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The Vital Role of the Geoscientist in Effective Horizontal Drilling 21 Horizontal Drilling in Western Canada Part 5: The Vital Role of the Geoscientist in Effective Horizontal Drilling and Completions 25 March is National Engineering & Geoscience Month: Design the Future! 26 Go Take a Hike $10.00 FEBRUARY 2013 VOLUME 40, ISSUE 2 Canadian Publication Mail Contract – 40070050 > GEOSCIENCE SOFTWARE > CRITICAL INFORMATION > CONNECTED WORKFLOWS CONNECTED AT EVERY TOUCH POINT The IHS suite of geoscience software—which includes IHS Petra®, Kingdom®, LOGarc™ and GeoSyn™—is designed to seamlessly connect to the industry’s leading source of critical Oil & Gas information, eliminating the need to move data manually from source to source and project to project. With this powerful new combination, users can streamline data transfer, enhance database performance and simplify project sharing. The result? Workflows that connect like never before. Connected workflows mean that IHS customers spend less time looking for data and more time looking for the next big opportunity. It’s just one of the many ways that IHS helps to advance the decisions that advance the Oil & Gas industry. Streamline data transfer and simplify project sharing with Find out more at IHS.com/geoscience IHS geoscience software and critical O&G information. FEBRUARY 2013 – VOLUME 40, ISSUE 2 ARTICLES Photo of the Month ............................................................................................................... 15 CSPG OFFICE Horizontal Drilling in Western Canada #110, 333 – 5th Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 3B6 Part 5: The Vital Role of the Geoscientist in Effective Horizontal Drilling Tel: 403-264-5610 Web: www.cspg.org and Completions ................................................................................................................. 21 Office hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 4:00pm 2012 CSPG Honorary Address ............................................................................................ 24 Executive Director: Lis Bjeld Tel: 403-513-1235, Email: [email protected] March is National Engineering & Geoscience Month: Design the Future ............ 25 Event Coordinator: Kelsey Green Tel: 403-513-1225, Email: [email protected] Go Take A Hike ...................................................................................................................... 26 Member Services: Tel: 403-264-5610, Email: [email protected] Fall Lecture Tour Wrap-Up ................................................................................................ 29 > GEOSCIENCE SOFTWARE Publications and Website: Emma MacPherson > Email: [email protected], Tel: 403-513-1230 CRITICAL INFORMATION Programs Development: Aileen Lozie DEPARTMENTS > CONNECTED WORKFLOWS Tel: 403-513-1227, Email: [email protected] Executive Comment .......................................................................................................... 5 Database Administrator and Accounting: Kasandra Amaro Maternity leave until January 2014 Corporate Sponsorship: Lis Bjeld Technical Luncheons .......................................................................................................... 8 Tel: 403-513-1235, Email: [email protected] Controller: Eric Tang Division Talks .................................................................................................................... 12 Tel: 403-513-1232, Email: [email protected] Continuing Education ...................................................................................................... 16 EDITORS/AUTHORS Please submit RESERVOIR articles to the CSPG office. Rock Shop ................................................................................................... 14, 22, 23, 28 Submission deadline is the 23rd day of the month, two months prior CONNECTED to issue date. (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 AT EVERY TOUCH POINT format at 300 dpi., at final size. For additional information on manuscript preparation, refer to the Guidelines for Authors published in the CSPG Bulletin or contact the editor. Technical Editors The IHS suite of geoscience software—which includes IHS Petra®, Ben McKenzie Colin Yeo (Assistant Tech. 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The deadline to reserve advertising space many ways that IHS helps to advance the decisions that advance the Oil & is the 23rd day of the month, two months prior to issue date. Gas industry. 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 and August. The purpose of the RESERVOIR is to publicize the Society’s many activities and to promote the geosciences. We look for both technical and non-technical material to Streamline data publish. Additional information on the RESERVOIR’s submission guidelines can be found at http://www.cspg. transfer and simplify org/publications/pubs-reservoir-submissions.cfm. project sharing with Find out more at IHS.com/geoscience The contents of this publication may not be reproduced either in part or in full without the consent of the IHS geoscience publisher. Additional copies of the RESERVOIR are available at the CSPG office. FRONT COVER software and critical No official endorsement or sponsorship by the CSPG is implied for any advertisement, insert, or article that Miocene carbonate aeolian deposits displaying multi-directional cross-stratification and O&G information. appears in the Reservoir unless otherwise noted. All submitted materials are reviewed by the editor. We reserve the right to edit all submissions, including letters to the Editor. Submissions must include your name, honeycomb weathering in Andalucia, Spain. Photo by Chad Glemser. address, and membership number (if applicable). The material contained in this publication is intended for informational use only. While reasonable care has been taken, authors and the CSPG make no guarantees that any of the equations, CORRECTION: schematics, or devices discussed will perform as expected or that they will give the desired results. Some information contained herein may be inaccurate or may vary from standard measurements. The spelling of Gerald Wendland’s last name was incorrect The CSPG expressly disclaims any and all liability for the acts, omissions, or conduct of any third-party user in the Service Awards listing found in the January 2013 edition of information contained in this publication. Under no circumstances shall the CSPG and its officers, directors, employees, and agents be liable for any injury, loss, damage, or expense arising in any manner whatsoever of the Reservoir. We apologize for this error. from the acts, omissions, or conduct of any third-party user. Designed and Printed by The Data Group of Companies, Calgary, Alberta. RESERVOIR ISSUE 2 • FEBRUARY 2013 3 Want to bring geology back into geophysical interpretation? All Aboard Landmark’s new DecisionSpace® Desktop software accelerates seismic interpretation with geomodel-enabled workflows. The geophysics and geology modules in Landmark’s new unified DecisionSpace® Desktop software share the same topology engine. 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