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SIPES 45th
ANNUAL MEETING
Diane Finstrom, Executive Director (sipes@sipes.org) • Advertising & Sponsorship
Information Now Available
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 by phone to Doug Watkins at 512-542-9780 or by e-mail dougwatkins@austin.rr.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: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: Bay Room, 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 Amy in David Desenberg's office: 361-884-8741, by fax at 361-882-7816, or by email at aburford@braytoncc.com by 11:00 a.m. Friday preceding the meeting. Members are encouraged to bring guests.
Luncheon Cost: Members are free, and $20.00 for guests.
Announced Meeting: Wednesday, May 21, 2008. "The Oil Patch, Ain't it Great!!!" by Red McCombs. This is a joint meeting with CCGS/CBGS at the Solomon Ortiz Center. If your reservation is made through Amy by Friday preceding the meeting, it is free. Otherwise, if you respond later, or to CCGS, John Bockelman will charge you $22.
Mr. McCombs was born in 1927 in Spur, Texas. He attended Southwestern University and the University of Texas School of Business and School of Law before beginning his career as a salesman in the automobile business in Corpus Christi in 1950. He relocated to San Antonio in 1958 where he became partner and then sole partner of Red McCombs Automotive. In addition to his vehicular interests, Mr. McCombs is co-founder of Clear Channel Communications and McCombs Energy Corporation and is active in a variety of other businesses.
Mr. McCombs is the former owner of the Minnesota Vikings, Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs. He purchased his first professional sports team at age 25, the Corpus Christi Texas Clippers in the Big State Baseball League.
Luncheon
Meetings: Royal
Oaks Country Club, 3rd Tuesday, 11:30
A.M.
Luncheon Cost: Members paid in advance by annual fees. Guests $18.00.
Announced Meeting: Friday, May 9, 2008. Annual Mexican Fiesta Night Where: Royal Oaks Country Club When: Bar opens at 6:30 p.m. Cost: Guests will cost $40 Call in your reservation to 214-571-6458 by Friday, May 2, 4:00 p.m. Please spell your full name and the name of your spouse/date for the badges.
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.
Luncheon Meetings: Fort Worth Petroleum Club, 3rd Thursday, at 11:30 A.M. (Carter-Burgess Center, 777 Main Street, 39th Floor, Ft. Worth, TX 76102; Telephone 817-335-7571).
Reservations: RSVP to Jamie Robertson at jdrrannoch@sbcglobal.net by Tuesday preceding the meeting. Guests are encouraged to attend.
Luncheon Cost: $15.00 for members, $20 for non-members and $5 for students
Announced Meeting: April 17, 2008. "Tips to Optimize Your 2008 Tax Accounting" by W. L. (Woody) Mathews, Jr., CPA, Partner, Auldridge Griffin, PC, Cleburne and Fort Worth, Texas.
Luncheon Meetings: 3rd Thursday at the Houston Petroleum Club in the Discovery 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.sipes-houston.org), or e-mail bkspee@aol.com to B. K. Starbuck-Buongiorno by 12:00 noon on Tuesday preceding the meeting. You can now sign up for the meeting online at www.sipes-houston.org, but payment is still required by regular mail or at the door.
Cost: SIPES Members and Chapter Affiliates who register by 12:00 Noon Tuesday pay $30; cost goes up to $35 for new registrations at the door. The price for guests, non-members and walk-ins is $35.00. (No-shows will be billed.)
Announced Meeting: May 22, 2008. "Bayou Postillion: Phoenix in the Swamp, Iberia Parish, Louisiana" by Chris Chaffin, Penn Virginia Oil & Gas, L.P. The luncheon will be held in the Coastal Room on the second floor of the Petroleum Club this month. The date of the May luncheon has been changed from May 15, the usual third Thursday of the month, to May 22, so that it does not conflict with the SIPES Annual Convention in New Orleans on May 12-15.
Significant discoveries are still being found in onshore south Louisiana. Bayou Postillion is a prolific oil and gas field in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. The field was discovered in 1956 and has produced in excess of 340 BCFE to date. New activity on the southern flank of the field has given rise to a large discovery in south Louisiana. The pay zone is the upper Oligocene Discorbis 14. Reserves are estimated at approximately 70 BCFE. Penn Virginia Oil & Gas, L.P. started leasing the structural crest in 2004 while Century Exploration Houston leased the down dip acreage. The difference in leasing practices leads back to the 3D seismic survey. The pay section gives a seismic amplitude response that had been interpreted as pay and/or sand thickness. The addition of wells in an up dip position proved that sand thickness was the more likely culprit of the seismic response.
Chris Chaffin is currently an explorationist with Penn Virginia Oil & Gas, L.P. working the Miocene and upper Oligocene of south Louisiana. He began his career with El Paso Production Company in Houston and has also worked for Hilcorp Energy Company. Chris has a B.S. in geology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and an M.S. in geology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Future
Meetings:
Luncheon Meetings: Petroleum Club, 2nd Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Contact David Dupre at 337-269-1821.
Announced Meeting: March 12, 2008. Speaker and topic TBA
Future
Meetings:
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Luncheon Meetings: Midland Country Club, 3rd Wednesday, 11:15 A.M. Contact Greg Hair at 432-682-9653 or gregeol@mccabeenergy.com. Have a glass of wine before the meeting. Get caught up on the latest take-over rumors, exploration plays, investment opportunities, and political hot topics!
Luncheon Cost: $15 for guests. Guests: Prospective members are always welcome at our lunches.
Announced Meeting: March 26, 2008. "Closing the personnel gap, outreach and education for the next generation of oil and gas professionals" by Susan Schrader, Assistant Professor of Petroleum Technology.
An often voiced concern in the oil and gas industry is the shortage of qualified personnel. In order to mitigate problems in this area, it is important to motivate young people to consider a career in the industry, and provide the appropriate educational offerings to help them to be successful. This talk will address both of these issues, by first looking at the results of an extensive survey about the industry given to two groups of high school students (one in an “oil town” and one in which oil and gas do not play a significant role in the local economy), and then looking at the educational offering that the region’s four-year university, UTPB is providing to help prepare students for industry careers.
The surveys given to junior
and senior high school students
gauged the interest in
careers in the oil and gas
industry and helped to
quantify the reasons that
students may not be seeking
out these careers. Information
from this study will
provide valuable insight for
companies and universities
Future Meetings:
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: March 18, 2008. Speaker will be Eric Orgeron, produce and process designer/inventor in Chalmette.
Eric Orgeron is a design engineer originally from Lafayette who resides in Chalmette. He is the owner/inventor of ReaLures. Eric is currently working on several business and environmental solutions having real impact on the South Louisiana environment.
The Green Corridor Solution for coastal Louisiana and the region takes into consideration South Louisiana's assets, problems and environmental realities to create a balanced, workable play of action that provides funding mechanisms for hurricane protection, wetlands restoration and economic development regionally. Starting with the utilization of the to-be-closed Mississippi River Gulf Outlet as the main shipping channel into the Port of New Orleans, the design culminates in the utilization of the Mississippi River channel for hydroelectric power. Ten separate concepts are combined to form a unitized solution. Eric will present his ideas and solicit support and constructive suggestions following his presentation.
Luncheon Meetings: Petroleum Club, 35th Floor of Bank One Building. 1st Wednesday at 11:30 AM. Reservations Required: Contact Jennifer at Mr. Terry Hollrah's office, 405-773-5440 before 4:00 p.m. Tuesday preceding the meeting. Luncheon Cost: Members paid in advance with chapter fees. Guests $15.00. No charge for first-time eligible guests interested in membership. Announced Meeting: April 9, 2008. "Reservoir Characterization of Mississippian-Aged Rocks in Comanche County, Kansas" by Dennis Hedke.
An exploration program which targeted Mississippian-aged rocks was initiated by Woolsey Operating Company, LLC in 2004. An initial conventional P-wave 3D seismic survey identified potential, but lacked total confirmation of the original objectives. The original survey was expanded via multi-component recording or p-wave input. This talk will focus on seismic stratigraphy, post-stack processing for impedance inversion, AVO indicators associated with gas accumulation, other attributes, both geometric and volumetric, which were evaluated to guide exploratory drilling in a challenging geological environment.
Mr. Hedke graduated from Kansas State University in 1976 with a B.S. in geophysics. He entered the energy industry as a wellsite consultant, reporting to the regional office of Cities Services Company in Oklahoma City. He was granted an M.S. in materials science from the University of Virginia School of Engineering in 1979. Since that time, he has been engaged in various capacities in the energy industry, working initially as a staff geologist/geophysicist for independents.
Future Meetings:
Luncheon Meetings: Petroleum Club of San Antonio (Frio/San Miguel Room) 8620 N. New Braunfels Ave., 7th Floor, 3rd Thursday, 11:30 A.M. Business meeting at 11:00.
Reservations Required: Call Doreen Brooner at 210-822-9092 by Wednesday before the meeting.
Luncheon Cost: Members paid in advance by quarterly dues. Guests and Chapter Affiliates - $15.00.
Announced Meeting: April 17, 2008. "A Canadian Adventure - Geology and Hydrology of the Canadian Shield"by Ed Miller.
Get a piece of the rock: bring your rock hammer and hand lens.
Notice: SIPES
Chapter Correspondents - Please send, fax or email
your monthly meeting notices to the SIPES
National office to be included on this page. Help to keep our meeting
data up to date!
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