Canadian Publication Mail Contract - 40070050 $3.00 VOLUME 31, ISSUE 1 JANUARY 2004 I GeoSciEd IV A Great Success - Your CSPG Was There! I Coming to Grips with Sequence Stratigraphy I I.C.E. 2004 – Innovation, Collaboration and Exploitation CSPG – CHOA – CWLS Joint Conference I Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists 2004 Executive Committee . way the p of ry ste u eve ith yo we’re w l & gas, In your pursuit of oi For more than 10 years, IHS Energy (Canada) has provided the most comprehensive and trusted oil and gas information and software tools for the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin, Northern Territories, and East Coast. From mineral rights to surface information, E&P data to M&A, we offer an unmatched breadth of data and analysis tools. We've aligned our proven products and services with your business goals and workflow processes. Now, we're proud to add the International Petrodata (IPL) Well file to our product suite. 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(403) 699-5374, [email protected] Or By mail:AAPG Canada Region, c/o CSPG, 160, 540 – 5th Avenue SW, Calgary,AB,T2P 0M2 *CORPORATE MEMBERS AS OF NOVEMBER 24, 2003 5 EXECUTIVE COMMENT A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST PRESIDENT PRESIDENT The fund is now responsible for all of the Craig Lamb previously run CSPG outreach programs Husky Energy including the Honourary Address, the Link Tel: 750-1499 Lecture Tour, SIFT (SIFT has always been run by the ETF), and the newly formed University [email protected] Outreach committee (under the guidance of Past President Brad Hayes) and other VICE PRESIDENT philanthropic efforts aimed at the education of Jeff Packard the public to our science and profession. The Burlington Resources Canada ETF continues to struggle with corporate and Tel:260-8041 Fax: 269-8285 individual funding, which leads to the CSPG [email protected] supplementing the Fund’s coffers in order that it be able to conduct its outreach programs. This PAST PRESIDENT is especially important at a time when young John Hogg professionals are turning away from our EnCana Corporation industry and the average age of the membership My year as President has come and gone with is now closer to 50 than 40! Tel:645-2533 Fax: 645-2453 such speed I don’t know what hit me, and I’m [email protected] sure the Executive Committee is still wondering It appears that the industry is still in a state of what hit them! denial concerning the ever-approaching lack of FINANCE DIRECTOR young professionals entering the industry. The Pauline Chung During my tenure as your President, I had set need to recruit, hire, and most importantly, Burlington Resources Canada out a few, modest goals for our Society. So how train, a new group of young geoscientists before Tel:260-1713 Fax: 260-1160 did we do on those goals? the baby boomers, including myself, start to look forward to the “freedom 55” plan in the [email protected] First off, let me reassure each of you that our next five to seven years is now becoming Society is in strong financial shape. Our 2003 critical. I keep expecting to see a round of ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR conference held in conjunction with the CSEG hiring by the industry that will resemble the one Allan Schink was a great success, with a first-class technical in the late seventies or early eighties before the Berland Exploration program, a wonderful exhibit area, a great much-hated National Energy Policy closed the icebreaker, and strong field trips and short Tel:770-2002 Fax: 770-2051 door at many of the large operators.