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November 10/12/06 11:31 PM Page 1 Canadian Publication Mail Contract - 40070050 $3.00 VOLUME 33, ISSUE 10 NOVEMBER 2006 ■ Thank You for your esprit de corps ■ 18th Annual CSPG/CSEG 10K Roadrace and Fun Run ■ 17th Annual CSPG Mixed Golf Tournament ■ Episode Global Tectonics ■ Understanding Reservoir Geometry helps Optimize your Waterflood November 10/12/06 11:31 PM Page 2 November 10/12/06 11:31 PM Page 3 CSPG OFFICE #600, 640 - 8th Avenue SW Calgary,Alberta, Canada T2P 1G7 Tel:403-264-5610 Fax: 403-264-5898 Web: www.cspg.org Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm Business Manager:Tim Howard CONTENTS Email: [email protected] Communications Manager: Jaimè Croft Larsen Email: [email protected] Conventions Manager: Lori Humphrey-Clements Email: [email protected] Corporate Relations Manager: Kim MacLean ARTICLES Email: [email protected] Membership Services: Sarah Barton THANK YOU FOR YOUR ESPRIT DE CORPS . 17 Email: [email protected] Reception/Administration:Tanya Santry DEANNA WATKINS - CONGRATULATIONS & THANKS . 26 Email: [email protected] YOUR CSPG STAFF: AN UPDATE . 29 EDITORS/AUTHORS Please submit RESERVOIR articles to the CSPG 18TH ANNUAL CSPG/CSEG 10K ROADRACE AND FUN RUN . 30 office. 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Photo by Jerry Osborn. at the CSPG office for $3.00. 3 November 10/12/06 11:31 PM Page 4 November 10/12/06 11:31 PM Page 5 EXECUTIVE COMMENT A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST PRESIDENT, JEFF PACKARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT In general, I’m not entirely alone in having Jim Reimer these nagging doubts. The graph below Result Energy portrays the response of 238 industry-based Tel:539-5207 Fax: 234-7116 [email protected] geologists (mostly) and geophysicists to a 2004 CSPG survey question. Fully 30% did VICE PRESIDENT not consider themselves geoscientists, and Colin Yeo another 30% were riding the fence. Why, Encana Tel:645-7724 pray tell, would such a large percentage of [email protected] degreed individuals (25% or more with higher degrees!) who are currently working PAST PRESIDENT in their discipline, not consider themselves Jeff Packard Burlington geo-scientists? Tel:260-8041 Fax: 269-8285 [email protected] A MEA CULPA AND A SERMON FOR THE After some reflection on this issue, the FINANCE DIRECTOR CONVERTED thought struck me that my perspective was Marty Hewitt A little while ago I found myself engaged in a completely absurd. Furthermore I’ve Encana post-game conversation with a new member decided, in a calm and introverted fashion, Tel:645-2544 Fax: 290-6668 of our FOG (‘Fat Old Guys’) hockey team. that I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to [email protected] He inquired about my schooling and I offered take it anymore! GEOSCIENCE ROCKS! ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR in response that I had a Ph.D. from the Peter Harrington University of Ottawa in ...science. Well If the earth sciences have an under-inflated Rudyard Oil & Gas nobody gets a Ph.D. in generalized ‘science’ image it comes largely from two half-truths. Tel:234-7622 Fax: 237-8837 [email protected] (an honourary D.Sc. maybe), and my piece of Firstly, a large proportion of geoscientists parchment clearly indicates a Ph.D. in work in the non-renewable resource PROGRAM DIRECTOR geology. So why had I been so obtuse? The exploration/extraction field.2 Be it mining or Memory Marshall very sad truth is, and I admit this with great petroleum, neither industry enjoys a Husky Energy Tel:270-1869 reluctance, I must have hoped that this new particularly enviable reputation with the [email protected] acquaintance would fill in the discipline blank public. In many cases the public perception is himself and perhaps think my area of very dated, and in other instances it is just ACTING PROGRAM DIRECTOR expertise was in a more exalted field like plain wrong, but it’s out there folks! This was Doug Hamilton Encana chemistry or physics.WOW! I might as well particularly brought home to me upon Tel:645-3193 Fax: 645-3590 have backed the car over my own dog. That receipt of some short surveys taken the past [email protected] sin of omission weighed heavily on my two years with some 60 SIFT students, conscience, and although it mostly was a representing all areas of Canada. Arguably ASSISTANT PROGRAM DIRECTOR Nadya Sandy reflection of the sad state of my own ego, at these 3rd-year students should be Esso least a small part has to be attributed to how particularly predisposed to the energy Tel:237-3925 Fax: 237-4234 society mirrors back to us an image of our sector – a biased sample if ever there was [email protected] profession and the perceived importance of one. After all, these students are studying 1 SERVICE DIRECTOR Earth Sciences. (Continued on page 14...) Shannon Nelson Evers EnCana Corporation Tel:645-7651 Fax: 645-3352 Do You Consider Yourself a Geoscientist? [email protected] ASSISTANT SERVICE DIRECTOR Dave Newman 50 McDaniel & Associates Tel:218-1392 Fax: 233-2744 [email protected] 40 COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR Ashton Embry GSC - Calgary 30 Tel:292-7125 Fax: 292-4961 [email protected] All Respondents 20 OUTREACH DIRECTOR David Middleton Petro-Canada 10 Tel:296-4604 Fax: 296-5176 Respondents of Percentage [email protected] 0 CORPORATE RELATIONS Yes Partly No Jim Reimer Result Energy Answers Tel:539-5207 Fax: 234-7116 [email protected] 5 November 10/12/06 11:31 PM Page 6 1st impressions are made in 3 seconds count on us BECAUSE WE TAKE TREMENDOUS PRIDE IN WHAT WE DO SUNDOG PRINTING...SERVICES BEYOND PRINT VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT www.sundogprint.com A DIVISION OF THE DATA GROUP OF COMPANIES November 10/12/06 11:31 PM Page 7 THE CSPG GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES ITS GEOSCIENTISTS FOR OUR FUTURE CORPORATE MEMBERS: A MESSAGE FROM THE CSPG EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND public education at the K-12 level, as well as ABU DHABI OIL CO., LTD. (JAPAN) general public awareness of our profession. APACHE CANADA LTD. The major university initiative to date, the BAKER ATLAS Student Industry Field Trip (SIFT), has been BG CANADA EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION, INC. extremely successful in attracting young, enthusiastic geoscientists into our industry. BP CANADA ENERGY COMPANY Going forward, the Trust plans to increase its BURLINGTON RESOURCES CANADA LTD. exposure to the university student body through specific outreach programs that CANADIAN FOREST OIL LTD. provide individual scholarships and CANETIC RESOURCES TRUST departmental lectures on topics related to On behalf of the CSPG Educational Trust Fund petroleum geoscience. 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