September_1 8/14/06 3:41 PM Page 1 Canadian Publication Mail Contract - 40070050 $3.00 VOLUME 33, ISSUE 8 SEPTEMBER 2006 ■ 2007 CSPG Stanley Slipper Medal ■ Glen Ruby Scholarship Announcement ■ Executive Committee Call for Nominations ■ Kindergarten Dinosaurs and Rocks September_1 8/14/06 3:41 PM Page 2 September_1 8/14/06 3:41 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 Email: [email protected] ARTICLES Membership Services: Sarah Barton Email: [email protected] Reception/Administration:Tanya Santry CSPG BOOKSTORE – NEW TITLES! 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COORDINATING EDITOR & OPERATIONS DEPARTMENTS Jaimè Croft Larsen CSPG EXECUTIVE COMMENT . 5 Tel:403-264-5610 Fax: 403-264-5898 Email: [email protected] TECHNICAL LUNCHEONS . 9 TECHNICAL EDITOR DIVISION TALKS . 15 Ben McKenzie Tarheel Exploration CALENDAR OF EVENTS . 19 Tel:403-277-4496 Email: [email protected] ROCK SHOP . 26, 28 ADVERTISING JACK PORTER – VIGNETTES OF CANADIAN PETROLEUM GEOLOGY . .27 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. FRONT COVER Design & Layout by Sundog Printing. Dead Vlei, Namib Naukluft Park, Namibia. A salt-encrusted dry lake named for its large, dead Camelthorn Printed in Canada by Sundog Printing. trees, some of which are up to 500-years-old. This area lies in the Sossus Vlei area, which is thought to be one of the oldest deserts known to man. This photo was taken at the base of Big Daddy, the tallest dune on Additional copies of the RESERVOIR are available the planet with a height of approximately 325m. Photo by Rhea Karvonen and Doug Neilson. at the CSPG office for $3.00. 3 September_1 8/14/06 3:41 PM Page 4 September_1 8/14/06 3:41 PM Page 5 EXECUTIVE COMMENT A MESSAGE FROM THE FINANCE DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT Jim Reimer Result Energy not to mention the enhanced technical Tel:539-5207 Fax: 234-7116 [email protected] contribution to the membership that having a full slate of quality short courses and field VICE PRESIDENT trips creates. It is also hoped that a focus on Colin Yeo increasing the technical content in the Encana Tel:645-7724 Reservoir will also lead to enhanced [email protected] revenues and profits in the future. PAST PRESIDENT As you are probably now aware, the society Jeff Packard Burlington is moving offices to Suite 600, 640-8th Tel:260-8041 Fax: 269-8285 Avenue SW (the Western Union Building) [email protected] The Assistant Finance Director's main job as of August 20, 2006. In addition to FINANCE DIRECTOR within the CSPG is the creation of the providing the CSPG with more space for Marty Hewitt budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which meetings and other Society business, the Encana begins September 1st. It is then this offices will be shared with the CSEG, Tel:645-2544 Fax: 290-6668 individual's responsibility to monitor how providing for more interaction between our [email protected] the society's income and expenses are two Societies. Since most geologists work ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR tracking the budget through the end of the closely with their geophysical counterparts, Peter Harrington fiscal year at which time he or she has taken and with a regular schedule of joint Rudyard Oil & Gas on the duties of Finance Director. Much of conventions planned for the future, this Tel:234-7622 Fax: 237-8837 [email protected] the data collecting required for the increasing cooperation will be good for budgeting process is coordinated by the both Societies as well as their members. PROGRAM DIRECTOR CSPG's Business Manager,Tim Howard, and Also, thanks again to the hard work of Tim Memory Marshall as with all Assistant Finance Director's who Howard along with the Executive, we were Husky Energy Tel:270-1869 came before me, I am deeply indebted to able to negotiate a lease on new office [email protected] Tim for all his work on behalf of the society. space in the red-hot Calgary commercial I am also thankful for the help and guidance real estate market which should have ACTING PROGRAM DIRECTOR of the CSPG's current Finance Director, similar overall costs to the Society as our Doug Hamilton Encana Marty Hewitt. current lease. Not many companies in Tel:645-3193 Fax: 645-3590 Calgary have been able to negotiate for [email protected] The CSPG is a large and vibrant organization more space in the current market without with over 3,500 members, more than 10% of a significant increase in costs. ASSISTANT PROGRAM DIRECTOR Nadya Sandy whom are involved in running the society's Esso 50-plus committees. For the 2006/07 fiscal The CSPG continues to be in good financial Tel:237-3925 Fax: 237-4234 year revenues are projected at just over $2.8 health. As new initiatives are created and [email protected] million. As with all previous years, the CSPG new revenue streams expanded, our Society SERVICE DIRECTOR uses a conservative bugeting process and has been able to expand its presence and Shannon Nelson Evers forecasts a small surplus while ensuring all impact on petroleum geology in Canada.We EnCana Corporation possible expenses have been captured and continue to budget each year for a small Tel:645-7651 Fax: 645-3352 [email protected] projecting on the low side of reasonable surplus, and each year with increasing revenue estimates. The CSPG is still heavily revenues, we are able to take on new ASSISTANT SERVICE DIRECTOR dependent on both its convention (which initiatives. In addition to our conservative Dave Newman represents nearly one third of projected budgeting process creating small but steady McDaniel & Associates Tel:218-1392 Fax: 233-2744 revenues) and membership dues (which annual surpluses, our long-term investment [email protected] generate over 10% of society revenues) for a portfolio provides our Society with a significant portion of its yearly revenues, but financial “safety net” to allow us to handle COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR great strides are being made to further unforeseen situations or to pre-fund new Ashton Embry GSC - Calgary diversify our revenue sources. Sponsorship initiatives. I look forward to working with Tel:292-7125 Fax: 292-4961 revenues under the direction of Kim the current as well as next year's Executive [email protected] MacLean have shown healthy increases over in order to ensure that your society is run the past number of years, which has allowed as financially responsibly as possible, giving it OUTREACH DIRECTOR David Middleton the society to take on a number of new the financial capability of meeting all its goals Petro-Canada initiatives. We are hoping that a renewed and objectives. Your Executive is always Tel:296-4604 Fax: 296-5176 emphasis on corporate memberships will striving hard to ensure that your Society is [email protected] show similar results in the future.The CSPG's healthy financially not only for this fiscal CORPORATE RELATIONS Education Committee, revitalized under the year, but also for years to come. Jim Reimer leadership of its Co-Chairs, Godfried Wasser Result Energy and Dave Russum, has also added significantly Peter Harrington, Tel:539-5207 Fax: 234-7116 to the CSPG's revenues over the past year, Assistant Finance Director [email protected] 5 September_1 8/14/06 3:41 PM Page 6 PETRA_ depths visions innovations results that exceed all others. now. CONTOURING CROSS SECTIONS MAPPING OPTIONS 3D VISUALIZATION DECLINE CURVES Faulted contours New Unassigned Tops Expanded GIS Functions Deviated wellbores Compute EUR, RR, etc.