History of the PBGS: 2000-2001
PRESIDENT: Frank Brown (Dawson Geophysical Co.)
PRES. ELECT: Glenn Winters (Texaco Inc.)
VICE PRES.: Carolyn Dingus (Geco-Prakla)
SECRETARY: Cynthia Black (Burlington Resources)
TREASURER: Joe Huck (Conoco, Inc.)
The Fall of 2000 began another busy educational year – our program chairman (aka the President-Elect) put his own special spin on the luncheon meetings. Our own Charlie Keefer (Chevron) began the year with a talk on quantifying carbonate porosity using seismic data. Glenn Winters also arranged for Texaco to host a 3-day 3-D Seismic Data Short Course by Alistair R. Brown. In December, Glenn proposed a December luncheon meeting with “short” 10-minute formats for some local technology transfer – Curtis Horn (Texaco), R. Leibrecht (Conoco), and C. E. Black (Burlington Resources) participated. This was a fun and informal way to share our work with our peers!
David Liebman with help from Georgia Briscoe, both of Texaco, took over the PBGS web page and e-mail contact increased as more PBGS members logged in their digital addresses.
PBGS members participated in Earth Science Week, a program which introduces geological concepts related to the oil & gas business to elementary age school children. What has become something of a tradition, the PBGS again sponsored the SEG/AAPG Fall Distinguished Lecturer, David Lumley, who presented a paper “The Next Wave in Reservoir Monitoring: the Instrumented Oilfield”. One change of pace presentation came from Mr. Art Hobbs of Wells Fargo Bank advising on planning and analyzing starting a new business as an independent. Then there was the SEG convention in Calgary which some of our members attended. Two of them, Steve Jumper (UT) and Glenn Winters (Purdue), especially enjoyed the flight home since they each had a chance to extol the virtues of their alma mater to the other and expressed it in an ongoing column in the PBGS Newsletter so that ALL the members could enjoy their good-humored jibes!
The secretary completed the effort, begun in the 1999-2000 year of moving the PBGS into the digital age by updating the membership rolls with e-mail addresses, putting the newsletter into a digital format which could be e-mailed to members as well as the usual snail-mail routine, and began the process of reminding members by e-mail to come to the luncheon meetings.
January of the new millennium saw Carolyn Dingus (VP) moving to Houston for a position with Schlumberger. Peter Morton (Veritas) agreed to fill the position for the remainder of the Spring 2001 season. In April Martha George (again) coordinated presentation of DISC 2001 by Fred Hilterman on “Seismic Amplitude Interpretation”.
The new millennium Annual Meeting (43rd) used the theme “2001 – A Technological Odyssey” which sounds very appropriate. Keynote address was by Sally Zinke, SEG President, who, I believe, is our first female president. Presentations covered channel sands, VSP’s, multi-component data, seismic-log integration, processing and 2 case studies.
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