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March 2/10/06 11:24 PM Page 1 Canadian Publication Mail Contract - 40070050 $3.00 VOLUME 33, ISSUE 3 MARCH 2006 ■ 2006 WIUGC Conference A Great Success ■ Poco Pembina ■ The BMO Retirement Trends Study – Overview ■ 2006 CSPG CSEG CWLS Joint Convention March 2/10/06 11:24 PM Page 2 March 2/10/06 11:24 PM Page 3 CSPG OFFICE #160, 540 - 5th Avenue SW Calgary,Alberta, Canada T2P 0M2 Tel:403-264-5610 Fax: 403-264-5898 Web: www.cspg.org Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm CONTENTS Business Manager:Tim Howard Email: [email protected] Office Manager: Deanna Watkins Email: [email protected] Communications Manager: Jaimè Croft Larsen Email: [email protected] Conventions Manager: Lori Humphrey-Clements ARTICLES Email: [email protected] Corporate Relations Manager: Kim MacLean Email: [email protected] 4TH ANNUAL CALGARY YOUTH SCIENCE FAIR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED . .12 EDITORS/AUTHORS 2006 WIUGC CONFERENCE – A GREAT SUCCESS . 27 Please submit RESERVOIR articles to the CSPG office. Submission deadline is the 23rd day of POCO PEMBINA . 31 the month, two months prior to issue date. (e.g., January 23 for the March issue). THE BMO RETIREMENT TRENDS STUDY – OVERVIEW . 35 To publish an article, the CSPG requires digital copies of the document. Text should be in 2006 CSPG CSEG CWLS JOINT CONVENTION . 38 Microsoft Word format and illustrations should be in TIFF format at 300 dpi. For additional information on manuscript preparation, refer to the Guidelines for Authors published in the CSPG Bulletin or contact the editor. DEPARTMENTS COORDINATING EDITOR & OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE COMMENT . 5 Jaimè Croft Larsen CSPG TECHNICAL LUNCHEONS . 9 Tel:403-264-5610 Fax: 403-264-5898 Email: [email protected] ROCK SHOP . 14, 23 TECHNICAL EDITOR Ben McKenzie DIVISION TALKS . 17 Tarheel Exploration Tel:403-277-4496 CALENDAR OF EVENTS . 20 Email: [email protected] ADVERTISING JACK PORTER: VIGNETTES OF CANADIAN PETROLEUM GEOLOGY . 21 Kim MacLean Corporate Relations, CSPG Tel:403-264-5610, Ext 205 Email: [email protected] Advertising inquiries should be directed to Kim MacLean. The deadline to reserve advertising space is the 23rd day of the month, two months prior to issue date. All advertising artwork should be sent directly to Kim MacLean. The RESERVOIR is published 11 times per year by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. This includes a combined issue for the months of July/August. Advertisements, as well as inserts, mailed with the publication are paid advertisements. No endorsement or sponsorship by the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists is implied. The CSPG Rock Shop is an attractive and affordable way to target the CSPG readership. Spaces are sold at business card sizes (3.5” wide by 2” high). To reserve space or for more information, please contact Kim MacLean at 403-264-5610, ext. 205. The contents of this publication may not be reproduced either in part or in full without the consent of the publisher. Design & Layout by Sundog Printing. FRONT COVER Printed in Canada by Sundog Printing. Cameron Falls, Waterton National Park, Alberta. Cameron Falls exposes dolomites and limestones of the Middle Proterozoic Waterton and Lower Altyn formations (Purcell Supergroup), some of the oldest rocks found in Additional copies of the RESERVOIR are available the Canadian Rockies. Historically, oil seepages originating in Altyn dolomites along nearby Cameron Creek first at the CSPG office for $3.00. attracted explorationists to this part of Alberta in the late nineteenth century. Photo by Darran Edwards. 3 March 2/10/06 11:24 PM Page 4 March 2/10/06 11:24 PM Page 5 EXECUTIVE COMMENT A MESSAGE FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT Southeast Asia where each Bulletin article was Jim Reimer “keyed in” by two typists. Getting the Bulletin Result Energy completely digitized has taken a long time but Tel:539-5207 Fax: 234-7116 [email protected] it is satisfying to report that PDFs of every article ever published in the Bulletin are now VICE PRESIDENT accessible to all our members through our Colin Yeo revamped website. Encana Tel:645-7724 [email protected] A few years into the job I heard that a number of big geological societies such as AAPG and PAST PRESIDENT GSA were planning on setting up a system of Jeff Packard Burlington NAVIGATING THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY digital access to their publications. We were Tel:260-8041 Fax: 269-8285 It is nearly five years ago that I was asked to able to get in on the ground floor of this [email protected] join the CSPG Executive. I had run for office project and I even got the chance to serve on FINANCE DIRECTOR both in the mid-70s (under a Flat Earth Society the committee that provided advice on the Marty Hewitt banner) and the mid-80s but both times I was design of the system.This initiative has become Encana soundly defeated in the elections. Who says GeoScienceWorld, which is a wonderful Tel:645-2544 Fax: 290-6668 CSPG members are not astute judges of resource for digital access to many great [email protected] character? The Executive position being offered geological journals including our Bulletin. The ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR was called Senior Managing Editor and is now current editor of the Bulletin, Glen Stockmal, Peter Harrington called Communications Director. The main now looks after our continued participation in Rudyard Oil & Gas task of the job is to coordinate a number of GeoScienceWorld and he is envisioning Tel:234-7622 Fax: 237-8837 [email protected] activities through which CSPG communicates additional ways to take advantage of this with its members and the outside world.These format. GeoScienceWorld has given our PROGRAM DIRECTOR include our two main publications, the Bulletin Bulletin the same digital qualities as those Memory Marshall of Canadian Petroleum Geology and The medical journals that had shown me the joys Husky Energy Tel:270-1869 Reservoir, our annual Calendar, the recently of electronic access. It also puts our [email protected] rejuvenated Public Affairs Committee, and our publication on the same playing field as all the ever-growing Electronic Communications other journals and keyword searches pop up ACTING PROGRAM DIRECTOR Committee. It was the last activity that articles from our journal as readily as those Doug Hamilton Encana attracted me to the job and the desire to get from the other publications. I invite all our Tel:290-3193 Fax: 290-3129 things going in this field was my motivation for members to experience GeoScienceWorld [email protected] accepting the position. Of course the through links on the CSPG website. opportunity to join the executive through the ASSISTANT PROGRAM DIRECTOR Nadya Sandy backdoor and avoid another crushing electoral The Reservoir has provided another way of Esso defeat had its attractions too. looking at things whilst trying to navigate the Tel:237-3925 Fax: 237-4234 information highway. When I arrived on the [email protected] In 2001, CSPG was just starting to go digital scene The Reservoir was actually The Sink and SERVICE DIRECTOR and to me there was no doubt this was the was costing the Society a lot of money.To me Shannon Nelson Evers future. My medical research hobby had the solution was to simply go to a digital EnCana Corporation exposed me to the websites of many medical Reservoir which would be emailed to our Tel:645-7651 Fax: 645-3352 [email protected] journals that were fully digital and it was so members every month. Costs would be much easier to surf the web rather than to minimal and advertising would allow a modest ASSISTANT SERVICE DIRECTOR haunt the stacks of the U of C medical library. profit. Of course there was considerable hand- Dave Newman Luckily, other people such as Glenn Karlen, wringing around the Executive table when I McDaniel & Associates Tel:218-1392 Fax: 233-2744 our original webmaster, also envisioned such a suggested such a solution because at that time [email protected] future for CSPG publications and within a year many of our members still were not we had a functional search engine for all our comfortable with digital products. Fortunately COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR publications up on the CSPG website. Tim Howard, our Business Manager, had a Ashton Embry GSC - Calgary Opportunity then presented itself in the form better solution. He hired Kim MacLean, a Tel:292-7125 Fax: 292-4961 of a company called DataPages that offered to crackerjack Corporate Relations Manager, [email protected] digitize all our Bulletins back to 1953 for no and she went out and sold more advertising cost.The only string attached was they had the for The Reservoir than you can imagine. This OUTREACH DIRECTOR David Middleton right to market the digital product and would then put great pressure on our Reservoir Petro-Canada share the profits. I could not wait to sign the editor,Ben McKenzie, to ensure The Reservoir Tel:296-4604 Fax: 296-5176 contract but it took about a year to get the did not become The Flyer. Ben admirably rose [email protected] agreement worked out. Once the deal was to the challenge and greatly increased the CORPORATE RELATIONS done, Glenn Karlen and Jaime Croft Larsen, information/scientific content of the Jim Reimer our Communications Manager, took on the Reservoir. As I am sure most of you have Result Energy task of assembling three copies of every issue noticed, this has resulted in a much bigger and Tel:539-5207 Fax: 234-7116 of the Bulletin. These eventually ended up in [email protected] (Continued on Page 7...) 5 March 2/10/06 11:24 PM Page 6 PETRA_ depths visions innovations results that exceed all others.