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SIPES 47th
ANNUAL MEETING
Diane Finstrom, Executive Director (sipes@sipes.org) • Advertising & Sponsorship
Information Now Available
Luncheon Meetings: County Line on the Hill Restaurant, 6500 Bee Caves Road, 1st Thursday, starts at 11:30 a.m. with speaker and lunch beginning at 12:00 noon. Reservations: RSVP to Ward Davenport at wdaven@earthlink.com Walk-ups are welcome, but RSVP to help us accommodate everyone. Cost: No charge for SIPES Austin Chapter members and affiliates who are pre-paid with chapter dues. Guests and prospective members are welcome to attend. Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: Bay Room, Corpus Christi Town Club, Last Tuesday, 11:30 AM. There will be a cash bar available for those wishing to come early and socialize. Reservations Required: Contact Linda Phelps: office - 361-883-0055, fax - 361-883-0066, or email - lphelps@xogoperating.com by 9:30 a.m. Friday preceding the meeting. Members are encouraged to bring guests. Luncheon Cost: Members are free, and $20.00 for guests. Announced Meeting: February 23, 2010. "Austin Update" by Todd A. Hunter, Texas House of Representatives. Todd A. Hunter attended the University of Kansas and Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. Hunter has practiced law since November 1978 and is currently a senior partner of Hunter & Handel, P.C. in Corpus Christi, Texas. During his previous tenure in the Texas House of Representatives (1989-97), Todd served on the Civil Practices Committee as its chairman (1995) and on the Appropriations Committee as the Chairman of the Education Sub-Committee (1991-94). In 2008, he was elected to the Texas House as the Representative of District 32, which includes Aransas, San Patricio, and Calhoun counties as well as part of Nueces County. In 2009, Todd was named the Chairman of the Committee on Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence. He also currently serves on the Insurance and General Investigating & Ethics Committees. Future
Meetings:
Luncheon
Meetings: Dallas Petroleum Club, 2200 Ross Ave. (due to remodeling at Royal Oaks Country Club), 3rd Tuesday, 11:30
A.M. Luncheon Cost: Members paid in advance by annual fees. All guests must pay $30. Announced Meeting: March 2, 2010. Texas Energy Council 22nd Annual Energy Symposium - Global Energy: Today & Tomorrow. The symposium will be held at Hughes-Trigg Student Center at SMU starting at 7:00 a.m. Keynote Luncheon: "CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery & Sequestration" by Tracy Evans, President and COO Denbury Resources. Future
Meetings:
Luncheon Meetings: Wynkoop Brewing Company 1634 18th St. (18th and Wynkoop Streets, across from Union Station). 4th Thursday. Gather at 11:30 a.m. Lunch served at 12 noon. Reservations required for all meetings: Call the SIPES Denver Chapter message line at 303-730-2967. At the end of the message, leave your name and phone number and the name of any guest you are bringing to the meeting. Or make your reservation via e-mail to sipesdenver@yahoo.com. Reservations must be made by noon on Monday preceding the meeting. Luncheon Cost: $20.00 per person (unless you pay your annual dues). Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: Meets at 11:30 a.m. on variable days and locations to avoid conflicts with other societies and events. Reservations: RSVP to Russ Hensley at ar_hensley@sbcglobal.net by noon on Wednesday preceding the meeting. Guests are encouraged to attend. Luncheon Cost: $15.00 for members, $20 for non-members and $5 for students Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: 3rd Thursday at the Houston Petroleum Club in the large banquet room, 800 Bell St. (downtown Houston). Social period 11:30 a.m. and lunch 11:45 a.m. Reservations Required: Make reservations by telephone (713-651-1639), fax (713-951-9659), website (www.sipes-houston.org), or e-mail bkspee@aol.com to B. K. Starbuck-Buongiorno by 12:00 noon on Tuesday preceding the meeting. You can now sign up for the meeting online at www.sipeshouston.org, but payment is still required by regular mail or at the door. Cost: SIPES Members and Chapter Affiliates who register by 12:00 Noon Tuesday pay $30; cost goes up to $35 for new registrations at the door. The price for guests, non-members and walk-ins is $35.00. (No-shows will be billed.) Announced Meeting: March 18, 2010."Developing an Exploration Tool in a Mature Trend: a 3D AVO Case Study in South Texas" by Mark E. Gregg, #2883 (speaker) and Charles T. Bukowski, Jr., #3116.
If at first you don’t succeed, try
something unconventional. Successful
exploration for new reservoirs In the 1990's a large nonexclusive 3D seismic survey was acquired in the area and led to increased exploration activity. The prime motive for the 3D was to image the complex faulting and resulting compartmentalization of the Vicksburg. Given the mature nature of the area, typical exploration targets are moderate-potential fault blocks in productive intervals and higherpotential targets in deeper, untested section. Edge Petroleum and Carrizo
Oil and Gas licensed a 450
square mile portion of the
3D survey. Early work led to
the identification and drilling
of several Vicksburg structural
traps, resulting in one
commercial gas discovery,
one noncommercial discovery,
and three dry holes.
Given the moderate potential
of the prospects, a 20
percent success ratio meant
the economics of our exploration
program were marginal.
Hence, we were
prompted to search for an
exploration tool that would
help us to improve our success
rate. Two prospects drilled a
few miles apart in our initial
exploration campaign
targeted Vicksburg sandstones
at 5,500-7,500 ft.
Our technical evaluation
showed them to have
analogous stratigraphy, Seismic models were generated using dipole sonic data gathered in the discovery well. The models suggested that Class 2 AVO anomalies would be associated with Vicksburg gas reservoirs. A pilot reprocessing study demonstrated that known gas reservoirs generate Class 2 AVO anomalies and that seismic incident angles greater than about 26 degrees are required to observe them. It was observed that the application of conventional normal moveout resulted in improper imaging of the far offsets needed to discern the Class 2 anomaly. However, reprocessing the data utilizing nonhyperbolic moveout produced usable data at incident angles of up to 40 degrees resulting in proper stacking of the needed far offsets. Resulting angle stacks were visualized
on a workstation. Several untested AVO
anomalies were identified, including
stratigraphic traps. Wildcat drilling
based on this effort resulted in six commercial
discoveries and two dry holes, a
success rate significantly higher than
was achieved through conventional subsurface
geology and structural mapping
in this mature play. Mark Gregg is President and CEO of KiwiEnergy, Ltd., an independent E&P company based in Houston. Prior to founding KiwiEnergy in 2000, Mark began his career in 1981 with The Superior Oil Company, followed by Mobil Oil and Edge Petroleum, primarily in exploration roles, including several years in both Indonesia and Nigeria. Mr. Gregg has over 28 years of successful exploration experience and is responsible for numerous significant discoveries along the Gulf Coast and in Nigeria. Mr. Gregg received a B.S. in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1980 and an MBA from the Bauer College of Business, University of Houston in 1988. Mr. Gregg is a director of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists Foundation, an officer of the Houston Chapter of SIPES and a member of SEG, AAPG, Houston Producer's Forum and IPAA. Mark and his wife Debra are active supporters of YES College Preparatory Schools and the UH Bauer College of Business. Future
Meetings:
Luncheon Meetings: Petroleum Club, 2nd Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Contact David Dupre at 337-269-1821. Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: Midland Country Club, 3rd Wednesday, 11:15 A.M. Contact Greg Hair at 432-682-9653 or gregeol@mccabeenergy.com. Have a glass of wine before the meeting. Get caught up on the latest take-over rumors, exploration plays, investment opportunities, and political hot topics! Luncheon Cost: $15 for guests. Guests: Prospective members are always welcome at our lunches. Announced Meeting: Thursday, February 11, 2010. Annual Spouse's and Special Guests Banquet will be held at the Midland Country Club beginning at 6:00 p.m. with drinks and socializing. Dinner is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Invitations will be sent out by mail.
Luncheon Meetings: Andrea's Restaurant in Metairie. 3rd Tuesday of each month from September through May. Social w/ cash bar 11:30, Lunch and speaker 12:00 Noon. Reservations Required: Contact Ed Barry at 504-835-2508. Deadline is two days before the meeting. Luncheon Cost: Members are paid in advance with chapter fees. Guest fee is $30. Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available.
Luncheon Meetings: Petroleum Club, 35th Floor of Bank One Building. 1st Wednesday at 11:30 AM. Reservations Required: We will no longer be taking individual reservations and there will not be calls made to Terry Hollrah's office. Instead, we will have a certain number of tables ready each month. Luncheon Cost: Members paid in advance with chapter fees. Guests $15.00. No charge for first-time eligible guests interested in membership. Announced Meeting: March 3, 2010. "Reservoir Characterization of the Hunton Group in the West Edmond Field, Oklahoma" by Stephanie Gaswirth. West Edmond Field is located in central Oklahoma, and is one of the largest Hunton Group oil accumulations in the Anadarko Basin. Oil and gas are stratigraphically trapped to the east against the Nemaha Ridge, to the north by a regional wedge-out of the group, and in intraformational diagenetic traps. Hunton Group reservoirs are the Bois d'Arc and Frisco Formations, with lesser production from the Chimneyhill Limestone, and Haragan and Henryhouse Formations. Field production exceeds 170 million barrels of oil (MMBO) and 400 billion cubic feet of gas (BCFG). Stephanie received a B.A. in geology from Franklin & Marshall College in 1997, an M.S. in geology from Rutgers University in 1999, and a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2004. She worked for ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company prior to joining the USGS in 2006. She is a research geologist with the Central Energy Resources Science Center in Denver, Colorado, and has worked on resource assessments of carbonate units in the Williston and Anadarko Basins. Her research interests focus on carbonate diagenesis and its impacts on reservoir quality.
Luncheon Meetings: Petroleum Club of San Antonio (Frio/San Miguel Room) 8620 N. New Braunfels Ave., 7th Floor, 3rd Thursday, 11:30 a.m. Executive Board meeting at 11:00 a.m. Reservations Required: Call Doreen Brooner at 210-822-9092 by Wednesday before the meeting. Luncheon Cost: Members paid in advance by quarterly dues. Please bring your meeting announcement card with you to check in - your dues must be current. Guests and Chapter Affiliates - $25.00. Announced Meeting: No new meeting information is available. Notice: SIPES
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