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SIPES 49th
ANNUAL MEETING
Diane Finstrom, Executive Director (sipes@sipes.org) • Advertising & Sponsorship
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Luncheon Meetings: County Line on the Hill Restaurant, 6500 Bee Caves Road, 1st Thursday, starts at 11:30 a.m. with speaker and lunch beginning at 12:00 noon. Reservations: RSVP to Ward Davenport at wdaven@earthlink.com Walk-ups are welcome, but RSVP to help us accommodate everyone. Cost: No charge for SIPES Austin Chapter members and affiliates who are pre-paid with chapter dues. Guests and prospective members are welcome to attend. Announced Meeting: January 5, 2012. "The Global Energy Transition - What Will it Take to Make the Switch?" by Scott W. Tinker, Director, Bureau of Economic Geology. Energy impacts every aspect of our lives – yet energy remains a vast and complex subject. For the past two years I have been filming a major documentary on global energy. Based on personal visits to many of the world’s leading energy sites and conversations with top industry, academic and government leaders, I will look inside the complex world of energy and provide a realistic and balanced view of energy supply, demand, efficiency, infrastructure, and scale. All major forms of energy will be considered. We will make several discoveries together, some anticipated and others unexpected, and in so doing attempt to simplify and unravel the energy transition.
Dr. Scott W. Tinker is the Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, the State Geologist of Texas, the director of the Advanced Energy Consortium, a Professor holding the Allday Endowed Chair and acting Associate Dean of Research in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. Scott spent 17 years in the upstream oil and gas industry prior to coming to UT in 2000. Scott is past President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (‘08-‘09) and the Association of American State Geologists (’06-’07). Tinker was a Distinguished Lecturer for the AAPG (’97), Society of Petroleum Engineers (‘02), and Distinguished Ethics Lecturer for the AAPG (’06-’07) and has won best paper awards in two major technical journals. Tinker holds appointments on the National Petroleum Council, the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and serves on several private, professional, and academic boards. Tinker’s passion is building bridges between academia, industry and government and he has given over 400 invited and keynote lectures and visited nearly 50 countries towards this end. His latest project is a feature-length energy documentary, co-produced with award winning filmmaker Harry Lynch. Tinker’s degrees are from the University of Colorado (Ph.D.), the University of Michigan (MS), and Trinity University (BS).
Luncheon Meetings: Corpus Christi Town Club, Last Tuesday, 11:30 AM. There will be a cash bar available for those wishing to come early and socialize. Reservations Required: Contact Linda Phelps: office - 361-883-0055, fax - 361-883-0066, or email - lphelps@xogoperating.com by 9:30 a.m. Friday preceding the meeting. Members are encouraged to bring guests. Luncheon Cost: Members are free, and $20.00 for guests. Announced Meeting: Friday, January 31, 2012. "A Ditch of a Dream: Bringing the Gulf Intracoastal Canal to South Texas" by Mary Jo O'Rear. Starting in 1966, Mary Jo worked as a secondary teacher in the Corpus Christi Independent School District for thirty-two years. Receiving a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi in 1973, she returned to college after retirement and earned a Master's degree in history and political science from Texas A&M University-Kingsville in 2001. Afterward, she taught United States history at Del Mar College, has been vice-president and secretary of the Nueces County Historical Society, and was treasurer of the South Texas Historical Association. She has also spoken before the Texas State Historical Association, the East Texas Historical Association, and as part of the Corpus Christi Museum's Winter Texan Series. In October 2009 she was a featured speaker at the Texas Book Festival in Austin.She was Woman's History Breakfast chair for two years in the East Texas Historical Association, has served on two Texas State Historical Association committees, and just this summer was appointed to the advisory board of the new Lone Star: the Magazine of Texas History. Her article, "Silver-Lined Storm: the Impact of the 1919 Hurricane on the Port of Corpus Christi," won the Keith Guthrie Memorial Award from the Nueces County Historical Association in 2005, and the H. Bailey Carroll Award from the Texas State Historical Association in 2006. Another work, "Reckoning at the River: Unionists and Secessionists on the Nueces, 1862," was part of an anthology about Texas that won the A.M. Pate, Jr. Award for excellence in Civil War writing in December 2009. Her book, Storm Over the Bay: The People of Corpus Christi and their Port, published by Texas A&M Press, came out in March 2009 and was a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Best Scholarly Book Award in May 2010. Two other works to which she contributed, Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas 1865-1874 and African Americans in Corpus Christi, are scheduled for release this spring.
Luncheon
Meetings: Dallas Petroleum Club, 2200 Ross Ave., 3rd Tuesday, 11:30
A.M. Luncheon Cost: Members paid in advance by annual fees. All guests must pay $30. Announced Meeting: January 17, 2012. "'Undiscovery Notes' - Industry Lessons & Implications for the Re-Evaluation of Development Potential in a Shallow Oil Field" by Jere B. Jay, #2772, CEO of INNEX Energy, LLC & INNEX California, Inc. Jere co-founded INNEX in 1999 after working for Tenneco & ARCO in California in the 1980s and ARCO International in the Middle East, Turkey, the Black Sea and Russia's Sakhalin Basin in the 1990s. Mr. Jay's specialty is developing new opportunities by creatively combining new ideas with old data. Future Meetings:
Luncheon Meetings: Wynkoop Brewing Company 1634 18th St. (18th and Wynkoop Streets, across from Union Station). 4th Thursday. Gather at 11:30 a.m. Lunch served at 12 noon. Reservations required for all meetings: Call the SIPES Denver Chapter message line at 303-730-2967. At the end of the message, leave your name and phone number and the name of any guest you are bringing to the meeting. Or make your reservation via e-mail to sipesdenver@yahoo.com. Reservations must be made by noon on Monday preceding the meeting. Luncheon Cost: $20.00 per person (unless you pay your annual dues). Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available. Fort Worth
Luncheon Meetings: Meets at 11:30 a.m. at the Fort Worth Petroleum Club on variable days to avoid conflicts with other societies and events. Reservations: RSVP to Terri Mayfield-Cowan at tmc@paluxyridge.com by noon on Tuesday preceding the meeting. Guests are encouraged to attend. Luncheon Cost: $20.00 for members, $25 for non-members Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: 3rd Thursday at the Houston Petroleum Club in the large banquet room, 800 Bell St. (downtown Houston). Social period 11:15 a.m. and lunch 11:45 a.m. Reservations Required: Make reservations by telephone (713-651-1639), fax (713-951-9659), website (www.sipeshouston.org), or e-mail bkspee@aol.com to B. K. Buongiorno by 12:00 noon on Friday preceding the meeting. Cost: SIPES Members and Chapter Affiliates who register by 12:00 Noon Tuesday pay $30; cost goes up to $35 for late and walk-up registrations. The price for guests and non-members is $35.00. (No-shows will be billed.) Announced Meeting: Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Please note the date change. SIPES and SPEE Joint Luncheon. "North American Natural Gas: $13 to $3; Where Do We Go Now?" by Keith Barnett, Spring Rock Production, Houston, Texas. Natural gas prices have remained under downward pressure as Lower 48 production continues to grow faster than underlying secular demand. How much longer can the market sustain a growing production input to the supply and demand balance? Declining net imports helping the supply side along with two cold winters and two record hot summers plus gains in market share against coal-based generation have kept the market from collapsing to producer shut-in costs. Activity in Marcellus, Eagle Ford,
and the mid-Continent will exceed
declines in Haynesville and Barnett
shales leading to 2012 production
at higher levels than 2011. Will
increasing demand, declining net
imports, weather, or increases in
storage capacities and inventories
solve the imbalance or will it come
down to price? Keith participated in two National
Petroleum Council studies which
included leading the power demand
team in the 2003 natural gas study
and serving on the steering and
report-writing committees. He also led the Natural Gas Task Force for the
Edison Electric Institute for several He will retain his consulting firm, Barn-Hill Energy Resources, which currently
serves a select group of clients on energy
market analytics and risk management.
Keith has an engineering degree from Future Meetings:
Luncheon Meetings: Petroleum Club, 2nd Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Contact David Dupre at 337-269-1821. Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: Midland Country Club, 3rd Wednesday. Contact Robert Wynne at 432-683-4600 or robert@escondido-resources.com. Social period with complimentary wine at 11:15 a.m. and lunch at 11:45 a.m. Luncheon Cost: $20 for guests. Guests: Prospective members are always welcome at our lunches. Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: Andrea's Restaurant in Metairie. 3rd Tuesday of each month from September through May. Social w/ cash bar 11:30, Lunch and speaker 12:00 Noon. Reservations Required: Contact Ed Barry at 504-835-2508. Deadline is two days before the meeting. Luncheon Cost: Members are paid in advance with chapter fees. Guest fee is $30. Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: Petroleum Club, 35th Floor of Bank One Building. 1st Wednesday at 11:30 AM. Reservations Required: We will no longer be taking individual reservations and there will not be calls made to Terry Hollrah's office. Instead, we will have a certain number of tables ready each month. Luncheon Cost: Members paid in advance with chapter fees. Guests $15.00. No charge for first-time eligible guests interested in membership. Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: Petroleum Club of San Antonio (Frio/San Miguel Room) 8620 N. New Braunfels Ave., 7th Floor, 3rd Thursday, 11:30 a.m. Executive Board meeting at 11:00 a.m. Reservations Required: Call Doreen Brooner at 210-822-9092 or email doreenbrooner@hotmail.com by Tuesday before the meeting. Luncheon Cost: Members paid in advance by quarterly dues. Please bring your meeting announcement card with you to check in - your dues must be current. Guests and Chapter Affiliates - $25.00. Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available. Notice: SIPES
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