Monthly Technical Luncheon

Monthly Technical Luncheon Meeting

March sees a reciprocal hosting of the Joint SGS/NOGS Technical Luncheon at our usual venue Le Pavilllon, 833 Poydras Street on March 11^th, 2010. Click here for a map and directions.
Mike Gallagher, Geological Advisor for ENI Petroleum will be delivering a talk entitled, "Pay Sand Mapping using Seismic multi-attribute calibration proved to be effective from Development to Near Field Exploration stages: A Case Study from De Soto Canyon, Gulf Of Mexico".
Click here for the Abstract and Speaker Biography
Luncheon Sponsor: CGGVeritas

SEG Course at AAPG Convention

The SEG course Reservoir Geophysics: Applications by William Abriel will be in New Orleans on 11^th April, 2010 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in conjunction with the AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition. The one-day course is an updated version of the 2008 Distinguished Instructor Short Course.

Registration is open however as of February 17^th very few people are signed up to attend. SEG and AAPG members can register using the registration form. SEG members can also login to register online. The fee is reduced to $300 for SEG or AAPG members, $390 for non-members (the higher fee entitles the registrant to one year of SEG membership). Student spots are fully subscribed. Register early to avoid the $35 late fee imposed after 10^th March.

Contact Cecilia Martin at 918-497-5526 or cmartin@seg.org if you have questions.

Scholarships are made possible by corporate donations and member sponsorship of our Golf Tournament Fundraiser held in the Spring. The SGS thanks you all for your continued support.

Congratulations to the Bill Blair Scholarship Award 2009 Recipient: Monica Landeche (Mount Carmel Academy, Louisiana State University)
Congratulations to the University Earth Science Award 2009 Recipients: LSU: D'Aquin John, UNO: Arslan Tashmukhambetov

Our parent society SEG also runs a Scholarship Program. If you have any questions in regard to the SEG Scholarship please e-mail scholarships@seg.org

Membership

Our membership runs from June 1^st one year to May 31^st the next. The current membership form can be downloaded here: 2009-10 Membership Application Form. If you played in the Golf Tournament last year you are a member through May 2010. If you didn't then you will need to send in or bring your $20 with next year's application form filled out to one of our events.

Check your membership status. Last updated October 5^th, 2009.

Golf Tournament

The 2010 SGS Golf Tournament will be held this year at Tchefuncta Country Club Thursday March 18^th, the day after St. Patrick's and the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 213. Each year we get to enjoy beautiful weather, camaraderie, a crawfish boil and, as always, good times whilst raising funds to support a worthy cause. These funds are then allocated by the Scholarship Committee to High School and University Students and awarded at our final luncheon of the year in May.

A big thank you to all out previous sponsors however click the following buttons to be involved this year:

Reflections

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Contact our editor, Mary Wildman, with submissions for the newsletter and/or to place an advertisement.
Benefits:

Support the geophysical community and geophysics in South East Louisiana

Exposure to major oil companies and independents working onshore as well at the Gulf of Mexico

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Logos for full page advertisers are displayed on the SGS website along with a link to the advertisers’ own websites

Super Science Saturday

Super Science Saturday is March 20^th – 3½ weeks away. This event is always popular and teaches children that “science is fun” and the “oil industry is a neat place to work when they get older”. Click here for an event flyer and a call for volunteers to make this event happen. There are two shifts of 2 hours each, 11-1 and 1-3. They are hands on and easy to learn. There will be some new display stations this year and we look forward to your support. If you have any additional oil industry related thing that are hands on that the children would appreciate please contact Tom Bergeon on (504) 832-3772 or via e-mail.

Fall Social - House of Blues

The Annual Fall Social, Membership Drive and Costume Party was once again held in the Voodoo Garden at The House of Blues Friday October 30^th, 2009. The event is always such a success thanks to all the support and sponsorship we receive.

Thank you to the 2009 House of Blues Fall Social Sponsors

Platinum: Geokinetics
Silver: Geophysical Pursuit, PGS, Diversified Well Logging, Seabird Exploration, SEI, WesternGeco, CGGVeritas, Seitel, Baker Hughes, Fusion Geo

Thumbnails from 2006's Fall Social - courtesy of Arthur Christensen

Symposium 2009

The SGS hosted a technical symposium November 10, 2009 focusing on the areas of the United States OCS that may be open to exploration in the near future. Offshore drilling was a hot topic in the 2008 presidential election, and it promises to be a hot-button issue in the years going forward. Many assumptions and statements have been made about the impact of such drilling, and as a society we felt we could provide a forum to discuss many of these issues.

If you have ideas for another topic that would be beneficial to the membership to address at a future Symposium contact Toby Roesler or Eric Zimmermann.