flows from Devonian reservoirs in the Blackburn and Grant Canyon oil fields.One well in Grant Canyon flowed 4,000 barrels a day for ten years.It has now produced more than 15,000,000 barrels of oil since its discovery in 1983.The Grant Canyon reservoir consists of 200 to 400 feet of karst breccia at the top of the Middle Devonian Simonson Formation.This karst interval is found in wells and measured sections throughout the eastern Great Basin.In addition to the karst interval, stromatoporoid reefs,impact breccia,quartz sandstones,and other intervals provide world-class reservoir rocks within the eastern Great Basin Devonian sequences.An isopach of all the Devonian sequences reveals a structurally compressed basin –the Sunnyside Basin – and can be used to predict the spacial distribution of potential Devonian reservoir rocks.The Simonson karst breccia interval alone has the capacity to store billions of barrels of oil in certain structures.A careful analysis of logs from the few wells that penetrated other significant portions of Paleozoic rocks shows that, contrary to preconceived notions,many intervals contain similar reservoir rocks.
Another deeply entrenched notion that discouraged exploration investment is that the north-south structural grain of the eastern Great Basin was caused by Tertiary extension which could have compromised seals on older,compressional structures. However,new mapping is revealing many uncharted compressional features and a lack of extensional features.The new maps demonstrate that the region underwent much more compression than previously thought.Furthermore,some of these features show no evidence of being broken by major Tertiary extensional faults.Several unbroken compressional structures in the Timpahute Range,50 miles south of the prolific Grant Canyon field,are exposed.
Another example of an intact compressional feature is the Golden Gate fault fold 40 miles south southeast of the prolific Grant Canyon field and ten miles north of the Timpahute Range.The Golden Gate fault fold is ten miles long and five miles wide and has more than five thousand feet of closure. It may have trapped billions of barrels of oil before it was breached by headward erosion of the Colorado River.New mapping reveals that no Tertiary extensional faults compromise the structure.Similar structures,along strike that have escaped
erosion,likely contain billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of gas.Oil seeping from these giant fields is probably the source for the commercial oil seep fields in Nevada.However,old opinion and theories based on little or poor geologic mapping have obscured the true understanding of Nevada geology for at least five decades.As a result,past oil exploration efforts in Nevada based on old tectonic and depositional models have been disappointing.
BIOGRAPHY
Alan K.Chamberlain received his B.A.and M.S. from Brigham Young University and his Ph.D. from Colorado School of Mines.His dissertation, Structural Geology and Devonian Stratigraphy of the Timpahute Range,Nevada,provides a new exploration model that could lead to significant discoveries in this frontier region. After he worked for Exxon,Gulf,Marathon,and Placid,he became president of Cedar Strat Corp.in 1984.
Cedar Strat was organized at the request of several major oil companies to fill a need for exploration data for Great Basin exploration. Alan conceived the idea of using a scintillation counter to create a surface gamma-ray log of measured sections while working for Gulf Oil after having worked for Exxon Minerals USA in
uranium exploration.It was not until Placid hired him away from Marathon to head up their Great Basin program that he had the freedom to test the idea.At Placid,Alan had the unique opportunity to visit many of Shell Oil Company’s staked measured sections by helicopter with former Shell geologists.They had been involved in measuring the sections in the 1950s and 1960s.Using the Shell measured sections he learned the Paleozoic stratigraphy of the Great Basin.As he remeasured many of the sections, he applied his new technique of surface gamma-ray logs.He earned the Best Poster of the Session Award at the 1983 National American Association of Petroleum Geologists when he presented his work on surface gammaray logs in the Wyoming thrust belt and in the Great Basin.His abstract and subsequent paper attracted the attention of national and international oil companies that have applied his surface gamma-ray log technique worldwide. Development of this successful technique resulted in the formation of Cedar Strat Corp.in 1984.A presentation to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists of the results of Alan’s new,sequence stratigraphic model of the Mississippian Antler Basin including lacustrine source rocks secured him the Levorson Award in the late 1980s.
DIVISION TALKS
CORE AND SAMPLE DIVISION
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday June 15,2004 at the EUB Core Research Centre,3545 Research Way NW,Calgary from 12:00-1:30 PM noon.Our main topic of discussion will be: Drill Cuttings Collection and EUB Requirements in Alberta
Advances in drilling technology have greatly increased drilling penetration rates making the collection of drill cuttings for Geological evaluation challenging.This fact,combined with the high number of wells being drilled has resulted in a large volume of drill cuttings being collected.In addition to the challenges this presents to wellsite geologists,the EUB is faced with trying to collect relevant and valuable material while meeting their own challenges for storage space and allocation of staff hours to process,sort,and store the material.
Drill cuttings submission requirements are regulated through a section in the EUB’s “Guide 56” in which operators are required to determine sample requirements based on the classification of the well and the zones targeted.It has been determined through joint discussions between the EUB and the Geological community that the intentions of sample collection through the criteria outlined in Guide 56 are not always being met,and that some refinement to the criteria is necessary to ensure that valuable material is being collected and submitted.We feel that it is necessary and appropriate that those revisions be determined through a joint effort between the EUB and the geological community.In addition,we would like to also address joint concerns about collection of non-valuable material,which adds an extra burden of time and expense to those collecting and processing it at wellsite and also to the EUB Core Research Centre to
sort and store it (e.g.,thick intervals of uphole shale).
Once revisions have been determined,the CSPG Core and Sample Division will be soliciting the endorsement of the CSPG executive and of the major operators and then recommending changes to the EUB.
We will discuss these issues and formulate a recommendation.If you are unable to attend, but wish to have your opinions brought to the meeting,please email your ideas to:Doug Hayden,Chair,CSPG Core and Sample Division via dhayden@shaw.ca
Check the CSPG website for updates on the group’s activities and projects.If you would like more information on upcoming activities of this group,please contact Doug Hayden at dhayden@shaw.ca
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INTERNATIONAL DIVISION
Basement rocks - overlooked possible oil & gas reservoirs: Examples of producing fields in Basement in Indonesia,USA,and Venezuela
Basement rocks are important oil and gas reservoirs in various areas of the world. Such reservoirs include fractured or weathered granites,quartzites,or metamorphics.In Southeast Asia,basement reservoirs are the main contributor of oil production in Viet Nam.To date in Indonesia, oil production from basement rocks has been minimal.However,the recent large (approximately 5 TCF) gas discoveries in pre-Tertiary fractured granites in southern Sumatra has led to a focusing of exploration in parts of Indonesia for basement reservoirs.Significant basement reservoirs occur in the West Siberia basin as well as in China.In North Africa,basement oil and gas production occurs in Morocco,Libya, Algeria,and Egypt.In the USA,basementderived oil production occurs in a number of areas including California,Kansas,and Texas.In South America,basement reservoirs occur in Venezuela and Brazil.
This presentation will focus on examples of producing fields which includes the Beruk Northeast field in Central Sumatra which produces oil from fractured granites and quartzites,as well as the Tanjung oil field in Kalimantan which produces from basement rocks consisting of fractured and deeply weathered volcanics,pyroclastics,and argillites.Select basement oil fields in the USA will be reviewed.The presentation will also cover the Lapaz and Mara fields in Venezuela,which together have produced over 300 million barrels of oil from highly fractured granites.With all of these fields, the oil has been sourced from source rocks
located either adjacent to or overlying the basement reservoirs.
While oil and gas fields in crystalline basement are still discovered mostly by accident,these reservoirs can be very prolific,especially when the basement rocks are highly fractured or intensely weathered. Indeed,the potential of basement reservoirs was first highlighted by K.K.Landes et al in the classic 1960 AAPG paper which stated that ‘commercial oil deposits in basement rocks are not geological “accidents” but are oil accumulations which obey all the rules of oil sourcing,migration,and entrapment, therefore in areas of not too deep basement,oil deposits within basement rocks should be explored with the same professional skill and zeal as accumulations in the overlying sediments’.
BIOGRAPHY
Tako is Holland-born but Canada-raised and has a B.Sc.in geology from the University of Alberta and a B.A.in Economics from the University of Calgary.After early-retiring from Texaco after 29 years of service in Canada,
Indonesia,Nigeria,and Angola,he lives in Luanda,Angola where he is a consultant for Dublin,Ireland-based Tullow Oil.He is also the in-country representative for an Oslo-based Norwegian aid organization,Yme Foundation (www.yme.no) which carries out water well drilling projects in the interior of Angola.Tako was involved in the early 1980s with the Beruk Northeast field in Sumatra which produced oil from basement and this led to his abiding interest in reservoirs worldwide which produce oil and gas from basement rocks.This talk is based on a paper presented by Tako in 2001 at a meeting of the Geological Society of London and which was published in GSL Special Publication 214 “Hydrocarbons in Crystalline Rocks”.
INFORMATION
There is no charge.Please bring your lunch. Refreshments are provided by Encana and ECL Canada.For more information or to give a talk in the future,please contact Geoffrey Say at 403-263-0449 or email at g.say@ecqc.com.
INTERNATIONAL DIVISION ANNOUNCEMENT
Antrim Energy will be presenting a series of five lectures starting in June. The Series will be called the “Antrim Energy Inc international lecture series.” The first lecture will be titled:
“Australia - recent developments, opportunities,issues and Antrim’s project”
Wednesday June 9th,2004 12:00PM EnCana Amphitheatre
The other lectures will cover the United Kingdom,Argentina,Tanzania,and international strategies and will be given by Keith Skipper,P.Geol., Executive Vice President,Antrim Energy Inc.
INFORMATION
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2004 CALENDAR OF EVENTS
DATE: May 31-June 4,2004
EVENT: I.C.E.2004 – Innovation,Collaboration and Exploration,CSPG-CHOA-CWLS Joint Convention
LOCATION: Round-Up Centre,Calgary,Alberta
INFORMATION: For more information watch the Reservoir and CSPG website.
DATE: June 6-9,2004
EVENT: Society of Professional Well Log Analysis (SPWLA) Annual Conference
LOCATION: Noordwijk,Netherlands
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DATE: June 7-10,2004
EVENT: European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers Annual Conference
LOCATION: Paris,France
INFORMATION: For more information please visit www.eage.org
DATE: August 9-12,2004
EVENT: AAPG Rocky Mountain Section Annual Meeting
LOCATION: Denver,Colorado
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DATE: August 24-28,2004
EVENT: Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) Research Conference
LOCATION: Grand Junction,Colorado
INFORMATION: For more information please visit www.sepm.org
DATE: September 19-22,2004
EVENT: ICAM 2004,8th International Congress on Applied Mineralogy
LOCATION: Aguas de Lindoia,Brazil
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Laurie L.ButkovicDeer Creek Energy Ltd.
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DATE: September 26-29,2004
EVENT: Society for Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
LOCATION: Houston,Texas
INFORMATION: For more information please visit www.spe.org
DATE: October 22-24,2004
EVENT: INTERNATIONAL OIL & GAS CONFERENCE VENEZUELA
LOCATION: Curacao,Dutch Antilles
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DATE: October 24-27,2004
EVENT: AAPG International Conference and Exhibition
LOCATION: Cancun,Mexico
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DATE: November 7-10,2004
EVENT: Geological Society of America Annual Conference
LOCATION: Denver,Colorado
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DATE: December 7-10,2004
EVENT: Offshore Southeast Asia (OSEA)
LOCATION: Suntec City,Singapore
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DATE: December 10-12,2004
EVENT: PETEX
LOCATION: London,England
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Kelsey and his band of Assiniboin Indians,who had been travelling on the north side of the Red Deer (Waskashreeseebee) River, probably crossed to its south side after meeting with the Eagle Brich Indians.Since he makes no mention of Red Deer Lake,it would appear that Kelsey’s most easterly position along its down-river course was a few miles east of the Saskatchewan/Manitoba boundary and five miles west of its outpouring into the lake of the same name. After crossing the Red Deer River,they continued on foot along the river’s south bank following its course upstream where his party was visited by “strangers” whom Kelsey referred to as being,“stone Indians wch was to ye southward of us.” Subsequent to feeding them,as well as providing these “strangers” with tobacco,he inquired of the whereabouts of the Nayatame Poets (Gros Ventres) and Assinae Poets (Assiniboin of the Hills).They informed Kelsey that the Nayatame had murdered three of the Nayhaythaway’s (Cree) women the previous spring.Furthermore,the Nayatame,in fear of revenge,had,“fled so far yt they though I should not see them.” Apparently,these “strangers” were probably tribal affiliates of the Assiniboin of the Woods,who comprised Kelsey’s party.
After observing the “slate mines” on August 7,Kelsey,on the following day,dispatched two of his Indians to search for the region inhabited by the “mountain poets” (Assinae Poets).The main party continued on its westerly course,south of the Red Deer River,to where it commences to deviate in a southwesterly and southerly direction. From here Kelsey’s party headed south, leaving the Southern Forested region behind,to enter the Parkland environs, where he reports that,“ye ground begins to grow healthy & barren in fields of about half a Mile over Just as if they had been Artificially made with fine groves of Poplo growing round ym.” By August 20 they had arrived on the Prairie Grasslands,an approximate distance of 10 miles northeast of Wadena,Saskatchewan.Here Kelsey describes not only its vegetation,but the plains grizzly and the buffalo,comparing the latter’s difference from the muskox.He was the first European to observe the muskox on July 9,1689,during his Labrador
reconnaissance in search of the Chipewyan Indians.To quote:
“To day we pitch to ye outtermost Edge of ye woods this plain affords Nothing but short Round sticky grass & Buffillo & a great sort of Bear wch is Bigger than any white Bear & is Neither White nor Black But silver hair’d like our English Rabbi ye Buffillo Likewise is not like those to ye Northward their Horns growing like an English Ox but Black & short.”
Three days later he explains the method the Assiniboin Indians employed in the mass killing of buffalo.It was at a time prior to the arrival of the horse on the Canadian prairie. Their introduction occurred when Pierre La Verendrye,the second son of the great explorer Pierre Gaultier La Verendrye, returned to Fort la Reine (formerly located at Portage la Prairie,Manitoba) with two other Frenchmen in September,1741 and two horses.These,the first horses to arrive
in Western Canada,were obtained at a Mandan Indian village,located along the Missouri River.The Mandans had acquired horses in bartering with the Horse Indians, who were visitors from the south.(1967, Kavanagh,Martin:La Verendrye His Life and Times;pub.,Fletcher & Sons,Norwich, England,p.170).In the absence of horses and riders,the natives had devised methods of slaughtering,en masse,by funneling the herd to the edge of a “buffalo jump” where they stampeded over the kill site.The funneling was effected by band members,especially women,who through their noise-making and arm-waving,channeled the terrified buffalo through an ever restricting human gauntlet to their ultimate demise.Where natural precipices were not present,the natives captured the buffalo by the use of pounds, constructed of logs,into which they were channeled.Another method for selectively killing buffalo,prior to the acquisition of horses by natives inhabiting the Prairie region of Western Canada,was for the hunters to cloak themselves with a wolf’s pelt.By this
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CANADIAN SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGISTS CALL FOR NOMINATIONS 2005 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
In accordance with Article VI,subparagraph (a) of the By-Laws,the Nominating Committee hereby calls for Nominations to Stand for Election to the 2005 Executive Committee of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists.
Nominations can be made in two ways:
1) Formal Nominations are to be made in writing,signed by at least twenty-five members in good standing and endorsed by the nominee who is consenting to stand for office.Candidates nominated in this fashion will automatically be added to the Nomination Slate.Nominations should be forwarded to the CSPG office by September 15,2004.The slate of candidates will be published in the November Reservoir and the election will take place on November 30,2004.
2) Informal Nominations can be made via email or letter;please confirm that the nominee is willing to stand for the office of choice and send to CSPG Office to the attention of the Past President.Candidates nominated in this fashion will be considered for addition to the Nomination Slate by the Nominations Committee.
The following vacancies exist for 2005:
• Vice President• Assistant Finance Director
• Assistant Program Director• Assistant Services Director
Successful candidates for the Directorships will serve two-year terms and the elected Vice President,a third one-year term as Past President.Interested parties should contact the office for details and general requirements of service on the Executive.
disguise and stealthily creeping up on hands and knees toward the grazing herd,the Indian hunter,when in range,would draw his concealed bow and arrow to disable one of the beasts.
Kelsey observed the Assiniboins’ method of trapping and killing buffalo by reporting that:
“This Instant (August 23) ye Indians going a hunting Kill’d great store of Buffilo Now ye manner of their hunting these Beast on ye Barren ground is when they see a great parcel of them together they surround them with men wch done they gather themselves into a smaller Compass Keeping ye Beast still in ye middle & so shooting ym till they break out at some place or other & so gett away from ym.”
On August 24,an invitation arrived by messenger from the Captain (Chief) of the “Mountain Poets” (Assinae Poets) named Washa for Kelsey’s party to meet with them. The following day,while still in the Prairie region,they joined Captain Washa’s band and together formed an encampment which was comprised of 80 tents.After partaking of a great feast,Washa prevailed upon Kelsey and his party to agree to go to war, presumably against the Nayatame Poets (Gros Ventres).Kelsey balked at his proposal and,“told ym yt I could not grant ym their request for ye governr.would not allow me so to do so,’ thus defusing Captain Washa’s belligerent plans.
By August 27,Kelsey’s party had reentered the Parkland terrain after progressing some six miles south of their meeting with the Assinae Poets,He reported that his hunters could find no buffalo in the wooded area.The day following,Kelsey acceded to the hunters’ request to retreat to the Prairie region where they were successful in killing several buffalo.Afterwards,the women were sent back to the site to dress the carcasses and fetch the meat to the party’s camp.
The same day,Kelsey delegated six band members of this party to go in search for the Nayatame Poets.He provided them with tobacco as well as powder and shot to serve as gifts to their Captain should they locate his camp.Kelsey made a promise to his envoys that he would reward them should their quest be successful.
Kelsey refers to the Parkland beaver habitat as containing an “abundance of small ponds of water of which there is hardly one Escapes with a Beavour house or two our people having kill’d great store to day.” This area appears to be located some eight miles
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northeast of Lestock,Saskatchewan on the northwest side of the Beaver Hills.
By August 31,Kelsey’s party was at its most southerly point in his search for the Nayatame Poets.His band members,after indulging with them in a feast,convinced Kelsey to make contact with a band purported to be camped to the north of them whom they regarded as their enemy. Taking their advice,Kelsey set off with eight members of his band,one of which would serve as an interpreter,since he was conversant in the Algonquian language,the tongue of the Nayatame Poets. Unbeknownst to Kelsey,his affiliated band of Assiniboin of the Woods,including the eight members he was travelling with,were planning to ambush the Nayatame Poets and Kelsey was to be their dupe by establishing trust with their enemy.By September 3,he realizes the ruse and following a morning feast,he is requested to address his companions in respect to their band’s decision to go to war.Kelsey attempts to dissuade them by threatening,“ym yt they must not go to wars for it will not be liked by ye governer neither would he trade with ym if they did not cease from warring.”
Three days later some young members of his band were successful in scouting the location of the Nayatame Poets’ camp.The resultant emotional state,in making the discovery,only heightened their furor to initiate an attack.Kelsey,once again, implores them to make peace and employ their time in trapping beaver rather killing other Indians.He states:“all my arguments prevailed nothing wth ym for they told me wt signified piece wth those Indians considering they knew not ye use of Cannoes & were resolved to go to wars so I seeing it in vain held my peace.” Apparently, the bands’ ineffectual reason was to imply that they could not make use of the waterways to reach York Factory.In point of fact,the Assiniboin of the Woods,like the Nayhaythaways (Cree),wanted to maintain their role as middlemen in bartering for furs with the more remote tribes inhabiting the Prairie region.
On September 8,the eight native messengers,whom Kelsey had dispatched a week earlier to locate the camp of the Nayatame Poets,returned to Kelsey’s band. The following morning Kelsey approached the Captain of his party’s Wood Assiniboin
band in the latter’s tent:
“carrying wth me a piece of tobacco I telling him to make a speech to all his Country men & tell ym not to disturbe nor meddle wth ye Naywattame poets for I was going back to Invite & incourage ym to a peace once more so they all gave their Consent & told me yt they were very free to have ym to be their friends so I took my was back along wth those wch came yesterday having 12 tents along wth me.”
Kelsey’s plea to the Captain was successful and the impending attack on the Nayatame Poets was averted.Subsequently,the four Nayatame Poets representatives returned to their band to notify their Captain that Kelsey and his party would be arriving as a party of reconciliation.In the evening of September 11,they made contact with the Nayatame Poets and found their camp to consist of only 11 tents.In the morning Kelsey reports that:“having no victuals to invite ye capt,to so I filled yt pipe wch ye Governr,had sent me wth tobacco & then sent for ye Capt.” Kelsey,on receiving the Captain,made a speech in which he commiserated with him concerning:“ye nayhaythaways (Cree) killing Six tents of his Country men.” Kelsey,in acknowledging the tragedy,assured the Captain that any future reoccurrence would cause Governor Geyer to punish the Nayhathaways by refusing to trade with them.Kelsey,following his condemnation of the Nayhathaways (Cree), presented the Nayatame Poets’ (Gros Ventres) Captain,“wth a present coat & sash cup & one of my guns wth knives awls & tobacco with small quantities of powder & shott & part of all such things as ye Governr, had sent me.” The pleased and grateful captain acknowledged the gifts,saying,“he was sorry he had not wherewithall for to make me Restitution for wt I had given him.” However,he promised Kelsey that he would meet him at Deering’s Point in the forthcoming spring and accompany his party down to York Factory.Unfortunately,this plan was not to materialize.During the winter of 1691/1692,the Nayhathaways killed two members of the Nayatame band which generated sufficient fear,“lest ye home (Cree) Indians would not le ym up again into their own Country.” This meeting took place on September 12,1691,which was the last recorded daily entry in Kelsey’s journal of his second inland journey.The location of its occurrence could have been in the general vicinity of Kinistino, Saskatchewan,some 113 miles north by northwest of his previous meeting with the Assinae Poets.
Since Henry Kelsey failed to provide a
narrative of his whereabouts during the autumn of 1691,as well as the ensuing winter, one can surmise that is was spent in the Parkland region of eastern Saskatchewan encompassing the Beaver Hills on the south and Red Deer River on the north.The beaver could be trapped in this area,proliferated by ponds,creeks,and rivulets.It was also a sanctuary for the winter retreat of the buffalo from their summer and autumn habitat in the Prairie region.
Kelsey’s final revelation relates to an episode at Deering’s Point in the spring of 1692, preparatory to his canoe fleet going down to York Factory.An arriving party of Indians, who were to join the fur brigade,presented a gift to Kelsey from the Captain of the Nayatame band.It consisted of,“a pipe and stem of his own making.” A message accompanied the gift in which he requested that if Kelsey,“would send him a piece of tobacco form ye factory upon ye return of ye same indians he would certain y come down ye next year.”
Henry Kelsey,in the company of his contingent of Indian traders and their fur cargoes,arrived at York Factory during late June or early July,1692.He was accompanied by his “country wife” whom he had married, in the Indian manner,sometime during his inland journeys.Kelsey had assumed that she would be allowed to reside with him within the confines of York Factory,but Governor Geyer initially refused his request.Such cohabitation with native women,within the fort’s enclosure,was permissible to the governors of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s forts but not to its indentured servants.After much remonstrating on Kelsey’s part,with his ultimatum of severing his affiliation with the Company,Governor Geyer acquiesced.
Governor Geyer was well please with Henry Kelsey’s accomplishments and reported,by letter in 1692,to the Governor and Committee in London that,“Henry Kelsey came down with a good fleet in Indians.” The Committee’s reply to Geyer,which he received in June of the following year,stated: “We are glad that Henry Kelsey is safe returned,and brought a good Fleet of Indians down with him;and hope he was effected that which he was sent about in keeping the Indians from warring one with another.” (orig.,1930,rptd.,1973,Innis,Harold A.:The Fur Trade in Canada,pub.Univ.of Toronto Press,p.122).
Henry Kelsey’s career with the Hudson’s Bay Company spanned a period of 38 years. He had commenced employment with the Company at York Factory in 1684,when as a 14-year-old lad,he was indentured for
four years as an apprentice.His remuneration for this period was,“£8 and two shutes of apparell.”
Kelsey became,apart from his extraordinary inland journeys of 1690-1692,a seasoned mariner in voyages of exploration and trade with the Eskimo,within the confines of Hudson Bay.In 1701 he served as master on the frigate Knight,followed in 1706 as mate on the frigate Perry.Later,he was appointed captain of the vessel Prosperous,sailing out of York Factory,along the northwest coast of the Bay in 1719 and 1721.(1908,Burpee, Lawrence J.:The Search For The Western Sea; pub.,The Musson Book Company,Toronto, pp.85,113).
In 1714,he was made Deputy Governor to Governor James Knight at York Factory and four years later reached the pinnacle of his calling,when he was promoted to the position of Governor-in-Chief at York Factory,serving as overseer of all Company posts located on the coast of Hudson Bay. Kelsey’s lengthy service ended in 1722,being recalled to England by the Company’s committee in London.He died in 1729 and is thought to have been buried at the place of his birth in East Greenwich,England.
On a somewhat pathetic note,his widow,
Elizabeth Kelsey,petitioned the Committee in London for money to,“putting out her son apprentice” and was awarded in January, 1730 a sum of ten pounds and six shillings. Later,in 1734,she again petitioned the Committee for money,“to buy her son John Kelsey Cloths she being wholly incapable to do it herself.” The same year she was awarded by reason:“considering the former Service of his Father the sd Henry Kelsey Ordered the sum of £6.60 to be laid out for cloths for hum and that ye Secr see the same laid out.” (1936,MacKay,Douglas;The Honourable Company:A History of the Hudson’s Bay Company,pub.,McClelland & Stewart,Toronto,p.66).
It is presumed that Henry Kelsey’s wife Elizabeth was his native wife who bore him a son,John.It is further presumed that both remained at York Factory subsequent to Henry’s recall to London in 1722.It was customary for “country wives” of Chief Traders and Factors to remain at Company’s posts following their husbands’ retirements and their return to civilization.The various posts became the retirement homes of these disengaged wives where they received food and shelter during the remaining years of their lives.
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APEGGA ANNOUNCES NEW LEADERSHIP
Edmonton – Linda Van Gastel,P.Eng.,has become the 85th President of The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA).Established in 1920,APEGGA is responsible for regulating the practice of engineering,geology,and geophysics in the province of Alberta.
A University of Alberta graduate,Van Gastel began her career with Western Research and Development.In 1976,she joined PanCanadian Petroleum Limited (now EnCana) and is now retired and lives in Calgary.She has served APEGGA for 13 years,including five years on council.
Van Gastel was sworn in today at APEGGA’s Annual General Meeting in Edmonton and is the Association’s second woman president.
“I look forward to consulting with and
engaging our membership in continuing APEGGA’s efforts to make licensure more accessible to competent people practicing engineering,geology,and geophysics. APEGGA’s paramount concern is protecting public safety and well-being,” says Van Gastel.
Van Gastel is joined on APEGGA’s council by past-president Mike Smyth,P.Eng.;newlyelected president-elect Larry Staples,P.Eng.; and former council member and newlyelected vice-president Dave Chalcroft,P.Eng. Newly-elected councillors include:Chrys. Dmytruk,P.Eng.;Dr.John Peirce,P.Geoph.; Jane Tink,P.Eng.;and Wim Veldman,P.Eng.Reelected for a second term is Nick Trovato, P.Eng.Councillors continuing in office include: Julie Aitken,P.Geoph.;Kim Farwell,P.Eng.; Darcie Greggs,P.Geol.;Jack Hole,P.Eng.; Barbara Howes,P.Eng.;Dr.Ian McIlreath, P.Geol.;and Dr.John Moldon,P.Eng.Public members include Dr.Larry Ohlhauser,Hugh
Planche,and Dr.Norm Wagner,OC,LLD., who has been reappointed to a second threeyear term by the Minister of Alberta Human Resources and Employment.
APEGGA’s more than 40,000 members play a significant role in every segment of the economy.The safety and well-being of Albertans is paramount to the Association and its members.
For more information,please contact: Philip Mulder,APR Manager Communications,APEGGA
Phone:(780) 426-3990 or 1-800-661-7020
Cell:(780) 499-3873
E-mail:pmulder@apegga.org
EXCELLENCE IN ENGINEERING AND GEOSCIENCE RECOGNIZED AT THE 2004 APEGGA SUMMIT AWARDS® GALA
Edmonton – Over 900 business and community leaders attended the 2004 Summit Awards® Gala,Friday,April 23 at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton.The event,hosted by The Association of Professional Engineers,Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA), acknowledges outstanding individuals and corporate members for their accomplishments in engineering,geology,and geophysics.
Now in its 14th year,the Summit Awards® honour professional engineers,geologists, and geophysicists whose determination, commitment,and leadership has a significant and long-term impact on the professions, APEGGA,and the communities in which they live.Eleven awards were presented this year celebrating superior leadership,early accomplishment,environmental excellence, technical and educational achievement, professional and community service,project innovation,and distinguished service to the Association.
This year’s theme,Making the Circle Stronger,reflects APEGGA’s ongoing changes and initiatives in the area of inclusivity – the concept that there is a place inside the circle for all who practice engineering,geology,and
geophysics.Making the Circle Stronger also symbolizes the strength of the professional engineer’s iron ring and the professional geologist’s and geophysicist’s earth rings and the important connections that exist within and between the professions.
Established in 1920,APEGGA is responsible for regulating the practice of engineering, geology,and geophysics in the province of Alberta.The Association’s more than 40,000 members play a significant role in every segment of the economy,and their technical and management expertise ensure Alberta remains at the forefront of technological innovation.
For more information,please contact:
Philip Mulder,APR Manager Communications,APEGGA
Phone:(780) 426-3990,1-800-661-7020
Cell:(780) 499-3873
E-mail:pmulder@apegga.org
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1) Mississippian Subcrops and Devonian Reef Edges – Alberta, NE BC, Sask. and NWT- completely updated in 2003/04
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2004 APEGGA SUMMIT AWARDS
THE CENTENNIAL LEADERSHIP AWARD
• Ronald Triffo,P.Eng.(Edmonton)
• for outstanding leadership,an exemplary career and significant contributions to the Profession in Alberta
Triffo began his career with Stantec in the late 1970s and was appointed President in 1983 and Chairman in 1998.Today,with 4,000 employees,50 straight years of profitability and having completed more than 40,000 projects in 80 countries,Stantec has a track record of consistently delivering excellence to corporations,global institutions,and all levels of government throughout North America and internationally.
THE PROJECT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
• TELUS Next Generation Network (NGN) Project
• for substantial technological progress and betterment of society
The TELUS Next Generation Network (NGN) project is an industry-leading engineering accomplishment involving conception,planning, design,and implementation of a carrier-class single IP-based network to carry all forms of communications traffic,including voice,data, and video.TELUS’ NGN provides the infrastructure required to reduce TELUS’ network costs while bringing a variety of enhanced capabilities and services to customers.
THE EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AWARD
• Dr.Michael J.Brett,P.Eng. (Edmonton)
• for exemplary contributions to teaching and learning
Dr.Brett has been a faculty member in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta since 1986.His achievements in the classroom were recognized in 1994 with the University’s highest teaching award,the Alexander Rutherford Awards.Dr.Brett became Director of Engineering Physics in 1995.He is also very committed to the mentoring of colleagues and junior professors.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AWARD
• Stuart M.Torr,E.I.T.and Christina M. Dingman,E.I.T.(Calgary)
• for environmental preservation and practice of sustainable development Torr and Dingman lead Komex’s Renewable Energy Group with their ongoing research into solar energy technology.Their accomplishments represent a critical step in uniting action on climate change with
ongoing economic activity in Alberta.By offering Alberta’s industries a versatile, renewable,and low-emission power source, they have made significant progress in promoting the efficient and responsible use of energy and natural resources.
THE EARLY ACCOMPLISHMENT AWARD
• Dr.Jocelyn L.H.Grozic (Calgary)
• for exceptional achievement in the early years of a professional career In the ten years since receiving her Bachelor’s
degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Alberta,Dr.Grozic has completed her PhD and been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Research Council of Norway to undertake research at the prestigious Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary.Dr. Grozic is one of only a few researchers in the world studying gas hydrates and gassy soils. Her research to date has made fundamental contributions to the field of soil mechanics.
THE ALBERTA INGENUITY FUND RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD
• Dr.C.Michael Oballa,P.Eng.;William L.Wong,P.Eng.;Chi M.Wong,P.Eng.; and Les Benum (Calgary)
• for innovative research used to improve economic and social well-being
NOVA Research & Technology Centre in Calgary embarked on a research program leading to the development of cracking coils that would have inert surfaces,thus limiting the formation and deposition of catalytic coke.The research program was initiated and led by Dr.Oballa,in close collaboration with W.Wong,C.Wong,and Benum.This technology represents the most advanced surface science chemistry and is the best product on the market to reduce coke formation and deposition during the steam cracking process.
THE COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
• Kathleen E.Sendall,P.Eng.(Calgary)
• for outstanding contributions to society
Sendall has been with Petro-Canada in various positions of increasing responsibility since 1978.She has also devoted significant time and effort to numerous local,provincial,and national community and professional groups. Her volunteer work spans involvement in community affairs and technical and educational career development with special assistance to youth in particular.
THE EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION AWARD
• Dr.Ronald J.Hugo,P.Eng.(Calgary)
• for exemplary contributions to teaching and learning
Dr.Hugo has been receiving teaching awards and recognition from both students and peers since joining the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Calgary in 1999.Every year since his arrival,he has been selected for his department’s Teaching Excellence Award and is also the first and only two-time winner of the Faculty of Engineering’s Teaching Excellence Award.
THE FRANK SPRAGINS TECHNICAL SERVICE AWARD
• Dr.Elizabeth Cannon,P.Eng.(Calgary)
• for recognized integrity,expertise, and outstanding accomplishments
Dr.Cannon joined the University of Calgary in 1991 and has had a stellar career in research,teaching and service to the university and professional communitie.She has made major and sustained contributions to the development,dissemination,and commercialization of satellite-based positioning and navigation technology in Canada and internationally and has played an important role in the successful training of scores of engineering students and professionals.
HONORARY LIFE MEMBERSHIP
• Michael W.Smyth,P.Eng.(Calgary)
• for eminent service to the Association
EXECUTIVE COMMENT
12% (or 17 papers ),may have emanated from industry.I say may because I have given the benefit of the doubt to industry affiliation, even for those papers where university professors are co-authors - unless in the acknowledgements it is explicitly stated that the study was the result of graduate research.Of the industry papers,13 were authored by persons working at an E&P company (as opposed to the service or consultant side of the industry).By way of contrast,our membership is comprised of 85% (or approximately 2,400 members) who work for E&P companies,according to the 2003 membership survey.It would certainly be interesting to see if the numbers reported herein mirror similar statistics for the 1980s or 1970s;is there a trend of decreasing industry contribution to the Bulletin?
In retrospect the apparent imbalance between membership and (senior) authorship are results that could have been
anticipated,but nonetheless a certain irony manifests itself.Our Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology,it turns out,has very few contributions from Canadian petroleum geologists actually working directly in the industry and reporting on work being carried out in the oil patch.
Why is this so? The obvious answers are 1) time,2) the proprietary nature of data and interpretations in a competitive business, and 3) our use of sufficient knowledge (e.g., the 80/20 rule) in an environment of constantly changing priorities and distractions – in other words,just not enough apparent detail to warrant publication.In any event,do the numbers suggest that we (industry-types) must reconcile ourselves to being readers only? The easy answer may be yes,but I wonder if there might be contributions lurking out there that,with a little massaging,might turn into excellent Bulletin submissions.Allow me to suggest the following:
Completing his term as president,Smyth has been a member of APEGGA since 1983. Smyth has assumed numerous leadership roles with APEGGA,serving on council (1998-2002),as vice-president (2002-2003), and as president (2003-2004).Prior to assuming an executive role on APEGGA’s council,Smyth served on numerous committees and was chair of the Calgary branch executive (1993-1994).
THE L.C. CHARLESWORTH PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AWARD
• John D.Boyd,P.Geoph.(Calgary)
• for diligent service,substantial contributions,and advancement of professional status
After spending a number of years in Australia and England,Boyd returned to Calgary and formed Boyd Exploration Consultants (now Boyd PetroSearch) in 1977.The company has evolved into a large group with broad capabilities in resource consulting and is universally trusted for high standards and reputation for integrity.Boyd has also served APEGGA on numerous committees and was a member of council from 1996 to 1999.
• integrated development studies for 100% owned properties
• regional play assessments in non-strategic areas
• short notes on intriguing phenomenon seen in core or in logs (or both)
• reports on outcrop studies (generally undertaken for analog purposes)
• summary work on special core analyses for a given horizon
To all of you who do contribute in other ways to the learning process,may I heartily commend your efforts ...we’re all better for it.To those who have even remotely thought of contributing a paper for the Bulletin – go for it!
Oh by the way,while we wait for the flood of new papers from industry that this editorial will spawn,you folks out there in academia and in government-sponsored institutions ...keep those cards and letters coming!
On February 10th 2004 the CSPG held it’s first Volunteer Appreciation Day – graciously sponsored by Baker Atlas – at the Telus Convention Centre.The social event was a success with many volunteers attending who enjoyed the complimentary wine and finger food while networking with their peers.
The purpose of this appreciation party was to help thank and acknowledge the many volunteers that enable this society to provide quality services,publications,and events to our membership each year.
In order to help strengthen our message of
gratitude,ten prize draws were presented through donations from the Calgary Zoo, Earl’s,Pied Pickle,Oh Canada,James Joyce, Nexen,geoLOGIC,and the CSPG;with one grand prize consisting of a weekend getaway in Canmore courtesy of the Radisson Hotel & Conference Centre in Canmore.
Congrats to the ten volunteers who won prize draws:Rick Steedman (Grand Prize Winner),Corey Hooge,Chris Tanglis,Clint Tippett,Graham Davies,Karl Jors,Ralph Rudser,Pearl Deugo,Elizabeth Atkinson and Pat Jans.
Thank you very much to everyone who has volunteered within the CSPG and bravo to the 2003 recipients of the Tracks,Service,and Volunteer awards.
The Volunteer Management Committee
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CSPG 15th Annual Mixed Golf Tournament
Friday, August 27, 2004 D’Arcy Ranch
Golf Club
Modified Texas Scramble, shotgun start at 8:00am. Teams will be assigned according to handicap or average score. This is a fun tournament open to both men and women. Registration includes continental breakfast, dinner, green fees, power carts and many draw prizes. Priority will be given to CSPG members until August 6th.
Guests are welcome to join us for dinner after the tournament is over; the fees are as follows:
Registration for dinner only (Includes GST): Dinner only: $25.00 (Includes GST)
FEES TOTAL: _______________
Entry must be accompanied by the full fee. Registration will be accepted on a first come first served basis with priority given to CSPG members until August 6, 2004. Registration deadline is August 18. A $10 handling fee will be assessed against refunds, with no refunds for cancellations after 5:00 pm August 23. Send cheques payable to the CSPG Mixed Golf Tournament to the following address or fill out the Credit Card form below and mail or fax to:
CSPG 15th Annual Mixed Golf Tournament
c/o David Middleton Petro-Canada Oil & Gas #2266 PCCW, 150, 6 Ave. S.W., Calgary, AB T2P 3E3 Tel: 296-4604 Fax: 296-5176 email: middletn@petro-canada.ca
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(Events across Wednesday,August 4th through Saturday August 14th)
Two Great Meetings –
One Great Event
Rocky Mountain Section (RMS) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) hosted by the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) in conjunction with The Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Strategy Conference & Investment Forum,hosted by the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA).
All who have keen interest in petroleum resources of the Rockies will want to attend the August AAPG Rocky Mountain Section Meeting.This meeting will be enhanced because it will be held jointly with the Colorado Oil & Gas Association (COGA) and the Natural Gas Strategy and Investment Forum.
THANK YOU TO OUR 2004 STUDENT INDUSTRY FIELD TRIP SPONSORS:
Effective the 1st of April 2004 I have assumed the Chair of the CSPG Educational Trust Fund for a period of two years.I accepted this position at the request of the Executive and I am looking forward to this new challenge.Any of you that know me or have read any of my “Executive Comments” in the Reservoir over the last three years will know that the Educational Trust Fund is responsible for the funding of many of the programs that are near and dear to my heart.It is because of these programs and their future funding requirements that I am prepared to commit my time and monetary support.
The Educational Trust Fund was initially setup as the 50th Anniversary Fund in 1976 to fund the Student Industry Field Trip (SIFT).The field trip brings over thirty of the top undergraduate students (primarily 3rd and 4th year) from every university geoscience faculty across Canada to Calgary in May for a two-week introduction to the Petroleum Industry,including presentations and lectures,exploration games,field trips, and over-flights.Many of these ‘SIFT babies’ have gone on to become active members of our industry and profession.
Over the last several years the mandate and scope of the Trust Fund has been broadened to encompass not only SIFT but all aspects of Public Outreach,including the Honourary Address,and University Outreach,including Regional Scholarships, Undergraduate Scholarships,Graduate Thesis awards,the Andy Baillie Awards (for best student poster and oral presentation at the Annual Convention) and the Visiting Lecturer Program that takes select speakers to earth science faculties across Canada.The Fund has also assumed the philanthropic commitments for the CSPG including projects such as EdGeo,which conducts geological field trips for junior and senior high school science teachers across the country.
Funding for these programs amounts to over $200,000,derived from several sources:
• The CSPG Executive directs $75,000 of the members’ money on an annual basis;
• Sponsorships of the programs by corporations and individuals;and
• Income from the ETF’s endowment, currently with liquid assets of approximately $800,000.
With the CSPG contribution,sponsorship and cost recoveries through tickets sales,the demand on the Fund on an annual basis is between $75,000-100,000 per year.To sustain the Fund’s principle,rates of return must exceed 10% per annum,rates that are difficult to obtain without putting our capital at risk.Effective two years ago the ETF’s endowment was placed with the Calgary Foundation to manage.The Calgary Foundation manages over $169 million in philanthropically derived funds.
The CSPG Executive strongly believes that it is important to endow the Educational Trust Fund with sufficient funds to guarantee the long-term ability of the ETF to fund these endeavors.In order to ensure that the Fund’s principle is not whittled away,the Fund should be increased to between $2-2.5 million.The fund will need to be increased by $1.2 to $1.7 million to achieve this goal.The CSPG Executive has committed to the ETF that it will transfer any excess funds on an annual basis.The amounts transferred to the ETF have been between $75,000 and $100,000.Corporate sponsorship and individual donations have helped to cover annual operating expense to date,however,it is through contributions from the individual members that we will be able to achieve the capital endowment goal.Donations to the Educational Trust Fund are tax deductible and can be directed into the fund’s principle so that your contribution will be working for the Fund year after year.
Over the next several months we will be featuring in the Reservoir the various projects that the Educational Trust Fund supports.We on the ETF Board hope that these articles will demonstrate the role that the Fund plays in introducing our science to the Public and University Geosciences community.
Bruce G.McIntyre Chairman,CSPG Educational Trust Fund Email:mcintyr8@telus.net
The 2004 AAPG-RMS-COGA energy summit will showcase experts on petroleum science and energy business.Are you looking for a giant oil and gas field? Business and science experts will discuss sound development,pipeline infrastructure,and competitive investments.Technical sessions, panel discussions on the Future of Energy and the Role of the Rockies,exhibits, courses,trips,and business contacts will make this event valuable for the customer. Events span eleven days (see Timeline Table) - note field trips in three states,11 themes in technical and panel discussions,including field case-studies,coalbed methane and shallow gas development,essential technologies and new oil and gas plays. Short-courses are timely,including a core workshop featuring shale resource potential.
The AAPG keynote luncheon on Monday August 9th will feature Scott W.Tinker, Ph.D.,Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology and State Geologist of Texas,to present,“Unconventional Gas and Global Energy:Is it Mountain Standard Time?” Basins of the western USA are emerging as sites for supply of clean energy in demand by consumers.Western basins include conventional and unconventional gas plays in underdeveloped areas.Geoscience ideas and new technologies will help unlock those reserves.
The Tuesday morning Mega-Session welcomes attendees from both the RMSAAPG Meeting and the COGA Conference. Designed to appeal to the business and science perspectives,the two plenary sessions and the keynote luncheon session address the place of natural gas in the future of world energy,the overall importance of gas to the nation,and the role of the Rockies in providing much of that supply.
The Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Strategy Conference & Investment Forum offers excellent panels on the future of energy,the romance of exploration,the nature of sound development and updates on expanded transportation to move Rockies gas to destination markets.
This event is unique because two organizations combine for maximum information transfer:The Rocky Mountain Section of AAPG,a professional organization representing ten AAPG-affiliated Rocky Mountain geoscience organizations, including the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists,with a collective 3,500 members, and the Colorado Oil & Gas Association,a proactive trade association for Colorado and Rocky Mountain oil and natural gas
exploration and production,market,supply and transportation issues.Members of both groups include finders,producers,gatherers and processors,pipelines,refiners and utilities.Additionally petroleum business experts in the Rocky Mountain Region guide COGA.
The price is right! $295 preregistration for the RMS-AAPG meeting is all-inclusive (technical sessions,Exhibits,Continental Breakfasts,Luncheons and Icebreakers on Monday and Tuesday).For an additional $50 you can have access to all the COGA sessions too.
Golf at beautiful Red Hawk Ridge in Castle Rock,enjoy one or more day-trip tours near Denver (or dig into geology on the multiday trips),visit exhibits and posters, participate in the range of technical discussions,and you will be a Rockies petroleum information winner!
Information websites:www.coga.org and www.rmag.org
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I.C.E. 2004
On behalf of the CSPG,CWLS and CHOA we would like to thank the I.C.E 2004 Organizing Committee for all of their hard work in making this years convention a great success!
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
General Co-Chair (CSPG)
Ian Moffat
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