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The APInion
October, 2009
12th Annual GNO Joint Industry Association Luncheon API Delta Chap ter is ex cited to ad ver tise the 12th An nual GNO Joint In dus tryAs so ci a tion Lun cheon which is sched -uled for Tues day, No vem ber 10, 2009. This year’s event will be held at TheRoo se velt New Or leans, pre vi ously ourel e gant and his toric Fairmont Ho tel. Please make your res er va tions early toview Wal dorf Astoria’s $145 mil lion res -to ra tion of a pre mier lux ury ho tel andlis ten to a pre mier world ex pert on thegeo pol i tics of en ergy.
Our key note speaker this year is Dr. Mi -chael J. Economides, one of the most in -stantly rec og niz able names in the in ter -na tional en ergy in dus try. He is cur rently Pro fes sor at the Uni ver sity of Hous tonand has served in the fac ulty of otherma jor uni ver si ties in both the UnitedStates and Eu rope. Dr. Economidesholds many in dus try po si tions. He isChair man of the Board of XGAS LLC(www.xgas.us) which spe cial izes in thede sign, con struc tion and op er a tion offa cil i ties and ves sels for trans port ingCNG (com pressed nat u ral gas). He isalso man ag ing part ner of Dr. Mi chael J. Economides Con sul tants, Inc. where he
has been re -tained byna tional oilcom pa niesand sev eralFor tune 500 com pa nies.
In the pastde cade hehas servedas Se nior Tech ni cal Ad vi sor to Yukosand Sibneft, Rus sia’s ma jor pe tro leumcom pa nies, ENI, It aly’s main pe tro leummul ti na tional com pany, and China’sCNOOC and sub sid iary COSL. Dur ing1997 and 1998 Economides was in Ven e -zuela as the Se nior Ad vi sor on Pro duc -tion Tech nol ogy for PDVSA, the na -tional oil com pany of Ven e zuela.
Pro fes sor Economides has writ ten orco-writ ten over 200 jour nal pa pers andar ti cles as well as 14 text books and pro -fes sional books, in clud ing his 2000 bestseller The Color of Oil. He is con sid eredby many as the pre mier world ex pert onthe geo pol i tics of en ergy, giv ing about50 speeches per year to groups from
many large pro fes sional so ci et ies, or ga -ni za tions and cor po ra tions. He is afre quent guest on na tional and in ter na -tional me dia, ap pear ing on CNBC, Can -ada’s BNN,, BBC World Ser vice andmany lo cal sta tions through out theworld. Ad di tion ally, he writes for the ed -i to rial pages of ma jor news pa pers. He isthe Ed i tor-in-Chief of the En ergy Tri -bune and the Jour nal of Nat u ral Gas Sci -ence and En gi neer ing.
New for this year are two timelygeopolitical books, From So viet to Putinand Back: The Dom i nance of En ergy inTo day’s Rus sia.(www.soviettoputin.com) and his hot off the press new book, En ergy: China’sChoke Point. Dr. Economides will be au -to graph ing his new book fol low ing hiskey note ad dress..
Please reg is ter early to meet and hearunique, world wide in sights from ourdis tin guished guest. We ex pect the event to fill up quickly. Reg is ter on line atwww.api-delta.org.
© 2009 API Delta Chap ter
November 10, 2009
12th Annual GNO Joint Industry Association Luncheon
Roosevelt Hotel • New Orleans, LARegister online at www.api-delta.org
Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter - 2 - Oc to ber, 2009
2009 API - DELTA CHAPTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ex ec u tive BoardName Com pany E-mail
Chair man Ken Meyers Palm En ergy Part ners [email protected]
Of fice: 504-830-7638 Cell #: 985-773-22771st Vice-Chair man John Dribus Schlumberger [email protected]
Cell #: 504-232-22212nd Vice-Chair man Steve Free man Saratoga Re sources [email protected]
Of fice: 985-809-9292 Cell #: 985-373-57033rd Vice-Chair man Peggy Bour geois Harvey Ca nal Ind.Assn. [email protected]
Of fice: 504-367-1721 Cell #: 504-289-4653Sec re tary / Mem ber ship Barbara Edmonds En ergy Part ners, Ltd. [email protected]
Of fice: 504-799-1906 Cell #: 504-450-3531Trea surer Doug Tymkiw Er nest & Young [email protected]
Of fice: 504-592-4837 Cell #: 504-319-5737Im me di ate Past Chair man Jan Catalano ORX Re sources [email protected]
Of fice: 504-581-1806 Cell #: 504-237-4735
Com mit tee ChairsSchol ar ship Peggy Bour geois Harvey Ca nal Ind.Assn. [email protected]
Of fice: 504-367-1721 Cell #: 504-289-4653Ed u ca tion Jahnette deBlanc Shell E&P [email protected]
Of fice: 504-728-6098Golf Tour na ment Steve Free man Saratoga Resources [email protected]
Of fice: 985-809-9292 Cell #: 985-373-5703Sport ing Clays Tour na ment Bob Bailey [email protected]
Cell #: 504-577-1249News let ter Rich ard Rusch Chev ron N.A. E&P rrusch@chev ron.com
Of fice: 985-773-6127 Cell #: 504-460-1886Website Bar ney Paternostro LLOG Ex plo ra tion Co., LLC [email protected]
Of fice: 504-849-4104 Cell #: 985-789-1775Ed u ca tion Ca thy Vaughn BCM Foun da tion [email protected]
Of fice: 504-593-2310 Cell #: 504-812-3998
Ad vi sory BoardScot ChildressOf fice: 504-593-7574
ENI Pe tro leumCell: 504-722-0300
James Coronato In ter na tional Lift Systems [email protected]
Of fice: 504-363-7788 Cell #: 504-301-6369
Holly Fonseca CETCO [email protected]
Cell #: 985-628-3300
Rich ard Leonhard Pro ject Con sult ing Ser vices, Inc. [email protected]
Of fice: 504-219-3454 Cell #: 504-377-8706
Don Miller Wood Group [email protected]
Of fice: 504-523-0500 X 227 Cell #: 504-319-5737
Da vid Mount OneSource Pro fes sional Search [email protected]
Of fice: 985-727-2060 Cell #: 985-502-9862
Steve Strain Baker Hughes Inteq [email protected]
Of fice: 504-561-6413 Cell #: 504-458-0443
An nie Whetsell RCS, LLC [email protected]
Of fice: 985-868-0523 Cell #: 985-713-1462
Ac tive Past Chair men
Ber na dette Alaniz Wellbore En ergy So lu tions, LLC [email protected]
Of fice: 337-839-2131 Cell #: 504-453-6222
Carlos Guzman G Geo phys ics [email protected]
Of fice: 504-712-6875 Cell #: 504-913-6871
Leo Kerner Qual ity En ergy Ser vices [email protected]
Of fice: 985-850-0025 Cell #: 504-329-5384
Philip Mo ses ENI Pe tro leum philip.mo [email protected]
Of fice: 504-593-7311
Dwight Paulsen EDG, Inc. [email protected]
Of fice: 504-455-0858 Cell #: 504-451-9025
Jim Rike [email protected]
Of fice: 985-350-6101 Cell #: 504-952-4985
Bob Vaughn Bour bon Off shore [email protected]
Cell #: 832-671-6700
Ben War ing OCSBBS [email protected]
Of fice: 504-733-3117 Cell #: 504-957-3865
Sup port GroupWebsite Char lie Miller, III www.ocs.bbs.com 504-733-3117 [email protected] let ter Carole Rike Word Ca ter ing, Ltd. 985-350-6101 [email protected]
Oc to ber, 2009 - 3 - Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter
Chairman’s MessageAs we en ter thefi nal quar ter ofthis year, no onecan say it’s been a bor ing one. Ob -vi ously, we havehad too many in -ter est ing and con -cern ing eventsde velop in pol i -tics, the econ omy, and our in dus try. For tu nately, the events as so ci ated withour API Delta Chap ter have been more en joy able, in for ma tive, and en cour ag -ing.
Many mem bers of our joint so ci et iesagain joined to gether un der PIPE (Pe -tro leum In dus try Pro mot ing Ed u ca -tion) in late July to en ter tain and ed u -cate ap prox i mately 1000 kids and theirfam i lies at our 2nd an nual FETCH En -ergy pro gram for the Lou i si ana Chil -dren’s Mu seum. I have to ad mit, I wasanx ious when con sid er ing the chal -lenge of match ing last year’s pro gram
with our cur rent in dus try leth argy. But, with great gen er os ity, many of our col leagues vol un teered their free Sat ur -day to show the best of our lo cal in -dus try. It was a huge suc cess and wehope to con tinue sup port ing it in theyears to come.
In Au gust, SPE Delta Sec tion and APIDelta Chap ter hosted a joint Tech ni calLun cheon with a prom i nent en ergy ex -pert, Dr. Xiuli Wang. She is con sid ered a spe cial ist on nat u ral gas is sues andprob lems and stud ied un der Dr. Mi -chael Economides at the Uni ver sity ofHous ton. They col lab o rate on nat u ralgas is sues around the world and co-au -thor The Jour nal of Nat u ral Gas Sci -ence and En gi neer ing. All who at -tended learned a great deal about thecur rent nat u ral gas en vi ron ment andthe de vel op ing trans por ta tion ef fortsthat will im pact our do mes tic prices.
And in Sep tem ber, Delta Chap ter heldits an nual golf tour na ment at
Covington Coun try Club. As al waysthe food was de li cious and the coursewas chal leng ing. Let me take this op -por tu nity to thank ev ery one in volvedin all of these ter rific events. We al -ways ap pre ci ate the time and char ity of our spon sors, vol un teers, and at ten -dees.
For tu nately, we still have time tosqueeze in one more big event. Pleaseplan to at tend our 12th An nual GNOJoint In dus try As so ci a tion Lun cheonon No vem ber 10th. This year it will be held at the newly ren o vated Roo se veltHo tel (pre vi ously our Fairmont Ho tel). SGS will host their an nual sym po siumthat morn ing and join us for an in for -ma tive speech by a world ex pert on the geo pol i tics of en ergy, Dr. Mi chaelEconomides. Please reg is ter early, weex pect a sell out crowd.
Ken Meyers, 2009 Chair man
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Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter - 4 - Oc to ber, 2009
Energy GeopoliticsProf. Michael J. Economides,
University of Houston
The past few years have been event ful in
the world of en ergy.
Oil prices climbed to al most $150 per
bar rel and then com pletely un ex pect edly
sud denly dropped to around $40,
prompted by the “credit cri sis” and
then com pounded by eco nomic
re ces sion. As should be clearly ex -
pected prices have been climb ing
re cently. While the cal cu lated by
us world break-even price of oil
should hover around $65,
geopolitical head lines rule the price
and the world is con stantly one head line
away from far larger oil prices. There is a
great prob a bil ity that oil will top $100 be -
fore the end of 2009.
There is a sub stan tial im bal ance in the lo -
ca tion of en ergy pro duc ers and con sum ers,
an im bal ance that has pre cip i tated world
con flicts and one that will likely cause fu -
ture up heav als. Prom i nent among these ar -
eas is the Mid dle East where five of the six
coun tries with 75 bil lion bar rels of re serves
are lo cated. The Straits of Hormuz
through which one third of all trans-na -
tional oil trade passes is a geopolitical
choke point.
En ergy mil i tant na tions such as Iran, Ven e -
zuela and, over the last few years, Rus sia
hold a con sid er able sway over the en ergy
trade. Iran’s nu clear en rich ment pro gram
has had a mea sur able im pact on oil prices.
In Ven e zuela Hugo Chávez has led a Latin
Amer i can pop u list in sur gency, has to tally
re-na tion al ized his coun try’s oil in dus try
and has taken a very mil i tant and
hard-line po si tion to wards the big gest con -
sumer of them all, the United States. Rus -
sia’s en ergy as cen dancy over the past de -
cade has been an im por tant
coun ter bal ance to the power of OPEC.
How ever, re cent re-cen tral iza tion of Rus -
sia’s en ergy in dus try, amount ing to what
we have called re-Sovietization, has given
rise to what can eas ily be de scribed as en -
ergy im pe ri al ism.
See www.soviettoputin.com
One ob vi ous bright spot for the fu ture is
that en ergy con sump tion in the gen er a tion
of wealth and the forms of pri mary en ergy
sources have not been con stant through -
out the last two cen tu ries. Of con sid er able
sig nif i cance is the change of fu els from
wood to coal to oil and now to nat u ral gas
and, even tu ally, hy dro gen will play a role.
Wide use of elec tric ity in trans por ta tion is
the only ob vi ous long-term, de cades away,
fu ture.
Dis tort ing the eco nom i cally sane path to
the fu ture is the con fu sion de riv ing from
the cur rent lack of over lap be tween pri -
mary en ergy sources such as oil and nat u -
ral gas and im prob a ble ideas for al ter na -
tive en ergy sources such as the prac ti cally
en ergy-neg a tive bio-fu els, headed by eth a -
nol or, even more im prac ti cal al ter na tives
such as so lar elec tric ity.
Com pound ing the is sue even fur ther is the
en tire rhet o ric of global cli mate change, its
pre sumed anthropogenic com po nent, and
the pro posed so lu tions, bound to add to
en ergy costs and en ergy avail abil ity.
Congratulations toSPE Delta Section
and the YoungProfessionals
ProgramDur ing the ATCE Pres i dent’s Lun cheon on Wednes day, Oc to ber 7th, SPE DeltaSec tion will re ceive two awards in rec -
og ni tion of their ac com plish ments.
The Delta Sec tion will be pre sentedwith the Pres i dent’s Award for Sec tionEx cel lence and the Young Pro fes sion alspro gram will be awarded Hon or ableMen tion for the Out stand ing YoungPro fes sion als Pro gram. The YP pro -gram was ranked against 165 otherpro grams in ter na tion ally.
Way to go SPE Delta!
Oc to ber, 2009 - 5 - Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter
2009 API Golf TournamentThe 2009 API Golf tour na ment held on Sep tem ber 18, 2009, at the CovingtonCoun try Club was a huge suc cess!! Over 45 teams par tic i pated in the pop u lar two round event. There were plenty of cool bev er ages and de li cious food to make thisan en joy able event for all in spite of the South Lou i si ana heat and hu mid ity andsoggy course con di tions. The API Golf Com mit tee would like to thank ev ery onein volved in help ing make the 2009 API Delta Chap ter Golf Tour na ment a suc cess!
Through the gen er os ity of all the team spon sors, hole spon sors and food & bev er -age spon sors, we were able to raise over $22,000 dol lars. These mon ies will beused for ed u ca tion grants, schol ar ships, the Lou i si ana Chil dren’s Mu seum, andthe other op por tu ni ties to pro mote ed u ca tion and the Pe tro leum In dus try in theNew Or leans area. We could not have achieved this with out ev ery one’s sup port;thank you all very much!!
We hope to see you all at next years 2010 API Delta Chap ter Golf Tour na ment tobe held on Sep tem ber 17th once again at Covington Coun try Club!
Steve Free man2009 API Golf Chair man,
2009 API Golf Tournament SponsorsGold FMC Tech nol o gies, Baker Hughes, Seatrepid
Sil ver Dol phin En ergy Equip ment, Pro fes sional Wire line Rent als, Qual -ity En ergy Ser vices
Bronze Helis Oil & Gas, Nabors Off shore, Pis ces En ergy, Su pe rior Com -ple tions
Food & BeverageRig-Chem, CETCO, Spe cialty Rental Tools & Sup ply, Pro fes sional Wire line Rent als, Oil Mop, Hud son Ser vices, US En vi ron men tal,Pri or ity En ergy Ser vices, Chet Mor ri son/Weatherford Labs,Patterson Ser vices, Lou i si ana Safety Sys tems, TRI-MAX In dus -tries, Tanks-A-Lot, Seatrepid, Exterran, Qual ity Rental Tools, Liv -ing Quar ters Tech nol ogy
Hole Oil Mop, Wellbore En ergy So lu tions, Di ver si fied Well Log ging,Su preme Ser vices, Liv ing Quar ters Tech nol ogy, Lufkin/ILS, Baker Hughes, MI-Swaco, Thru Tub ing Sys tems, OneSource Pro fes -sional Search, Ti ger Off shore, B&B Oil field Ser vices, US En vi ron -men tal, BJ Ser vices, Chet Mor ri son, Tri ple S Ma rine, Altec,Stokes & Spiehler, PetroQuip En ergy Ser vices, Hy dro car bon Flow
Com mitteeDave Mount, Holly Fonseca, Lauren Polk, Mike Cole, JamesCoronato, Presley Turner, Rich ard Rusch, Keith Doucet
2009 API GOLFTOURNAMENT
RESULTSMORNING ROUND
1st Place GrossBer na dette Alaniz Bob Guin
Rich ard Rusch Jeff Fooshie
1st Place NetRe bel Daigle Eric Springman
Brian Clem ent Bob McMann
2nd Place GrossMike Dur ham Chad Quick
Travis Pitre LeRoy Charles
2nd Place NetRob ert Lauricella Gary Roebke
Har old Guidry Charles Rich ard
AFTERNOON ROUND
1st Place GrossJoudan Raacke Eric Laborde
Keith Dusang Da vid Hiddleburg
1st Place NetRandy Steib Jimmy Mazur
Reggie Lirette Hunter Parra
2nd Place GrossChar lie Hickman Jon Garrett
Bill Haws Pete Kelly
2nd Place NetBrett Lennie Jay Cooke
Re bel Daigle
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE WINNERS
Range FinderJeff Fooshie
$500 Board RaffleBill Schaefer
Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter - 6 - Oc to ber, 2009
2009 API EVENT WINNERSMORNING ROUND
1 - Clos est to the hole 2nd shot Gary Roebke
2 – Lon gest Drive Brandt Prat
3 – Clos est to the hole 2nd Shot Paul Dubroc
4 – Lon gest Putt Mark Stelly
5 – Lon gest Putt Gary Snyder
6 – Hole in One
7 – Short est Drive Chris tian Fal con
8 – Hole in One
9 – Straight est Drive Jeff Fooshie
9 – Clos est to the hole 2nd Shot Bob Martt
10 – Clos est to the hole 2nd shot Wade Pitre, Jr.
11 – Hole in One
12 – Lon gest Drive Charles Hurme
13 – Clos est to the hole 2nd Shot Rich ard Rusch
14 – Lon gest Putt Harvey Kelley
15 – Hole in One
16 – Clos est to the hole 2nd Shot Bob Guin
17 – Lon gest Drive Ber na dette Alaniz
18 – Lon gest Drive Bob McMann
AFTERNOON ROUND
1 – Clos est to the hole 2nd Shot Eric Laborde
2 – Lon gest Drive Jourdan Raacke
3 – Clos est to the hole 2nd Shot Jay Cooke
4 - Lon gest Putt Louis Franicevich
5 – Lon gest Putt Char lie Hickman
6 – Hole in One
7 – Short est Drive Pete Dassy
8 – Hole in One
9 - Straight est Drive Ted Ralph
9 – Clos est to the hold 2nd Shot Steve Parra
10 – Clos est to hole 2nd Shot Rich Slattery
11 – Hole in One
12 – Lon gest Drive Hunter Parra
13 – Clos est to the hole 2nd Shot Hunter Parra
14 – Lon gest Put Johnny Ma rino
15 – Hole in One
16 – Clos est to the hole 2nd Shot Eric Laborde
17 – Lon gest Drive Hunter Parra
18 – Lon gest Drive Da vid Hiddleburg
Oc to ber, 2009 - 7 - Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter
Welcome Women’sEnergy Network
(WEN)
Think there is n’t a Good Ole Girls’ net -work in the oil patch? Think again.Women’s En ergy Net work has justlaunched its South east Lou i si ana Chap -ter.
Founded in 1994, the Women’s En ergyNet work (WEN) is a non-profit groupthat brings to gether pro fes sionalwomen of achieve ment in the en ergyin dus try and fos ters their ad vance ment by cre at ing a net work of en ergy con -tacts. WEN-SELA has a net work ofover 800 women who prac tice in var i -ous ar eas in clud ing man age ment, de -vel op ment, tech nol ogy, law, op er a tions, ac count ing, fi nance, and mar ket ing.WEN mem bers share mat ters of im -por tance to the en ergy in dus try atmonthly lunch pro grams and spe cialevents, and wel come those with thecom mon in ter est of pro mot ing women in the en ergy in dus try.
The group will hold a mem ber shipdrive at Irvin May field’s Jazz Play house on Thurs day, Oc to ber 8, 2009 at 6pmlo cated in the Royal Sonesta Ho tel inNew Or leans.
You may RSVP for the lun cheon at
www.wenhouston.org or if you wouldlike more in for ma tion, email Dana
Douglas at [email protected].
API Delta Chapter2009 Golf Tournament Volunteers
Vol un teers (API Board) As sign ment
Steve Free man Golf Com mit tee Chair/ Cor po rate Spon sors/
Set up/ Clean up
Holly Fonseca Golf Com mit tee / Reg is tra tion / Gifts
Dave Mount Golf Com mit tee / Trea surer
Rich ard Rusch Golf Com mit tee / Rules
James Coronato Golf Com mit tee / Food & Bev er age
Barbara Edmonds Mem ber ship Ta ble - All day
Peggy Bour geois Pho tog ra pher/ Mem ber ship - All day
Ken Meyers Mem ber ship/ Floater / Set up / Clean up
Ber na dette Alaniz Reg is tra tion (pm) / Clean up
An nie Whetsell Mem ber ship (am & pm) / Door Prizes (am)
Vol un teers (Non- API Board)
Lauren Fonseca Reg is tra tion (am & pm) / Door Prizes
(am& pm) / Set up (Thurs.)
Mike Cole Golf Com mit tee / Hole Spon sors / Signs
Pres ley Turner Golf Com mit tee / API Golf Balls / Range
Finder / Set up
Keith Doucet Golf Com mit tee / Score Cards / Set up /
Clean up
Christy Bono DesOrmeaux Hole Con test Prizes (am) / Door Prizes (pm)
Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter - 8 - Oc to ber, 2009
ST. BERNARD “DAY OF REFLECTION”The Delta Chap ter of API was re centlylauded at a “Day of Re flec tion” break -fast held at Chalmette High School onAu gust 28 in com mem o ra tion of the 4th
An ni ver sary of Ka trina’s dev as ta tion ofSt. Ber nard Par ish. The school sys temhosted a break fast for over 500 com mu -nity mem bers, and many of the sys tem’s part ners, in clud ing API-Delta Chap ter,were in vited to be part of the event.
The morn ing fea tured stu dent-led per -for mances cen tered on me mo ri al iz ingthose who per ished in the di sas ter andthe dev as ta tion Ka trina caused. Thesec ond-half of the morn ing, how ever,fo cused on rea sons to cel e brate the re -build ing of the par ish through alight-hearted game show con ducted bythe stu dents. The school jazz band per -formed a “Stomp” rou tine us ing con -struc tion ma te ri als “won” by the game
show con tes tants, while mem bers of itsdance team per formed a lyr i cal rou tineto the mu sic. The school cho rus alsoper formed for their guests.
Paul Rain wa ter, Ex ec u tive Di rec tor ofthe LRA, and Tony Rus sell, of FEMA’sLou i si ana Tem po rary Re cov ery Of fice,praised the school dis trict for its lead er -ship in re mark able re cov ery ef forts. Su -per in ten dent of Schools Do ris Voitierlisted the sup port of its part ners asamong the rea sons for the suc cess ofthe re cov ery of the school dis trict. Shecited, in par tic u lar, the Kellogg Foun da -tion, the Lions Club In ter na tionalFoun da tion, Ex xon-Mobil, Entergy,Murphy Oil, the Meraux Foun da tion,and API-Delta Chap ter.
Af ter the morn ing event, which also was at tended by Lt. Gov er nor Mitch
Landrieu, Sen a tor Da vid Vitter, andCon gress man Char lie Melancon, the en -tire crowd was in vited to at tend a rib -bon-cut ting at the high school’s new9th-Grade Acad emy. The group sec -ond-lined be hind the band across acov ered walk way, which now spansJudge Perez Drive in Chalmette, into the new 3-story class room build ing. Thatbuild ing houses 3 new sci ence labswhich were equipped, in part, throughdo na tions from API-Delta Chap ter.
At tend ing and rep re sent ing API-DeltaChap ter were Jan Catalano and PeggyBour geois. Jan said, “The pre sen ta tionwas fab u lous. It is a shame the me diadoes not pick up on all the school dis -trict has ac com plished and their spirit(dur ing re cov ery). They have ac com -plished so much!”
Oc to ber, 2009 - 9 - Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter
2009 Technical LuncheonAPI Delta Chap ter and SPE Delta Sec -tion jointly held the an nual Tech ni calLun cheon on Au gust 18, 2009, at TheLe Pavillon Ho tel. Over 75 mem bersand guests at tended the lun cheon aswell as 20 mem bers and guests viawebcast to Chev ron on the northshore.
Guest speaker, Dr. Xiuli Wang, spoke on “Nat u ral Gas: En abling its En ergy Fu -ture”. Dr. Wang is Vice Pres i dent andChief Tech nol ogy Of fi cer of XGAS. Pre vi ously she was a pe tro leum en gi -neer with BP in Hous ton, func tion ingas a com ple tion en gi neer with world -wide re spon si bil i ties. She is a spe cial iston nat u ral gas prob lems, cov er ing thespec trum from up stream to mid streamand down stream. Dr. Wang holds aPhD Chem i cal En gi neer ing from theUni ver sity of Hous ton and an MScfrom Tsinghua Uni ver sity, Beijing,China. In 2007, Dr. Wang was namedthe US 2007 Asian Amer i can En gi neerof the Year.
Dr. Wang’s pre sen ta tion out lined thecur rent nat u ral gas sup ply and pros -pects of both the world and the US,and em pha sized crit i cal and en ablingtech nol o gies that would fa cil i tate thetran si tion to wards nat u ral gas be com -ing the pre mier fuel of the world econ -omy. She spoke about how the past few years have been event ful in the world of en ergy. The in ter na tional price of nat -u ral gas zoomed as high as $25 perMscf (in par ity with oil in Ja pan), buthas lan guished since, drop ping to be low $4. These price gy ra tions af fect all as -pects of the nat u ral gas world in clud ing the im port of LNG, the po ten tial ef fects on re cently emerg ing CNG, the de sir -abil ity of arc tic pipe lines, con ven tionaland, es pe cially un con ven tional pro duc -tion such as shale gas and CBM (coalbed meth ane). Dr Wang re viewed howthe much pro moted wind en ergy ap -proach af fects nat u ral gas de mand and
fu ture use. She also cov ered the fu tureof GTL (gas-to-liq uids) tech nol ogy.
API Delta Chap ter thanks SPE DeltaSec tion for join ing us this year andthanks all at ten dees for sup port ing ourlun cheon. Since these meet ings are foryour ben e fit and in ter est, make sug ges -tions for fu ture speak ers or top ics bycon tact ing Barbara Edmonds at504-799-1906.
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Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter - 10 - Oc to ber, 2009
Oc to ber, 2009 - 11 - Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter
Once again, API-Delta will par tic i pate as a Gold spon sor for the BLaST - First LEGO League com pe ti tion. This year’stheme is “Smart Move”. The event will take place on Sat ur day, No vem ber 21, 2009 at St. Mary’s Do min i can High Schoollo cated at 7701 Walmsley Av e nue in New Or leans.
Come watch as 6-9 year olds par tic i pate in the Ju nior FLL com pe ti tion and 9-14 year olds not only build, pro gram andcon trol LEGO ro bots to per form mis sions, but also re search and pres ent pa pers per tain ing to the theme and team work. Please plan to at tend, bring the fam ily, or vol un teer to help. For more in for ma tion visit www.lafll.org or view pic tures ofpast events at api-delta.org.
API-Delta is Gold Sponsor of BLaST –First LEGO League Competition
Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter - 12 - Oc to ber, 2009
API-Delta Participates in FETCH at theLouisiana Children’s Museum
On Sat ur day, July 25, rep re sen ta tives fromthir teen oil in dus try so ci et ies and or ga ni za -tions con vened at the Lou i si ana Chil dren’sMu seum (LCM) to spon sor their FETCH En -ergy Sat ur day. Participations helped ed u catethe com mu nity on var i ous as pects of the pe -tro leum in dus try, its jobs and the im por tanceof the in dus try and its prod ucts in ev ery dayliv ing. This year many of the teach ers andevent co or di na tors API-Delta has helpedthrough out the year also par tic i pated in theevent. The FETCH Oil and En ergy Sat ur daywas a big suc cess with 999 vis i tors par tic i pat -ing.
Fif teen sta tions were set up through out the mu -seum, each pro vid ing in ter ac tive ex hib its and dem -on strat ing how their par tic u lar dis ci pline re lates to oil and gas pro duc tion. Chil dren of all ageslearned about the many ev ery day prod ucts thatare a re sult of the pe tro leum in dus try and the var i -ous tools used or ex plo ra tion and pro duc tion. Inad di tion, ed u ca tional ma te ri als and prizes wereavail able to all.
API – Delta Sec tion vol un teers pro vided a closelook and ex pla na tion of var i ous min er als anddem on strated the Moh’s hard ness scale. Otherpar tic i pat ing so ci et ies in cluded AADE, SPE-Delta,HCIA, D&D, OOSA, NOGS, SWE, SGS, NACE,
PLANO. Schlumberger, MMS and Oceaneering par tic i patedwith en thu si as tic vol un teers. Teach ers that par tic i pated in theNACE Ma te ri als Camp dem on strated the cor ro sion sci ence andfruit bat tery ex per i ments they learned this sum mer. Mem bers of the GNO STEM (Sci ence, Tech nol ogy, En gi neer ing and Math)Ad vi sory Board, Dana Gon za les and Annette Oertling, high -lighted their sci ence ex per i ments and the BLAST (Build ing Lou i -si ana Sci ence and Tech nol ogy) LEGO ro botic com pe ti tion.
The event was a won der ful ef fort of col lab o ra tion by all in thepe tro leum in dus try and the or ga ni za tions the so ci et ies havespon sored through out the year. Much ap pre ci a tion goes to allthat vol un teered their time and en ergy to in tro duce oth ers to the many as pects of pe tro leum in dus try.
Oc to ber, 2009 - 13 - Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter
Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter - 14 - Oc to ber, 2009
Oc to ber, 2009 - 15 - Amer i can Pe tro leum In sti tute — Delta Chap ter
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