Houston Energy Council
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Houston Energy Council Consolidated Calendar Events List as of 21-Nov-08 6:15 PM

	SPEGCS Volunteer - Thanksgiving SuperFeast
	Thursday 27-Nov-08 4:30 AM to Thursday 27-Nov-08 5:30 PM CST
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1463
	SPE will be a sponsor of the THANKSGIVING HOUSTON SUPERFEAST this year . Volunteers are needed Thanksgiving Day starting at 4:30 a.m. and until 5:00 p.m. Volunteers are needed to set-up, unload trucks, ... more at SPE-GCS

	S&E: Carbon Sequestration and EPA’s Proposed...
	Tuesday 2-Dec-08 11:30 AM to Tuesday 2-Dec-08 1:00 PM CST
	Petroleum Club of Houston 800 Bell, 43rd Floor : Houston TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1461
	This event will provide background on options for carbon sequestration, with focus on geologic sequestration, and an overview of EPA’s proposed Geosequestration Rule.

	Data Processing SIG
	Tuesday 2-Dec-08 5:00 PM to Tuesday 2-Dec-08 7:00 PM CST
	PGS 15150 Memorial Drive : Houston TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/502
	Milos Cvetkovic, GXT Some applications of Wavelet Transform in Seismic Data processing Ground-roll, swell noise, guided waves, and random noise are just some of most persistent types of noise in ... more at GSH

	Drilling Study Group - (Joint Meeting with AADE)...
	Thursday 4-Dec-08 11:30 AM to Thursday 4-Dec-08 1:00 PM CST
	Petroleum Club 800 Bell Street #4300 : Houston TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1416
	Wells-related performance improvement initiatives tend to focus primarily on non-productive time (NPT) caused by largely unforeseen events (e.g. tool failures, hole problems) that yield operational ... more at SPE-GCS

	Oil Patch Orientation
	Thursday 4-Dec-08 8:30 AM to Thursday 4-Dec-08 5:30 PM CST
	Wyndham Hotel Greenspoint (**NEW NAME = Hilton Houston North**) 12400 Greenspoint Drive : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1443
	Details on Continuing Education - Oil Patch Orientation Outline: * Introduction/Outline of the Day * The Economics & Future of the Petroleum Industry * Theory of the Origins of Hydrocarbons ... more at SPE-GCS

	2009 - ANOTHER YEAR OF TURMOIL FOR ENERGY?
	Tuesday 9-Dec-08 11:30 AM to Tuesday 9-Dec-08 1:00 PM CST
	Petroleum Club of Houston, ExxonMobil Bldg, 43rd Floor 800 Bell Street : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1379
	Record high oil and gas prices at the start of the summer of 2008 were followed by their seeming collapse as the summer wore on and the American credit crisis grew. Will 2009 be a year of recession or ... more at SPE-GCS

	Northside - Frac-Pack Design Methodology: A Recipe to...
	Tuesday 9-Dec-08 11:30 AM to Tuesday 9-Dec-08 1:00 PM CST
	Greenspoint Club 16925 Northchase Dr : Houston TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1445
	Frac-pack is a preferred cased hole sand control completion technique for wells that are prone to sand production. At inception, hard rock hydraulic fracturing design concepts were being applied. ... more at SPE-GCS

	GSH Technical Luncheon
	Tuesday 9-Dec-08 11:30 AM to Tuesday 9-Dec-08 1:30 PM CST
	Omni Palace 12121 Westheimer Rd. : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/497
	Seismic attributes for stratigraphic feature characterization Seismic attributes are used to extract information from seismic reflection data. Such attributes can be used for both quantitative and ... more at GSH

	Technical Breakfast
	Wednesday 10-Dec-08 7:00 AM to Wednesday 10-Dec-08 8:30 AM CST
	Fugro 6100 Hillcroft Ste 100 : Houston TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/504
	Reservoir-Prone Mass Transport and Slump Deposits Mass-transport deposits are common in the deepwater stratigraphic record, but are rarely considered to contain reservoir-quality sands. ... more at GSH

	GSH Techncial Luncheon
	Wednesday 10-Dec-08 11:30 AM to Wednesday 10-Dec-08 1:30 PM CST
	Petroleum Club of Houston 800 Bell St. : Downtown Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/498
	Seismic attributes for stratigraphic feature characterization Seismic attributes are used to extract information from seismic reflection data. Such attributes can be used for both quantitative and ... more at GSH

	Westside: Wellbore Isolation without Cement Improves Well...
	Thursday 11-Dec-08 11:30 AM to Thursday 11-Dec-08 1:00 PM CST
	The WestLake Club - Carriage Room 570 WestLake Park Blvd : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1456
	Wellbore Isolation without Cement Improves Well Performance and Reduces Costs The conventional method for achieving selective zonal production in horizontal wells is to case, cement, and perforate ... more at SPE-GCS

	GSH Board Meeting
	Thursday 11-Dec-08 10:00 AM to Thursday 11-Dec-08 11:30 AM CST
	GSH Office 14811 St. MAry's Lane : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/r/dt/10/

	Multi-Component SIG
	Thursday 11-Dec-08 5:30 PM to Thursday 11-Dec-08 6:30 PM CST
	WesternGeco Richmond Campus, Q-Auditorium 10001 Richmond Ave : Houston TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/503
	The Fluid Dependence of Seismic Anisotropy All exploration geophysicists know of the work of Biot and Gassmann, which established the fluid dependence of the bulk modulus and the shear modulus of ... more at GSH

	SPE GCS Board of Directors Meeting
	Thursday 18-Dec-08 7:30 AM to Thursday 18-Dec-08 10:30 AM CST
	SPE Houston Office 10777 Westheimer Road, Suite... : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1426
	The Gulf Coast Section will hold its monthly Board of Directors meeting from 7:30 am to 10:30 am. Please register so that we may have a proper head count for breakfast goodies. Register online or RSVP ... more at SPE-GCS

	Technical Breakfast
	Wednesday 7-Jan-09 7:00 AM to Wednesday 7-Jan-09 8:30 AM CST
	Fugro 6100 Hillcroft Ste 100 : Houston TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/505
	The Kaleidoscope Project: Breaking the Sound Barrier in Seismic Imaging. The subsalt exploration targets in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico have changed through time following maturation of ... more at GSH

	GSH Board Meeting
	Thursday 8-Jan-09 10:00 AM to Thursday 8-Jan-09 11:30 AM CST
	GSH Office 14811 St. MAry's Lane : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/r/dt/11/

	SPE GCS Board of Directors Meeting
	Thursday 15-Jan-09 7:30 AM to Thursday 15-Jan-09 10:30 AM CST
	SPE Houston Office 10777 Westheimer Road, Suite... : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1428
	The Gulf Coast Section will hold its monthly Board of Directors meeting from 7:30 am to 10:30 am. Please register so that we may have a proper head count for breakfast goodies. Register online or RSVP to ... more at SPE-GCS

	PF&C: The Development of Cascade and Chinook Fields in...
	Tuesday 20-Jan-09 11:30 AM to Tuesday 20-Jan-09 1:00 PM CST
	Houston Racquet Club 10709 Memorial Drive : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1452
	The Cascade and Chinook fields are located in the Walker Ridge Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing area of the central Gulf of Mexico. There are no production analogs for these two fields and a phased ... more at SPE-GCS

	Permian Basin: A Case Study of Hydraulically Fractured Eddy...
	Tuesday 20-Jan-09 11:30 AM to Tuesday 20-Jan-09 1:00 PM CST
	WestLake Club 570 Westlake Park Blvd. : Houston TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1425
	In order to improve production and subsequent well economics in the Wolfcamp formation in Eddy County, New Mexico, horizontal drilling has been employed for the last seven years. Current stimulation ... more at SPE-GCS

	GSH Techncial Luncheon
	Tuesday 20-Jan-09 11:30 AM to Tuesday 20-Jan-09 1:30 PM CST
	Omni Palace 12121 Westheimer Rd. : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/506
	The Poorman’s Guide to Depth-calibrating Seismic Data in the Presence of Allochthonous Salt It is a well known problem that depths from isotropic PSDM data generally do not match well depths. This often ... more at GSH

	GSH Techncial Luncheon
	Wednesday 21-Jan-09 11:30 AM to Wednesday 21-Jan-09 1:30 PM CST
	Petroleum Club of Houston 800 Bell St. : Downtown Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/507
	The Poorman’s Guide to Depth-calibrating Seismic Data in the Presence of Allochthonous Salt It is a well known problem that depths from isotropic PSDM data generally do not match well depths. This often ... more at GSH

	Reservoir: Empowering Young Professionals to Lead After the...
	Thursday 22-Jan-09 11:30 AM to Thursday 22-Jan-09 1:00 PM CST
	Courtyard on St James 1885 St James Place : HOUSTON TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1450
	During the last decade there has been an increase in discussion about The Big Crew Change and how to prepare the industry’s young professionals (YPs) for this outflow of knowledge from organizations and ... more at SPE-GCS

	SPE Drilling Study Group - A Guide to Successful...
	Wednesday 11-Feb-09 11:30 AM to Wednesday 11-Feb-09 1:00 PM CST
	Petroleum Club - Coastal Room 800 Bell Street, #4300 : Houston TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1454
	Backreaming is the practice of pumping and rotating the drillstring while simultaneously pulling out of the hole. When reliable top drive drilling systems (TDS) on conventional drilling rigs were ... more at SPE-GCS

	REMEDIATING CUSIANA & CUPIAGUA - FRACTURING BETWEEN A ROCK...
	Thursday 12-Feb-09 11:30 AM to Thursday 12-Feb-09 5:30 PM CST
	Petroleum Club of Houston, ExxonMobil Bldg, 43 Floor 800 Bell Street : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1377
	The Colombian Cusiana and Cupiagua developments, in the Llanos foothills of the Eastern cordillera of the Andes mountains, comprise a giant oilfield (Cusiana) and a giant retrograde gas-condensate field ... more at SPE-GCS

	GSH Board Meeting
	Thursday 12-Feb-09 10:00 AM to Thursday 12-Feb-09 11:30 AM CST
	GSH Office 14811 St. MAry's Lane : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/r/dt/12/

	PF&C: Optimization of the Exmar OPTI –EX Semisubmersible...
	Tuesday 17-Feb-09 11:30 AM to Tuesday 17-Feb-09 1:00 PM CST
	Houston Racquet Club 10709 Memorial Drive : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1451
	The presentation will be a discussion of the hull shape and structural configuration that created the unique OPTI hull form which optimizes the payload to hull steel ratio while minimizing motions and ... more at SPE-GCS

	SPE GCS Board of Directors Meeting
	Thursday 19-Feb-09 7:30 AM to Thursday 19-Feb-09 10:30 AM CST
	SPE Houston Office 10777 Westheimer Road, Suite... : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1429
	The Gulf Coast Section will hold its monthly Board of Directors meeting from 7:30 am to 10:30 am. Please register so that we may have a proper head count for breakfast goodies. Register online or RSVP to ... more at SPE-GCS

	Reservoir: Modeling Permeability in Tight Gas Sands Using...
	Thursday 26-Feb-09 11:30 AM to Thursday 26-Feb-09 1:00 PM CST
	Courtyard on St. James 1885 St James Place : HOUSTON TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1422
	Evaluation of gas potential in low permeability reservoirs (< 0.1 md) generally referred to as Tight Gas reservoirs is not very straight forward as in conventional reservoirs. This study is focused on ... more at SPE-GCS

	GSH Board Meeting
	Thursday 12-Mar-09 10:00 AM to Thursday 12-Mar-09 11:30 AM CST
	GSH Office 14811 St. MAry's Lane : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/r/dt/13/

	PF&C: Ethics and Compliance Violations
	Tuesday 17-Mar-09 11:30 AM to Tuesday 17-Mar-09 1:00 PM CST
	Houston Racquet Club 10709 Memorial Drive : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1460
	Are YOU guilty or innocent? Do YOU really know right from wrong? Do YOU obey the law and your Code of Conduct? Hear the warstories from an experienced Ethics and Compliance Officer. Then, take the mirror ... more at SPE-GCS

	SPE GCS Board of Directors Meeting
	Thursday 19-Mar-09 7:30 AM to Thursday 19-Mar-09 10:30 AM CST
	SPE Houston Office 10777 Westheimer Road, Suite... : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1430
	The Gulf Coast Section will hold its monthly Board of Directors meeting from 7:30 am to 10:30 am. Please register so that we may have a proper head count for breakfast goodies. Register online or RSVP to ... more at SPE-GCS

	THE STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE AND PRACTICALITIES OF CO2 EOR &...
	Thursday 9-Apr-09 11:30 AM to Thursday 9-Apr-09 1:00 PM CST
	Petroleum Club of Houston, ExxonMobil Bldg, 43 Floor 800 Bell Street : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1376
	The key message is the worldwide opportunity to use the skills of the oil industry to exploit the synergy between reduced CO2 emissions and sequestration of CO2 in depleted reservoirs. The UK has ... more at SPE-GCS

	GSH Board Meeting
	Thursday 9-Apr-09 10:00 AM to Thursday 9-Apr-09 11:30 AM CST
	GSH Office 14811 St. MAry's Lane : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/r/dt/14/

	SPE GCS Board of Directors Meeting
	Thursday 16-Apr-09 7:30 AM to Thursday 16-Apr-09 10:30 AM CST
	SPE Houston Office 10777 Westheimer Road, Suite... : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1431
	The Gulf Coast Section will hold its monthly Board of Directors meeting from 7:30 am to 10:30 am. Please register so that we may have a proper head count for breakfast goodies. Register online or RSVP to ... more at SPE-GCS

	2009 SPE-GCS Golf Tournament
	Monday 20-Apr-09 7:00 AM to Monday 20-Apr-09 5:30 PM CST
	Kingwood Country Club 1700 Lake Kingwood : Kingwood TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1453
	This Gulf Coast Section event is an important part of fundraising for our Scholarship Fund, which helps send several potential clients or co-workers to college. These scholarships are even more ... more at SPE-GCS

	Reservoir: New Grids for Robust Reservoir Modeling
	Thursday 23-Apr-09 11:30 AM to Thursday 23-Apr-09 1:00 PM CST
	Courtyard on St James 1885 St. James Place : HOUSTON TX maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1421
	Geostatistical modeling of reservoir facies and petrophysical properties (e.g. porosity and permeability) must be performed in a pre-faulted, deposition space in order to reproduce the true spatial ... more at SPE-GCS

	GSH Board Meeting
	Thursday 14-May-09 10:00 AM to Thursday 14-May-09 11:30 AM CST
	GSH Office 14811 St. MAry's Lane : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.gshtx.org/en/cev/r/dt/15/

	SPE GCS Board of Directors Meeting
	Thursday 21-May-09 7:30 AM to Thursday 21-May-09 10:30 AM CST
	SPE Houston Office 10777 Westheimer Road, Suite... : Houston Texas maps.google  mapquest  forecast
	http://www.spegcs.org/en/cev/1435
	The Gulf Coast Section will hold its monthly Board of Directors meeting from 7:30 am to 10:30 am. Please register so that we may have a proper head count for breakfast goodies. Register online or RSVP to ... more at SPE-GCS