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ACE Explosives Will Host Hospitality Suite

Ace Explosives is hosting a hospitality suite after the CSEG Convention on May 11th, 2004 from 6:00pm until 9:00pm. The Suite is located at the Convention Centre, Glen room #205, plus 15 level. The event will be co-hosted by UEB, their detonator manufacturer from Spain. Everyone is welcome and ACE looks forward to another successful event.

Sercel Canada Hosts Convention Hospitality Suite

Sercel Canada Ltd. will be hosting their CSEG party on Tuesday, May 11th, 2004 at Ceili’s Irish Pub on the corner 8th Avenue and 5th Street SW. There will be food, a band, and an open bar. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact:

Don MacNeil
Sercel Canada Ltd.
Direct: (403) 295-9788

Boyd PetroSearch Announces New Product

Boyd’s popular Special Condition Areas for Resource Development map is now available in a digital format. This map contains boundaries for caribou, moose and ungulate areas, goat and sheep, trumpeter swans, wildland parks, provincial parks, ecological reserves, Zone 1 areas, Indian and Metis lands as well as many other features. Information is current to November 2003. The laminated wall map (1:1,000,000 scale) is still available for $100. Call Jena Wyllie at 543-5399 for any questions about the digital version. Wall maps can be ordered from Kathy Sloan at 543-5375.

Earth Signal’s 1st Annual Winter Golf Tournament

In October 2003 over 80 of Earth Signal’s clients accepted an invitation to join them in the first annual winter golf tournament.

Playing once a month in a match play tournament, participants have been enjoying some of the world’s most beautiful courses on Earth Signal’s own golf simulator.

Before the start of the fourth round, a get together was held to let everyone meet each other, compare standings and raise some money for charity. In a closest to the pin competition, over $1,000 was raised, which Earth Signal matched for a grand total of $2080. The money is being presented to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation.

After all the rounds are completed the top sixteen will battle it out to win the first ever Earth Signal Processing Golf Association Trophy. Stay tuned to find out who the champion is!

Silent Auction at the CSEG Convention

The 2004 CSEG National convention committee will be holding a Silent Auction for the Mustard Seed on Tuesday, May 11th, 2004. Viewing and bidding will take place within the exhibit hall all day Tuesday with the auction wrap up between 4 and 6 pm during Happy Hour.

For any companies that wish to donate items for the Silent Auction, please contact Laurie Ross, Chair at 298-5614 or rossl@geo-x.com.

Geomodeling Technology Corp Opened Three International Offices

International Offices Geomodeling Technology Corp (GTC), a Calgary-based software and consulting company, recently opened three international offices in Beijing, Stavanger, and Houston, in order to and provide local technical supports and service to its international clients. The international offices will enhance its marketing effort for its seismic attribute interpretation and geological modeling software. GTC develop several cutting-edge software, VoxAt™, SBED™, and GeoStudio™. GTC’s international clients and R&D partners include major international oil companies such as, Agip/ENI, BG Group, ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips, Norsk-Hydro, Shell, Statoil, and Total E&P. More information about GTC can be found at www.geomodeling.com.

OpenSpirit Announcement

OpenSpirit Corporation (Houston, Texas) recently took another step toward fulfilling its mission to “provide access to all data from any platform to any software” in the upstream petroleum industry. In an agreement signed with ETL Solutions Ltd. (Wales, UK), OpenSpirit is now the exclusive worldwide seller of ETL’s Transformation Manager in the upstream market.

Transformation Manager provides an intelligent development and test environment to rapidly build “maps” between different data models of virtually any kind: xml, database, Java classes, or flat files/APIs. An integral code generator automatically produces portable Java code that can then be deployed independently of the tool in virtually any Java Virtual Machine. It is the tool’s real understanding of the meta-data, coupled with the automatic generation of standard Java code, that separates Transformation Manager from existing solutions.

By offering Transformation Manager as a stand-alone utility, OpenSpirit can now provide its customers with yet another option for accessing and transforming data. Transformation Manager’s data transformation capability may also be incorporate into a future release of OpenSpirit’s middleware architecture, which will further increase the ease of data type extensibility for data stores supported by OpenSpirit.

Additional information on OpenSpirit is available at www.openspirit.com, or via e-mail at info@openspirit.com.

SBED JIP Steering Group Meeting at Banff Center, March 15-17, 2004

SBED is a multi-year joint industrial project (JIP) that participated by major international oil companies: BG Group, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Fortum Petroleum (now part of Agip/ENI), Norsk-Hydro, Shell, Statoil, and Total E&P. The SBED JIP project is commissioned to the Calgary-based Geomodeling Technology Corp (GTC) by the consortium. Working closely with The SBED JIP member companies, especially their R&D groups, GTC has developed commercial products, SBED and GeoStudio during two phases of the project. For more information about the SBED project and the coming steering group meeting in Banff, please contact at Renjun Wen at Geomodeling Technology Corp, Suite 230, 633-6th Avenue, S. W., Calgary, Alberta (renjun@geomodeling.com)

Terra Management Hosts Seminar on Latest Version

Terra Management Inc. is a local software development company servicing the needs of the Energy Industry, and is dedicated towards excellent customer service and support. Terra is pleased to introduce the latest version of their TerraSeis software Version 3.0. Their software has been on the market for the last eight years, undergoing continuous improvement through the input of their users and the changes within the Energy Industry. Terra will be hosting an informational seminar about their recent Version 3.0 release on Thursday, April 15th, 2004 from 11:45am to 1:00pm at the International Hotel in Calgary, 35th Floor. For further information you can visit their website or contact Elijah Raynard their Marketing Manager.

611 - 71st Avenue SE
Calgary, Alberta T2H 0S7
Tel: 403-269-6090
Fax: 403-261-3077
E-mail: info@terramanagement.com

Results: 2003 CSEG Doodlespiel

The final results are in from the 2003 CSEG Doodlespiel. Congratulations to all curling teams listed below: A draw winners: Larry Herd, Ron Ewing, Barrie Wright, and Murray Jasman A runner-up: Kelly Jamison, Bob Bachman, Gary Laskoski, and Gary Lorenz B winners: Kevin Love, Kevin Torry, Tim Little, and Rick Gildart B runner-up: Gary Kelman, Fred Peterson, Derek Boeckx, and Neil Rutherford C winner: Tim Boyko, Marty Sommerville, Larry Simpson, and Tim Carry C runner-up: Sandy Jenkins, Jim Stoll, Larry Anderson, and Andrew Boland D winner: Stu Miller, Rick Edwards, Barry Thomas, and Tim Holden D runner-up: Dennis Meisinger, Ken Newell, Brian Lau, and Richard Earle Hole Plug winner: Warren Murray, Marvin Lefebvre, Dan Dolinski, and John Ropchan Hole Plug runner-up: Cheryl Rodger, Lisa Michetti, Donna Gelner, and Linda Manning One of the big stories of the weekend was the scoring of an 8-ender by the team of Ken Lengyel, David Mathews, Glen Stewart, and Steve Whidden.