SPE Golden Gate Section Hosts 2009 Western Regional Meeting

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All The SPE Golden Gate Section will be hosting the 2009 SPE Western Regional Meeting at the Double Tree Hotel in San Jose, California on March 24-26. The theme for the meeting is "New Solutions for Maximizing Recovery and Value". Our main focus area is Reservoir Management, Conventional and Innovative Techniques. We want the Western Regional Meeting to provide an opportunity for the local and worldwide energy industry professionals to bring together the main problems that the region's energy industry is facing in term of asset operation and management, and combine their experience and knowledge to solve them.   The meeting webpage is: http://www.spe.org/events/wrm. Here you can see more details and updated information on the meeting. This meeting should be of great interest to energy professionals and companies worldwide because of our region's success in operating in difficult environment and regulatory settings. Although Reservoir Management, Conventional and Innovative Techniques will be the main focal point of the Western Regional Meeting, we also want to broaden the technical presentations and posters to other technical areas that are main concerns in our region. These are: Carbon Management Biofuels Natural Gas Supply and Storage   Geothermal Resources   Unconventional Resources Reservoir Management Waste Disposal and Environmentally  Friendly Operations Innovations in Drilling Design and Operation of Facilities   Heavy Oil and Thermal Recovery   Problems of and Solutions for Small  Producers Problems of and Solutions for Midsize  Producers Energy Industry in the Western Region   Current planned short courses include: Carbon Sequestration and  Storage   Enhanced Oil Recovery and Thermal  methods   Reservoir Simulation   Streamline Simulation: Surveillance, Flood  Management and History Matching   Geothermal Modeling   Mature field optimization   Fluid Characterization for Simulation of  Miscible EOR Projects and CO2 Sequestration   To make this event the most successful and interesting Western Regional Meeting yet, we need your help ! We ask you to share your technology and experiences by writing a paper and submitting an abstract for the meeting. We also need your help in encouraging your colleagues and associates to do the same. The success of your regional meeting depends heavily on a strong support of 'local' energy professionals and energy companies. We are also working at organizing social events, both for the conference participants and the students. This will be fun ! You can submit your abstract(s) online at: http://manuscripts.spe.org/ams/cgi-bin/main.plex <http://manuscripts.spe.org/ams/cgi-bin/main.plex> . The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to October 3rd 2008. Should you have any problem with submitting your proposals, please contact Cindy Madding, cmadding@spe.org, 972-952-9511. The meeting webpage is: www.spe.org/events/wrm <file://www.spe.org/events/wrm> . Here you can see more details and updated information on the meeting. SPE’s 2009 Western Regional Meeting, March 24-25, 2009, provides the opportunity for professionals in the oil and gas industry to meet and share ideas. Exhibit space will be limited at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California.  Call today to request exhibit space insuring your company's support in the “New Solutions for Maximizing Recovery and Value”. Please contact:  Kirk Colligan, kcolligan@spe.org <mailto:kcolligan@spe.org> ,  972-952-9516 or Joan Payne, jpayne@spe.org <mailto:jpayne@spe.org> , 972-952-9356.  The SPE Sales Team will provide more details concerning exhibit, advertising, and sponsorship opportunities. If you would like to volunteer to help out with the meeting please contact the meeting General Chair, Jerry Hale, at JerryHale@chevron.com <mailto:JerryHale@chevron.com> or Program Chair, Khalid Aziz, at aziz@stanford.edu <mailto:aziz@stanford.edu> . Best Regards. Laurent Pianelo   Chevron Energy Technology Company        Reservoir Simulation         6001 Bollinger Canyon Rd., D2272 Consulting Group              San Ramon, CA 94583 Tel  925 842 8272             Fax  925 842 2156