SIPES Newsletter Publication
Summer 2024 Newsletter Download
Highlights – 2024 Convention Recap
Spring 2024 Newsletter Download
December 2023 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlight – Member Contribution: Part 1 & Part 2
August 2023 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlight – Letter from New President
February 2023 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlight – “How Consulting Works” by Dave Koger, #1485, Fort Worth, Texas
November 2022 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlight – “Anomalous Helium in Southeastern Colorado” by Edward B. Coalson and William C. Pearson, #3418, Lakewood, Colorado
July 2022 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlight – “Bitcoin Mining with Captured Flare Gas” by Alexander Gonzales, Scout Energy Partners, Dallas, Texas
February 2022 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight – “Hydrocarbon Traps Associated with Upper Wilcox Canyons and Seismic Response, Mid Gulf Coast, Texas” by Frank G. Cornish, #3128,
& Louis R. Lambiotte, Corpus Christi, Texas
November 2021 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight – “The Dipmeter Family of Wireline Tools” by Thomas H. Fett, #3361, Geological Consultant, Dipmeter Interpreter & Log Analyst,
San Antonio, Texas
August 2021 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight – “When Engineering Solutions Cause Legal Problems: The Developing Field of Reservoir Rights and Liabilities” by Joseph A. Schremmer,
Leon Karelitz Oil & Gas, Law Professor and Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico School of Law, Albuquerque, New Mexico
February 2021 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight – “Deciphering the Cleveland Sandstone Stratigraphy in Pawnee County, Oklahoma Finds Bypassed Production” (Part Two of Two)
by Connor L. Cain – Master Thesis, Oklahoma State University
November 2020 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight – “Deciphering the Cleveland Sandstone Stratigraphy in Pawnee County, Oklahoma Finds Bypassed Production” (Part One of Two)
by Connor L. Cain – Master Thesis, Oklahoma State University
August 2020 SIPES Quarterly –Download
Highlight – Louisiana’s Oil and Gas Industry — The Missing Link in Coastal Sustainability by Chris McLindon, #2327 — McLindon Geosciences, LLC
May 2020 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight – The History of SIPES – Part Two by Marc D. Maddox, #2777, Midland, Texas
March 2020 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight – The History of SIPES – Part One by Marc D. Maddox, #2777, Midland, Texas
November 2019 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight – An Update of South Louisiana’s Deep Potential by G. King Munson, Jr., #3025, Island Energy LLC – Lafayette, Louisiana
August 2019 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight — Climate Change: A Technical Perspective
by James D. Robertson, #2826, Salt Creek Petroleum LLC – Fort Worth, Texas
June 2019 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight — How a Small Independent Found 200 Million Barrels of Oil at Shallow Depths in a Mature Basin: Upper Cretaceous San Miguel Play Hugh Fitzsimmons Field, Maverick Basin, South Texas by Thad Bay, Endeavor Natural Gas, LP, Houston, Texas
March 2019 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight — Historical Analysis of the Real Global Price of Oil by William D. DeMis, #3545, President, Rochelle Court, LLC, Houston, Texas
November 2018 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight — A Test of the U.S. Dollar as World Reserve Currency, Sanctions on Iran by Donald P. Muth, #3083
August 2018 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight — A Wild Goose Chase on the Texas Gulf Coast by Dennis A. Taylor, Metate Minerals, Ltd., Owner & President, Corpus Christi, Texas
June 2018 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlight — Oil on the Sea and Exploration: A History with Lessons by John L. Berry, #3326, Austin, Texas
March 2018 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Data versus Hype: How Ten Cities Show Sea-Level Rise is a False Crisis by Dennis E. Hedke, Hedke-Saenger Geoscience, Ltd., Partner
November 2017 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Rivers of Texas, A Geologist’s Overview by Thomas E. Ewing, #1610, Frontera Exploration Consultants, San Antonio, Texas
August 2017 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Field Trip to the Oklahoma Arbuckle Mountains by Joel A. Alberts, SIPES Limited Member
May 2017 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Cross-Discipline Communication: An Issue for Geoscientists by Tom Klekamp, #2823 & Art Johnson, #3153, New Orleans, Louisiana
February/March 2017 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Geology at the University of Louisiana: The Value to our Students of Interaction with the Petroleum Industry by Brian Lock, Professor Emeritus of Geology, School of Geosciences, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
November 2016 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — The SIPES Houston Chapter’s “Maps in Schools” Project by Jeff Lund, #3024
August/September 2016 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Galapagos Islands, Ecuador: A Unique Environment by John E. Kimberly, #1430
May/June 2016 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — The Macondo Blowout: Six Years Later Edited by Robert C. Leibrock, #1673
February 2016 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — The Wichita Mountains: Insights into the Evolution of Southern Oklahoma by Jonathan D. Price, Chair & Prothro Distinguished Associate Professor of Geological Science, Kimbell School of Geosciences, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas
November 2015 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Oil Fields in Railroad Valley Nevada — Part Two by Louis C. Bortz, #1698
August 2015 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Oil Fields in Railroad Valley Nevada — Part One by Louis C. Bortz, #1698
May 2015 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Global Warming Causes People by Randy Bissell, Geoscience Advisor, Headington Energy Partners
March 2015 SIPES Quarterly – Download
Highlights — Intellectual Capital Blog by Nicole Decker, Equity Sector Strategist, UBS Financial Services, Inc.
November 2014 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — A Most Creative Person: Jack G. Elam, #124 by Stewart Chuber, #221
August 2014 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Paleolithology of Cherokee Sands — Long Branch Field, Payne County, Oklahoma by Greg A. Riepl, #2322
May 2014 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Atchafalaya Bay Field — Raised from the Ashes by Carlo C. Christina
February 2014 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — National Energy Report by C. Al Taylor, Jr.
November 2013 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — AVO Analysis and Hydrocarbon Detection for the Independent Geologist by David B. Sturlese
August 2013 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Lies, Damn Lies and Electric Cars by Jory A. Pacht
May 2013 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — The Oil Finder’s Tool Box by Lee M. Petersen
February 2013 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Trends in 3D Seismic Activity in Western Kansas 1998-2011 by William A. Miller
November 2012 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Environmental Compliance in the Oil Patch by R. David Shiels
August 2012 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Hydrocarbon Seeps in the Gulf of Mexico and the Geological Factors Contributing to Sea Surface Oil Slick Formation by Margaret Dalthorp and Thomas H. Naehr
May 2012 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Reflections on the Art of Exploration by John A. Masters
February 2012 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Changing Public Perception of the Oil Industry by Donna F. Balin
November 2011 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Oil and Water Do Mix: Characterizing a Deep Acquifer Using Petroleum Industry Data by James Puckette and Todd Halihan
August 2011 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Recent Discoveries in South Louisiana Fields Rejuvenate Production by Louis E. Lemarié
May 2011 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Oil and Gas of Mexico by Donald P. McGookey
March 2011 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Whose Fault Is It? A Geologic Empire in the Central Gulf Coast by William R. Finley
November 2010 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Developing an Exploration Tool in a Mature Trend: A 3-D AVO Case Study in South Texas by Mark E. Gregg
August 2010 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Positive Attitudes and Responses: A Defensive Against Oilfield Gloom and Doom by Russ Hensley
May 2010 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — ClimateGate, Copenhagen, and the State of Climate Change 2010 by Robert M. Cluff
February 2010 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — The Haynesville Shale: What We Have Learned in the First Two Years by Richard K. Stoneburner
November 2009 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Wind Energy: It’s Up in the Air by Paul M. Strunk
August 2009 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Update on the Marcuss Play, Appalachian Basin, USA by Arthur J. Pyron
May 2009 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — A Geological Conservancy by Thomas E. Ewing
February 2009 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — The Oklahoma Oil Opportunity by Dan T. Boyd
November 2008 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Gas Hydrate — An Emerging Energy Resource by Art Johnson
August 2008 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Permian Basin: Why So Prolific? by Donald P. McGookey
May 2008 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Louisiana Unitization — A Primer by Travis A. Helms
February 2008 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Basement Tectonics and Origin of the Sabine Uplift by Richard L. Adams
November 2007 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Challenges of Urban Seismic by B. Wayne Hoskins
August 2007 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Geochemical Exploration: Sample Collection and Survey Design by Chuck K. Goudge
May 2007 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Sheep Mountain CO₂ Revisited by J. J. Renfro
February 2007 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — The Barnett Shale: Still the Hottest Natural Gas Play in the U.S. by David Pursell
November 2006 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Birth and Development of the SIPES Cornerstone Group by Patrick J. F. Gratton and Geology of Ellenburger and Fusselman Reservoirs, Midland Farms and Inez Fields, Andrews County, Texas by C. E. Mear, J. W. Becher, and C. K. Dufurrena
August 2006 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Production Trends in the Travis Peak of Panola and Rusk Counties, Texas, East Texas Basin by James R. Turner
May 2006 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Domestic Energy Sources as an Answer to Hubbert’s Curve Decline by Arthur J. Pyron
February 2006 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Plate Tectonics versus Expansion of the Planet by Perry O. Roehl
August/November 2005 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Where the Buffalo Roam by Michael N. Austin, #2366 and Michael A. Pollok, #2512
May 2005 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — A Brief Discussion of Coalbed Methane (CBM) in Louisiana by F. Clayton Breland, Jr.
February 2005 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — CO₂ Enhanced Oil Recovery: The Changing Landscape by L. Stephen Melzer
November 2004 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — History of Oil & Gas in Louisiana by Frank W. Harrison, Jr.
August 2004 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Geopressure — Relations to Lithology, Hydrocarbon Presence, and Reservoir Quality by Norman S. Neidell
May 2004 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Advance It Down the Fairway by Kevin Fisher
February 2004 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Why There Is So Much Gas in the Rockies & Where Future Supplies Will Be Found by Fred F. Meissner
November 2003 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Discovering a Supergiant Gas Field with Dry Holes by Jere B. Jay
August 2003 SIPES Newsletter – Download
Highlights — Review of the Tectonic History of the Lower Rio Grande Border Region, South Texas and Mexico, and Implications for Hydrocarbon Exploration by Thomas E. Ewing and High GOR Rod Pumped Wells by Wendy G. Storbeck