Wow, my first Grapevine article. It’s scary and exciting all at once. Those words can pretty much sum up our summer here in Calgary too…rain, m o re rain, Stampede—scary and exciting. I hope all of you had a wonderful summer, now it’s back to work.
Speaking of Stampede, has everyone fully detoxed from pancakes yet? If not, I may know of a support group.
Veritas DGC. Inc.
Veritas would like to announce Mr. Yoram Shoham has been appointed to the company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Shoham was previously employed by Shell Oil Company and Royal Dutch Shell in a variety of progressively responsible positions, the most recent being Vice President. Thierry Pilenko, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer commented: “He has vast knowledge of our industry from both the technical and business perspective…Yoram’s appointment is further evidence of Veritas’ continuing commitment to quality, technical excellence and innovation”.
Veritas, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is a leading provider of integrated geophysical, geological and reservoir technologies to the petroleum industry worldwide.
Paradigm
Paradigm™, the premier provider of advanced petroleum geoscience and drilling technology to the oil and gas E&P industry, announces the release of Geolog® 6.6. This is the latest version of its industry-leading software solution for log management, correlation, geosteering and petrophysics.
The Geolog 6.6 release includes many enhancements providing high levels of interactivity and automation efficiency, including
- Native Windows support
- Automation of seismic facies classification and interpretation of well bore images
- Geosteering and horizontal well support
- Interoperability with external and internal data stores
Geolog is used by over 70% of the world’s oil companies and oilfield service providers for petrophysical analysis, well data management and geological interpretation.
GEDCO
GEDCO is proud to announce the release of OMNI 5.0 and VISTA5.5. Seismic Image Software, ADivision of GEDCO, is the leader in 2D/3D Survey Design and Seismic Data Processing software. Each of these products is PC-Based, and the development is client-driven. The software is used daily in over 35 different countries all around the world.
If you’re interested in OMNI or VISTA, visit GEDCO’s website at www.gedco.com or email at info@gedco.com. If you’re already a user, watch for the annual User’s Meeting, where you have the chance to provide your input for the next release and meet other users (and have a sandwich or two – GS).
LunchBox Geophysics
Free, informal (can’t beat that – GS) lunchtime talks where attendees bring their own lunch. Mark your calendars; the schedule is as follows:
“Gabor deconvolution: real and synthetic data experiences” Speaker:
Mike Perz from Geo-X
Tuesday, September 13 Noon Where:
Aquitaine Auditorium, +15 level of 540-5th Avenue SW
“3D TTI Eikonal Traveltime Kirchhoff Migration”
Jim Jiao from Kelman Technologies
Tuesday, October 25 Noon
Aquitaine Auditorium, +15 level of 540-5th Avenue SW
“A stable accurate and efficient approach to explicit depth migration called FOCI”
Salem Al-Saleh from The University of Calgary
Tuesday, November 15 at Noon
Aquitaine Auditorium, +15 level of 540-5th Avenue SW
If you’re interested in joining these fun and informal talks, please register with Larry Adorjan with Kelman Technologies at larrya@kelman.com.
APEGGA Geoscience Student Mixer
Date: September 27, 2005
Time: 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: The Metropolitan Centre, 333 – 4th Avenue SW
Professional geoscientists, MIT’s and associates can share their wisdom (giggle—don’t laugh, it’s not an oxy-moron – GS) with future geoscientists in this fun and informal setting. APEGGA volunteers are invited to join several geoscience societies (CSEG, CSPG, CWLS…) to meet next year’s graduating students from U of C and U of A. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided.
RSVP: For more information or to register for this fun event, please contact APEGGA Calgary office at 403-262-7714 or Penny Colton at pcolton@apegga.org.
NOTE: This event is right after and right next door to the CSEG/SEG Short Course (DISC) from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm on the same day.
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the CSEG RECORDER, its committee, members, family, friends, pets or anyone else it might offend – GS.
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