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Drilling Techniques Cooperative Geological Mapping January 12/14/05 12:35 PM Page 1 Canadian Publication Mail Contract - 40070050 $3.00 VOLUME 33, ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2006 ■ Drilling Techniques ■ Cooperative Geological Mapping Strategies ■ 2006 CSPG CSEG CWLS Joint Convention January 12/14/05 12:35 PM Page 2 January 12/14/05 12:35 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] DRILLING TECHNIQUES . 26 EDITORS/AUTHORS COOPERATIVE GEOLOGICAL MAPPING STRATEGIES . 33 Please submit RESERVOIR articles to the CSPG office. Submission deadline is the 23rd day of the month, two months prior to issue date. 2006 CSPG CSEG CWLS JOINT CONVENTION . 37 (e.g., January 23 for the March issue). To publish an article, the CSPG requires digital copies of the document. Text should be in Microsoft Word format and illustrations should be in TIFF format at 300 dpi. For additional DEPARTMENTS information on manuscript preparation, refer to the Guidelines for Authors published in the CSPG EXECUTIVE COMMENT . 5 Bulletin or contact the editor. COORDINATING EDITOR & OPERATIONS TECHNICAL LUNCHEONS . 9 Jaimè Croft Larsen CSPG DIVISION TALKS . 15 Tel:403-264-5610 Fax: 403-264-5898 Email: [email protected] JACK PORTER: VIGNETTES OF CANADIAN PETROLEUM GEOLOGY . 22 TECHNICAL EDITOR Ben McKenzie ROCK SHOP . 32 Tarheel Exploration Tel:403-277-4496 Email: [email protected] ADVERTISING 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. Canmore, Alberta. EEOR (East End of Rundle), above Canmore, Alberta – a famous locality for rock-climbing enthusiasts. Bedded, Upper Devonian Fairholme Group carbonates at the base (partially treed and snow-covered), Additional copies of the RESERVOIR are available overlain by massive, cliff-forming Palliser Group limestones, with Carboniferous Banff Formation calcareous shales at the CSPG office for $3.00. forming the peak.Viewed from the Bow River Valley, looking west. Photo by Jason Sullivan. Caption by Grant Mossop. 3 January 12/14/05 12:35 PM Page 4 January 12/14/05 12:35 PM Page 5 EXECUTIVE COMMENT A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST PRESIDENT EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT # of Yearly Capital Jim Reimer geoscientists expended ($B) Result Energy Energy 5,000 6.00 Tel:539-5207 Fax: 234-7116 [email protected] Minerals 4,000 0.50 University2 450 0.10 VICE PRESIDENT Government Colin Yeo Agencies 1,200 0.13 Encana Tel:645-7724 Environmental 1,500 0.20 [email protected] Surficial Geology 100 ? Total 12,250 PAST PRESIDENT Jeff Packard Burlington Canada has had a national umbrella Tel:260-8041 Fax: 269-8285 THE ROLE OF THE CSPG ON THE NATIONAL organization for the earth sciences since 1972. [email protected] GEOSCIENCE STAGE The Canadian Geoscience Council (CGC) FINANCE DIRECTOR When I first came on to the executive in was created by an order-in-council as a follow- Marty Hewitt January of 2004, someone inquired of me what up to recommendations from a report written Encana issue I was going to make my own – in short, by Dr. R.A. Blais, then affiliated with the Tel:645-2544 Fax: 290-6668 what achievement would mark my presidential Science Council of Canada. The CGC is the [email protected] term. I must say the question completely sum of its parts, that is, the constituent ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR caught me off guard. After mumbling some geoscience societies and/or organizations and Peter Harrington gibberish and quickly changing topics – I found their collective will and effort (i.e., CSPG, Rudyard Oil & Gas myself reflecting further on the question. I had CSEG, GAC, CWLS, PDAC, GSC, etc.). The Tel:234-7622 Fax: 237-8837 [email protected] no master plan, no great agenda. All I really 33-year history of the CGC is far from wanted to provide, with the help from the monochromatic, both good years and bad PROGRAM DIRECTOR more experienced members of the executive, years, successes and failures have marked its Memory Marshall was solid stewardship of the Society – actually existence. More recently, despite successful Husky Energy Tel:270-1869 mere survival without impeachment didn’t outreach and international coordination [email protected] strike me as setting the bar too high. But alas, efforts, the CGC as a whole has been slowly nature, as they say, abhors a vacuum. If I was sliding into irrelevance.The CSPG has had an ACTING PROGRAM DIRECTOR unwilling to seek out a mission, then apparently ambivalent relationship to the CGC. We first Doug Hamilton Encana a mission would come looking for me. But I joined in 1973, withdrew our membership Tel:290-3193 Fax: 290-3129 digress... let me start at the beginning. from 1995 to 2002, and tentatively joined up [email protected] again in 2003. From our society’s perspective, The non-renewable minerals and petroleum the CGC was generally viewed as neither ASSISTANT PROGRAM DIRECTOR Nadya Slemko resource sectors in Canada spend effective, nor representative. Esso approximately $6.5B in capital on an annual Tel:237-3925 Fax: 290-6668 basis.Approximately 9,000 geoscientists (with It seems almost unthinkable that a country [email protected] a minimum of a B.Sc.) are employed in these such as Canada, with an economy critically SERVICE DIRECTOR industries, without whom, to state it bluntly linked to the non-renewable resource sector, Shannon Nelson Evers but accurately, these industries could not would not have a vibrant and effective national ConocoPhillips exist. We are absolutely critical cogs in the (and international) voice for the geosciences. Tel:233-3113 Fax: 233-5374 [email protected] upstream resource industry. We have found, So, what to do - give up, or be part of the mapped, then guided the development of, solution? The CSPG has decided on the latter, ASSISTANT SERVICE DIRECTOR mineral, uranium, hydrocarbon, and coal indeed we are now playing a pivotal leadership Dave Newman resources whose cumulative production value role in trying to effect positive and truly McDaniel & Associates 1 Tel:218-1392 Fax: 233-2744 has reached some $1.1T . – and on annual substantial change. John Hogg and Craig Lamb [email protected] basis represents 3.5% of Canada’s GDP. We initially and cautiously brought us back to the are, as a profession, charged with exploring for table and Gerry Reinson in 2004 agreed to COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR and developing the resources that will sustain serve as a director on the CGC during this Ashton Embry GSC - Calgary Canada’s economy and standard of living into transition/renewal period. Tel:292-7125 Fax: 292-4961 the 21st century and beyond – a heady [email protected] mandate! For all that, we virtually have no It is probably premature to state with voice on the national stage. Our confidence what will ultimately emerge OUTREACH DIRECTOR David Middleton profession is literally “not on the radar screen (phoenix-like!), but I would like to share with Petro-Canada of decision makers in Canada” (to quote a you what is on the table at present.We have Tel:296-4604 Fax: 296-5176 highly-placed bureaucrat in Ottawa – but the proposed a structural/organizational model [email protected] same is probably true for Edmonton). that was “agreed to in principle” CORPORATE RELATIONS by key representatives of nearly all the major Jim Reimer In very approximate terms, the breakdown of earth science-related societies in Canada at a Result Energy geoscientists in Canada are shown in the meeting in Calgary this past June (Figure 1). Tel:539-5207 Fax: 234-7116 following table: (Continued on Page 7...) [email protected] 5 January 12/14/05 12:35 PM Page 6 January 12/14/05 12:35 PM Page 7 THE CSPG GRATEFULLY (...Continued from Page 5) reports to the Directorate. Its role is primarily ACKNOWLEDGES ITS The new organization has to be relevant, one of advocacy and advice (directed toward, CORPORATE MEMBERS: effective, representative, accountable, and or in response to, government and public “owned,” and the structure is designed to policy), but it will also be the principal facilitate such an outcome. interface of the new organization with industry, special interest groups, and the ABU DHABI OIL CO., LTD. (JAPAN) The “Canadian Geoscience Institute” is merely general public.The Board will be composed of BAKER ATLAS a placeholder name for the new organization.
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