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June 2002
Los Angeles Basin
Section Newsletter
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SPE Petroleum Technology Forum
Join your friends and colleagues
for lunch, tour and a history of the Hathaway family and oil in Santa Fe Springs.
DATE: Wednesday, June 19, 2002
TIME: 11:30 am
PLACE: Hathaway Ranch Museum
11901
E. Florence Ave.
Santa Fe Springs, CA
COST:
$15.00 General;
$5.00 Students
SPEAKER: Chad Hathaway
Other speakers are welcome. If
you have worked in the “Springs” and have a story to tell, we
would like to hear it.
RESERVATIONS: Contact
John Jepson (714) 816-6847, jjepson@consrv.ca.gov by Monday, June 17th.
What
is the Hathaway Ranch Museum?
We are a museum of family and
community history in southern California, preserving five generations of
memories and artifacts. Incorporated in 1986, our five-acre site holds ninety
years of Hathaway history. We have a 1933 Spanish-Mediterranean style house, a
line-shaft drive machine shop, farm and ranching structures, oil drilling
equipment, and much more.
Continuing Education Course
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION REVIEW
COURSE FOR PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The Course covers most topics that
are found on the State Board Petroleum Engineering Professional Examination.
WHO
SHOULD ATTEND: Engineers
who are planning on taking the PE Examination in Petroleum Engineering this
fall.
INSTRUCTORS: Bing Wines,
PE, Richard Temple, PE
LOS
ANGELES AREA COURSE
8:00
AM - 5:00 PM, Monday through
Friday
August
12 - 16, 2002
LOCATION: DOGGR offices
5816 Corporate Avenue,
Suite 200
Cypress, CA 90630
COST: ____ $950 for first time enrollment
____ $500 for repeat enrollment
10% Discounts for early enrollment until July 1
For more Information: Contact Bing Wines at
405-722-6761; bingwines@aol.com
WINROCK ENGINEERING, INC.
P.
O. BOX 94005
OKLAHOMA
CITY, OK, 73143
43% Pass 2001 Petroleum PE Exam
NCEES
and the State Engineering Boards released the 2001 Professional Engineering
Exam results in February. Nationwide,
the Petroleum Engineering Exam recorded a 43% pass rate.
The estimated pass rates of a few other engineering disciplines were:
Chemical
54%
Agricultural 51%
Civil
44%
Industrial
49%
Electrical
42%
Manufacturing 56%
Environmental 76%
Metallurgical 44%
Mechanical 51%
Mining
42%
Structural 51%
Nuclear
80%
The
Petroleum pass rates in 2001 for a few states:
Alaska
-0-%
Louisiana 45%
California
25%
Oklahoma
71%
Colorado
13%
Texas
71%
What are the requirements to take the Petroleum PE Exam?
Today, California requires that you have:
1. An engineering,
math or science degree.
2. Passed the
Fundamentals, or EIT Exam.
3. At least
four years of professional experience.
Continuing Education Course
Integrated Reservoir
Management
Ganesh Thakur and Abdus Satter
August 13-14, 2002. 8:00 AM – 5: 00 PM
Courtyard by Marriott, 3601 Marriott Drive,
Bakersfield, CA. 93308
Who
Should Attend:
Petroleum engineers, geoscientists,
field operation staff, management personnel, and others involved in the reservoir
management area.
About
the Course:
This course
provides an overview of reservoir management practices, including technical
and management perspectives; data acquisition, analysis, and management; production
rate and recovery forecasts; economics considerations in reservoir management;
and implementation of a reservoir management program, including surveillance,
monitoring, and evaluation.
Course
Content:
Reservoir Management Concepts
* Reservoir Management Process * Data Acquisition, Analysis, and Management
* Reservoir Model * Production Rate and Reserves Forecasts * Reservoir Management
Economics * Improved Recovery Processes * Reservoir Management Case Studies
* reservoir Management Plans.
Abdus
Satter is a Sr. Research Consultant
with Texaco, Inc. at the E & P Technology Department in Houston. He previously worked for Amoco, and Frank
Cole Engineering, and taught at University of Western Ontario. He has three decades of diversified domestic
and foreign experience in reservoir engineering, reservoir simulator development/applications.
He has authored many technical papers, and co-authored three books
on reservoir management related topics.
Ganesh
Thakur is the Senior Principal Technical
Advisor for Chevron Petroleum Technology Company. For 27 years, he supervised and directed
reservoir management, simulation and EOR activities and worked as Chief Secondary
Recovery Engineer. He has worked
at Amoco Production Company’s Research Center, Science Software-Intercomp,
developing reservoir simulators and consulting.
He was an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on Waterflood Management.
He has published over 25 papers and authored books on integrated reservoir
management, integrated waterflood asset management and reservoir management
of mature fields.
The registration deadline
is July 30, 2002. The registration fee is $ 450 (add $50
after deadline) and is fully refundable until that time. For more details, contact Min Chu at mchu@consrv.ca.gov or (661) 322-4031. Make checks payable to: SPE SJV Section
and mail to Min Chu, CA Division of Oil and Gas, 4800 Stockdale Hwy, Suite
417, Bakersfield, CA 93309. Please
include your name and phone number and indicate the workshop(s) of your interest
on your check.
WE NOW ACCEPT PAYMENTS
IN AMEX.
FSEA Program Sponsored by LASPE
For
the last three years the Los Angles Basin Section has been sponsoring an FSEA
program at Mabel Paine Elementary School which lies over the famous Yorba
Linda Oil Field, the site of the first successful Steam Drive Process in California.
FSEA is an after school program for teaching hands-on science and engineering
to grades 4-12. Pictured below
are shots of 4-6 grade students at work and group shots including SPE mentors
Drs. Handy and Sarem.
SPE Distinguished Lecture Series
The
LA SPE board reviewed available lectures for the 2002-2003 Distinguished Lecture
Series and ranked the following presentations for presentation to the Los
Angeles Section, subject to scheduling availability.
1st
place: Injection
Water Management: Challenges and Opportunities; Mukul M. Sharma
2nd place: Selection Criteria for Horizontal
Wells, Frac Packs or Gravel Packs; Lewis Ledlow
3rd place: Cost Saving Technology with
ESPs in High Intervention Cost Areas; John Patterson
4th place: Outcrop/Behind
Outcrop Characterization of Deepwater (Turbidite) Petroleum Reservoir Analogs:
Why and How; Roger M. Slatt
5th place Merging Risk Assessment
and Portfolio Management: The Search for Value; Glenn McMaster
6th place:
Rock Mechanics in Reservoir Evaluation and Engineering; Bob Skopec
SPE International News and Events
New Officers Elected:
Kate Baker, BP Upstream Technology Group, has
been elected 2004 SPE President. New SPE officers will join 2003 SPE
President Andrew Young, Gaffney-Cline, at an organizational meeting of the
2003 Board of Directors to be held at the Annual Technical Conference and
Exhibition in September.
2002 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition Register
Today Online
29 September
– 2 October, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. Four Days – Thousands
of Brilliant E&P Professionals – Millions of Fascinating New Ideas.
Register online at www.spe.org before 26
August and SAVE!
Interested in joining AAPG or SEG?
As part of a cooperative effort between the societies, SPE full members
are eligible for automatic acceptance in the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Find out more at http://www.spe.org/spe/cda/views/membership/SPE_AAPG_SEG_Initiative
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