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CHAIRMAN’S
CORNER By Steve Grape - Chairman 2008-2009
September, 2008
Howdy! Steve Grape’s my name, and I’m
pleased to meet you! I am honored to be serving the Dallas Section as your
new President, and I am grateful for all the hard work that my predecessor,
Danny Bell, and his Board of Directors were able to accomplish last
fiscal year. Suddenly it’s September! The Beijing Summer Olympics have just
concluded and now it’s back to school for our older children. Team USA
brought home a bumper crop of Olympic Medals – more than any other country,
and I share your American Pride in what they achieved. The Dallas Section of
SPE has a bumper crop of programming this year and we can’t wait to proudly
share it with our members and potential new members!
Our first guest for our September monthly
luncheon meeting is SPE Distinguished Lecturer
Tony Martin of BJ Services. His talk is entitled
Appropriate Hydraulic Fracturing Technologies for Mature Oil and Gas
Formations and should not be missed! This
meeting will be held in a different venue than normal, due to a
room-scheduling conflict. Meet us across the highway in the main ballroom of
the gorgeous Hilton Hotel @ Lincoln Centre,
(at the SE corner of the North Dallas Tollway and Loop 635) not EMGI. Mark
your calendars now for September 9th!
Yes, this is a TUESDAY, not a WEDNESDAY!
We are bending over backwards to bring you
this excellent program. This was the only day we could bring him to Dallas,
so we jumped on it. You will kick yourself for the rest of the year if you
miss out!
Back to School time isn’t just for the kids.
Reinvigorate your resume by attending our Continuing Education Symposium.
On September 12th, from 9:00am to 4:00pm the Dallas Section will
host a one-day symposium on the “Control and Reduction of Water
Produced with Oil and Gas”, presented by International consultant
Dr. Ali Daneshy. The symposium will be held at our regular venue, the
Ellison Miles Geotechnical Institute on the Brookhaven College Campus, and
registration is only $200, which is a significant discount compared to
industry seminars.
Feel that Colorado Rocky Mountain High this
year at our SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Denver,
Colorado. It kicks off on Sunday September 21st and goes until
Wednesday September 24th. This year’s theme is Connecting Members
and Exchanging Knowledge. As Texas Petroleum Engineers, we have the benefit
of experience -- the rest of the country and the world looks at “how the
Texans did it” to best develop conventional and unconventional resources.
Meet and mingle with SPE members from across the globe, and see all the
shiny new tech and toys on the Exhibition floor!
At the end of September on the 30th, consider
heading west or east from Dallas on Highway 30 to visit either the
Unconventional Gas Expo in Fort Worth, or the Horizontal Operations in the
Cotton Valley Symposium in Tyler, TX. Sometimes it’s a shame you can’t be in
two places at once.
Then get ready for a great October! Our
Dallas Section Luncheon meeting is on Wednesday, October 15th and
our guest is always outspoken and entertaining Dr. Michael Economides,
who will tell us about Russia, from Soviet to Putin… and Back.
Our popular SPE Sporting Clays Tournament will be Monday, October 20th
at Elm Fork Shooting Range.
For Sports Fans and Corn Dog Lovers (of which
this Chairman is both):
Are you ready for some football? The Dallas
Cowboys Home Opener versus the Philadelphia Eagles at Texas Stadium is
Monday night September 15th.
If you still could use a little baseball… The
Texas Rangers have 15 home games in September, including 3 with the current
leader of the AL West Division, the Los Angeles Angels. Every game will be
significant as they are 16 games out of first in the West at the time of
writing, and 6th in line for the AL Wildcard.
Dallas Stars Hockey Pre-season opener versus
the Colorado Avalanche is Thursday night September 25th.
The Great State Fair of Texas begins on
Friday, September 26th.
Sorry Basketball fans, the Dallas Mavericks
don’t return to the hardwood until October 30.
Steve Grape
Danny Belll
Section Chairman - 2007-2008
August, 2008
Is it August already? For you that don't know, August is the last
month of my term as section Chairman. September 1st starts a new
year for the section with all new leadership. Steve Grape is the
incoming Chairman and I can tell you after having this job for a year he
would greatly appreciate your support and help. Speaking of
volunteering......get involved, you will be rewarded ten fold I promise.
The section has accomplished many things this year for which I am extremely
proud. January, 2008, Syed Hamid started up the ever popular
and educational Production Operations study group luncheons which meets the
4th Wednesday of every month. This has been very successful with an
average attendance of about 40 members. David Hamilton, our
Program Chairman, I don't know how to begin to thank him or tell you how
much I appreciate his hard work this past year. Every luncheon was
perfect with awesome guest speakers and great meals. Brian Walter,
serving as our past Chairman was always there giving me his past experience
and also picked out a great slate of officers for the upcoming year.
David Lancaster as Treasurer did a great job of keeping our
financials in order and paid all the bills on time, what more could you ask
of a great Treasurer. Brent Haas was this years Secretary and
kept our section's Board meeting minutes, i don't think he misspelled
anything! PJ Edsall was our
Membership Chairman and did an outstanding job of recruiting members and
helping out at the sign in desk for our luncheons. Brian Chacka had a
great presence in our section this past year. He was ultimately
responsible and rode herd over our extremely successful Sports and Social
Events. Not only was he our Sports and Social events Chairman he was also
this years "Young Engineer of the Year" recipient and Director of
the "Young Engineers" events. Other folks that I worked with and
I can't thank enough was, Peggy Tibbetts. Peggy is usually in
the background helping with such things as the Casino Night or working with
the Merchant account which requires a lot of time. (Thanks Peggy for your help......we
appreciate your time) Other folks that I want to thank....John
Tabor for his help and leadership on the Golf and Sporting Clay events.
Both of these events were very instrumental in our record breaking
scholarship program this year of 26,000 dollars given out to 15 college
students. Speaking of our Scholarship Program.....Dan Auces has
been doing the Scholarship program for as long as I can remember. He
has tried to find someone to take over his job but no one wants to follow
him. He has done an awesome job as Scholarship Chairman for so many years. The whole
section owes him our gratitude and thanks. Herb Bell is our
Advertising Director and keeps track of the advertisers on the website.
You would be surprised at the amount of work that goes into sending out
invoices and follow up email notices to our many advertisers.
Natalie Easley keeps track of all the email addresses for the section
and sends out all of the section's many email reminders. and flyers
Lonnie Kysiak, at Nexen, helps with our reservations and at the
luncheon check-in table, Dennis Maddox at Brookhaven College
does an awesome job of making sure that our meeting rooms are set up and
functional. I would also like to thank all the
committee members and volunteers that worked at the Casino Night, Sporting
Clay event, Golf tournament and Scholarship committee. I'm sure I left
out several people that I should have thanked and for that I apologize.
As you can see, it takes a lot of dedicated volunteers to make the Dallas
Section successful. Please know that your time and efforts make the
Dallas Section a "family" of over 1500 members dedicated to the
dissemination of technical information.
Upcoming Events:
August 20th
,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brookhaven College
Speaker:
Steven Fipke - Halliburton
Topic:
"Multi-Lateral, Multi-zone Well Designs To Maximize The Recovery
of Unconventional Reserves"
August 27th,
SPE Production Study Group
Speaker:
Alexander Chamorro – Principal Fluid Flow Engineer for Invensys
Process Systems
Topic: Gas
Lift Allocation Optimization
September 9th
,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brookhaven College
Speaker: Tony Martin – BJ
Services - Distinguished Lecture
Topic: "Appropriate Hydraulic Fracturing
Technologies for Mature Oil and Gas Formations"
September
12th, 2008,
Continuing
Education - 1 day Course
Speaker: Dr.
Ali Daneshy
Topic:
"Control and Reduction of Water Produced with Oil and Gas "
Date:
Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Cost: $
200.00 (includes course notes and lunch)
Location:
Ellison Miles Institute, Brookhaven College
July 2008
Whew, as they
say down south...... "is it hot enough fer ya"? I hope you are staying
cool and having a great summer. The Dallas SPE section usually takes
the summer off but why should we be any different than the rest of the good
ol oil patch....it's 24/7! Seriously folks, there seems to be
plenty of interest so we will continue to provide quality luncheon and study
group speakers through the summer.
Many thanks to
Dan Auces and his outstanding scholarship committee (12 members) who have
been hard at work coming up with this years scholarship recipients.
They chose 15 recipients out of a list of 39 applicants representing 7
different universities. A record 26,000 dollars will be awarded.
to see the statistics go to:
http://www.spedallas.org/2008_scholarship_webpage_stats.xls
We are working in
exciting times and I hope to see you at one of the following summer
meetings.
July 16th
,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brookhaven College
Speaker: Bryan Dotson - BP
Topic:
"Deliquifying Gas Wells for Full Depletion"
July
23rd,
SPE Production Study Group
Speaker: John Warren
– Vice President of Operations and Business Development Wavefront Energy and
Environmental Services USA Inc.
Topic: “POWERWAVE – INJECTION TECHNOLOGY” -
For Secondary Recovery Waterfloods
and CO2 Floods
August 23rd
,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brookhaven College
Speaker: Steven Fipke -
Halliburton
Topic:
"Multi-Lateral, Multi-zone Well Designs To Maximize The Recovery of
Unconventional Reserves"
Danny Bell
Section Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
June 2008
I sat beside a lady on the plane the
other day and after the usual niceties she asked, “What do you do
for a living?” “I’m a petroleum engineer for a Dallas based oil and
gas company"….."Oh really?" was her reply. "I’m a recruiter for TI
in Dallas, and I steal your industry’s best, young engineers all the
time, and I pay them less money," she said. I’m thinking….what?
How could someone from your industry possibly steal someone from my
beloved oil and gas industry? The oil and gas industry is vibrant,
exciting, job security is at an all time high, and the pay is
great! So finally after a few shocked moments I asked, "You’re
kidding, right?" She said, "You guys (now she’s getting personal)
don’t offer enough challenging projects, flexible time schedules,
and give them the tools they want to do their jobs". Ok lady you
have my attention…."Explain please.” "Young people today don’t want
to work the long hours or days that you old timers work. They like
to hang out with their friends, whether it be in person, online, or
on the phone.” They like flexible time schedules……what? Hey lady,
the oil patch starts early. "Plus, you guys don’t give them the
tools they like to work with…..laptop computers, Blackberry phones,
and other electronic gadgets."……again, what? I said, ”Those are for
the older more experienced engineers”…you know, perks! Well, after
several minutes of conversation on this subject she convinced me
that the leaders of our oil and gas companies had better start
thinking about how we are treating and using our bright young minds
or we will lose them. Think about it!
I hope you were able to attend this
year’s annual golf tournament at Firewheel Golf course. John Tabor,
Brian Chacka, and all their helpers did a great job, as usual. This
event as well as our very successful Casino night are two of the
main contributors to our college scholarship fund. If you see one
of the committee members make sure and thank them for all of their
long hours and hard work!
Upcoming events:
June 18th
,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brookhaven College
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Speaker: Pat Handren - Denbury
Topic: "Successful Hybrid Slickwater Fracture Design
Evolution – An East Texas Cotton Valley Taylor Case
History" |
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June 25th,
SPE Production Study Group
Speaker: Gary Ring
Topic: The Need for Lower Cost Subsea Well Intervention
I hope to see you soon!
Danny Bell
Section Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
May 2008
The Dallas section of the SPE is alive
and thriving! The Ca$ino Night committee did another spectacular job
with the food and prizes however, if you were one of the unlucky ones
that tried to sign up late and got turned away, I apologize and I’m
truly sorry. For you that attended, I know you had a lot of fun because
I was there and have pictures to prove it. (Speaking of that…. I will
be placing some of the less incriminating pictures out on the website
shortly). I was talking to Brian Chacka about this year being sold out
and he promises me that next year’s event will be even bigger and better
and held at a place where we can accommodate a much larger crowd. I
haven’t heard how much money we brought in for scholarships but I’m sure
it will be a new record. I will put the dollar amounts in next months
Chairman’s Corner.
This month is career day in many of the
schools around Dallas and Fort Worth and they are in desperate need of
speakers that will give up a few hours and talk about Petroleum
engineering. It’s not as painful as you think. As I mentioned in my
March Chairman’s Corner, SPEI has a canned “speakers kit” that cuts out
most of the preparation time. Try it…..I promise you will have fun,
feel good about your self after it’s over and most importantly you may
be the one that influences some bright young person to go into Petroleum
Engineering.
The Nominating Committee (Danny Bell,
Brian Walter, Steve Grape, Brent Hass, PJ Edsall) hereby recommends the
following slate of officers for the 2008-2009 Dallas SPE Board;
Chairman
2008-2009 Steve Grape (elected in 2007)
Chairman
Elect 2009-2010 David Hamilton
1st VP,
Program Chairman Brian Chacka
2nd VP, Education Chairman Syed Hamid
3rd VP, Membership Chairman David Creach
Secretary PJ Edsall
Treasurer Brent Hass
Per Article VII Section 8 of the By-laws
the Directors shall be appointed by the Chairman.
Director-Tech./Newsletter Danny Bell
Director-Sports & Social Thad Toups
Director-Community & Social Rick
Middaugh
HEES 2010 Nick Duane
Magic Suitcase Phin Holmes
Scholarship Dan Auces
Career Guidance Auggie Payne
SPE Young Professionals/ELP Brian Chacka
Advertising Mgr. Herb Bell
Upcoming events:
May 14th
,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brookhaven College
Speaker: "Robert Hawkes - Team Leader of
Reservoir Services for BJ Services Company Canada”
Topic: "Prefrac Reservoir
Characterization From Perforation Inflow Diagnostic (PID) Testing"
May 28th,
SPE Production Study Group
Speaker and Topic: To Be forthcoming.
June 2nd, SPE Dallas section
Golf Tournament at Firewheel.
I hope to see you soon!
Danny Bell
Section Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
April 2008
I hope you were able to attend our section's 55th birthday celebration.
David Hamilton did a great job putting it together with good food,
excellent speaker and a cake. We also handed out 7 Legion of Honor
awards to the following gentlemen:
1. Roy Keene
2. Ray Marr
3. Thomas Laverty
4. Ronald Clark
5. Glenn Jones
6. Forrest Hoglund (not pictured below)
7. William Cupit (not pictured below)

Past Section Chairmen were invited and specifically recognized.

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Rick Bjorck 1988-89
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Frank Robl 1989-90
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Deacon Marek 2004-05
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Herb Bell 1999-2000
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Danny Bell 2007-08
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Peggy Tibbetts 2003-04
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Bill LaRoche 1975
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Betsy Cook 1997-98
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Paul Szatkowski 2001-02
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Steve Grape 2008-09
As you can see we had an excellent celebration at our
last regular monthly luncheon. Our Monthly Production Study group
was also well attended with almost 50 members attending.
This meeting is turning out to be a great source of educational
information and something that you can take back to your job and use.
Our speaker was "Terry Palisch"
where he discussed slickwater fracturing and proppants.
Upcoming events:
April 16th
,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brookhaven College
Speaker: "Ron Clarke with iiiTec ”
Topic: "Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) Actuated Self-Powered Downhole Tools"
April 23rd,
SPE Production Study Group
Speaker: Gary Patterson
Topic: “CO2 Conformance at Little Creek and Lazy Creek
Units”
May 2nd,
Casino Night
June 2nd,
SPE Dallas section Golf Tournament at Firewheel.
I hope to see you soon!
Danny Bell
Section Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
March 2008
Bill
Cobb, our 2008 SPE President, discusses an interesting and
dear-to-my-heart topic in this month’s JPT - SPE’s energy education
program called Energy4me. I was recently asked by a friend and 4th
grade teacher to come and discuss “where does oil and gas come from?”
With some arm twisting on her part, I was more than happy to give a
little “show and tell”. It was actually a lot of fun to discuss a topic
I love to 25 eager little minds. I showed them a reservoir rock, an oil
sample, a drill bit, and I even showed them an open-hole well log with
an explanation of what we look for in all these “squiggly lines”. I
also used SPE’s educational kit that includes a CD and a wonderfully
written book with lots of neat color pictures. The book is written
so that is of interest to several age groups. I showed a short film
clip (8 minutes) from the CD in SPE’s kit and left the book Oil and
Natural Gas with Mrs. Grissom’s class so they could study and look
at it at their leisure. Both the CD and book were donated free of
charge by SPEI for this purpose. For more information go to
http://www.energy4me.org/
If
you are lucky enough to be asked to do this for a school, give SPEI a
call and they will be more than happy to mail you a “kit”. Hey, answer
this….would you rather that a petroleum engineer talk about and answer
questions concerning our beloved industry, or would you rather that they
be educated by a politician’s thoughts on the subject?
Make
sure you attend this month’s luncheon. We are celebrating the section’s
55th birthday, plus we are passing out “Legion of Honor” awards to
several of our members that have been members for over 50 years. David
Hamilton, our program chairman, has several surprises for the members at
this special meeting.
Legion of Honor inductees:
Ronald
Clark Donald Brown
Daniel Hologa
William
Cupit Frederic Sewell
Clyde McCall
Thomas
Laverty Sloan Black
Roy Keene
Ray Marr
Glenn Jones
E. Kistenmacher
Forrest
Hoglund Paul McGee
John Tansil
Wendell
Cook
Frederic Wagner Glenn Willis
Earl Ramsey
H. Wofford
Robert Fowler - Deceased
Upcoming events:
March 19th
,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brookhaven College
Speaker: Mark Day - Sr. Construction Engineering Advisor for Devon
Energy
Topic: "Devon Energy Deck Raising Project - Eugene Island 330-B & C"
Plus
we are celebrating the section’s 55th birthday and passing
out several Legion of Honor awards.
March 26th,
SPE Production Study Group
Speaker:
"Terry Palisch"
Topic:
Slickwater Fracturing – “Food for Thought”
I hope to see you soon at one (if not
all) of the above events.
Danny Bell
Section Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
February, 2008
I hope you had a chance to attend our
January Monthly Luncheon or our newly formed Production Study Group. I was
unfortunately out of town on business and unable to attend the Production
Study Group but I understand it was well attended and a great success. Syed
Hamid has done a great job of organizing this newly formed forum. If you
have a topic that you would like covered please contact me or Syed and give
us your ideas. Better yet, volunteer to present a topic that you think would
be beneficial to the Dallas section. Remember dissemination of information
is what, we, the Society of Petroleum Engineers are all about.
Please note and remember that the February
meeting is early this month (February 6th) and on the first Wednesday
rather than our usual third Wednesday.
Upcoming events:
February 6th ,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brook Haven College
Speaker: "Ron Harrell is "Chairman Emeritus"
of Ryder-Scott Company”
Topic: "Petroleum Reserves Estimates - Where
We Have Been, Where We Are, and Where We Appear Appear To Be Headed"
February 28th,
SPE Production Study Group
Speaker: "Mehdi Azari”
Topic: “Production Logging and Multi-Rate
Pressure Testing of Multi-layer Reservoirs"
March 19th
,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brook Haven College
Speaker: "Mark Day - Sr. Construction
Engineering Advisor for Devon Energy”,
Topic: "Devon Energy Deck Raising Project -
Eugene Island 330-B & C"
I hope to see you soon at one (if not all)
of the above events.
Danny Bell
Section Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
January, 2008
2007 is now officially
behind us. I don’t know about you, but I am excited about the possibilities
for 2008. The Industry is healthy, oil prices are at all time highs and new
technology is abundant. It is a great time to be a petroleum engineer and a
good time to be in the oil and gas industry. Realizing these things, I hope
you have set aggressive goals for 2008.
Speaking of 2008 goals…..how about
considering:
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Writing a technical paper- sharing your successes and even failures
helps “disseminate technology” which is one of SPE’s main goals.
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Speaking to young students about becoming a petroleum engineer
or choosing a profession in the oil and gas industry.
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Volunteering - helping your local SPE chapter. We have needs on
almost every committee.
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Sharpening your technical skills by reading petroleum-related
technical literature 15 – 30 minutes per day.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the
idea. My hope for you in 2008 is that you become more involved. “Think
BIG” in 2008!
Upcoming events:
January 16th,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brook Haven College –
Speaker: "Don Hannegan - SPE Distinguished
Lecturer 2006/2007”
Topic: "Improving the Drill-Ability of
“Hydraulically Challenged” Prospects"
January 29th,
SPE Production Study Group
Speaker: "Mofazzal Bhuiyan”
Topic: " Production Optimization using Nodal
Analysis "
February 6th ,
SPE Monthly Luncheon at Brook Haven College –
Speaker: "Ron Harrell is "Chairman Emeritus"
of Ryder-Scott Company”
Topic: "Petroleum Reserves Estimates - Where
We Have Been, Where We Are, and Where We Appear Appear To Be Headed"
I hope to see you soon at one (if not all)
of the above events.
Danny Bell
Section Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
December, 2007
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving
and are ready for Christmas. Speaking of being ready, are you ready as a
registered professional engineer if you are audited by the board? You need
15 PDH (Professional Development Hours) with at least one PDH being on
professional ethics. I hope you have your hours this year but if you need a
couple more hours the Dallas section is sponsoring a 6 hour short course
which will help cover your needed PDH’s. The short course is a bargain at
50 dollars and is located at the EMGI for your convenience. For more
details and to sign up go to the website.
Our guest speaker for this month
(December 19th) is our very own Dallasite Bill Cobb - 2008 SPEI President.
Let's all turn out and show Bill our support. His dedication, time and
effort to SPE is greatly needed and appreciated world wide.
Up coming events for the Dallas
section.
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December 12 – Halliburton “Red
Book online” to sign up and for more information go to the website at:
http://www.spedallas.org/study_group.htm
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January 2008 – I am proud to
inform you that the Dallas Section is starting up a “Monthly Production
Study Group”. Date and topic will be forthcoming.
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January 16th, 2008 – Luncheon
Speaker: "Don Hannegan - SPE Distinguished Lecturer 2006/2007”, Topic:
"Improving the Drill-Ability of “Hydraulically Challenged” Prospects"
http://www.spedallas.org/monthly_meetings.htm
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Note: Starting in January 2008,
non members and members paying at the door will be charged 20.00 dollars
for our monthly luncheons. This is being done to encourage non members
to join SPE and to help the folks at the door with making change.
Paying via the website will still be the usual bargain price of 17.00
dollars.
I hope to see you soon at one (if not all) of the above
events.
Danny Bell
Section
Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
November, 2007
Are you ready for the
Holiday Season? Get-togethers with family and friends are just a few short
weeks away.
If you remember in last
month’s Chairman’s corner, I said I wanted the Dallas Section to “Think
BIG”. Well, everyone certainly responded.
October was a GREAT month
for the Dallas section. Due to the hard work of the program committee, our
October 17th luncheon was sold out, with 212 members attending. Our
speaker, Dave Leopold - DFW Project Manager with Chesapeake Energy
Corporation, gave a fascinating talk on Chesapeake ’s “Drilling and
Operating Wells at DFW Airport ". We hope to have Dave back next year to
give us an update.
The Dallas Section’s annual
Sporting Clay Event was another huge success, with all the available 40
teams filled. The day was a little chilly and windy, but everyone had a
great time. John Tabor and his Sporting Clay Event Committee did an
excellent job in putting this year’s event together. As a result, the
Dallas section gave $8100 to 9 different SPE student sections. Good job
guys!
The Dallas
SPE Board of Directors met on October 23rd . Several issues and changes
were discussed in an effort to make the Dallas section the best ever.
·
An after Christmas Holiday party is being discussed (time and
venue forthcoming).
·
Syed Hamid (Education Chairman) and his committee are starting
a monthly “Operations Study Group” that will kick off after the first of the
year. (Stay tuned for more details.) He is also putting together a
December, 2007 short course on the use of Halliburton’s new online Red Book.
(Again, stay tuned for more details.)
·
The 2009 Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium (HEES)
has been postponed until 2010 in an effort to keep it from conflicting with
the OKC section’s POS. We are in hopes that this will boost attendance at
both events.
·
Starting January 1st, 2008 the monthly luncheons will have a
different cost structure. Members paying online will continue to pay
$17.00, non members will be $25.00, and members paying cash at the door will
be $20.00. This will hopefully boost SPE membership and will help the people
at the door who are making change.
Upcoming events:
·
November 27 (Tuesday) –
Dallas sections next luncheon at EMGI. You won't want to miss this if
you are a Registered Professional Engineer since it is our annually required
Ethics PE credit.
·
December 12 – Halliburton “Red Book online” to sign up and
more information go to the website at:
http://www.spedallas.org/study_group.htm
·
December 19 (Wednesday) –
Dallas section Monthly Luncheon. Guest speaker will be Dallas’s very on
Bill Cobb (2008 SPEI President). Make plans to attend and hear what’s new
with SPE globally.
·
January 2008 – I am proud to inform you that the Dallas
Section is starting up a “Monthly Production Study Group”. Date and topic
will be forthcoming.
I hope to
see you soon at one (if not all) of the above events.
Danny Bell
Section
Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
October, 2007
I hope you
enjoy the fall season as much as I do. Football season, cooler weather
and the holidays are just around the corner.
In
September we had a great luncheon, and it was well attended. David
Hamilton, our Program Chairman, did an excellent job of getting us fed,
comfortable, and providing us with an interesting speaker (Bill Ott on
sand control). Also, last month I was honored to present the 2007
Drilling and Completions Regional Award to my old friend and
colleague Gerald Coulter.
Gerald is world renowned for his technical papers, patents, and has
taught and mentored many us on how to have better well completions.
I am
pushing all our Dallas section officers to THINK BIG this year.
I want our luncheons sold out, our social events to be the biggest and
best ever, and our Dallas section membership to increase. The Oil and Gas
industry is flourishing, and now is a great time to get more involved and
help our profession grow.
I am
looking for someone that will contribute a monthly technical article for
our website and monthly e-news letter. If you would like to organize
this or perhaps write the articles, please call or email me and let’s
talk. I think this would truly be a growth opportunity for someone and
would help “disseminate technical information” to the membership, which is the
mission of SPE world wide. Please consider volunteering for this
opportunity.
Upcoming
2007 events:
I hope to
see you soon at one (if not all) of the above events.
Danny Bell
Section
Chairman
dbell@excoresources.com
September, 2007
I would like to start off
by saying a warm hello, and if you don’t already know me, I’m Danny
Bell, your new Dallas Section Chairman for the 2007 – 2008 year.
Following in the foot steps of Brian Walter, our past chairman, will be
a big job. Brian’s year along with fellow officers and helpers did an
outstanding job with the 2007 HEES, Golf Tournament, Ca$ino Night,
College Scholarships, and numerous monthly luncheons, and even a joint
"Unconventional Exploration" seminar with EMGI…….all very
successful and rewarding for our section members.
I’m looking forward to the up coming year, and I
hope that you will all become involved in one of the many afore
mentioned section activities. To volunteer, go to our Officers page on
the website http://www.spedallas.org/officers.htm
and contact the appropriate person, or email me (dbell@excoresources.com)
and
I’ll get you in contact with the right person. Remember……our goal is to
have fun; our mission is to disseminate technical information to the
membership. If you have ideas about our goal or our mission please
contact me. I’m listening!
What’s going on in
September? Our next luncheon and speaker is on Wednesday, September the
19th. The talk is on “Selection and Design Criteria for Sand
Control Screens” and our speaker is William K. (Bill) Ott
with Well Completion Technology. For further information and
details, go to the Dallas section website at
http://www.spedallas.org/monthly_meetings.htm.
David
Hamilton, our Program chairman, has lined up several interesting and
educational luncheon speakers for the upcoming year… I know you won’t
want to miss a single one. Mark your calendars early. Our luncheons
are usually on the third Wednesday of every month (check the website for
the exact date and time). The location is at the easily accessible and
comfortable Ellison Miles Institute, Brookhaven College
(Map).
I hope to see you soon, and if I don’t already
know you, please locate me at one of our section events and introduce
yourself. I can’t wait to meet you!
Danny Bell
dbell@excoresources.com
August, 2007
Danny Bell (Chairman elect 2007-2008) and the
new Board of Directors will take the reins of the Dallas Section at the end
of August. Thanks to the 2006-2007 Board and Volunteers for their service
to the Society. It has been a great year to be a petroleum engineer!
Deepankar
Biswas our Continuing Education Chairman coordinated our Unconventional
Exploration Seminar held July 17th. The Seminar was designed to
broaden your knowledge and understanding of Unconventional Resource
Assessment Methodology, Completion Decisions, Water Fracs, Passive Seismic
Frac Monitoring, Shallow Oil Accumulations and Coal Distribution and
Production Patterns in CBM Basins.
The symposium
was intended to follow the SPE mission statement;
To collect, disseminate, and exchange technical
knowledge concerning the exploration, development and production of oil and
gas resources, and related technologies for the public benefit; and to
provide opportunities for professionals to enhance their technical and
professional competence.
The Seminar was
held at Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute (EMGI) and was also
cosponsored by EMGI. Diane Brownlee with EMGI and also serving as the
Dallas SPE Community Relations Director was instrumental in hosting the
symposium.
I look forward to a continuing partnership with
EMGI and the Dallas SPE section.
As a byproduct of the seminar we raised
enough money for two scholarships.
See you at an upcoming luncheon meeting!
J. Brian Walter
2006-2007 Chairman
214 369-4564
brian@walterx.com
Chairman’s Corner
July 2007
On June 18, 2007, eight of the ten members of
the Scholarship Committee met and selected 13 students from 40 applicants to
receive a scholarship. All ten committee members submitted recommendations.
Dan Auces and the Dallas Section Scholarship
Committee recommended and the Dallas SPE Board has approved scholarships for
13 students selected from 8 regional universities. The total amount of
scholarships approval was $20,000.00.
Here are some basic statistics about this
year’s scholarship process. Forty students from eight of the nine regional
universities submitted applications. Only the University of Missouri at
Rolla did not submit applications due to confusion in the petroleum
engineering department. The applicant age range was from 17 to 26 years.
There were 14 female applicants. One school, the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette alone submitted 12 applications. At least one award was give to
eight schools. *One student, Eric Paul Lege will be a three-time recipient
of a scholarship from our section.
I thank Dan and his Committee for their hard
work and deliberation.
John Tabor and his golf committee played golf
on June 4th. The 24th Annual Dallas SPE Golf
Tournament. was held on at Fire Wheel Golf Course in Garland. By all
accounts the Tournament was a success. Thanks to John and his committee!
Brian Chacha and Mitzi Orkus are leading the
way for the (ELP) Emerging Leaders Program. Our younger SPE members are
using ELP to network and socialize. Look for Brian’s announcements at the
monthly meetings and for the ELP link on the Dallas SPE website for upcoming
ELP events.
I look forward to seeing you at an upcoming
luncheon meeting!
J. Brian Walter
2006-2007 Chairman
214 369-4564
brian@walterx.com
Chairman’s Corner
June 2007
John Tabor
and his golf committee are ready to tee off on June 4th with
our 24th Annual Dallas SPE Golf Tournament.
The Golf
Tournament will be held June 4th at Fire Wheel Golf Course in
Garland. John is still looking for Sponsors and Volunteers. If you
have any questions you may reach him at 214 981-1918.
During our
May Luncheon meeting we voted on the proposed slate of officers for the
2007-2008 year. The Slate was voted in unanimously. Thanks to Gary
Patterson and the Nomination Committee for their hard work in fielding
our next slate of officers. Also Congratulations to Danny Bell our
2007-2008 Chairman! Thanks to all of the 2007-2008 Officers and
Directors for their volunteer commitment to the Dallas Section.
Casino
Night was held Friday May 4th at Royal Oaks Country Club. We
had the highest attendance ever and are projected to earn a record
amount for our Scholarship program! Thanks to Gary Patterson and the
Casio committee for the great work in hosting the party.
Brian
Chacha and Mitzi Orkus are leading the way for the (ELP) Emerging
Leaders Program. Our younger SPE members are using ELP to network and
socialize. Look for Brian’s announcements at the monthly meetings and
for the ELP link on the Dallas SPE website for upcoming ELP events.
I look
forward to seeing you at an upcoming luncheon meeting!
J. Brian
Walter
2006-2007
Chairman
214
369-4564
brian@walterx.com
May 2007
Dan Auces
and his Scholarship Committee will put our charity funds to work
filling our 2007 Dallas SPE scholarships. Dan has received a number of
applications before the May 1st deadline. The Scholarship
committee will convene shortly to deliberate on the applications. Dan
has been the Scholarship chairman since 1998!
During our
April Luncheon meeting we announced the proposed slate of officers
for the 2007-2008 year. The Slate will be voted on during the May
16th Luncheon meeting. Nominations closed on April 30th.
Thanks to Gary Patterson and the Nomination Committee for their hard
work in fielding our next slate of officers. For more information
please see the website.
Casino
Night is Friday May 4th at Royal Oaks Country Club. We
are almost sold out. I recommend making your reservations as soon as
possible. A portion of the Casio night profits will go to fund our
Scholarship program.
John Tabor
is back again this year with his Golf committee. The 24th
Annual Dallas SPE
Golf
Tournament will be held June 4th at Fire Wheel golf
Course in Garland. John is still looking for Sponsors and Volunteers.
If you have any questions you may reach him at 214 981-1918.
I look
forward to seeing you at an upcoming luncheon meeting!
J. Brian
Walter
2006-2007
Chairman
214
369-4564
brian@walterx.com
April
2007
Come by and roll the dice with Gary Patterson and
the Casino Committee on Friday May 4th at Royal Oaks Country
Club. This event has strong early reservations and I recommend making
your reservations as soon as possible. Last year the Casio Night sold
out. A portion of the Casio night profits will go to fund our
Scholarship program.
During our April Luncheon meeting we will be
announcing the proposed slate of officers for the 2007-2008 year. If
you wish to run for an SPE Dallas Section Office please contact Gary
Patterson, the Nomination Committee Chairman, to be included on the
slate.
HEES 2007 was held April 1st through
the 3rd, 2007. Congratulation goes out to Eddie Rhea and his
committee for a great job. Early estimates project the Dallas Section
will clear $17,000 to $19,000. Most of the monies raised will go toward
the Scholarship program. Dan Auces and his Scholarship committee will
put the funds to work filling our Dallas SPE scholarships.
I look
forward to seeing you at an upcoming luncheon meeting!
J. Brian
Walter
2006-2007
Chairman
214
369-4564
brian@walterx.com
March 2007
HEES 2007
(Hydrocarbon Economic Evaluation Symposium 2007). The theme of this
year’s event will be “Unconventional Economics”. Eddie Rhea and his
committee have been working hard for the last 10 months to plan our
biannual Symposium.
We are
fortunate to have Ken Hersh CEO of Natural Gas Partners to give our
Keynote Luncheon presentation on Monday April 2nd. Tuesday, Barry Davis
president of Dallas based Crosstex Energy will be our Tuesday luncheon
speaker.
Gary
Patterson will be running our short courses at HEES 2007. The first
short course will be on Saturday the 31st by Larry Lake on
Enhanced Oil Recovery. The second short course will be presented Sunday
by Sada Joshi on reservoir parameters of horizontal well projects.
HEES 2007
will be held April 1st through the 3rd, 2007 and
is the biggest fund raising event for the Dallas SPE Chapter. Please go
to SPE.org website and sign up under Meetings and Conferences.
I look
forward to seeing you at an upcoming luncheon meeting!
J. Brian
Walter
2006-2007
Chairman
214
369-4564
brian@walterx.com
February
2007
Congratulation to Dallas SPE member Gary Patterson
for receiving the 2007 Engineer of the Year Award from the Texas Society
of Professional Engineers Dallas Chapter. Congratulation also goes out
to Janice Mineke for receiving the 2007 Young Engineer of the Year
Award.
Last month we were fortunate to have Eve Sprunt
President of SPE International speak at our luncheon meeting. Ms.
Sprunt presented the Legion of Honor Inductees their certificates for 50
years of membership in SPE. Many of the Inductees imparted words of
wisdom to the lunch crowd, which made for an interesting time.
Please mark your calendars now for the HEES 2007
(Hydrocarbon Economic Evaluation Symposium 2007). Eddie Rhea and his
committee have been working hard for the last 10 months to plan our
biannual Symposium. HEES 2007 will be held April 1st through
the 3rd, 2007 and is the biggest fund raising event for the
Dallas SPE Chapter.
I look forward to seeing you at an upcoming
luncheon meeting!
J. Brian
Walter
2006
Chairman
214
369-4564
brian@walterx.com
January
2007
Happy New Year!
I would like to start the year on a positive note
and make a call for nominations for an SPE Award. We are requesting
nominations for both SPE Regional Service Awards and for Dallas Section
Service Awards.
February 15, 2007 is the deadline for submitting
candidate’s information packages for the SPE Regional Service Awards.
Please contact Gary Patterson (gpatterson84@yahoo.com)
our awards committee chairman for help in recognizing our star SPE
Dallas members.
Names may be submitted anytime for the Dallas
Section Service Award.
There has been some recent interest in starting a
new SPE study group for production and operations. If any one is
interest in chairing a new study group please contact me. SPE
international has workbooks available on how to start a new study group
and keep in active.
Please mark your calendars now for the HEES 2007
(Hydrocarbon Economic Evaluation Symposium 2007). Eddie Rhea and his
committee have been working hard for the last 10 months to plan our
biannual Symposium. HEES 2007 will be held April 1st through
the 3rd, 2007 and is the biggest fund raising event for the
Dallas SPE Chapter.
I look forward to seeing you at an upcoming
luncheon meeting!
J. Brian
Walter
2006
Chairman
214
369-4564
brian@walterx.com
December 2006
We
are fortunate to have Eve Sprunt, the 2006 SPE International president,
to speak at our January 10th monthly meeting. Ms. Sprunt has
agreed to present this year Legion of Honor Certificate of achievements
to our Dallas Section recipients. This year we have 18 new members of
the Legion of Honor.
The
Legion of Honor Certificate is awarded to an SPE member recognizing 50
years of continuous SPE membership. This year’s recipients are:
Marion D Arnold
Charles J Holland Jr.
Claude L McMichael Jr.
E C
Mlcak
James C Thompson Jr.
James R Nichols
James W Kerr
Jarl
P Johnson
K R
Withrow
Louis Harlan
Perry B Morris
Robert Alexander
Robert Mayer Jr.
Robert L Spottswood
Robert M Tittle
Robert P Schafer
Thomas Perkins
W W
Dollison
The
Legion of Honor Recipient and their families will be invited to attend
our January meeting.
Please mark your calendars now for the HEES 2007 (Hydrocarbon Economic
Evaluation Symposium 2007). Eddie Rhea and his committee have been
working hard for the last 8 months to plan our biannual Symposium. HEES
2007 will be held April 1st through the 3rd, 2007
and is the biggest fund raising event for the Dallas SPE Chapter.
I
look forward to seeing you at our upcoming luncheon meeting on December
the 20th where Charlie Kinard with Southwestern Energy will talk about
their Fayetteville shale play.
J.
Brian Walter
2006
Chairman
214
369-4564
brian@walterx.com
November 2006
Last month I
had the pleasure of shooting in the Dallas SPE’s Shoot For Your School
Sporting Clay Tournament. Twenty seven schools were represented and will
receive monies from the tournament. Kudos go to John Tabor, Allen Miller,
Long Hunt, and PJ Edsall and the tournament committee members for their hard
work and preparation. The event was well received, especially by all of the
participants winning the 50 plus door prizes including shotguns, gift
certificates and hunting gear.
It is not too
late to be thinking about the SPE Dallas Christmas party. This year we will
hold a joint Christmas party with the Dallas Geological Society and the
Dallas Geophysical Society at the Belo Mansion Downtown on December 1st.
You may register online at the Dallas SPE website ($75 per couple).
Reservations are limited and are first come basis until the party is full.
For other details please see the website.
Eddie Rhea and
the HEES 2007 (Hydrocarbon Economic Evaluation Symposium 2007) Committee has
been working hard for the last 7 months to plan our biannual Symposium.
HEES 2007 will be held April 1st through the 3rd,
2007. Please mark your calendars now.
I look forward
to seeing you at an upcoming luncheon meeting!
J. Brian Walter
2006 Chairman
214 369-4564
brian@walterx.com
October 2006
This month I would like to recognize the efforts David
Lancaster and his committee for their work in managing the Well Planning
Seminar short course held at the Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute on
August 22nd and 23rd. Over fifty people attended the
short course and raised over $7000.00 for the Dallas Section. Thanks for
the good work!!
Our next event will be the Sporting Clays Tournament
to be held on October 23rd. John Tabor, Allen Miller and PJ
Edsall have been working on the Tournament and estimate that we will have a
larger participation than last year. Last year we raised over $7000 for SPE
Student Chapters. The tournament is not full and there are still team
openings.
The Dallas SPE Board of Directors has appointed Diane
Brownlee to head our Community Relations Committee. Diane is the current
Director at Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute at Brookhaven College.
She has some great ideas for the Community Relation Committee and a lot of
enthusiasm.
I look forward
to seeing you at an upcoming luncheon meeting!
J. Brian Walter
2006 Chairman
214 369-4564
brian@walterx.com
September, 2006
Your new slate of officers for 2006-2007 was elected by acclimation at the
May General meeting. The new officers will be serving our section beginning
September 1, 2006. Please take time to congratulate and thank the following
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